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COLLECTOR ROBBED OF $3,000; SHOT

Art, the Great, May Be Burning Up, Too

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Shires, Bride and All, Can Ask His Raise From Milwaukee, Now. Hit I nilt 'I Pirte WASHINGTON. Nov. 29.—“1’1l burn the major leagues up next vear,” quoth the voluble Art Shires recently when he took unto himself a bride, Elizabeth Greenbaum, a former University of Wisconsin co-cd. ‘ What With a wife as an inspiration, I'll show ’em how baseball should be played. Expenses will be higher and I’ll have to get a raise.” Today the “Great One” could not

Two Big New Features! You Get 'Em Next Week Do you believe that spiders are insects; that the battle of Bunker Hill was fought mainly on Eirhker Hill; that William Tell really was a famous Swiss hero? ' And do you rate yourself as a shark in figuring out freak situations and solving trick questions? If you do. The Times intends to give you a real test, with two new picture features that will start next week. The first one is a knockout, a sort of second cousin of Ripley's “Believe It or Not,” which is a favorite with thousands of Times readers. It s labeled “Be Sure You’re Right,” and the facts it gives you in the way of correcting a lot of things you thought w r ere true will be a revelation. It will run every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, a special feature of The Times classified pages. The other feature is entitled “Sticklers,” and will run every day on the comic page. It’s a series of real brain twisters and you’ll enjoy solving the many puzzles and problems that will be presented" to you. Watch for them in Tuesday's issue of The Times, the opening date for both.

DICTATOR FOR BERLIN German Chancellor Seeks to End Disorders. \ Ftp United Pres* 1 BERLIN. Nov. 29.—Chancellor Heinrich Bruening. receiving leaders of the Socialist and Catholic parties, informed them today that the government would carry out its financial program under a constitutional plan which will be semidictatorial in character. Police clashed with unemployed rioters today in the heart of the capital. Along the Friedrichstrasse and elsewhere in the center of Berlin the disorders caused shop keepers to lower shutters to prevent plundering. SWINE PRICES OFF 15 CENTS AT YARDS Slaughter Class Cattle Hold Steady: Veals Up. Swine prices at the city stockyards this morning were generally 15 cents lower than Friday, the bulk. 160 to 300 pounds, selling at 58.50 to $8.60. Early top remained at $8.60. Receipts were estimated at 6.000; holdovers were 286. Slaughter classes were steady in the cattle market. Receipts were 200. Vealers sold $1 higher, mostly at sl3 down. Calf receipts were 200. Lambs were little changed, the bulk of good and choice selling at $8 to $8.50. Receipts in the sheep market were 500. Chicago hog receipts 8.000, including 3.C00 direct and 1.000 show hogs. Holdovers 2.000. Not enough hogs to fully test the market, scattered early sales and bids around steady with Friday's average. Choice of 200-to-210 pounds sold at $8.50. Cattle receipts 300. Calves 200, and strong. Sheep 3.000: weak. Former I. U. Man Dies Bp Timet Special PITTSBURGH. Pa.. Nov. 29. \ Dr. Grover H. Alderman, 44. dean : of the University of Pittsburgh i school (if education and formerly a j professor In the Indiana university j department of education, is dead

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Mr. and Mrs. Art Shires

be located. He apparently was on his honeymoon. But Clark Griffith, president of the Washington baseball club made a brief announcement. Shires has been sold to Milwaukee of the American Association. Griffith said it was a straight cash proposition, but there have been hints there may be some player exchanges. “Shires is the best ball player I’ve ever sent back to the minors,” said Griffith. That may be sonic balm for Arthur’s troubled soul. And any way it’s the high minors and a man can support a wife. Sc now there’s the high minors to be burned up by the Great One.

CHAUFFEUR KIONAPED Gunmen Steal Costly Car After Robbing Driver. Police today sought two gunmen who boarded an expensive automobile at Illinois street and Fall Creek boulevard Friday night and, forcing the Negro chauffeur to drive several miles northeast of the city, took the machine. Robbing Isham Benton Negro chauffeur for W. J. Hogan, 3103 North Meridian street, of a wrist watch, gloves, pen and pencil, and two purses, the bandits lef„ him standing in a lonely country road as they drove away, Benton told police. Hogan is president of the Indiana Terminal Warehouse Company, of the Indiana Refrigerating Company, and is an officer of the National Terminals Corporation.

