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MASS MEETING IS STAGED BY REDS OF CITY Gathering of 800, Chiefly Negroes, Holds May Day Demonstration. BANNERS DEMAND WORK Chicago Communist Voices f Denunciation of All „ Governments. Indianapolis reds held a May day mass meeting on the east steps of the statehouse today. About 800, half' of whom were _ Negroes, attended. Curiosity prompted the attendance of many, besides the so-called “revolutionary working class’’ and unemployed. The list included prominent state officials and statehouse employes who stood on the steps to hear the speakers. At ll a. m. a half dczen reds appeared with banners bearing demands for “work or wages, shorter hours and unemployment insurance. Their program was announced on handbills and in a paper passed about as being “unemployment insurance, seven-hour day, live-day week and work for all.” Joe Dallet, Chicago Communist, talked. He started shortly after 11 a. m., and was still going strong at 12:30. Excepting Russia, he condemned all the governments in the world, particularly the American. A committee was appointed to call on the mayor and see if the crowd could go to Tomlinson hall for a continuance of the meeting. Application blanks for membership in the red organization were passed out. The fee is 50 cents. At 1 this afternoon, when the committee reported use of Tomlinson hall had been granted by the board of public works until 4 this afternoon, those attending the meeting took up a march to Tomlinson hall to resume the meeting, moving east on Market street. World Demonstrations By I'nllfd Press Demonstiations from London to New York to Shanghai today iriarked the celebration of International Labor day. Up to early afternoon nowhere had there developed any of the major violence, which in past years has at times made the day a horror. Rigorous police measures were encountered by demonstrators in many k parts of the United States where Communists have seized what they considered a psychological moment due to business depression, to renew agitation on the largest scale since 1920. Fifty Arrests in New York By mid-afternon ninety-three arrests had been reported in various parts of the country. Fifty-six Communists were taken into custody in New York; four in New Britain, Conn; thirteen in Stamford Conn.; seven in Akron, O.; five in Philadelphia; two in Schenectady, N. Y., and six in Detroit. In Berlin, London, Paris and even in Shanghai and Tokio demonstrations took place. . In Moscow, fountain head of Communism, thousands of troops and workers paraded. Stalin, Voroshiloff, Kalinin and other gov-j ernment leaders reviewed the pa-" rade. In New York the Veterans of Foreign Wars staged a two-hour demonstration in Union square, for Nc many years the favorite May day rendezvous of agitators of revolt. Wants Reds Deported Twenty thousand people heard Representative Hamilton Fish urge that congress deport aliens allied with the Third Intemati/nale and that others not satisfied with this country return whence they came. In some sections of New York disturbances occurred around schools, i where Communists tried to dissuade ) pupils from attending, and it was I there that most of the arrests w'ere made. FRANK ECKERT DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME Heart Disease Takes Life of Taper > Building Superintendent. Frank Eckert. 77. of 2926 Bellefontaine street, building superintendent of the Indianapolis Star, dropped dead in the garden of his home early today. Death was due to heart disease, I according to Coroner C. H. Keever. Surviving Mr. Eckert is the widow. Mis. Beatrice Eckert, this city, and a son, George Eckert of Alexanijria. Ind. Funeral arrangements pave not been made. CAPONE AND GUARDS SAILING FOR GOTHAM Stays in Seclusion of Cabin on Voyage From Cuba. L Press i B ABOARD THE SS. TOLA, May 1. radio to the United Press.)— gear face A1 Capone, retired gangster of Chicago, left Havana, Cuba, today on this ship, en route to New York. Capone remained in his cabin, L surrounded by four bodyguards, and B declined to receive callers. He gave P po indication of his future plans. The gang leader, who was called L *fore Havana secret police Wednes- & lay shortly after his arrival there t -om Miami, was believed to have K ccepted a suggestion that he leave Bjpuba. He meant to spend four days

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FIRST AGAIN! THE TIMES’ GIGANTIC NEW PRESS IS FASTEST IN INDIANAPOLIS

