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Richard Aldington In “The Colonel's Daughter,” Richard Aldington presents a splendid picture of post war conditions in England. He is bitter and cruel, but he paints a picture of facts. Doubleday, Doran & Cos. are the publishers. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN HAVE you written your book review yet for this department. Many people, even boys and girls, are getting the review habit. Every Friday in this department, one review written by a reader of The Times will be published. And the writer of the winning review today is Miss Rae Shirley Davis, 902 South Illinois street. She reviews “A Lantern in Her Hand” by Bess Streeter Aldrich as follows: In depicting the life of the early settlers of Nebraska, Bess Streeter Aldrich makes the reader feel he is an eye witness to all the events. Through the writer’s insight, fiction and non-fletion are combined making one beautiful theme. Throughout the story, Abbie Deal's character is so human that often she becomes a prey to the discouragements and heartrends of a mother. Often, too, she is tempted to forsake the cruel country, but her loyalty comes to her rescue, and she carries on with renewed courage. When her husband dies she feels lost, but just for a moment, for she knows he will always be with her in spirit—which is a bright light in a dim future. The trait of culture, the one thing she has no time to develop even though her love for music and books is ever a burning desire, she pases on to her children, each one fulfilling something she herself has always longed to do. “She dies an old woman who has spent eighty-six rich and happy years interspersed with the disasters and joys of a life well spent. Miss Davis can have a copy of any of the six best sellers in fiction as her prize for writing the review. a a a The best six sellers in fiction in New York just now are listed as “Shadows on the Rock,” by Willa Cather; “A White Bird Flying,” by Bess Streeter Aldrich: “Hatter’s Castle,” by A. J. Cronin; “ The Sixth Journey,” by Alice Grant Rosman; “The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck, and “Red Pepper Returns,” by Doubleday-Doran Company. man Have just received a copy of “The Story of Julian.” the new novel by Susan Ertz. She is the author of “Madame Claire” and “The Galaxy.” Her latest story is a romance. nan Would you share your husband? That’s the question answered in “Belle-Mere” by Kathleen Norris. Her triangle consists of a blind husband, a jealous mother-in-law and a love-starved wife. a a a C. DELISLE BURNS puts "Modem Civilization on Trial” (MacMillan, $2.50) in one of the most interesting of the new nonfiction books. Burns’ point of view is interesting and he leaves very little out of his book. a a a Someone has suggested that I list one book a week that the average reader might enjoy Seems like a pretty good idea. The “must” book this week is "Man's Own Show; Civilization" by Dr. George A. Dorsey. Published by Harper & Brothers. a a a Farrar & Rinehart announce the publication of anew collection of poems and lyrics by Selma Robinson. It's title is "City Child” and Rockwell Kent is the illustrator. This young poet is unusually popular in New York newspaper and writing circles. a a a No long poem in recent years has attained the wide pepulraity of • The Testament of Beauty” by the late Robert Bridges. The new edition by the Oxford University Press has many explanations by Nowell Charles Smith. a a a "The Case Against Birth Control” by Dr. Edward Roberts Moore will be published Sept. 8 by the Century Company. This book reveals the results of an extensive survey of the birth control problem by the Roman Catholic church. a a a Vicki Baum's newest. “Martin's Summer.” (Cosmopolitan. $2) strikes observers as little more than a variation on the theme of “Grand Hotel.” but still there seems to be quite an ado over it. a a a One novel and interesting volume is “I Am Still Alive,” by Dick Grace, the famed movie stunt ace. Dick tells all about cracking up planes for the movie public and it is a thrilling tale of cheating and defying death at almost every turn. ' Rand-McNally. $2.) a a a “Th* Qreat Physician,” by Edith Gitting* Reid, finally has appeared. It is a biographical appreciation of medicine's great, modern exemplar, Sir William Oder (Oxford U. Press. _ ?_ '" ***'**:

