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Alberta Pierson Hannum celebrated her 25th birthday Aug. 3, two weeks after the publication of her first novel, ‘’Thursday April,” by Harper & Brothers. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WHEN a country gets into trouble, one likes to find good books which give an authentic background to the day’s happenings. Cuba has been making front page recently and the best book on Cuba that I know of just now is ‘‘The Martial Spirit,” by Walter Millis, published by Houghton Mifflin Company. This is a study of our war with 1 Spain and gives the facts on what our policy toward Cuba and the Philippines really meant when it was hatched. Millis takes away all the glamour of the war and shows that we could have received a terrible defeat at the hands of a more powerful nation than Spain. The author also shows that conditions in the navy and the army were far from being ideal, and gives anew slant upon the ambitions of Theodore Roosevelt. Here is exciting and fine reading, giving the real background of Cuba. tt tt tt ONE of the fall books on the Lippincott list, “The Eagle’s Shadow,” is by Arthur D. Howden Smith, who wrote ‘‘Porto Bello Gold.” Smith’s latest adventure story is of the stormy plots which centered around Napoleon after his exile to St. Helena. a tt tt One of the leading biographies on Houghton Mifflin’s fall list will be Harry M. Beardsley’s “Joseph Smith and His Mormon Empire.” The book originally was announced under the title of “Prophet of Polygamy." a u * Houghton Mifflin just have published “Plain Anne Ellis,” a sequel to Mrs. Ellis’ “Life of an Ordinary Woman.” tt u n In the second mid-year list of best sellers compiled by books of the month (R. R. Bowker Cos.) and covering the period from July, 1930, through June, 1931, “The Story of Sam Michele" still heads the nonfiction list. This book has been a best seller for two consecutive years. It is one of the two oldest books on this particular non-fiction list, having been published in November, 1929, and it is the oldest consecutive best seller on the entire list. tt tt Stuart Palmer has recently been wondering whether travel by airplane isn’t safer than motoring after all. Returning with his wife from a motor trip to Wisconsin a few days ago, he was rambling along when another automobile came roaring down upon him and knocked the car and the Palmers galley-west. But Palmer was able to reach New York in time to see his new mystery story, “The Penguin Pool Murder,’ published by Brentano's on Aug. 12. a tt fa AFTER staying in London for the opening of the dramatic production of “Mrs. Fischer's War.” Henrietta Leslie and her husband have gone to Salzburg for the summer music festival. The new novel upon which Miss Leslie is working has a musical background. a a a John C. Moore, the young English author of “Raven Rough,” has just started on a walking trip through Wales, gathering material for anew book which will cover the country from north to south. tt tt a New light on the Wilson administration and on America's part in the great war is promised in the autobiography of William Gibbs McAdoo which Houghton Mifflin Company announce for publication this fall under the title of “A Tenderfoot in Politics." tt tt a “Diggers and Builders (MacMillan. $2) was written by Henri Lent for his 6-vear-old son and Mr. Lent answers the- questions children ask and tt is really vivid and instructive. a a For boys and girls of 12 on there is “By Rocket to the Moon” by Otto Willi Gail (Sears Cos. $2.50). It is thoroughly interesting. a FOR the mystery story lovers may we mention: (1) “The Columnist Murder.” by Lawrence Saunders (Fan©r & Rinehart. $2). If you know Broadway it's yours. It is the Main Stem, in person. a a a <2> 'The Murder in the Arch,” by H. W. Higginson (Thomas Y. Cromwell, s2>. Smooth and surprising. a tt a • (3) “The Face in the Abyss,” by A. Merritt (.Horace Liveright, $2). Full of horror, fantastic, swift and diverting.

