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NINE INDIANA CITIES SHOW BUILDING GAIN Increase Fails to Prevent Drop of $193,000 From February Total in 1924. EMPLOYMENT IMPROVES State Situation Better Than That of Nation as a Whole. BY CHARLES C. STOVE >ta tr Editor. The Time* Building in Indiana during February was $183,000 under the total lor the same month last year, a business and industrial survey of the state for the week ended today shows. Half of eighteen cities covered by the survey showed increases despite the lower state total. They were Elkhart, Evansville, Gary, Indianapolis, Marion, Michigan City, Mishawaka, Richmond and Vincennes. Among twenty-five leading cities of the nation Indianapolis was at the bottom of the list in building, although a gain over totals of January this yeer and February, 1929, was shown. Among the cities showing building declines were Anderson, from $192,595 in February, 1929. to $23,510 for the same month this year; Kokomo, from $31,080 to $14,197; South Bend, from $470,550 to $173,105, and Shelbyville, from $37,680 to $3,142. 667 Cars of Stone Ordered Industrially, the outlook is becoming brighter. The limestone belt is showing activity, recent orders including one for 667 carloads to be used in construction of West Virginia’s new state Capitol at Charleston. The Indiana Limestone Company has the order. In Indiana factories employment during February was about onethird better than the national average. Conditions in various cities of the state are revealed in the following summary: Anderson— Full-time operation of the American Steel and Wire Company plant has been established to fill heavy orders. Kokomo—ln addition to the plant of the Haynes Stellite Company, to be used in manufacture of hastelloy, anew product, will be ready for operation between April 15 and May 1. L. T. Dwyer, president and general manager of the McLoughlin Manufacturing Company, announces the plant is operating on full time with about 309 employed. Portland— All steering wheels to bo used on automobiles made by the Ford Motor Company of Canada will be manufactured in the plant of Sheller Manufacturing Company here, M. M. Burgess, manager, announces. It Is planned to increase the force within sixty days. Factory to Be Moved Elkhart—The Wilson Bros, garment factory here is to be moved to South Bend, April 1, and merged with the large Wilson plant there. South Bend—Construction of a twelve-story hotel here to cost $500,000 will begin in April, it is announced by the Hoffman Realty Company. 1 Evansville—Officials of the Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company announce that its 1930 construction program, to cost $650,000, will be well under way by April 15. Lebanon—Officers of the Pulliam Publishing Company will be moved here from Oklahoma City, which has been its headquarters. The company publishes nine daily newspapers. two in Indiana and seven in Oklahoma. Lowell —One of the largest banks in Lake county came into being here this week with the merger of First National and Lowell National banks. Assets of the combined banks are in excess of $1,000,000. Vincennes —Claude Gregg, president of the Vincennes Packing Company. announces the winter season Just closed was the best in the company's history. A kraut plant is to be added to facilities. Mishawaka Gets Plant Mishawaka —Chamber of Commerce officials announce that the Hoyt Machine Company will be moved here from Indianapolis soon. This city's proximity to the markets in which the company sells the bulk of its products was given the reason for moving. Wabash — Thirty-five to forty more persons are wanted to increase the force of the Reliable Garment Company, which established a plant here two months ago. Richmond—ln addition to improvements made at a cost of $200,000, the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad plans more work here, including a siding at the city light plant and additional platform space. ML Vernon—A contract has been awarded by the Fuhrer-Ford Milling Company for erection of five concrete wheat storage tanks with a total capacity of 35.000 bushels. Construction will be started in April. Hammond—The Standard Steel Specialty Company, Beaver Falls. Pa., has bought an eleven-acre factory site here and will begin operations at once with a force of fifty men. Work has been started on a third of a group of blast furnaces at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company plant as part of an expansion program which eventually will double capacity. Executives Visit Plant Bv Timet Special MUNCIE, Ind., March 21.—Forty executives of the Graybar Electric Company conferred with officials of the Indiana Steel and Wire Company of Muneie, which supplies the Graybar organization with wire.