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INCURABLES IN COUNTY FACE BLEAKFUTURE Poor Farm Is .Only Place Available for Them, Say Officials. HOSPITAL IS JAMMED City Institution Should Be Used for Those With Hope, Is Edict. BY SHELDON KEY County officials were agreed today that the committing of elderly, incurable city hospital patients to the county poor farm is an “improper and inhumanitarian” way to care for such persons, but believe the practice must continue as the only resort. 'Hie city hospital, now overcrowded. should make room for patients who have chance of being cured, authorities have concluded, after investigating the case of Mrs. Billye Thacker, 62, sent to the poor farm from the hospital last Wednesday. Even county commissioners, who admit the poor farm is not equipped with medical service properly to ease the suffering of aged patients, say “it appears the poor farm is the only place to take such dependents.” Little Medical Attention Commissioners did not state whether they would ask the county council to appropriate a small fund for bettering medical service at the infirmary. At present, the poor farm, with 500 aged, helpless inmates, has one part-time doctor, who visits there two days each week, and two nurses. County Auditor Harry Dunn declared today: “It is a pitiful situation whereby we have to resort to the poor farm for incurable, aged patients.” “I don’t believe, however, the city hospital should keep them when scores of persons who may be cured are asking entrance,” Dunn further said. Seems Only Course Miss Hannah Noone, Center township trustee, who signed commitment papers for Mrs. Thacker declared: “It is too bad we have to send such persons to the farm, but it seems the only way when their relatives can not or refuse to care for them.” “I never commit such persons except on doctor’s orders from the city hospital,” Miss Noone said. Commissioner John E. Shearer said, “I would be willing to spend a little money to provide medical attention and better surroundings for these old people.” Mrs. Tracker was removed to the farm, a hospital report to Miss Noone showed, “because her daughter, Mrs. May Lewis, a laundry worker, can not support her mother on her $lO a week wages.” Charges Improper Care Miss Glenn Hoover, hospital social service director, wrote Miss Noone: “Doctors have done all they could for Mrs. Thacker, who is suffering from partial paralysis and eye trouble.” She had been in the hospital for several months. Mrs. Lewis presented her case to a local attorney, charging that her mother is not being cared for properly by poor farm authorities. She told the attorney she found her mother lying on a straw tick and without any medical attention at the infirmary. Other county officials agreed with Shearer today that something might be done for the incurables if “commissioners would spend a few dollars at the poor farm.” Sixth Bride at 71 WABASH, Tnd., Sept. 4.—Henry Kitch, 71, has taken his sixth bride, Mrs. Hannah Keith, who had been married twice previously.

Cap Pistol Toter Doomed to Be Thug, Says Judge ; Here’s How

Are you raising your boy to be a gangster? Have you an embryo A1 Capone or Legs Diamond at your breakfast table? Well, here in photos you have the surest means of making a bootlegging. machine-gunning underworld baron. The recipe for turning your Willies and Toms into “plug-uglies" is attested to by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Now if you want just a plain, ordinary “burglar," you take a boy like Paul Eddy, 7, of 302 East Troy ayesy*, m this phot e,

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Wheat not only is good for admission to the state fair, but also can be used for advertising the seventy-ninth fair, which opens Saturday to Sept. 12. Lamp posts in Indianapolis downtown streets today were decorated with corn stalks and wheat shocks, preparatory to opening of the fair. The Times found a pole with added beauty when Miss Hilda Jane Greensberg, sought shelter under the corn and wheat.

MODEL HOME'S OPENINGREADY Rains Aid Shrubbery, Lawn of Realtor Exhibit. Formal opening Saturday of the 1931 model home in its permanent location at 3701 Forest Manor avenue will mark the opening of tne latest creation of the building industry. Open house will be held until Oct. 4 that the public may view the Germantown colonial home that attracted so much attention when it served as the centerpiece for the 1931 Realtor’s Home show. Rains the past few days have helped lawn scTd. flowers and shrubbery to burst into luxuriant growth. This factor and the choice of furniture and interior fittings give the home an air of warmth and comfort. Tonight, representatives of firms whose products are a part of the furnishings of the model home will be guests of the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association at a dinner and informal opening of the home. Approximately 115 guests will attend, J. F. Cantwel, chairman of the dinner committee, announced. A. H. M. Graves, president of the home builders, will preside at the dinner. Frank F. Woolling will be master of ceremonies and judge of contests to be held. Today Golden Date By Times Special WABASH. Ind.. Sept. 4.—Mr. and Mrs. Emery P. Daywalt celebrated their golden wedding anniversary today.

