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STATE GARAGE BIDS WILL GO UNDERX-RAY Chief of Accounts Board Orders Alleged Loose Handling Probed. TRUCKS TO BE BOUGHT Closed Contest Hinted by Non-Competing Firms; Quotations Held. Alleged loose methods of handling equipment bids at the state highway department’s Central garage, 510 West Market street, are to be investigated by the state board of accounts, it was announced today by Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner. Orr's attention v/as called to the fact that bids for trucks and snow plows were received Monday by Omer S. Manlove, garage superintendent, and will not be presented to the highway commissioners until Wednesday. In the interim, the bids are being tabulated at the garage and at noon today had not been seen even by Director John J. Brown of the highway department, it was said. Handled Directly “I am of the opinion that the law requires all bids to be.handled directly by the commission,” Orr declared. “I will instruct Ross Teckineyer, who has been investigating conduct of the garage for some time, to look into this bid business.” Teckmeyer is a field examiner of the state board of accounts. He has required an inventory at the garage, the first in two years, and has won Brown's approval for establishing a modem accounting system, consolidated under a single head, in the highway department.

Only five companies submitted bids on four-wheel-drive trucks Monday. Others contended that they had the feeling that the order for four to six trucks will be given to the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, Clintonville, Wis., and it was useless to compete. One manufacturer wrote Manlove a letter to that effect, It was said. Highest Bidder F. W. D. trucks weere the highest bid, however, being $5,953 a unit with a 15 per cent discount, making the net price $5,615. Low bid was submitted by the Freeman Motor Company, Detroit, at $4,583.20 each. Other bids between these two were submitted by the Hufford Motors Company, Indianapolis; Colman Motor Company, Chicago, and Walters Motor Company, Brooklyn. Similar hints of loose methods are being made in regard to the department’s snow plow business. It is alleged that at least one garage employe already has stated that the contract will be awarded G. E. Hillsman, Indianapolis, from whom the plows were bought last year; this despite the fact that neither the highway director or highway commissioners have inspected the bids Bids on five heavy duty X-shape snow plows ranged from the low $274 each, of the Baker Manufacturing Company. Springfield. 0., to high $745, of the Hooper Equipment Company. Indianapolis. On one lieht duty V-shape low was $250. bid by the W. T. McDonald Company, Indianapolis, and high $362.25 bid by the Baker company. Ten single blade plows ranged from $261 25 each of the Hillsman company to $337 each, of the Automotive Equipment Company, Indianapolis.

BANKER KILLS HIMSELF Succeeds on Fifth Attempt of Suicide; Failure Is Cause. B i United Press OMAHA. Nov. 26—Failure of the Peters Trust Company of which he was executive vice-president was believed by relatives to have destroyed the reason of Reed C. Peters, 39, who died here today after five suicide attempts. Peters was taken to a hospital Monday after he had thrown himself in front of a heavily loaded truck. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 39 10 a. m 42 7a. m 39 11 a. m 45 Ba. m 39 12 (noon).. 47 9 a. m 40 1 p. m 50

Ham Actors Bu United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 26. The Ham vs. Ham divorce case is beginning to strike Judge Joseph Sabath as pretty funny. “The case of Ham and,” the judge said when it came up for the third time. “It’s not funny," protested Willard E. Ham. “Elizabeth and I really want a divorce this time.” “That’s what you said the last time, and the time before that,’’ replied Judge Sabath. you made up both times and you'll make up this time. Go home, both of you. and be good.” That cocked the Hams, for the time being, and they left, arm in arm.

