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WAR COMING, ITALY WARNED BY MUSSOLINI World-Wide Moral Fight on Facism Is Urged, Premier Says. THREAT ON FRONTIERS Admits Peninsula Is Big Armed Camp 'Marching to Greater Tomorrow.’ BY HOWARD STORRER United Tress Staff Correspondent ROME, Oct. 27.—Premier Benito Mussolini summoned Italy today to meet “a world-wide moral war’ against Fascism. "A state of moral war against Fascism already exists,” the premier told Fascist executives assembled In Venice palace. “Is this not a preparation for a military war? Preparations for a material war are being hurried on our frontiers.” The premier, with customary vigor and direct speech, struck the keynote for the anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome by declaring the scope, of the battle had become universal. Fight Decadent World "We fight a decadent world,” he said, predicting a future Europe inspired by Fascist doctrines and a future Italy gaining steadily in youthful spirit. "Italy's vanguard of tomorrow already is ready. "The caluminating inventions against Fascism are war weapons,” said Mussolini. ‘‘Soon it will be said we have cut off the hands of babies, as it was said of the Germans in 1914—although there W'as no trace of those babies. “Anything to increase hatred of Fascist Italy—a hatred which is preached to millions and millions of individuals. It is the counter revolutionary hatred of the reactionary.” Alarm Sounded to Italy Holding up a pamphlet, the premier shouted: "Here are noted, day by day, the military preparations of the years 1927-28-29-30 against Italy before my speeches at Florence and Milan,” after which the premier was accused of • sword-ratting.” "Here is a list of batteries and armaments prepared. Could I delay sounding the alarm to the Italian people? “Naturally, those whose masks were torn off sought to represent Italy as the only danger to Europe’s peace—the only wolf nation among a herd of pacific sheep. "Recently a foreign waiter, after seeing one of our air squadrons," said Mussolini, “described Fascist Italy as follows: Immense Military Camp “ ‘Today the peninsula is an immense camp in which millions of men are lining up silently on land, sea and in the sky; in schools, stadia and churches for a great sacrifice of life for regeneration of their race —for a great battle which may occur tomorrow or never. One hears the muffled noise of immense marchinglegions.’ “Exactly! Fascist Italy is an immense legion, marching toward a greater tomorrow. Nobody can stop her. “In 1P32, fifty battalions of Black Shirts will meet here with 50,000 young fascists and 9,000 flags. Rome will see the greatest armed assembly in 3,000 years of its history. Defends Fascist Regime “This \z a message for the year, starting Tuesday as the ninth oi the fascist era.' Mussolini defended the fascist regime which he founded with his famous “march on Rome"—a maneuver which the German fascist party recently has been credited with desiring to re-enact against Berlin. “In 1950, Europe will be wrinkled and decrepit.” the Fascist leader said. “Only Italy will be a young country then.” Hourly Temperatures <5 a. m 50 10 a. m 52 7a. m 51 11 a. m 52 Ba. m 54 12 (noon).. 52 9a. m 53 Ip. m 53

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Black Night Bu T’nited Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 27. —Death has closed the eyes of the Russell Judd family. Mr. and Mrs. Judd are blind. They were happy, however—seeing the w r orld through the eyes of their only child, 3-year-old Russell Jr. Russell Jr. went to the hospital to have his tonsils removed. He died on the operating table. Only darkness remains in the Judd home.

