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M’CULLOCH IS APPOINTED AS OHIO SENATOR Canton Republican Chosen as Successor to Late Theodore Burton. SERVES UNTIL DEC., 1930 Must Run for Re-Election Next Year in Order to Complete Term. Bv t'niteii Pres* COLUMBUS, 0., Nov. s.—Governor Meyers Y. Cooper today appointed Roscoe C. McCulloch, Republican, Canton, United States senator succeeding the late Senator Theodore E. Burton of Cleveland. McCulloch, 49. son of a farmer, former congressman, lawyer and once special assistant United States attorney-general, will resign his present post as chairman of the state public utilities commission and will leave for Washington at once. He will serve until Dec. 15, 1930, and under state law, in order to complete? Senator Burton’s term which expires on March 4, 1933, must run for election next year. Fourth to Serve McCulloch was one of a host of possible appointees considered by the Governor. The selection finally narrowed down to a race between the Canton man and Colonel Carmi A. Thompson of Cleveland. McCulloch will be the fourth person to serve in the senatorial post in one term. The first was the late Senator Frank Willis, who died and was succeeded by Cyrus Locher, Democrat, Cleveland. Locher died last August and Senator Burton was elected in November. Burton died in Washington ten days ago. McCulloch is the father of two children, a daughter, 21, and a son 17. He was born on a farm in Holmes county, was educated in the Millersburg public schools, Wooster preparatory school, Ohio State university and Western Reserve university law school. He was admitted to the bar in 1903. He served three terms in congress, from 1915 to 1921. Ran for Governorship He first ran for the lower house in 1912, but was defeated. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1920. Shortly after the war McCulloch was appointed special assistant United States attorney-general to prosecute and collect claims against war-time contractors. He was appointed to his present utilities commission post shortly after Governor Cooper assumed office.

JURY CONVICTS TWO Negroes Are Held Guilty in U. S. Court Liquor Trial. William Mealure, Negro. 928 North Senate avenue, and Mrs. Ora Minor, Negro, 928% North Senate avenue, were convicted by a federal jury today on violation of national prohibition laws. Twenty-one other cases awaited trial and twelve prisoners awaited sentence by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. VILLAGE IS FOODLESS Fire Destroys Warehouse In Town Inaccessible by Road. if LEWISTOWN. Pa.. Nov. 5. Efforts to obtain enough food to keep the 300 residents of the village of Hawsstone from starvation were begun today by the officials of the Haws Refractories Company. Fire early today destroyed the Storage house containing the food supply of the vlialge, which is maintained largely by the Haws company. Hawsstone, located three miles east of here on the Pennsylvania railroad, is not accessible by highway. DOCTOR’S WIDOW DIES Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton Was 111 Only Short Time. Following a short illness. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton, 85. widow of Dr. O. F. Britton, died Monday at the home of her son, Charles O. Britton. 2022 North Meridian street. Mrs. Britton, who had lived in Indianapolis since 1884, was a member of Caroline Scott Harrison chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, the Women's Research Club and the Central Christian church. Private funeral services will be held at the residence at 2 30 p. m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Crown Hill. The son is the only surviving relative.

SENTENCE PRISON HEAD Arizona Superintendent Freed Convict for Wedding. Bu United Press PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. s.—Lorenzo Wright, superintendent of Arizona’s state penitentiary, must pay a SI,OOO fine or spend six months In his own prison. Wright's sentence by a lower court lor allowing a convict to leave the prison long enough to be married to a guard's daughter, was upheld late Monday by the supreme court The superintendent was convicted ol contempt of court.

