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Dan Steele This man Dan Steele has every reason to be proud of' his first book, “Snow Trenches,” in which he has written his own experiences in the Arctic Circle with the North Russian-American expeditionary Forces. He puts his experiences in the character of Lieutenant Peter Burns. Here is a book of war that is different. A. C. McClurg & Cos. is the publisher. It is to be recommended. n a tt BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. TO many, Colette as an author is unknown because her original ■writings are in French, and it is only lately that they have been translated into English and the success in this country has about equaled that in her own country. Have just finished reading her latest, “The Other One,” published by the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. She takes the ancient problem of a noted French playwright, temperamental, and a hound for certain physical experiences as he always must be surrounded by women, and works out the destiny of the man, his wife who was a former mistress and the series of those that followed. Jean Farou is the playwright, Fanny is his wife and Jane, a devoted companion in the Farou household. The fact is that Jane was as helpful and devoted to Fanny as she was to Farou. Strange situation and one full of dynamite. And the dynamite explodes letting Fanny decide whether to close the doors on Jane. And her decision was to let Jane remain because it was too dangerous to be alone with the great Farou in his many moods and his many demands. The story is beautifully drawn, although it is as frank as the face of a baby, but much, much more naughty. You will find three strongly drawn characters in “The Other One.” For adults only. nun ■ What are they reading in fiction in New York? Brentano's reports the following six best sellers: “First Person Singular,” by A. Somerset Maugham; “Red-Headed Woman,” by Katherine Brush; “Finch’s Fortune,” by Mazo de la Roche; “Scaramouche the King-Maker,” by Sabatini; “Sea Change,” by Eleanor Mercein, and “All Ye People,” by Merle Colby. u * A question sent to this depart-ment-—Please print the name of a non-fiction book which would be appropriate as a sixtieth birthday of a bachelor? In such a case I would recommend, “Merrily I Go to Hell,” by Lady Mary Cameron, which is the madcap adventures of an English girl. Published by Brentano. n a ts THE winner in today’s book review is Fannie Robbins, 1350 Union street, city, who reviewed “The Generations of Noah Edon,” by David Pinski. She will receive by mail a copy of anew publication within a few days. Send in your reviews to the Literary Editor of The Times. Keep them around 150 words, if possible. Miss Robbins’ review is as follows: ‘■The Generations of Noah Edon,” by David Pinski, is a very absorbing and dramatic story of Jewish life. It is interesting reading and in a deeper vein es 'thought. Noah Edon. his wife and three young sons. come to America as poor immigrants. Several years later finds them in moderate circumstances and verv happy. Noah Edon is a good man and a wise cne. He lets each son follow his own Inclinations as to his career. The second generation is very successful and wealthy. Murray, the eldest son. becomes a millionaire merchant. His whole life is devoted to his business, neglecting his beautiful wife and their only child. Oscar, the middle son. becomes a successful lawyer. He is very devoted to his wife and only daughter. Charles, the youngest, has a love affair with his brother’s wife. To atone for this sin. he becomes a famous physician, healing the sick. ... The third generation ends in tragedy. The author has conveyed the impression that the fourth generation will be a better and a wiser one. I enloved this book very much. a a a Houghton Mifflin Company announce the publication on Oct, 21 of “Sheridan: A Military Narrative,” by Joseph Hergesheimer. Recently returned from Europe in time to supervise the details of publication, Mr. Hergesheimer looks back on his trip with mixed feelings: “I have a splendid memory,” he says, “of the March beer and white sausages, the sweet mustard of Munich. The girls of Berlin, too, are the best mannered in the world, highly graceful. and burnt by the sun to a cinder. The whole present spirit of Berlin is a miraculous combination of a pure ironical indifference. Munich, aside from the beer—and which is no better than the beer of Prague—is dark, medieval and dull. Vienna, even with its still superb coffee, is absolutely stupid. Budapest is vivid and amusing; the Corso on the Danube is still, at dusk, the most entertaining stroll in the world."

