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Thorne Smith If you want to laugh, then get hold of a copy of Thorne Smith’s "Turnabout,” just published by Doubleday, Doran & Cos. It concerns an ordinary married couple who are fed up with marriage. By the aid of black magic, they swap bodies. Then the fun starts. a a a BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. HAVE before me a copy of "My Caravan," a book of poems about youngstr" *- search of adventure. It has just been published by Laidlaw Brothers and sells for sl. These poems have been collected and edited by Eulalie Osgood. Grover and they impress me that maybe thousands of children all over the world aided in selecting them. It seems to me that any child between the ages of five and ten would have selected these poems because all of them reflect youth. It has been charmingly illustrated by Florence Sampson with cutpaper silhouettes. The fact is the book is just a darling, if I may use such a gingerbread expression. Some of the authors represented are William Brightv Rands, Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Morse, Rabindranath Tagore, Hilda Conkling, Frances Clarke and many others. Have the thought that "My Caravan” should be in every home that has children. a a a Richard B. Duvall, 2725 North Meridian street, is the winner of this week’s book review contest. He will receive a ">f a prominent seller in fiction for his effort. Write your review of any book, keeping it as near as possible around a hundred or a hundred and fifty words and send it to the Literary Editor of The Times. Mr. Duvall reviews "Meanwhile,” by H. G. Wells, as follows: ■'Meanwhile'' Is a true example of Wellsian philosophy: it gives us a clear point of view about the world, and a man’s place in It. It is filled with shrewd, longvlsloned observations about men and things, that startle us with their simplicity and truth. In this book we find that there is decidedly more serenity than we have been accustomed to associate with Mr. Wells. His love for the fantastic end the unreal seems to have been forgotten in this story. The author, in "Meanwhile,” has worked Wonders with his setting. He makes reader live and see the beautiful gardens of Casa Terragena, the lovely Italian villa of Mrs. Rylands. He shows us the geographical beauty of Italy and at the same time a bit of her distressed political condition. through the movings of the Fascist!. The story is. of course, exceedingly modern in its trend of thought: this is shown by the conversations of the different guests. Wells succeeds in bringing the storm of modern life, and the troubled streams of modern ideas, into this secluded villa. The gav house party is varted enougljj to be constantly amusing, yet no more entertaining than the workings of Mrs. Rvlands' mind. She is shown as a woman readjusting herself to the after-the-war world, and also winning % for herself a serene and hopeful every-day philosophy. We have been shown the stresses and strains of a marriage, in which the characters of the man and woman differ tremendously, but in which there is an understanding and a great desire on the part of both to comprehend each other completely. a a a Tips on the book market from the public library: The season has gone completely Eugenie both in the world of fashion and of letters. The reference room has been trotting out all available materials on this charming plumed coquette of the nineteenth century and the new biography of the Empress by Robert Sencourt gives a graphic account of her gay social career. a a a The ‘Washington Merry-Go-’Round," recently published anonymously, has raised a hullaballoo among the political dignitaries of our nation. It is merciless, but most amusing. tS tt St Geoffrey dennis, a young Englishman who was awarded the Hawthorn den prize not long ago, is having his earlier books reissued. The book for which he won the prize is called "The End of the World” and is a curious phantasmagoria about comets, space, infinity, star streams and solar apogees ending with the disrupting question, ‘‘ls there a universe?” "Mary Lee” was his first novel and though it was highly praised by the critics, it had no great sale. "Harvest In Poland,” his next novel, was a story about spiritualism and "Declaration of Love.” His third published work was a series of love letters between a very modern young man and a more than modern young woman. They are all pretty much caviar for the general. a a a In spite of the public demand that Ogden Nash call his next book of mangled meter, “The Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery.” it has been announced that the title will be. for not good reason, "Free Wheeling.” It will be in the library next month. BRUCE CATTON, *NEA Service writer on books, lists the following murder mysteries as good reading: "Death of an Editor,” by Vernon Loder (Morrow, $2). Somebody allot