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CRIME COST IN CITY IS BELOW U. S. AVERAGE City Taxpayer Spent $4.05, Compared to Nation’s $5.47. SOUTH BEND IS LOWEST Wickersham Report Shows Prohibition Hiked Levy 56 Per Cent. Asa resident of Indianapolis, ; each taxpayer last year saved $1.42 in his expenditure to combat crime, figures revealed today as the Wickersham commission released its report on the comparative cost of the fight against crime. Computing the cost of crime in each of 300 of the nation’s principal cities, the commission discovered i that the average per capita cost was $5.47. Indianapolis spent $1,473,213 last year, or $4.05 per capita. Other Indiana cities investigated by the commission pared their expenses for the item of crime even 1 • lower than the capital city, the re-’ port discloses. The per capita figures are based on the 1930 census compilations. South Bend Is Lowest South Bend spent only $2.35 per capita to fight its civic social disorder, and with that figure ranked lowest in expenditure in Indiana. Muncie and Ft. Wayne each took $2.92 from each taxpayer for that purpose, Gary $3.02, and Hammond : $3.50. Evansville, the metropolis of I southern Indiana, spent a total of $392,967, or $3.84 per capita. Had prohibition not been an originator of crime the tax of the 300 cities in the fight to clean its slate would have been reduced $34,828,550, or 66 per cent of the total, the figures show. The tables for costs and prohibition’s per cent of those costs were: Per Agency. Cost. Prohibition. Cent. Police and marshals ...$35,923,915 $25,644,069 74.1 Prosecution agencies ... 1,996,976 996.720 49.9 Courts 6,331,015 4,308,004 68.1 Penal institutions . 8,480,530 3,842,416 45.3 Prohibition and pardon 53,764 37,339 69.3 Totals $52,786,202 $34,828,550 66 Chicago, headlined bad town of the world, was fourteenth in the cities included in the report, on per capita cost of crime, while the New Jersey suburban district near New York led the rest of the nation. $11.30 in Jersey City In Jersey City $11.30 was drained from each taxpayer’s pockets to fight off gangsters, thugs and other criminal hoodlums. Boston, staid old mistress of New England, paid $9.64 a seat to stave off the crime parade. Washington, D. C., strove for third honors a tax of $9.21 on each taxpayer, while Philadelphia and Hoboken, N. J., were fourth and fifth. In Dearborn, Mich., it cost each visitor to the tax collector’s window $7.29. Chicago's tax was $6.65, over which St. Louis appeared with $6.95 for each taxpayer. Baton Rouge, state capital of Louisiana, spent only $1.65 per capita, but Galesburg, 111., not far from Chicago, and through which much of the southern liquor traffic flows, took the nation’s record with expenditure of only 92 cents a person battling crime. GLORIA WON'T MARRY She Changes Her Mind Now; Tells Hollywood Something Else. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 21.—Gloria Swanson, the former Marquise De La Falaise Et De La Courdais, declared today that she does .pot intend to be married again. Desipte the fact that F. Michael Farmer, Irish millionaire, was a fel-low-traveler on shipboard and train, | Miss Swanson considers him only a friend, she said.

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1932 License Plates to Be Green, White

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What a beauty! And that stands, whether you’re admiring Indiana's license plate for autos in 1932, or Miss Jane Crabb, statehouse employe, the pretty miss who is holding the ‘tag’ for your approval. The new plates will be white letters on a green background. And the secretary of state’s office assures you the green paint on the new plates is non-fading.

LABOR LEAGUE PLANSJPROTEST Mass Meeting Will Demand Freeing of Mooney. Release of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, still serving sentences for the Los Angeles Preparedness day bombing, and of Theodore LeusseT imprisoned for alleged interfering in an eviction case, will be demanded at a mass meeting at 3 Saturday at Military park. Leusse, leader of unemployed demonstrations here,- was sentenced to a term on the state penal farm by Judge Frank P. Baker. The meeting will be part of a nation-wide demonstration arranged by the International Labor Defense in commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the SaccoVanzetti execution. These meetings, it was explained at the local office of'the International Labor Defense, 932% South Meridian street, have been called to “protest the increasing number of arrests of working class leaders, involving denial of free speech and assembly.” Release of all “political” prisoners also will be demanded in the meetings, which will be held in Terre Haute, Clinton, Hammond, Gary and other Indiana cities, as well as in Indianapolis. SUB AT ICE. BARRIER Nautilus to Try Moving on Toward North Tole Tonight. By United Press COPENHAGEN. Denmark, Aug. 21.—The submarine Nautilus arrived at the ice barrier on its perilous voyage into polar waters, the newspaper Berlinske Tidende said today. The dispatch said that Sir Hubert Wilkins, in command, had decided to try moving onward toward the north pole tonighty on the most dangerous phase of the daring cruise.

