Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1928 — Page 3

DEO. 15, 1928

STEVE GIVES REASON FOR FAILURE TO GO ONSTAND Contention Will Go Before Supreme Court If Writ Is Favored. CHARGE PLOT BY EVANS Huffington, W. Lee Smith and M’Nay Also May Be Named. D. C. Stephenson, deposed KuKluux Klan Dragon now serving a life term for murder, did not testify in his own behalf at the Noblesville trial because of fear of mob violence. Such is the contention, to be brought as evidence, before the supreme court if a writ of corum nobis is acted upon favorably his attorney, A. M. Hall, Terre Haute, announced today. Hall, who is a member of the law firm of Blankenbaker & Hall, declared that he will file an affidavit irom Stephenson showing that he is attorney in the case with the supreme court next Tuesday. New Evidence Planned This will be the first step in asking a writ of corum nobis and is required because Hall does not now appear as attorney of record in the murder appeal which is now awaiting decision by the court. If granted, the writ will permit introduction of new evidence. Hall told The Indianapolis Times today that the new evidence alleging fear of mob violence will name Wizard Hiram Evans of the klan as chief conspirator. Others to be named in the new evidence, brief of which is already prepared according to Hall, will be Joseph Huffington, W. Lee Smith, Robert McNay and others who were prominent in the klan at the time Stephenson was ousted from the Indiana leadership. Giiliom to Fight Move It will be alleged that this group conspired with Evans to intimidate Stephenson so that he refused to take the stand and tell his side of the story of the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer for whose murder he was sentenced. Ten days must 'elapse from the time Hall files as attorney to the ilme that he may introduce a petition for writ of corum nobis. Thar would place the filing the petition Dec. 28, if he serves notice us attorney in the case next Tuesday. Attorney General Arthur L. Giiliom will probably fight the attempt to introduce new evidence. The case must be supported with briefs and oral arguments, unless immediate denial is issued by the court. McNay and Smith, who will be accused in the brief, according to Hall, are now serving terms in federal prison, having been sentenced recently in the automobile theft ring case here.

STARK SELECTS HIS CRIMINAL DEPUTIES Four Men Are Named to Succeed to Expiring Offices. Charles J. Karabell, James G. Campbell, Floyd R. Mannon and Charles S. Wiltsie Jr., have been appointed deputy prosecutors in the criminal municipal courts by Judson L. Stark, prosecutor-elect. The appointments are effective Jan. 1. Karabell was appointed several days ago to succeed John B. Royse, deputy, who was appointed criminal court deputy under Stark but refused to accept. It is understood Royse is a candidate for the position of county pauper attorney held by H. B. Pike. The retiring deputies are Louis Adams, John Caylor and William B. Miller.

U. S. HEARING NEAR END Water Company’s Injunction "Before Three Federal Judges. Hearing on the Greencastle Water Works Company's petition for an interlocutory injunction against enforcement of a public service commission rate order, started Friday in federal court, was to be concluded today. The suit charges the rate order, fixing valuation at only $300,000 instead of the $590,000 the company desires, permits earning of only 3 per cent on its investment. Company officials testified Friday. They said rates asked would provide an additional $12,000 revenue. Three judges are hearing the case. They are: Samuel Alschuler, senior judge circuit court of appeals, Chicago; Thomas W. Slick, northern Indiana district, and Robert C. Baltzel! outhern Indiana district. ‘LAFAYETTE LINK’ DIES Woman, 105, Gave Boquet to Hero As School Girl. Bn United Press MELUN, France, Dec. 15.—Mme. Victoria Villepelle, often termed -“the last link with Lafayette,” died Friday, age 105. Asa schoogirl she gave a bouquet to Lafayette, and was kissed by him as he marched with his soldiers to Paris when Orleans dynasty was restored in 1830. By a coincidence, today is the anniversary of George Washington’s death. SYRUP BALSAMEA for quick relief for Flu and Grip.-Advertise-ment.