Paul was a good boy who wore berets until he started down the primrose path they don't come back from . . . playing “Indian” in his back yard. On Aug. 29. Paul was permitted to play in his yard with neighbor youngsters. Just think! His mother let him paint his face up with rouge and wear an old discarded army hat, and even got his 4th of July cap pistol out, so he could become a regular “rootin,’ tootin' ” cowboy. And in this photo Paul's telling his comrades today just why he's going to be a “Chicago burglar” when he grows up. It seems that while they were playing, a peddler, Mike Damore, 36. of 225 East Henry street, entered the Eddy back yard to “sella the bahan.” Mike had been peddling at the Eddy back door for more than a year. Mrs. Eddy was one of his best customers. You know how tired “Indians” and “cowboys" get after a day of “bang-banging” and “boom-booming" and how they do enjoy bananas and cream. * As Mike approached Paul and his armies he heard the most Wrrlhle ~ *

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1931

! ROAD BOSSES READY TO FIRE 8 EXECUTIVES _ Department Affairs Are in New Era; Commissioners Accept Edicts. MANLOVE DUE TO ‘GO’ Highway Chiefs Jump Through Hoop Set Up by Sapp and Leslie. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Affairs of the Indiana state highway department entered anew era today, with the administration hope that it will be less hectic. Commissioners at their conference Thursday afternoon are reported to have leaped through the last loop of the Le6lie-Sapp program and slated eight department executives for dismissal. The list is said to include Owen Boling, so-called “assistant” to Director John J. Brown, and Omer Manlove, garage superintendent, and source of considerable criticism for some time past. Names of those to be asked to leave are said to have been given the comrqissioners by Governor Harry G. Leslie. The staff cutting, however, is reported to be one of twenty-six needed reforms outlined to Leslie by Arthur Sapp, Huntington, his newly appointed commissioner. Dismissals to Be Gradual Sapp succeeded to the place of Commissioner Jess Murden, Peru, who resigned. The dismissals are to be brought about gradually, it was reported, so that the department will not undergo the turmoil of a wholesale shakeup. Another new departure at the commission meetings of the last two days was the absence of the engineers at the executive sessions. Neither William J. Titus, chief engineer, nor A. H. Hinkle, maintenance chief, was in attendance. Both are said to be on probation under the new era arrangement and will have to keep down the interdepartmental battles between cement (Titus) and blacktop (Hinkle), or else . These quarrels have racked the department almost since its inception. Brown on Probation Others on probation with the Leslie administration are said to be Brown himself and Albert J. Wedeking, chairman of the commission. Wedeking “took the responsibility” for announcement of an unemployment relief program to be brought about by road work financed by surplus maintenance funds, which is said to be another Leslie-Sapp plan. Leslie himself halted the purchase of a truck fleet advertised for on the grounds that the trucks are not needed at this time. An opinion on replacements has been asked of the attorney-general. Hinkle, whose maintenance forces arrange the specifications based on “immediate needs,” and which were approved by the commission, appeared as disappointed as the twen-ty-nine truck companies’ representatives who wasted their time bidding. Rollers and other road machinery. advertised for, were bought. GRANTS VENUE CHANGE Trial of Negro, Charged With Murder, to Be at Greenfield. Motion for a change of venue in the trial of Richard Perkins, Negro, charged with the murder of Carl Hickman, a detective sergeant, was granted Thursday by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. The trial will be held in the Hancock circuit court at Greenfield. Hickman was slain when he and another detective accosted two Negroes, whom they thought were attempting to hold up a laundry : truck driver in front of 3500 North I Pennsylvania street, Jan. 3.

They’re in the Stretch With Five Fighting for Derby Prize

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Here are the swell-heads! Here are the five leaders in the Brown Derby tilt and their head measurements as taken by Miss Valentia Meng, 4458 College avenue. Miss Meng substituted for Princess Eugenic, contest judge, in the cranium thumping and taping. The princess 'cut her lip with a rouge-

SKULL STANDINGS Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner. .15.013 Jesse McClure Frank C. Riley 643 Hoosier Pete "96 Ira P, Haymaker The skids were applied today to all Brown Derby candidates with less than 500 ballots. But five prize domes are left in the race for the diadem, the saffron kelly, that will adorn one head the night of Sept. 11 at the Indiana state fair. And unless three of the five leaders develop a penchant for ballotstealing or mayhem, the race shimmers down to the High Sheriff of Marion county, Charles (Buck) Sumner and Jesse McClure, salesman and “good sport swan.” Buck Has Big Lead The sheriff has a lead that looks like the Switzerland’s Matterhorn on a clear day. But Jesse's boys are undaunted. They may take a page out of Jesse James’ life if necessary to beat the smiling “Buck,” they declare. The last derby vote will be printed in Wednesday’s edition of the Times. The winner will be announced Thursday and crowned with the distinguished citizenship honor and given a bronze placque next Friday at 8 p. m. Head sizes shown in the above photos demonstrate without a doubt that “Hoosier Pete” has the largest knob and McClure the smallest. County Recorder Haymaker modestly rests between Sumner’s big seven and one-quarter “ivory” and Riley’s oversized “thinktank.” And What Domes! And what heads they are! Not one depends on Ed Pinaud’s elixir to grow his side-burns. Each pate keeps as kissable as possible. “They are heads worthy of any derby, Egad. Even the Earl of Derby. I remember the time me and the Earl —that fine old chappie—were ,” but Major Hoople, contest arbiter, was choked to death at this juncture. Vote early, often, and somehow for your favorite. Then hear him tell why he scorns caps, fedoras, and top hats at the state fair coronation on Sept. 11.