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Bv i'nitrd Pre*9 NEW YORK, March 21.—The histrionic ability of Captain James J. Coy, a small, sartorially elegant policeman, so far has been the chief attraction in the trial of Mae West and fifty-seven others charged witt giving an indecent stage performance. He faced the cross-examination today of Nathan Burkan, defense counsel, as a prosecution witness. For the benefit of the Jury, for the edification of a select, but giggling courtroom crowd, and to the embarrassment of some of the defendants and to at least one juror, Captain Coy gave a one-man performance of Mae West’s play,

State News in Brief

Bv Timm Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 21. Miss Nellie White, 314 North Denny street, and Miss Opra Wright, 2132 Jefferson street, Indianapolis, have received appointments to enter the March class of the Indiana university training school for nurses, according to the announcement here by Ethel P. Clarke, director of the school. Mrs. Clarke states that several vacancies in the class still exist. RICHMOND, Ind„ March 21. Another distinction has come to Professor Jesse S. Reeves, formerly of this city and the son of James F. Reeves, for many years prominent in local banking circles. He has been appointed as technical adviser to the American delegation attending a world conference for the codification of international law. ANDERSON, Ind., March 21Fire destroyed a large barn on the J. O. Garten farm, east of here. Farm implements, hay and I.OCO bushels of corn were destroyed. Sparks set fire to a cattle bam on the farm of Margaret Stewart across a road. Anderson firemen were called, but arrived too late to be of any assistance. GREENCASTLE, Ind., March 21. —The W. C. T. U. of this city, through its scientific department, is conducting an essay contest in the local high and seventh and eighth grades of Putnam county schools, which will close April 5. Prize winning essays will be entered in a state contest. BLOOMINGTON. Ind., March 21. —The Indiana university band, directed by V. E. Dillard, will open its fifth annual tour of the state at Washington, March 31. under auspices of the city’s Kiwanis Club. The band will be at Vincennes, April 1; Evansville, April 2; Tel) City, April 3, and New Albany, April 4. K ENTLAN D. ~lndJ March 21. Newton county authorities are striving today to clear the mystery death of Mrs. Bronysi Nordydis, about 42, whose 300-pound body, badly mangled, was found on the Monon railroad tracks near Roselawn in the northern part of the county. WABASH, Ind., March 21.—Clint Gi'ossnickle, arrested by police here after failing to pay a fine for possessing liquor, has escaped punishment on a charge of the same nature. the case having been dismissed in city court by Special Judge Q. E. Milliner. DUBLIN. Ind., March 21.—Progress has leveled the old Hoffman building, one of the landmarks here. A filling station, owned by J. Clyde Hoffman, Indianapolis attorney and Marion county member of the Indiana senate, occupies the site. ALERT, Ind., March 21.—A detective from the Indiana State Bankers’ Association today was investigating a 74-cent robbery from the safe in the building formerly occupied by the Alert State bank here. BLOOMINGTON, Ind , March 21. —The city council has taken the first step toward rebuilding Bloomingtons sewer system at a cost of $1,000,000, by employing a Chicago engineering firm to make a preliminary survey. HILLSBORO, Ind., March 21. When Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Bowman celebrated their golden wedding anniversary here, guests included Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Keys, Frankfort. only surviving witnesses of the ceremony fifty years ago. Other FT. WAYNE. Ind.. March 21. Agar Evanoff. 40. today stands charged with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Catherine Evanoff, 30. who died of wounds on the head inflicted with an ax March 6. She died twelve days later. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 21. —An Indiana university prom queen will be chosen March 28 from among the following four nominees: Virginia Gentry. La Grange: Ruth Burgner. Veedersburg; Nancy Biggs. Princeton, and Shirley Worrell, Clayton. ANDERSON, Ind., March 21. The board of works has authorized purchase of a car load of Kentucky Rock asphal* to be used in repairing paved streets. The work will be under supervision of William Helton, street commissioner.

DEMANDS REWARD FOR MISSING MAN

Refusing information unless given a reward, a man twice has telephoned by long distance during the last week offering to tell Mrs. Allen Nicholson of Plainfield, the whereabouts of her husband, who disappeared from home Nov. 20, 1928.