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FRANCE—ONLY FRANCE

One Love Burned in the Tigers Heart

BY DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Copyricht. 1829. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.. All Rights Reserved. LONDON, Nov. 26—(By Cable)—The first time I ever met M. Clemenceau was at Carlsbad, in 1910. I was having tea with T. P. O'Connor in his rooms there. Clemenceau was known to be taking his annual cure and I was eager to meet him. “Tay Pay” arranged the meeting. Soon after I arrived, there bustled into the room a short, broad-shouldered and full-chested man, with aggressive and rather truculent countenance, illumined by a pair of brilliant and fierce eyes, set deeply under overhanging eyebrows. The size and hardness of his great head struck me. It seemed enormous, but was no dome of benevolence, reverence or kindliness. It was an abnormally large head, with all the sympathetic qualities flattened out. I am not now analyzing the man, but giving my first impressions of his appearance. He looked the part of the Tiger—a man-eating tiger who had hunted down ministry after ministry and rent them with his terrible claws. He came into the room with short, quick steps. He then was 70 years of age and his greatest days were to come six or seven years later. We were introduced and he greeted me none too genially. I then was chancellor of the exchequer and was doing mv utmost to arrange an understanding with Germany on the question of naval construction.

Clemenceau referred to my efforts with scornful disapproval. His hatred of Germany had the concentrated ferocity which I never before had seen, even amongst the most violent of our British Germanopholes. Their hostility to Germany always seemed to be calculated—hi3 was of the blood. Later on I understood it better. My first Interview with Clemenceau was not a success. He made it clear lie thoroughly disapproved of me. Had I never seen him again, I should have disapproved of him. Had I never seen him again, I should have recalled him as a powerful but disagreeable and rather bad-tempered old fellow. It was years—eventful years —after this meeting that I discovered his real fascination, his wit, his playfulness, the hypnotic interest of his arresting, compelling personality. AND a day was to come—sooner . than any one of us expected —where events occurred that explained to me his apprehension as to the menace as well as to his detestation of the arrogance of German imperialism. I remember driving with him from the historic meeting at the Trianon Palace hotel at Versailles after he had handed to M. Brockdorff

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1871, he told me how he remembered seeing the blaze. He was the mayor of Montmartre during siege of Paris, and from the heights of his mayoral domain he witnessed the destruction of the famous chateau. This event seemed to have burnt itself into his memory even more than the scenes of hunger and privation to which he ministered so effectively. On this occasion, he spoke with unwonted placidity about the events of 1870, rather like a man in whom internal fires of revenge at last had been quenched by the cooling draft of victory. There is only one Incident in 1871 of which he spoke to me with emotion, and that was of the poignant scene in the French assembly when Jules Favre came straight from an interview with Bismarck to report to the deputies the nature of the terms demanded and the ruthlessness with which the triumphant chancellor had treated the supplication of the French delegates for some amelioration in the demands. Tears came into Clemenceau’s eyes—for the first and only time in my intercourse with him—as he told how “the old man,” in attempting to describe the harshness of the conqueror, broke down in the Tribune and wept. I then understood something of Clemenceau’s hatred of the Germans. They had not only invaded France, defeated her armies, occupied her capital, humbled her pride, but in the hour of victory had treated her with an insolence which for fifty years had rankled in the heart of his fierce old patriot. m • m WHEN I met him at Carlsbad the sore still was stinging him into anger. He was essentially an angry old man. Those who read his relentless words on the death of Herr Stresemann will know that not even victory had stamped out the embers of vengeance in the bosom of this terrible volcano of rumbling and surging hatreds —personal, national, political and religious. That he should have succeeded as war minister is not a matter of surprise. He possesed a relentless energy, indomitable courage and the gift of infecting others with his own combativeness and confidence. I know nothing of his qualities as an administrator or organizer. The greatest tasks of organization were over before he took office at the end of 1917. A combination of energy, courage and common sense were needed at that hour and he possessed these three attributes to an exceptional degree. As for his courage, there is no better illustration of it than the story told of him when it was proposed that the chamber of deputies should move to Bordeaux at

The Greatest Clemenceau was the greatest statesman—if not the greatest Frenchman—of his day. He was in every fiber of his being a Frenchman. He had no real interest in humanity as a whole. His whole concern was for France. As long as France was humbled, he cared not what other peoples were exalted; as long as France was victorious, he did not worry in the least about the tribulations of any other country. To him France was all in all. When he began in public life, he found his beloved country humiliated to the dust. When he ended his career, he left France the most powerful state on the continent of Europe—largely through his exertions. —David Lloyd George.