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500 MEN WILL WORK IN CAR MAKINGPLANT Michigan City Factory Gets Orders for 750 from Insull Railroad. $500,000 FOR BEARINGS Valparaiso Company Will Produce Units for Chrysler Autos. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Placing of orders with industries in Michigan City, Valparaiso and Anderson was the outstanding dei velopment of the week in Indiana business and industry, a survey completed today reveals. Five hundred men will be given employment in the Michigan City plant of the Pullman Car and Manufacturing company, to fill an order for 750 cars placed by the Illinois Midland railroad, an Insull property. Recently the company completed filling a 500-car order for the Santa Fe railroad. Four other Michigan City plants are operating on a capacity basis —the C. A. Dunham Company, Hoosier Factories, Reliance Manufacturing Company and Bromwell Brush and Wire Goods Company. Chrysler Order Booked A $500,000 order has been placed with the McGill Manufacturing Company, Valparaiso, to supply all transmission bearings for eight cylinder model Chrysler automobiles. Employment will be given 100 men. First deliveries will be made within thirty days. The Lynch Corporation of Anderson, has received a $20,000 order for glass making equipment to be shipped to England. Aluminum alloy mullion posts and other parts, to be used in erection in Washington of the Capitol garage and terrace, where many high government officials’ automobiles are kept, are being planed and milled at the plant of the Muncie Oil Engine Company. The parts were welded by the Sutton and Garten Company, Indianapolis. Doors are being supplied by the Overhead Door Corporation, Hartford City. The October issue of the Labor Barometer, organ of the National Metal Traders Association, Chicago, shows employment conditions in Ft. Wayne are better than any other city in the country, with 94.9 of potential workers employed. The per cent in Indianapolis is 71.8. Ft. Wayne Gets Plant Arrangements are near completion for removal of the Rochester, (Pa.) branch of the Wayne Company to Ft. Wayne. Employment will be given 150 men when the plant is re-opened. It will have a capacity for a force of 500. Two large warehouses are' being erected for the Peabody School Desk Company at North Manchester. The American Chain Company, Bridgeport, Conn., affiliated with the Highland Iron and Steel Company, Terre Haute, has obtained a $8,250,000 order for steel cable to be used in construction of a bridge at San Francisco. It is expected a part of the order will be filled by the Terre Haute plant. Repair of gas mains and laying of new lines is providing work for twenty-five men at Washington. The Mitchell plant of the Lehigh Portland Cement Company was closed Thursday, adding nearly 200 men to the ranks of the unemployed. It is planned to resume operations within a few weeks. Company officials said the closing was for the purpose of reducing stock on hand.

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During the twenty-one years Tilden Smith has been a policeman he never has fired his revolver to

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revolver and the rabbits have what might be termed a poor outlook for the future. And ■when it comes to targets, he CHICAGO CIVIC OPERA STARS ARE MARRIED Desire Defrere and Hilda Hopkins Burke Wed in East. By United Press WEST NEW YORK. N. J., Oct. 16. —Desire Defrere and Hilda Hopkins Burke, members of the Chicago Civic Light Opera Company, were married here late Thursday, the Rev. John Lehnert of West New York Baptist church announced. Defrere and Miss Burke announced In Baltimore last week that they had been married. They applied for a license at the Municipal building here last Thursday. Thursday Defrere, lacking a hat, and wearing a big white sweater, hurried to the Municipal building again with Mr. Lehnert and obtained the license. Auto Victim Buried ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 16. Funeral services were held Thursday for Roy Dalker, 34, factory employe, who was fatally injured when his automobile collided with one driven by Carl Yeagley, farmer. Walker was unconscious six days before death.

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HOUSE BILL 6 WILL BE PUT ON SHELF

Spud Alimony By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., Oct. 16. —Joseph Baskey, farmer, summoned to court to explain his failure to pay alimony to his divorced wife Helen, brought twenty-five bushels of potatoes, explaining he had no money.

KIRKLAND TRIAL PROBE OPENED Attorney-General Acts on Jurors’ Statements. Attorney-General James M. Ogden today launched a probe of the trial of Virgil Kirkland, convicted gin party slayer of Arlene Draves, after receiving copies of statements of eleven jurors in the case. / Ogden’s action follows disclosures that ten of the jurors believed that their verdict would sentence Kirkland to life imprisonment and that the eleventh believed the Gary high school youth would be given a sentence of forty years. A twelfth jui-or refused to be interviewed. Kirkland was sentenced to serve two to twenty-one years in Indiana state prison. Inclosed with statements of jurors, obtained by M. S. Halstead, investigator, was a letter received by Halstead from G. J. Zich, executive secretary of the National Association of Coroners, in which Zich charged' the result of Kirkland’s second trial was the outgrowth of a “conspiracy by outside forces.” Ogden also received copies of a petition bearing signatures of 2,500 Gary citizens, demanding a retrial of Kirkland.

