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MERCURY TO START CLIMB TO NORMALCY Temperatures to Begin Rise Late Today; Ascent to Continue Wednesday. SUB-ZERO MARK HIT Two State Highways Closed Temporarily Because of Ice and Snow. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 0 10 a. m 8 7 a. m —1 11 a. m 9 8 a. m 0 12 (noon).. 11 9 a. in 2 1 p. m 12 Return of the prodigal thermometer mercury to seasonal normal of about 30 degrees above zero was forecast in Indianapolis today by J. H. Armington, meteorologist . Temperatures 'will begin to rise late today, attaining at least 10 or 15 degrees above zero tonight, and will continue a gradual ascent Wednesday, he said. , Indianapolis experienced its first Bub-zero weather of the season today, when at 7 a. m., thermometers at the United States weather bureau here recorded 1 degree below. Little Snow Recorded With the exception of Terre Haute, where the mercury was a degree lower, this city was the most frigid spot in the state. The cold area extended in a narrow diagonal band from northwestern to southeastern Indiana, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist. Little snow fell in the state Monday night and today, although forecasts indicate that the northern portions of Indiana may have another snowstorm tonight or Wednesday. Two state highways were closed temporarily by the state highway commission today because of ice and Bnow, Plows Attack Drifts On Road 19, between Elkhart and Nappanee, state snow' plow's this morning were attacking drifts that in places were five feet deep. Heavy snows in northern Indiana have blockaded almost all except, state and national highways. Flood waters from White river froze over state Road 61, between Vincennes and Petersburg, forcing closing of the road until state highway equipment can clear aw'ay the ice. Mean temperature for November this year w r as 3.1 degrees below normal, which is 42.3 degrees for the month. The highest reading of the month was 66, on Nov. 12. The lowest was zero, Nov. 30. COUNTY OFFICIALS TO RE-AWARD CONTRACT Consideration of Guardians’ Home Project Object of Session. County commissioners and County Auditor Harry Dunn were in executive session today to consider awarding a contract for an improvement to the Marion county board of children’s guardians’ home. They had before them a letter from the state tax board which approved a 5139,800 bond issue, sufficient to permit construction if contract is awarded to a low bidder. Commissioners previously had awarded contract to the second low bidder. The board refused to allow the bond sale unless the contract was given to the low bidder. Commissioners may rescind their action and abide by the board’s order or may abandon the project altogether. HIT BY . CAR: INJURED Driver of Racing Sulky May Have Fracture of Skull. Andrew Schickitanz, 79, of 1429 Leonard street, was injured seriously when a racing sulky he was driving was struck by a Garfield street car, at Madison avenue and Delaware street at noon today. City hospital physicians say he may have a skull fracture. The Bulky was demolished, but the horse was not injured.

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 176

T he Woman Charmer BY VIDA HURST

CHAPTER ONE JACQUELINE BORDINI, old man Borden's “Jackie,” is coming home. Stopping, the papers said, on her way from Hollywood to New York City, to spend Christmas with her parents. Loyal little Jackie, who had not forgotten the old folks at home in the midst of her phenomenal success as a motion picture actress. Entrancing Jacqueline Bordini, whose devastating beauty had not been appreciated by her home town until it was reproduced for them on the silver screen. Howell was among those waiting at the station. He had gone to grade school with Jackie, although he was not sure she would choose to recall the association. Shame-facedly he remembered a “wiener” roast, attended by their class, from which, in response to Jackie’s smile, he had taken her home. And afterward denied it. Companionship with Jackie being the sort of thing one was compelled to deny. Not that there was any apparent evil in the girl herself, but her mother—buzz, buzz, buzz! Even at 22, Howell had not heard all the details of that story. It was an indisputable fact, however, that the Borden family never had been known to pay their bills. Before prohibition, old man Borden drank like a fish. Rumor since had repeated tales of lemon extract and canned heat.