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U. S. INDICTS FIVE IN ALKY R(NG IN CITY Alleged Society Meggers Among 207 Named in Federal Court. ‘BIG SHOT’ IS ACCUSED 11 Others Face Charges in ‘Mile Square’ Booze Distilling Case. Society’s alleged bootleggers j coupled with an alleged "mile- j square’* distillery ring formed the j highlights of 207 indictments re- 1 turned today by the federal grand j jury. Five men were indicted on liquor j counts in connection with the sale of booze to the city’s “400.” They were: Irwin N. Goldman and J. Lew Goldman, 521 Sanders i street, brothers; Hyman Hollowitz, 2811 Ruckle street; Sam Hollowitz A 1309 North Pennsylvania street, ana Clifford Drummond. The alleged "mile-square” ring indictments were headed by the alleged "big shot,” Giovanni Modaf- j sari. Besides the charge of liquor con- | spiracy Modaffari awaits grand jury action on a charge of intimidating a government witness. Threatens Freedom Suit He is held in jail in default of a $25,000 bond, but today his attorney, T. C. Whallon, planned to request a reduction of the bond. Whallon threatened to file habeas corpus proceedings in the intimidation case if the bond was not reduced, he said. He termed the $25,000 bond as equal to some of the high bonds placed on large liquor racketeers in Chicago and denied that his client, was a “big shot.” Modaffari is alleged to have threatened to “bump off” Mrs. Bertha Anderson, 820 Daly street, if she gave testimony against him before the grand jury in the liqufir conspiracy. Alky Diverting Charged Eleven others have been indicted with Modeffari in the alleged "milesquare” liquor ring. Stills ranging from fifty to 150 gallons daily capacity are alleged to have been operated by the ring. The Goldmans, alleged society liquor purveyors, were said by prohibition agents to have been operating in hotels and several north side apartments. Wholesale indictments were also returned against six men for diverting alcohol from a Lawrenceburg company’s still plant. Government operatives allege that between 30,000 and 50,000 gallons of “alky” was taken from commercial use and diverted into the liquor racket. The alleged alcohol conspirators are: Jesse Baker, James Harrell, Raymond Gray, Harlow Sturgeon, Herbert Akins and Kenneth Whitney. Indicted in Narcotic Ring Among the list of indicted persons was Don Carson, of the Hotel Edwards. Carson is charged with liquor conspiracy. He was arrested by government agents in a narcotic raid on a room in the hotel. Frank B. Kuszynski, 76214 West Vermont street, and Joseph E. Oliver. Negro, charged with counterfeiting, were among those whom the jury found true bills. Those indicted today and under arrest will be arraigned next Friday by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. ROAD IS UNDER REPAIR Detour South of City to Affect Saturday Grid Fans. Motorists traveling south from Indianapolis, including football fans who plan to watch the IndianaOhio university game at Bloomington Saturday, will find a six-mile detour on State Road 37, south of the city. It begins at Troy avenue and ends one mile north of Glens Valley, but is all pavement. Repair work on the highway at the Illinois Central elevation south of the city necessitated the detour, according to the highway department. the editor; from the yacht, with a rifle, or closeup, with a revolver; Also, there was a Frenchman who got done in, and there was a very phony lady detective. Good reading. if a trifle complicated. "Dancing Death,” by Christopher Bush ( Crime Club, $2). Another of those fatal house parties; casualties, a beautiful dancer, a young novelist and a very snooty maid. Good, straightforward mystery, with the imported clues given in advance just to make things more interesting. I think you’ll like it. "Suspicious Characters,” by Dorothy L. Sayers (Brewer, Warren and j Putnam, $2). Lord Peter Whimsey finds out who bashed the artist on j the head and dumped him into the Scotch burrrrn. If you think you'd like a detective named Lord Peter Whimsey, hop to it, because it’s a right good yarn otherwise. "The Sound of Footsteps.” by Leslie Ford (Crime Club, s2l. Somebody shoots an eminent jurist—with Washington bootlegging intrigue as a background. This is a completely done puzzler, with a pleasing little surprise on the final page. a a a Knute Rockne’s family tree, re- J produced in facsimile just as it was turned over to him by the genealogist, will be a special feature of the Notre Dame edition of "The Autobiography of Knute Rockne,” to be published in October. The entire edition of 2,400 copies has been purchased and will be exclusively distributed by The Book Shop of South Bend, Ind. Mr. Weidman, owner of the book shop, was an intimate frieM of Rockne. Bobbs-Merrill is the publisher.