When Margaret Wallace, 11 (left) of 268 Hampton road, and her sister, Jane, 13, go swimming they’ll always have a life-saver with them. For Margaret and Jane are completing courses in junior life-saving at Butler university pool. The sisters seldom swim alone, with the result that one sister always is a safeguard for the other.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21,1931

SUSPECT FREE; BOOZE SEARCH RIGHTJDENIED Judge * Rules Warrant for Nuisance Doesn’t Permit Hunt for Liquor. BEER FOUND IN CELLAR Man Taken in Dope Swoop Is Turned Over to U. S. Officers. Sustaining contention of Ralph Spann, attorney, that a nuisance j warrant permitted no search of a ■ home for liquor, Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer today dismissed blind tiger charges again Herman Chandjfe, R. R. 7, Box 108, one-time big booze racketeer here. After federal agents raided two narcotics sources here last Friday, a police squad under Lieutenant Dan Cummings and deputy sheriffs went to Chandjie’s lavish home west of the city, presumably in search of another dope supply. In the basement were found eight bottles of beer, many empty bottles, and several charred oak kegs, all empty but disseminating an unmisj takable odor of liquor, officers said. Freed by Judge Today, sustaining a motion to suppress evidence, Judge Sheaffer liberated Chandjie, alias Herman Miller, who told police at the time of the raid he was “through running liquor,” and explained that the charred oak barrels as receptacles he purchased for his mother to make sauerkraut. Don Carson, arrested on blind tiger charges during the dope and liquor raid on the Edwards hotel a week ago, was dismissed from municipal court, to be turned over to federal officers, who hold a warrant charging prohibition law violation. Dismissal for the same reason was made in the case of Horace Leonard, 331 North Blackford street, also charged with blind tiger. Held to Grand Jury Jess Pope, Negro, 845 West Michigan street, was held to Marion county grand jury under SI,OOO bonds on grand larceny charges. When police searched his home for liquor seVeral weeks ago, they report that they recovered a bag stolen a few days before from an auto owned by Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state. George Batso, 547 East Market street, charged with operating a lottery and gift enterprise, was dismissed because of lack of evidence. RETURN SUSPECTS HERE Two Charged With Auto Banditry Are Brought to City. Two men charged by police with robberies of motorists on suburban roads in the northeast part of the city, were returned from Chattanooga, Tenn., and charged with robbery today. They are: D. W. Roberts, 26, of 6416 Bellefontaine street, and Richard Patton, 24, of 6207 College avenue. In their possession when captured in Tennessee, according to detectives, was an auto stolen from C. D. Hoyt Jr., 5157 North New Jersey street, in a holdup north of White river on College avenue about 1 Sunday morning.

THEY TELL ME

BY BEN STERN LOOKING you straight in the eye, Frank Mayr Jr., tells questioners that he has not “ made one move toward obtaining the Democratic nomination for governor in 1932.” His gaze not wavering an iota, Maye says that he has told none of his subordinate department heads to make any effort toward getting the nomination for him. And then he adds: “I am not a candidate for Governor.” If so, then why do state police, department heads and underlings attend every picnic and rally held in the state to lead the cheering when Mayr’s name is mentioned and thus outvie the applause accorded acknowledged contenders? Is the question asked Evidently the secretary’s department heads are not aware of the denial, for within the last month automobile license distributors have been brought to Indianapolis to attend a conference called for the avowed purpose, according to James Carpenter, license department head, of instructing them how to sell license plates. tt tt tt Following the morning sessions the distributors are assembled at a luncheon. Some of the agents complained that they did not have an opportunity to enjoy their food, because it seemed that at each table was seated one man who invariably brought the discussion around to gubernatorial possibilities and devoted much time to praise of Mayr. These tactics are reminiscent of the state police gatherings held by