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Rolls First Time Today, Culminating $125,000 Progress Program. Whirling rolls of paper, flashing cylinders of ink, a steady stream of printed, folded and counted newspapers passing over a modern conveyor to the waiting newsboys above. “Times!’’ the cry on the streets and today for the first time, editions of The Times come to readers of Indianapolis from the new superspeed press recently installed. The press, largest in the city of Indianapolis, is in operation. Culminating a $125,000 expansion program, The Times with the noon edition today, sent the two old presses, nicknamed “cider mills” by the pressroom crew, into retirement. In their place, anew super-speed Hoe unit-type press, with six units, capable of whirling out The Times at a rate up to 160,000 copies hourly, went into service. Emphasizes Romance Not obscuring, but empha sizing the modern-day romance of the making of a metropolitan newspaper, the faster equipment of The Times makes possible new news triumphs. Reporters, eager for “scoops,” welcomed the new equipment today, for at times of need the high-speed press and other new Times equipment will make possible rapid service which will place important news on the streets of Indianapolis far in advance of competition. To the advertisers of Indianapolis the new press and equipment means faster service, increased circulation and better appearing papers and advertisements. Equipped with all modern devices, the new press will improve reproduction of cuts and type matter. The new facilities will spur circulation efforts. Started in 1929 Operation of the press today brought to a climax an expansion program undertaken by The Times following its record-breaking year of 1929, when its circulation gain exceeded that of any other newspaper in Indianapolis, and when its advertising gain attracted nation-wide attention. New stereotype equipment has been installed, including anew eiec-trically-heated metal pot, the first in the city and the last word in stevotype equipment. New composing room equipment also has been installed. The completely modernized newspaper production facilities also includes anew conveyor system, which takes the printed papers from the new press and delivers them to the circulation room, where new’sboys are served by a large staff. Powered by two 125-horse power alternating current motors, the new press will chum off 160,000 twelvepage papers hourly, 120,000 fourteen and sixteen-page papers hourly, or 80,000 eighteen to twenty-four-page papers hourly. Scales to 40,000 Larger papers of from twenty - eight to thirty-two pages will run at 60,000 hourly, while thirty-six to forty-eight-page papers are printed, folded and counted at a rate of 40.000 hourly. Installation of the presses was completed by crew r s working under John H. Rusie. pressroom superintendent, and Lewis Masson, R. Hoe & Cos. constructor. Light of the whiteness and intensity of daylight is afforded by Cooper-Hewitt vapor lights. The press units are mounted in a pit twenty feet wide, sixty-four feet long and four feet deep. The pressroom is provided with floor space for duplication of the installation at a later date. Thieves Get SIOO Loot * Returning *to Indianapolis after absence of two weeks. Mrs. Lula Essex. 725 Sanders stret, found her home had been entered and ransacked, she told police. The bursars toe* clothing and jewelry

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Touch of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan’s finger to an electric button this morning set in motion cylinders of anew superspeed press capable ot turning out 80,000 or more twenty-four-page copies of The Times hourly. Witnessing the act of the municipal executive are Frank G. Morrison, business manager of The Times (left); Boyd Gurley, editor of The Times, and John Rusie, pressroom superintendent, standing inside between units of the new press. Lower photo shows Fred C. Kinley, 49, of 3666 Rockville road, for thiaty-two years employed in pressrooms of the Indianapolis Press, then the Sun, then the Daily Times, and finally The Indianapolis Times, at the end of Wednesday’s run with the old presses. Those machines were started by Kinley when they were new. They performed their last service for The Times Wednesday afternoon.