COUNTER REBEL UPRISING STIRS BRAZIL CAPITAL 1 New Government Acts to j Quell Uprising of Revolutionists. BY C. A. POWELL United Tress Staff Correspondent RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 27. Disturbances broke out in the capital today when a military group attempted a counter-revolution against the provisional government which overthrew the Washington Luis regime last week. The movement was led by the First cavalry regiment, the Sixth infantry and military police, it was reported. The military junta which controls the temporary government took rigorous steps to quell the revolt. Colonel Bandeira De Mello was taken prisoner. Great confusion prevailed in the capital. Banks and stores closed and shuttered their windows. Thousands forsook their normal activities and hastened to homes for safety. Aims of the Brazilian revolution were attained earlier in the day when Dr. Getilio Vargas was asked to become president of the nation. General Juarez Tavora, leaders of the rebels in the north said. General Tavora was notified that Dr. Vargas had accepted the invitation. The rebel leader expressed the belief that the new government would be dictatorial during the first few months of its existence as dictatorial measures would be necessary to restore order to the country, j Germans Quell Indignation BERLIN,. qf-lj, 27 Gexgaftu government obviously was trying today to quell popular indignation arising from bombardment of the German steamship Baden at Rio De Janeiro, with twenty-seven killed. The fact the German cruiser Karlsruhe was not ordered to continued from Behia to Rio De Janeiro, was held to mean the government was anxious to continue friendly relations with Brazil. ROBBERIES SOLVED Two Negroes’ Confessions Reveal $4,000 Loot. Ten house and church robberies were cleared up today as Detectives Claude White and George Sneed obtained confessions from two Negroes and recovered loot with estimated value of $4,000. Jesse Pope, 20, Negro, 845 West Michigan street, and James Stewart. 23, Negro, 724 North Missouri streets, are held to Marion county grand jury, under $5,000 bonds each, on burglary and grand larceny charges. Taken from nine homes on the I fashionable north side, the loot, reI covered from fences and private inI riividuals to whom it had been dis- ! posed by Pope and Stewart, ranged from silverware, clothing and jewelry to household articles. GROCERY MANAGER IS BOUND BY BANDITS Victim of Holdup Men Hobbles to Sidewalk After Raid. Bound with clothes line from his | shoulder to his feet, R. H. Flannery, i 27, of 1015 Olney street, today I hobbled to the sidewalk in front of the Standard grocery, 3427 East Tenth street, of which he is manager, to inform passersby he had been robbed. Two men, he said, entered the ! grocery and forced him at gun’s j point into the back room, where they trussed him up and made off with S2O from the cash register. Flannery managed to loosen the bonds | around his ankles sufficiently to permit him to hobble to the sidewalk. Chuch “Bombed” by “Firecracker” Bu I'nitcd Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27.—A black powder “bomb,'’ which was more a firecracker in manufacture, force and effect, was exploded under the j windows of the Rev. Robert P. ! Shuler's church Sunday.

DRIVE ON BOWERY SPEAKEASIES PERILS ‘HOMES’ OF THOUSANDS

BY H. ALLEN SMITH l aitei Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—The flophouse-speakeasies of the Bowery were open fer business as usual today, but the derelicts who haunt the dark street of perennial business depression were greatly perturbed by the threat of a federal padlock drive against their "homes.” Twenty of the “smoke joints” were raided Sunday and it was made quite clear that nuisance charges will be filed, with a view to invoking padlock action. The Bowery speakeasy is a unique institution. Thousands of