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Make Jobs! Emergency Work Committee, Inc., 310 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Ind.: I enclose dollars for which please send me tickets for the benefit baseball game between the Indians and the I. P. and L. Cos. amateur city champions, Monday, Sept. 26, at Perry stadium. Name Address Make checks payable to the Emergency Work Committee. Ine.

FINES LOTTERY OPERATOR SSOO Suit Club Alleged ‘Blind’ for Pool Racket. Convicted of maintaining headquarters for a lottery under the “blind” of a suit club, Guy Demattoe, Wesley hotel, today was fined SSOO and costs by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer for keeping a room for pool selling. Demattoe is alleged to have operated a club in which a “customer” paid $1 weekly for lottery tickets and at the end of forty weeks’ membership, received not only lottery winnings, if any, but a suit of clothes. The complaint on which Kruse raided the headquarters at 700-02 Lemcke building Tuesday, was filed by G. E. Foltz, “customer,” who was not given his suit, he charged. The suit club is the successor of another similar alleged racket that v/as the target for police when it was operated by the L. J. Reynolds Company a few months ago. Count of operating a lottery against Demattoe was dismissed by the court.

OXNAM FOES RAPPED Campus Publication Upholds De Pauw President. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Sept. 25. "These few meddlesome alumni will find it difficult to get G. Bromley Oxnam away from a student body as devoted to him as that of De Pauw university,” reads an editorial in the De Pauw, tri-weekly student publication of which Thoburn H. Wiant is editor. Attacks on President Oxnam started several months ago when the charge was made at a meeting of aluminum in Indianapolis that bringing radical and peace advocates to the campus for lectures was making the university a hotbed of “sex, sovietism and socialism.” Another broadside was fired at the president during the summer when it was reported he visited Russia and attended a communist gathering. Dr. Oxnam cabled that he had not been in Russia. The editorial reply to the alumni group cqptains a reprint of editorial in the Northwestern Christian Advocate, written by Dr. Dan B. Brummitt, under the caption, “Sh-h! He’s Gone to Russia.”

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Miss Bessie Osgood. Milford, 111., and Paul Sherrill of Central, Ind., have been chosen to presidency of the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. cabinets at Indiana Central college this year.

HOGSTON CUTS PAY OF HIS FIRE STAFF

First statehouse salary slashes were made today by Alfred Hogston, state fire marshal, and approved by the state budget committee. Hoston submitted a list of salaries, revised downward, to the budget committee, and it met with immediate approval. It means a reduction for every present member of the fire marshal’s staff, except himself. He gets $4,000 a year, the salary being fixed by statute. But budget committee members indicated that if any statutory officer wanted to volunteer to cut his own pay they would approve. Hogston said the cut will mean about $3,000 to $4,000 saving on the year, but that he intended to use

Dry Quake By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Sept. 25. A number of farmers were forced to re-drill wells or seek other sources of water supply as a result of the slight earth shock which was felt here Sunday. The shock failed, however, to affect the city water works and no effect was noted in any of its wells or equipment.

