Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 161, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1931 — Page 1

TIMES TO PRESENT FAMED MEMORIAL FILM OF WILSON

T H f INDIANAPOLIS TIMES today has the honor to announce that the Woodrow Wilson film-memorial will be presented under its „ u *l >l 2 es a k Keith's theater Saturday afternoon and evening Nov *>6 at *> 4, 6 and Bp. a ’ i H melineSs °* tnls review of the Wilsonian endeavors, when “isoatlonists" and “anti-isolationists” are viewing the recently renewed co--opcr^,u°n America with the old world, is a unique coincidence. .. T *? e “Woodrow Wilson Flim-Memorial” comes here labeled all over with the indorsement of the nation’s press. City after city has presented . usually under auspices of the local press, educational institutions enurches or civic organizations. Wherever it has been shown it ha.s been welcomed by enthralled audiences.

It is reported that this screen masterpiece has been presented approximately three thousand times, to upward of three million people. Reports from cities where it has been shown verify the statement that the “Film-Memorial” is comparable only to a visit from the war President,, himself, so graphically does it portray him—first of all in his rapid ascent to power, when he literally was worshiped by the world, and then, later, when he was deserted by his fellow-cit-izens, dying eventually the death of a martyr to his cause. an a THE local presentation of the “Woodrow Wilson Film-Me-morial,” just at this particular moment, is most timely, in view of the recent return of the United States to her role of helpmate among the nations of the Old World, whose assistance and support by Woodrow Wilson is detailed vividly in the picture. Partisans as well as opponents of the American policy of “isolation” will find in this historical screenrecord of America’s participation in old world events ample stimulus for maintenance or modification of their respective arguments. The scenes to be shown are all motion pictures of the real Woodrow Wilson. None of the pictures is artificial or posed. The scenes include the two inaugurations; the presidential life in the White House; his intimate relations with his family; his administration of the affairs of the nation; the incidents leading up to the declaration of war; the sinking of American ships by enemy submarines; the actual declaration of war; the drafting of Yankee soldiers; the Liberty Loan campaigns. Then there are graphic scenes of the transportation of troops to France; the actual battles of the war; the killing and the maiming of Uncle Sam’s men on the field of battle; the receptions in France, England, Belgium and Italy; the negotiation of the peace treaty; his first return trip to America; his reception in Boston by Governor Coolidge; his return to France to complete his work for world peace; also are shown the activities of the Big Four; the completion of the peace treaty; Wilson’s final return to America and reception in New York by Franklin D. Roosevelt; his “Appeal to Caesar,” when he made his fatal trip to the Pacific coast; his collapse, relinquishment of office, lingering illness, last public appearances, death and burial. 8 a THE origin of the “Woodrow Wilson Film-Memorial,” its maintenance and the method by which it has been distributed throughout the country constitute a record of loyalty and devotion to Woodrow Wilson, on the parfrof his admirers, which is impressive. The origin of the “Film-Me-morial'’ dates back over seven years, to March 15, 1924. when, within a few weeks after Woodrow Wilson’s death, one of many memorial services in his honor was being held in a school auditorium in one of the cities of the film-state, California. On that evening some disconnected pictures of the President were shown upon the screen. The pictures were so much more impressive than the addresses of the speakers that those present, who included some of the President’s close friends, conceived the idea that if a sufficient number of motion-pictures of the President could be procured to produce a chronological screen-por-trayal of his entire career, a life-like memorial thereby would be produced. This, it was considered, would be immeasurably more effective than lifeless statues of bronze or stone. 8 a SO., at once, the work of collecting and compiling the scenes of the "Woodrow Wilson FilmMemorial" began. By June of that year, 1924, the first presentations were given. Funds for compilation of the “Film-Memorial" and for its first 700 presentations, all of which were free, were provided by a few friends and admirers of the President, who took pains to protect, the ’“Film-Memorial” from being tied up to their names in an advertising way, and also prevented its use for political or commercial gain. During this period of its history, the “Woodrow Wilson Film-Memo-rial” was shown one or more times in many Methodist. Presbyterian, Christian and Congregational churches. It also was exhibited in schools, city auditoriums and in theaters, but without profit to any one. The coming presentations of the “Woodrow Wilson Film-Memorial” here are being given for the twofold purpose oI enabling as many as possible to witness the “Film-Me-morial" and of raising, through modest admittance charges, the community quota to establish the "Rim-Memorial” here permanently, for this and succeeding generations. Whatever amount may be realized in addition to this necessary sum, and in excess of presentation expenses, will be donated to charity. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: South wind. 15 miles an hour; temperature. 64; barometric pressure, 30.08 at sea level; ceiling, thin, overcast, light fog, lower broken clouds, unlimited; visibility, 3 rpiles; field, good.