can pick the shadow off the bullseye at any number of paces. But today, Smith will perform none of these feats. In fact, unless he borrows or buys a revolver, he will have an empty holster on his hip when he patrols his beat. Thursday night Smith left his revolver in its holster on the dining room table of his home, 332 Linwood street. He did not lock the door because of the late arrival of a member of his family. This morning, the officer informed detectives of the theft, asserting the burglar left the holster. Theories are rampant at headquarters. The most accepted one is that the burglar entered and spying the revolver, thought he had better flee with the weapon rather than tarry to pick up silverware. Perhaps the burglar did not know that Smith never has fired his gun on duty, but it may be that when Smith spots the thief he'll fire his new revolver several times. And if crack rabbit shooting has any bearing on getting your thief, well— RECEIVER WOULD"" PAY Files Petition for 5 Per Cent Dividend in Flat Rock Case. By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Oct. 16. Claude R. Henry, receiver for the Citizens Building Association of Flat Rock, wrecked by embezzlement by its secretary, Harry Winterrowd, has filed a petition in Shelby circuit court here asking authority to pay 5 per cent of claims against the business. Defalcations of Winterrowd, who served a prison term, total $230,000, Henry’s petition aserts. Gun Silencer Causes Arrest By Times Special NEW HARMONY. Ind.. Oct. 16. Hunting squirrels with a gun equipped with a silencer caused arrest of Thomas Sanders, Evansville, was brought to jail here by a game warden.

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paper, will march in the parade. In a contest to determine the most beautifully designed parasol, Vera Cobb and Viola Amos won first honors. Honorable mention went to Frances Homers, Ruth Walters and Janet Nogle. The parade will be staged between halves of the Washington Noblesville football game.

Mayr Decides No Appeal Will Be Taken From Court Decision. Marion circuit court injunction, forbidding publication of House Bill 6, in the Acts of 1931, will stand without appeal. Decision to drop the suit without review by the supreme court was announced today by Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr., following a conference with his aids. Attorney-General James M. Ogden, whose deputies defended Mayr against injunction from publication, stated that his office will abide by Mayr’s decision. There will be no appeal. “We are not interested in the subject matter of House Bill 6, and have no reason to fight to make it law,” Mayr declared. Had the bill become a law, it would have meant complete surrender of all local govern#nental control of bus and truck lines, lodging jurisdiction with the public service commission. Judge Harry O. Chamberlin enjoined its publication because it was shown that senate approval never had been given the amended bill. It was charged that it had been put through and signed by the Governor through use of fraudulent methods. Joseph Hoffman, attorney in Mayr’s office, and Robert I. Codd, assistant secretary of state, attended the conference this morning at which the “no appeal” decision was made. DEVELOP ANESTHETIC New Drug Proved Success, Lilly Firm Announces. Development of anew local anesthetic, a drug known as neothesin, in the pharmaceutical laboratories of Eli Lilly & Cos. was announced today by the company’s officials. The drug, developed from a chemical compound prepared by Dr. S. M. McElvain, University of Wisconsin professor, has been pronounced most satisfactory of a group of anesthetics submitted by the Lilly company. It was tested by Dr. William R. Meeker, .of Mobile, Ala., and has been used by several Indianapolis physicians. Freedom of neothesin from toxicity, which causes nausea or headaches, is its most laudable point, according to the October issue of the Indianapolis Medical Journal. ELECT DR. STEINBERG Rabbi Is Chairman of Indianapolis Zionist District Again. Rabbi Milton Steinberg was reelected chairman of the dianapolis Zionist district at a district meeting in Kirshbaum community- house Thursday night. Other officers are Meyer Gallin, vice-chairman; Nathan Toplin. secretary, and A. H. Goldstein’ treasurer. Delegates to the national Zionist convention in Atlantic City, Nov. 8, are Dr. Steinberg, Goldstein, Daniel Frisch, Max Katz, and Abraham Goodman. URGES CHURCH UNITY ’Drop Denominationalism,’ Is Plea of Executive. “Churches Vs the world will have to free themselves from the shackles of denominationalism before they can make their greatest progress,” Dr. A. Paul, Oriental secretary of the United Christian Missionary Society, declared at a meeting in University Park Christian church Thursday. The meetings were held to organize the women’s council of the church, a medium to co-ordinate activities of various women’s organizations. Representatives of three societies —the Missionary Guild, the Women’s Missionary Society and the Calendar Club—attended. Mrs. Lee Sadler, wife of the pastor of the church, presided.