FEARED MOB AT NOBLESVILLE; ATTORNEY SAYS

Cat and Dog Mascots Cheat Death in $250,000 Knefler-Bates Plant Blast

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Fireman John Fox (left) with Tabbie, and day watchman Harry Sinker with Queen, cat and dog rescued from the Knefler-Bates plant explosion today.

HOLD PAIR FOR GEMROBBERY Admit They Stole Jewels From Opera Star. Ti l/ United Press WILKES BARRE, Pa., Dec. 15. Stephen Ream, 23, also known as Michael Pavlowski, and his wife, 26 were under arrest today, charged with stealing $50,000 worth of jewels from Marie Rappold, opera singer, in New York on Oct. 29. Both confessed and are being held for New York authorities. Most of the jewelry was recovered. The robbery occurred as Madame Rappold and her daughter were asleep in their apartment in a New York hotel. It was said at the time of the robbery that they had been drugged. Ream and his wife both denied the drugging. Ream said he went into the apartment while Madame Rappold and her daughter were asleep and took the jewelry from a dresser. Afterward he and his wife fled to this city, where they have since lived. It was after Mrs. Ream tried to sell for SSOO a diamond valued at $1,500 that a local jeweler became suspicious and called the police. Mrs. Ream, when questioned, admitted the theft, and also informed the police of the whereabouts of her husband, who was arrested soon afterward. Additional jewelry was found on his person. A platinum bracelet, which he had sold to a restaurant proprietor for SSOO, valued at $12,000 was recovered. 34 TRY TofT^RYMOBS Civil Service Examinations Held for Probe Department Aspirants. Thirty-four applicants for federal dry agents’ positions today took the three hours written civil service examination at the office of Henry M. Trimpe, lofcal civil service secretary. Among them were four present agents, who failed to pass the first examination. WATSON RITES IN N. Y. Daughters of General and Mrs. E. Dumont Interred in East. Funeral services for Mrs. Emma D. Watson, daughter of pioneer Indianapolis residents, were held Friday in New York City. She was a sister of Mrs. J. W. Williams and Mrs. David Braden of Indianapolis and the daughter of General Ebenezer and Mary Ann Dumont, early residents. Students to Aid Church Bn Timex Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 15. Four De Pauw students will have charge of a service Sunday evening at the Speedway M. E. church. They are Jesse Elliott, Macy; Dale Stackhouse, Bourbon; 'Seymour Stephenson, Greencastle, and Charles Sanders, Roachdale. They will serve under auspices of the Speedway Epworth League.

Witch Permits Bn United Press HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 15. —All witch doctors operating without state licenses will be prosecuted, it was announced today, as the result of the recent murder by a rival witch doctor of Nelson Rehmyer. a widely-known practitioner.

NEXT WAR

Chicago, Dec. is.— a fleet of airplanes made of aldur, powered by motors constructed of beryllium and dropping bombs filled with cacodyl isocyanide could obliterate entire nations in a twinkling of an eye, Dr. Hilton I. Jones, of Wilmette, 111., internationally known chemist, told a

TF you are one of those persons with a cold, analytical mind who would just as soon take a $2 bill, get married on Friday, the thirteenth, walk under a ladder, or plant potatoes in tha light of the moon, you are just wasting time reading this. For this has to do with that time-honored superstition that a cat has nine lives. Scores of employes of the Klef-ler-Bates Manufacturing Company stood around the ruins of the $250,000 plant, destroyed by two explosions and a fire early this morning, and mourned for Tabbie. the plant cat msyscot, and for Queen, the office dog. The cat had caught a rat just before the explosion. Then the blast—and Tabbie was seen no mere. Hours afterward a fireman found the animals nosing their way out of the wreckage, Tabbie with her whiskery burned off and Queen with a few singes. Which is only half the story. Tabbie came to the plant several months ago m sensational fashion. A tightly sealed carload of grits from another factory sat on a siding four days before it was opened, and Tabbie staggered out weak from hunger and thirst, later to become the plant masc'ot.

