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TAFT PUTS UP GAME BATTLE AGAINST ODDS Ex-Chief Justice’s Blood System Weakened: Tax on Heart Arduous. SUFFERS NO PAIN, FEVER Hoover Abandons Duties to Visit at Home of Sinking Jurist. BY THOMAS L. STOKES I’nltFd Preßs Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—William Howard Taft was fighting a good fight today against an adversary never encountered in the courts of law. Reclining among pillows, much against his will, the tired old gentleman who has Jived vigorously and fully, who has served his country in the highest places in its gift, smiled again his famous smile, courageously though a bit wanly, and thus denoted his determination to win. if possible. He is fighting against great odds. His physicians announced his condition Tuesday, soon after the ordeal of a long train trip from Asheville N. C„ as serious. A bulletin signed by Drs. Francis R. Hager and Thomas A. Clayton, read as follows: “Mr. Taft is slightly better than Tuesday. He spent a quiet night and was comfortable today.” Grieves Over Brother This fight is against a weakening blood system, with a heart heavily ; taxed by arduous, detailed attention j to the supreme court and by grief ; over the death of his half-brother, j Charles P. Taft, who was closer than j a brother. But the heart still Is ! brave. The former chief justice is suffering from no pain and has no fever, it was announced Friday night after a special consultation of his physicians. At the former President’s side constantly is the woman he married forty-four years ago. just as he was beginning the career that has made his name known around the world. Mrs. Taft attends his wants tenderly. Only she and a housekeeper, in addition to the nurses, doctors and a secretary, are in the big threestorv brick house with the former chief justice. Sons Coming Soon His two sons. Charles and Robert Taft, have notified ihe family they will come to the bedside in a day or two. It was Robert Taft who submitted the resignation of his father as chief justice to President Hoover two days ago. The aged ex-chief was encouraged in his battle by praise from President Hoover for “the long and distinguished service of a great American to his country.” The President sent a personal message expressing his regret at the necessity of accepting Taft’s resignation. President Hoover was to call on Mr. Taft at his home at 3:30 this afternoon, it was made known at the White House. Several friends called Tuesday, including Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 88-vear-old dean of the high tribunal. Holmes himself was confined to his home a few’ days ago with a slight cold, but is out again. MYSTERY SHROUDS FATE Rum Runner Believed Froxen to Death in Boat. fill United Prrss CLEVELAND. 0., Feb. s.—Leo Leonard, Green Bay, Wis., scheduled to appear in federal court here today by answer to a charge of rum running, is believed by Federal authorities, to be somewhere in the frozen wastes of Lake Erie, frozen to death at the wheel of his boat, the Gray Ghost. Letters from Erieau, Ont., state that Leonard was on the boat when it left that port Jan. 7 with 125 cases of liquor aboard. The boat never has made port and reports that its wreckage, with a dead man upright at the helm, had been thrown up on the ice near Pelce Island never have been confirmed. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 31 10 a. m 31 7a. m 31 11 a. m 32 Ba. m 31 12 (noonri. 32 9 a. m 32 1 p. m 32

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 231

Wets Are Wary on Evidence Bu United Prang WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—Business men. physicians, scientists and j prison officials, rather than famous j and outspoken wets, will feature the hearings on anti-prohibition bills to open before the house judiciary committee next week. This plan was adopted by house wet leaders today in an effort to make the hearings a serious “educational” campaign, instead of just another forum for the worn, familiar arguments the man on the street has heard for ten years. In making up their lists of witnesses, they have eliminated such wet spokesmen as Alfred E. Smith, Democratic presidential candidate last year; Dr. Nicholas Butler, president of Columbia university, and others who have made an issue of their views. Realizing they have absolutely no hope of action on bills proposing repeal of the eighteenth amendment. wet leaders have decided upon the new line of strategy, hoping, eventually, to convince the country as a whole that the present prohibition laws have failed. The wet bloc will make a particular effort to include among its witnesses men and women who have changed their views regarding prohibition since it became effective, especially those who voted for the amendment, but now favor modification or repeal. The group has decided to take no stand on the bill proposing transfer of th® prohibition bureau from the treasury to the justice department which comes up in the house Thursday. Each member will make his own decisions on this measure. Meanwhile, prohibition still was subordinated to the tariff in the senate. Wet and dry leaders, although having difficulty restraining themselves, are working under a gentlemen’s agreement to get the tariff bill out of the way before reopening the popular prohibition controversy.

