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NEW FACTORY HERE TO GIVE JOBS TO 900 Large Eastern Electrical Equipment Firm to Move to City. BUY 4-STORY BUILDING Alloys and Radio Supplies Among Products of Company. Decision of a large eastern Industry, employing nearly 900 persons. to locate in Indianapolis, using the National Lamp Company building at Gray and Washington streets, was announced today by the Chamber of Commerce industrial commission. The company, which will be incorporated as P. R. Mallory Company of Indiana, will combine manufacturing divisions of Elkon, Inc., of Weehawken, N. J_, and the Knapp Electric Company, Port Chester, N. Y„ both part of P. R. Mallory enterprises. About 800 men and women will be employed in the factory at first, with more as the plant expands. About seventy-five office workers *ill be employed. Its finished products will amount to about $4,000,000 annually. Start Moving at Once ' The company expects to start returning its machinermy here at once and to begin operations within a short time. Principal products will Include the widely-known new metal alloy. Carboloy, alloy, Elkonite Tungsten electrical contacts, the Knapp line of electro-mechanical toys, radio equipment including rectifiers and condensers, fractional horsepower motors and electric fans, including a low voltage fan for use in closed automobiles. Carboloy will be manufactured for the Carboloy Company, of which P. R. Mallory is the president and which is owned by P. R. Mallory & Cos.. Inc., and the General Electric Company. It also will mount this material on cutting tools and the first year of operation probably will produce $600,000 worth of tools with Carboloy mounting. This metal approaches the hardness of a diamond, and will easily cut sapphire, which is next in hardness to the diamond. Make Electrical Contacts It will cut metals, glass and other articles with greater efficiency than a diamond cutting tool, it is claimed. Corboloy has been developed m laboratories of the General Electric Company and associates and has been in practical use for more than two years. By weight it is half again as valuable as gold. Elkonite is a cemented tungsten product, used for welding electrodes, and is largely used by the Ford Mo- J tor Company. It also was developed i in laboratories of General Electric Company and associates, including P. R. Mallory <fc Cos. The company now manufactures from 3.000 to 4.000 styles of electrical contacts for internal combustion engine timers. Radio equipment manufactured will include a dry rectifying unit for battery chargers and eliminators, used also in long distance telephone service. Express Appreciation

w. H. Knowles, vice-president, and M. S. Green, treasurer, who were here today, expressed great appreciation of assistance given the company, both in helping* it to locate here and in reducing costs of removal here, by the industrial commission. C. L. Harrod. general manager, and various other chamber departments, including the civic affairs, freight and traffic and. other departments during the past several months. The factory building was built eight years ago for manufacture ot incandescent lamps, but never has been used. It is four stories in height, of brick and concrete, with 110.000 feet of floor space. There Is room on the site for a similar building of the same size. PROPOSE MOVIE CENSOR New BUI Bans Banditry and Gambling Films. A bill which would create a motion picture censorship in Indiana more rigid than that practiced in anv state in the nation, was introduced in the house of representatives today by Charles Y. Foster of Carmel. The bill would ban films depicting pun play, banditry, gambling and obscene or vulgar language. WRECK CAUSES FIGHT Negro Strikes Motorist Following Collision. Enraged because of an automobft# wreck in which Iris car dbllided with a machine driven by Gilbert Benedict. 2927 Highland place, at Michigan street and Ind&na avenue Tuesday night. Robert Hays, Negro. 523 West Michigan street, struck Benedict several times. He left the accident scene, but later surrendered to police, and is held on charges of speeding and frssa'iit and battery.

