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Rockefeller ; Bride-to-Be

An heir to one of America’s greatest fortunes, 21-year-old Nelson Rockefeller, youngest son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., will be wed some time next summer to Miss Mary Todhunter Clark, prominent in Philadelphia and New York society. They are pictured above. Their romance began at Northeast Harbor, Me., where both families have summer homes, and they are to be married soon after young Rockefeller is graduated next June from Dartmouth college.

CARRIES WIFE TO SAFETY FROM FIRE

Seizin" his wife as she was about t, leap from a second floor window to escape a fire in their home Friday night, John Finchon, 21, of 1002 North Illinois street, carried her to safety down a flame-filled stairway. The fire started at the foot of the stairway at midnight and filled the house with smoke. The house is occupied by Mrs. Nina Tibbs. Finchon and his wife Mamie were

Opening Markets

Bp United Pres* NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Leading stocks advanced from fractions to more than a point in most instances at the opening of the stock market today after the grueling bear drive of Friday afternoon. Trading was fairly active, featured by a sale of 11,500 shares of Willys-Overland which opened at 7%, off %. United States Steel opened at 162'4, up ’a; General Motors 39, up %; Radio 39%, up %; Sears-Roe-buck 92 '4, up %; MontgomeryWard 47%, up 1%, and General Electric 226* up 2. Oils were strong, led by Standard of New Jersey, which rose 1% to 62. Texas Corporation, Sinclair and Atlantic Refining were up fractionally. Coppers were firmer, Anaconda rising a point to 72%, and Kennecott •\ to 55. Motor shares held steady to firm, although Chrysler lost nearly a point. f Rails responded somewhat to the announcement of the interstate commerce commission of its consolidation plan. Missouri-Kansas-Texas rose 1% to 46%; Erie, % to 57%; Allegheny Corporation. % to 24%; Pennsylvania, % to 75%, and Western Maryland 2% to 29%. Aviation stocks were depressed. Curtiss Wright declined % to anew low of 6% on 5,300 shares, and Aviation Corporation made anew low of 5, off %. Amusements were better with Fox and Warner Brothers fractionally ►lower. International Combustion eased %. Other losses on the board included Westinghouse Electric, off 2% at 126%; American Metals, off 1%, and Auburn Auto off 1 at 175%. During the early trading pressure was again exerted against Montgomery Ward, which broke its previous close at 45% in the first fifteen minutes of trading. Steel held steady and the remainder cf the list moved to a narrow rarge.

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awakened by smoke in their room. Mrs. Finchon ran into the hall and found the stairway filled with flames. In panic she raised a window and was about to leap when her husband grabbed her. Both escaped from the house in their bare feet. Mrs. Finchon was slightly burned on the face. Damage in the fire was light, totaling only S6O.

Missouri - Kansas - Texas featured the rails. Grigsby Grunow came out in long strings to feature the Radio shares. New York Curb Opening (By Thomson & McKinnon) —Dec. 21— Allied Power ®§? n ‘ Assoc Gas ..... Ark Gas n% Blue Rldxe 714 Blue Rldfie Pr .Ill:"I" 33% Canadian Marconi 35 Cities Service 22’. Cord nil Con Gas Belt ’ ** 09% Durant 5 Elec Bond Sc Share ’ 7534 Eisler Elec * Fan Steel V I Ford of Canada (At * 29 Ford of England ' 1 ny. Fox Theater * 5$ Fotker :::::::::: 15% Goldman Sachs asi£ Gold Seal 31“ 111 Pipe V. 307 Vi Imp Oil .. 25% Int Pete 19% Lehman <jq ' Midwest II '* 24% Maine Midland 33% Ncwmont 108% Niagara Sc Hudson 11% Petrol Corn 20% Penroad 13 w Rainbow n Salt Creek 10 Std OH Ind 52% Std Oil Kv 33 Stutz Motor 2% Se! Industries e United L <fc P (A) 26% Utility Eon Vacuum Oil 94% Walgreen 48% New York Stocks Opening (By Thomson Sc McKinnon) —Dec. 21— Am Can 109*4 Am E.ueltlne 69% Am ".eel Fclry 44% Am Sutrar 60 Am Tel Sc Tel 210% Auburn 175'% Am Tob B 191 Anaconda 72% Beth Steel 89 Canadian Pac 188% Ches & Ohio 201 Chrysler 32% Cons Gas Cos 92% Oont Motors 7 Gen Electric 226 Gen Motors 39 Ort Nr 97 Hudson Motor 49% Hupp Motors 19% Inspiration 28 Kenn Cop 55 Maron 23% Mid Conti Pete 25% Missouri Kans Sc Tex 46% Mont Ward 47% Nor Amn Cos 87 Pennsylvania 75% Packard 14% Pullman 91% Reynolds 47% Radio 39% St L & 8 F 108 St Paul 23% St Paul nfd 43 Sears-Roebuck 92% Sinclair 23% So Rv 131 8 O Calif 59% S O N J 62 Stew Warner 37 Studebaker 41 Un Carbide Sc Carbon 70% Union Oil 43 s U S Cast Iron Pipe 18% U S Rubber 35% U S Steel 162% Chicago Stocks Opening (By James T. Hamili Cos.) —Dec. 21— Allied Motors .°rr! J D. Adams 28 Auburn 180 Bendix Aviation 31 Bor* Warner 31% Butler 14* Chicago Corn 1? Cord Corp 1 Cent Pub Berv Grlcsbr Grunow Houd Hershev A Insull Util UtU pfd -4 Übbv McNeal / Lion Oil f Middle West Nor Amer Lt & Pwr ®7* Noblitt Sparks 45% Swift Internal! 133 1 Utility Industrial 18% United Corp 11% Zenith Radio ....................... *%

