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COFFIN RULE AGAIN CHIEF VOTING ISSUE Boss Seeks to Tighten Grip on Key Jobs of County Administration. HOLDS FAT PATRONAGE Control of Judge, Sheriff and Commission Aim of Dictator. BY BEN STERN Fifteen days from today Marion county voters will go to the polls and their action will determine whether this county moves xorward aiqng every line of human endeavor or “is sold short." During the next few weeks, Republican speakers, using such phrases as “support the President," and “Republican as usual,” will attempt to win public support to a county ticket which the best element of the party tried to discard in the primary. Democrats are contenting themselves with the simple phrase, “Oust Coffinism.” “Coffinism” is the paramount Issue. a survey of the situation reveals. Coffin Is Blamed There really is a George V. Coffin, he is not a myth—and a great army of irate voters say he is responsible for the shame of the state and Marion county for the past decade. Although his name does not grace the organization stationery as county chairman, it is he who is consulted before a man is appointed chairman, election judge, or election clerk. To perpetuate his power Coffin must hold in his hands the administration of justice in this county; control of the money spending units; and have a say-so over the probate court, in which many a lucrative receivership is handed out. None who watched the frantic search to obtain a candidate for the judge of criminal court who would be amenable to dictation from Coffin will forget the sigh of relief which went up from the boys’’ when Walter O. Pritchard consented to enter the field against James A. Collins, veteran jurist and worn enemy of Coffinism. Pritchard Put Over “Collins just couldn't be handled." was the wail on all sides and then came the spreading of the gospel of Pritchard, and he was nominated despite the efforts of the Citizens Republican League and other groups of Republicans who wanted to oust “the bc^s.” Next in the list of key posts comes the sheriff's office, an integral part of the law enforcement machinery of the county. All arrests for liquor law violations are made by the sheriff and his deputies. George Winkler, former Coffin Eleventh ward chairman, has been p. strong henchman of Coffin since the day he entered politics, it is charged. When, just before the supreme court declared the city manager law unconstitutional, it was deemed best to file a city ticket as a safeguard Coffin named Winkler as his candidate for mayor, only to cast him aside when a roar of protest went up. Patronage Is Juicy Winkler still has the mayoralty bug and expects Coffin to put him over, his friends aver. The sheriff is in charge of the juiciest patronage in the county. Most of the precinct committeemen want jobs as deputy sheriffs, and will go to almost any length to obtain appointment. By controlling the criminal court mid the sheriff’s office. Coffin, it is pointed out. can give his followers indulgences for ajts which might be construed as against the law “by the narrow-minded." Coffin workers vociferously declare the two “are cinches to win" and this opens up an avenue of thought leading to the last grand lury report, which charged that the May primary was “the scene of astounding corruption and fraud.” Political organizations are fed upon patronage and money. The latter sinew of power is under control of the county commissioners and the two men who are candidates for re-election on the Coffin ticket jare John E. Shearer and Charles O. Sutton. Spend Large Sums Increased tax assessments come only as a result of increased expenditures and Shearer and Sutton are in charge of the spending of millions annually. They award all county contracts for building, and directly supervise hiring of help. excepW in offices of elected officials. Receiverships are the bits of patronage with which Coffin henchmen holding higher social standing are rewarded. Some of the largest receiverships are declared and awarded in the probate court, over which for many years Mahlon Bash has presided. Acts of this jurist have been the subject of censure. Students of politics in the state toin in declaring that if Coffin wins control of the county Nov 4. he soon will be the dominating influence in the Republican state committee, as he when in partnership with D, C. Stephenson and before he pleaded the statute of limitations to keep from paying the penalty for attempting to bribe a Governor. Fire Causes $25,000 Loss TUNNELTON. Ind., Oct. 20. Damage estimated at $25,000 was caused by fire which for a time threatened this entire village of 300 persona' Saturday afternoon.