the beginning of the war. The Germans were within a few miles of Paris, and the president and senators thought it better to get out of the range of the German guns ere it was too late. Clemenceau refused to go, and when asked whether he did not think they ought to leave Paris, his answer was. “Yes, we are too far from the front.” His courage never was questioned by even his bitterest foes, but they were not as ready to acknowledge his wisdom. When he was not in a passion or when his personal prejudices were not engaged—and he had his lucid intervals of composure—he took a* sane, sensible and penetrating a view of the situation as any man I ever met. n n HIS chairmanship of the peace conference showed Clemenceau at his best. During the peace negotiations, he was the coolest and wisest man in the whole of France. He rejected—at great risks—most of the looting

Rantzan and the German delegates the draft of the peace treaty. I drove back to Paris in his car. As we passed the ruins of the palace of St. Cloud, which had been burned by the Germans in

and vindictive counsels that always follow victory. He defied Marshal Foch —the great victorious general of the war—over the traditional French policy of a Rhine frontier for France. He always disliked and distrusted Marshal Foch. He ren-

dered no assistance to the move that placed Foch in supreme command of the allied troops. Marshal Petain was his man. This dislike thoroughly was reciprocated by Foch. Only those present at the and e 1 i b erations

and the maneuver that preceded the drafting of the treaty will know how resolutely he opposed all proposals to insert in the treaty demands for impossible figures of reparation. He agreed to the postponement of the figure until 1921, in the hope that by then it would be easier to fix a reasonable sum. At the conference itself he kept his temper well under control. He had no belief in the ultimate victory of right. His belief was that history demonstrated clearly that in the end might invariably triumphed over abstract justice. In fact, as he once put it bluntly in the course of a conversation, “might was right.” His faith was in organized and well-directed force. It was in the interest ot humanity that strength should prevail over weakness. st * m ONE of the most piquant pasages of arms between himself and President Wilson was one in which he reminded the American idealist that the United States of America never would have come into existence without force, and that but for force it would have fallen to pieces sixty years ago. He regarded the League of Nations with tolerant amusement. He came to the conclusion that President Wilson’s pre-occupa-tion with it helped to keep him out of mischief. It could do no harm and was very useful for bargaining purposes. He encouraged President Wilson in his exhausting labors to frame the covenant. He had almost a wicked delight in seeing him wear out his strength on something that, as he thought, mattered not in tire least. It kept the troublesome President from obtruding his exalted but impractical ideals into mat-

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ters like reparations, the occupation of the Rhineland, the German colonies, disarmament and other questions which interested France. There I saw not the tempestuous political fighter, but only the wily diplomat. It was a

wound, but with his sword snapped at the hilt. This is not the place to consider who won the more permanent triumph, but there is no doubt as to the combatant who scored the immediate success. Colonel House tells the story of how Clemenceau, at a private interview with the President, persuaded him to agree to terms which he hitherto had resisted with an appearance to stubborn resolution. These secret conferences occurred at the time when I had been forced to return to England to deal with a parliamentary revolt against the concession of moderate peace terms to Germany. n # WHEN I got back to Paris, I found to my astonishment that President Wilson had entered into a compact with Clemenceau which was almost a complete surrender on the part of the former. So complete v/as the change in the attitude of President Wilson that in the end I found him fighting with the whole British delegation to retain in the draft of the treaty conditions which he had regarded with horror when he first came to Paris with his ideals untarnished. After this there was a marked change in the feelings of Clemen-

ceau toward President Wi 1 - son. Before that he viewed the President with a great dislike and with much apprehension . After that President Wilson was to him a source of constant diversion. He listened to his idealistic outbursts with a quizzical smile, but only after the arrange-