That very morning Howell’s father, who was one of the town’s two physicians, admitted that the bill for the beautiful Jackie’s birth was still unpaid. Yet there was her picture in all moving picture magazines, exotic as a bird of paradise. Shimmeringly gorgeous! The splendor of her cqming, heralded by city newspapers, reflected glory on the entire town. Easy to forget in the light of the present her parents’ rather hectic past. ‘‘No use,” as Mrs. Tewksbury said to Howell’s mother, “to hold it against Jacqueline.” Howell knew it had been held against her all her life. There were not, however, many towns the size of Fairfax, Mo., which could claim a motion picture star as native daughter. Fairfax had determined to be broad-minded and make the most of it. A delegation from the Chamber of Commerce waited side by side with Jacqueline’s father and mother. It would have been hard to say which was the mhre embarrassed, but old man Borden wasn’t putting on any airs. He spat, accurately and ostentatiosly, to the despair of his wife, who murmured, “Don’t, Papa!” and tugged at his arm. Jackie’s brother, Raymond, a slim youth of 19, with appealing blue eyes and Jackie's own world-famous smile, pulled his cap over his eyes and walked away. It wasn’t the first time he’d been ashamed of his father and he hoped “to God” Jackie would take him away with her. He had written suggesting it, and (Turn to Page 5) Burglar Gets $1,378 GREENCASTLE, Ind.. Dec. 3 A burglar took $1,378.84 from a strongbox in the J. C. Penney store here in one of the biggest robberies in Greencastle’s history. Theft insurance will cover the loss.

Elusive Mr. Brophy Once More Has Em Guessing

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Reports here today said that Richard G. Brophy, former business manager of the Byrd expedition, who was found in Omaha under an assumed name, had disappeared again: Brophy was due in New York today from Chicago, but neither his wife nor Captain H. H. Railey. New York manager of the Byrd expedition, knew his whereabouts. Shortly after his return to this country Brophy disappeared, leaving a note in a both

M’MANUS HIDDEN FROM DETECTIVES

By United Prei>i NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Tom and Frank McManus, brothers of George, now on trial accused of the murder of Arnold Rothstein, offered to produce George for detectives immediately after the shooting, but refused to reveal where he was or to give police his home address. Detective Paddy Flood testified today. They had come with Hyman Biller to Room 349 of the Park Central hotel where the state alleges Rothstein was shot. There they encountered Flood and other detectives. The detectives’ demands, Flood said, for McManus' address 01 information as to his whereabouts were steadfastly refused. Flood said he had s.ught McManus for several days in "all the

FIND RACKETEER SHOT TO DEATH Police Think Crime Is Beer Battle Reprisal. Bii United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 3.—The body of Pat King, alias Walter Merkle, was found today in the fourth floor of a building on the edge of the loop, over the Club Royale night club, where Tex Guinan entertained for a few weeks recently. King had been shot three times, and apparently had been lured to the execution place. The room where his body was found was unoccupied but recently had been used as a gambling hall. It was closed in a raid. King had a lengthy record in police circles. He was up several times in connection with burglaries and robberies. A charge of kidnaping and robbing a druggist last March was pending. He also was head of the Theater Ushers’ Union. Police believe King may have been connected with the shooting of Ted Newberry, beer mob leader, Monday. The theory is that King was one of the members of the gang that shot Newberry and that he had been lured to his death as a reprisal. TALLULAH GOES OVER American Actress Makes Big Hit in Play at London. Bit United Press LONDON, Dec. 3.—Scenes like those at the close of a successful full-length drama were enacted on the stage of the Palladium theater Monday night, when Tallulah Bankhead, American actress, appeared in anew vaudeville sketch, “The Snob,” by Edwin Burke. The actress was deluged with flowers and responded to the audience's demands with a curtain speech.

house at Coney Island that he intended to commit suicide. That was the last heard of his here until he was found working on an Omaha newspaper. Mrs. Brophy, still suffering from the shoe of her husband’s faked suicide, said today she owuld mae not attempts to effect a reconciliation. “I am going ahead as if nothing had happened,” she said. “I do not care to see my husband. If he wishes to see me, he must make the first overtures.”

places he frequents.” The search took him, he said, to "all the hotels and many restaurants” in New York; to Mineola, N. Y., and Red Bank, N. J. Three weeks after the murder, Flood found him on Broadway in a taxicab with James D. C. Murray, nis attorney. "I asked him what he knew about the murder and he said T don't know anything, I'm as innocent as you are.’ ” McManus a little later that day, Flood said, surrendered to Detective Johnny Ccrdes. and was taken to the district attorney's office, where his formal arrest was made. Flood indicated it all was by prearrangei meat.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929

