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PROMISES OF GLOSSBRENNER RIDICULED BY MAYOR SLACK; G. 0. P. ‘BRAINS’ ALSO JEERED _ < “Charlie Jewett’s Mind Is Like Streets He Paved, Full of Chuck Holes,” Says Democratic Leader in Campaign Speech. COFFIN INFLUENCE IS POINTED OUT “I Can See Trouble Ahead if Republicans Are Victorious, Because of Views Against Labor,” Says City’s Chief. BY BEN STERN Despite his protestations to the contrary, the strong right arm of the “student of economy” will encircle the brawny shoulder of the crafty Coffin, if Alfred M. Glossbrenner, Republican nominee for mayor, is elected, speakers pointed out at Democratic rallies Tuesday night. At the same time the Republican fanfare of having a business man “economist” candidate was answered with statistics of the Slack administration.

“Let me say in the very beginning,” declared Mayor L. Ert Slack to more than 300 at the Howard theater, “that we have had no labor troubles, no riots and no pressure against labor in the two years of my administration. “I can see trouble ahead if Glossbrenner is elected, for a man who as mayor holds views against labor disturbs the whole situation. "Os course we want a man who understands business, but it is not necessary to go to the president of a big corporation for that. Less Competent "I sometimes think that these high-toned business men are less competent to head a big city than the average man. John L. Duvall was touted by Coffin as a business man and banker. His record as mayor is spread upon the court docket. 'lf a lawyer is not competent, I, of course, am out of the picture. “How did Charles W. Jewett, a lawyer, become mayor? He says you ought to have a business man for mayor. But he never knows where he stands. Charle's mind is like the streets he paved, full of chuck holes. "Indianapolis owed more than $9,000,000 when I became mayor. These debts should have been paid by the treasurer, but instead interest was being charged on the debts. "Today, two years later the debts have been paid.

“Jewett built a street three block; long at a cost of $8.92 per front foot: the same sized stretch just north was built by the present administration at the cost of $3.95,” Slack declared. No Class Beliefs Slack pointed out that Glossbrenner did not think enough of the progress of the city to permit the widening of Meridian street and opposed it, because he had three trees on his front lawn which would have to be felled. “The average man makes the best mayor,” Slack said, “because he takes a common sense view of things and has no foolish beliefs concerning classes, groups or masses.” Statements of Glossbrenner that the “political and economic brains” of the county were leading the Republican organization were held to scorn by Walter Myers. Democratic nominee for mayor in 1925. "George V. Coffin, D. C. Stephenson, Bob McNay, Ed Jackson. John Duvall and his six little councilmen and Bill Armitage are a few of the economic and political brains leading the party in Indianapolis, and they have led it to the courtroom and prison,” Myers said. Do as He’s Told “And no matter how much Glossbrenner may squeal and squirm and snort and sniff, if elected mayor, Coffin would say to him. ‘Glossie, you'll do as you're told or well make your administration a failure, an absolute zero, a flop. “And what will Glossie do? He'll do as he's told, becaifse he fears failure. He'll say, 'a half a loaf is better than none, George, and everything will be lovely in Republican ranks.” Reginald Sullivan. Democratic nominee for mayor, reiterated his promise that there would be no Democratic machine at the city hall, but that the best ability would be obtained to give a “business- ( like administration of public af-' fairs, without discrimintion or prejudice against any class or group of citizens.” CO U NTESrHELb“suTc IDE So-Called English Peeress Took Life While Insane. Bu T'nitrd Prrtt CHICAGO. Oct. 30—“ Suicide while insane” was the verdict of a coroner’s jury in the death of Mrs. Eve Waddington - Greeley, who claimed to be an English countess. She shot and killed herself because of a blighted romance with John Maier. policeman, farewell notes indicated.