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Interest at Gary Is in Mayor Race Fair Weather Is Expected to Bring Heavy Vote From Women. By L’nlted Press GARY. Ind., Nov. 5.—A total of 20,000 votes in today’s municipal election hfcre was indicated when 4,100 ballots were cast In the first hour. This was 1,600 fewer than in the same period at the spring primary. The contest which holds major interest is the mayoralty race between R. O. Johnson, Republican, former mayor, and Emmet White, Democrat. Fair weather throughout the Calumet district was expected to bring out a heavy vote among the women this afternoon. Kokomo Vote Light A!/ I)mrs special KOKOMO, Ind., Nov. s.—What observers declare Is Kokomo’s quietest election is being held toda>. Factory employes on their way to work this morning walked past the polls and only election board officials had cast ballots at an early hour. Few women are seen about the polls. Candidate Is 25 Bv Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind., Nov. 5. Newcastle’s claim of haring the youngest mayoralty candidate in Indiana in the person of Lloyd Beall, 28, is d'sputed by Greensburg which presents James Shannon, 25. Both are Republicans.

Big Turnout at Muncie By t ime* special MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 5.—A heavy turnout of voters was noted today as Muncie’s most spirited campaign in. years came to an end. George R. Dale, Muncie editor, the nominee of the Democratic party for mayor, has conducted an unusually aggressive campaign and has drawn great crowds at his nightly meetings. Robert D. Barnes, Republican nominee, on the other hand, has contented himself chiefly with precinct organization gatherings and attendance has been light. Muncie normally is a Republican stronghold, and Dale started campaign with a big majority against him, but he has made inroads. Both Dale and Barnes were claiming victory by 2,500 majorities. Women Predominate Bv T’nited Preen MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. Nov. 5. The heaviest vote in the history of Michigan City was being cast today, it appeared from early tallies at polling places, with women predominating among the early arrivals. Polls were crowded throughout the morning. No disorder was reported. Police are watching the vote.

SCARED BANDITS HOLD JJPJSTORE $175 Is Loot of Nervous Young Gunmen. tin rime it special CRAWFORDSVILLE. Nov. 5. Tw'o nervous young men robbed Bert Davis in his grocery here today of $175 and fled in an automobile bearing an Illinois license. Two customers were in the store when the armed bandits entered but only Davis’ money was taken, although one of the customers had a pocketbook in his hands. Davis and the customers said the robbers planly were amateurs, both being frightened badly and nervous in word and action. RAILWAY HEAD DIES George Hannauer Expires on Trip to Gridiron Game. Bp United Press CAMBRIDGE, Nov. s.—Funeral services for George Hannauer were held at the chapel in Mt. Auburn cemetery here today in the presence of civic and business leaders. Hannauer, who had been president of the Boston & Maine railroad, died suddenly Sunday at New Haven, Conn., where he had gone to the Yale-Dartmouth football game. Prince Max Seriously 111 Bu United Pres * CONSTANCE, Germany, Nov. 5. A statement issued by physicians attending Prince Max of Baden said today that the former German chancellor’s condition was unchanged and that he s&ill was in a grave condition.

CUSTOMS HUNTING HUGE RUM CARGO

Bu T y Hr4 Pres* NEW YORK. Nov. s.—Officials of the customs enforcement bureau today admitted they were searching for three foreign steamships that allegedly were attempting to land 300,000 bottles of liquor in New York. Twelve harbor patrol boats put to sea Monday night, but customs officials, indignant that the news of the search had gotten out. wore

RAPS MELLON FOR FAILURE OF DRY LAWS ‘President Should Demand Resignation/ Asserts Brookhart. DESCRIBES BOOZE PARTY ‘What Prohibition Needs Is General Smedley Butler/ Senate Told. S "WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—President Hoover should demand the resignation of Secretary of Treasurer Andrew W. Mellon for failure to enforce prohibition and “get a Smedley Butler or someone like that,” Senator Smith W. Brookhart, ardent lowa dry and independent Republican, told the senate today in describing what he had seen and heard at a “wet party” given for United State senators at a hotel in 1926. Major-General Smedley Butler, to whom Brookhart referred, was loaned to the city of Philadelphia several years ago to become superintendent of public safety in an attempt to "dry up” the city. Recently, as comander of the marine base at Quantico, Va., he refused to permit his men to enter the city until the bootleggers had been driven out.