BULL GORING FATAL Injuries of Jan. 28 Claim Life of Farmer. Gored by an infuriated bull Jan. 28, Alexander Christoff, 50, living five miles north of Riverside park near Kessler boulevard, died at Methodist hospital Tuesday night. Christoff went to the bam to feed cattle. The bull attacked him and Christoff was badly gored and crushed. He fought the animal off and was able to stagger out of the barn and bar the door. His widow and four children survive him. Coroner C. H. Keever is investigating. LESLIE TO TAKE TRIP Governor Will View Area of Floods. Governor Harry G. Leslie next week will make a personal tour of southwestern Indiana’s flood regions, he said today, after receiving an invitation to accompany a delegation to Washington, D. C., on behalf of federal control of the Wabash river against future floods. Marcus Sonntag, Evansville, and Mrs. Virginia Jenckes, Terre Haute, representing 100 leading citizens of the flood district, called on the Governor today to extend an invitation to go with them to the capital Feb. 23. They will seek federal programs for flood control and to make the Wabash navigable from the Ohio river to the Great Lakes. The Governor made no decision concerning the trip, but stated he would visit the scenes of recent devastation. JURY IS DEADLOCKED Veniremen Give Up in Death Case Against Texas Judge. Bu United Press _ AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. s.—After more than seventeen hours of fruitless deliberation, the jury which heard the trial of former Judge John W. Brady, charged with the knife killing of Miss Lehlia Highsmith, sent word to Judge J. D. Moore shortly before 11 a. m. today that it was “hopelessly deadlocked.”

U. S. STANDS PAT ON TONNAGE SHIFT

BY T AYMOND CLAPPER Unlv.d Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. Feb. s.—With no formal gathering of the big five delegates to the London naval conference scheduled until tonight, the conferees devoted today to informal discussion of the technicalities raised by France and Great Britain. There was a growing tendency among the Americans to regard the questions now being discussed as subordinate to the main purpose of the conference. The United States has no intention. it was learned authoritatively, of ntering any preliminary agreement on battleship reduction until a general, definite program has been completed by the conference. Instead. America can stand pat, with the knowledge that her superior economic position and her ability to build battleships at will,

KILLING ORGY OF GANGSTERS GAINS IMPETUS Bomb Wrecks Three Stores as Two Killings Send Toll Soaring. STRATEGY BOARD MEETS Harried Police Draw Up Secret Plans to Stem Crime Wave. fiv rnited Press CHICAGO, Feb.s. —Secret plans to stem the bomb-punctr.ated “mur-der-a-day" crime w'ave that has engulfed Chicago in the last six days were interrupted today, while a police bomb squad picked through the ruins of another block of stores, shattered at daw'n by a terrific explosion. Flames which shot from the ruins, before the reverberations of the blast had died away on the west side, indicated the explosion may have been caused by gasoline or naphtha, but the bomb squad dug in the scattered stock of an army and navy dry goods and a shoe store for evidence of a dynamite bomb. Scattered in Neighborhood Lengths of dress goods festooned the streets in the vicinity of the blast, and the whole stock of the shoe store was blown over the neighborhood by the explosion. Two stores crumbled under the blast and several others were wrecked. Hyman Weisberg, owner of the army and navy store, and Charles Vilek, proprietor of the shoe store, were questioned in an effort to find a motive for a bombing or gasoline explosion. The latest blast of the dozen or more, since Jan. 1, topped a twenty-four-hour period which added two more gang killings to the toll of four already recorded and maintained the “murder-a-day” pace of the crime wave. Strategists Meet The “board of strategy,” composed of State’s Attorney John A. Swanson and Police Commisisoner William F. Russell, laid secret plans today to stem the murder and bomb epidemic, but refused to reveal what course the drive or drives would take. Swanson contented himself by saying that indictments against gun-toting gangsters, such as (Machine Gun) McGurn and Tony Acardo, would be pushed to speedy trials by two assistants especially assigned to them. Detectives who worked all night on the murders of Joseph Buchere and Philip Marchese, failed to unearth any other than general ones that indicated the deaths were the result of gang intrigue.