SLASH WORLD NAVIES MORE, HOOVER PLEA Joii.o in Broadcast as London Sea Treaty Goes Into Effect. MACDONALD ALSO TALKS Urge Italy and France to Patch Break as Soon as Possible. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Tress Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—Active heads of the world’s three leading naval powers lifted their voices together today in anew prayer that naval armaments soon may be reduced still further. Joining in a radio telephone conversation between Washington, London and Tokio, with millions throughout the civilized w T orld listening President Hoover, Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain and Premier Hamaguchi of Japan, promised unremitting effort to carry on the work of the naval reduction begun at the Washington conference nearly ten years ago. This ceremony marked the formal deposit of ratifications of the London naval treaty signed last winter. Technically, the treaty does not become fully effective for a few weeks owing to the delay in deposit of the Irish Free State ratification, but practically, the agreement now goes into effect so far as the three leading powers are concerned. France, Italy at Odds France and Italy, though accepting part of the treaty, still have to adjust stubborn differences limiting their fleets. Hoover and MacDonald both voiced fervent hope that this agreement would come soon. The impressive ceremony, taking place in the Locarno room at the foreign office in London, comes on the eve of anew effort in disarmament to be made shortly by the League of Nations preparatory commission at Geneva. During the broadcasting, President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson were seated at their usual places at the cabinet table. The Japanese premier’s address, in Tokio was heard very distinctly." It was given, of course, in Japanese, a language with which Mr. Hoover is not entirely unfamiliar because of his years in the Orient. The speech later was translated for the official listeners. Hoover Reads His Speech When Hamaguchi concluded, Mr. Hoover read his address from his seat at the cabinet table. He read from his paper directly into the microphone. After concluding, the President replaced the headphone and listened to the speech of Prime Minister MacDonald in London. “If limitations now established can be maintained he may look forward with assurance that future conferences will find it easier to bring about further steps in reduction,” Hoover said. “Never again must a race in naval armaments be allowed to develop.” Premier Hamaguchi mentioned specifically the forthcoming deliberations of the preparatory committee on disarmament of the League of Nations. Called “Remarkable” Step “Now that the pact of Paris, initiated by Mr. Briand and Mr. Kellogg, has outlawed war definitely,” he said, “it is clear that any breach of that solemn agreement must rally the whole world against the aggressor,” Both Mr. Hoover and Premier Hamaguchi agreed the London treaty was a remarkable step in the j right direction. Hoover called it j “an agreement founded in common I sense.” He said it was “fair to all and dangerous to none,” and that it "substitutes for suspicion and competition, mutual trust, good will and confidence.” , MERCURY STAYS UP Cloudy Skies Will Remain Until After Tuesday. Light rains, with temperatures ; several degrees above normal, tins morning followed a fair Indian sumi mer week-end. Cloudy skies will | prevail until after Tuesday, according to the United States weather | bureau Weather conditions are expected ! to remain even throughout the state, except in northern and western portions where the mercury may sink slightly tonight. At 6 a. m. today the thermometer registered 50 degrees, 8 degrees above normal.

men make their homes in them. Scores of the “smoke joints” offer sleeping space with each drink, or two drinks. A bum with 50 cents can get two drinks of what passes for liquor, a bowl of soup or mulligan, and a place to flop. More often than not his sleeping space is on the bare floor. The liquor he gets is of the corpsereviver variety and the soup is usually thin. But the n the men of the Bowery are not inicky. tt tt tt T O close up these speakeasies would be to send these thousands of homeless men into the I streets.

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I Step-Child Murder Mystery Solution Is Believed Near Old Story Book Detective Theory Fails to Work; No Motive for Alleged Killing by Woman Found. Bu United Press DENVER, Colo., Oct. 27.—A murder mystery that appeared to be solving itself backwards confronted police who believed today they knew who had killed 10-year-old Leona O’Loughlin, but could not find a reason for the slaying. The old story book detective theory of first finding the motive and

tnen tne criminal was not wonting at an, tne officers declared after announcing they were convinced the girl had been slain by her beautiful stepmother, Mrs. Pearl O'Loughlin. Charges were that Mrs. O’Loughlin fed food containing ground glass to her husband, City Detective Leo O'Loughlin, and her stepdaughter, that she then lured Leona into the family automobile, struck her over the head with a tire tool, went to Berkeley lake, waded into the water and deposited the girl’s body near the spot where it was found three days later. The alibi story which Mrs. O'Loughlin consistently had told for ten days was broken Sunday night, police said, with an admission by Mrs. Ethel Sparr, a hairdresser, that Mrs. O’Loughlin had visited her only once instead of twice on the night Leona was slain. Mrs. Sparr told the officials that on that night Mrs. O’Loughlin went to her house at about 10:30 o’clock. She was nervous. Mrs. Sparr said, and did not have on a hat, coat or stockings.

“I am in a tight place,”’ Mrs. Sparr quoted the stepmother as saying. Mrs. O'Loughlin told her, she said, that she had to have an alibi to explain to her husband why she had been absent from home all evening and Mrs. Sparr said she agreed to tell that Mrs. O’Loughlin had visited her twice, once at 8:30 and again at 10:30.

