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“The Lady Who Came to Stay,” by R. E. Spencer, has the honor of being the October choice of the Book League of America. It is a ghost story and the strangest and most plausible spook story in years. And it will make you cry at times when the ghosts try to protect a little boy. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and sells for $2.50. It is beautiful reading. Spencer is assistant meterologist at the Indianapolis Weather Bureau. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN HAVE received word from Mrs. John H. Allee, president of the Indiana Federation of Art Clubs, that “The Art Guide to Indiana” is now ready for distribution. Mrs. Allee, in stating the scope of the work contained in this unusual guide, writes me as follows: “You will recall that the Indiana Federation of Art Clubs, desiring to create a greater interest, a better understanding, a higher appreciation of art, and to help preserve the best in Indiana, made an art survey of the entire state. In the survey are included historic and artistic architecture, monuments, memorials, bridges, gardens, gateways in 254 Indiana communities. There is a directory of 446 Indiana artists and of the Indiana collectors. “ ‘The Art Guide to Indiana' is the result of this survey. This handbook is the first of its kind, as far as we know, in the United States.” The guide may be obtained for $1 from the Extension Division of Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. nun Those of you who are reading Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” daily in this paper will be interested to know that Simon & Schuster, New York publishers, have issued the second book in the Ripley series. It is called “The New Believe It or Not,” second series. Sells for $2. # u THE winner in today’s book review contest is Marie Hammontree, 1220 Colorado avenue. She reviewed “The Road Back” by Erich Maria Remarque. As soon as she gets in touch with this department, Miss Hammontree can select her book fjom several on my desk. Write your book review, any book, and keep the review around 150 words or less. Send it to the Literary Editor of The Times. nun Miss Hammontree’s review is as follows: Amazingly frank, often vulgar, but always human. "The Road Back” by Erich Maria Remarque Is a etory of restless German soldiers endeavoring after the war to forget life in the trenches and find the road back to their former lives. The plot in the story is slight. It is a mad melee of lives thrown together by war. pulled asunder by peace. There are: Heel, who Joined the revolutionists and killed his former comrade. Max Well; Albert Trosske, who sought love in a girl he thought pure and. finding her not so. killed the man who disillusioned him and was sent to prison: Ludwig Breyer. harassed by a dread disease contracted at the front, who committed suicide to escape its consequences; Adolf Bethke, who dreamed of home while in the trenches and returned to find that his wife had not been true to him: Tjaden, who married a butcher’s daughter to insure himself of a full belly for the Test of his life: and Willy Homeycr. big and blusteripg, who attempted to find consolation in school teaching. * There is Ernst. who relates the story, who can not settle down, and finds himself out of place in all society except that qf his former comrades, who tries to teach school, but gives it up because he can not forget the men he has killed and their blood. After Ludwig's death, all the dead men Ernst has known at the front, friends and enemies alike, return to him and he is pursued by that English captain with his legs blown off and his bloody puttees trailing behind whom he had killed several years before in the poppy field. Then comes a long illness, health again, and finally the weary conclusion that the road back "will be a road like other roads, with stones and good stretches, with places torn up. with villages and fields —a road of to The storv is vividly told and Remarque has made peace as fascinatingly dramatic as war. nun Well, well, well and a few more wells. Here is anew one. An announcement reads that The Crime Club, Inc.. Garden City, N. Y„ announces the four aces of fall mystery stories. The list includes: "Dead Man Inside” by Vincent Starrett; “The Avenging Saint” by Leslie Charteris; "Murder Gone Mad” by Philip MacDonald, and "The Necklace of Death” by Henry Holt. a a A book without an author has reached a place among best sellers in twenty-two out of thirty-one non-fiction lists. "The Official System of Contract Bridge” published by the John C. Winston Company for Bridge Headquarters of New York is the book without an author which has exceeded 50.000 in the short space of four weeks. Father of Nine Dies ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 30.—Funeral services were held here for Joseph Lee Brown, 61, retired blacksmith and father of nine childem.