ASSAILS mus 1 Liberal Party Proposed by Wets’ Speaker. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Feb. s.—Call for establishment of a national liberal party was sounded by President Samuel H. Church of the Carnegie Foundation at Pittsburgh, in an address at a dinner given here by Pierre S. Dupont to directors of the association against the prohibition amendment. An aggressive campaign against the prohibition laws should be a part of the party’s purpose, Church said, but it also should fight to “establish religious, political and social liberty,” and to “divorce the country from every form of religious dictation.” Church assailed the Lord’s day alliance, the Ku-Klux Klan and the Anti-Saloon League vehemently and declared that the churches which banded together to obtain prohibition, also propose to secure laws suppressing “tobacco, boxing, public dancing, bridge, when played for stakes,” and any pastime that would make Sunday a day of happiness.

gives her a dist net advantage in the bargaining over tonnage that still Is to come. Debate over classifications, therefore. takes on the light of a preliminary skirmish. When the question of cruiser strength comes up for consideration, the American delegation may reveal more of the United States' real policy. Until the cruiser question and other similar problems are cleared away, it was indicated today, the United States will enter into no agreements regarding battleship strength, which is the backbone of her naval defense. With the return of Premier Andre Tardieu from Paris today, the big five were to go into conference at 6 p. m. today. A plenary session, open to the public, at which progress of the conference will be reviewed, probably will be held before the end of the week.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5,1930

“JUST ME AND MY SHADOW”

’Twas a Picture That Kept Him on the Go

Fred Mosteller (left), fugitive, who gave hi nself up today to Deputy State Fire Marshal George Coogan (right).

BOYS DRIFTING ON ICE FLOE TO NIAGARA DEATH Bu United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. s.—Officials on both sides of the American and Canadian sides of Niagara Falls attempted today to stop a drifting ice floe, steadily edging toward the falls, on which may be human life. First reports from officials at Niagara Falls said that two boys were on the ice floe and it was feared that it had broken away from solid ice while they remained on the drifting patch. It was difficult, however, to see the floe and officials later said they, could not determine definitely whether the boys were on the floe. An attempt will be made to toss out lines from Goat island and retard the progress of the drift ice toward the falls.

CONTEST ARRANGED 'Achievement Week’ Essay Awards Offered. “What Achievement Week Has Taught Me,” is the subject of a prize essay contest announced today by the Chamber of Commerce through Felix M. McWhirter, general chairman of the “Forward Indianapolis” movement. Prizes of $25, sls, $lO and $5 will be awarded. The contest is open to any one in Indianapolis except Chamber of Commerce staff members and employes. The essays of not more than five hundred words, preferably typewritten, are to be addressed to “Achievement Week Contest,” Chamber of Commerce. Tlie contest will close at 5 p. m., Feb. 13, the opening date of the “Forward Indianapolis” movement. MERCHANTS REQUEST WIDENING OF STREET Association Circulates Petition to Have “Bottle Neck” Removed. The Massachusetts Avenue Merchants’ Association today urged the city to remove the “bottle neck” condition at Massachusetts avenue and Tenth street. A petition, asking the street be widened beneath the elevation at Tenth street, will be circulated by merchants who contend present facilities are inadequate to handle traffic. City Engineer A. H. Moore spoke before the association Tuesday night. IDENTIFIED AS SLAYER Toledo Man Held in Fatal Shooting of Policeman. Bv United Press TOLEDO, 0., Feb. s.—Detectives. Melvin Henshaw and Waiter Holz, Buffalo. N. Y., positively identified Frank Stone, alias Frank Kaminski. Toledo, here today as the bandit who killed Patrolman Carl Wunderlich in an attempted holdup in Buffalo Monday. Henshaw and Holz brought a Bertillon photograph of Stone, which was identified by Wunderlich before he died Tuesday. Wanderlich was shot Monday, when he surprised a burglar in a store in Buffalo. STEAL POLICE CAR; ROB Bandits Nab Cops* Auto and Loot Cleveland Restaurant. Bv United Press CLEVELAND, 0.. Feb. s.—After stealing a police cruiser from in front of the central police station here early today, two gunmen marched seven and employes of a restaurant near Public Square into a basement and escaped with $l4O. Police found the car in the southwest part of the city after a vigorous search. The car’s number was broadcast at frequent intervals during the hunt, so police would tot fire on fellow officers.