“I have nothing to say,” Mrs. O’Loughlin declared when informed of Mrs. Starr’s admission. “My attorney told me not to talk. May I go to bed?” A few hours later Mrs. Starr was allowed to visit Mrs. O’Loughin in her cell. They clung to each other and cried until separated. “This confession makes our case against Mrs. O’Loughlin practically complete,” the state’s attorney decleared, “but we can’t find what the motive was.” • LIFE IS SPARED AS BULLET HITS WATCH Timepiece Worn Over Heart Saves Detroit Man From Death. Bu United Frees DETROIT, Oct. 27. Edgar Bertier, 33, probably owes his life today to a gold wa. 1 and his custom of carrying it in his vest pocket over his heart. Bertier was walking along Sibley -stt-eet HSunday-‘when a buffet fired by Patrolman Norbert Butla at two auto thieves struck the watch and knocked him to the sidewalk. The bullet dented the watch and inflicted a slight skin graze over the heart. COPS ABE HELD UP Disarmed by Bandit Pair at Ciinton. Bu United Frees CLINTON, Ind., Oct. 27.—Two men, both unmasked, held Clinton’s night police protection at the point of a shotgun Sunday night while they rifled files of the Mills grocery store, apparently seeking certain records. A safe in the rear of the store and merchanidse was not touched. Later, two unmasked men attempted to break into the home of Max Rosenblatt, grocery company receiver, but fled when a member of the family was aroused. Earl Smith, night patrolman, reported that as he walked past an alley at the rear of the Mills store two men accosted and disarmed him. Five minutes later, Walter Dutell, merchant policeman walking past the same spot, also was captured. While one of the bandits held the officers at the point of a shotgun the other rifled the files, Smith reported. CHARITY GAME SOUGHT Michigan Governor Asks Ann Arbor, Detroit U. Grid Match. Bu United Press LANSING, Mich., Oct. 27.—Governor Green tins morning requested the University of Michigan to attempt to make plans for a post-sea-son football game w r ith the University of Detroit, the proceeds from whiclj would be used for charity. At the request of prominent Detroit residents he is acting in the capacity of a mediator. Neither team has ben defeated. SAFE FOILS CRACKSMEN Yeggs Break Into Motor Sales Firm; Fail to Open Strongbox. Cracksmen who broke into the Boyd-Hoffman Motor Sales Company Sunday failed to obtain anything from the safe, Paul Boice, manager, told police today. Police found a small safe, opened, on East Fifty-second street, east of the L. E. & W. railroad.

But. in the opinion of policemen working the Bowery beat, they never will be closed. For each one that is padlocked another will open, they say,, simply because they are assential to the life of the Bowery. "If they were all closed,” one policeman said today, “it might serve to scatter the bums over the town. They probably wouldn’t hank around the Bowery in such great numbers.” From the policeman’s viewpoint, the speakeasies do more good than harm. Drinking, they say, is Incidental. The important thing is that they take the bums off