PRIEST VOWS TO SMASH DIVES—AND

By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 21—The boy —he was only 19—lay in the gutter, dying of knife wounds. The priest was on his knees at his side, administering the last sacrament. The boy smiled wanly. “They got me this time, father,” he mfirmured. His eyelids fluttered shut. Gangland had claimed another life. The priest stood up, 6 feet of Irish muscle and sinew. His red hair seemed redder than usual. Grim lines were etched about the

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COPS LUCKY TO AVERT DISASTER Kingpin Is Gone From Wheel of Emergency Car. The lucky star that shines over policemen and newspaper reporters gleamed its best today. Nearly every day of the year the police emergency, bearing its load of officers and reporters, roars from the alley on the north side of headquarters, Sometimes it leaves only once and then there may be a dozen runs during the day. Thursday was an exceptional day. Not once did crime reports call the heavy touring car from the garage. This morning, however, one run was made and when the car was parked in the garage, mechanics began checking it. The kingpin in the right front wheel had disappeared. There is no explanation of this mechanical defect. But there is plenty of conjecture among reporters and emergency car police officers of what might have happened if that wheel had left the axle while the car was speeding sixty or seventy miles an hour. The discovery of the faulty wheel may lead to regular inspection of emergency cars, police officials indicated.

Otto G. Fifield, when he was secretary of state, which were loudly inveighed against. / tt tt tt The latest of the meetings of license distributors was held Wednesday and it is interesting to note that immediately after the proselyting efforts the agents gathered in Democratic state headquarters, which some claim is the seat of the Paul V. McNutt campaign for Governor, to discuss the persuasive efforts used to induce them to join the Mayr forces. But as the secretary of state repeatedly has declared: “I am making no move toward obtaining the Democratic nomination for Governor.” It is a cinch that all his efforts will be in vain if he does not vote with his fellow Democrat, Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, to oust Frank Caylor, Indiana’s most expensive statehouse custodian and a protege of Governor Harry G. Leslie. AIR ENTHUSIAST SUICIDE Leon A. Paperno Found Hanged to Fixture in Office. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—The body of Leon A. Papemo, aviation enthusiast, who Li 1929 with Captain Edward W. Brooks attempted an altitude record, was found hanged to a bathroom fixture in his office Thursday night. Paperno was partner in a public accounting firm. He had been dead two days. He apparently was a suicide.

mouth of the Rev. Matthew Canning. “I’ve been in this parish two months,” he said. “I have given the last sacrament to twelve murdered men. There were five killings last week. How can I sleep at night, hearing the crack of pistols and knowing.my boys and girls are there on the street? If the police won’t help, I’ll clean up this parish single-handed, God helping me, or I won’t live to regret failing my trust!” tt tt tt THAT was just one week ago. Every night, since then.

Education has its seasons just as the years do. Summer school ends and as it nears its last legs comes inquiries on winter’s study time. With the opening of Butler university’s fall semester less than a month away, the registrar’s office at the university is working double time in preparation for the school’s opening and the closing of the summer school. Above —A Butler “summerite” paying his tuition to Miss Jeanette Palmer, assistant in the the school. Below—A group making inquiries for a “freshie” in the registrar’s office. The 1932 “freshie” who wants to know •what’s what is shown at the extreme right. She is Miss Marian Laut, 5270 Pleasant Run boulevard. Accompanying her on her mission of queries are, left to right, Mis Elysee Crosier, 421 Poplar road, who’ll be a “frosh” at Butler in 1933; Miss Margaret Mattingly, 513 Maple lane, a Butler sophomore and friend of Miss Laut, and Miss Laut’s mother, Mrs. Henry W. Laut. Miss Isabelle Head, assistant to the university’s registrar, is answering their questions about tuition, books and “what-not.”