! RUBIO TAKES OFFICE | Mexican President Sworn in at Ceremonies in Stadium. ■ Bv United Press MEXICO CITY, Feb. s.—Pascual Ortiz Rubio, constitutionally-elected President of Mexico for the next six years, took the oath of office before a vast crowd in the great national stadium today. The successor to Plutarco Elias Calles and General Alvaro Obregon, who was assassinated before he took office, swore to enforce the constitution and fulfill his duties faithfully, adding “should I not do so, let the nation condemn me.” BANDITS GET SLOOO Five Slug Bank Cashier and Make Getaway. TOLEDO, 0., Feb. s.—Five bandits beat a bank cashier on the head with the butt of a gun, gathered SI,OOO from the open money drawers and escaped here today. A Sylvania constable was in full pursuit of the auto carrying the bandits as it sped away. They are believed hiding somewhere between Toledo and Trilby. J. C. Issland, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants bank, refused to open the vault for the robbers even after they had attacked him and injured him with the revolver. He had turned the key in the vault as the robbers lined customers and employes against the wall. POISON SUICIDE TRIED Young Woman in Serious State Today at Danville. Bv United Press DANVILLE, Ind., Feb. s.—Miss Vileta Bailey, 22, was in a serious condition today following an attempt to commit suicide with poison. Miss Bailey did not report for work yesterday at the C. A. Edmonson Company, state auto licensing branch, where she was employed as a bookkeeper. A note found in her room directed the finder to send for the girl’s autmobile. which would be found on a road southwest of Danville. An Edmonson company employe drove tc the place and found Miss Bailey had taken the poison. No cause for the act has been ascribed. DETROIT GROWS : AST Population Figures Show Residents Number 1,641,718. DETROIT, Feb. s.—The population of Detroit today was estimated at 1,641,718 by officials of the R. L. Polk Directory Company, who said their canvass for the 1929-30 city directory here showed a population increase of 85.448. The population of Greater Detroit, which includes the cities of Hamtramck, Highland Park and Grosse Point, was placed at 1.888,985. Gives Million to Dartmouth Bv T’v'tfrt Prr* NEW YORK, Feb. s.—George F. Baker, financier, has given Dartmouth college $1,000,000 for maintenance and operation of the colleg. library, which he erected several years ago as a memorial to an and* ♦

Entered as Second-Class Matter at I’ostoffice, Indianapolis

BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY FLEEING from his own shadow, Fred Mosteller, 32, Lena, Ind., fugitive from the Indiana state reformatory, returned to Pendleton today in the hands of Deputy George Coogan of the arson division of the state fire marshal's office. His shadow, in this instance, is an excellent likeness from the reformatory photograph gallery, which was broadcast throughout the land. In Texas and Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma, southern states and western states, below and above the Mason-Dixon line, Mosteller's picture followed him everywhere. Weary of having to leave a town and anew job as soon as his picture arrived, Mosteller returned to Lena and hid in the woods. Although Coogan was the officer who got him to confess to setting fire to the Oscar Bratton store and postofflee at Lena, the fugitive looked on him as his one best friend. * B * 808 MONDAY Coogan received the following letter bearing a Lena postmark and scrawled on a scrap of notepaper with the address wandering all over the envelope. It was written in pencil. Der Sir,” it said, “I will drop you a few lines to let you no I will be in between now and Tuesday. I will tell you all about the guy that struck the match, I will be plenty willon to do my time, but is it right to do time for someone else? I will explain everything to you when I see you. Yours truly, Fred Mosteller.” Displaying the letter at the statehouse, Coogan was laughed at when he said, “I believe that boy will be here.”

Monday night Coogan got a telephone call. It was Mosteller. He calls him Freddie. This morning Freddie and Coogan came to the arson division office together. A statement was taken from the fugitive and Coogan took him back to Pendleton to serve his time.