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“Pleasure Man,” which he and a number of other blue-coated dramatic critics raided and closed Oct. 1, 1929. The captain was a bit “stage struck” as he embarked on his version of the play, chewing the ends of his tortoise-shell spectacles. He gained confidence, however, from the close attention which every one, including Judge Amedeo Bertini, paid him, and he ended his recital in the calm, indifferent manner of the professional. “The curtain rose on a scene backstage in a vaudeville theater on Monday morning,” he stated after taking a deep breath. “Four

BRITISH KING TAKES HAND IN NAVALPARLEY MacDonald Goes to Palace After Talk With U. S., Japan Delegates. BY HENRY T. RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 21.—An important discussion of the naval conference situation was held today by Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald with the chief delegates of the United States and Japan. MacDonald was received by King George at Buckingham palace immediately after the discussions at No. 10 Downing street, where the premier had received the American and Japanese delegates separately. Some quarters believed the developments foreshadowed important three-power negotiations. If such is the case, it would be the first time King George has taken an active part in the conference except for presiding at the formal opening—when he called on the world for peace and disarmament — and later when he received the conference delegates formally. Suggestions Offered The discussions, viewed in the light of many reports that a threepower accord would be sought if the five-power conference fails, were emphasized by revelation of futile last-minute efforts to prevent the departure of Foreign Minister Aristide Briand for Paris. Briand’s decision to leave London Thursday at a moment when the conference was in a serious deadlock came after a previously undisclosed visit to a high British official. The British official was understood to have submitted to the French foreign minister suggestions for altering the French tonnage figures and thus opening the way for reconciliation of the French and Italian views. Speculate on End Briand was said to have listened to the suggestions without comment. Then he rose suddenly and remarked: “I am going." Meanwhile, the headquarters of the American delegation was the scene of much excited speculation about when the conference would end. Most conversation centered on the possibility that the delegation would depart about April 14. Typewriters and equipment are being checked and officials have asked stenographers how much time they desire oi the continent. STATE OFFICE IS ASKED Verne C. Chapman Announces for State Representative. Candidacy for Republican nomi-

nation as state representative has been announced by Verne C. Chapman. 36, of 3443 School street, attorney with offices in the New City Trust building. Chapman, now engaged in general law practice, for two and onehalf years was in charges of the legal department of Holcomb & Hoke Man ufa cturing Company, a posi-

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tion he retains. He was a delegate from the First precinct of the First ward to the 1928 Republican state convention. BUILD MODEL HOME Exhibit for Realtors Exposition Is Near Completion. The home that will form the centerpiece of the ninth annual Realtors' Home Complete Exposition, state fairground, April 5 to 12. Is nearing completion, according to Walter Stace, builder. The framework is in place, dining and living room walls paneled, and placing of sandstone blocks on the outside walls nearly finished, he said.

i The man. telephoning from pay station phones in Chicago, informed Mrs. Nicholson he had played cards ' with her husband in Texas. Nicholson, automobile dealer at Plainfield, left home without the reason being known to his family, i The car he drove was found in an f Indianapolis garage.

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actresses were on the stage. They were scrubwomen and they were conversing. One said ‘l’ve got it.’ Another woman answered her (this part of the testimony is unprintable) .. . and she w r alked across the stage (like this) —shaking her hips from left to right—and adding, ‘Oh, I’ve had my time.’ ’’ bub TTERE the captain wavered for a minute and then, bravely, he did his duty without mincing words or forgetting a gesture. He described a scene in the second act, showing a cross-section of the stage with the open dressing rooms, upstairs and down.

JEER SPRING FEVER There’s No Such Disease, Say Docs

BY ARCH STEINEL SmiNG fever has as much chance to gain recognition from the medical profession of Indianapolis as Texas Guinan, night club hostess, would to lead a religious camp meeting in song. It “just isn’t”—not even today, the first day scheduled for its parade of “dog-days” and doldrums. Doctor’s don’t recognize it as a symptom, a disease, or a microbe. “I never heard of it,” retorted Dr. William A, Doeppers, superintendent of city hospital. But sticking a thermometer of inquiry into the mouths of its annual patients—office boys, co-eds, coppers and store clerks —one gets a gauge of

laziness that reads, “love surges, baiting the old hook, whamming the old apple out of the lot, a hole-in-one and sassafras tea.” But the “docs” refuse to be budged from their tomes on anatomy long enough to give spring fever a stance somewhere between a bunion and the measles. B B It B B IT’S a traditional idea. No physical changes account for the condition and it hasn't a status in the study of medicine,” asserted Dr. W, F. King, secretary of the Indiana state board of health. “It’s just a time of year that man gets worthless and trifling,” continued Dr. King, “and wants to pick out a good creek bank and fish and fish. I can’t blame him. I’d like to do it myself.” Nor is the pert maid who diagnoses the springtime glances of men at her nifty limbs as “sap” correct. For Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the city board of health,