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JURY PONDERS LOVE TRAGEDY Society Slayer Held After Inquest Verdict. lly United Press PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 14.—Horace Allen’s family, wrecked by the love affair of his debutante daughter, today awaited action of a grand jury that will consider a murder indictment against her brother Edward. Edward Allen, 23, who killed Francis Donaldson 111 in an argument over Rose Allen, 18, the sister, was held over to the grand jury in a coroner's inquest Friday. Rose was not present during the hearing. Neither was her father. Both were guests under the same roof, despite the fact that Rose had charged her father and her brother with responsibility for the killing. Testimony developed during the hearing included an eye-witness story of the killing as told by Albert Lucas, friend of Donaldson, who had joined him in an attempt to induce the Allens to withdraw their objections to Donaldson as a suitor of Rose. Lucas admitted Donaldson had confided in him his misconduct with Rase, as charged first by Rases father, a retired manufacturer. He said the senior Allen also had threatened to kill Donaldson. Rose had charged her brother had threatened to kill him.

How the Market Opened

Dy United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 74.—The stock market continued to move uncertainly today. The majority of issues showed losses ranging from fractions to a point and volume still was small. Railroad issues declined, with Union Pacific down a point at 105. Western Union made anew low since 1915 at 67, off 1. Smaller losses were noted in Auburn, Bethlehem Steel, Vanadium, A. M. Byers, Texas Corporation and United Aircraft. United States Steel common was unchange dat the outset at 68 7 4, but it slipped off fractionally in ’ the subsequent transactions. New York Central opened 2.400 shares at 45, off %, and then descended to a record low at 4314. Oil shares were fractionally lower with the exception of SoconyVacuum, which firmed up fractionally. Coppers held within a narrow range near the previous close. Utilities also held w r ell with small gains noted in such leaders as Consolidated Gas and Public Service of New Jersey. Radio-Keith-Orpheum made a record low at 3%, off %, following announcement of its reorganization plan, which, according to a letter sent to stockholders by the company, must be accepted if receivership is to be averted. Radio Corporation made anew low at 1014, off %. Radio has g, large interest in Radio-Keith. New York Stocks Opening (By J. T. HamiU & Cos.) —Nov. 14— Am Can 81 Va I Johns Mansville 32 V* Ay Red 64 V Liggett & M tß> 59"a Atchison llO’jiMontK Ward .. 11 s , Anaconda 16VN Y Central... 45 Am For Pwr ... 14'vN American ... Am Tel & Tel.. 139 Vi j Natl Cash Reg.. 17V a Auburn 127 Penn RJI 30V Byers A. M lSU.Packard* 5V Cons Gas 74V Radio 10V Case J. 1 48 R. K O 3*4 Ches & Ohio.. 32', Sinclair Oil 7*/a Fox Film iA).. 6VSt Oil of N J.. 34 V Gen Foods 37V Texas Corp 18 5 /a Gillette 14‘ a U S Steel .... 68 7 * Gen Motors ... 27>, United Corp .. 13 1 2 Gen Elec 31VUn Aircraft ... 16 Goodyear 26', Un Carbide 37’i Gold Dust .. 21L Vanadium 19V, Gen Am T Car 44 VWestinghouse .. 44’.* Int Nickle 10V Woolworth 52*4 Chicago Stocks Opening ißv James T. Hamill &, Cos. ) —Nov. 14—Ass Tel Util 18 IChog Sec. 6 V Bendix Avia ... 18V Origsbv Grunow 2'< Bore Warner... 13VGt Lks Arcft... 2U Sent So Wst 10 Insull com 124* Cent Pub Serv A 3V Insull 6s '4O 56 cord Corp 8V Mid United- com 10 Cont Chi com .. 3 Middle West... 10, Cont Chi Dfd... 25 Sbd Utilities... 2> .Com Edison ...146 iU S Rad & Tel 15*4 Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 57 8 a. m 60 7 a. m 58 9 a. m 62