SUGGESTS FARM AID Luke Duffy Proposes Plan to Purnell. Farm relief suggestions embracinga land aiding proposal were sent to Congressman Fred S. Purnell, vicechairman of the agriculture committee of the house of representatives, today by Luke Duffy of Indianapolis. Duffy recently conferred with midwest farm leaders and his suggestions are a composite idea of the group study. The plan embraces an added land fund of $250,000,000 to be used by the government in gathering up “taxdistressed acreage” from poorer agricultural regions. Under the plan the government would take over ownerless lands at a nominal maximum consideration of $5 an acre and would hold these returned lands for reforestation or re-entry purposes.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to the police as having been stolen: Louis Wein, 1247 North Mount street, Auburn sport sedan, from 319 East New York street. J. H. Boots, 2734 Sherman drive, Chevrolet coupe, license 705-555, from Station and Twenty-fifth street. Wayne Fait, 722 East North street, Ford roadster, license 16-638, from 212 East Ohio street. E. C. Taylor, 1250 North Belmont avenue, Ford touring, license 27-878, from Tenth street and Holmes avenue. John E. Messick, 3525 Washington boulevai'd, Hudson brougham, license 14-102,* from Meridian and Thirty-fifth streets. F. A. Colare, 402 North Illinois street, Pontiac coupe, license 706902, from Twentieth and Illinois streets. Boy Held in Auto Thefts Bn United Press ANDERSON. Ind., Dec. 15.—Six boys ranging from 13 to 16, years of age have been arrested here for the theft of twenty automobiles. Police said the arrests probably will solve theft of many machines here during the past month.

GHOST PLANES TO WIPE OUT NATIONS

group of Chicago business men. Aldur, Jones explained,4s anew bakelite material that is almost invisible; beryllium, a recently discovered metal, stronger than steel and half as heavy as aluminum and cacodyl isocyanide is a new poison gas more deadly than any ever before conceived.

THE IJN UIA.N APOLJ.S TIMES

OPEN WAR ON ‘MOVIE TRUST’ U. S. to File Injunction Suit Today. Bn United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—An injunction suit, charging seventeen leading motion picture distributors and exhibitors with violation of the federal anti-trust law, will be filed in federal court here today, George E. Q. Johnson, United States district attorney announced. The injunction petition will charge that Balaban and Katz, Inc,, entered into contracts with distributors which obtained for the Balaban and Katz chain of theaters, to the exclusion of independent exhibitors, all “first run” pictures. The exhibitors named defendants are Balaban and Katz, Inc., and the following subsidiaries: Lubliner and Trinz Theaters, Inc.; Balaban and Katz Midwest Theaters, Inc.; Publix Theaters and Great States Theaters, Inc. The following distributors are named in the suit: Pa’ramount-Famous-Lasky, Metro - GoldwynMayer, Fox Film Corporation,' First National Pictures, Inc., United Artists, Universal Film Exchanges, F. B. O. Pictures Corporation, Pathe Exchange and Gotham Photoplays.

3 CONVICTS ESCAPE Club Guard; Capture One After Hunt. 81l United Press JUNCTION CITY, 0., Dec. 15. Three prisoners escaped from the state brick plant here shortly after midnight after clubbing a guard. One of the convicts, John Llewelyn, sent up from Jackson county, was recaptured. The two escaping were John Kelly, from Meigs county, and John Adkins, sentenced from Franklin county. The three men broke for freedom as guard Lee Parsons was making his rounds. Parsons, although painfully bruised, sounded an alarm and Llewelyn was trapped. WATSON HAS AIR BILL Senator Moves to Stop Activities of Radio Pirates. Bp Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Senator Watson of Indiana Friday introduced an amendment to the radio low to stop “air bootlegging.” Complaint has been made by certain chains and organizations he said, that in broadcasting big events, like the Dempsey-Tunney fight, the authorized broadcasts had been picked up and rebroadcast by stations not authorized to do so. YOUNG MEN TO ELECT Indianapolis Organization to Hear War Ace Monday Evening. The Young Men of Indianapolis will elect officers and committees will be appointed at a meeting at the Spink Arms Monday evening, President E. E. Whitehill announced today. Capt. H. Weir Cook, Indiana World war ace, wil speak. Several important resolutions are to be voted on, Whitehill said. Fewer births were registered in England* and Wales last year than in any year since 1855, when the population was less than half the present figure. x