COLD SETTLES DOWN TO LONG VISIIJNWEST Little Relief Is in Sight From Frigid Wave Now Holding Sway. FLOOD THREAT RENEWED High Stages Reached by Rivers; 50 Deaths Laid to Blizzard. BV United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—Winter, an unofficial guest so far, observed the first day of his official regime by settling down as if for a protracted stay in the middle west. Frigid weather was predicted for Sunday and probably until Christmas, indicating the heavy blanket of snow laid during the furious blizzard of the last few days would remain on the ground. Despite the constant efforts of armies of snow shovelers and crews manning snow plows and sweepers, transportation was far from normal over the mid-continent area today. A force of 1,500 shovelers and 500 snowplows still was battling driftchoked roads in central Illinois. Some of the men had been out fifty hours without relief. Similar conditions existed in neighboring states. Death Toll Mount* The toll of death and suffering mounted slowly, although the worst apparently was over. As belated reports came in from regions cut off from communication by the storm, it was estimated fifty lives had been claimed as a result of the cold, blizzard and snowpacked highways and streets. Flood hazards threatened in many places as the heaviest snowfall since January, 1918, began to find its way into streams and rivers. The Wabash stood at sixteen feet after a rise of one foot at Mt. Carmel, 111. Water was spreading over the lowlands, but the low temperatures turned it into ice. Ice blockades halted ferry service over the Ohio river at Shawnee Town. Sled Bears Coffin A Big Four freight train puffed through to rescue 100 motor tourists stranded at Pana, 111., and at Danville a bohsled was utilized to bear a coffin to a cemetery after the funeral cortege was stalled. The most serious aftermath of the storm in the Chicago area was the closing of the East Chicago (Ind.) waterworks by needle ice in the intake. High waves in Lake Michigan prevented repair. Street cars and busses moved on schedule in Chicago today, but suburban trains were delayed slightly. More snow was promised for Michigan, but other central states had only the forlorn prospect of near zero temperatures. Far southern areas were getting a taste of northern winter. The heaviest December snow in fifty years lay over western Texas and southern New Mexico. El Pasoans waded through 5.3 inches, which had fallen for five hours. State Still Suffers With winds moderating slightly Friday night, Indiana still was snowbound in most portions today, and flood bound in southern sections, while temperatures hovered between zero and 10 degrees. In Indianapolis additional forces were added to the maintenance department of the street commission to clear sidewalks and streets in business and residential districts. Transportation in the city was not hampered greatly by the snow ice and cold today, and accidents were few, according to police. Moves Slowly Vehicular traffic north of Indianapolis began to move slowly today, while south of the city floods that blocked several highways, were the chief menace. Steam and electric travel was proceeding very slowly or not at all. Two deaths Friday and today attributed to weather conditions raised the total of victims of the cold wave in Indiana to eight. Dr. George D. Marshall, Kokomo physician, succumbed to a heart attack while driving to a patient’s bedside Friday night. Matthew Koerney, 63, was injured fatally when struck by a street car in Indianapolis. Sunday Fair Forecasts of J. H. Arming ton, United States weather bureau meteorologist, today indicated that Sunday will be fair, with light or moderate winds and continued cold. Thermometers registered 7 degrees at 7 a. m. and 9 degrees at 9 a. m. An acute water famine that struck Indiana Harbor and East Chicago was believed temporarily relieved with an emergency line today. Needle ice clogged the intake pipe far out in Lake Michigan, and a storm preited removal of the obstruction. Rural communities in northern, Indiana still are isolated, and fnany in need of staple foods. Almost sixty bus passengers were stranded today in Indianapolis, several without funds. Two thousand men were added Friday to the state highway maintenance force, in clearing northern Indiana highways. Progress was slow : and in many places checked by j drifts as high as fifteen feet.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1929