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Lewis Stone Is on Honeymoon Bu United Press YUMA, Ariz.. Oct. 20. Lewis Stone, motion picture charac- . . ter actor, # and Hazel ,* v '> Wood were on a honey- w; ' Wy mon in the jr ' . Grand Can- J * yon today §|^ ; after a quiet ‘ bride, wh o *r S-j-Hollywood, Lewis Stone were attended by Fred Falick, film director, and Mrs. Falick.

STORE LICENSES -IN HIGH COURT Supreme Tribunal to Rule on State Law. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—Tire supreme court today decided to pass on the legality of the Indiana law' of 1929 requiring the licensing of all stores. Tire law was questioned by Lafayette A. Jackson, operator of Standard groceries in Indianapolis. The 1929 store licensing measure, held unconstitutional in federal court here, would impose a license of S3 annually upon each store singly operated: $5 upon each store iir chains of not more than five; sls each upon each store in chaiins of not more than ten; S2O upon each .store in chains of not more than tw'enty, and $25 upon each in chains of more than twenty stores, under joint ownership of management. The measure was the principal general fund revenue raising act of the 1929 general assembly. DETROIT GIRL SHOT BY REJECTED SUITOR Assailant Held by Police Blames Breaking of Engagement. Bn Ignited Press DETROIT. Oct. 20.—Breaking into the home of Miss Stella Rogleff. 20. at Highland park early today, Peter Dakoff. 28, a rejected suitor, shot the girl four times. She is reported dying. Dakoff was captured in the girl’s room by the crew cf a radioequipped police scout car. He still had the pistol in his hand when arrested. Dakoff told police he shot Miss Rogleff because she broke their engagement last July when she learned he gambled. COUNTY LETS CONTRACT Service Firm's Bid Accepted for Hauling Voting Machines. Service Transfer and Storage Company was awarded contract today by Marion county commissioners to place 331 voting machines at polls for the fall election. The successful bid was $1,674, low bid. and is $560 under a high bid submitted by P. J. Glenn.

WARNING OF STATE MINE RIOTING CALLED ‘BUNK’

“All bunk." is the answer Sullivan county authorities made today to charges that a mob of union miners is gathering at the shafts of nonunion mines near Sullivan and that there is danger of rioting. Two Indianapolis coal agents, who “didn’t want their names used,” came to the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie today to tell him of the alleged situation and urge state protection. They informed the Governor that five hundred union miners had gathered at the Fahletta mine shaft and tried to persuade fifty men working here on a so-called “co-oper-at-lvT basis to quit work.

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Hu United Press MADRID, Oct. 20.—Don Valeriano Weylery Nicolau, 92, cap-tain-general of the Spanish army, Duke of Rubi and grandee of Spain, died today. He had been in precarious health for months. General Weyler’s death ended an adventureous career in many campaigns in Spain, her colonies and Cuba. Weyler was bom on Sept. 17, 1338, and until 1929 he was seen taking his daily canter on horseback in Madrid. Weyer was known as a “man of iron.” He often was called upon to solve some difficult situation and he adopted harsh measures. He best was known in the United States for his severe regime in Cuba, where he was sent as commander of the Spanish forces before the war with the United States. During the war excitement he was known as Butcher Weyler.