“Can you imagine the effect of such a combination, utter destruction of armies and nations?” he asked. “War, if it comes again, can’t be fought with shot and shell,” Jones said. "It will be much cheaper to destroy life wholesale with this new

HOPE HIGH TO AVERT WAR IN SOUTHAMERIGA Confidence Grows ABC Powers and U. S. Will Ease Crisis. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Many authorities here were confident today there will be no war between Paraguay and Bolivia. They took this view despite Bolivia’s repeated insistence on Paraguayan reparations as a prerequisite to any mediation in the Paraguayan-Bolivian boundary dispute. The fact that Bolivia had made this condition again in a note to the League of Nations did not alter the view that a peaceful settlement is still possible. Pressure—secret but emmective—from the A. B. C. powers and perhaps even from the United States is relied upon to bring Bolivia eventually into line. “There will be no war between the two countries unless the great powers of the American continent willed it and that seems impossible,” a delegate told the United Press today. He suggested Argentine, Brazil and Chile will exert a forceful pressure on Bolivia and that should this fail the United States through secret channels might undertake a similar mission. Meantime the inter-Am rican conference on concilation and arbitration here prepared today to swing into its work of formulating a treaty of conciliation and arbitration delayed by preoccupation with the Bolivian - Paraguayan crisis. Regardl ss of Bolivia's note to the Leagueof Nations stating she could not reach a pacific ettlement of the dispute with Paraguay, the reply of the La Paz government to the conference offer to lend its good offices to mediate the trouble, continued to be a subject of speculation. New Warning by League [ln I nitcd Press LUGANO, Switzerland, Dec. 15. The council of the League of Nations sent a second note to Bolivai and Paraguay today, urging a pacific ettlement of their border dipute. The council also instructed Aristide Briand, its president, to follow the case personally and summon a special session of the council if necessary. The note reminded Bolivia and Paraguay, both of whom are members of the league, of their international obligations. The two nations were warned against recourse to military action. Spain Offers Aid Bn I nitcd Prc&B BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 15.—King Alfonso of Spain, through the Spanish minister to Paraguay, has offered to mediate the BolivianParaguayan dispute, the Asuncion correspondent of the Newspaper La Prensa said today.

BELIEVE GIRLS CARRIED OFF BY BANDITS HOME No Further Word Received From Mexican Town. By United Press MEXICO CITY, Dec. 15.—The continued lack of news today from Jocotep, where twenty-two of the town’s most beautiful girls were kidnaped by bandits, confirmed the belief that they probably had been returned to their homes unharmed. Notices of happenings in outlying towns such as Jocotep usually are late in arriving either at Guadalajara or Mexico City, since some of these towns are almost without communcations. -. The indifference of the military can be explained by the frequency with which kidnapings occur, and also by the fact that native women apparently do not always fare badly at the hands of bandits. GIANT FILM SUIT UP Asks $3,000,000 for Alleged Piracy of “Abie’s Irish Rose.” Bn United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 15 The $3,000,000 damage suit of Anne Nichols against the Universal Pictures Corporation for the alleged piracy of her play, “Abie’s Irish Rose,” in making the motion picture, “The Cohens and Kellys,” will begin early next week before Federal Judge Goddard The suit was filed three years ago. Miss Nichols contends that the picture company infringed on her copyright. INSURANCE MEN MEET Prosperous Business in Next Three Years Predicted. Prosperity for the insurance business in the next three years was pictured by Albert G. Borden, Equitable Life Assurance Society vicepresident, before 150 agents at a dinner Friday night at the SpinkArms. Borden declared the influence of an insurance man’s life on his success is a vital factor. A conference today closed the state session.

gas. It may be manufactured at " the rate of thousands of tons a day at a fraction of the cost of shells and guns.” Jones said he did not believe nations ever would turn to the use of i this deadly gas. “They will want something that will stop armies for a time but not kill them.”