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AUTO FACTORY I AT NEWCASTLE ADDSWORKERS Chrysler Night Shift Larger Due to Unexpected Business. 1,000 BUSY AT MARION! Radio Plant Force Increased 200 With Operations on Overtime Basis. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Timet Some improvement in employment was noted in a business and industrial survey of Indiana for the i week ended today. Workers have been added to the night force of the Chrysler automobile plant at Newcastle, due to an j unexpected order. The United States Radio and Television Corporation at Marion added about 200 persons to its force during the week, making a total of 1,000 on the pay roll, with operations on an overtime schedule. By the end of the year, officials of the Associated Apparels plant at Gary expect 2,000 persons to.be employed. A force of 700 is now working, with a weekly pay roll of SIO,OOO. 975 Work at Wabash Wabash industries have 975 persons on their pay rolls. Plants particularly active are those of the Spencer-Cardinal Cabinet Company and Wetzel Display Case Company. At South Bend the demand for mechanical draftsmen and tool designers became so great that it was necessary to employ men living in other cities. Employers of these workmen include the South Bend Tool and Die Company, which is working on a day and night schedule, and the Studebaker and Bendix Corporations. A cheese making department will be added to the Armour & Cos. plant at Rochester in November, with a daily capacity of 50,000 gallons of milk. It is expected that Portland’s new industry, the Aircraft Corporation of America, will turn out its first plane by Oct. 1. Steel Order Booked The American Bridge Company of Gary has obtained an order for 20,000 tons of steel to be used in construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at New Orleans. Orders aggregating 550 tons were received in one day by the Mt. Vernon Strawboard Company, whose plant has been operating at 60 per cent of capacity with 100 persons employed. A display of products of the Continental Car-Na-Var Corporation of Brazil has been placed at Toronto, Canada, in connection with the convention of the American Hospital Association. During the week a report of building operations in Indiana during August was released. During the month four of nineteen cities showed gains in building over August, 1930, these being Indianapolis, Evansville, Logansport and Muncie. In a list of twenty-five cities of the country showing gains, Indianapolis was fourteenth, URGE STEPS TO CURB INTERSECTION WRECKS Citizens Safety Board Asks Shrubbery on Corners Be Trimmed. A request is made by the- Citizens’ Safety committee that property owners trim shrubbery near street intersections to such height as not to obstruct the outlook on the crossstreet. The recommendation was passed at a meeting of the committee at the Maennerchor, Thursday night. Fifty-seven patrolmen have been detailed by the police department to protect school children at the most dangerous crossings, Lieutenant Owen reported. The total number of traffic accidents has decreased by 231 as compared to the same period last year. Recommendation by Judge Cameron that the city be asked to issue $50,000 in bonds to purchase police equipment is to be considered at the October meeting.

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this for additional arson investigators. "We are twenty-five fires behind,” he asserted. A raise was incorporated in the new Hogston schedule for a publicity man he expects to hire soon. Reductions were as follows: Chief investigator, $2,640 to $2,400; chief inspector, same; arson squad chief, $2,160 to $2,100; educational chief, $2,160 to $1,920; R. E. inspector, $2,160 to $1,980; field director, same; inspectors, $1,680 to $1,620; secretary, $1,620 to $1,500, and statistical clerk, $1,620 to $1,560. The publicity man will get $1,200, while the former holder of that position got SI,OBO. DRAFT PHILIPPINE PLEA Resolution Asking Independence Will Be Carried to Hoover. By United Press MANILA, P. L, Sept. 25.—Philippine independence leaders were armed today with a legislative resolution requesting independence. It was adopted by a joint session of the insular legislature, and will be presented to Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley for transmission to President Hoover. It was intended that the resolution be presented to congress after it bad been read oy President.