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mentis had sterilized them. The last time I saw him as prime minister was after the defeat of his candidature for the presidency of the republic. It was for him a defeat accompanied by every circumstance of humiliation, and he felt it deeply. It was the first and only occasion I have ever seen this brave old man betray any feeling over a personal hurt to himself. He had not sought nomination. On the contrary, he had resisted up to the last moment the pressure brought to bear him to allow his name to go forward. He did not want it. He only gave in because he was assured by many, who afterward betrayed him, that it was in the interests of France that he should remain at the helm, until the peace was established firmly and France had recovered from her wounds. n n a PERSONAL intrigue engineered a rebuff for him in the face of the whole world. A man whom he despised was chosen in his place. When I left Paris the following morning, he came to see me off. He did not attempt to conceal his chagrin that Frenchmen so soon should forget his services. Apropos of his defeat by M. Deschanel in the contest for the presidency, there is a very good story told of a duel he fought before the war with his successful rival. They fought with swords. Clemenceau was a very formidable swordsman and as he pressed his opponent, the latter retreated farther and farther from the threatening weapon. At last Clemenceau got tired of this continuous retreat and putting his sword under his arm. waving his hand, and with a bow toward M. Deschanel, he said: “Monsieur is leaving us.”

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new Clemenceau that never hitherto had appeared except on the duelling ground. President Wilson was no match for him at this game. The old duelist was fencing, not to kill, but to disarm. President Wilson went home with no visible

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JUROR PICKED FOR M’MANUS CASE RENEWAL Talesman to Replace Sick Member of Panel Is Sworn In. REPORTERS ARE WARNED Presiding Judge Orders ‘No Interviews’; Transcript of Evidence Read. Bu United Press CRIMINAL COURT, NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—The trial of George A. McManus, accused of the murder of Arnold Rothstein, avoided a mistrial again today by a narrow margin, through co-operation of counsel and court. When today’s session opened, Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. reported that Juror Norris A. Smith had been interviewed by him in chambers regarding a conversation Smith had had with two newspaper men in a Greenwich Village case on Sunday night. Fitness Unimpaired “I have talked with Mr. Smith and with counsel for both sides,” said Judge Nott, “and counsel feel that nothing has occurred which would impair the fitness of Mr. Smith to serve as a juror.” Judge Nott then warned against jurors talking with newspaper men and announced if reporters again approach a juror all representatives of the paper by which the reporter is employed will be barred from the courtroom.

Juror Smith listened nervously to the statement of the judge. By the time attorneys for each side had addressed the court expressing willingness that Smith should continue to serve, he seemed much relieved. Breakdown Threatened The court then directed attorneys to proceed with selection of a juror to fill the place left vacant Monday when Juror Eugene A. Ricker was dismissed because of a threatened nervous breakdown and a mistrial had been narrowly averted. Edwin T. Shotwell, auto salesman, the tenth talesman examined, was seated as the new juror. Attorneys for both sides then formally accepted the eleven remaining from the original jury and all twelve were sworn. After a brief recess Assistant District Attorney James MacDonald began reading the transcript of the trial to date, for the benefit of the new jurors. He began with the opening statement of the state. The reading of the transcript was expected to require the remainder of the day.

ESCAPE WITH SIB,OOO Bandit Pair Holds Up Bank in Cincinnati. Bit F'nitrd Pro hr CINCINNATI, Nov. 26—Two bandits held up a branch of the Provident Savings Bank and Trust Company here today, and after forcing Oliver Brochman, cashier, to open the vault, escaped with a sum estimated at SIO,OOO. FIRE~SWEEPS TENEMENT Thrilling Rescues Mark Work of Firemen in Charlestown. By I'nitcil Press BOSTON, Nov. 26—Thrilling rescues marked a tenement fire in Charlestown today, in which fifteen families, including twenty children, were driven out. Firemen carried a family of five down ladders, from the fourth floor, after they had been trapped by flames. ABANDON TIME FLIGHT W’omen Fliers Come Down After 18-Hour Endurance Attempt. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26.—Bobby Trout and Elinor Smith, woman fliers, ended a second attempt to break the world’s refueling endurance flight record, when they landed their airplane at Metropolitan airport at 3:01 a. m. today. They were in the air approximately eighteen hours.