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CLOSE BANK AT BLUFFTON Assets of Institution Are Drained by Withdrawals. BLUFFTON, Ind., Feb. 13.—The Wells County Bank, capitalized at $1,250,000, was closed today by state bank examiners upon the advice of directors, who said their assets were drained by constant withdrawals. The Union Savings and Trust Company, Bluffton’s other bank, announced that the majority of the capital stock of the closed institution "Had been purchased by the Lincoln National Bank, Ft. Wayne. Thomas D. Barr, assistant state banking commissioner, was to make an investigation of the closed bank’s affairs today. Plan Reorganization Luther F. Symonds, state banking commissioner, announced today that his assistant, Thomas D. Barr, was in Bluff ton to aid in the reorganization plan being fostered by interests from Ft. Wayne and Indianapolis. He attributed the closing to the tenseness which has prevailed throughout Wells county since the failure of the Studebaker State bank two years ago. He asserted that this accounted largely for constant withdrawals. The other Bluffton bank is solvent Symonds asserted. STRIKE AT LOVE NESTS Bill Would Keep Married Persons in Straight Path. Indianapolis and Indiana love nests are doomed if the bill introduced in the house of representatives today by Representative John L. Benedict, Indianapolis, should pass. Benedict's bill calls for a fine of “not less than $5 nor more than $100” for any married man or woman who habitually associates with another married or unmarried man or woman. Gets City Stenographer Job Miss Margaret Gordon. 2257 North Ilinois street, former stenographer at Democratic state headquarters, today was appointed stenographer for the city plan commission. The salary is $1,200 a year. She succeeds Mrs. Helen E. Northern, who resigned. HUNT KIDNAPED GIRL Offer Reward for Abduction of Child, 4. It.u United Press HILLSBORO, 0.. Feb. 13.—A reward of SI,OOO was offered today for the capture of the abductors of Nancy Hammond Keys. 4, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Keys of Hillsboro, who was kid - naped in Cincinnati Tuesday. The Keys are prominent locally.

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TWO WOMEN HELD IN KILLING OF 7JNFANTS Michigan Officers Probe Disappearance of Eighth Baby. HUSBANDS ARRESTED Check Theory They May Have Slain Others Beside Own Children. Dj: United press ST. JOSEPH. Mich., Feb. 13. With seven infant deaths already charged to them, Mrs. Ethel Lewis, 49, of Eau Claire, Berrien county, and her daughter, Mrs. Opal Goram. 25, were charged with first degree murder today while police investigated the disappearance of an eighth infant. Mrs. Goram, according to Berrien county officers, confessed her 5-months-old son. Clarence Wesley, was strangled to death by Mrs. Lewis a week ago—the third Goram child the two women have killed in three years. Their husbands. Herbert Goram and William Lewis, are being held as material witnesses, but are not believed implicated in the baby killings. Mrs. Gca-han is believed mentally unsound. Possibility ihat the couple might have disposed of illegitimate children in addition to their own offspring was to be investigated by deputy sheriffs during a search for graves near the Lewis home this afternoon. Slew After Quarrels Mrs. Gorhan in her confession admitted each of the three murders of her children followed an argument with her husband. She would leave their home at Dowagiac, Cass county and go to her mother's home where the two women would kill the children. Death of the last infant was ascribed to whooping cough until Coroner S. E. Bryant of Dowagiac be- ; came suspicious and examined the i body more closely. Finger marks j and other abrasions were found on the infant's neck, and Mrs. Gorman confessed she held the baby w'hile her mother strangled it. Confessing the killing of the second child at Eau Claire. Mrs. Gorham said she pushed it in a baby carriage ten miles from Dowagiac to her mother’s home. She blamed her mother for plenning ail of the murders. Mrs. Lewis killed two or her own twin babies when the family lived in Genessee county near Flint, fifteen years age, Mrs. Gorham confessed, and said together they choked a baby of each on a rented farm soon after they came to this section six ’•ears ago. They burned the residence on the rented farm after this double murder and said the children were burned to death in the fire.

No Record of Adoption Three weeks ago another child of Mrs. Lewis disappeared, according to her daughter. This eighth child was given away for adoption, Mrs. Lewis said, but no record of the adoption has been found. C. H. Anderson and D. A. Tuyner, Berrien county deputy sheriffs, went to Dowagiac Tuesday, where they conferred with Gorhan, who told them of his suspicions. They then interrogated Mrs. Gorhan, who made a complete confession, resulting in the arrest of Mrs. Lewis and her husband. The men are second husbands of the two women. MERCURY TO DROP 10 Above Zero Predicted for Tonight. Another temperature drop of about 10 degrees bringing the mercury down to about 10 above zero tonight, was predicted today by J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau head. The night’s coldest mark was 20 above at 5:15 a. m. It will be warmer Thursday, however. he predicted. Unsettled weather probably with occasional snow, also is predicted for tonight and Thursday. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 21 10 a. m .... 23 7 a. m 21 11 a. m 28 8 a. m 21 12 moon).. 28 9a. m..... 23 Ip. m 29