$1.30-a-Day Railroad Clerk Rises to Cabinet Post

BY PAUL R. MALLON, Vnitft Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—From railroad yard clerk at $1.30 a day to a cabinet post at $15,000 a year will be the story of William Nuckles Doak, if the senate confirms his appointment as secretary of labor. He is 48 years old. Thirty years mark the span of ! that unclosed career, but the start in the dingy yard offices of the Nori folk & Western railroad at Bluefield, W. Va., with coal cars rattling by all night long, is a fresh memory. The old lunch basket Doak used then now is a relic on the mantlepiece of his study at ''Notre Nid” i.Our Nest), his home near Washington. The basket, small, because not many sandwiches can be purchased out of $1.30 a day. Its original cost was 10 cents. The old basket took on anew significance late Friday when President Hoover defied the advice of the American Federation of Labor and named Doak to his cabinet, succeeding James J. Davis, secretary of labor. Mr. Hoover recognized tire opposition expressed by President Wil-

STORE OWNER NEARBY ALSO IS WOUNDED Stray Bullet Enters Grocery and Injures Proprietor; Looted Man Beaten.

HOOK RECEIPTS STOLEN Ex-Employes of Drug Firm Bandits, Says Victim of Subway Holdup. Two bandits, who robbed J. E. Free, 35, of 1416 North Bosart avenue, Hook Drug Company collector, of .$3,000 under a Pennsylvania railroad elevation at Merrill and Delaware streets at 8:45 today, shot him in the head when he recognized them as former employes of the company. One of four or five shots they fired went through the window of a nearby grocery and struck Charles Mobach, 76, proprietor in the neck. Free was taken to St. Vincent’s hospital and Mobach to city hospital while a police emergency squad commanded by Lieutenant Marion Van Sickle sought two men whom Free said were two former employes of the Hoog Drug Company. He gave their names to police and the names were verfied by the drug company as those of ~wo former employes. Collector Is Beaten The bandits entered Free’s auto in front of the Pettis Dry Goods Company, 25 East Washington Street, and with guns forced the collector to drive beneath the subway. In the gloom there they beat him, and when he called one of the men by name, the latter shot him above the ear. Three or four additional shots were fired, according to witnesses. The bandits fled from Free’s car, and, according to Ray Wyatt, 826 Union street, truck. driver who entered the subway from an opposite side as the shooting started, they climbed into a red sedan embellished with much nickel plating, and escaped. Free clambered out of his car, and screaming for held ran into the grocery, where Mobach had been struck by a stray bullet. Assailants Are Named Ed Pennington, and A. G. Stephens, proprietor of a store at 551 South Delaware street, heard the shots, and saw Free stagger into the grocerv. E. F. Rush, Hook company manager, said the $3,000 was collections Free had made this morning. Wyatt described one of the men he saw run to the red sedan as wearing a tan overcoat, gray hat, and said he w r as about six feet tall and weighed about 170 pounds. PREFERS ELEVATOR JOB TO BARONETCY Englishman, Now Heir to Title, to Stay in lowa. T,v Times Special WATERLOO, la.. Nov. 21.-An elevator operator in an American office building is better than being the tenth baronet of Mt. Wolsely in England. So believes Sir Reginald Beatty Wolsely, who left England thirty-three years ago for America. Even though he now is eligible for the title, by virtue of his cousin's death. Sir Reginald, known as plain “Dick” here, plans to stay in Waterloo.

I liam Green of the A. F. of L. to the naming of any one outside the j federation. Doak, being counsel here for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, does not meet Green’s qualifications. But Mr. Hoover contended he should have the right to name any one he chose. In view of Green’s warning. Mr. Hoover intimated he considered it his duty to name Doak. “I do not feel that I can consent to the principle,” said the President, “of debarment of the railway employes or other labor unions and associations or any labor man in the United States from the opportunity or tke aspiration to attain any office in he land. “I have the highe-t respect for Mr. Green and the federation, but Mr. Greens enunciation that appointments must come from one organization imposes upon me the duty to maintain the principle of open and equal opportunity and freedom in appointments to public office." Green expressed “keen disappoint- j ment” at the appointment. He did j not say whether the federation! would fight Dock's confirmation by

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1930

BY KENNETH D. GILMORE United Press Staff Correspondent HAVANA, Nov. 29.—Sullen, semitropical seas apparently held the mvstery today of the disappearance of Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller, Australian fieir, who dared treacherous headwinds in an over-water flight, unaccompanied, from this city to Miami, Fla. Although only the most optimistic dared hope that she is alive, governmental and private aviation authorities decided to continue the