HE was sentenced In Parke county in December, 1927, to serve from two to twenty-one years. His minimum sentence would have expired in December, 1929, and he would have been paroled, for prison authorities said he was a model prisoner. But they let him outside the walls with another prisoner last July and both escaped. “It was a rotten life,” Freddie told Coogan. “I’d just get sitting pretty on a job and along would come that picture and I’d have ; to leave town. “Down at Houston, Tex., I was jailed for thirteen days. You see at Pendleton they had us march and I learned to walk with that march step. One day I was walking along and up came an officer and said, ‘Say, buddy, when did you go over the hill?’ “I was scared green. But It turned out that he thought I had escaped from the army and when he couldn’t find any army record on me, he let me go. “In Arkansas I was working with a construction gang when my picture arrived, I quit and the boss said it was a shame, because I was the best man he had. “I’m going back and serve my time and when I get through I want them to tear up that damn picture.” crazeOiller hunted Lunatic Slays One Soldier, Wounds Another From Ambush. BiJ United Press BRACKETTVILLE, Tex., Feb. 5. Terror-stricken residents of three counties today awaited word that rangers and county officers had run down an armed lunatic who, Saturday night, killed private Hale, a Ft Clark soldier, and wounded Corporal Reed. Soldiers and sheriff’s deputies joined in the hunt after Hale was shot down near the edge of the military camp and Reed was wounded by shots fired from ambush. Several motorists later reported they were fired upon by the crazed man ASK MARINES REMOVED Opponents of Haiti President Hail Action by Hoover. Bv United Press PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 5. —President Hoover’s decision to appoint a commission within the next few da - s to investigate conditions in Haiti lookng toward withdrawal of the mame corps occupation of the island was received with gratification by opponents of President Louis Bomo today. Opposition leaders said they were “more than satisfied” with President Hoover’s s.ction. 18 CHILDREN INJURED Shelbyrilie Truck Driver Held for Collision With Bus. Bv United Press CINCINNATI, Feb. s.—Eighteen school children were injured, none seriously, when a school bus and a truck driven by Marvin Woods, Shelbyville, Ind., collided near Elizabethtown, 0., today. The bus carried thirty children. Woods was arrested on charges of reckless driving after Delbert Watkins, driver of the bus, charged he was speeding.

AGED VILLAGER IS SLAIN BY BANDIT

BELLEVILLE, Mich., Feb. 5. Ben Laframbolse, 65-year-old saloon keeper of the nearby village of French Landing, was found dead this morning, apparently the victim of a murder, who tried to cover his tracks with fire. The aged man, who lived in a small room adjacent to his saloon, was found lying across the bed, dressed only in his underwear. His .hroat was cut and the bed was afire. On the floor nearby lay a revolver, a bloody butcher knife was on the table, and amt

BOARD ADVISES COOn PAROLE U. S. Group in Favor of Freeing Explorer. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—Dr. Frederick Cook, Arctic explorer, physician, and promoter, who is serving a fourteen-year sentence at Leavenworth, for using the mails to defraud, has been recommended for parole by the United States parole board, the justice department announced today. The parole recommendation now must be approved by Pardon Attorney Finch and Attorney-General Mitchell before Cook can be released. Cook will be eligible for parole March 5, when one-third of his sentence will have been served. He was convicted at Ft. Worth, Tex. It was alleged Cook received $375,000 from the sale of petroiemm stock. Cook, now 64, startled the world in 1909, when he returned from a two-year Arctic trip, claiming to be the first man to cross the North Pole. He described graphically how, alone, except for a dog team and two Eskimos, he set out on a trek across the icy wastes to the North Pole. He told of the hardships he had encountered and how. at last, his goal had been obtained. A hero for a short time, during which he was honored by royalty, Cook fell from the pinnacle when the University of Copenhagen disproved his contention.

VISIONS AUTO BOOM Willys Tells President Builders to Increase Car Output. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. s.—Effects of the stock market crash on American industry will have disappeared completely within thirty or sixty days and automobile manufacturers will make as large profits as last year, John N. Willys, Toledo, nationally known motor manufacturer, told President Hoover today. “There has been so much overhead saved by efficient processes in the automotive industry that I believe our profits this year will be just as large as last year,” the manufacturer said. END LIQUOR PLOT TRIAL Testimony Links Oklahoma Officials to Booze Conspiracy. Bu United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Feb. 5. —District Attorney Roy St. Lewis prepared today to wind up the government’s case against defendants involved in the Pottawatomie county liquor conspiracy trial in federal court here. The last week has elicited testimony from county and city officials, oil field workers and dance hall girls which linked several present and former law enforcement officials with an extensive liquor business in oil field centers of the state. Among distinguished public officials named in the evidence was Assistant AttorneyGeneral W. O. Gordon, who subsequently resigned.