STATE TO ASK * NEW BIDS ON GASJND OIL Standard’s Tardiness of 10 Minutes One Reason for Readvertising. COMPETITORS COMPLAIN Practice of Coupling Prices on $500,000 Contract Called Unfair. Because the Standard Oil Company, long-time holder on state highway department gasoline and oil contracts, was charged with being late Wednesday with its bid is one reason why the $500,000 annual supply of highway department gas and oil will be readvertised. This was learned at the state highway department today, when it was announced by Director John J. Brown that the state highway commissioners had decided to receive new bids. The decision to readvertise was made at a commission meeting at Richmond, Thursday, where members were attending a road celebration. Loss of Pumps Faced Should the commission fail to award the contract to Standard it would mean that the highway department would lose the use of about 150 gas pumps belonging to that concern, it was said. Late reception of Standard’s bid was explained as “accidental.” Representatives of the company had been told the bids would be opened at the statehouse, and went there instead of filing the bid with the commission at the statehouse annex offices first, it was said. This made them about ten minutes late on the 2 p. m. deadline and their bid was challenged by a competitor. Other errors which built up the decision to readvertise was the submission of grease substitutions, other than specified, through misinterpretation of the advertisement, and failure of most of the ten companies bidding to submit sample oils, it was said. Joint Bids Protested Standard has been able to offer unusual delivery services and provide such favors as the use of old pumps, defenders of the commission contracts declare. But the company has benefited by joining its gasoline and oil bids in such a way that it must get both the gas and oil business before the state can have the lowest gas price. Oil and grease bidders have protested in vain against this system of bidding as unfair. Ralph Simpson, assistant director, declared today it was hoped the commission would be able to get a fair price upon readvertising and at the same time seperate the gasoline and oils. Date for the new bids was not announced. JAPAN DECLARED BENT ON WORLD DOMINATION Senator Robinson Expresses Views in Kokomo Address. By United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 16.—A showdown between China, Japan and Russia was predicted by Senator Arthur E. Robinson in an address here. Robinson recently returned from the Orient, where he studied economic conditions. Despite Japan’s statements to the contrary, Robinson said, the real reason for her attack in. Manchuria is “her ambitious program of landgrabbing and exploitation, in keeping with an avowed determination to rule the world.” Robinson believed the center of dispute lay in Mukden. Here the three powers converge, he said, with “Russia claiming the great railroad which traverses Manchuria because she built it, Japanese claiming it because of conquest, and China claiming it by right of sovereignty.” Robinson also charged that Japan broke the Kellogg peace pact when it bombed Manchurian cities.

$50,000 Love Balm Suit May Be Reopened NEW YORK, Oct. lb.—Magistrate J. F. Rosen of Long Branch, L. 1., sailing today on the liner President Coolidge, announced that he will make an attempt to have the superior court in Long Branch reopen the $50,000 alienation of affections suit brought by Mrs.

Suzette Renaldo against Edw in a Booth, film actress. Miss Booth won the suit by default when Mrs. Renaldo failed to appear in court to press her case. Mrs. Renaldo contends that Miss Booth won the af-

sections of her actor husband, Duncan Renaldo, during the filming of the picture, “Trader Horn,” in Africa. Renaldo at preesnt is under indictment in Queens charged with abandonment. According to her attorney, Jacob M. Goldenkoff, Mrs. Renaldo did not appear at the hearing of her heart balm suit because she had been informed Los Angeles authorities were trying to place her in a psychopathic ward. The lawyer interested Magistrate Rosen in the case.