Brookhart asserted there were a large number of hip flasks on a table or bookcase in the ante-cham-ber of the dining room and the senators’ wet party, and that he and other senators had been invited to help themselves. He said the dinner -was given by Walter J. Fahy, a Wall Street broker, and that his position at the dinner was between Otto Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb & Cos., and E. E. Loomis of J. P. Morgan & Cos. Neither Senator Smoot (Rep., Utah), the late Senator Gooding (Rep., I<Jho) nor himself took any of the flasks, “but some of the other boys helped themselves and the Wall Street bunch was quite active in this respect,” the lowa senator said. “As for the others they can answer for themselves as to whether they got any,” he added. Urged He Attend President pro tempore of the senate, George W. Moses (Rep., N. H.) urged that he attend the dinner, Brookhart said. “When I got there, introductions were made and I met the so-called distinguished Senator-elect Vare of Pennyslvania. Then someone lifted a curtain from a table or bookcase.”

At this poiiit, Senator Hatfield, sitting next to Brookhart, reached over to see the invitation, whereupon Brookhart waved him away, saying: ‘‘Keep your hands off that." “There was a rack of beautiful silver flasks and the word went around that they were filled with Scotch," Brookhart continued. “Somebody said: ‘Help yourself.’” Brookhart said he did not help himself and then absolved the other senators named. “Who is to blame?” Not After Little Fellows “I’,ll tell you. I am not after the little fellows. The man who is to blame is Mr. Andrew W. Mellon,” Brookhart replied. “We offered him $50,000,000 to enforce prohibition at the last session of congress and he turned it down. He didn’t want it. “I want to call the attention of the President to the fact that he has responsibility over Mr. Mellon. It is up to him to remove Mr. Mellon and get a Smedley Butler or someone else like that, who means business.” Brookhart said he would go before a grand jury here Wednesday and answer questions as to liquor parties in Washington, because he did not think a United States senator ought to claim exemption. “I congratulate President Hoover on his personal stand. His example has had a good effect among people who toady after the big people.” He urged that the three reporters for the Washington Times who have been imprisoned for contempt of court in declining to reveal the source of their information in connection with a recent liquor expose follow his example and go before the grand Jury here. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 32 10 a. m..... 42 7 a. m 32 11 a. m 44 Ba. m 35 12 (noon).. 46 9 a. m..... 37 1 p. m 47

secretive about operations. It was reported that two of the ships were flying the British flag and the other one the French flag. The tip concerning the three ’ esse Ls was reported to have come from two members of the crew of a customs boat, who tied a small crystal reception set to the bedsprings of their bunk and intercepted radio messages between the three ships and rum runners on shore.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1929

Whom Do You Suppose They Chose?

The Democratic and Republican nominees for mayor were among the early voters at the polls today. . In the photo at the left are (left to right) Thomas L. Sullivan Sr., twice mayor of Indianapolis, ad his son, Reginald Sullivan, the Democratic

BANDIT SUSPECT HELD AT BRAZIL Nick Sarantis Believed to Have Robbed Collector. Bu United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Nov. s—Nick Sarantis 32, a suspect in the $1,660 robbery of Ira Nevill in Indianapolis last Thursday, was being held here today for Indianapolis officers. Sarantis is accompanied by his wife and father, Danity Sarantis, 65, all of Augusta, Ga. Nevill, a collector for the Standard Grocery Company, said in a telephone call to officers here that he saw the Sarantis party in a tourist camp near Ben Davis and called police, but the group escaped. Brazil officers took them into custody late Monday. Police Chief Fulk said he would hold the group until this afternoon, but if Nevill did not make a positive personal identification today, he would release them. A search of the three persons resulted in finding of $27. Their baggage has not been searched. PERSHING IS PUZZLED General Says He’s in Best of Health Despite Rumor. Bu United Press PARIS, Nov. s.—General John J. Pershing’s curiosity was aroused today by inquiries about his health. Tv been out all day and feeling fine,” he told the United Press. “There must have been curious remarks about my health because Norman Armour, charge d’affaires at the American embassy, called me and said the state department had cabled about me.” FIRE INJURIES FATAL San Francisco Department’s Chief Dies at Home. Bu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. s.—Fire Chief Thomas R. Murphy, former president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, died at his home here today a heart ailment, complicated by injuries received while fighting a pier fire several months ago, when he was thrown into the bay. Murphy distinguished himself during the great fire of 1906.