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cries down the likelihood that man is as “sappy" in the springtime as a maple tree, “Man doesn’t change immediately with the seasons as growing things do,” Dr. Morgan said. B B V BUB “QPRING fever is a systematic enjoyment,” ho continued, “and gets O the dandelion and sulphur diagnosis from the laymen, not the doctors. We don’t recognize it. t I is wholly psychological.” But Dr. J. F. Spaunhurst, osteopath. 527 State Life building, although holding no scientific brief for the ennui of March, admits the efficacy of man applying a vacuum to his blood stream in the spring. “Spring fever is a lassitude that comes when warmer weather supplants cold,” he said: “he needs more raw vegetables.” However, in sporting goods stores of the city and schoolrooms they give the “docs” the currycomb in comment by singing the “Spring Fever Blues” with repaired mashies, trout line sales and yawning “ho-hums.”

GRAND JURY WILL AIR ARMY SCANDAL

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Major Charles A. Shepard, left, 59-year-old army surgeon, jailed at Denver, faces charges at Topeka, Kan., of fatally poisoning his wife last June. Friendship of the major for Grace Brandon, right, stenographer at Brooks field, San Antonio, Tex., prior to his wife’s death is said to have been one of the reasons for the investigation.

Bv Vnitcd Press FT. RILEY. Kan., March 21. Facts In connection with the death of Mrs. Zenana Shepard, wife of Major Charles A. Shepard, United States army surgeon, will be presented before a federal grand jury in TopekSl next month, it was learned today. An investigation of the death has been conducted secretly by department of justice operatives, it was said here, and much evidence allegedly pointing to death by poisoning, is understood to have been assembled. Miss Grace Brandon, 23, stenographer at Brook field, San Antonio, is expected to be summoned as the government’s star witness in the hearing. Major Shepard told Colorado authorities he became engaged to the girl after the death of his | wife. i Bv United Press DENVER. March 21. Major Charles A. Shepard, held here on a federal charge of murdering his wife, will fight any attempt to remove him to Kansas for trial, Harry S. Class, attorney for the 59-year-old army surgeon, announced today The attorney indicated he believed 1 Major Shepard could prove that

“Four male characters dressed as female Impersonators helped each other off with their dresses,” he continued, describing each article of w.ear. “Then they all put on kimonos and one of them began to sew on a silk lampshade." At this point, a juror blushed, and in his distress he began also to chew the ends of his glasses. And before Captain Coy reached tie third act, most of the defendants that had glasses were doing likewise. nun ADJUSTING his salmon-col-ored tie and flicking off a few specks of dust from the trim lapels of his perfectly fitting

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Mrs. Shepard died of natural causes, and not of mercury poisoning, as the government charges. Mrs. Sehpard died at Ft. Riley, Kan., June 15, 1929. She had been ill for nearly a month and was under the treatment of her husband until several days preceding her death. An autopsy, according to government investigators, revealed poison in the viscera. Major Shepard was arrested here this week after an exhaustive investigation by the government. Thursday he refused to sign a statement he had made to investigators shortly after his arrest. It is believed the statement contains his opinions of his wife's death. It also is believed the statement contains reference to the army ofacer's relations with Grace Brandon. 23, stenographer at Brooks Field, Texas. Major Shepard has admitted to federal authorities that he gave Miss Brandon an engagement ring Ralph Carr, United States district attorney, announced that his office would make no attempt to remove Ma jor Shepard to Kansas unless the federal grand jury, which convenes at Topeka, April 14, returns an Indictment.

double-breasted uniform coat, he began his most serious work in the famous i _rty scene of the third act. He described the dancing of the Whoops sisters and the YooHooers and then went into a snake dance. He spread his hands fanwise under his chin and looked archly at the jury in describing a song entitled, “Officer, Let Me Pat Your Horse.” There were other songs, he said, that had nasty, double meanings. In addressing the jury, defense lawyer Burkan said he would prove no act of indecency was committed and that it was no crime for a man to be effeminate and have a falsetto voice.