Some Monicker Bu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—Elevated Adams Wabash Transfer Morris was one Christmas present not delayed by the holiday rush. He arrived, squawling lustily, as his mother, Mrs. Anna Morris, 25, a Negro, was about to board an elevated train at the Adams-Wabash station. Platform guards ran to the aid of th eSanta Claus stork and summoned an ambulance. “What’s his name going to be?” asked a guard as he assisted the mother and son into the conveyance. Mrs. Morins gazed about in bewilderment until her eyes rested on the station sign. “Elevated . . Adams Wabash , . . Transfer,” she gasped. And so it is on the official records.

HAITI PRESIDENT TO QUIUEPORT Immediate Election May Be Necessary. Bv United Press PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 21.—Rumors were current in the Haitian capital today to the effect that President Louis Borno intends to tender his resignation immediately, making it necessary to hold an immediate election. The rumors said that President Borno, who already has served two terms, favors Leo de Jean, now minister to Santo Domingo, and a former law partner of the president, as the next chief executive. Borno's opposition leaders are campaigning for popular elections under the control of United States marines. FUMES GET FIREMEN Trio in Hospital 111 With Smoke Bronchitis. Suffering from smoke bronchitis as a result of smoke fumes inhaled when they fought a $13,000 fire which gutted the residence of Mrs. Jennie Lefier and Mrs. Leone Osborne at 1528 College avenue Friday afternoon, three city firemen are under treatment at city hospital. The firemen, Harvey Golder of 847 West New York street; William Anderson of 1602 Ashland avenue and Earl Snyder of 51# sast Walnut street, were in the smoke-filled building fighting the flames when water pipes exploded. Their condition is serious, but not critical. HOG MARKET OFF 25 CENTS AT CITY PENS Cattle Scarce and Steady; Vealers Unchanged at sl6. Hogs continued at lower prices toSay as the opening was 25 cents lower than Friday’s average, at the Union Stockyards. The bulk, 160 to 300 pounds, were selling at $9.50. A few good and choice heavyweight butchers sold at $9.60. Receipts were estimated at 3,000; holdovers, 192. Cattle market slow, and scarce, with indications pointing to a steady mraket. Vealers were mostly unchanged selling at sl6 down. Sheep and lambs stationary, with a better grade of good and choice lambs quotable selling at $12.50 to $13.50. Chicago hog receipts 17,000, including 13,060 directs; holdovers 4,000. The market generally steady with Friday’s average, choice butchers sold around $9.50. Hogs weighing 190 to 260 pounds, were selling at $9.25. Cattle receipts, 1,000; sheep, 1,000. THREE DIE IN BLAZE Two Infants and Their Grandfather Perish in Flames. • • Bv United Press ELKHORN, Wis., Dec 21.—While the rest of the family attended a Christmas party at the township school, two babies and their grandfather were burned to death Friday night when fire destroyed the farm home near here of James Carey. Carey, his wife and their three other children came home to find their home ashes and the charred bodies of the victims being removed by neighbors. The dead: Henry Stowenberg, 65, Mrs Carey’s father; Patsy Carey, 3, and Mabel Carey. 17 months. CLEMENCY IS DENIED Leslie Will Not Grant Any Pardons or Paroles for Christmas. Despite an avalanche of letters from relatives and friends of men and women in Indiana penal institutions, there will be no executive Christmas pardons or paroles this year, Gaylord Morton, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie, said today. The only executive clemency toward state prisoners was an order to Captain Ralph Howard, in charge of the state oenal farm, to release penal farm soners whose terms expire the da 'ter Christmas in time to be home lor Christmas, _