FORD BOOSTS WORKERS’ PAY DOLLAR A DAY 933 Employes in City Are Affected by General Increases. EFFECTIVE LAST SUNDAY Five Per Cent Is Hike for Those Making More Than Minimum. Bu United Press DETROIT, Dec. 3,—The Ford Motor Company will spend $20,000,000 a year to raise the minimum wages of its workers from $6 to $7 a day, Edsel Ford announced today. Wages of those workers who were receiving more than the $6 minimum wage will be increased 5 per cent. The raises were effective Dec. 1. They will cost the Ford company approximately $1,628,000 a month on the basis of the October pay roll, which will be increased greatly when spring production gets under way. To Follow Suit Only workers in the Ford plants of the United States are included in the increase, but Ford Corporation is expected to follow suit, as it has in previous wage and price changes. On the basis of October pay rolls, 24,320 employes who were making $6 a day now will receive $7. And approximately 115,640 workers now receiving $7 to $lO per day will be advanced 5 per cent of their daily wage. The $5 wage given to “probationary workers” and apprentices is increased to $6. Edsel Ford’s statement came little more than a week after Henry Ford announced at President Hoover’s conference in Washington that Ford wages would be increased generally. Pay Rolls Listed Ford assembly plant pay rolls for August, 1929, showing the number of men to be affected by the increases follow: Atlanta, 976; Buffalo, 1,457; Charlotte, 1,530; Chester, Pa., 3,494; Chicago, 2,903; Cincinnati, 930; Cleveland, 947; Columbus, 715; Dallas, Tex.. 1,585; Denver, 908; Des Moines, 980; Fargo, 75; Houston, 817; Indianapolis, 933; Jacksonville, Fla., 611; Kansas City, 3,042; Kearney, Neb., 5,296; Los Angeles, 1,909; Louisville, 1,659; Memphis, 1,635; Milwaukee, 1,083; New Orleans, 1,000; Oklahoma City, 1,443; Norfolk, 1,736; Omaha, 1,017; Pittsburgh, 1,145; Portland, 446; St. Louis, 1,239; Salt Lake City, 59; San Francisco, 1,393; Seattle, 976; Somerville, Mass., 1,853; Washington, 80; St. Paul, 1,940. Besides these assembly plants, the workers in the Ford coal mines and other subsidiary industries will be affected. Canada to Follow Bit United Press WINDSOR, Ontario, Dec. 3.—Tire Ford Motor Company of Canada, employing approximately 5.500 men, will follow the lead of its parent organization in the United States and increase wage schedules in practically the same scale, as announced by Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company, it was learned from an authoritative source this afternoon.

COLLAPSING ELECTRIC SERVICE IS FORECAST

Unless the public service commission approves the $70,000,000 Insull utilities merger, street car and interurban lines involved "may cease operation without any attempt having been made to restore their ability to support themselves.” ' This was the challenge hurled to the commissioners from the witness stand at the merger hearing today by Robert M. Feustel, Insull’s Indiana spokesman from Ft. Wayne. These lines include the Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern and its subsidiaries. Feustel took the stand as an expert on the merger plan and offered as advantages for the merger. Better service from all properties involved. Rehabilitation of the traction lines. Abandonment only of those that can not be made pay, after a fair trial. Possibility of lower rates. If approval is given, he assured the commissioners there will be no rate increases, attempt will be made to rehabilitate the run-down traction systems and no paying property will be made to bear the burden of a non-paying one. Before Feustel took the stand Harvey Harmon, former public service commissioner, who at one time had the case in his jurisdiction, presented a motion to dismiss on behalf of the Indianapolis Federation of Clubs and the Utility Service Bureau. Inc. He supported the motion with a brief, passed largely on the opinion given Commissioner Calvin Mclntosh by Attorney-General James M. Ogden, alleging the merger move is

Butlers New Mascot

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It’s Bu-Bu! No, dear friends it isn’t the name of a tonic or a sideshow freak, but instead the baptismal name of Butler university’s new bulldog. “Bu-Bu” supplants Bonzar on athletic fields and basketball courts. Bonzar, Butler’s first bulldog love, went berserk and was killed. “Bu-Bu” was named after a contest among students at the school. The “Bu” half of the cognomen means Butler and the last “Bu" is for bulldog. He will display his prowess as mascot and luck-piece for the university during the ensuing basketball season. * “Bu-Bu” is shown here with Miss Marthalou Schoener, 2914 Belledontaine street. He “kennels-down” at the Lambda Chi fraternity house.