M’ALPINE PARTY FOUND IN ARCTIC

Bu United Press WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov. 5. Colonel C. D. H. McAlpine and his party of seven aerial explorers, have been rescued from northern Canada’s barren lands, but it will take them almost a month to reach civilization, according to estimates made today by officials of Dominion Explorers, Inc., who directed the two months’ search. The Hudson Bay steamer Ft. St. James picked up the party at Cambridge Bay. Northwest territory, after it had been located by Eskimos and guided across the ice of Dease inlet from Milbourne island, it was said in brief wireless reports sent to Churchill Monday. McAlpine and his fellow geologists had been searching for fabulously rich copper deposits in the Hudson Bay region. Their two airplanes ran out of fuel while trying to reach a trading post at Victoria in-

mayoralty nominee, as they appeared at the polls at 528 North Senate avenue. In the photo at the right are Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Glossbrenner, the Republican mayoralty nominee, at the polls at 51 West Thirty-fourth street. Each of the rival candidates was confident of victory.

Watch for This Great Series For thousands of years the sea has run red with the blood of nations fighting to rule it. For three centuries Britain has waged wars to retain command over it. Now it’s up to Britain and America to fight it out—or to talk it out, in a common sense way. This talk, which began at Washington, will continue at London. You and yours, and the future of your country and the world, are pawns in the game now on and which must lead to peace, or . . . who dares say? Watch The Times, beginning Armistice day—next Monday. Because of its stupendous importance to you, The Tiriies plans to cover the story of the London conference from A to Zed and the A of it is starting. Watch for these stories.

DAUGHTER’S VOTE IS AGAINST HER FATHER Quarrel Over Dog Loses Ballots for Buffalo Mayor. Bu United Press BUFFALO, Nov. s.—At least two members of Mayor Frank X. Schwab’s family proposed to vote today for his Republican opponent, Charles E. Roesch, in the mayoralty election. Both his daughter, Teresa, and her husband, Albert Gunther, announced they would cast their votes for Roesch, all due to a controversy over the mayor’s pet chow dog. The mayor asserted the controversy started when the chow nipped his granchild, Jane. His refusal to have the animal shot, he said, caused the breach between his daughter and himself. NEVADA DIVORCE HIT Los Angeles Judge Refuses to Reognize Decree. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Nov. s.—The Nevada divorce mill—famed the world over —has little standing in the Los Angeles superior court of Judge Leon Yankwich. For the second time within a year Judge Yankwich, author of several spectacular decisions, has held that a Reno separation was not binding on the divorced party.

let Sept. 8 and were forced down in open water just off Melbourne island. Both machines are in excellent condition and need only to be refueled and equipped with skiis to be able to return south. Dominion explorers, of which McAlpine is president, explained that the score of airplanes which have been sent into the north to find the explorers are equipped with skiis and can not come farther south than Baker Lake until the freezeup. This is due to the fact that they can take off only on land, upon packed snow or smooth ice and can not change to wheeled landing gears in the far north, because of the danger should an emergency landing be necessary. Churchill, headquarters for the rescue planes, is not expected to freeze for another month, it was said.

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PREMIER TELLS OF U.S. MISSION House of Commons Hears Pact Reiterated. Bu United Press LONDON, Nov. s.—Premier J. Ramsay McDonald reported to the House of Commons today on his visit to Washington, reiterating the joint statement of himself and President Hoover that war between the United States and Great Britain is “unthinkable.” McDonald spoke in general terms and added nothing specific to previous announcements regarding his conversations with President Hoover. When he was asked pointedly if he had committed Great Britain to any particular position at the coming five-power naval conference, however, he shook his head. At the conclusion of the premier’s speech, David Lloyd George,, the Liberal leader, remarked that MacDonald had rendered a real service to world peace by clearing the atmosphere. At the same time, Lloyd George continued, “I would have been glad if the prime minister had given the house more details and concrete results of his visit and the commitments, if any, which were made.”