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RUTH JUDD IS PHOENIX-BOUND TO FACE TRIAL Slayer, Frail and 111, Is Returned to Arizona in Auto Party. JAIL INMATES PROTEST Prisoners Balk at Prospect of Having Dual Killer as Cellmate. By United Brest LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30—Winnie Ruth Judd was speeding to Phoenix today to face charges that she murdered her two best girl friends. An automobile, loaded with Arizona and California officials and trailed by half a dozen press cars, was bearing her back to the city where she is alleged to have killed Mrs. Agnes Le Roi and Miss Hedvig Samuelson. Her return to Phoenix started Thursday night, almost two weeks from the time authorities claim she shot and killed her former roommates. Mrs. Judd appeared frail and ill as she climbed into the car of Sheriff James McFadden of Phoenix, for the journey. Already tubercular, Mrs. Judd showed the strain of the last two | weeks. She seemed worn to the point of being bored and submitted to photographers only on the insistence of Sheriff McFadden. Sheriff McFadden said he expected to make the trip to Phoenix in from ten to twelve hours. Stops en route were scheduled only for fuel and sandwiches. Before she left, Mrs. Judd conferred for two hours with her new attorney, Paul Schenck. He advised her to say nothing to any one about the slayings and told her he would be in Phoenix at her preliminary hearing. This hearing, according to agreement with Lloyd Andrews, Maricopa county attorney, will be held in a week or ten days. Bu United Brets YUMA, Ariz., Oct. 30.—Winnie Ruth Judd, admitted slayer of Miss Hedvig Samuelson and Mrs. Agnes Leroi, returned today to the state where she will be tried on murder charges. The automobile carvan bearing the accused woman, California and Arizona officers, and newspaper men, crossed the line from California this morning, en route from Los Angeles to Phoenix. Jail Inmates Protest By United Brest PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 30.—Women prisoners in the county jail here, including one Negress accused of murder, have protested over the prospects of being cellmates of Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed slayer of two former friends, the United Press was told today. The Negress, Lula Searcy, 53, was said to be prejudiced definitely against sleeping in the same room with a person who admittedly dismembered one body and packed two in trunks for shipment to Los Angeles. A hazard of “haunts” is too great in such cases, she believes. There are five prisoners in the women’s section of the Jail—a large room on the fifth floor of the city and county building. They live together in the one big room. Indications are, the United Press learned unofficially, that a separate cell, isolated from all others, will be prepared for Mrs. Judd. Jail attendants and county authorities, however, refused to deny or confirm this report. They also refused to discuss reports of the alleged protest other than to say there was nothing “official” about it. Mrs. Searcy is the only one being held on a charge of murder. She was arrested Sunday at Gila Bend, a desert town eighty miles southwest of here, after the body of Howard Devis, a middle-aged white man, was found on her doorstep. Davis, according to the complaint, visited the women’s hovel in search for liquor and was shot when he refused to go away. His body was found several hours later by passersby en route to church. The Negress, in an unconcerned manner, admitted the shooting, officers said. Her prejudice against Mrs. Judd, the United Press informant said, was based on “that messy cutting up business” rather than because of the double murder accusations. One pleasure Mrs. Judd will do without is listening to radio music and Sherlock Holmes thrillers, a pastime she enjoyed, according to her letters. There are no recreational devices whatsoever in the jail and the women have no work to do other than keeping her quarters clean.

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Observing community service day of Girl Scout week, members of the service patrol, specializing in community service, presented Wheeler City Mission with a truckload of food stuffs, earned by the girls themselves, to be distributed among the needy. Miss Jane Calvelage, sitting in

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No Aid to ‘Rich’ By United Press BLUFFTON, 0., Oct. 30. Any one owning a radio, an automobile or a hunting dog won’t get aid this winter from Bluffton’s Community Chest. In stating the rules, the committee said automobiles and radios are luxuries, while a dog should be able to supply game.

WORK DOD6ERS HIT BY RULING Trustees Can Deny Aid for ‘Slackers,’ Says Ogden. Able-bodied men who refused employment offered under made-work plans, can be de: ied aid by township trustees, Attorney-General James M. Ogden ruled today in an opinion to Dr. John H. Hewitt, director of state unemployment relief. In the opinion, Ogden also held trustees must co-operate with social agencies in determining when aid shall be denied those refusing to work, except in Indianapolis where the trustee has a staff of paid investigators. In connection with the opinion, Dr. Hewitt announced a conference of boxing commissioners and state relief heads will be held Saturday at the statehouse to resume planning of a state charity boxing show at which Jack Dempsey, former world heavyweight champion, will be asked to participate. Mask Man Injured By United Press PLYMOUTH, Ind., Oct. 30.—A mask of bandages replaced a false beard on the face of Milford Ginder, 18, Plymouth, who accidentally fired the whiskers while lighting a cigarette during a pre-Halloween party. Ginder suffered severe burns on the face and head.