CLIMAX Event Tonight Closes Recreation Program. A pageant, “This Land of Ours,” featuring songs, dances, and costumes of all nations, will be presented at 7:30 tonight in Brookside park. Four hundred children from thirty-five playgrounds will take part in the event—grand finale of the city recreation program for the summer. Solo numbers will be given by Virginia Brewer, Opal Longest, Evelyn Longest, Betty Erwin, Blossom Jane Degischer, Helen Fischer, and Phil Parsons. H. W. Middlesworth, Mrs. Norma Koster, and the various playground superintendents, are in charge of the pageant. Loud speakers will carry the program throughout the crowd, expected to be several thousand. The event will be staged just east of Brookside community house. Three Civil Posts Open Civil service examinations for posts at the new veterans’ hospital here and for other vacancies as they occur were announced today by postal authorities. Posts open are; Electrician, fireman and plumber for duties at the hospital.

GOVERNOR’S SON IS QUIZZED ON DEATH

By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—William H. Murray, son of “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, Governor of Oklahoma, was questioned today department of justice agents in Brooklyn, in connection with the death of Joseph Apud, assistant purser on the liner Southern Cross, found dead in his stateroom last Monday.

Father Canning, pastor of the St. Charles Borromeo church, has invaded speakeasies and underworld dives around Cypress street and Roosevelt road to confront hardfaced toughs. “Do you want to get tough, or are you going to get out peaceably?” has been his query. Father Canning once taught boxing. Father Canning is six feet tall. Father Canning has red hair. “We’ll go, Father,” the hoodlums have answered. “Well, get out and stay out,” has been the priest’s only retort.

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FARMERS WILL SING AT FAIR Quartets Will Compete for SSOO in Prizes. “Singing farmers” from all Indiana will take part in a male quartet contest during the state fair, Sept. 5 to 12. The event is being conducted by the Indiana farm bureau. . Since each county may enter only one quartet in each of the two classes, keen rivalry has been shown in the last four weeks in counties vying for first place. “A” class has an age limit of up to 26 years; “B” class is for rural quartets with members 26 years and over. Each morning of the fair winning quartets from two districts will compete Three judges will be selected by the State Federation of Music Clubs and the Indiana farm bureau. Daily noon broadcast will be made of a program by quartets placing first in district contests. Friday, Sept. 11, will be “all champions day.” Five hundred dollars will be distributed in prizes. FAIR IS ADVERTISED WITH 18,000 POSTERS 500 Road Signs and 10,000 Caps Also Are Being Used. Eighteen thousand posters, 500 metal road signs and 10,000 red and white caps for boys and girls now are advertising the seventy-ninth annual Indiana state fair, Sept. 5-12, according to a checkup made today by Secretary E. J. Barker. The road signs match those placed on state roads by the state highway department and poin>; the way to the fairground at Indianapolis. Caps were distributed throughout the state to 4-H club members and other children and the 10,000 failed to meet the demand, Barker said. WEALTHY YOUffTIKILLED Grandson of Bank’s Founder Loses Life in Auto Crash. By United Press TOOLE, Utah, Aug. 21.—Norman Waite Harris 11, 22, a grandson of the founder of the Harris Trust and Savings bank of Chicago, was killed Thursday when his automobile, traveling at high speed, overturned in a ditch near here. Harris was en route to San Francisco to take a position in the Wells Fargo bank. After learning the business, the young man planned to return to Chicago to work in the bank controlled by his family.

Murray told agents there had been a party in his cabin, after which he and some of his guests had gone to Apud’s stateroom. He said he had left his pistol, which later was found beside the body of Apud, in the dead man’s room. He denied any knowledge of how the assistant purser might have been shot.

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'T'HE gang business hasn’t been A so good this week in the parish. There have been no killings, no bombing, no boys and girls waylaid on lonely streets at nights. The children play happily on the sidewalks in early evening. Mothers, wiping their hands on their aprons, stand on their front stoops and gossip. And Father Canning, six-foot tali and red-headed, squares his shoulders and prepares for another night of cleaning up that parish—single-handed.