Lake Ship Lost With 22 of Crew <s* By United Press MARQUETTE, Mich., Nov. 29. Coast guardsmen set out over choppy Lake Superior today in search for the grain carrier Maple Bay of Montreal with a crew of twenty-two men which has been unreported since late Tuesday. Captain T. E. Deegan, commander of the Marquette coast guard station, said he believed the Maple Bay sank in a violent wind storm which whipped the lake into a fury soon after the vessel left Bete Gris bay, Tuesday afternoon. Thi Maple Bay was to have made a port call here for fuel en route from Bete Gris bay down the lakes. The coast guardsmen said before starting the search today that they would traverse the course which the Maple Bay would have taken from Bete Gris bay to Marquette. HOOVER STIRS SENATE WAR Root Protocol Plan Opens Bitter Battle. By United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 29.—Immediate opposition was stirred up in the senate today today to President Hoover’s announced plan of submitting the Root world court protocol to the short session beginning Monday. Senator James E. Watson, Republican floor leader and long-time foe of the court, termed the President’s move a “grave mistake.” He said flatly he is opposed to consideration of the world court at the short session, and that he is against an extra session for this or any other matter. President Hoover, likewise, is opposed to an extra session, and in his announcement Friday of his intention to submit the protocol to the short session warned against its use as a means of forcing an extra session. If the issue does get before the senate at the short session it is certain to cause a heated skirmish and perhaps a protracted struggle. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho and Senator Hiram Johnson ißep., Cal.), will lead the assault upon the Root protocol, ratification of which is the last step necessary to take the United States into the court, KANE TO HEAR TRIAL Named Special Judge for Pryor Case. Attorney R' ph Kane today was selected as sp il judge to hear the trial of Erne. Pryor, Martinsville, on a first decree murder indictment, starting in criminal court next Wedensday., Window Broken by Thief Hurling a brick through the window of a store operated by Abe Bookatman, 833 South Meridian street, a thief Friday night stole several watches, value of which was not estimated.

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William N. Doak the senate, L. concluded his statement: “Why someone outside the federation has been selected is a ques-

Ships, Planes Hunt Lost Woman Flier

search today for the noted pilot, who left General Machado airport here at 9:11 a. m., Friday, and should have arrived at Miami ;n about, two hours. The search by air and sea was hindered today by high winds and poor visibility. As hope for the safety of the noted Australian woman flier decreased every hour, the regular boats and planes kept plying along the route of her scheduled flight kept a constant watch for any indi- i cation of the missing plane. '

MERCURY WILL j CLIMB IN CITY Temperatures to Remain, Above Freezing; Snow Is Forecast. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 26 8 a. m 29 7 a. m 28 9 a. m 32 ! Warmer weather tonight and Sunday, with temperatures slightly above freezing and probably snow, was the forecast for Indianapolis made today by J. H. Armington, United States meteorologist. Rain, probably changing to snow j Sunday is the state forecast, Armington said. Temperatures mounted steadily Friday with sleet Friday I night increasing driving hazards. ' Gradual rise from 26 degrees j above to 32 degrees above w r as noted from 6 to 9 this morning. Highest; temperature Friday was 18 degrees above with the coldest point at 2 degrees above at 6:15 a. m. Train, interurban and bus traffic still is hampered somewhat by cold and ice, but with return to normal schedules in prospect. One degree below at Richmond j was the coldest figure reported in the state.

By United Prcst NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—The stock market today opened irregularly lower in quiet trading. The list was steady and volume of business failed to pick up due t-o absence of many traders who extended the Thanksgiving holiday over the j week-end. United States Steel opened at 144, off Vt ; Standard of New Jersey was 52, off 94; American and Foreign Power 37, off % ; American Telephone 18618, off ii; Union Carbide 60, off 1. Smal declines also was noted in Warner Brothers Pictures, Radio, Sinclair, Texas Corporation, Anaconda, Standard Brands. American Can, Montgomery Ward, United Corporation and General Motors. The principal gainer w T as United Stores preferred which opened at 43 Vs, up 3}4. The “A” stock also finned up. Westinghouse Electric opened at 9914, up 74; Sears Roebuck 54 V, up %; Loose Wiles 5214, up 3 4; General Electric 48, up li; American Smelting 50 74, up %; Loew's 5614, up 14, and Public Service 7214, up 14. Changes in the first fifteen min- ; utes of trading were nairow and ir- j regular. Steel slid down a shade , under the opening, but other j • shares held well. Safeway Stores j met selling pressure and broke 394 ! to 45 "4. unsetting other mercantile ; issues. Rails were mixed with Atchi- j son at 18314, off 3. and within a short distance of its low for the year. In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9 a. m.: South wind, 13 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.34 at sea level; temperature, 32; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 2 miles; light haze; field, good. I