STATE FURNITURE MAKERS BENEFITED

BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times Among interesting developments in Indiana business and industry during the week ended today was a predicton of O. A. Klamer, Evansville, president of the National Furniture Manufacturers’ Association, that Indiana plants will doubtless experience a revival of business due to action of manufacturers in the south in increasing prices effective Tuesday. Indiana manufacturers, Klamer points out, have been unable to compete with those in the south, due to low prices in that section. Activity is being renewed in the brick industry in the Brazil section. The Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company has re-opened its plant after two months’ idleness and 150 men

r T''HERE was an unexpected A change in the musical program of Dessa Byrd, organist at the Indiana + heater, Thursday night. Instead of the soothing, lovelorn strains of the “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi,” in the college song medley, the theater boomed with militant notes of “The Victors’ March’’—not once, but twice. The Sigma Chi love song—the pride of all nocturnal and merry quartets, good or bad—was lost to the program. And it was all because Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson is. a graduate of the University of Michigan and Leo M. Rappaport, also an alumnum, was a classmate of Louise Elbe, composer of Michigan’s song, ‘.The Victors’ March.’’ Wilson and Rappaport were guests of Martin M. Hugg, attorney, at an alumni dinner Wednesday night. nan IT was decided the fame of Michigan was being shunted into the background by the fraternity ballad J?eing played at the

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the truck; Miss Marilynn Knowles, clutching a pumpkin, and Miss Margaret Titus, with an armful of preserves, are members of the Service Patrol, whose other members are Misses Alice Perrine, lola Marsh, Frances Patton, Lois Moore, Helen Keller, Irene Werker, Edythe Patrick and Jean Knowlter.

Board Asks Auditor Be Compelled to Ignore 5-Cent Slash. Suit to compel the county auditor to gnore the 5-cent cut in the school city budget ordered by the state tax board, and to mandate the county treasurer to collect taxes on the rate of a $1 school levy, has been filed in circuit court by Indianapolis school commissioners. This is a step in the fight of the board to prevent elimination of the 5-cent sinking fund levy. When the sl.Ol school rate for next year was appealed to the state take board, that body struck off 5 cents by eliminating the sinking fund levy and another 1 cent by going through the budget and reducing various appropriations. The suit, filed by Baker & Daniels, attorneys for the board, contend failure to collect the sinking fund levy is a violation of the law, that it will endanger the credit of the school system and that interest on the outsanding bonds must be paid. Indiana statutes are cited to show that Auditor Harry Dunn “is not authorized by law, nor by said action of the state board of tax commissioners to reduce the tax levy presented him” by the school board “so far as based on the sinking fund item below the said sum of $550,000.” Also it is stated that Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson is “not authorized by law nor by the action of the tax board to fail to collect taxes for the full amount of the levy without reduction in respect to the sinking fund.” CRASH INJURIES FATAL Injured in an automobile accident ten days ago at Bardstown, Ky., Roy Sands, 35, of 2531 East Washington street, died early today at the city hospital. Sands was en route to Mexico with another man when the accident, details of which were not learned by Indianapolis authorities, occurred. Sands was returned to Indianapolis Oct. 21 by relatives..

are working. The Sheridan plant of the Clay Products Company, which had been working two days a week, is now on a six-day schedule with a double shift force. Only three of twelve brick plants in the section are idle. * A merger of eleven lightning rod and fixture manufacturers with the Goshen Lightning Rod Company will make Goshen the center of that industry in the United States. Companies in the merger have been producing 90 per cent of the products in the country. The merged concern will be known as the West Dodd Lightning Rod Company, Inc., and equipment of the outside plants affected will be moved to Goshen. A brass foundry, to employ a large force, will be anew unit.

theater. And it also was decided something should be done about it. Something was done. Thursday afternoon, despite her protests of having to attend a rehearsal, Dessa was summoned, post haste, to the prosecutor’s of-

Still, Its Law By Unit eh Press PEORIA, 111., Oct. 30.—Two farms where illicit stills were found by prohibition enforcement agents, have been confiscated bj the government and will be sold. The land, twenty acres in the Joseph Engelhaupt farm in Putnam county and two acres in the Elmer F. Flaherty farm in Bureau county, was seized by orders of Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry. It was the first such case since adoption of the eighteenth amendment. In selling the farms, the government will respect the rights of mortgage holders, it is said.