GANGSTER’S ‘MOLL’. BREAKS UP COURT

Attacks Prosecutors and Witness; Subdued by Five Bailiffs. Bn United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—A gunman’s “Moll” took the law in her hands in Judge Dennis J. Normoyle’s criminal court here Friday and succeeded in terrifying the entire court before bailiffs interrupted her attack on two prosecutors and a state’s witness. Frank Wenskus, 21, and Louis Sinkewicz, 21, were on trial for holding up William Gloss, bakery driver. The case seemed to be going against the defendants when Margaret Novak, 18-year-old sweetheart of Wenskus, met Gloss in the hall. “If those boys are sent up you’ll get worse than they do,” Margaret told the complaining witness. Gloss sought protection of the court and Judge Normoyle was just pronouncing a thirty-day contempt sentence on the girl when Margaret walked bacla into the courtroom. Margaret heard the sentence, turned, swung at Gloss—then all was confusion. Margaret’s first blow struck Gloss on the “button,” the second landed on the bakery driver’s nose. A bailiff who intervened received a kick on the shins. Then Margaret turiied on two assistant state’s attorneys, who eluded her attack by crawling under a table. Five bailiffs finally overpowered the girl, and about the time Margaret was lodged in jail the jui-y found Wenskus and Sinkewicz guilty.

WIDOW ACQUITTED Free Mrs. Kirkwood in Trial for Stabbing Husband. NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Mrs. ! Frances Kirkwood, attractive 33- | year-old widow, was free today on j charges of having killed her husj band. | Dr. Glenn Kirkwood, veterinarian of Sunnyside, Queens, was fatally stabbed on the night of Aug. 7. The jury deliberated three hours and fifty-eight minutes before bringing in the verdict if “not guilty.” Dana Wallace, attorney for Mrs. Kirkwood, contended in the defense that Dr. Kirkwood was accidentally stabbed, by himself, with a bread knife, during the quarrel, in which Mrs. Kirkwood accused him of improper conduct in her absence on a vacation. Mrs. Kirkwood attempted to commit suicide and Dr. Kirkwood grabbed the knife and stabbed himself, Wallace contended. William H. Robinson, assistant district attorney, said the stabbing was done by Mrs. Kirkwood “in the heat of passion.” AERONAUTIC ADVANCE TOLD BY WAR FLIER Planes Are Safer Since Day of 1921, Avers Captain Cook. Recent developments in aeronautics which have lessened the hazard of flying were discussed by Oapt. H. Weir Cook, Curtis Flying Service, Inc., manager, before the Optimist Club luncheon Friday at the Claypool. “Engineers have devised means of checking the strength of airships to the point where it is no longer dangerous for pilots testing new planes. Things are much different from the old days when I was flying an air mail ship in 1921. We did not have modern reliable ships then and a pilot took a great chance,” Cook said. The Optimists indorsed the proposed veterans hospital for Indianapolis and voted to aid in securing it. Elmer Goldsmith presented the plan to the club. Earl Blakely, Christmas party chairman, announced about 400 children will be entertained next Friday. Harlington T. Wood, president of Optimist International, spoke. HIT-RUN DRIVERS HELD Autoist Whose Car Injured Two Men Thursday, Surrenders. John Wilber, 31, of Wek Lafayette, driver of the automobile that struck and seriously injured two men 'on the outskirts of the city Thursday night, is held today on charges of assault and battery and failure to stop after an accident He surrendered to police Fridaynight. The men injured in the accident were Burl Parham, R. R. 6, and Joseph Hagen, 1445 Charles street RE-ELECT KIWANIS BOSS Herdrich Named Secretary for Fifth Successive Time. O. C. Herdrich of Herdrich & Boggs accounting firm, today begun his fifth term as Kiwanis Club secretary. He was re-elected Friday night by directors at the Athenaeum. Herdrich formerly was chief examiner for the state board of accounts. Lester C. Nagley was retained as executive secretary. New officers will take office Jan. 1. POLICE ARE PRAISED Central W. C. T. U. today commended Police Chief Claude W. Worley and his officers for the recent law-enforcement activities. The women also voted to commend Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell for pronouncement of sentences for liquor law violators, and Otto G. Fifteld, secretary of state, for his plan to increase the state police force.