Bandit Bidlet Stops at Skin ; Motorman Owes Life to Pen

STRUCK in the chest by a bullet from a bandit’s gun. W. C. Kemp, 64. of 3555 Salem street, is alive today to tell the story of a holdup in which he escaped death by a miracle. Kemp, motorman on a Meridian Heights street car, is alive despite the fact the bandit’s bullet tore through his coat lapel, was slowed up by a fountain pen, pierced his shirt and underclothing and came to a halt at the skin, inflicting only a slight bruise. The holdup occurred at Forty-eighth and Pennsylvania streets, where two Negro gunmen boarded the car. They drew revolvers and held up l4rry Winton, 27, of 135 North Belmont avenue, the conductor.

HOOVER MAPS GIGANTIC HOME FINANCE PLAN $1,800,000,000 Program to Be Given Congress Next Month. HOPES TO AID JOBLESS President Believes Proposal May Stimulate Boom in Building. BY HENRY F. MISSELWITZ United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—President Hoover will ask congress next month to approve a $1,800,000,000 home financing program designed to revitalize the home building industry j and to keep “old man foreclosure” : from the American doorstep. The President’s program, outlined at his Friday press conference, provides for establishment of anew national system of home-loan discount banks. The project would make available some $1,800,000,000 to aid thousands of persons to build and keep their own homes. For Small Home Owner The discount banks, one for each federal reserve district, would have broadly the three-fold purpose of relieving pressure on home owners and the banks holding their mortgages; allaying unemployment by overcoming the semi-paralysis that has gripped the home building industry, and establishing a permanent mortgage rediscount system of such strength as to combat in fuj ture years the deadening effect of business depressions. The President emphasized that the scheme, essentially, is to aid the small home owner. For example, the plan stipulates that the banks are to rediscount mortgage loans on homes, but that no such mortgage is eligible for rediscount if it exI ceeds $15,000. Many loans undoubtedly will be for less than $15,000, so the program holds the possibility of directly affecting perhaps more than a million persons, besides indirect benefits to countless others through stimulated employment and revived activity in the building industry. Hopes to Stimulate Boom The President hopes to stimulate a building boom to aid unemployment and it was pointed out that home building has fallen off nearly 80 per cent in recent months, due to fear that the prospective home builder could not pay for hjs house on present terms. Normally, Mr, Hoover said, some 200,000 homes are built in the United States each year, valued at $2,000,000,000. He felt if that activity could be restored, it would go a long way toward solving the unemployment situation in many sections this winter. The idea behind the scheme, as the President’s statement explained it, is to permit banks all over the country holding mortgages on homes to rediscount those mortgages with the new banks. The local banks can pass on this relief from pressure of credits falling due to the home owner or builder. Money Raised Locally As it is, many banks hold mortgages on homes that are past due and the owners can not meet them. The banks or the building and loan associations do not want to foreclose. They then would find themselves owning an increasingly great number of houses and land from which they derived no income, but on which they had to pay taxes and upkeep. The twelve new home loan discount banks would have an original combined capital of $150,000,000 under the plan. This would make it possible for them to rediscount mortgages up to $1,800,000,000. The money would be raised locally in the sections designated. If a section failed to subscribe the capital needed, the government would make up the total, with a scheme to turn over the government’s stock to private ownership as rapidly as possible. Subject to Approval Each bank is to have an initial capital of $5,000,000 to $30,000,000, depending on the need in its district. They will condilct no original business, but will be restricted purely to rediscounting mortgages held i by such institutions as building and • loan associations, savings banks, farm loan banks, and the like. The maximum amount to be ad- : vanced against mortgage collateral ; shall not exceed 50 per cent of the unpaid balance in the case of shortI term loans, and 60 per cent on long- | term loans. No advance is to be ■ made on mortgages in default.