EMBEZZLER IS PUT IN CLASS WITH BANDIT Pardon Board Will Show No Special Mercy to ‘lnside Worker.’ TELLER’S PLEA DENIED Logansport Man Must Stay in Pen; Trustee Also Refused Clemency. ft-.i tnited Press MICHIGAN CITY, Oct. 30.—The Indiana board of pardons and paroles will show no more consideration to bank embezzlers than to bank bandits, declaring that there is no choice between “inside” and “outside” workers where theft of depositors’ money is involved. Raymond Slagle, former teller in the Logansport State bank, who was sentenced to two to fourteen years for embezzlement on Oct. 25, 1929, was denied a parole at the end of his minimum term. Slagle was charged with embezzling $25,000, but told the board that his thefts approximated $93,000. John Waggoner, former Daviess county township trustee, who was returned to the prison last week because of parole violation, was denied his renewed plea for clemency, and ordered to remain in prison another year. Ten Paroles Granted -Ten paroles, five temporary paroles, two commutations of sentence and twenty-one continuances had been granted by the state board of pardons and paroles as it entered upon its second day of consideration of cases at the Indiana state prison. Eighty-six pleas had been denied. The proximity of winter, with its unemployment problem, caused the •board to deny many pleas which might otherwise have been granted, it was explained. Os the thirty-five pleas from “lifers,” mostly murderers, three were shown leniency. On 4 was granted a temporary parole and two had their terms commuted. Two of the paroles and three of the temporary paroles were in cases not listed for action. Among the latter was Fred Kettlehake, sentenced in Hamilton circuit court, Oct. 12, 1900, to a life term for murder. He is 73 years old and has been in the prison hospital more than twenty-five years. His release is contingent upon agreement of someone to keep him. Still Convict Released Guy Sellick, sentenced in Carroll circuit court May 18, 1931, to one to five years for possession of a still, won a parole on the representation that his wife and sister are destitute. Temporary paroles were granted Ruth Moore, sentenced in Knox county to two to fourteen years for forgery; Raymond McCracken, Vigo circuit, blackmail, who is said to be dying, and James Walker, sentenced in Grant county to life for murder, given fifteen days’ leave to visit his sick mother in Chicago. Parole was given Samuel Goodman, convicted in Knox circuit court March 19, 1931, on an embezzlement charge and sentenced to serve two to fourteen years. He was a bank cashier at Washington for twenty years and guardian of an estate. Life Term Commuted 4 Sentence of Alonzo Johnson, convicted in Marion criminal court on a robbery charge and given a tenyear sentence Sept. 30, 1929, vas commuted. He robbed the restaurant in the Washington hotel at Indianapolis. The board commuted the life sentence of Thomas Batchelor from fifteen years to life. Batchelor was convicted in Porter circuit court Oct. 1, 1920, on a murder charge. He, with three other men, all 21 years old, robbed the Tolleston State bank in Lake county, killing the cashier, Herman Uecker. Commutation of sentence was given Henry Smith, convicted in Marion criminal court Oct. *5, 1922, on a burglary charge. He was serving a ten to twenty-year term. The case of Abe Spaulding, convicted of murder in Marion criminal court Feb. 11, 1920, with a life term, was continued. Norman Lipscomb, convicted in Marion criminal court Sept. 26, 1925, on a robbery charge and given a ten to twenty-one-year term, was paroled. The pardon board continued the case of Arthur Wyrick, convicted in Shelby circuit court Nov. 23, 1925, on an auto banditry charge and given a ten to twenty-five-year sentence. He robbed the Boggstown State bank, near Shelbyville, of $l7O.

flee. On her dash, she had Rappaport, attorney for the theater, join her. “I’m sorry, but you have violated a state law in playing the wrong song,” Wilson told her. “The violation is more serious than you imagine. “As much as I hate to do it, I must tell you that you are liable to SSOO fine for the violation.” nan ■pvESSA became dejected and A-' began to mourn the possible loss of SSOO. She conferred with Rappaport, who advised she not attempt to escape the penalty of playing the wrong song. She told Wilson the songs had come from the National musical office of the theater chain and she had not questioned their validity. “Perhaps you can’t play the Michigan song?” it was suggested. “What?” she exclaimed, “I can play any college song ever written.”