LINDY’S BRIDE-TO-BE SHUNS SOCIETY WHIRL FOR LOVE OF BOOKS

Mexico CITY, Feb. 13.—The girl who will be Mrs. Charles Charles A. Lindbergh was born to the royal purple of finance and society. but. it affected her as little as the hero worship of the world influenced her famous fiance. Her engagement was announced here Tuesday by her parents. Ambassador and Mrs. Dwight Morrow. With unlimited social prestige at her disposal. Anne Spencer Morrow elected to li\e the life of the scholar and spent her days at Smith

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1929

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If Old Man Winter hangs on long enough Indianapolis may have some fairly accomplished proponents of real cold weather sports, such as skiing. The picture shows some of the fair amateurs who have been taking the jumps—and the spills—at Riverside and Coffin golf courses. In the toboggan they are (left to right) Miss Mabel Espy, 647 East Forty-eighth street; Miss Dorothy Lahr, 4910 Washington boulevard, and Miss Dorothy Gruman. 3645 Kenwood avenue. Miss Lahr is on skiis at the left below and Miss Espy at the right.

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6 DIE IN MARDI GRAS Annual Revel Also Causes Twenty Injuries. By United Press NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 13—Death strode among the revelers today as the famous New Orleans Mardi Gras came to an end in a final burst of merrymaking. Vital statistics of the celebration showed six dead, a score injured and more than 150 persons jailed on charges of being intoxicated. HOOVER RETURN SET Leaves Florida for Capital Next Week. Bn United Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla.. Feb. 13. President-Elect Hoover will leave here next Monday or Tuesday, returning to Washington, there to hold a series of important conferences before his inauguration, it was announced today. VOTE BOOTH OUSTER Salvation Army Council Finds Him Unfit for Job. SUNBURY, England, Feb. 13. The Salvation Army high council in session here today adjudged Gen. W. Bramwell Booth physically unfit to hold office at the head of the army. The vote was 55 to 2 and followed pleas of W. A. Jowitt, king's counellor, in behalf of General Booth's fitness. SET ELECTION EARLIER Bill Would Fix Final Voting Date in September. Planning to eliminate the long tedious campaign between May primaries and November elections. State Senator William F. Hodges of Gary, today introduced a bill setting the primary date, effective in 1930, as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September. This would make only two months between primary' and election and would serve to eliminate four months of turmoil, he said.

college gathering material for es- | says on such pedagogical subjects ! as "The Women of Dr. Johnson's | Time." n st tt dark and 22. she iuherited the strain of scholarship that is predominant in the Morrow family. Her mother is I an accomplished linguist: her sis- : ter. Elizabeth, is a school teacher: | her father is credited with being one of the most astute of American diplomats. {

Act Ends Controversy of More Than Year on Need of Fighting Craft. By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 13.—President Coolidge signed the cruiser bill today authorizing construction of fifteen cruisers and one modern airplane carrier for the navy. His signature to the legislation ended a controversy of more than a year on whether the United States needed additional fighting craft for its national defense. At a conference of congressional leaders, the President is understood to have stated emphatically that legislative appropriations for the next fiscal year, end June 30, 1930, would have to be rigidly held down if the cruiser fund were to be provided under the present budget. After the conference it was indicated that all the party leaders had indicated a willingness to co-oper-ate to this end. A few minutes after the congressional leaders left the White House, Coolidge buzzed for his secretary. When the secretary answered the, President handed him the signed cruiser bill. Fund for starting work on six of the ships—five cruisers and the aircraft carrier—will be appropriated probably before congress adjourns March 4. Backers of the program in congress will either insert an amendment to the pending navy appropriation bill for about $12,500,000 or appropriate the money by the second deficeincy act. JARDINE TOIETSREi Announcement Shows He Will Not Aid Hoover. Bn t ';i Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 13—Secretary of Agriculture Jardine of Kan- ! sas will return to private life after j March 4. he announced today. Until' a few dyas ago he had been reported j as under consideration for reap- j pointment by President - Elect j Hoover.