PURDUE SHEEP SHOWWINNER Southdown Wether Judged Grand Champion. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 3.—The first grand champion of the International Livestock Exposition was announced today by the judges, who declared the pure-bred Southdown wether shown by Purdue university was the best of the hundreds of sheep shown at the show. Pennsylvania State showed the reserve champion, a yearling crossbreed animal. Iroquois farmers, Cooperstown, N. Y., placed third, with a Shropshire wither. Judges declared that the champion and reserve champion were best shown here in years.

illegal and the commission without jurisdiction. "Merger of public utility companies generally is regarded as logical and sound and in the interest of customers served by the utilities,” Feustel declared in introducing his general statement of the case. "The company that would result if this merger were approved would not be large, as utility properties go,” he continued. "The very nature of the public utility business necessitates a large investment. A normal healthy public utility will have an investment about twenty-five times as large as a normal industry or merchant with the same annual gross takings. "Mere size of a utility need not be feared. On the contrary, a large organization usually furnishes better service.” He then cited as examples several much larger units in Ohio, Michigan and Illinois, Customers have benefited from the Central Indiana Power Company’s merged operation, he assert-

Entries Close The entry list in The Times-Lyric-Sylvania Foresters’ radio listeners’ endurance contest, to start Wednesday night at 7:30, soared past the hundred mark Monday night. Asa result of the flood of entries, the judges were forced to declare the entry list closed ahead of the time specified, Tuesday midnight. No entries received today can be accepted.

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PRESS SEARCH FOR LOST FLIER Mail Pilot Thought Down in Hill Country. By United Press Search by land and air for Thomas P. Nelson, air mail pilot, was pushed today as veteran fliers became more convinced that he had been forced down in the treacherous Pennsylvania hills. Nine planes working out of Cleveland Clarion, Pa., took up the hunt at daybreak for Nelson, who has been missing since early Monday. Two clews aided the searchers. One was that two women reported they had heard a sound as though a plane were crashing at Stoneboro, east of Clarion. A report that two flares had been seen near Oil City, Pa., also guided searching parties.

l ed, and produced figures to supi port his contention. "Several interurbans are involved in this proposed merger,” Feustel continued. "They w r ere built back in the days when Indiana led the country in the construction and development of interurban railway j systems. But, that was in the days before paved roads, private automobiles, motor coaches and trucks.” He cited the losses on once profitable interurban systems. Basis of the merger plea he set forth as follows: “The proposed merger is advocated on the grounds of improved service and not of possible rate reductions. It will not, however, cause rate increases.” The Harmon brief set out nineteen reasons why the petition should be dismissed. These include the charge that it is in violation of the anti-trust laws, the state securities iaw and not within commission jurisdiction. Unlike service and unparallel lines can not be merged, it argued, citing the attorney-general’s opinion. Past mergers, where these things were involved, also were attacked as having been approved illegally. Incorporators of the Utility Service Bureau, Inc., are O. L. Mohler, Peru; Dr. Milo O. King, Rochester, and Lee G. Finehout, Indianapolis, according to the articles filed with the secretary of state. L. B. Andrus, vice-president of the Central Indiana Power Company, was on the stand at noon adjournment.

PROMPT ACTION ON TARIFF IS URGED BY PRESIDENT IN FIRST MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Nation Is on Steady Economical Keel, Hoover Declares, in Asking- Relief From Any Further Uncertainty. IMMEDIATE TAX REDUCTION ASKED Suggests Codification of Laws Relating to Prohibition; Technical Defects Should Be Cured, Chief Recommends. BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Renewing his recommendation for limited tariff changes, as outlined to the special session last April, President Hoover, in his first annual message to congress, today urged it to relieve business from further uncertainty by prompt action on the revision program. “It would be most helpful if action should be taken at an early moment, more especially at a time when business and agriculture are both co-operating to minimize future uncertainties,” the President declared. “It is just that they should know what the rates are to be.” In his first comprehensive survey of the domestic and international position of the nation since he entered the White House, the President outlined a brbad program for dealing with the “problems of growth and progress” which, he declared, are the chief problems confronting the new session of congress.