NEGRO KILLER CALMLY PAYS LIFE IN CHAIR Jamf.s Britt Confident to Last of Reprieve by Governor Leslie. rv Timet Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., March 21. —Confident to the last he would receive a reprieve from Governor Harry G. Leslie. James Britt, 43 East Chicago Negro slayer, was electrocuted in Indiana state prison at 12:03 this morning. Britt’s execution was the first in Indiana since April 10, 1928, when John Hall paid with his life for the murder of Louis Kreidler, South Bend druggist. Britt had not appealed from conviction, Jan. 6, of the murder of Sam Goldberg. East Chicago grocer, who gave a federal grand jury testimony on crime and political corruption in Lake county. Led from his cell in death row by the Rev. Aaron Wood, prison chaplain, Britt submitted resignedly to the straps and electrodes. At 12:03 the prison lights flickered as the current pulsed through his body. At 12:10, he was pronounced dead. Britt died without seeing his wife and small child. None of his relatives witnessed the execution and today none had asked the cutsody of the body. Two men remain in death row. They are Dreyfus Rhodes, sentenced to die July 11, who is awaiting supreme court action on his third appeal from the death sentence, and Ulysses Mack, giant Gary Negro, sentenced to die Oct, 17. Leslie Is Adamant A statement denying clemency, prepared by Governor Harry G. Leslie before he left for Florida last Saturday, was released late Thursday at the Governor’s office when Gaylord S. Morton, assistant secretary to Leslie, failed to receive any further word from the chief executive. Because the Governor had departed with the impression Britt’s execution would not take place until after midnight tonight, concern was felt at the statehouse that Leslie might grant the reprieve too late. Britt’s execution, it was found, had to be before sunrise this morning. By withholding Leslie’s denial of commutation, Morton lent encouragement to last-minute hopes the reprieve might be granted, and unwittingly permitted the Governor to become the target for criticism because of his silence. The speed with which Britt’s execution was carried out, in contrast with 101 murder convictions in Indiana in 1928 without a single execution, encouraged‘the belief Leslie might commute Britt's sentence. BEAUTY’S TROUBLES ADJUSTED IN TEXAS Ft. Worth Blonde to Represent U. S. at International Show. Bv United Prctt MIAMI. Fla., March 21.—“ America’s Sweetheart,” Miss Janet Eastman, 20-year-old Ft. Worth (Tex.) blonde, will officially represent the United States in the Rio De Janeiro international beauty sweepstakes, it was announced here today. The announcement apparently patched up previously reported difficulties between Miss Eastman and Gaston Andreade, Latin-American director of the recent beauty pageant here, who announced Thursday he had selected Miss Beatrice Lee “Miss Utah,” to represent the United States.

MARATHON MONEY ATTACHED BY WIFE

While thirty mad-marathoners trudged wearily through a second week of sleeplessness in their play for fame at Cadle tabernacle, Richard M. Edwards, “promoter, publicity director and manager,” is having his own troubles, it was learned today. Like the single fisherman marathoner who has plied the rod and reel from his post at the water tank beside the dancers, Edwards has summoned his patience, awaiting the will of the law. Thursday’s gate receipts, sllO In all, have been attached and Edwards’ automobile has been seized to insure the manager’s appearance in court to refute charges of his ex-wife that he has failed in the past three years to contribute $2,500 to the care of his children. Acting through her attorney, T. Ernest Maholm, Mrs. Mildred T. Edwards. 805 South Rybolt street, given a divorce because of “cruel and inhuman treatment,” has filed an at-

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SKATENO FATAL TO YOUNG BOY Crashes Into Side of Moving Auto, Killed. Tragedy's pall shrouded north side baseball sandlots today after death grasped one of their habitues early Thursday night. Roller skating home late to dinner after a ball game. Jay Spencer Coppock, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Coppock, 516 North Central court, a newsboy who would rather play baseball than eat, crashed into the side of a moving automobile at Maple road and Delaware street, and was injured fatally. After first aid was administered by Dr. C. L. Rudesill, 3941 North Delaware street, the lad was taken to St. Vincent’s hospital, where he died from a skull fracture a short time later. Harold R. Cunning, 3907 North Delaware, driver of the machine, was charged with involuntary manslaughter. Funeral services will be held Saturday in Greenville, O. Burial will be in Greenville. Jay was a pupil at school No. 66, Maple road and Park avenue. Survivors, besides the parents, are two brothers, Fred, 15, and Boyd, 17, and a sister, Miss Elouise Coppock. SEND BODIES TO HOMES Prepare for Burials of Victims of Tragic Auto Accident. Bodies of two victims of an auto accident at Eagle Creek and Ken-

tucky avenue Wednesday night, will be sent today to homes In Kentucky and Georgia, for burial. The body of Ponpeii Los tin Garnto, 23, Rushville, Ga., is to be sent to Wrightsville, Ga., and that of Oscar Guy Thompson, to Horse Cave, Ky.