Best Radio Listener in City Gets a SSOO Set If you're the best radio listener in Indianapolis, you can win a SSOO receiving set that’ll make your eyes sparkle. All you have to do is sit and listen—but you must listen long enough. The Times, in co-operation with the Sylvania Foresters, known to every radio fan, will sponsor a radio listeners’ broadcasting endurance contest scon, so here’s your chance to win that set. Starting at 8:30 the night of Dec- 4, Milton Cross, famous announcer, will give the word “go,” with the beginning of the Sylvania Foresters’ weekly broadcast and the show will be on. It’ll be a case of the survival of the fittest. The last contestant who manages to stay awake gets the SSOO set. And there 11 be other prizes, too. If you can stick it out longer than your rivals, the set will be yours. The contest will be staged In a downtown showroom and all you have to do to become an entrant is to send In your name and address to The Times Radio Editor, with the assurance that you are 18 years old or more. Watch The Times Wednesday for some more details. It’ll be worth your while.

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“Shoulder blankets! Present comforters! As you were! Now, what in the blankety, blank are you doing with that lap robe here?” That, in brief, will be the militaristic scolding for members of the Sigma Delta Chi of Butler university and their friends if they appear at the fraternity’s dance Wednesday night in the Travertine room of the Lincoln with papa's automobile footwarmer. For the fraternity’s Blanket Hop already has started a foray on bedrooms and sleeping porches. In the photos Miss Mary Harvey, 1162 Villa avenue, and Norman Hanna, 6177 College avenue, are demonstrating how to “hoof” a mean blanket.

BEGIN LAST LAP IN CHEST DRIVE Final Report to Be Made at Wednesday Luncheon. Community fund workers today entered the last twenty-four hour lap of their campaign to raise $786,853, lacking only $151,790 of their goal. Report of the auditor this morning placed the amount subscribed at $635,062, or 80.7 per cent of the goal. Os this amount, $69,750 was reported Monday. To save time for solicitation, no report meeting was to be held today. The final luncheon will be held at the Claypool Wednesday. . Upon the individual gifts division, composed of more than 500 volunter workers, rests responsibility of raising the remaining sum. “If each worker sees his prospects, the campaign will be a success,” Herman P. Lieber, co-chairman of the division, said today. Largest subscription Monday was $2,500 from Mrs. Hugh McK. Landon. Diamond Chair and Manufacturing Company employes subscribed $3,909, an average of $5.54 for the 706 employes. CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE Three Burned to Death, Brothers and Sisters Escape by Window. fit / fttited Press __ PHILLIPSBURG, N. .T„ Nov. 26. —Three children were burned to death today when fire started in the kitchen of their home and spread to the bedroom. Four brothers and sisters, sleeping in the same room, escaped by jumping out the window.

KELLOGG PACT IS INVOKED BY CHINA

By United Press SHANGHAI, Nov. 26.—A protest against “invasion” of China by Russia has been set by the Nanking government to all signatories of the Kellogg treaty against war. The ministry sent identica messages to Chinese ministers abroad instructing them to convey to governments signatory to the Kellogg treaty “the facts of the Soviet invasion of Cinese territory and occu-

BOV, 4, ADMITS KILLING MOTHER Pulled Trigger in Play; Father Released. Bn United Press BATAVIA, N. Y., Nov. 26.—Four-year-old Elmer Schulz Jr. admitted to police today that he fired the shot which killed his 26-year-old mother, who died Monday. Her husband, a farmer, was held by police since her death. Police released him today when little Elmer, weeping, told how he pointed his father’s shotgun at his mother, said playfully “I’m going to shoot you, mama,” and pulled the trigger. The child was taken to the police station last night. It was not until after long questioning, conducted at intervals, that the lad admitted he shot his mother, police said. After the little boy’s story, Lieut. Gerald Varne of the Batavia barracks of the New York state police, handed the child the shotgun and asked him to show how he shot his mother. Straining under the weight of the gun, Elme raised it to his shoulder and snapped the trigger.