With confidence restored in business, the President said, in reviewing the achievements of the recent White House conferences with the country’s leading financiers, labor leaders and business men, the nation is on a steady economic keel. “I am convinced that through these measures we have re-estab-lished confidence,” he said. “Wages should remain stable. Avery large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering, which otherwise would have occurred, has been prevented. Agricultural prices have reflected the returning confidence.” Asks Immediate Action Among the President’s recommendations for legislative or executive action are: 1. An immediate tax reduction of 1 per cent on both individual and corporate incomes for the calendar year 1929. 2. Renewed efforts to realize a railroad consolidation program. 3. Studies looking to reduction of a “continuously mounting” military outlay. 4. Ratification of the world court protocol under the terms of the Hirst-Root agreement. 5. Immediate increase in the inland waterways appropriations from $50,000,000 to $55,000,000 annually. 6. General revision of air mail rates “upon a more systematic and permanent footing.” 7. Expansion of the United States merchant marine through award of sustaining mail contracts on fourteen new routes calling for 460,000 tons of new ships at a cost of $250,000,000. 8. Revision of the national banking laws, to care for vastly altered conditions growing out of the expansion of chain banking. 9. Reorganization of the federal radio commission as a permanent agency of the government. 10 A beginning on reorganization of the government departments, including concentration of the prohibition enforcement machinery in the department of justice. Gratified at Awakening Coupled with his specific recommendations for invigorating the federal prohibition enforcement machinery, the President again pointed to the nation’s need for better law observance generally. “I have been gratified at the awakening sense of this responsibility in our citizens during the past few months,” the chief executive declared, “and gratified that many 'instances have occurred which' refute the cynicism which has asserted that our system could not convict those who had defied the law and possessed the means to re-

West Point Negro Cadet Is Given a ‘Square Deal ’

Bu Timm Snecinl WEST POINT, N. Y., Dec. 3. —Alonzo Parham of Chicago, Negro cadet at the United States Military Academy, has seen so signs of discrimination or prejudice against him, he told the United Press in denying published reports that other cadets never talk to him and that his relations with them are strained. "I realize that orders can not be issued goverr’ng friendships and that such a tter is purely personal,” Parham said. "Statements to the effect that cadets have been ordered not to talk to me are false. "All the officers are giving me a square deal. I have participated in every activity with other fourth-class men from the

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“To pressure internal order and freedom from encroachment is the first purpose of government.” a a a “the problems with which we are confronted are the problems of growth and progress.” tt n a “X also have appointed a voluntary committee of distinguished membership to assist in a nationwide movement for the abolition of illiteracy.” an a “Our laws are made by the people themselves; theirs is the right to work for their repeal; but until repeal it is an equal duty to observe them and demand their enforcement.” sist its execution. These things reveal a moral awakening both in the people and in officials which lies at the very foundation of the rule of law. “We not only are at peace with all the world, but the foundations for future peace are being strengthened substantially.” the President declared in summarizing our international relations. The KelloggBriand pact has raised sr “great moral standard” under which “a new world outlook” has been inaugurated. Speaking on prohibition, the President said: “There should be an immediate concentration of responsibility and strengthening of enforcement agencies of the federal government, by transfer to the department of Justice of the federal functions of detection and to a considerable degree of prosecution, which now are lodged in the prohibition bureau in the treasury. Codification of Laws “At the same time the control of the distribution of industrial alcohol and legalized beverages should remain in the treasury. “Provision should be made for relief of congestion in the federal courts by modifying and simplifying the porcedure for dealing with the large volume of pretty prosecutions under various federal acts. “There should be a codification of the laws, relating to prohibition, to avoid the necessity, which now exists, of resorting to more than twen-ty-five statutes, enacted at various times over forty years. Technical defects in these statutes that have been disclosed should be cured. “The District of Columbia should be the model of city law enforcement in the nation.”

minute of my arrival last July, and, in addition to the military drills, have participated in intramural sports.” Major-General William R. Smith, superintendent of thee academy, also denied the reports of discrimination. "Is Parham isolated from the other cadets in any way outside of rooming alone?” the general was asked. "He is not.” “Have orders been issued requiring cadets to refrain from talking to Parham, or having social relations with him?” “No. If I discovered any officer or cadet issuing such orders or joining a movement or clique to do such a despicable thing, I immedately would bring him before a general court-martial."

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