tion that can not be answered by labor, and one which it is difficult to understand.” Green argued that Presidents have selected federation members since the post was created, and that there are many eminent men in the department who could have been chosen. Doak's friends believe he will be confirmed by the senate. He has been legislative counsel of the brotherhood here for nearly fifteen years, and knows every member of the senate, many of them intimately. It is understood he wants to make peace with the federation. At the very moment the President was announcing his appointment, Doak was in conference with federation officials on unemployment matter*. As soon as he heard the news he telegraphed to his 86-year-old mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Doak. who is living with a sister, Mrs. D. F. McCarty, Bristol, Tenn. Doak was bom near Bristol on a farm which was obtained by his ancestors as an original grant from the king of England. His rise in labor organization circles has been rapid. While a switchman he was elected to a post in the local labor union.

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Darkness ended the air search for her Friday night, but several planes from the naval base at Key West, Fla., and from the Miami and Havana airports of the Pr.n-American Airways and Companies Cubana De Aviacion were prepared and took off again at dawn. Only once after the Austrailian flier took off on the first leg of what was to be a return solo flight to Pittsburgh, Pa., was she sighted. The Pan-American airways announced that one of their pilots reported he sighted the Bullet about

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MILK PRICES IN CITY WILL DROP Cut From 12 to 11 Cents to Be Effective Monday. The price of sweet milk will be reduced from 12 cents a quart to 11 cents, effective Monday, according to Capitol Bailies, Inc. Creamed buttermilk also will be reduced from 12 cents a quart to 11 cents, it was announced. Reductions are said by the dairy operators to be due to the decreased cost of raw milk. The cuts are expected to be followed by other dairies.

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Theodore Dammeyer

In 1908 he became general chairman of the Norfolk & Western union. In 1916 he was chosen president and national legislative representative. From that time on he was elected to successive offices in the brotherhood of trainmen, finally becoming vice-president. His latest post, obtained after l.e turned down the presidency, wa?. editor oft he brotherhood magazine and general legislative counsel. He lives with Mrs. Doak ton a beautiful cliff five miles up the Potomac river from Washington on the Virginia side. There he plays with his dogs, two white Collies, Waltham and Margy, and dictates his magazine material to a dictaphone The largest book on his shelf is “Organized Labor,” by John Mitchell. During the war he served on the railroad control board where 3,080 labor disputes were settled without a strike. He does not, however, regard that as his greatest achievement. He takes more pride in the contemplation of the 10 cent lunch basket and the fact that the yard clerks’ job at Bluefleld, as elsewhere, now pays $7.14 a day instead of $1.30.

twenty-five minutes out from Havana. flying low. The pilot said he was disturbed about her altitude, especially because flying conditions were bad and the sea was rough. Just before Mrs. Miller left, she had been warned to stay at an altitude of about 8,000 feet, where flying conditions were favorable. Airport attendants here said Mrs. Miller started for Miami on a 34degree course direct, without allowing for any wind drift. Since she had no navigating in-

125,000 TO SEE NOTRE DAME AND ARMY CONTEST TODAY Betting Oclds on Irish With Little Money Backing Boys From West Point in Sight BY DIXON STEWART I ilted Press Staff Correspondent By United Presß CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Army’s football team, one of tha strongest ever developed at West Point, today provided a dangerous obstacle to Notre Dame’s march to a second successive national championship. The traditional intersectional combat focused national attention upon Soldiers’ Field and the capacity crowd of 125,000 eye-witnesses will be agumented by many thousands of radio listeners. One of the most extensive radio hookups in history has been arranged, and it is estimated that more than 2,000,000 people will follow the progress of the contest. All tickets were sold a week ago /and despite the arctic weather a record attendance is assured.

Notre Dame, undefeated since 1928, is quoted as a decided betting- favorite to score its eighteenth consecutive victory, odds ranging from 2 to 1 to 5 to 1, with little Army money in sight. The odds are false, and while Notre Dame should win. the Irish are little better than an even money selection. Army has a powerful team, and with its advantage in condition, must be conceded a chance of victory, especially on the frozen gridiron—always a “leveler” of football machines. Irish Depend on Speed The Cadets have the same powerful forward wall which battled Notre Dame to a standstill on the ice-bound Yankee stadium field at New York last year. That game was decided by a