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French Prime Minister Is Cheered at Le Havre as He Embarks. By United Press LE HAVRE, France, Oct. 16. Premier Pierre Laval and his party sailed for New York at 12:40 p. m. today aboard the liner lie de France. The premier was accompanied to Le Havre by United States Ambassador Walter E. Edge. Both addressed a meeting at the town hall. Le Havre turned out en masse to bid Godspeed to the premier on his important mission of international understanding. Laval is the first French premier to visit America while in active office. Laval was in his usual good spirits and smiled continually. His everpresent white necktie was slightly awry, as usual. Obviously, he looked forward to the trip as much as any member of his party. Daughter in Beech Grove “I am a peasant, and peasants never have troubles,” the premier said to friends who escorted him to the gangplank. Josette Laval’s enthusiasm for the trip was not dampened by the fact that her father did not allow her to travel with the official party from Paris. When Laval consented to let his daughter make the trip, he stipulated that she remain in the background. The premier made no farewell statement except that he was going to America without any definite schemes of debt reform or arms limitation to offer President Hoover. He reiterated previous statement:that his voyage was intended to allow a frank discussion of the French position on the two great problems, but it was expected in advance that the only result could be a better understanding, no definite agreements being sought or expected. Rise Is Spectacular The departure for Washington as the head of the government of an outstanding European power climaxed the romantic rise of a onetime village butcher boy who read Greek classics while delivering rib roasts. Laval, now 48 years old, has risen to political power in less than a year. It was only last January that he was called to a position of prominence when the Tardieu cabinet was wrecked on the shoals of shady finance. The premier is an Auvergnat from the highlands of central France, trained and raised in Normandy. He has all the qualities of both races—the stubborn, deliberate argumentativeness of the highlanders and the thrift, good humor, and keen battering skill of the Norman. AGED JOHMSOW DYING Father of Noted Explorer May Live Only Few Hours. By United Press ENID, Okla., Oct. 16.—Physicians said today that j. A. Johnson, father of Martin Johnson, explorer and big game hunter, could live only a few hours. Martin Johnson made a thirteenhour trip by airplane and automobile from Chicago Thursday to his father’s bedside. The aged man was cheered by knowledge that his son was coming to him, but lapsed into unconsciousness before the reunion j took place. CITY DEMANDS RENT 150 Market Stand Operators Are Ordered to Pay Up. Operators of 150 stands at the city market must pay their rent or move out, the city decreed today in final notices sent out by the j board of safety. City Controller William L. Elder in checking his books found many operators who had paid no rent m : the last year. The board of safety order is expected to bring about $5,000 into I the city treasury if all is collected. I Leases will be canceled on Oct. 26 1 unless all back rent is paid by that j date, the notice stated. i

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PRESS PARLEY HEADCHOSEN Tech Student to Preside at Franklin Session. Warren McDermed, Arsenal Technical high school senior, will preside at the tenth annual student convention of the Indiana High School Press Association which will meet at Franklin Oct. 22, 23 and 24.

McDermed is associate editor of Staff II of the Arsenal Cannon, Tech student publication, and is serving his third semester as a staff member. At the convention of the Indiana Journalism Teachers and Advisers’ Association, to be held at same time. Miss Rowena Harvey of Ft. Wayne will preside.

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DeWitt S. Morgan, principal of Technical high school, will speak at the convention of the student conclave, Oct. 23. Others from Indianapolis who will be present are William A. Evans, director of public relations for the public schools; William N. Otto, head of the department of English at Shortridge high j school, and Miss Ella Sengenberger, sponsor for Tech high publications. They •will hold classes in various phases of high school publicity. ‘UNTANGLEROF JAMS’ Traffic Cop of 1907 Now Seeks Watchman Post. Picture a traffic jam at the corner of Meridian and Washington streets in 1907. The gay boys of the town were violating the law by refusing to turn their carriages in the center of the street and dashing on the wrong side, endangering the lives of persons gettiitg off street cars. It was this situation that Charles R. Poole, then a traffic officer, corrected by taking his post at the center of the intersection and ordering the rig drivers to make their turns around the spot he occupied. Since then Poole, who is 54, resigned from the force and has been buffeted by fate. He’s looking for a job. He wrote The Times today saying he wants a job as a fireman or watchman and prefers the job on a surburban estate “more for a home than wages.” Poole lives at 515 South West street. HELP REFUSED TO 113 Failure to Accept ‘Made Work’ Jobs Causes Action. By Times Special GARY, Ind., Oct. 16.—Poor relief has been denied by Mrs. Mary Grace Wells, township trustee, to 113 men who refused to accept jobs offered them under a “made work” program. This week the trustee set anew record in providing jobs, 162 men having been employed. An addition to the program is the cutting of trees on private property and sawing them for use as fuel. Young People to Meet LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 16.—The Wabash Valley area of the Indiana district, International Walther League, will hold its fall rally here Saturday. The Young Peoples’ society of St. James Lutheran Church will be host. Visitors are expected from Logansport, Peru, Rochester, Huntington, Tipton, and Kokomo. Professor P. Bente, head of the English department at Concordia seminary, Ft. Wayne, will speak.