HIGH COST OF COUNTY ROADS STIRS ATTACK State Will Be Urged to Stop Commissioners’ Plan to Hike Levy. $70,000 WASTE SEEN i Excessive Amount Will Be Paid for Gravel, Opponents Say. The 1932 Marion county free gravel road budget, by which county commissioners are preparing to make„huge road expenditures in the face of high tax rates, will be appealed to the state tax board. Intention to appeal the commissioners' budget proposal was announced today by Harry Miesse of the Indiana State Taxpayers Assoi ciation. The state board is the only organization which can prevent commis- • sioners from raising the road levy la cent above that outlined by Charles Mann, county road superintendent. “So far they have failed to give me a copy of the budget, but I understand they intend to spend $35,00 needlessly on a county ‘blacktop’ road scheme. This association is going to stop them,” Miesse declared. \ Charge Fund Waste The Taxpayers’ Association is scanning carefully charges by John E. Shearer, minority commissioner, that “the board turned a deaf ear to Mann’s suggestion that the county buy gravel from local pits next year at 20 cents a yard and stop paying the exorbitant price of 90 cents to gravel companies.” With 70,000 yards to be purchased in 1932, Mann's proposal, if followed, would save the county about $35,000 on its gravel bills, it is said. “Inclination of Commissioners George Snider and Dow Vohries to go on allowing gravel companies fat contracts was suggaTed by their cutting from the budget a $2,100 item, asked by Mann to buy a scraper to remove dirt from local gravel pits,” Shearer stated. Marion county is said to have more local pits than Fountain county. In that county the road superintendent is paying as lor; as 12% cents a yard, it is reported. Calls Spending Reckless Shearer estimated that Snider and Vorhies, majority board members needlessly would spend $70,000 for roads, according to their plans. They ask $188,509 to build reads in 1932, compared with $149,595, estimated by Mann, and despite a balance of $50,000 In the 1931 road fund. Taking into consideration this balance and lower material cost. 1 , Mann said he could built more roads in 1932 than in 1931 for less money. Commissioners asked $37,000 more for tar and patching material than last year. The tax board cut this item from $50,000 to $37,000 in 1930. They propose to build thirty miles of tar-gravel roads, regardless of protests from over-burdened taxpayers and other county officials, pledged to an economy program, Shearer charged. Commissioners ask a 1-cent levy for roads. NEWS ASSOCIATIONS BAN LOTTERY ‘INFO’ Sweepstakes Data to be Cut from Firm’s Wires. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-Arch Coleman, acting postmaster-general, today announced that the United Press, Associated Press and International News Service had agreed with the postoffice department to refrain from carrying on their wires news of sweepstakes lotteries. “These news associations hereafter will not distribute to their members and clients matter relating to sweepstakes lotteries, either in stories or photographs, just as they alway have refrained from handling matter relating to the numerous ether kinds of foreign lotteries patronized by players in this country. “By this action, these organizations make easier the task of this department, which must exclude from the mails, as the law directs, newspapers which carry matter relating to these lotteries;.” SETS RECLUSE’ ESTATE Ohioan Leaves $60,000 to His Cousin, Kcndallville Man. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. 21. Charles Stroedter, Groveport, 0., recluse, who before his death hid large sums of money about his home, left an estate valued at more than $60,000 to a cousin, Frank Strater of Kendallville, Ind., according to the terms of his will. Part of the estate was in real estate. Mrs. Metta M. Balz of Columbus will act as co-executor of the will at the request of Strater, whose appointment was postponed until Aug. 31. Ted Cook Is Operated Upon By United Press SAN CLEMENTE, Cal., Aug. 21. Proctor F. (Ted) Cook, nationally known humorist and syndicate columnist, was recovering today after an emergency operation for acute appendicitis. Cook has been spending the summer at Laguna beach with his family.

Rolling Oasis By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—Herman Castro is under suspended sentence today on a charge of peddling without a license. It’s a police move to enforce the prohibition law. Castro was accused of peddling his wares from a migratory or rolling speakeasy, a push cart.