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tachment suit before Superior Judge William O. Dunlavy. She claims her former husband, promoter of numerous dance marathons in the midwest, has not contributed toward the support of two children, ages 7 and 12 years, since the divorce was granted by Dunlavy April 28, 1927. The proceedings proved successful, insofar as the attachment is concerned, and Edwards will appear before Judge Dunlavy Saturday to answer the charges. Maholm said there is a possibility more serious charges may be preferred. Maholm figures prominently In the promoter’s difficulties, avowing today that he “evidently did a bad job” when, as Justice of the peace in Marion county In 1915. he performed the marriage ceremony for Mr. and Mrs. Edwards. According to the attorney. Edwards’ auto previously was attached in court proceedings brought to satisfy a S7O claim of an Indianapolis furrier.

DRYS TO WINK AT MAKING OF BREW IN HOME Candidates for Congress Willing to Concede Point for Votes. FOLLOW LEAD OF FORT Norris and Others Swing Away From Stand of Extreme Aridity. By Scrippt-Hoicard Setctpaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 21.—The importance prohibition is assuming as a 1930 campaign issue was revealed today, when it was learned that many drys in congress will run for re-election on a platform favoring the interpretation that the eighteenth amendment was not intended to prevent manufacture and consumption of beer and wine for home use. Though few drys are willing to admit their change of heart so early in the political season, it is known that many have decided to adopt the viewpoint recently advanced in I the house by Representative Frank- : lin Fort of New Jersey, former sec- | retary of the G. O. P. national committee and close friend of President Hoover. Fort urged the drys to drop their activities against personal use of home-made liquor, and devote their attention to extermination of the anti-social liquor traffic alone. Norris Swings Over This view lias taken hold among prominent drys, including Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, and is said to be shared by the President’s law enforcement commisiJion. In fact, Fort’s pronouncement led many to conclude he was expressing the President's idea, even though tlie White House issued a statement to the effect that Fort was speaking only for himself. When Wickersham began to discuss this question at his recent appearance before the senate judiciary committee. Chairman Norris stopped him, with the warning that the committee was not interested. Wickersham eventually agreed with the Nebraskan’s contention that home brew and wine-making was outside the jurisdiction of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. Prohibition Commissioner J. M. Doran, in commenting on this theory, admitted the practical policy of enforcement was to wink at personal manufacture and use. Must Have Sale Evidence He pointed out that a search warrant can not be obtained except on evidence of sale, and this can not be obtained against an individual , who confines his alcoholic adventures to his cellar and his living room. So the drys will have plenty of arguments to support their I “home brew” planks. Magazine and newspaper polls have shown sentiment for repeal and modification to predominate in many dry districts. The wets have inaugurated a policy of opposing extreme drys and forcing them to [ take a definite stand on the proj hibition question. Many members of congress have j been able to hold their seats with- | out expressing themselves concretely on this issue, but the agitation stirred up since Hoover took office has, in numerous cases, forced a clear cut decision by men hitherto evasive. JOB INCREASE IN CITY IS REPORTED Boost of 2 Per Cent in 29 Local Industries Is Declared. The number of persons employed in twenty-nine leading Indianapolis industries increased 2 per cent from Jan. 1 to March 1, Paul Q. Richey. Chamber of Commerce president, declared today. There were 22,741 men on the pay rolls March 1, he said. The survey of the chamber industrial commission also showed 6 per cent more were employed on Jan. 1 this year than a year previously. “Based on the accurate figures obtained the conclusion of the report is that Indianapolis Ls in much better condition in regard to employment than other cities of the country and that with the opening of outdoor work employment conditions should be slightly better than in past years,” Richey said. Suit Asks $15,000 Bv Timet Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., March 21. —Damages of $15,000 are sought by Guy Jackson in a suit filed in Putnam circuit court against Andrew Hirt, alleging misrepresentation by the defendant In influencing investment in Mississippi real estate, which it is claimed resulted in losses to the ffiaintiff.

Just Bored Bv United Prett SEATTLE, Wash., March 21. —ls your guests stay too long and bore you—Just draw a revolver and fire a few shots. That’s the way Don Moore, 35, got rid of his. Moore had enough, but his friends remained. His patience waning, he fired six shot out the windows of his apartment. The visitors rushed out in disorder and police rushed in a few minutes later. “Just fired a few shots to scare them home.” Moore explained. He will continue his rorv in municipal court.