Death Calls

Frank S. Chance, head of the Frank S. Chance Advertising Agency, who died today at his home, 4038 North Illinois street.

JUDGE WHITE BACKED BY BAR Lawyers Vote to Keep Him on Bench. Judge Dan V White l'cceived 187 votes for reappointment to his bench in civil municipal court, according to tabulation of the Indianapolis Bar Association poll presented to Governor Ed Jackson today. The Governor has the reappointment of White or appointment of a successor to make before Jan. 1, when White's present term expires. The bar poll was brought to the Statehouse by Earl R. Conder, chairman of the committee in charge of the balloting. Deputy Prosecutor William H. Sheaffer, who is said to be a favorite contender for the position, received sixty-three of the lawyers’ votes. Thomas C. Whallon, who was prominently mentioned some weeks ago, received fifteen. Those receiving one each were Harry Hendrickson, John S. Smith, Don Roberts, William E. Jeffery and Harvey A. Graybill. No comment was made by Conder upon the result. •

Corn Paper Product Made of Stalks; Vast Possibilities Seen in New Process.

DAWN of anew era for the middle west farm was signalized today with the appearance of the Prairie Farmer, with offices at 17 West Market street, printed on corn-stalk paper, the first commercial use of the product of a revolutionary piocess. The paper made from corn-stalks of Indiana and Illinois farmers, also will be used in Sunday’s issue of the Danville (111.) Commercial News and next week a New York newspaper will try it out. Chemists for many years have been attempting to find some practical use cornstalks. The farm paper hails its own successful use of the new product as proof that a profitable market for hitherto w r aste material has been opened. tt tt tt THE farm paper predicts that rayon, insulating material, lacquer, artificial leather and many other things soon will be manufactured from cornstalks. Perfection of a process for reducing corn stalks to cellulose, the basic chemical compound which makes up the skeleton of all plant structures paved the way for making paper. Cellulose is the chief constituent in rayon, films, insulating material, cardboard, explosives, absorbent, lacquer, radio dials and boards, combs, artificial leather and a host of other manufactured products. The process which has proven successful in the middle west has lain undeveloped in Europe, through lack of capital for several years. Twenty years ago a young Hungarian chemist, Bela Dorner, began research which led in 1912 to discovery of a way to get the cellulose from corn stalks. a tt tt TWO years ago Frank K. Gardner, native Hoosier, met Dorner while waiting for a train in Budapest while on a mission for a New York bond house. Gardner, a chemist, instantly recognized possibilities, got out of the bond business as quickly as possible, talked a New York-Chicago financial syndicate into backing the project and brought Dorner and an assistant to this country. The result is a factory producing ten tons a day of corn-stalk paper pulp which is sent on to paper mills for rolling into paper. The factory is at Danville, 111., close enough to Hoosier farmers to provide an economical market. Makers of the corn-stalk paper say experiments prove it has twice the tensile strength of wood-pulp paper. This would be a valuable advantage for newspapers and magazines, since paper breakage is one of the most annoying problems in speedy production. Motorcycle Officer Employed WASHINGTON, Ind., Dec. 15. This city will have a motorcycle policeman who will begin his duties Jan. 1. the city council has decided. The motorcycle was bought on a bid of $405.50.