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Seer ‘Sees’; Girl Suicide; Act Goes On Miss Lillian Burks, 18, Cheats Prophecy by Taking Poison. BY ARCH STEINEL A barker ballyhoos today in the Coney Island museum, 18 South Illinois street, as crow'ds of idlers listen. He cries in strident tones, “Edelle, the Mentalist, she tells your future, answers all questions, knows all — gentlemen. Only 50 cents.” And Edelle stands blindfolded on a block answering the questions the barker puts to her. “What has this gentleman in his pocket?” “A watch,” retorts Edelle. For Edelle tells “your future,” “answers all questions,’’ “knows all” —but this—and maybe she knows something of this: Miss Lillian Burks, 18, of 648 Holly street, died today at the city hospital from the effects of poison which she took at her hom)e. The only reason ascribed for her act, by friends, was that she went to a fortune-teller at 18 South Illinois street Saturday and was told that her “fture looked dark.” In the Coney Island museum, the red lips of the flapperish Edelle answer quickly the questions put to her in the free crowd reading she gives. While: "Lillian always was cheerful,” says Mrs. Helen Grubbs, her landlady. “On Saturday, she and I went shopping. We stopped in the sideshow' and museum on South Illinois, right next door to the Rialto theater. I watched the sideshow—and Lillian ” “Now those that want a full, private reading step right behind the curtain,” calls the barker. Fifi, the woman who walks on knives, tread her tortuous path for the benefit of those who had no fortune worth the telling. One man entered the red-curtained booth of Edelle Just as “And Lillian went in the booth and had her fortune told. She wouldn’t tell me what they told her. but neighbors say that Lillian told them her fortune was bad. This morning she w r ent to work at the Robbins Body Corporation. She told her boss she was quitting. She returned home, bought a bottle of poison at a drug i store. She took it—and died an I hour later in the city hospital. The funeral awaits arrival of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Burks, Rural Route 1. Bloomington. Ind. But at the Coney Island museum, 18 South Illinois street, a barker shouts: “Edelle, the mentalist, she tells your future, answers all questions, knows all ”

AMERICA TURNS AWAY, HEEDLESS, FROM REAL CAUSE OF PRISON HORRORS

This I* the lint of a aeries of articles br Dr. Harry timer Barnes, noted sonologist. dealing with ertrainats, prisons and advanced ideas regarding their treatment and retorm, written especially for The Times. BY HARRY ELMER BARNES THERE is a murder, attended by unusual circumstances. The body of the victim lies in the morgue. Thousands go to view it. Few. if any. of that morbid throng display interest in the long train of circumstances which led to the killing. The body lying there is a tangible thing upon which-one may gaze; which one may touch, if one is not squeamish. The things which led up to the murder —the psychology of it; the environment, or the heredity of

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GAS CO, SUIT IS UNDER WAT Stockholders Charged With Breach of Faith. Charging lack of faith on the part of stockholders of the Citizens Gas Company, Will H. Thompson of counsel for the gas company trustees, today opened defense in the federal court hearing of arguments on pleadings in the suit of Newton Todd to enjoin transfer of the gas company property to the city of Indianapolis. The stockholders, in their articles of incorporation and franchise contract, bound themselves to receive no more than the face value of their stock certificates, together with 10 per cent interest a year, and by this suit they seek to invalidate that agreement, Thompson said. He sought to disprove arguments of Frederick E. Matson and Earl Barnes, attorneys for Todd, who preceded him, that the 1905 franchise contract was invalid from the start. ’ Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 55 10 a. m 58 7a. m 56 11 a. m 58 Ba. m 56 12 (noon).. 59 9 a. m 57 1 p. m 60

the killer, are not so tangible. They are not things that can be seen. They are not things that can be touched. The populace therefore, displays little concern in them. Yet. they really are the instructive elements. In this tendency of mankind to seize upon concrete situations and superficial happenings, while ignoring fundamental considerations, may be found the reason for the keen public interest in the recent epidemic of prison outbreaks, while there has been practically no interest in the under-surface cause for these outbreaks. u a a PUBLIC imagination can visualize a Danny Daniels, who lines up his own comrades and

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Top photo shows tragic scene at Kenosha, Wis., where friends and relatives gathered to await survivors of the ill-fated liner Wisconsin, coast steamer with seventy-five aboard, which sunk in the waters of Lake Michigan with a loss of eight lives. First picture of the actual wreckage of the Wisconsin is shown below. A hatch and part of the port side of the vessel form the only marker of the watery grave. Both photos were rushed by special NEA Service through its Chicago bureau to The Times.

An Editorial * Will Jewett Enlighten?