RECESS TAKEN BY CONGRESS FORHOLIDAYS ‘Time Out’ for Christmas Finds Little Done on Tariff Bill. RUSH ACTION IS SLATED Factions in Agreement to Ignore Other Business on Reconvening. BY PAUL R. MALLON. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Congress is closing its doors today for the Christmas recess with only two of the remaining 1,200 paragraphs in the tariff bill acted upon since it convened in regular session three weeks ago. The senate was more than half way through the tariff when the regular session started, but in the press of extraneous business, two items of the wool schedule were all that have been approved in the bill since that time. Others Rushed Delay in the tariff brought speedier action on the administrations $160,000,000 tax reduction, the French debt settlement, the ouster of William S. Vare of Pennsylvania from the senate, the induction of the new Senator Joseph R. Grundy in Vare’s place and the adoption of numerous emergency bills such as that to extend the life of the federal radio commission. All these have been disposed of at the expense of the tariff bill. In view of this embarrassing situation, leaders of all senate factions have entered a gentlemen’s agreement to keep the tariff Bill continuously before the senate to the exclusion of all other business when congress reconvenes Jan. 6. Even the rush order government supply bills will be held up so the tariff can be finished at the earliest possible moment, which now ap-' pears to be late in January or early in February. Well Satisfied The leaders are not dismayed at the future delay of the tariff. They believe they have handled a recordbreaking amount of business which had to be passed. 'Hie remaining tariff schedules to be considered are wool, sugar, books, papers, rayon and silk, sundries and the free list. Only routine business is scheduled for the closing day. Many senators and representatives have returned to their homes upon the promise of the leaders that no business will be transacted and it is doubtful whether a quorum of either the house or the senate is available now. DELAY JPEACE PACT Mongolia Situation Slows Chino-Russ Parley. By United Press TOKIO, Dec. 21. —Advices from Shanghai indicated today that Chino-Russ peace negotiations at Harbarovsk were delayed by conflicting interests in Mongolia. Despite Russian denials, the dispatches said it was known that Soviet traders had consolidated to control the hide and wool commerce of Mongolia, and were attempting to encourage Mongolians of the Barga district, who long have opposed Chinese rule, to establish an autonomous Soviet. The Chinese meanwhile were seeking Japanese support to retain the old northwest Manchurian border. STEAMER IN DISTRESS SOS Indicates Ship Leaking Badly South of Cuba. Bv United Press BOSTON, Dec. 21.—'The steamer Santa Ana is leaking badly and in distress 130 miles south of the Isle of Pines, which is directly south of Cuba, according to an S O S relayed to the Tropical Radio Comuany here today. Hourly Temperature* 6 a. 7 8 a. 8 7 a. m 7 9 a. m 9 10 a. m 12

Expecting This? 3v United Press PARIS, Dec. 21.—Talkie postcards are the latest fad in Paris this season. This innovation consists of a small phonograph disc which records any Yuletlde greeting the buyer may wish to send to # his friends, sweetheart or folks back home. It is only necessary to speak into a disc-re-cording machine and the rec- . ord will ring out “Merry Christmas, everybody," or any other message in a well-known voice. These records can be recorded on both side apd can bear two separate messages—one for Christmas and another for New Year’s day. The price is 600 francs ($24) which is cheaper than a trans-Atlantic phone call

His Last Run Bv Unitcif Press CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—Engineer Robert White made his last rim, through a blizzard, on time. He rolled hsl Chicago & Great Western train into the station, waited for the passengers to get off, then took it to the round house. As he brought the train to a stop he died. Physicians said the intense cold had aggravated heart disease.

COPS FREED IN TEXTiyjBEATHS Acquitted of Slaying Six Carolina Strikers. Bv United Press BURNSVILLE, N. C., Dec. 21. Eight McDowell officers were acquitted today of charges of second degree murder in conection with the fatal shooting of six textile strikers at Marion, Oct. 2. FIVE ARE CONVICTED Slot Machine Owners Are Fined in Court. Conviction of five additional “slot machine” owners were on record, today in criminal court after Judge James A. Collins fined five defendants $25 and costs and ordered the confiscation of ten machines in their possession. With eight persons previously convicted, a total of thirteen pers<~ .3 have been penalized for ownersnip of hte alleged gaming devices as a result of a war by Prosecutor Judson L. stark against public patronage of the machines. Seven other defendants, tried or "visiting,” Friday were convicted by Collins. Each was fined $5 and costs. Those convicted of owning the machines are Charles McKinney, Alonzo E. Walker, Mike Haney, William J. Wallace and Ora R. Christian.