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FOUR HI6HWAYS ARE COMPLETED Seventy Miles of Detours Eliminated in Week. Forty-five miles of pavement on four projects were-opened to traffic this week and approximately 70 miles of detour roads abandoned, John .. Brown, director of the state highway commission announced in the commission’s traffic bulletin today. Brown cited opening of 25 miles of cement concrete pavement on the old Michigan Road—State Road 29 —from the Marion county line to Boyleston; 15 miles on Road 7 between Columbus and North Vernon; about 3 miles on Road 38 near Hagerstown and Greenfork, and 2.5 miles on Road 15 between Marion and LaFontaine as construction work completed in the past week. He announced that Road 29 provides anew paved route between Indianapolis and South Bend via Logansport and Rochester; that new pavement on Road 7 completed paving the short route between Indianapolis and Madison, and that in a few weeks when pavement is opened between the Cass county line and Winamac, Road 29 will be paved entirely across Indiana in a diagonal north and south direction from Madison and Michigan City, excepting between Versailles and ■Madison. Roads oiled recently and now in fine traffic condition are listed in the bulletin as Road 27 at 4 miles north of Portland; Road 46 between Columbus and Nashville, and Road ; 1 from 3 miles south of Vincennes to the White River bridge. Roads in process of oiling and over which slow driving is advised, are as follows: SIGN THRONE TRUCE Alfonso and Prince Jaime Pledge Mutual Aid. By United Press PARIS, Sept.§ 25.—Reconciliation between Alfonso XIII, exiled king of Spain, and Prince Don Jaime of Bourbon, long his rival as pretender to the throne, was completed today. Don Jaime, returning Alfonso’s visit of earlier in the week, had luncheon with the royal family at Fontainbleau, after which they held a three-hour discussion of Spanish events, particularly the possible Intervention of the united monarchist parties in future elections. At the end of their talk, Alfonso and Jaime signed a document which did not express the right of either to the Spanish throne but embodies an agreement to unite their forces, each engaging to help Mhe other “when the time arrives.” AIRWAY CHIEF NAMED Cincinnati Man to Be Local Traffic Director for Embry-Riddle. Embry-Riddle division of American Airways today placed Earl K. Rogers of Cincinnati in charge of

traffic here, with offices in the Administration building at the municipal airport. Rogers formerly was an instructor in the University of Notre Dakota, and a graduate student at Ohio State university. On its Cincinnati - to - Chicago

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line American Airways this week placed in service new Pilgrim 100-A planes, a single-motored ship powered with 575-horse power Pratt & Whitney Hornet motors, and capable of carrying nine passengers, 300 pounds of baggage and 475 pounds of mail. CHILD CHOIR WILL SING Chorus of 50 Voices to Be Heard at Gospel Tabernacle. Singing by a children’s “Sunshine” choir of fifty voices will be featured tonight at the Indianapolis Gospel tabernacle, Alabama and North streets. The choir has been trained by Mrs. Watson Argue, wife of Evangelist Argue, who is conducting a campaign at the tabernacle. Mrs. Argue also will deliver a sermon on “Peace; Be Still.” SLAYER ELECTROCUTED 29-Year-Old Farmer Pays With Life in Oklahoma “Chair.” By United Press M ALESTER, Okla., Sept. 25. Henry Lovett, 29-year-old Chickasha fanner, was electrocuted today at the Oklahoma prison for killing Dee Foliart, El Reno high school coach, in a robbery last Nov. 6. Lovett appeared in a daze when taken to the death chamber and guards carried him to the chair. The current was turtied on at 12:06 a. m. and Lovett was pronounced dead at 12:09. *

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Ten parachute jumpers will give spectators at the Indianapolis municipal airport dedication a thrill late today and Sunday afternoon by leaping almost simultaneously from this huge trimotored Ford monoplane, shown in the top picture. The plane, owned by the Negosa-Edwards Paper Company, Port Edwards, Wis., will be piloted by Mel Swanson, inset, who also will participate in the dedication races with a speedy Waco biplane. Lower Layout—Spectators at dedication will not have to guess at what event is coming next or what is happening at the time. For Skyball Brinkley, master of ceremonies (lower photo), nationally known as an aviation announcer and expert on things aeronautical, will describe in detail events as they occur. In addition, Brinkley, over the public address system, with loud speaker batteries scattered at strategic points over the port, will answer questions relating to aviation. In the center photo is seen a workman placing the finishing touches to one of the loud speaker batteries located in front of the grandstand, while at the left, Brinkley is trying out one of the “mikes.”