3 ALLEGED HIJACKERS CAUGHT IN SPEED CHASE

Three alleged hijacker-rum runners, one a woman, were arrested by deputy sheriffs this afternoon after a ninety-mile-an-hour chase more than a mile on West Washington street. In the rear of their coupe deputies say they found fifty-five gallons of alcohol. On a tip that the c Dupe, driven by the woman on F.ockville road toward Indianapolis, carried a hijacking gang for which they sought several days, the deputies raced west toward the city limits hoping to head off the car. The woman. Mrs. Ruth Davy. 39, of 2903 South Pennsylvania street, driving the coupe, saw the sheriff's emergency auto, and increased speed. A mile east of Rockville road the coupe was overtaken and forced to the curb. Deputies Fox, Ha#ry Bendel and William Cramus say the two men in the car threw away pistols before they were captured. Mrs. Davy also had a gun in the car, according to Fox. Besides Mrs. Davy, deputies ar-

CITY BLOCKS 2,000 FEET LONG VISIONED BY REALTY EXPERT

CiITY blocks 2,000 feet long in i residential sections were advocated here today by Leonard Reaume. Detroit, president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, who came to Indianapolis to address the noon-day luncheon of the Indianapolis board at the Lincoln. "Elimination of cross streets in residential sections not only is possible, but desirable,'' he declared. “The general use of the automobile has eliminated need

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rested Virgil Moore, 23, of 1257 Kentucky avenue, and William Brock, 22, same address. All are notorious hijackers, according to the deputies. The trio is held on charges of blind tiger, transportation and possession of liquor, and speeding. BLAST DAMAGES PLANT Windows Shattered and Machinery Broken at Kendallville. Bu United Press KENDALLVILLE. Ind., May I. Every window in the Kendallville laundry was blown out, and the plant was damaged considerably in an explosion Wednesday night. Belief was expressed by C. H. Kimmel, owner, that the blast was set off v*ben matches in some clothes in ad yer ignited. The machine, valued at $3,500, was badly damaged. Forty employes had left the room in which the explosion occurred, only a short time before the blast. Flames were quickly extinguished. Workmen spent all right repairing the plant, and it was in operation again today.

“Wider thoroughfares and narrow intersecting streets at greater distances apart not only conserve for public use the ground now used in the extra intersecting streets, but will reduce city maintenance expenses to an unbelievable extent. "We found, in a survey at Detroit in one section, that 15 per cent of the city’s street fund could be saved by elimination of needless cross streets, all of which must be pa. : a. kep, m -t _

SIX IN CABINET SLAP DRY LAW, PROBERS TOLD Wets’ Chief Asserts Hoover Aids Think Prohibition Complete Flop. HINT PRESIDENT WAVERS Four Officials Deny Charge Made Before Senate; Mellon Silent. Bu United Prrss WASHINGTON, May I.—W, H. Stayton, chairman of the board of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, drew the conclusion that President Hoover is beginning to doubt whether prohibition can be enforced, from members of the President’s law enforcement commission, he told the senate lobby committee today. Stayton said individual members of the commission told him they were “trying to work out some other plan for the distribution of liquor than at present.” Stayton said the law enforcement commission did not tell him about the President’s views, but he drew the “inference” from their remarks. Names “Dry Disbelievers” Another letter placed in the record today, written by Stayton, asserted six members of the cabinet “believe prohibition is a failure.” The cabinet officers he meant, he said, were Secretary of State Stimson; Secretary of Labor Davis; Secretary of Commerce Lamont; Secretary of Treasury Mellon; Post-master-General Brown and Secretary of Navy Adams. ‘“You are v/illing to stick by that statement?” he was asked, “Yes,” Secretary Mellon refused to comment on stayton’s assertion. Secretary of Commerce ) Lamont said there was “no foundation’’ for Stayton’s statement except that he was a member of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment “while a private citizen.” “I resigned before joining the cabinet and have not discussed the subject since,” Lamont said. Secretary of the Navy Adams declined to comment on Stayton’s statements other than to say there was no basis for his charges. Secretary Davis declined to comment off-hand but said he might issue a statement later, Tlaced on Record Chairman Caraway questioned Stayton about the letter referring to President Hoover, which was placed in the committee's record several days ago. Stayton said in the letter he got the impression of the President’s views from talking with members of congress and public officials. “Whom did you have conversations with?” Caraway asked. “With four members of the Wickersham commission,” Stayton replied. “Who were they?'' “Judge Kenyon, Dean Pound and Colonel Anderson. I can’t remember the fourth,” Stayton replied. “Inference on My Part” “They told you President Hoover was beginning to doubt the laws could be enforced?” “No, sir. It was an inference on my part.” Stayton said he had been asked to appear before the commission and had been asked many questions about possible substitutes for the present law. “Th%y said they were trying to work out some other plan for distributing liquor,” Stayton said. “From that you thought President Hoover doubted the law could be enforced?” Gives Third Reason “Not only from that, but because the commission’s preliminary report looked something like a change. I didn’t think they would ask me those questions without Hoover’s knowledge. “A third reason for my opinion was that a commission to study recent economic changes of which Mr. Hoover was a member before he became President, recently has reported, and mentioned only three effects of prohibition. “Those three were, that milk consumption had increased, sugar consumption had increased and the sale of grapes had increased. “It leads me to believe the commission had not found much success in prohibition.”* The letter listing the six members of the cabinet Stayton believed were against prohibition was written to Dr. John R. Froit of Philadelphia. Hourly Temperature 6a. m 63 10 a. m 75 7a. m 64 11 a. m 77 Ba. m 68 12 (noon).. 78 9a. m 73 Ip. m 79