Tonight Charles W. Jewett will make three speeches. Each night he has talked upon some phase of local political history. Will he tonight select a live topic? What the people would really like to know is why Jewett, as mayor, suddenly “accepted” the resignation of George V. Coffin as chief of police. Will Jewett dare to tell? Will he go into the intimate history of the secret conspiracy of Coffin to force Jewett out of office and take the job himself? Will he tell the part ** played by one Foppiano? Will he tell about the gathering at the jail? Such revelations would give a real picture of the Coffin method of politics. It would do much to enlighten. For the issue in this campaign, as it must be in every campaign as long as Coffin dominates and rules and controls any public office, is Coffinism. Jewett has a wonderful opportunity to aid by merely telling what he knows, not what he thinks.

shoots to death, afterward taking his own life, in Canon City, Colo. Human beings in the main are interested in the WHAT of it. Only a small minority are interested in the WHY of it. The conventional observer decries the alleged coddling of convicts and demands greater severity. The humane commentator protests against the poor food served to inmates, the overcrowded blocks, and the generally barbarous nature of our prison population. Neither group makes any serious attempt to get behind the externals of prison life and discover why prisons fail to protect

the public and reform criminals, and why inmates mutiny. More and better food should be provided in our prisons; bigger and better sleeping quarters. But something more is required. There is nothing unique in the recent prison outbreaks. But the army of convicted criminals has outgrown prison facilities. The Baumes laws and similar legislation have helped overcrowd penitentiaries. And the more prisoners t' ire are, the more gloom there Is within the walls. Thus, desperate men, becoming even more desperate than they were when they were admitted, take a chance against the guards. They think: “Others have failed in their at-

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s Sr Former K'an Chief Files Supplemental Move. Another delay in decision of the supreme court murder appeal of D. C. Stephenson, former Indiana klan dragon, appeared today when Stephenson filed a motion for permission to present supplemental proceedings, through his newly retained attorney, Robert J. Baker, of Michigan City. Stephenson is serving a life sentence in the Indiana state prison for the murder of Madge Oberholzer, Indianapolis young woman. The motion for leave to file the additional proceedings was attested by Stephenson and alleged that volume two of the murder case briefs before the court was filed without Stephenson having an opportunity to read it or know its contents. Baker’s petition said that if Stephenson is not pernrtted to file additional pleadings his “rights will be jeopardized seriously.” The supplemental pleadings will contain many points, “germane and vital” ro Stephenson’s case, the motion stated. Paul Newn nos Gary, who has represented the former klan leader in many court battles, was in Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon and indications are that he may oppose Baker’s efforts.

tempts to escape. Maybe we will succeed. Who knows? Here goes!” The real tragedy of our American prison system is not to be found in the murder of a few guards or the killing of a handful of convicts, but in the effect of prison life upon all who become a part of it. a a a LARGER buildings of the present sort, designed to continue the repressive and punitive system, mean merely the taking of more of the taxpayers’ money to build a bigger failure out of a smaller one. The real menace is in the fact that our prisons offer no adequate protec-

STOCK MARKET ON UPWARD TREND, AS BUYING ORDERS SERVE TO BRACE CONFIDENCE A. T. and T. Features Upswing, Advancing 26 Points; Steel’s Buoyancy Helps Whole Market and Blue Chips Race Ahead. TAPE RUNNING FULL HOUR LATE Utilities Bid Up Sharply, After Being Hit Hardest in Selling Wave; Oils Also Move Up; General Electric Spurts. BULLETIN NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—The New York Stock Exchange today voted to close Thursday morning until noon and to close Friday and Saturday. By United Prc-' NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—The stock market came back smashingly today as Wall street re-echoed cheers that the tremendous weight of the bear market at last had been broken. Prices jumped from 1 to 30 points. The market swung along at a 10,000,000-shares-a-day rate. Tickers were more than an hour behind actual floor sales. But throughout that busy financial world of lower New York, smiles replaced gloom, and excited buying of bargains left from Tuesday’s terrific break took the place of dejected selling. n.