Ground Glass, in Body of Girl, 10, Also Causes Father’s Illness. B DENVER, CS Oct. 20.—City chemists announced today that the illness of detective Leo O’Loughlin was due to ground glass. The same substance that had been fed his slain daughter Leona, 10, whose body, skull crushed, was found in Berkeley Park lake. The discovery caused renewed questioning of Mrs. Pearl O’Loughlin, 31, O’Loughlin’s second wife, detained in connection with the murder. “I didn’t do it. I didn’t do it,” she reiterated. “I don’t know where they got the ground glass.” Kitchen utensils and dishes from the O’Loughlin home were taken to the laboratory of city chemists for a microscopic examination. Son Was Not Affected The glass, it was believed, was sprinkled over the meal O’Loughlin and his daughter ate last Tuesday, the evening she disappeared. _ Mrs. O’Loughlin also became ill after the meal, she told authorities. Her son by a former marriage, Douglas Milligan, 8. was nota affected, however. Police wanted to know, they said, why Mrs. O’Laughlin used the family automobile twice on the night of the disappearance of her stepdaughter, why there was a bloody towel in the automobile, and why shreds of Leona’s green tam cliftig to a bloody tire iron fofcnd in the car. Says Son Used Towel Mrs. O’Loughlin said her son had vised the towel when his nose bled while he was on his way "to school last week. She said she used the family machine to visit her hairdresser on the night of Leona’s disappearance. The hairdresser, Mrs. Ethel Sparr, lives near the region where the body was found. Mrs. O’Loughlin was married to Leona's father, a city detective, two years ago Several months after their marriage she filed suit for divorce, but her attorney reported they later had mended their troubles and the suit was withdrawn. ATTORNEY NEW HEAD Ermston Chief of Business Men’s Association. Jaines D. Ermston, attorney, 1024 Lemtke building, today was named president of the Indiana Business Men's Association, Inc., succeeding Thomas C. Whallon, former city judge, who resigned after the organization was the target for two probes. Selection of Ermston was announced by Edwin C. Boswell, attorney, who is vice-president and general counsel. Boswell said the association has been “rehabilitated.” Activities of the association were probed by the Indiana State Bar Association, and the Better Business Bureau after, it is alleged, prospective members were promised protection in courts and were told of the association’s ability to “fix” court cases. COPST GUARD CITY~HALL New York Police Force, 110 Strong, Lines Up Against Communists. Bu United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 20.-A guard of 110 police was placed in and about City hall today as a precautionary measure in the event Communists decide to present a petition for unemployment relief to Mayor James J. Walker.

Two hundred more had gathered at the Hoosier shaft of the Black Diamond Coal Company near Cass, they said. But H. H. Harvey, deputy sheriff of Sullivan county, who is in charge of .the sheriff's office during the absence of Sheriff Wesley Williams, told The Times over the phone that there is absolutely no danger |)f rioting and that these contentions are “all bunk.” “The United Mine Workers of America are engaged here in peaceful picketing.” he said. “They are trying to get these men to stop working andmaintain a union wage scale."

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1930

NATION’S MAIL CHIEF TO OPEN NEW AIR LINE ______ • Postmaster-General Will .Stop Here Saturday on Hop to Coast. AIDS ALSO ARE COMING Dictaphone Greetings From Sullivan, Leslie to Be Sent on West. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown and government air and mail heads will fly from coast to epast with the first Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. plane, touching at Indianapolis, Saturday. With him on the ship that opens the new thirty-six hour transcontinental service will be: Clarence M. Young, assistant secretary of commerce for aeronautics; W. Irving Glover, assistant postmaster general and E. B. Wadsworth, superintendent of air mail. The plane will land at Municipal airport here at 2:30 p. m., according at R. S. Bridges, TAT-Maddux representative here. It is expected Mars Hill will be used after Saturday until the municipal site is completed. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson received a cachet from Washington this morning which will be used on all Indianapolis mail sent out on the first run due here at 2:30 p. m. Saturday. A picture of a plane flying above the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument is on the cachet. Business firms and citizens are being urged to prepare letters for first plane, and already 10,000 pieces of local mail are ready. Possibility that Mayor Reginald Sullivan and the city council would greet the first plane from the air was announced. Dictaphone records of greetings from Governor Harry G. Leslie and Mayor Sullivan will be carried on the first flight to Governor C. C, Young of California and Mayor John Porter, Los Angeles. PROMINENT VIRGINIANS HURT IN COACH SPILL Old-Time Tallyho Party Comes to Grief; Horses Run Off. Bii United Press WARRENTON, Va„ Oct. 20.—Six socially prominent Virginians were recovering today from injuries received when the old-time tallyho in which they were riding overturned. Mrs. Robert C. Winmill, noted horse fancier, was driving the four-in-hand coach when the horses became frightened and ran away, dragging the coach on its side for several hundred yards and throwing out its occupants. A townsman finally stopped the four animals.