HIGHER rents were i predicted by Reaume unless the nation solves its real estate taxation problem. “The home owner today is penalized for becoming a home owner,’’ was his assertion.” The old theory that renters eventually paid the real estate taxes through payment of rent is not t the today, for rising costs have made rental properties unprofitable. t be increased

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ATTEMPT TO KILL SLEEPING COUPLE WITH CHLOROFORM

Angered Neighbors Blamed for Action by City Druggist, Wife. Mr. and Mrs. Cumberland Ridlen, 2181 North Temple avenue, narrowly escaped death early today when persons who entered their home attempted to chloroform them while they slept. Police discounted robbery theories when it was learned no loot was obtained. Ridlen pointed to neighborhood differences as the cause for the drugging attempt. Ridlen, who owns a drug store at Twenty-third and Bellefontaine streets, was awakened when a folded blanket containing cotton saturated with chloroform, was thrown over his face. Another blanket was thrown over Mrs. Ridlen’s face. She, was aroused by her husband before the drug took effect, but suffered face burns. Had Overloaded Cotton Ridlen told motor policemen Otto Raash and Roy Reeves that the persons who attempted iO drug them, had overloaded the cotton, causing it to gag him, but taking no effect. He said he yelled when he awoke and heard the front door slam. Policed said traces of footprints leading from the front door of the residence were found on the terrace. A twelve-ounce bottle, containing about one ounce of chloroform, was found in the living room of the residence. The blankets were obtained from the front sleeping room of the house where Mr. and Mrs. William Miller, parents of Mrs. Ridlen, were sleeping. Negroes to Take House Miller’s trousers pockets were ransacked, but nothing was taken. Thieves did not touch Ridlen's trousers, which contained a considerable amount of money. Ridlen told police his police dog was poisoned Monday afternoon and he believed this was a step taken by the persons to insure success of their scheme. Police were told that the house in which Ridlen lives was to be sold today and occupancy of this property by various tenants, including Negroes, has created ill feeling in the community. Ridlen said he rents the property, although the impression had been given neighbors that he was the owner. STAR SPRINTER SUED Girl Claims Paddock Jilted Her; Asks SIOO,OOO. Bv United Press NEW YORK, Mjiy I.—Charles Paddock, famous sprinter, has been served with papers in a SIOO,OOO breach of promise suit filed on behalf of Miss Madeline Lubetty, who claims the former Olympic St.v failed to marry her after publicly announcing their engagement ifi Cleveland. Miss Lubetty charges that Paddock announced their engagement to reporters during the air meet last year and t£at in August she left for California to visit his parents at his request. The marriage was set for late October, 1929, but in September, Paddock left her at Pasadena, breaking off the engagement. HOOVER GOES ON AIR President to Open C. of C. . Session Tonight. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May I.—Networks of both the National and Columbia Broadcasting organizations will carry the voice of President Hoover to all corners of the nation at 8:30*. (central standard time) tonight when he addresses the opening session of the eighteenth annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of 'the United States. SEA PACT TO SENATE Early Ratification Expected by President. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. May I.—President Hoover submitted the London naval treaty to the senate today with every expectation of early ratification. The treaty reached the senate twenty-four hours after Mr. Hoover received it from Secretary of State Stimson, head of the American delegation.