HUNTING OPENS NOV. 15 Season Was Shortened Thirty Days By Legislature. Open season for fur-bearing animals is from Nov. 15 to Jan. 15, inclusive. The last legislature shortened the season thirty days, it was pointed out today by George N. Mannfeld, fish and game division superintendent of the state conservation department. Licenses, printed prior to the legislative change, bear the old dates Nov. 10 to Feb. 10, but this should be disregarded, he warned. CRIME BOARD MEETS State Group WDI Hold General Session on Nov. 22. Another meeting of the subcommittee of the state crime conference will be held in the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie next Tuesday, It was decided at the initial meeting Monday. The subcommittee is charged with planning for the meeting of the general crime conference committee, to be held Nov. 22. It was decided to call the general committee the “Indiana commission on observance and enforcement of law.”

BLOODHOUNDS GET CLEW TO MURDER

By United Pres* INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Nov. 5. Bloodhounds which loped from the house of an aged farmer and his wife near here to a neighboring farm home were believed by officers today to have opened the way for solution of a double murder. Miss Opal Weddle, 18, returned home from church Sunday night and found her father, Albert Weddle. dead on the floor of his small sitting room, shot through the head. Nearby lay Mrs. Weddle, wounded in the back by buckshot and unconscious. She died Monday.

DEMOCRATS OPTIMISTIC AS G. 0. P. FIGURES REVEAL EVEN BATTLE IN EARLY BALLOTING Republicans, However, Are Confident North Side Vote Will Overbalance Support for Sullivan and Cohorts. PREPARE FOR LATE AFTERNOON RUSH Early Reports Are Encouraging for Citizens’ School Ticket; Third of Citizens Visit Poles Before Noon Hour. Turning Republican voting figures to their own account, Democrats this afternoon were increasingly optimistic with their chances of overcoming the normal Republican majority and seating Reginald Sullivan as mayor at the head of a Democratic city administration. Figures compiled in Republican headquarters from reports brought in from 253 of the 255 precincts in the cityindicated a total vote of 34,908 had been cast by 11 a. m. This was practically one-third of the normal total vote. At the last municipal election in 1925, a total vote of 34,523 had been registered at the same hour.

On the face of today’s 11 o’clock returns, Republicans gave themselves a plurality of 406 votes, if every voter adhered to party lines as recorded in the poll books. In reaching this figure, Republicans gave Democrats benefit of one-third of the 60,000 doubtful voters, with onethird of the vote in. Four years ago the 11 o’clock total vote was reported as 34,523. Os this figure, Republicans claimed then 19,711, or a plurality of 4,899 votes, as compared with the 406 they were figuring on today. Democrats Optimistic

At noon, Democrats at their headquarters in the State Savings and Trust building, were highly optimistic. They were claiming many recruits from Republican ranks in the north side, while holding their own in the south. Republican leaders expressed confidence that the afternoon voting will show an increase for the Republican ticket so that the inroads of the Democrats during the morning hours will be reduced greatly before the polls close. Early indications were that the Fourth ward, normally Republican, would be closely contested. In 1925 the ward gave Republicans 9,795 and the Democratic mayoralty nominee 9,302. The Ninth ward, one of the pivotal wards, at 11 o’clock gave the Democrats a plurality of 886 votes. Claim Small Margin