CONDEMNED MAN CHEATS CHAIR BY SETTING OFF CRUDE CELL-MADE BOMB

Gets Cellulose From Torn Playing Cards; Stuffs It in Cot Tubing. V i Bu United Press SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Oct. 20. William Kogut’s scheme to avoid the disgrace of death on the gallows succeeded when the 26-year-old condemned slayer died of injuries from a crude cell-made bomb in prison hospits.l today. In a spectacular attempt to commit suicide, Kogut set off a homemade bomb in his cell in condemned row. The explosion mangled him badly and created a panic among the other prisoners. Eight of his companions awaiting execution were hurled from their bunks to the floor while the prison buildings were rocked by force of the blast. The prisoner ripped the tubing from his iron cot, filled the hollow space with water and torn playing cards and plugged both ends. He then placed the makeshift bomb over his oil heater, rested his head against the pipe, and awaited the blast. Warden James B. Holohan said the explosion was the result of the cellulose on the cards melting and forming a kind of “soup,” like that used in safecracking. Kogut was sentenced to die Aug. ; 22 for the murder of Mayne Guthi rie. lodging house keeper, but ap- , pealed his case and was granted a | stay of execution. DIAMOND IS IMPROVING Gangster to Seek Release From Hospital. Bu Times Special NEW YORK, Oct. 20. Jack (Legs) Diamond, racketeer, plans to seek release from Metropolitan hospital, where he was moved Saturday, so that he can convalesce from his bullet wounds at his country estate at Acra, N. Y., or at a private institution, it was reported today. Police were prepared to fight this move by arresting Diamond and holding him as a material witness in his own shooting, it was stoodThe wounded gangster continues to improve. Aged Man Dies Bu Times Special ARCADIA, Ind., Oct. 20.—Henry Boyer, 64, is dead, at his home near here. He leaves his widow and two daughters, Mrs. Safijth Smeltzer and Mrs. Mary Gant#

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Bu United Press COYTESVILLE, N. J„ Oct. 20. Bernt Balchen, pilot for Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his flights over the south pole and the Atlantic, was married Saturday to Miss Emmy Soerlie of Brooklyn, N. Y., it was learned today.

POLL INSPECTOR IS INDICTED ON FRAUD CHARGE

E. W. Hoover, G. Q* P. Official, Is Named by Jury in Vote Marking Case. E. W. Hoover, Republican poll inspector in the Ninth precinct of the Fourth ward in the primary election, was indicted today by the Marion county grand jury on a charge of unlawfully marking ballots. Hoover, during the primary, was supervisor at the poll where John L. Bienz, G. O. P. Coffin henchman, marked ballots to elect himself. Bienz was convicted of the offense last week by a criminal court jury, and will be sentenced Nov. 1 tg serve five to ten years at the state prison. Hoover is charged in the indictment with conspiracy with Bienz to commit a felony. During Bienz’ trial, Hoover was assisting defense attorney, and took the witness stand in Bienz’ behalf. Prosecutor Judson L. Stark told the jury which tried Bienz that Hoover illegally possessed a ’blue pencil during the tabulation of primary votes. He will be arraigned Nov. 3 before Judge James A. Collins. Grand jurors also returned indictments against nineteen other persons in sixteen bills filed with Collins this morning. Charges ranged from petit offenses to felonies. Thirteen accused were discharged by the grand jury.