Kemp said the bandits forced Winton to leave the trolley and enter a parked automobile. Seizing a cast iron shovel from the trolley stove, Kemp leaped from the car in pursuit. One of the bandits fired twice as Kemp stepped to the street. The first bullet tore past Kemp’s head, and the second struck him in the chest. However. Winton strode on to the automobile and shattered a window with the shovel. The bandits roared away with the conductor as a passenger. Winton, believing the motorman dead, offered no resistance as the bandits rifled his pockets and money changer of s2# in cash and tokens. He was released from the bandit automobile at Park avenue and Thirty-fifth street.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1931

CONFIDENT BULLDOGS TO FIGHT MARQUETTE TEAM

JjOok at tnat striae, pal, look _ at that stride If lowa car W gs; handle this panhandle galloper Big Ten grid followers may wit’m . • ness one °* the J' ear s biggest up■L, * SL sets at Lafayette today. Eor the young man in the picgjjjaiw ture is none other than Mr. and Mrs. Hookers bic son Fred, from C wav down south in Houston. Tex. whose singing cleats are M bearing out grid history for Purdue. HEA w*r When Fred tucks the pigskin under his wing and starts galfpfe' loping, he reminds Boilermaker backers of Pest Welch, another big Texan who gained all-Amer-full gack laurels with Purdue v T Hecker is just a sophomore. but he’s shoved some mighty fine lousands of Tickets Seized; j M t • in Swoop by Police. Cmochi ntr thp nlWpri “Reno” lot- ” fn " .... ..a . . .

‘RENO’LOTTERY NIPPED IN RAID Thousands of Tickets Seized in Swoop by Police. Smashing the alleged "Reno” lottery after several recent unsuccessful attempts to halt its operations, police today held four men and had confiscated several thousand lottery tickets and other paraphernalia. Police raided the headquarters of the alleged gaming outfit at 324 North Capitol avenue Friday night. Those arrested: Charles Cope, 24 North Tremont avenue, purported operator, keeping a gaming house and operating a lottery; Theodore Baumgate, 1923 Arrow avenue, vagrancy and improper parking; Ray Lookebill, 330 North Capitol avenue, vagrancy; and Charles Denton, 2020 South Meridian street, restaurant operator, operating a slot machine. Lieutenant Ralph Dean said the officers went to Denton’s place, where, they said, the drawing was held, but were too late. They arrested Denton on the slot machine count. Going to the North Capitol avenue address, officers said Lookebii: was in possession of thousands of tickets and winners’ lists. In Baumgate’s car, police said they found drawing boxes and numbers. Since police pressure has been exerted on gambling outfits in Indianapolis, many of them have been “on the move.” Dean said the alleged “Reno” lottery drawings were held in different places each week. Other officers were Sergeant Dan Scanlon and patrolman Timothy Shanahan. „ TAX RUSH EXPECTED Today Last in Extra Period Given by Treasurer. Today being Saturday and pay day for a great many Indianapolis persons, the county treasurer’s office prepared for the handling of a large crowd of property owners, who will take advantage of the two days of grace offered by Clyde Robinson, treasurer. Although the final date for tax payments was Nov. 2, Robinson announced that, in order to make it possible for thousands of Indianapolis property owners to escape the payment of delinquent penalties, he would have the office opened for two additional days. More than 400 took advantage of this privilege Friday, and several thousand are expected to make their payment by 4 p. m. todays FEW CHANGES NOTED IN CITY SWINE TRADE Cattle Market Nominal; Sheep Show Steady Trend. Little was done in the hog market at the city yards this morning. All prices held steady with Friday’s average. The bulk, 160 to 300 pounds, sold at $5 to $5.15; top holding at the latter figure. Receipts were estimated at 3,000; holdovers were 318. Cattle was nominal, receipts numbering 50. Vealers showed no change, prices ranging from $7.50 down. Calf receipts were 100. Sheep were dull, most lambs here on .directly through shipments. Prices were quotably steady or from $6.75 down. Receipts were 500.