‘SENO CAPONE UP,’ IS PLEA TOILS. JURY Federal Prosecutor Makes Fiery Appeal as Case Nears Its End. GANG DESPOT AT EASE Refuses to Be Introduced to Great Actress, but Winks at Her. BY RAY BLACK I’nited Press Staff Correspondent FEDERAL BUILDING, CHICAGO, Oct. 16.—“ Water, water everywhere—but not a drop to drink! Money, money everywhere—but not a cent for taxes!” That was part of the closing argument hurled today at a federal court jury by Samuel Clawson, assistant United States district attorney, in the trial of A1 Capone, gang despot. The government's picture of Capone as a likeness to the “Ancient Mariner” almost was complete and the close of his income tax fraud trial in federal district court was only a matter of hours. Clawson was followed by defense attorney Albert Fink, whose final argument to the jury was expected to require most of the day. Capone is Released Capone, in a dark green suit, seemed relaxed after the strain of listening to testimony about his private life and his lavish expenditures and heavy gambling losses for nine days. “The government,” said Clawson, “was perfectly fair to Capone. He was put ‘up squarely against the proposition of speaking or remaining quiet. He understood that if he said anything about his income it woud be at his own peril. But he did not speak. He must go to prison!” The contempt of court case against Phil Andrea, Capone's bodyguard, who was arrested for carrying a concealed revolver into the courtroom, again was postponed today. Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson sent D’Andrea back to jail and said his case would be heard Monday morning. First Remark Is Query Fink’s first remark to the jury was a question: “Will you find the defendant guilty just to please and appease public clamor?” he asked. A second question was: “Is there any evidence that approaches the dignity of hearsay indicating the defendant’s guilt?” The case came to conclusion rapidly Thursday. Eight former bookmaker pals of Capone testified that he lost a total of $375,000 “playing the ponies.” At noon exactly, Defense Attorney Michael Ahern interrupted a complicated legal argument to say that the defense had rested its case. Few in the courtroom comprehended that Capone’s unique defense that he had lost all his money betting on horses that never won, was completed. Winks at Beatrice Lillie Capone’s slight of lady Peel of England, known here as Beatrice Lillie, actress, was one of the features of Thursday’s scenes. She sought to meet him. He refused. “Who is that guy with her?” the gangster asked. “That’s her manager,” he was told. “I thought he was a bootlegger,” Capone explained and winked at the actress. She winked back. Capone yawned as his attorneys argued the complicated legal issues that may decide whether he goes to the penitentiary for a maximum of thirty-two years and pays SBO,OOO in fints. T W OPS” 'BRANDED AS SUSPECTS Negroes Identified as Crooks by Building Night Watchman. Identified as thieves who ransacked drawers in an office in Castle Hall building, two Negroes were held by police today on vagrancy charges. The men, Fairbanks Moss of 2416 North Rural street and Maxin Brooks of 1409 Columbia avenue, were arrested by a police squad at Alabama and Massachusetts avenue a short time after Frank Brown of 1523 Montcalm street, night watchman at the Wulsin building, reported seeing two men looting drawers in Castle Hall building. Police found ten rings in the pockets of the suspects. While the alleged thieves worked, Oscar Lee, who leases the office, lay asleep on a desk nearby, police said. JOB CLAIMS RIDICULED Assertions That Youth Is Stepping in Are Flailed by Luten. Assertions that youth is taking the jobs that mature persons formerly held were hit by Daniel B. Luten, secretary of the Indianapolis Engineering Society, at that organization’s weekly luncheon at the Board of Trade Thursday. Luten presented figures to show that only 4.5 per cent of men and • women more than 65 are unemployed, while 28.1 per cent of those from 15 to 24, with 41.2 per cent between 25 and 44, and 26.2 per cent between 45 and 64 are out of work. RUBIO’S AIDS RESIGN By United Press MEXICO CITY. Oct. 16.—The only member of President Pascual Ortiz Rubio’s cabinet in office today was Gneral Plutarco Elias Calles, the president having accepted the’ resignations of all civilian members. Calles will be minister of war in the new cabinet which will not be announced for several days.