ROAD RELOCATION BRANDED MOVE TO BOOST SUBDIVISION

Charges that the relocation of United States Road 31, to be started next spring at a cost of about $1,000,000, will prove of benefit only to the Washington Bank and Trust Company, which owns the two subdivisions to be traversed by the proposed highway, were made at a protest meeting Friday night in Carmel, attended by business men of that city, Nora and Indianapolis. The proposed route would parallel the present road for eleven miles until the connection is made north of Carmel. Speakers minced no words in branding such road duplication a waste of the taxpayers money at a time when many schools are clamoring for additional state aid to remain open after Jan. 1. Further waste would be entailed, it was declared, by construction of a bridge over White river at Meridian street. Another Route Suggested "If it is desired to eliminate Broad Ripple, the road could be cut so that it would pass the new school for the blind, giving that institution access to a state road, go over the Monon and traction tracks where they go through a cut, and then join the present road below No. 31,” Bernard Batty, vice-president and general manager of the Ogle Coal Company, pointed out. Batty, who aided in obtaining the present road, declared the road never was intended to wind through Broad Ripple. This was reported to, however, to connect there with paving. i He pointed out the value to the state if anew short section were laid passing the institution lor the blind. Frank P. Manly, president of the Indianapolis Life Insurance Company, declared that it would be a “palpable waste of money” to build anew road merely to increase the value of an addition. Only One Crossing "The present Road 31 has the least number of crossings of any road in the state,” he said. "There is but one crossing north of CarmeL ‘To cut anew road, eliminating this town, would destroy the value of all property lying along the road south of here. “The present road would become one merely for trucks, hogs and cattle, while the contemplated road through Meridian Hills and Williams Creek valley would be for pleasure cars. “A city and valuable stretch of Maricn and Hamilton counties would be cut off from traffic merely because of a desire to improve the value of an addition,” Manly said. Chester Baily of the Citizens State bank of Carmel declared that the new parallel road would work n hardship upon the entire community. Merchants Are Worried He was Joined in this by Rue Hinfthaw, town clerk, who declared

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CITY MAN DIES WHEN STRUCK BY STREET CAR Matthew Koerney, 63, of 837 Parker avenue, was injured fatally early this morning when struck by a street car at Tenth street and Parker avenue. Taken to St. Vincent’s hospital following the accident, Koerney died two hours later. He suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries.

Gripping Tale And That’s Just What It Was for Eastern Farm Broker.

Bv United Press pAMDEN, N. J., Dec. 21.—WilKJ liam Combe, 30, took perhaps the most thrilling airplane ride in history and thanked heaven today that he had strong fingers. For he took it clinging to the tail of a plane and it lasted ten long minutes, during which numbing cold threatened to break his grip and let him plunge to death. Combe, a Moorestown farm broker, was helping a group of farm hands hold a plane on his sister’s farm near here while Pilot Don Darby of Marion, Pa., Chief Pilot of the Curtiss-Wright flying service, warmed up the craft. As the plane took off, Combe did not let go quickly enough. Squirming and kicking, he huYig on while Darby, unaware of his passenger, headed for Central airport here. As the plane circled the field, an inspector saw Combe’s plight and tried to signal the pilot, but the plane swept to a landing. Just before it touched the ground, Combe let go and fell in some sand. Although suffering intensely from cold, he was not injured seriously enough to require medical treatment.

that merchants were becomiflg worried over the proposed relocation. "It is a shame that communities must be cut off from tourist trade merely because it is desired to improve a subdivision,” he said. R. G. Newby of Nora, owner of a general store, pointed out that merchants have invested money in stock and building at Nora, as it is a stop on a national highway. This investment would be lost because of a relocation, he said. Henry Roberts, former state sales agent and associate editor of the Carmel Standard, was elected president of the protest organization. He appointed Manly, Hinshaw and Roy G. Caylor, Indianapolis salesman, as the committee which will confer with the highway commission. Pointing out that salesmen for the additions are declaring that the new road will traverse the properties, other speakers urged speedy action to avert this. FLIER QUITS HOSPITAL Uruguayan Pilot, Hurt in Crash, Recovers Completely. NATAL, Brazil, Dec. 21.—Completely recovered from the Injuries he received in the wreck of the Seville-Brazil trans-Atlantic plane. Captain Leon Challe and his companion, Lieutenant Colonel Tadeo Larre Borges, will leave today for Pernambuco. LOWRY DIES IN MEXICO Former Local Man Shoots Self Grieving for Killed Brother. News of the death of Orville C. Lowry, formerly of Indianapolis, as at Reynosa, Mexico, this week, was received here today by friends. It was reported that Lowry shot himself in the head as result of grief over the death of his brother, Colonel Robert C. Lowry, former local newspaper man, who was killed recently in an airplane crash. Both formerly were Shortridge high school athletes. YOUTHS BROUGHT HOME Three Boy* Taken in Nashville to Face Delinquency Charges. Three youths alleged to have stolen an automobile from the father of one of them, were brought to Indianapolis today from Nashville, Term., by city detectives. They are held on delinquency charges. They were: Albert Hayse, 17, of 1114 English avenue; Paul Coffman, 17, of 1128 Stein avenue; and the 14-year-old son of Everett Arbuckle, 608 East Georgia street, owner of the machine. Narcotic* Are Destroyed HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 21.—More than SIO,OOO worth of opium and other narcotics were destroyed here by order of the secretary of aanitaUog.