Butler Keyed to High Pitch for Game Today With Formidable Foe. Marquette’s Golden Avalanche may be a world beater to its Wiscpnsin backers, but it's just another football team to Butler—one which the Blue think they can beat. When Harry Bell's Bulldogs take the chalk marks against the Hilltoppers at Butler bowl today at 2 p. m., it will be a fighting eleven, confident of springing a major upset, despite Marquette’s great record of but one loss in three canft)aigns. A powerful line and a half dozen hard running and accurate passing backs will carry the hopes of Frank Murray’s Milwaukee pastimers. Although hampered by injuries, Johnny (Big Train) Sisk, ace of the Marquette running attack, probably will see action today. Eugene (Tuffy) Ronzani, a husky youth who hammers the line hard and flashes brilliantly in the open spaces, is another Hilltopper who will get much attention from Butler. Captain Kenny Booz, triple threat leader of Butler’s offense, will get the big test of his career in Blue moleskins in today’s game. His work this year has been sensational, and Bulldog victory hopes today rest on him. Purdue Plays lowa Purdue’s home-coming battle with lowa at Lafayette, Indiana’s journey to Evanston to battle the Big Ten title-bound Northwestern Wildcats, and Notre Dame’s first Atlantic seaboard invasion to face Navy are other features of the Hoosier collegiate card today. Hanover plays at De Pauw, Franklin :ts Ball State’s foe in a home-coming tussle, Valapraiso’s unbeaten and untied warriors play their final game at Manchester, Wabash journeys to Delaware, 0., to test Ohio Wesleyan, and Indiana Central winds up its 1931 campaign at Earlham in other games. HIGH TRIBUTE TO BE PAID DR. DOEPPERS Certificate of Appreciation Will be Awarded by Health Board. Certificate of appreciation anH recognition will be awarded Di* William A. Doeppers, former city hospital superintendent, by the public health board Nov. 27. After serving five years as hospital superintendent, Dr. Doeppers resigned in July and took a position with the medical research staff of Eli Lilly & Cos. Dr. Charles W. Myers was named superintendent, succeeding Dr. Doeppers. The board appointed Dr. Robert H. Stapp as resident physician in general medicine at the hospital to take the place of Dr. W. C. Leaman, who recently resigned. DRIVE ON West Virginian Conducting Sendees at North Side Church. The Rev. R. R. Black, Parkersburg (W. Va.) evangelist, is conducting revival services at the North Side Church of God, 900 West Thirtieth street, assisted by the Rev. P. B. Turner, pastor of the church. The campaign will continue through next week, closing with an all-day service Sunday, Nov. 22. Morning and evening services will be held Sunday with evening services on week nights. Feature of the campaign will be the children's meeting Monday night, when members of the junior church will have charge of the preliminaries, / will act as ushers, and will present a program of music. Hoover Invites Dr. W. F. King Dr. William F. King, director of the state health department, has been invited by President Hoover to attend the President's home building and ownership conference Dec. 2 to 5. Dr. King is a member of the President's conference on child health.

Look at that stride, pal, look at that stride If lowa can handle this panhandle galloper. Big Ten grid followers may witness one of the year's biggest upsets at Lafayette today. For the young man in the picture is none other than Mr. and Mrs. Hecker’s big son Fred, from way down south in Houston. Tex., whose singing cleats are beating out grid history for Purdue. When Fred tucks the pigskin under his wing and starts galloping, he reminds Boilermaker backers of Pest Welch, another big Texan who gained all-Amer-ica full gack laurels with Purdue in 1929. Hecker is just a sophomore, but he's shoved some mighty fine veterans out of the spotlight. Running isn’t the only thing he can do. His passing and kicking, also with his bail-lugging, have been important factors in Purdue's success to date.

MINER CHARGES BOMBING PLOT Offered $325 to Help in Dynamiting, He Says. By United Press PRINCETON, Ind.,’ Nov. 14. Additional state witnesses were called today in the trial of Thomas Morton, charged with conspiracy in mine bombings at Somerville. Virgil May, Sullivan, former coal miner, was the first witness called, after the state fiiade its opening statement and the defense waived its opportunity for a statement. May testified that Harmon Kelley, a board member of the United Mine Workers of America, who is also under indictment, sent Morton to see him in regard to a plan to bomb Somerville mine No. 2. May said Morton told him he would be paid $325 if he assisted. When he declined to aid, May said, he was threatened with death if he revealed the others’ plans. He quoted Kelley as saying. “You know, I’m a dynamite man and Morton is a prizefighter.” Morton is one of ten men to be tried on conspiracy charges resulting from three Somerville bombings.