“They had to drag Anne to em- j bassy receptions,” her friends say. j But with this love for books Miss Morrow blended a liking for an active outdoor life. She sat calmly and uns fraid in the cockpit beside Lindbergh as he zoomed and banked low over the crater of Mexican volcanoes in 1927 when the flier was in i Mexico City on his good will flight. Miss Morrow is as -reserved and quiet as Lindbergh himself, so

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Warm Welcome By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Policeman John Gallagher entered a cigar store to get warm. Two polite young men were holding up the store. They relieved Gallagher of his gun, bowed and left.

EX-PROSECUTOR TO TRIAL Goodland Lawyer Indicted on Liquor Charge. By Times Special RENSSELAER. Ind., Feb. 13. Harry R. Hopkins, Goodland lawyer and until Jan. 1 last prosecuting j attorney for the Jasper-Newton county circuit, is under indictment by the Jasper county grand jury on a charge of violating the liquor law'. The charge against Hopkins is the most sensational returned by a Jasper county grand jury in recent years and is a topic of discussion throughout this section of Indiana. Shortly after return of the indictment. signed by Charles A. Halleck, present prosecutor of the JasperNewton circuit, Hopkins was arrested at his law office in Goodland by Deputy Sheriff Ernest Prouty who brought his prisoner here. Hopkins w'as arraigned before Judge George Williams, waived preliminary hearing and was released on SSOO bond pending trial. It is charged that on Oct. 20 last Halleck sold liquor to John Mayotte, living in tire southwestern part of Jasper county. Mayotte was a witness before the grand jury which returned the indictment. Another witness against the former prosecutor is a man under the alias of Pat Callahan, a prisoner in the county jail here pending trial on a charge of passing a worthless check on a Goodland merchant. Jasper county officials refuse to disclose what he knows about the Hopkins case, but intimates he was at one time in the employ of a Chicago bootlegger.

much so that persons who saw them together in Mexico City said there was no indication that they were more than good friends. __ an n SHE was graduated last year from Smith college, where she achieved an enviable scholastic record. Her literary activities resulted in her winning two prizes—the Mars - Augusta Jordan award for the most original piece oi literary work in prose or

LESLIE BACKERS BATTLE TO CHANGE PARTY RULES AND END REIGN OF BOSS COFFIN Republican State Committee Will Take Drastic Action at Session Today to Knock Czar Off Throne. FIGHT TO FINISH WILL BE WAGED Precinct Committeemen to Be Protected From Wrath of Chief; Spokesman for Governor Rushes to Washington. Spokesmen for Governor Harry G. Leslie went into the session of the Republican state committee at the Severin this afternoon, confident that they had enough votes to change rules and shatter the,grip held on the party by George V. Coffin, Republican Seventh district and city chairman. Leslie has declared war on Coffin. The rule changes are desired in order to prevent Coffin from repeating trickery of past city conventions and make it possible, perhaps, to unseat the veteran boss nest Saturday when he comes up for re-election as city chairman. The calling of the state committee by Chairman Liza Rogers was done at the request of Leslie or his spokesman, for the avowed purpose of taking away as much power as possible from Coffin, it was learned.

JUDGE UPHOLDS JAY-WALKING Rules Cops Can’t Arrest Woman Who Defied Them. The jay-walking penalties of the new city traffic ordinance were informally declared unconstitutional today by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter as he refused to permit the re-arrest of a woman who had defied a policeman and walked across Illinois and 'Maryland streets. Judge Wetter refused to order the re-arrest of Miss Lola Adams, 2951 Indiafmpolis avenue, who was arrested Tuesday when she defied the signals of Traffic Officer Wilson. She was not in the court this morning when her case was called. “Order her re-arrest,” said Prosecutor Herbert Spencer. - “Oh no,” Wetter returned. “The ordinance giving police the right to interfere with pedestrians is unconstitutional and not worth the paper it is written on.” The judge explained that “when the state legislature granted Indianapolis a charter it did not give the city council the right to regulate pedestrian traffic.” -JSfiss Adams was arrested after twioe being warned not to cross Illinois street in defiance of his signal. MARY GARDEN NOT ILL “Nonsense,” Says Singer in Blasting Reports. Bu United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 13.—A report that Mary Garden was ill was denied \>y the singer today at the RitzCarlton hotel. “What nonsense,” she exclaimed, “I’m leaving for Buffalo in an hour.” PUSH ARMORY QUIZ Cannot Disclose Results, Say Probers. Tiie subcommittee of the Indiana senate committee named to investigate the erection of Indiana national guard armories by the Ostrom Realty and Construction Company and financed by the Peoples State bank met today with the general committee to consider report to the senate on their preliminary investigation. Senator Alonzo H. Lindley, general investigating committee chairman, issued a statement declaring the information obtained in the probe to date “is such that it can not be disclosed.” The committee is to investigate courthouse records of anew home erected for Adjutant-General William H. Kershner on the Allisonville road by the Ostrom company, it was reported. The preliminary report will be made to the senate late today or Thursday, it was believed.