Theodore Dammeyer Chief Assistant of Frank Brittain. Appointment of a chief deputy and twenty-three deputies were announced today by John McCloskey, newly elected Center township assessor, who will succeed Frank Brattain Jan. 1. Theodore Dammeyer, chairman of the city board of works during the Slack administration, and former chief clerk of the city assessment bureau, is named as chief deputy. He succeeds William U. ! Graham, who will be retained in a ! minor capacity, however. The sali ary is $2,035. | McCloskey announced that he will j retain several of the experienced ! men from the Brattain administraJ tion. j The new assessor appointed nine I women, eight of whom are widows, i They will draw the same pay -ts the other deputies, $1,875 a year, i Appointees are: I Edward C. McLaughlin. 2017 North Me- | ridian street: Joseph G. Bruce. 1424 WoodIjawn avenue: Theodore Schuller, 3670 ! North Delaware street: William J. Dudley, j 934 Sanders street: Edward J. Kribs. 555 I North Jefferson avenue: William Sowdcrs. I 715 East New York street: Louis J. Wahl, 1035 North Tacoma street: Richard G. Stewart. 3625 Graceland avenue: and Jacob L. Smith. 2138 Woodlawn avenue: Paul P. Koesters. 1728 South Delaware strett: William F. Kleis. 318 East Orange street: John W. Porter. 1809 East Michigan street; Jesse L. Monroe. 2531 North Delaware street; Miss Ruth Kennedy. 339 Kansas street, and Mesdames Nellie Layden. 606 Prospect street; Katherine Fisch. 315 North Gladstone street: Marv McMahan. 4305 College avenue: Olive O’Connell. 506 Middle Drive. Woodruff Place: Hazel Clark. 420 North State street: Anna Feenev. 533 North Dorman street: Emma Wood. Negro. 1515 Yandes street, and Marie Long. Negro. 831 North California street. CONGRESSMAN IS HURT McLeod of Ohio and State Senator Jankowski in Auto Accident. WARREN, 0., Nov. 29.—Congressman Clarence J. McLeod and State Senator Cass J. Jankowski, both of Detroit, are in the city hospital here today with injuries received in an automobile accident near Ravenna, west of here, Friday. Jankowski has a fractured skull. McLeod suffered severe . cuts and body bruises.

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struments aboard her'plane, aviation experts feared that unless she had landed on one of the many tiny islands or keys close to the Florida shore, she would be lost. Mrs. Miller carried a small supply of food and water and a portable rubber boat. Her plan.,-, a single-motored, un-der-slung wing type, is a land plane and had no pontoons. Hence, it could not remain afloat long even with empty gas tanks, as-' suming they were not smashed in. landing.

single play—Jack Elder's pass interception and 96-yard run for a Notre Dame touchdown—and it is probable that one break in fortune also will decide today’s contest. The hard, slippery gridiron will | handicap both teams, but Army's : attack is be.ter suited to heavy going than is Notre Dame’s. The Irish depend almost entirely | on speed and shiftiness, and, with Jumping Joe Savoldi missing, .have no real line crashing threat. Army has a heavier team and can alternate its speed attack with power plays featuring its star plungers, Kiday, Glatty and Herb. Both teams will be fighting to retain their place among the nation’s few undefeated squads. A tie with Yale is the only mar to Army’s othxwise perfect record, while Notre Dame has won all of its eight games this season. Notre Dame also will be defending its record of never having lost a game on Soldiers field. The game is the first Notre Dame-Army clash held in the midwest, the seventeenth previous games having been played at West Point and in New York. Army has appeared at Soldiers field only once, playing a 21 to 21 tie with Navy in 1922. CARTER’S SUCCESSOR WILL BE DISCUSSED Trustees to Consider Applicants for Sanatorium Post. Selection ot a successor to Dr, Amos Carter, who resigned as superintendent of the Indiana sta'e sanatorium at Rockville, will be discussed by trustees at a meeting at the institution Wednesday, it was announced today. Secretary A. A. Hargrave of the trustees has written various institution superintendents and tuberculosis associations throughout the country and received a number of applications for the place. At present, Dr. Herbert Pirkle, Carter's assistant, is in charge. Trustees are Chairman Parke Beadle, Rockville; Hargrave, Mrs. Louise Klinger, Brazil, and Dr. Harold S. Hatch. Indianapolis. ROBBER SUSPECT HELD Confession Is Claimed by Police in Three North Side Robberies. Eugene Leland Gobin, 26, R. R. 2, Box 455, was charged with burglary and grand larcency today after his alleged confession that he committed three robberies on the north side, obtaining clothing and jewelry valued at about SI,OOO.

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