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EXPLAINS NEW MANAGER FORM OF BALLOTING Calls Proportional Representation Best Voting System at Meeting. The proportional representation system of voting was explained to legislators and members of the Indianapolis City Manager League legislative committee Friday night at the Chamber of Commerce, by Walter J. Millard, of Cleveland, 0., field secretary of the Proportional Representation League. The system is being used in city manager elections in Ohio and has been successful, Millard said. This form of voting does away with a primary, or first selection, and brings all selections for city manager commissioners through one casting of ballots. The system as it would work in Indianapolis from the nomination to final count for the seven commissioners under the manager form of government, as explained by Millard, follows: Many Can Enter As many persons as desire can be placed in nomination by obtaining signatures of 1 per cent of the voters. Each name is placed before the people several weeks before the election after the petition is certified. It is then the duty of the voters to become acquainted with the names and persons of the nominees and select their preferences. On the day of the election, the voters go to the polls, not to vote for any given number of commissioners, but as many as they may desire out of the entire nomination list. This number may run from one to twenty, if that many persons have obtained nomination petitions. The voter’s duty is to place first on his ballot the name of the person he most desires to see elected. In sequence he places the names of other nominees second, third, fourth and fifth on the ballot as he prefers them. Use Arbitrary Figure All votes received by the clerks j under this form of election are i sorted as to first choices. They are distributed in this form to other [ clerks who bind them up in precinct j lots and mark them as “Hoover, [ Precinct A„ Ward B.” Then the counting starts. The total number of ballots cast is dij vided by the number of place to be | filled and one is added to the numj ber of votes it takes to elect am I commissioner. For instance, if there ] are twenty-eight voters and seven places to be filled the voters are divided by seven, which is four and which, plus one, is five. In other words, any of the candidates receiving five votes is elected. The ballots used to actually elect by reaching this total are then dead for further action. But if the candidate receives the needed number of votes before all his voter are counted, then the rest of the ballots on which he is first choice are thrown to the candidates who are second choice on such ballots. Point Out Advantages If the second perference receives a sufficient number of ballots before the votes are all counted then the vote goes to the third preference by the same procedure. This continues on until every ballot has been credited. Through the mathematical computation there is no danger of more than seven candidates being elected because the figuring has been based on the number of commissioners elected. By adding one to the figure reached after the division, any possible chance of the votes overlapping is defeated. Millard pointed out that under this system 70 per cent of the voters will see their first choice elected to the place. Twenty-nine per cent of the votes will be used in the shifting process to preferences and only 1 per cent will remain to be considered as “exhausted.” Writing Name in Helps By voters writing their preference on the ballots, the pos ” ility of casting a vote for the man whose name first appears on the former stereotyped election ballots, is erased he said. “Usually 7 per cent of the persons voting at an election cast their ballot preferences for the first man listed. This new system of writing in the preference does away with the edge given to names appearing first on ballots in general elections,” he said. He sid there is no way of making a nonpartisan election, but that this system comes nearer to defeating party politics and making voting a civic enterprise than any other form. * HUNCH SAVES CASH Takes Money From Gas Station: Ransacked During Night. Harvey McCardy, 1515 East Forty-Ninth street, attendant at the Western Oil Refining Company filling station at Thirty-eighth street and Fall Creek, had the right hunch Friday night when he took all the money in the station home with him when he closed up. McCardy, this morning found the filling station ransacked. All the places where he and other attendants usually hid the money had been searched, he said.

Hplps Needy Bn l sited Press ORMOND BEACH, Fla., Dec. 14.—Contact with John D. Rockefeller here today left a newspaperman 40 cents richer. The reporter shook hands with the aged capitalist after an interview and found four bright dimes in his palm.