Fair and Fistic Are women bloodthirsty or do they merely like to get something for nothing? In an Indianapolis store where passes were being given to a prize fight, only two men applied for them, while several dozen women accepted tickets.

HURT AS CRANE BREAKS Man Is Hurled to Chassis of Truck in B. & O. Yards. Head and leg injuries were sustained Friday afternoon when a chain on a crane broke, throwing Harry Betzler, 38, of 814 South Warman avenue, to the chassis of a truck on which he was working in the Moorefield yards of the B. & O. railroad. Police were told Metzler was installing a tank on the truck chassis when the accident occurred. He was taken to city hospital. Bank Appeal Transferred Unable to agree, judges of the Indiana appellate court have transferred to the supreme court the appeal from White circuit court in which the question of priority of state funds in defurict banks is involved.

STRIKEOUT’ OF OGDEN IS SEEN IN MARION PROBE

By Times Special MARION, Ind., Nov. 14.—Delayed by the omission of a technicality in the preparation of an indictment, the Grant county grand jury was unable to present its final report to Circuit Judge O. D. Clawson when it adjourned Friday night, and will hand it to the court this morning. Foreman Elmer E. Gowing said. Grand jurors spent eighty minutes Friday afternoon interrogating At-torney-General James M. Ogden upon the basis for his charge that Marion is “seething in corruption.’' On reliable authority it later was stated that Ogden had no evidence to show the jury except a brief case jammed with letters, most of which carried no signatures. Prosecuting Attorney Harley F. Hardin, whose office has been under investigation at the instance of the attorney-general, was excluded from the grand jury room during the last twenty minutes of the jury’s questioning of Ogden. What transpired could not wrdearned.

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FALL OF SOVIET CITY NEAR AS JAPANESE TROOPS BEAT i BACK FORCES OF GENERAL MA Skirmishes Believed Prelude to Battle on Large Scale, as Nipponese Advance in Nonni River Sector. CHINESE LEADER REJECTS DEMAND Plea Made for League of Nations Action, as Intensity of Fighting Increases in Manchuria. BY FREDERICK KUH United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1931. bv The Times* HARBIN, Manchuria, Nov. 14.—Intermittent fighting— J believed to be a prelude to a large-scale battle—continued today in the Nonni river sector, gateway to Japanese control of Anganchi and Tsitsihar. Japanese cavalry clashed with Chinese in frequent minor engagements, but the Manchurian army of General Ma Chan-Shan and the 10,000 troops of General Cheng Hai-Peng, Chinese ally of Japan, bore the brunt of the skirmishes. The Japanese described the situation as “increasingly threatening.”

War Exists, Says General BY D. C- BESS United Press Staff Correspondent (Coovristht. 1931. bv United Press) MUKDEN, Manchuria, Nov. 14. General Shigeru Konjo, commander of the Japanese army in Manchuria, intends to open the railroad line to Tsitsihar and to keep it open, charging “a regional state of war exists in the Anganchi area.” “There Is clear evidence that the Chinese commanders at Anganchi were helped from the outside, with troops, ammunition and advisors. Such help apparently is possible only from Chinese Korean soldiers in the Third Red army in Siberia,” he said in an interview with the United Press. The Japanese commander, who delivered an ultimatum to General Ma Chan-Shan, demanding evacuation of troops opposed to Japanese before Nov. 25. was smiling and friendly when he received the correspondent. But he made it clear that the Japanese troops, which have been fighting General Ma’s Chinese forces on the Nonni front near Anganchi, would reopen the railroad line and extend Japanese protection as far as Tsitsihar. There was a lull in fighting this morning, except for sporadic cavalry encounters, and advices from the Nonni district indicated that negotiations for a settlement had been resumed as a result of the Japanese ultimatum. It was understood the Japanese were seeking a pledge by General Ma that he would not interfere along the Taonan-Anganchi railroad.