ROOSEVELT’S NEPHEW LIKELY POLICE HEAD Detroit Mayor Virtually Decided on Appointment, Says Paper. Bu United Press DETROIT, Oct. 20.—Mayor Frank Murphy “virtually has decided upon” G. Hall Roosevelt, a nephew of Theodore Roosevelt and a fourth cousin of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, for appointment as police commissioner, the Detroit News said today. The announcement probably wall be made in a few days, according to the News. t Roosevelt, a banker, is chairman of the mayor's unemployment committee. ' CALLS JOBS PARLEY Lamont Sets Meeting Date for Hoover Cabinet,, Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—The committee of six cabinet officers appointed by President Hoover to formulate plans for stimulating business and relieving unemployment this winter will hold its first meeting Tuesday, Secretary of Commerce Lamont announced today. The meeting probably will be held in the cabinet room of the White House, Lainont said. The commerce secretary will act as chairman of the cabinet group which is to work with Governor Eugene J. Meyer Jr. of the federal reserve board. PERSHING COMPLETES BOOK ON WORLD WAR A. E. F. Commander’s Memoirs to Be Serialized by Newspapers. Br l niteil Press NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—General John J. Pershing, after a year and a half of work, has completed his story of America’s participation in the World war. The memoirs of the commander of American forces in France cornprice 260,000 words, a vigorous straight-forward account of the A. E. F. from the day its first units landed abroad until it turned the tide of the war in favor of the allies and forced Germany to seek the armistice. The memoirs will be serialized in newspapers begining Jan. 1 before being published in book form.

CITY WORKERS HIKE GIFTS TO CHARITY FUND # * $150,000 Expected to Be Placed on Ledger at Report Meeting. INCREASES ARE CITED Contributions of Factory, Business Employes Boost Total. Workers today reported $lB,575.93 had been subscribed from a total of 8,197 subscriptions. This is 20.9 per cent of the fund goal. Charity's counting house —the Community Fund—was expected to place $150,000 on its ledger at noon today when a report meeting of fund drive workers was scheduled in the Claypool. Encouraged by the preliminary report, drive leaders are aiming to keep up the strike hit in the first two days of the drive. The fund seeks to raise $865,000 by Oct. 27. Increase in gifts of workers in factories and business firms of the city over 1929 was responsible for the estimated subscriptions totaled at today’s meeting. “It is extremely encouraging to know that men arid women working in shops and factories are accepting the responsibility and are conscious of the need this winter to prevent city bread lines,’’ declared | Arthur V. Brown, campaign chairi man. Increases Are Cited Brown cited the following i- - subscriptions over 1929: Fred Millis, president of the Millis Advertising Company, subscribed SIO,OOO and gave $4,000 in 1929. The Real Silk Hosiery Mills increased its pledge, from $15,000 to $20,000, and the company’s employes raised their contribution from $2,843.50 last year, to $24,000 tips year. Sixty.-four employes of the Furnas Ice Cream Company gave $256.70 against SIOO in 1829. Employes of the Polk Milk Company reported 100 per cent subscription to the drive with a total of $1,563. The Eli Lilly Company workmen doubled their subscriptions with $6,584 for 1930. Other firms in which workers increased gifts were: Polar Ice Company, Prest-O-Lite Company, Burnet Binford Lumber Company, Continental Baking Company and Adams-Rogers Company. Drive Workers to Meet “The campaign presents an unusual opportunity for the display c.' peace-time patriotism to all persons employed and to those of substantial means,” asserted Bi-own. “Indianapolis never has failed in time of emergency and it can not fail now,” he declared. V Noon report meetings of drive workers will be held daily this week in the Claypool with the exception of Saturday. The last report meet- j ing will be Monday, Oct. 27. “Community Fund Sunday" was : observed in city churches yesterday.! Pastors urged their members to give ; liberally to the drive. GAMBLER BELIEVED RACKET WAR VICTIM Fatal Wound> Result of Battle at Resort, Police Suspect Bp United Press PEORIA, 111., Oct. 20.—Authorities believed today that Charles Phather, wealthy gambler whose body was found near Edwardsville, 111., was another victim of the ; racketeering war which has taken three lives in the last few months, j Phather had died from bullet, wounds which, it was believed, may | have been inflicted by Clyde Garrison, Peoria gambling resort proprietor, who was-wounded in a gun battle against rival racketeers Friday night. Mrs. Garrison was killed when the gangsters opened fire with a machine gun on her and her husband. WELLS WARNS OF WAR Another Conflict Is Imminent, 1 Famous Historian Declares. Bti United Press LONDON. Oct. 20.—The world is not yet through with war and another conflict may be imminent, H.; G. Wells, writer and historian, said in an address to a conference organized by the National Council for Prevention of War, Saturday night, j “I think an outbreak of war in the near east or nearer is quite pos- j sible in a few years' time,” he said.