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‘Thrill Seekers Are Barred From Revelations by Harding’s Accuser. By United Press TOLEDO, 0., Oct. 30.—Nan Britton was to tell her own story from the witness stand this afternoon without the presence of “thrill-seek-ing” high school students who were barred by Federal Judge John M. Killits. A temporary adjournment was taken this morning in the trial of Miss Britton's $50,000 libel suit against a Marion (O.) hotelkeeper, while opposing counsel conferred with Judge Killits concerning what questions would be asked her when she testified in her own behalf. The conference followed resting of the case by the defense, which sought by comparative passages from Nan’s book “The President’s Daughter,” and another book, “The Answer to ‘The President’s Daughter,’ ” to discredit her claims that her daughter is the child of former President Harding. Miss Britton is suing C. A. Klunk, Marion, for distributing copies of the “Answer” which she claims, defamed her name. Many Women Present High school students and all minors were barred by Judge Killits in his order. On each of the three previous days, the courtroom has been packed, mostly with women spectators. Judge Killits furthermore threatened to bar all spectators because of the general “spiciness” of the testimony. “The court is not surprised at the showing at this trial, but it has been greatly disturbed because much of the interest is prurient and very demoralizing,” the judge asserted. “Under a rule, the court could exclude everybody except litigants, attorneys, officers of the court and the jury. This includes the press, if necessary. “We can understand how people of mature age may have an interest in this case which might justify their presence here, but not so with youth. Such persons can get nothing here, but impressions destructive of good character.” • Threatens Citation He threatened to cite for contempt any minors who violated his instructions. Early chapters of her book describe how Miss Britton became infatuated with Harding before he became President. He then edited a Marion newspaper and she was a school girl. As their friendship extended, her infatuation deepened and was reciprocated, she wrote. Tells of Hotel Tryst Hardly a breath stirred in the courtroom when one of the attorneys read a passage describing an alleged tryst between Miss Britton and Harding at the Madison hotel in New York. The bridal suite was engaged because it was the only one available, the book said. It was here, the author wrote, that “we shared our first kiss.” “God! God! Nan!” Harding is quoted in the book as exclaiming. “Tell me it isn’t hateful to have me kiss you.” Through the recital, Miss Britton maintained a calm attitude. Home and Food Burn By Times Special SHOALS, Ind., Oct. 30.—Not only did fire destroy the home of Ernest Holt and family, but the winter’s food supply was also consumed.

WITH that Rappaport gave her 40 cents and told her to buy the music of the Michigan march. So, Thursday night, there was that change in program. In all seriousness Dessa pedaled and fingered the strains of the Michigan song where once the “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” held forth. And, as the organ sank into oblivion in the forepart of the theater, once again the strains of the university melody boomed forth. Today, though, Dessa will receive a letter. It is from Prosecutor Wilson, telling her the whole plot was in jest, there is no such law and she can do as she pleases The letter also thanked her for placing the Michigan song twice instead of once. Squash Weighs 52 Pounds By Times Special COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Oct. 30 —A squash weighing fifty-twc sounds, raised by T. H. Irvin oi Etna township, Isjon display here.

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STREETS ROPED FOR HALLOWEEN Morrissey Names Area for Holiday Revelers. Sections of downtown streets will be roped off for the gay parade of Halloween revellers Saturday night, Police Chief Mike Morrisey announced today. Area reserved for the festive demonstration will include Washington street, between Illinois and Pennsylvania street, and the circle. Traffic, with the exception.of trolley, will be blocked after 6, at which time northeast, southeast and southwest segments of the circle also will be blocked. The northwest segment will be closed to traffic at 9. Morrisey announced that all patrolmen will be placed on flevenhour shifts Saturday. Extra police will be provided at all points of the city where crowds of revelers congregate, he said. BODyIT IDENTIFIED Canal Victim Found to Be Mrs. Etta Eberhart. Body of a woman found in the Indianapolis Water Company canal at West street Thursday morning was identified today as that of Mrs. Etta Eberhart, 65, of 150 North Alabama street. George Eberhart, husband of the woman, identified the body at city morgue. He said his wife left home early Thursday morning, apparently for a walk. He could assign no reason for the death, he said. The body was removed from the canal after water company workmen lowered its level more than six inches to dislodge the body from beneath a bridge FROSH WIN FLAG RUSH Butler First Year Men to Discard Green Caps at Thanksgiving. Outsmarting their opponents by sawing the flagpole partly through before the fight, the freshmen at Butler university won the annual flag rush from the sophomores Thursday by pushing over the pole, the flag, and the sophomore sitting atop the pole. Victory in the inter-class struggle means that they may discard their green caps at Thanksgiving, instead of at the end of the school year in June. ADMITS HOLDUP HOAX City Man Tells Detectives His Tale of Holdup Is Fake. C. J. Sanders, 2415 Ashland avenue, today admitted to detectives that his story of being held up and robbed when forced by a bandit to drive to a point six miles east of Greenfield, is untrue. Sanders reported to police Tuesday that a bandit entered his car at Tenth street and Jefferson avenue, forcing him to drive beyond Greenfield where, he said, the bandit took $9 from his purse and fled on foot.