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Commissioner to Take Trip Over Traction Route to Greenfield. Commissioner Jere West of the public service commission is to take anew course in the Greenfield interurban abandonment case. He will do what Greenfield opponents of the abandonment might term “visit the scene of the crime.” At the close of the testimony in the case Thursday afternoon, West arranged to go over the route proposed to be abandoned and the route to be sub tuted for the Richmond line. He will be accompanied by Mayor Arthur C. Downing of Greenfield and H. V. Norford, general superintendent of maintenance of way for the Indiana Railroad, Insull owned. The Insull proposal is to abandon the T. H„ I. & E. route to Richmond from Indianapolis as far as Dunreith. This would leave Greenfield without traction service and the shops there would be removed to Anderson. The substitute line would be the present Insull route to Newcastle, then over to Dunreith and on to Richmond. Greenfield opponents of abandonment used only Insull witnesses to try and prove their contentions. These are that the present route is shorter, less dangerous and through a more densely populated territory. PAY HOMAGE TO MOON All Japan to Take Part in Picturesque Fall Fete. By United Press TOKIO, Sept. 25.—One of the most piuturesque of Japan's many fetes will occur Saturday night when “moon viewing” parties will be held by poetic Nipponese throughout the empire to offer homage to the deity who created the beauty of moonlight. Just before twilight, thousands of housewives will prepare tables of their offerings to the moon. The tables usually are set on verandas where the moon’s rays will fall upon them and spread with a feast for the spirit, including white rice dumplings, which are a favorite dessert of ail Shintq gods.

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REPLEVIN SUIT TESTSTOW-IN Car Owner’s Rights to Be Set Out in Case. Legal procedings were In progress today in superior court two to test the city tow-in ordinance with a replevin suit, demanding return of an owner’s automobile and SSOO damages for its detention. Andrew Jacobs, criminal court pauper attorney, brought the court action Thursday to obtain his automobile, towed-in to the apolis Motor Inn. This case is expected to test right of car owners to assert their rights of ownership as against possession of their car, even for traffic disobedience. The car was taken from a downtown parking place for violating the ordinance prohibiting parking in the business district between 7 and 9:15 a. m. Setting out that the car was not seized for taxes, or any other legal cause, the complaint names as defendants the Motor Inn, the Indianapolis safety board, and chief of police. William A. Boyce, who recently brought another action in behalf of business men to test validity of the ordinance, is serving as Jacob’s attorney. The other case has been venued from the county. Auto Injuries Fatal By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 25. William Jarrett, 68, Sandford, died here of injuries suffered in an automobile accident Tuesday.

POWER FIRM’S WELDER INSTRUCTOR AT ‘Y’ Russell Pursel Reappointed to Direct Night Classes. Russell Pursel, chief welder of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, has been reappointed as

instructor in welding at the Y. M. C. A. night classes. Recently Pursel spent considerable time at Chanute field, Rantoul, HI. He also has done much research work in the field of metallurgy as applied to welding. His fifteen years of practical experience is

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brought into his instructions in both acetylene and electric welding. Within the last few weeks, new electric welding equipment has been added to the welding school’s shop. FROST ONLY HOPE OF TOWN BESET BY BUGS Check of Plague Depending Now on Cold Weather. By United Press UTICA, N. Y., Sept. 25.—West Utica residents today hoped for early frosts to end almost three weeks of suffering from an insect plague—identified by state entomologists as hordes of English or European crickets. Cold weather, advices from Albany I said, would kill millions of young crickets, breeding in the West Utica ; dumping grounds and nearby hay ! fields, and check the plague, which has caused several families to desert their homes. The insects, a cross between a grasshopper and a cricket, have descended upon homes here in i thousands, destroying rugs, clothes, home furnishings and food. Residents have been attacked. Many reported they could not sleep at night because the crickets bit them after they crawled beneath sheets.