tion or maintenance, or the nation must find a substitute system of taxation which spread the cost. At present real estate owners pay 90 per cent of the municipal taxes of the nation.” When you gouge holes in wall* of the home you are renting, you are increasing the cost of rent not only to others but to yourself, Reaiune warned. “A survey in Chicago last year ■sbojsed 35 000 wwmmi of

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DENIES LEAGUE SUPPORTSOLD’ Walker Attacks Statement of G. 0. P. Candidate. Charges that Citizens Republican League indorsement could be obtained for cash consideration today drew heated denials from John (Bull Moose) Walker, one of the trio of professional bondsmen guiding the destinies of the so-called “reform organization." Walker attacked the veracity of a statement of Harry Rodman, candidate for the Republican nomination for legislature and former attorney for D. C. Stephenson. Rodman’s statement declared he was party to a conversation in the New Marion Club when Walker, Rodman said, asserted: “Before any candidate will be slated he will have to decorate the mahogany with cold cash.” “Rodman's statement is untrue from start to finish,” was Walker’s assertion. From Dr. Claude H. Hadden, Republican candidate for coroner. The Times Wednesday obtained a statement alleging that Joe Foppiano another of the bondsmen trio and seventh ward chairman for the league, told Hadden that it would cost Hadden S3OO, or 10 per cent of the first year’s salary, to be slated by the league. Samuel Joseph, Indiana representative of Art Specialty League, denied he had been present when Walker made the statements Rodman attributed to him. Joseph insisted he has had no interest in the bond business. MODEL PLANE EVENT ARRANGED BY CLUB Optimists to Sponsor Competition for Boy Aviation Fans. Plans for a competitive model airplane flight for boys are being made by the Indianapolis Optimists Club, and will take place in the near future, Carl W. Steeg, president, said today. Steeg and the following officers were installed recently: Cy Goodfng and Everett Irish, vice-presidents, and Ed Manough, treasurer. Many Indianapolis club members will attend a national convention of Optimists clubs May 9 and 10 at West Baden. LINDY ON SCHEDULE Lands in Nicaragua With Mail From Panama. Bu United Press MIAMI, May I.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, flying north-bound mail from Panama, landed at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, on schedule at noon, he advised the Pan-American Airways here by radio. HENDERSON IS INDORSED Favored by Third Ward Republican Club for Prosecutor. Laurens L. Henderson was indorsed for prosecutor by the Third Ward Republican Club Wednesday night at the meeting at Twentyfirst street and Central avenue. The indorsement was voted unanimously after Henderson declared that he entered the campaign neither representing, intending U> represent or being influenced by any person, faction or clique. MISS HUGHES TO WED Daughter of Chief Justice Engaged to Marry New York Man. Bu United Press NEW YORK, May I.—Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the United States supreme court and Mrs. Hughes have announced the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Evans, to William Thomas Gossett of New York, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Gossett of Salt Lake City.

more than 1,000,000 persons, or one-third of the city’s population. m m m “T? VERY one of those removals S-j meant sr large economic loss “First of all the moving tenants left apartments or houses dirty and in need of repairs and moved into new places where landlords had spent from SSO to S2OO in preparing and cleaning the places. In many cases, the tenants owed rents when they moved, and this* igr, erfr • rmiljons of