LEGAL BOARD ORDERS AVENUE WORK FINISHED Massachusetts Project to Be Completed Soon, City Is Assured. Work toward completion of the Massachusetts avenue widening and resurfacing project will be started Monday by the American Construction Company, contractor. This was announced today following approval by the legal department of the works’ goard action, Authorizing the contractor to proceed wdth the project. It also was reported that a compromise between property owners and the city regarding assessments may be reached soon. Each would pay 50 per cent of the improvement cost on the part to be completed, from Ohio to New York streets. Members of the Massachusetts Merchants’ Association appeared before the board Wednesday and asked that the work be continued. Disagreement regarding assessments was reason for the contractor’s delay. Former Governor to Speak Myers Y. Cooper, Cincinnati, former Governor of Ohio, will be principal speaker at the annual meeting of the State Association of county and district fairs at the Claypool, Jan. 5, it was announced today by E. J. Barker, state fair secretary.

The grand jury’s report is expected to contain nothing of a startling nature. There was nothing to indicate that Prosecutor Hardin would be indicted. Some minor true bills are expected, however. As he left the grand jury room, Ogden said he had been hampered in his fight to indict Grant county public officials by the fact that Circuit Judge Clawson limited the powers of Deputy Attorney-General George Hufsmith and Attorney E. H. graves, special prosecutors. Had his special prosecutors been accorded full power to investigate, Ogden asserted, there would have been “about 3,000 per cent more chance for some indictments.’’ The attorney-general insisted that he would “get an indictment eventually.” No foundation could be found for the rumor that anew grand would be sworn in Monday for the November term, so that Ogden’s representatives could continue their probe.

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The fall of Tsitsihar is ex- ! pected soon as a result of the | artillery bombardments and cavalry clashes. A Japanese ultimatum, delivered to General Ma Chan-Shan, demanded withdrawal of the Chinese troops opposing Japanese in the Tsitsihar area by Nov. 25. on threat of “effective measures” by Japan’s | army. Sharp Fighting Reported It was believed by neutral diplomats that a pro-Japanese government would be established soon in Heilungkiang province. Advices from Anganchi said there was sharp fighting in the Nonni river sector after delivery of Gen. Honjo’s ultimatum to General Ma Chan-Shan. General Ma was said to have rejected Japanese demands for withdrawal of his troops to permit Japanese to proceed to Tsitsihar without opposition. “You state your vroops are necessary for protection of the Japanese railways,” General Ma was quoted as saying in reply to the Japanese demands. “Tsitsihar is located on a purely Chinese railroad line. Why should Japanese troops go to Tsitsihar?” Urges League Action General Ma also sent a message to Chang Hsueh-Liang at Peiping urging him to obtain League of Nations action “against Japan at once, since the Japanese demands “are increasing hourly.” He insisted his troops would remain at Tsitsihar to preserve order. General Ma’s finances have been depleted. It was admitted that his position is untenable against the Japanese and their ally, General Chank Hai-Peng. Dawes Meets Briand By United Press PARIS, Nov. 14.^—Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, representing the United States during the League of Nations council meeting, starting Monday, conferred with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand today and then sent a long code message to Secretary of State Stimson, outlining the French reaction to American plans for solution of the Manchuriarf conflict. Bri*id, as president of the council, tnen summoned Soviet Ambassador Dovgelewski. It was understood he insisted upon neutrality of the Russian government in the Manchurian crisis. Briand was said to have warned Russia not to allow Russian ammunition to be smuggled to Chinese territory. Later Dawes consulted with his advisers. FROSH HEAR PRINCIPAL: Morgan Before Tech First-year Pupils in General Talk. Speaking before the second meeting of Technical high school’s 1,300 freshmen, Principal De Witt S. Morgan outlined the school’s history Friday. Miss Gertrude Thuemler, dean of girls, and Charles Teeters, assistant principal in charge of freshmen, were introduced to the first-year pupils. Morgan urged the freshmen to take advantage of their scholastic opportunities, and described the scholarships to which Tech pupils are eligible.

Santa Banished By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 14. —Governor William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray today banished a Santa Claus from Oklahoma for five years. Because Frank Morgan, 74, has a job playing Santa Claus for merchants at Natchez, Miss., the Governor issued a parols to the 74-year-old man on condition he does not return to Oklahoma for five years. Morgan also must fulfill his Santa Claus contract at Natchez. Morgan was convicted on a larceny charge in Pittsburg county and sentenced to fifteen days in jail and fined S4O. “Any man who on Nov. 13 has a job playing Santa Claus at Natchez deserves something,” Murray said.