Well, anyway, Mike broke in on a fierce cap pistol skirmish like the one in this photo. Paul “ki-yi'd” and, running up to Mike, stuck his big cap pistol where Mike’s belt “should have bin ’ (’Member that line in “Gunga Din ”?). “How’d you like to get shot?” said this redpainted “desperado” to the banana man. Now, how would you like to get shot like that by a big cap pistol. Mister Citizen? Mike took the cap pistol away from Paul and. like a nice, gentle banana man, resisted this bold, bad bandit of the backyard by clouting him with the cap pistol. It raised a welt. So Payl's mother had Damore arrested for assault and battery. He was tried before Judge Cameron. The judge withheld judgment against Damore. That means “nothing happened," exces_what the judge said to Mrs. Eddy for permitting-her son to play with a “cap^giia.”

stick and could not act as Royal Measurer of the “DARBY.” Left to Right—Frank C. Riley, attorney; Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner, Hoosier Pete, Ira P. Haymaker, county recorder, and Jesse McClure, salesman of the Frank Hatfield Company.

INDIANA STATE FAIR READY FOR GRAND OPENING SATURDAY BY KEY RINTALA THAT’S a cow, mama?” W “Pop, kin I have that? . . Gimme ... let me . . . take me.” “Mom and Pop'” are going to have to “step on it” if even hope to keep up with Johnnie, Betty and little Dave. For Saturday is children’s day at the state fair and boys and girls will want to see everything on the grounds. Something to see, places to go—fair board officials have arranged a program which fills every minute of the day with new attractions.

From 8:30 a. m. to 9:30 p. m. the Indiana university students will stage a continuous program ranging from musical numbers to free movies. In the farm bureau tent on the midway west of the grand stand, Farm Bureau quartets from all Indiana will compete for honors. They will §ing each day from 10 to 12 o’clock. Mechanical exhibits, landscape work put up by professors, and complete explanations of the “why” of farm work are some of the reasons that Purdue university building will be well patronized. Judging of club work and exhibits in all departments will be carried on all day. 4-H members and girls in the state fair economics school are to be guests of WKBF and WLS at the old-fashioned barn dance Saturday night in the Coliseum where a special section will be reserved for them. High schools in the state are well represented in the fine arts being shown at the Women’s building. Old-masters from the Art institute of Indianapolis also will be on display. Half-mile harness races will start at 2:30. Between the races, vaudeville artists will entertain spectators seated in the new grandstand. After the races, a complete threering circus will perform and that will be followed with a scintillating exhibition of fireworks. A complete j carnival will be on the grounds to | entertain young and old. Special arrangements were com- j

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pleted this morning to have Billy Sunday, well-known evangelist, speak to boys’ and girls’ Sunday school classes. He also will speak in the afternoon at the Coliseum. There will be no charge other than the admission fee to hear him. Indianapolis Street Railway Company will operate special busses and trams, beginning Saturday. Plenty of parking space inside the grounds is being provided by Roy E. Graham and a crew of eighty men. General admission to the grounds is 10 cents, with 50 cents charged for each vehicle entering. Children 12 years old and under will be admitted free when accompanied by their parents. REGISTRATION IS SET Pupils to Enter Blaker Demonstration School Tuesday. Pupils will register in the Blaker demonstration school at Butler university college of education Tuesday, school heads said today. The curriculum will embrace all subjects offered in elementary public schools classes. Children from forty-seven families were enrolled last year. Four critic teachers, assisted by student teachers, will have charge of instruction. Miss Faye Henley, assistant professor of elementary education, is director of the work.