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] Koerney started to run across the street to board a car. He was struck by an outbound car, of which James McUne, of 953 Dormer street, was motorman. The blow threw him Into the path of an inbound car, of which Walter Plumber of 1650 Ashland avenue was motorman. Plumber stopped | the car within a foot of Koerney’s j body. j Alexander McDonald, 26. of 2418 j Ashland avenue, was taken to city | hospital this morning suffering from j a badly cut hand, after an automobile accident. His car skidded and struck a telephone pole at Twenty-fifth and Delaware streets. He is charged with intoxication and with operating an automobile while drunk. William Thayre, 25, of 3345 East Twentieth street, was injured seriously when a taxicab he was driving skidded into a tree Friday. •Y’ BOYS TO BE GUESTS AT CHRISTMAS PARTY Snethen Official Host; Carols and Musical Numbers on Program. E. O. Snethen, chairman of the boys’ department committee of the Y. M. C. A., will be host for a Christmas party of 350 underpriv- \ ileged boys in the business boys’ 1 section of the Y. M. C. A. tonight. The program will open at 0:45 with singing of Christmas carols In the boys’ lobby, led by Walter White, with Miss Grace Givens as accompanist. Snethen will speak on "The Christmas Spirit” and Mrs. David Chapman will give Christmas readings. Hugh Scudder, xylophone; Taylor Roberts, banjo, and Harvey Wright, musical saw, will play. A Santa Claus will, be present. EMPLOYE TAKE-OVER CONCESSIONS IN PARK Turkey Run Inn Changes Hands; Building to Be Enlarged. William B. Guthrie, who has had charge of the inn at Turkey Run state park under the management of Mrs. Della Luke, is to take over all concessions it was announced today by Paul Brown, acting director of the state conservation department. Mrs. Luke will devote all of her attention to the Clifty Falls state park inn at Madison, Brown said. She has had charge of both places and has been a pioneer concessionaire in the state park system. Under Guthrie’s management this year, Turkey Run attendance reached 116,306, an Increase of 22,000 over 1928, according to Brown. Plajis have been made to enlarge the building, he said. ALLEGED THIEF IS HELD Attempt to Sell 100 Chickens Bring* Checkup by Police. An attempt to sell 100 chickens at the Harry Smith poultry house, 326 East Wabash street, Friday, caused arrest of John George, 38, of 318 South West street, on vagrancy charges for investigation. Claims by George that he obtained the chickens from Mrs. George Turner, 2503 West Morris street, proved false, police claim. A companion of George left the poultry house before police arrived and did not return. GETS DAMAGE AWARD Switchman Adjudged $55,000 for Injuries Received in Accident. Judgment of $55,000, believed the largest ever recorded in Cook county, 111., for personal injury, has been awarded Walter Beplay, 43, of 16 East Orange street, in Chicago. Beplay, railway switchman, lost both legs working on the Big Four railroad here June 29, 1928. A freight car coupling failed to open.

Jinx Works By Science Service B O 8 T O N, Dec. 21.—The matrimonial plans of a couple who filed marriage intention No. 13 on Friday the thirteenth had gone askew today with the arrest of the prospective bridegroom. At the hour when he was to have been married to Miss Elizabeth E. Coolidge, 18-year-old stenographer, at St. Aidan’s church, Brookline, Friday night, Paul Lyons found himself in a cell at the Milk street police station, charged with passing worthless checks. "She’ll be disappointed," observed the prospective bridegroom dejectedly.