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SPENT FORTUNE FOR ILLINOIS SENATEVOTES Mrs. Ruth McCormick Lists Personal Expenses at $252,572. DENEEN’S COSTS $24,493 Daughter of Mark Hanna Defends Expenditures During Campaign. Pit U nited Prc** WASHINGTON, May I.—A quar* ter of a million doilars of her own money was spent by Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick to win the recent Illinois Republican senatorial nomination over Senator Charles Deneen. according to her testimony today at the opening of the senate primary campaign investigation. Deneen spent slightly less than $25,000. Mrs. McCormick’s total listed personal campaign expenses since July 1. 1929. amounted to $252,572 while those from the date she filed for the nomination totaled $233,971. Deneen listed his from the date of filing and said they amounted to $24,493. • Members of the committee declined to comment upon Mrs. Cormick’s expenses, although it was recalled the senate passed a resolution of censure upon former Senator Truman H. Newberry (Mich.) for spending $195,000 in his primary campaign, although it seated him. Few Contributions The first prominent woman senatorial nominee said she used her own money almost entirely, receiving only a few contributions from relatives. She insisted she did not know how much her expenses had been because there is no law stating when a campaign begins. She urged the committee to recommend such a law. Therefore., she divided-the amount Therefore, she divided the amount advanced by Deneen she spent $233,971, while he spent $24,493. These merely are personal organization expenses which will be enlarged later when the committee ascertains expenditures made by the various independent groups which were working for each candidate. Among Mrs. McCormick's largest expenditures was $26,556 for printing; $107,518 for the county budgets for all counties outside Chicago, the largest county expenditure being SIO,OOO in Sangamon; $19,856 for field workers; $12,432 for postage; $11,401 for advertising and $8,090 for the Negro department. Take Up Pennsylvania After hearing Mrs. McCormick and Deneen the committee adjourned until next week when it is expected to go into the Pennsylvania situation. “In my campaign I had to make an appeal to approximately 3,000,000 voters scattered in 102 Illinois counties,’’ Mrs. McCormick said. “I was running independently of factions, but I had serious machine opposition in all of tnose counties.” She said she perfected a personal organization of her own, with a labor committee, a woman’s organization, a foreign language citizens’ committee and others. She said it was necessary to circulate printed material, carry on extensive correspondence by direct mail, hold meetings in all parts of the state and make a systematic campaign by radio. Mailing Expensive “One of the issues in the campaign involved an intricate problem in our foreign relations, which made the task of informing the voters of my attitude on the question a most difficult one,” Mrs. McCormick continued. “The mailing of one letter each to all the voters of Illinois would cost approximately $120,000. “The present investigation undoubted!’ will be useful in directing attention toward the whole subject of primary election methods and the lack of proper legislation. “The public is aware, of course, that a candidate either may pay . campaign expenses out of his own pocket or may collect money from individuals, groups or organizations for campaign purposes. “In the latter case he places himself under obligations which may f }ider his freedom of action in the public service, in the event of his election.” COMEDY STAR WEDDED Marion Crosby Marries Rich New England Paper Manufacturer. Bv L'nittd Frcas PASADENA, Cal., May I.—Miss Marion Crosby, musical comedy star, was sailing off the west coast of Mexico today with her husband, Otis Angier, wealthy paper manufacturer, to whom she was married Wednesday night. The couple left on their shipboard bridal trip immediately after the ceremony, which was a quiet affair. Mrs. Angier was a featured player in "Hit the Deck.” She met her husband several years ago in New England, where his family has operated paper mills for more than 100 years. 1 Boy’s Leg Is Fractured Frances Layman, 14, son of Mrs. Esther Trefe, 1731 Dawson street, suffered a fractured leg and Robert Britton, 14, of 121 South Bolton avenue, was injured slightly when a bicycle ridden by the two boys ran into an automobile driven by Donald Burress, 20, of 1627 Hoyt avenue, tt, itirgjnli • venues

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