WETS REJOICE OVER LEGION’S DRY LAW VOTE Many Politicians Are Given Courage to ‘Flop’ by Detroit Result. PLAN CONGRESS FIGHT Determined Efforts Will Be Made to Elect Foes of Prohibition. BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Sept, 25.—Prominent politicians in both parties here today predicted the action of the American Legion in demanding a referendum on prohibition repeal or modification would have a great effect on the next congress and candidates for the presidency next year. While Republicans holding office do not care to discuss the situation publicly, they privately are conceding that many public officials hitherto dry or cautiously silent soon will be flopping over in the direction of the wet camp. Representative Robert Clancy of this city declared the first result would be seen in the return of a house numerically wet in 1932, and 1 defeat of large appropriations for enforcement. Others assert that future efforts to ban the use of poison alcohol, as a aenaturant, would prove more successful than in the past. Will Push Advantage The wets made clear as they left for home they intended to capitalize the legion’s action to the utmost. The three to one vote (1,008 to 394), in their opinion, is full answer to statements from drys that the outcome meant little or nothing in the way of an anti-prohibi-tion victory. The behavior of such administration representatives as Colonel Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico, and Hanford MacNider, minister to Canada, was considered significant. Though they labored day and night, spending long periods in telephonic communication with the capital, in their successful battle to block the demand for full payment of the bonus, they did not bother their heads about beer. There was no effort to prevent a wet demonstration by an organization whose influence on politicians and congressmen has been shown time and again with respect to vetterans’ legislation. Most Democrats attending the convention, except some from the south, were on the wet side openly. Bonus Move Not Dead Though the convention killed the cash payment proposal by a two to one vote, it has not removed it definitely from politics. In fact. Representative Wright Patman (Dem., Tex.) who marshaled the pro-payment forces, said he thought the 507 votes for the bonus showed how strong it was. “That vote will have great influence on congress,” said Patman, "for it came from many states. I i shall press a bill for immediate i payment as soon as congress opens.” Others pointed out that the legion’s executive committee may /evive the subject when it meets next February, as it did when it declared for the 50 per cent payment after the legion convention of 1930 had declined to go on record for it. The ability of the Patman group to muster 507 votes in the face of President Hoover’s personal visit here to warn against additional financial burdens surprised everybody. Answers “Drunk” Charge Attacks on the legionnaires “as staggering drunks” by professional dry leaders, including Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, provoked a sharp reply from Representative Clancy. “The dry leaders,” said Clancy, “are taking the only course left to them. They are saying the resolution might have gone farther. “The answer is that wet leaders of the country are tickled to death with the resolution. Attacking the character and integrity of men who served overseas will not help the Anti-Saloon League and the Methodist board. “The Legion has doomed the j domination the league has enjoyed | for ten years, therefore the howls ■of pain." Stevens Is Elected The vote on prohibition, a vote against asking for a bonus, and election of Henry L. Stevens, Jr., of Warsaw, N. C., as national commander were high lights of the closing day of the Legion convention. Many of the delegates already had left before the votes on these important questions were taken and today the exodus of World war veterans from the border city das completed. Thus was ended a hectic week, which opened with President Hoover personally addressing the throng of ex-soldiers and ended with the soldiers themselves voting openly and overwhelmingly against the most discussed of the nineteen amendments to the national Constitution. THEATER IS BOMBED Chicago Outrage Is Eighth Since Union Operator Lockout. By United Pre CHICAGO. Sept. 25—The Commodore theater, one of 104 moving picture houses involved in the recent controversy between owners ; and moving picture machine operators, was bombed today. About 53.000 damage was done. It was the eighth bombing outrage against the involved theaters since the owners recently locked I out local union operators and imported men from New York.