pation of Manchuli and Delainor.” The telegrams said that while China will abide by the stipulations of the treaty against war, she is compeled to resist attacks. The signatories are requested to devise means for dealing with Russia for violating the Kellogg treaty and China expresses her wilingness to submit the controversy with Russia to the League of Nations. Russ Advance Halted By United Press HARBIN, Manchuria, Nov. 26. The reported Russian advance into Manchuria has halted about forty miles over the border from the Soviet side, reliable advices reaching here said today. The Soviet troops stopped at Tsgan Station, thirty-eight miles east of Manchuli on the Chinese Eastern Railway. Manchuli Is just this side of the border. The only sign of the Russians at Hailar, an important town further along the railway, was the apeparance of Soviet airplanes. Various rumors have been circulated In China and relayed to the United States concerning a “major invasion” of northwest Manchuria by the Russians, Including a story that Hailar had been captured and was in flames, and that 12,000 Chinese had been killed. The above dispatch indicated no engagement of importance has taken place.

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INDUSTRY ALL SET TO LEND HELPING HAND Mobilizes for ‘Big Push* Called for in Hoover Prosperity Program. OPTIMISM IS WAR CRY. Utility Leaders Gather to Outline Expenditures of Two Billion. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Nov. 26.—Every major sector of the nation’s industrial forces stood mobilized today for the big winter economic drive under the leadership of President Hoover. As the President rested from his heavy round of business conferences, telegrams and letters coming in huge volume to the White House registered the new impetus which his leadership has given to the country. Utilities leaders were meeting in New York today to discuss their potential $2,000,000,000 development program preparatory to a later conference here with the President. Real Test to Come The United States Chamber of Commerce is arranging a general emergency business conference here Dec. 5, when business will shoulder the task of carrying forward the work begun by President Hoover. Never before in peace-time has a President mustered such an all-ex-tensive industrial drive. While in all quarters credit was given President Hoover for arousing new nationwide optimism, the real test will come when business undertakes to carry forward the progam now begun. Evey factor favors success, in the opinion of economic expervf here. f Billions of dollars in new co: struction have been pr mised by jf railroads, the construction industry general business, and federal, and local governments. Buying Power Preserved Full buying power has been preserved through the action of heads of great industries in promising President Hoover there would be no wage cuts. Devastating labor troubles have been averted, it is believed, by the pledge of organized labor to abstain from trying to force new wage increases. Farmers have promised to cooperate. With the lower interest rates on farm loans predicted by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde following the farm conference at the White House Monday, the millions of farmers are expected to go on with their normal purchases which amount to about $400,000,000 annually in farm implements alone. One of the great achievements of the series of conferences in the view here is the pledge of industries to keep wages up.

PUBLICATIONS MERGE “La Follette’s Magazine’’ Is Taken Over by the “Progressive.” Bv United Press MADISON, Wis., Nov. 26.—"La Follette’s magazine,” established twenty years ago by the late Senator Robert M. La Follette, has been absorbed by anew weekly publication, “The Progressive,” It was announced today. La Follette interest is maintained in the new publication. Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr., serving as president and Philip F. La Follette, his brother, as secretary of the new company. Senator La Follette will continue to write editorials, while his mother, Mrs. Belle Case La Follette, will not sever her connection. ADD TO CONTRIBUTION National Geographic Society Makes Grant of $25,000 to Byrd. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—An additional grant of $25,000 to the Antarctic expedition of Commander Richard E. Byrd was announced today by the National Geographic Society. This doubled the society’s original contribution to the enterprise.

Valedictorian By United Press CHICAGO. Nov. 26.—Detective William R. Burton was a good teacher and his wife learned to shadow a person without being observed, to trace telephone calls and to disguise her voice. “Gladys, you're a wonder,” he used to say. “I’ll have to give you a diploma pretty soon." But she took her final examination tracing him to an apartment after a woman had asked for him over the telephone. “Is Mr. Burton in?” she asked. “No, but his wife is,” was th* answer. Mrs. Burton toe* her notes to court and got her diploma, a divorce decree.

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