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BOOK REVEALS HOOVER FIGHT AGAINST A. E. F. Favored Placing Americans in French and British Armies, Author Says. PLAN TERMED FATAL! Ex-Army Officer Discloses Correspondence in New Volume on Baker. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Revelation that Herbert Hoover opposed creation of a separate American expeditionary force in France and recommended infiltration of American troops with French and British armies is contained in a book entitled “Newton D. Baker: America at War,” by Frederick Palmer, just issued. Hoover’s recommendations, made just before the United States entered the war, were rejected. President Wilson, Secretary of War Baker and General Pershing were strongly in favor of maintaining a separate American army. Hoover, it is disclosed, also later urged class exemptions from the draft for agriculturists.of the “foreman, manager and ownership type,** but his plan was rejected as being “too indefinite for practical application.” Regarded French Army Best Under the heading “Herbert Hoover's Military Plan,” Palmer said. “Abstractly, the infiltration of our man power in small units into the veteran European armies under their war-experienced staffs seemed to be the logical plan. Herbert Hoover favored it. “In a letter to Colonel E. M. House on Feb. 13, 1917, he included it as one of his suggestions under nine heads as to our procedure in the event that we should enter the war. He would have no political alliance, only military co-operation.” When the letter was written Hoover was chairman of the commission for relief in Belgium. Hoover’s plan also outlined economic measures to aid in the war. He took the position that the French army had passed the zenith, of its power, with its number decreasing from casualties, but still the most skillful army in Europe. U. S., “Recruiting Ground” “An American expeditionary force would require long preparation and much transport, and a large American army in France would have ‘political difficulties in association,’" Palmer said, paraphrasing the Hoover memorandum. “He would have the United States become a recruiting ground for the ‘French or other allied armies.’ “If our government ‘gave a stimulus by the provision of pensions, etc., I am confident that a large body of men could be recruited and sent simply as man power to France. “ ‘These men, put into the training depots in Europe, would be ready for front-line work within four or five months and they would form a nucleus upon which a skilled army subsequently could be built If we desired to go further into the matter.’ ” “Fatal to Efficiency” Palmer said the Hoover plan was rejected because it would be fatal to efficiency to mix men of different habits, food, temperaments, and to subject Americans to alien control as to billets and the way they should fight, with racial friction and the possibility of indignation at home in event of loss of life under alien command. The book, just published by Dodd. Mead & Cos., answers many criticisms set forth in General Pershing’s memoirs as to the conduct of the war at Washington. Based on war documents of Baker, the account of Palmer, former war correspondent and officer of the A. E. F., reveals that Pershing was supported loyally in the execution of the war, though Baker differed with him on numerous fundamental policies.

Pershing Unrelenting Pershing was represented as insisting on 100 American divisions in France, even after Foch had told Baker he could win the war with iOrty. His insistence on unconditional surrender of the Germans was waved aside by Wilson and Baker. On the eve of the armistice, after Austria had surrendered, Ludendorff had resigned and the kaiser had fled from Berlin to Spa, Pershing urgently was cabling Washington demanding to know why his request for more men could not “be given the consideration its importance deserves.” Pershing at that fime was preparing for another year of fiehfing, Palmer says. Baker for Preparedness “In the course of reading stacks of war documents, I gradually have come to the conviction that by the summer of 1918 the home effort was better organized tha n that in Europe,” Palmer says. . ® ef . or £ was declared, Baker had told the general staff that it w as not preparing for a large enough army and he said it would be raised by a draft and gave orders for preparation of a draft plan ‘ P Answering criticisms that the administration was unprepared for war, documents are produced to show that Baker urged a preparedness policy on President Wilson a year before wa r was declared, twicn resisted efforts of President Wilson to stop the war college from preparing war plans, and urged general extension of the Plattsburg idea Baker also is shown to have fought off attempts to curb the power of general staff - spent a billion „ emergency supplies without waiting for congress to appropriate money, though he risked violation of a criminal statute to do so, and Anally sent out millions of draft forms to 40,000 sheriffs while waiting for congress to pass the draft act.