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BUS IN CRASH; 19 PUPILS HURT Three Injured Seriously When Steering Gear Locks. Bu United Frees HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Oct. 27. —Nineteen school children were hurt, three seriously, when the Jackson township school bus steering gear locked and caused the auto to run into a ditch and strike a cement abutment today. The most seriously injured were Buela Wentz, 9; Charles Morris, 14, and Alma Taylor. When the bus struck the cement abutment the top of the machine collapsed .were thrown into a creek party filled with water. Only three children escaped injury. Ralph Walke, 35, driver of the bus, was among the injured. The accident occurred three miles east of Hartford City. SULLIVAN IS IMPROVED Condition of Mayor Gains; Must Stay in Hospital Two Weeks. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today was improving rapidly at St. Vincent’s hospital from injuries received in an airplane spill at South Bend nine days ago. Sullivan suffered a cracked vertebra in the lower third of his spine and has been confined to the hospital since Friday. Physicians said he may be permitted to leave the institution within the next tw r o weeks. SLUGGER SUSPECT HELD Brooklyn Police Arrest Man After Series of Brutal Attacks. Bu United Frees NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—A man giving the name of John Cohen, and known as “the slugger” was arrested by a large group of Brooklyn police after a series of sluggings in which brass knuckles or pipe were used. Several persons, said to be the victims of Cohen, still are in hospitals. 9 HURT IN GAS BLAST Explosion Wrecks Brick Wall in Fire at Icc Factory. Bv United Press SALISBURY, N. C., Oct. 27. Nine persons were injured when a gas explosion wrecked a brick wall during a fire in the Catawaba ice plant at East Spencer today. The injured were brought to Salisbury hospitals. Among them were D. W. Loftin, his daughter, Paulina, and his son, Carl, W'ho were in their home near the plant. No firemen were hurt. FLAMES SWEEP SHIP Seven Men Escape Death by Diving Into Water. Bu United Press PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Oct. 27. Fire starting in a huge sulphur pocket on a near by dock enveloped the 7,000-ton steamer Giltedge here today, trapping twenty-six seamen aboard the sulphur-laden vessel. Forced to leap into the sea as flames ravaged the steamer, seven members of the crew narrowly escaped death.

the street and give them something to eat. a u a THE attitude of the bums themselves is illustrated admirably in the case of a soory-looking individual who approached this correspondent on the Bowery today and asked for the loan of 15 cents. "I don't know what world’s coming to," he ventured. “What with prohibition and winter coming on and all, it looks tough. “I ain't slept in a bed for more’n a month. Most of the time I've been sleeping out doors, but

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CARROLL JEERS CENSOR FROM BOSTONPOLPIT Covering So Beautiful as Bare Leg of Girl, Says Producer. OFFICIAL FIGHTS BACK Show Not Only Without Stockings, but Without Costumes, He Says. Bu United Press BOSTON, Oct. 27.—Earl Carroll waa a preacher for a day, Sunday. The "Vanities” and "Sketch Book” producer acepted an offer to use the pulpit of the Channing Unitarian church in Dorchester to carry on his private war with John K. Casey, city censor, and others who would make his chorus girls wear more than they do. “God made beautiful legs, and I am sure no covering could be as beautiful as the bare leg of a girl,” Carroll said from the pulpit, preferring to Casey’s dictum that “Sketch Book” girls appearing in Boston must wear tights. “I like to think of my God as a God with a sense of humor. The hardest thing in the world to create Is a laugh. Censor Destroys Laugh "Mr. Casey destroys laughs, but he doesn’t give me one for each one he eliminates. I am sure my God has a sense of hupior. If he didn't he could never have created so many of us. “Mr. Casey comes to the theater to destroy. He comes to the theater to track down the ‘hells’ and ‘damns’ and all the other petty things which a ridiculous law says must not be done or said in the theater.” Casey had his say later. “I will not allow that man Carroll to stand up in a pulpit and hold me up to ridicule while he attempts to gloss over the truth,” the censor said at his home. Savages Wear More “I shall tell the whole truth of the matter,” Casey declared, “and the truth is this: “His girls..arrived not without stockings, but without costumes. Even the savages wear more of a covering than his girls wear. It is consummate nerve for him to try to tell decent people in a church that I censored his show only for lack of stockings. He knows very well that I would allow his girls to appear without stockings if they wore decent costumes. “Boston does not ban bare legs, but it does ban indecency.” Casey said he did not object to the word “hell” when it is used “as such,” but said he did object “when it is used to emphasize and throw the spotlight on filth and sex indecency so that not even a child could miss it.” Tights Not Demanded The censor added that he would allow girls in Florenz Ziegfeld’s shows to appear without tights if the producer wished. “Providing the girls are decently costumed,” he said, “they can appear without stockings. However, as I understand it, Mr. Ziegfeld prefers that his girls wear stockings, but that is for him to decide.” HUNTERS BARE MURDER Michigan Police Puzzled by Finding Woman’s Remains Month Old. Bn United Press CHEBOYGAN, Mich., Oct. 27. Remains of the body of a woman, discovered by two hunters on Point Au Sable near the Straits of Mackinac, furnished state police today with a murder mystery evidently months old. Supreme Court Will Recess Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—The supreme court today announced it would recess from next Monday until Nov. 24.