LOSEY QUITS AS STATE COP; GUN IN DEATH CASE

Another mystery, with rumor of scandal, developed today in the office of Secretary of Ctate Otto G. Fifield. Upon direct questioning, Chief Robert L. Humes of the state police revealed that Carl Losey, his most active officer, secretly resigned Oct. 15. Report that Losey was to resign had been current for months, but stoutly denied by both Fifield and Humes. Fifield admitted Losey had purchased a gun later found on George Washington, a Negro charged with killing a Negro preacher at Scottsburg. However, the secretary of state denied the gun had anything to do with the report Losey was to resign and said that he wanted to keep

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Bu Times Special SEATTLE. Oct. 20.—Edith Ransom, temperamental actress who enacted tbs part of Tondeleyo, siren oi the tropics, in the stage play, “White Cargo,” today was held in Seattle jail for her stowing away on a Pacific liner. Miss Ransom decided to see the Orient and went to Honolulu. Left with but $2 in her purse she stowed away on the Matson liner Malolo, bound to Japan. She boarded the vessel while it was in port, locked herself In a room and took a nap. She was not discovered until after the ship was far at sea. She was returned here on the liner President Taft and was ordered removed to the women’s section of the jail for observation.

GUT RADIO CONFLICT Simultaneous Broadcasting Is Perfected. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Experiments in synchronization of radio stations have demonstrated definitely that it now is possible to operate two or more radio stations on the same wave length ’ ithout distortion. M. H. Ayleswoi"... president of the National r.oadcasting Company, told the federal radio commission today. Aylesworth outlined before the commission results of experiments along this line which he said “is now out of the laboratory.” HOOVER IS SILENT ON CRITICISM BY AUTHOR President’s Career Related in Book Entitled “The Great Mistake.” Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—A book concerning President Hoover’s business career entitled “The Great Mistake,” was released for publication tonight by the National Foundation Press. Inc. The author was given as John Knox, which was said by the publishers to be a pen name. The, book purports to relate records covering Mr. Hoover’s business career abroad and largely is a repetition of material circulated during the presidential campaign. Comment was withheld at the White House. AGED WOMAN TRIES TO ROB BANK; NABBED Bottle of ‘Nitroglycerin’ Turns Out to Be Only Sweet Milk. Bu United Press FT. WORTH, Tex., Oct. 20.—A gray-haired woman, about 60, walked into the Union Bank and Trust Company here today, held up a bottle of "nitroglycerin” and j threatened to blow up the bank if j she didn't get $3,000. She was seized and held by Po- j liceman H. G. Dollar, and Dan Lydick. bank president. The bottle contained sweet milk.!

Losey and would give him a salary increase if it were possible under the budget. Humes said today Losey resigned to accept an investigator’s position in Chicago. He knew no details cf the new position, he said. ' Losey’s last big case with the department was the capture of Theodore GeLsking, Indianapolis hijacker, who was alleged to be connected with the Lingie murder case in Chicago, but proved an alibi. Humes denied Losey had been asked to resign. He did ask the resignation last week of Clifford Bradley, newly appointed state policeman at Richmond. It vast disclosed that Bradley was on probation son contributing to delinquency of aTninor girl.