The First ward, normally strongly Republican, and in the last two elections influenced greatly by the klan is expected to be a battle ground. The Republicans at 11 a. m. had a plurality of 129, they claimed. Democratic leaders believe that by winning the Ninth ward, taking slight advantage in the First, and dividing the Fourth they will be able to elect their ticket. In figures announced shortly before noon, Republican leaders revealed the following total of votes cast during the morning and the number they claimed for the Republican ticket: Republicans Claim Votes First ward, 3,321 votes, 725 Republican; Second ward, 2,398 votes, 1,267 Republican; Third ward, 1,679 votes, 934 Republican; Fourth ward, 9 411 votes, 5,150 Republican; Fifth ward, 789 votes, 449 Republican; Sixth ward, 685 votes, 267 Republican; Seventh ward, 1,126 votes, 581 Republican; Eighth ward, 1,489 votes. 737 Republican: Ninth ward. 5 893 votes, 2,506 Republican; Tenth ward, 3.708 votes, 1.230 Republican; Eleventh ward. 1.002 votes, 486 Republican: Twelfth ward, 531 votes 247 Republican, and the Fifteenth ward, 1,884 votes. 934 Republican. Election commissioners issued a warning, urging voters to get to the polls before 4 p. m., as a late afternoon rush before poll closing time at 6 p.m. would prevent many from voting. Supporters of the five citizens’ school committee candidates for school board posts were enthusiastic over indications that voters were

A posse followed the dogs to the home of Miss Maude and Miss Mary Hunter, cousins of Mrs. Weddle. The officers learned Weddle recently aided the Hunter sisters in a division of their land. There had been a disagreement over the division, officers said. Then the dogs raced on to the home of George Hostetter, 41. It was learned he was engaged to marry Miss Mary Hunter and had been seen with a shotgun on the day of the murder. Throughout Monday night and today, the search for Hostetter continued.

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taking time in the polls to vote for the committee’s ticket. Indianapolis voters are casting ballots for election of mayor, which lies between Alfred M. Glossbrenner, Republican, and Reginald H. Sullivan, Democrat; city clerk, nine councilmen and five school commissioners. Democrats Are Elated After repeated complaints had been made that voters were unable to pull down the keys for all five school commissioner candidates on the citizens’ school committee ticket, election commissioners warned that voters having this trouble should push the commissioner candidate keys back up as far as they would go and then pull them down over the desired candidates. A slightly deflected key, if four already had been turned down, would prevent a fifth being registered, they explained. Negro Charges Bribe Attempt Stories were current that Republicans were loosening purse-strings in an effort to win Democratic Negro workers to their ranks at the polls. Deputy prosecutors investigated a report that a Negro Democratic worker in the Third precinct of the Sixth ward had been offered $25 by Republicans “for the good you can do us.” The Negro’s name was withheld, but it was said he had been approached by a Republican who visited the polls during the early voting hours. The usual amount of early morning poll difficulties and charges of improper activity on the part of polling place officials broke out and election commissioners were on the jump until 9 a. m., answering calls for aid in operating machines and straightening out altercations between voters and poll officials. There was no violence reported during the early hours.

Jam In Fourth Ward Distribution of slates near the polls was not as heavy this year as previously and most of the slates were confined to recommendation of straight ticket voting for the major parties and for selection of the five Citizens school committee candidates for school board posts. Voters at the Third precinct of the Third ward, a Negro poll, reported that voting officials were rushing voters from the booths before they had an opportunity to complete casting the vote. Not long after 6 a. m. election officials got their first laugh of the day. They were called to the Seventh precinct of the Third ward, 1226 Lafayette street, on a report that poll officials refused to allow voters to enter the machine. Comm!s ! loners learned that a Republican official was refusing to allow voters to enter the machine because he believed it was necessary for voters to crawl under the curtain “because if they opened it, that would register a vote.” Reports Are Investigated Election commissioners had their share of grief with the seven precincts of the Fifth ward when it was learned that poll officials were asking voters if "they wanted instructions.” One official told commlsisoners that the Negro vote was heavy In these precincts and that many of the voters could neither read nor write and admitted judges and clerks had offered to accompany several voters into the booth. A score of early voters left the polling place in the Thirty-first precinct of the Fourth ward, at 1041 West Thirty-fifth street, without voting, when, at 6:45, officials had been unable to unlock the machine. With his staff of twenty-five deputy prosecutors active in all parts of the city in ferreting out any attempts at law violations, Prosecutor Judson L. Stark said few complaints had been received on , conduct of the election. In the ma- j Jority of cases, he said, complaintsl were based on rumors. M Investigations were made of re® ports that “repeaters” were being! used although no instance was khM cated, Stark said.

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