RICH ILLINOIS BANKER IS HELD BY KIDNAPERS

Bu United Press GALVA, 111., Oct. 27.—A. G. Anderson, cashier of the Yokum State bank, left Galva today on a secret mission, reportedly in connection with the supposed abduction of Earl D. Yokum, wealthy president of the institution, from his automobile Saturday. Anderson’s departure, closely following the admission that an urgent letter from Yokum had been received, was announced by officials of the bank, without comment. Other angles of the search for

now that cold weather’s here, a feller's got to get inside somewhere. “Th.ere’s the municipal lodging house, but we don't like the way they run that. We usually can get enough money in a day to buy a drink of smoke or two in these speaks. They give us something to eat along with it and a place to sleep. "And after you’ve took your smoke, you usually ain’t particular whether you got a mattress under you or not. But if they go closing them be hell to pry in general.”?

That’s Settled Bil United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 27. —William Reider, 24, carried a marriage license in his pocket for three days and when he was proposing to his girl, Miss J. Elizabeth Franke, 18, Chicago, police arrested the couple for public lovemaking on a highway, Reider told Frank Stachowicz, justice of peace. "I'll marry you now,” Justice Stachowicz said. “Done,” returned the couple. And it was done.

SPEED UP DRIVE TO HIT GOAL OF CHARITY FUND ‘Letup May Be Disaster to Winter’s Plans.’ Brown Says. Community Fund campaign mounted to 85.4 per cent of the goal as workers at the Claypool today reported additional subscriptions of $88,831.37, bringing the total to $739,078.75. Forecasting that today’s report meeting would bring the Community Fund purse to $750,000, workers busied themselves in attaining the day’s goal. Success of the forecast was given impetus with the announcement this morning of a gift of $5,000 by H. G. Williams, president-- cf the Marmon Motor Car Company. Williams’ donation to the eleventh annual drive brought the drive total to $655,247.37. The campaign seeks $865,000 which must be obtained by Wednesday night to insure the drive’s succes. Excluding Williams’ gift, drive workers must obtain $214,752.62 to hit the top ,of the money thermometer. Included in the $865,000 sought is a deficit of $35,000 incurred during the last year through increased expenditures by relief agencies. “Our goal represents barely a minimum necessary to meet the winter’s demands due to unemployment,” declared Arthur V. Brown, campaign chairman. “The slightest let-up at this time may spell disaster to the drive’s success.” Employes of the board of school commissioners, teachers, custodians and other employes, have contributed $16,500 to the fund, an increase of 57 per cent over last year’s gift and an average of $7.30 a person. Employes of the Ford Motor Jar Company have given $3,374.80 this year against $2,010.50 in 1929, with S2OO additional expected to be reported. A report meeting Tuesday night following today’s meeting and the final meeting Wednesday night concludes the drive for funds. AIRPORT DECISION UP City Delays Action Taking Over Work at Field. Decision on means to obtain money for completion of the admin-istration-hangar building at the new municipal airport must be reached by Charles T. Caldwell, contractor, and the bonding company, insuring his work, by Tuesday, the works boarded decided today. When officials of the Commonwealth Casualty Company could not be reached today, works board members said they will not turn the job over to city workers until Tuesday. Caldwell is without funds to finish the $113,000 structure and, unless the bonding company advances money, the city will complete the work out of the building fund and sue Caldwell and the company. SUSPEND N. Y. BROKERS Stock Exchange Closes Firm for Year, Charging Insolvency. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—The Stock Exchange firm of C. Clothier Jones & Cos., was suspended from the Stock Exchange today for insolvency.