Maroney Is Sentenced in Dry Case Former Agent, Watson Aid. Must Serve 16 Months for Conspiracy. P.n Times Bueeinl SOUTH BEND. Oct. 30.—Jack Maroney, who, for ten years has been a figure in Indianapolis and Indiana politics as a street commissioner, department of justice and prohibition agent and bodyguard to Senator James E. Watson, today prepared to spend sixteen months in the federal penitentiary for conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. Maroney was sentenced here Tuesday afternoon by Special Judge Claude E. Luse of Madison, Wis., on a plea of guilty. Conrad Bivin of Bloomington, former prohibition agent, received a similar sentence and \ndrew Kekko, the bootlegger wi K . whom Maroney and Bivin were alleged to have dealt, received an eight-month sentence. Bivin and Kekko were sentenced by Judge Thomas W. Slick, who disqualified himself in Maroney’s case. Bivin told Slick that Maroney said he could make “SIO,OOO a year in side money” as an enforcement agent. Maroney lost his stand in the prohibition force when he failed to pass an examination. He then went to Florida and on his return told friends he had been “on confidential business” and intimated it was at the request of Watson and other senators. A few hours before Maroney was sentenced Watson announced he was ill and would leave Washington for a three weeks’ rest trip in Florida. PANTAGES NOW SUED $250,000 Slander Action Aftermath of Assault Trial. Bv T'nih <1 l’restx LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30.—As an aftermath of his trial on charges of assaulting 17-year-old Eunice Pringle? Alexander Pantages, millionaire theatrical man, today was made defendant in a $250,000 civil suit charging slander. The action was filed by Fred T. Wise, state witness against Pantages. Wise claimed he was “maliciously slandered,” when Pantages accused him of entering into a “blackmail” conspiracy with Miss Pringle.

tion to society, and certainly they don't reform. There has been no rioting at Sing Sing, yet Warden Lawes’ faithful portrayal of conditions there in his “Life and Death in Sing Sing” reveals a more moving tragedy than could the best possible composite press story of the recent outbreaks at Dannemora and Auburn and Canon City. The worst of it is that this prison tragedy is not one that is over in a week. It goes on, day in and day out, year in and year out. And it can not be corrected by another helping of beans or another coat of paint. NEXT: Dr. Barnes will discuss "What Makes the Criminal.”

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American Telephone and Telegraph featured today’s upswing 1 , the stock advancing’ 2G points to 231. It held around that level after the ! first hour's spurts forward. Hundreds of persons thronged the brokerage offices. Cashiers and margin clerks were busy as they ever have been. Customers, convinced that a turn ; was due, got together sufficient 1 funds to hold their stocks and long lines of traders formed before the margin department, waving their receipts and ordering cancellation of sell orders. Interest in prices replaced the indifference noted in the recent selling. Steel was watched eagerly. It | opened at 177, up 3, following the ; report last night of record earnings for the first nine months of 1929 and declaration by the company of an extra dividend of $1 per share. Steel Rise Cheered

Steel’s buoyancy helped the whole market. Word came from the floor shortly after 11 p’clock that the stock had hit 183. A cheer went up in the brokerage offices. The old leader was back. Blue chips raced ahead as heavy buying came from investment trusts, bankers and individual investors and speculators. The turn brought out rather heavy short covering which also helped swing Uhe market upwaVd. American Can, which also declared an extra dividend of $1 a share Tuesday, rose more than 2 points. Utilities were bid up sharply. They had been the hardest hit in the selling wave. American and Foreign Power in this group rose 10 points, Columbia Gas 3 points, and Consolidated Gas 3li. Westinghouse Moves Up Oils moved up, helped by a large decrease in crude production. Rails responded to another increase in car loadings. Special Issues rose. General Electric spurted more than 10 points, and Westinghouse Electric rose nearly 9 points. United Aircraft led the aviation shares witn a gain of 8 points. General Motor;, rose more than 2 points. Steel continued to forge ahead. At 11:30 it was selling at 186 and other stocks were proportionately strong. aSles to noon totaled 5,576,300 shares, compared with 8,378,200 shares in the first two hours Tuesday.

LEAVES TRUST INCOME Woman Friend Gets SI,OOO a Mont; From Stephen B. Elkins. Bu T'nilnl I'rrK* NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—A life income of SI,OOO a month was left b) Stephen B. Elkins, son of the late Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, to a friend, Mrs. E. I. Mars tin of Hollis, Queens, a copy of EHcins' will filed here revealed. The remainder of Elkins’ estate valued at $3,000,000, was left to his brother, Senator Davis Elkina of West Virginia. Elkins, who died here Oct. 20, was president of the Elkins Coal and Coke Company and of the National Fuel Company. SLAYER FOUND GUILTY Horace Peters Faces Life Term so Murder of Girl. Bu T'nited Vrrxx . _ . „ NORTH VERNON, Ind., Oct. 30.A jury here today, found Horace ( Peters, 25, guilty of first degree murder for the shooting of Miss Mabel Van Osdol, 19. Life imprisonment was recommended. The girl was shot when she refused to accompany Peters to a concert April 2. Peters tried unsuccessfully to kill himself immediately after the murder.

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