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COLD WAVE TO CONTINUE FOR 2 MORE DAYS Mercury Sinks to 25 Early Today: All-Time Early October Low. STATE FROST IS HEAVY; No Serious Crop Losses* Roof Fires in City Keep Department Busy. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 26 10 a. m 32 6:30 a. m.. 25 11 a. m 34 7a. m 27 12 (noon).. 35 Ba. m 29 Ip. m 37 9 a. m 32 Sinking to 25 degrees at 6:30 this* morning the weather man’s mercury set an all-time low record for tha first twenty days in October in Indianapolis. In southern Indiana! and Ohio records also were established. The cold wave which came to Indianapolis Friday after a week of high temperatures, will linger at least two more days, according to J. H. Armington. senior meteorologist at the United States weather bureau here. Temperatures will recede to afc least 26 degrees again tonight, and may break the new low mark established this morning. Laying a heavy frost over all of Indiana Sunday night, the cold snap destroyed all growing crops, but loss of these will not inflict serious losses. A late tomato season was ended by the cold. Hundreds of Frozen Radiators i Traffic in the city and suburban territory was impeded this morning by balky motors, and hundreds of motorists were forced to abandon their nutos because of froz. n radiators and oil lines. Caught unawares many were unable to obtain anti-freezing solutions for radiators from filling stations and garages which had as yet failed to stock winter supplies. The cold wave also brougfrt its toll of fires as flues, unusued tor several months, spouted sparks that ignited more than thirty roofs. Many Roof Fires In all, thirty-eight fire alarm* were answered over the week-end, and losses, from $4,000 to a few' dollars were incurred in twenty-eight fires. None of the blazes was serious, and no one was injured. The home of Charles Keenan, Stop 8, Madison avenue road, was destroyed with a loss of $4,000 Saturday. Damage of SI,OOO was done to a rooming house operated by Mrs. Leslie Davis, 346 North West street, Sunday. While no Indiana government weather stations reported snow Saturday or Sunday, light flurries are said to have fallen in extreme northern districts, and in southern Michigan. Fair Weather Forecast With fair weather forecast for the next two days, likelihood of snow here was small, Armington said today. Temperatures lower than the lowest today have been recorded later in the, month in preceding years, but the coldest weather up to Oct. 20, previously was in 1906, w'hen 26 degrees w'ere registered Oct. 11. Normal for this morning was 42degrees, rising to about 53 degree* in the afternoon. The cold wave spread over Canada and the northern United States, in which many localities two months ago were suffering from heat and drought. Motorists Arc Stranded The blizzard that gripped western Canada last weak had subsided today, but its snow and low temperatures still remained. The high winds, with snow, had moved eastward, to western New York, where it struck fiercely along the Lake Erie and Lake Ontario shores. Hundreds of motorists waited in crowded hotels, farm houses, jails and fire stations in the vicinity of Buffalo, for their autos to be freed from deep snowdrifts in which they were caught Saturday and Sunday, The lake shore region for more than fifty rules was bound up m drifts from four inches to five feed in depth. MRS. SCRIPPS’ PLEA IS DENIED BY HIGH COURT Review of Action for Share in Profits Is Turned Down. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.-The supreme court today denied Josephine S. Scripps, wtflbw of James G. Scripps, a review of her action for % share of the increase in profits from the newspaper publishing business of the late Edward W. Scripps, during the time they were managed by her husband. James Scripps managede the properties from 1908 until shortly before his death in 1921. There was only a verbal agreement as to the division of the profits between father and son. Lower courts ruled this was not a binding contract and dismissed ler plea. The sum involved is estimated at more than $8,000,000. Postoffice Quiz to Open Soon * Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 —The special senate committee appointed to Investigate postofficc leases ha* tentatively decided to open its inquiry at Chicago, Nov. 6, it was Mtnounced today.