verse during her college course, and the Elizabeth Montagu prize for the best essay on “The Women of Dr. Johnston's Time.” Miss Morrow was born in Englewood, N. J., and was a student at the Chapin school here before entering Smith college. It is believed the marriage will take place in Mexico City, probably in the beautiful embassy patio, where Lindbergh was received by Ambassador Morrow on his first good-wili try?.

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If the anti-Coffin forces are successful Saturday in naming a city chairman to replace Cotfin, they will follow this advantage with an effort to oust: Coffin as district chairman and also remove Omar Hawkins, Coffin’s satellite, as county chairman. The rule changes desired would empower the state chairman to name a presiding officer at a city convention, prohibit proxies in a city convention, and permit any precinct committeeman to appeal any party question directly to the state chairman, without going through the district chairman, as now required. Coffins Power Cat The first change would keep Coffin from presiding and naming the credentials committee, which arbitrarily would throw out most of the anti-Coffin votes, as has been dope in previous Coffin-controlled conventions. The second change would prevent Coffin from “loading” the convention with proxies and permit the regular committeemen to vote. The third change would give comrtiittteemen aggrieved at Coffin a chance to carry their cases where they would get fair treatment. That the Leslie forces are prepared to go to any limit to trim (Coffin’s power is stated openly by the men who usually speak for the Governor. if Coffin is successful, it is intimated that there will be wholesale discharges of Coffin appointees at the statehouse, with the curt statement that those who serve Coffin should rely upon him to furnish the jobs, and that the state administration will not recognize him as any part of the Republican organization entitled to any patronage. Under the Jackson administration Coffin was supreme and the offices of many boards are filled with clerks named at his request. These will be told to deliver their precinct committee votes on Saturday for an anti-Coffin selection or lose their jobs. The wax - between Coffin and the Leslie forces started with returns from the last election. It is known that the results in Marion county were most displeasing to Leslie. He attributes the loss of the county to the widespread dissatisfaction with Coffinism and is said to be making the elimination of Coffin a major part of his promised elean-up campaign. Coffin Girds for Battle Meanwhile the Coffin forces were marshalled for a finish fight. As part of the strategy, it is understood, Mrs. Julia B. Tutewiler. Seventh district vice-chairman, wa3 to attend the state committee session in placeof Coffin, who has been ill. Anti-Coffin leaders saw strategy in this, because Mrs. Tutewiler is an accomplished orator, of pleasing personality. Apparently it was the hope that she might sway some of the state committeemen to sympathy for the falling county leader. Harry D. Tutewiler. Mrs. Tutewiler’s husband, is chairman of the Second ward. Tutewiler Tuesday afternoon called the fifteen Second ward committeemen to his home and pledged all to support Coffin in the city convention Tuesday. Attempts continued to combine the several city factions opposed to Coffin behind one candidate for city chairman Saturday. The anti-Cos- ! fin leaders believed that if they j could unite all dissatisfied elements ! they could defeat Coffin, despite the I fact that he had county commis- | sioners create forty new city prej cincts. so County Chairman HawI kins could name that many more new committeemen who would vote fori Coffin. Story Selling Discussed by Club Marketing of literary productions was discussed by members of the Writers Club at the Spink-Arms, Tuesday night. Part’ular emphasis qh iffonrt. story*

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