twelve feet from the body, was a pool of blood apparently left by his assailant. George C. Coleman, justice of the peace of Van Buren township, who saw the body, expressed the opinion Laframbolse had surprised a bandit. Officers believed the killing was discovered only a few minutes after it was done, as the Are on the bed apparently had been burning o*’ly a short time. Lack of telephone commumritions with French Landin'” made it inM—i frr nm ii ~i—m rimt’-

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MURDERS WIFE IN HER SLEEP AND ENDS LIFE Despondent City Man Kills Himself After Crime: Poverty Blamed. FOUR LEFT PARENTLESS Quarreling Over Family’s Finances Forerunner of Twin Tragedy. (Pictures and other story of murder snd suicide, Pae one. Section two.) Blowing off the top of his wife’s head with a shotgun, as she lay sleeping this morning, William Barker, 58. R. R. A, Box 38-G, Walton and Elnore streets, turned the gun on himself and ended his life. Startled into wakefulness by the shots, two sons, William Henry Barker, 15, and Clarence Barker, 13, found the bodies of their parents in the upstairs bedroom, and ran, in their underclothing, to the home of a neighbor to call for help. The murder and suicide followed weeks of quarreling by Barker and his wife. Barker had left home two weeks ago, and early today he returned as his family slept. He brought the shotgun. Planned Carefully That he had planned the killing and his own suicide carefully was indicated by the fact he placed his pocketknife in the shoe of his son Clarence before he went to the upstairs bedroom and shot his wife. He had told the boy some time ago: “The knife is yours when I am done with it.” When the sons, hearing a shdt, entered the bedroom, they found their father's body at the foot of the lied, his head badly mutilated by the shotgun charge. Barker used a single-barreled shotgun. After shooting his wife he walked into the upstairs hallway, threw the empty shell Into a closet, reloaded the gun and returned to the bedroom to end his own life. Finances Caused Quarrels Financial trouble caused the quarrels between Barker and his wife, sons told authorities. Barker was purchasing the home occupied by the family in Furman Stout addition, south of the Rockville road, six miles west of the Monument. Barker, a carpenter, came here five years ago from Greenfield. He had practically no work all winter. On Sunday, Jan. 23. a quarrel between Barker and Mrs. Barker resulted In Mrs. Barker hitting her husband, the boys told deputy sheriffs today. Barker knocked his wife down and rendered her unconscious at that time. He left the home and did not return until last Saturday night. His wife met him at the door. “Done With You” “I’m done with you,” she told him. Barker cursed her and left, the sons said. Besides the two sons, a daughter, Emily Belle Barker, 2, and another daughter, Mildred Barker, 18, survive them. The baby was at the home of an aunt while the elder daughter, attending a party, went to the home of a girl friend for the night. Deputy Sheriffs Fred Fox, Charles Bell and Harvey Shipp investigated the case. Barker had been married three times previously, his sons told deputy sheriffs. He was arrested two years ago and served a ten-day Jail sentence for chicken thefts in the neighborhood. The bodes of both Mr. and Mrs. Barker were taken to the city morgue. NEWSPAPER TO BUILD La Porte Herald-Argus Announces Plans on Anniversary. Bu United Press LA PORTE, Ind., Feb, s.—The La Porte Printing Company, publishers of the La Porte HeraldArgus, on its fiftieth anniversary today announced purchase of a site on which a modem newspaper plant will be erected within the next eighteen months. A special edition of the paper was published in observance of the anniversary. H. A. Lindgren Is publisher and C, A. Beal editor. Class to Give Play Semper Fidelis class of Speedway Christian church will present a play, “The Road to the City,” at the church, Fourteenth and Winton street, Friday night. Leading roles will be taken by Miss Mary Strouse and Charles Stewart.

Spend $250,000 Yes, it’s possible to spend $250,000 a year for clothes. Constance Bennett has done it! Today the comely screen star, just returned with a lavish wardrobe from Europe, tells how she managed to put a quarter of a million dollars on her back with only a little effort. You’ll be interested in reading the Interview with her by Julia Blanshard, Times NEA Service staff writer, on the Woman's Page.

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