He said, “You should be ashamed of yourself for letting your boy have a cap gun. You’ll make a burglar out of him. The first thing you know your boy will be in Chicago’s gangland.” But Mrs. Eddy still lets Paul play with “cap-guns,” despite the judge. Hunrdeds of other mothers seem to be doing the same thing. And so, in this picture, you can see why our penitentiaries are loaded with criminals. Here’s Paul smiling the snarl of his cap-pistol crime. Don’t you shudder at looking at him? Just think! He'll soon ‘fee a big “Chicago burglax,” M

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[WIFE OF LOVE BUTCHER HELD AS ‘SUSPECT’ Made ‘Prisoner’ in Home While Woman Aid in Crime Is Hunted. GUILTY PLEA RUMORED (Powers May Try to Dodge Death With Clever ‘Scientific’ Defense. I By United Press CLARKSBURG. W. Va.. Sept. 4. J Mrs. Louella Strouther Powers, wifa ( of Harry Powers, matrimonial | agency "Bluebeard,” practically wa%, i a prisoner in her home here today, it was learned as police continued their efforts to determine whether Powers was assisted by a woman accomplice in the five killings charged against him. Mrs. Powers has been placed under 24-hour surveillance, it was revealed. No orders have been issued regarding her conduct, but posaid she would not be permitted to leave Clarksburg until the investigation is completed. The surveillance of Mrs. Powers w’as bared as defense counsel intimated that a clever “scientific" defense might enable Powers to escape the noose for the hanging and beating of two women and three children in his Quiet Dell garage. May Plead Guilty It was reported that Powers might plead guilty on condition that he be offered to science as a scientific -subject for tests to assist authorities in combatting similar criminal tendencies in others. Under the reported plan. Powers would be given life imprisonment and in return would bare the complete story of his bizarre sex-com-plexes and alleged lust for killing. At the same time doubt was expressed that Barrett O’Hara, who defended Virgil Kirkland, “Gary gin slayer,” will enter the case. Strong dislike of O’Hara is expressed by residents and reports are current that he represents A1 Capone or the Detroit matrimonial agency through which Powers operated. Letters Believed Forged Theories that West Virginia's famous mail order lover had a woman accomplice were developed earlier today. Checks, letters, and other written messages, purporting to be from the pen of principals in the murder orgy of Quiet Deli, were believed after investigation to have been forged—and in the handwriting of a woman. Handwriting experts expressed the opinion that a check on the account of Asta Buick Eicher, widow and mother of three children among the slain, was forged by a woman. They said the same of a letter purporting to be from Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, written at Uniontown, Pa., to her sister, Mrs. Charles Fleming, Worcester, Mass. Doubted by Relative It was recalled in that connection that Charles Fleming declared the day following discovery of the murder that he did not believe the letter they had received from Mrs. Lemke was written by her. “It didn’t look like her handwriting,” he said, “and, besides, she could not speak English that well. She was born in Germany.” Mrs. Powers has not yet convinced authorities that she knew nothing of her husband’s activities during the years he has been wooing and winning the hearts of mid-dle-aged women of wealth by mail. They can not understand how a man could carry on correspondence with more than 100 women, promise to marry many of them, bring at least two of them and children of one of them to his garage, and kill them, as he said he did. without his wife, with whom he lived at the time, knowing a thing about it. ORR WAXES SARCASTIC : Flings Taunting Jibe at Monroe County Schools Chief. Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner I of the state board of accounts, today issued a “snappy comeback” to a second assault on his handling of state aid audits launched by William Y. Payne, superintendent of the Monroe county schools. It is as follows: “We do not intend to carry on through the newspapers a Dorothy Dix question and answer business with Mr. Payne. Our business is accounting, his is school teaching. If he will write us or come into the office we will endeavor to put him right and save him much worry.” DAIRY WAR CONTINUES Violence Increases and Fifty Illinois Farmers Are Arrested. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Sept. 4.—Hope qf settlement of a wholesale milk price controversy, involving 40 per cent of the milk consumed here, hinged today on arbitration efforts, as further wholesale arrests in Illinois indicated violence in the “war” was increasing. Fifty farmers were arrested at Columbia. HI., as they picketed a highway over which trucks of the Pevely Dairy Company pass. Other arrests were made in Randolph county, where more than three thousand gallons of milk were dumped from a truck. Authorities at Columbia said baseball bats, clubs and axes were found in possession of the pickets. Steamer Grounded Off Korea TOKIO, Sept. 4.—The HamburgAmerican steamer Burgenland, 7,000 tons, grounded today fifty miles off Moppo, Korea. The passengers and crew went ashore. The Japanese liner Baikal Maru went to thyrescue.