the banker revealed only tha„ he had not been seen since he took his two daughters to a moving picture show Saturday night, left them there and started back to his home. However, Ralph Barlow, brother of Mrs. Yocum, admitted a special delivery letter had been received at the Yokum home Sunday night, and Don A. Anderson, a close friend of the family, said the letter was from Yokum. Told of reports that Yokum begged his wife in the letter to pay ransom demands “uy> to $50,000,” Anderson would make no comment. Other reports were that a ransom of SIO,OOO had been asked. The officials declared that the last examination of the institution’s books by the state auditor's office had showed its affairs to be “commendably sound.” Kidnaping of wealthy men, especially bankers, hotel owners and gamblers, has become common in the midwest the last few years. Officials usually have attributed the abductions to Chicago or St. Louis racketeering gangs. Gloved Bandit Cracks Safes KOKOMO, IntL, Oct. 27.—A bandit, wearing gloves to conceal his fingerprints, obtained S3OO from two safes at the district office of the Shell American Oil ComjJsny, some time Sunday, it was disclosed today

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CITY HEADS TO PROVIDE WORK FOR JOBLESS Steps for Immediate Aid Are Taken by Chiefs of Departments. PUSH WIDENING PLANS Chamber of Commerce to Be ‘Clearing House’ for Positions. Steps to supply immediate jobs for the unemployed throughout the winter were taken today by city department heads, the move being led by the board of works. Plans to push forward street widening and improvement work as long as weather conditions permit were approved by the works board today. City department heads, along) with the state school and county officials, have been in conference with heads of the Chamber oC Commerce “work” committee in the last few days and are considering a tentative plan advanced by the chamber and E. Kirk McKinney, board president. The plan sponsored by the chamber calls for the use of funds, in-* eluding those in the unemployment budget of the Community Fund, to pay wages of laborers in city schools, state and county work. Chamber is Clearing House McKinney said it was ‘“up to thfl! city to co-operate in the utmost,” and that all street repair jobs that are needed will, be turned over to workmen who have applied to the chamber for work. The chamber will be a clearing house for those out of work, under the plan, and will send the men to the governmental units. Whether there will be payment oP wages by money or food in needy cases has not been worked out, according to city department heads who attended the conference. Approximately 200 men will bs employed by the city and individuals on the new East New York street! and Sixteenth street widening and opening projects. Men Needed for Razing Persons who own property along the new line of New York street which will be extended from Randolph street to State avenue will employ men to raze the structure and the same moves will be made on Sixteenth street, which is being widened to an eighty-four-foob property line width from Delaware street to Northwestern avenue. IV# Kinney said an effort will be made to obtain in advance state gasoline tax funds for purchase of materials that will be used by men who receive the temporary jobs, this winter. Purchase of the materials is the handicap now facing city officials in carrying out the complete program. March 1 Scheduled Date March 1 is the scheduled date for the next distribution of gasoline tax moneys. Because the state highway department was permitted to borrow $1,600,000 from this fund, it is doubtful if any advance can be made the city. Several city department heads are considering cutting down full-time working hours to provide additional employment at regular wages. It lias been agreed at city hall that municipal departments will not pay less than 35 cents an hour for common laborers. According to dispatches from Washington, $450,000,000 In bond issues will be voted on Nov. 4 throughout the nation for public works to relieve unemployment. Rests on New Council Marion county’s hope of providing road work to drought stricken farmers rests entirely upon the attitude of anew county council which voters will elect Nov. 4, Counto Auditor Harry Dunn admitted today. Contradicting a statement made by County Commissioner John E. Shearer, Coffin henchman, that $85,000 is available for unemployment relief this winter, Dunn said today such an amount is not now available, but depends upon the new council. Shearer publicly stated the $85,000 is available, although Dunn said a large part of the unemployment relief funds can be obtained only in future taxes. Retiring councilmen recently refused to appropriate $53,500 into the county highway maintenance fund to pay laborers. This act left Charles Mann, county highway superintendent, with money to pay, for road maintenance. Councilmen criticised Mann and Shearer for “extravagances.” Hundreds have been thrown out of work because of the alleged extravagance, it is known.

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