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Ward Greene Harrison Smith Inr., Thursday published the third novel of Ward Greene, a New York editorial writer of note. In his latest, ‘'Weep No More,” Greene ! writes of ' what has happened in late years to the modesty * and j rharm of the southern lady and to proverbial honor of the gentleman of the South.” n n " BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. ALWAYS get the spring lever when the spring book catalogues begin to arrive. And I always leel that winter is over, mentally anyway, because the announcements actualiy make me happy. Liveright announces in “Good Books —Spring 1932.” that they will publish in March "Adventures of a Novelist,” by Gertrude Atherton. It is described as “Gertrude Atherton's own history, the story of a woman who was always ahead of her time, whose talent and personal glamor made the great men and women of the world seek her. ’ They are still writing of ex-Presi-dents as Denis Tilden Lynch has completed “Grover Cleveland: A Man Foursquare,” for this month’s release for Liveright. This same firm announces for March publication, “The Front Behind the Front.” which is the revelations of Rudolf von Valentini, chief of the Kaiser’s civil cabinet. It is said that this book “reveals the Kaiser and his advisers as helpless before the unbridled militarism of Hindcnburg and Ludendorff, who crushed and disposed of everything in their paths, until the death warrant of Germany was finally signed.” a tt “No religion of any kind should hr taught anywhere until children are 16 years of age.” says Theodore Dreiser in his new book, “Tragic America.” He continues by saying: Then if they choose, and since at that age * they are better fitted to comprehend any life data than at 5 or 6 or 10, they might be allowed to examine the great data of life.” Published by Liveright, Inc. u a # The Century Company announces that it will publish in America the two novels which have just been awarded the highest literary honors given in France in 1931.* tr tt THE winner of this week’s book review is Robert E. Powell, 1503 North LaSalle street, who reviewed “Mexico,” by Stuart Chase. When he gets in touch with this department, he can select one of (several good books. His review is as follows: In these days when it behooves us to look beyond the horizon of our * own country's boundaries, it is a delightful experience to meet a book like “Mexico,” by Stuart Chase. Combining his profound economic training with a natural and romantic love of color, Mr. Chase has written an exciting and brilliant description of Mexico as it really Is. No other book in recent years has presented a more alluring picture of the Mexican nation where “flowers ere more important to the people than motor cars” and “one is bathed In friendliness if not in hot water.” It dispels the prevalent legend *hat the Mexicans are an unscrupu- j lous race of revolutionists and ban- ! cits. All through the book there is a stimulating combination of travel, history, economics, archaeology, religion, play and human nature. After reading it. nearly every one x will want to go to Mexico. tt Would not be f* bit surprised that if you will have a grand time reading anew funny book. It’s title makes one want to laugh. The title js “How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes.” By Will Cuppy. Illustrated by Jacks and sells for $1.75. u u Anthony Wynne, author of “The Silver Scale Mystery.” has outdone himself in his latest murder story, “The White Arrow.” “It's the story of the murder of a “wizzard of finance.” You'll like it because it keeps you in suspense until almost the last page. But the White Arrow finally points the way to the solution of the baffling crime. a H. HESSELL TILTMAN, author of a life of Ramsay MacDonald. examines the cauldron of political Europe in "The Terror in Europe” <Stokes). He examines five dictatorships—those of Soviet Russia. Italy, Poland, Hungary and ( Jugoslavia. * His purpose is to demonstrate the methods of dictatorial regimes brought into power by revolution or coup detat. , He lists in extensive detail the terrorism, the repression and the murderous methods by which some of these governments were maintained in their early years.

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INDIANA WETS ! WIN POLL BY WIDE MARGIN Liquor Advocates Cast 747 Votes Against 273 by Dry Cohorts. SURPRISE IN OUTCOME Anti-Saloon League’s Claim That Change Would Not Come Is Upset. BY BEN STERN • Copyright. 1932. bv The Times! Prohibitionists have lost Indiana, tabulation of The Times secret poll of 1930 state convention delegates revealed today. Claims of Anti-Saloon League leaders that Indiana always will be found in ihe dry column are completely refuted by the ballots, with the Democrats most pronounced in their moist leanings and a great number of the Republicans sitting on the fence. Out of a total of 1.020 ballots tabulated, those favoring outright repeal and modification of the prohibition laws cast. 747 votes, while the delegates favoring the status quo cast 273 votes. IJ. S. Control Favored More than half of the anti-pro-hibitionists spoke out in behalf of government control of the sale of alcoholic beverages in event of repeal or modification, while eleven favored control. Results of the tabulation are a distinct surprise to even the most optimistic foes of prohibition, while denials are expected from the proponents. Here is how the Democrats answered the questions: For outright repeal, 318. For retention of prohibition, 67. For modification, 184. For government control, 301. Total, 807 votes.. The Republican delegates voted as follows: For outright repeal, 147. For retention of prohibition, 206. For modification, 98. For government control. 138. Total, 589 votes. It must be remembered that those voting for either outright repeal or modification could also signify their stand of government control of the liquor traffic in event the dry laws were repealed or modified. Although it, was known that a large majority of the Democrats were anti-prohibition, so large a “wet” return was not expected. It is worthy of note that those Democrats voting for repeal of the prohibition laws favored Franklin D. Roosevelt or Albert C. Ritchie for the presidential nomination; and Walter Myers for the senatorial nomination. The number of Republicans voting against prohibition was a complete upset of the dope bucket. Wets Gain in Marion County Lake county, with its seventeen repeal and modification votes, indicated what is happening to the G. O. P. adherents in the industrial centers, while the even split of 28 to 28 on repeal and prohibition in Marion county was an unusual feature of the poll. The seventeen voting for modification here, however, foreshadowed plainly the inroads being made by the wets in this county. The drys did not get a vote among the Lake Democratic delegates, and were only accorded five in Marion county, against 81 for outright repeal and 28 for modification. The rural counties, and Boone is a case in point, did not even come through for the dry cause. Boone Democrats voted 9 for repeal or modification, against 2 for prohibition, while their Republican neighbors tied one all. St. Joseph county Republicans came through with 11 votes for prohibition to make the only real score for that cause outside of Marion county, and this was unusual in that South Bend always has been rated as wet. Dry Stronghold Weakens Marshall county, where it is almost considered a sin to run for office as an anti-prohibitionist, didn’t give the dry cause much cause lor rejoicing, turning in 1 repeal vote for the Democrats, 2 for prohibition and 2 for modification. Many voting dry asked for “more and better enforcement.” others asked for a referendum, still others insisted upon strengthening the dry laws.” Then there were many who declared that the law “could not be enforced.” The tabulation on the prohibition poll is probably the most interesting of the entire series and will be | studied more carefully by political leaders than any of the others, which covered choices of President, senator. Governor and .the disposition of the party workers toward a special session. No copies of the tabulations other than printed in The Times of Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and today are obtainable, in event that there is a desire for them. Those who did not see the names of their choices carried in the returns are notified that many ballots came in after the tabulation for the various offices were made and thus were not counted. EXTRADITION GRANTED Colorado Will Return Ex-Gangster to Chicago on Kidnaping Charge. By United Press DENVER. Jan. 29.—Louis “Diamond Jack” Alterie. one-time Chicago gangster and still head of the theater and building janitors’ union there, was turned over to Illinois authorities today to face kidnaping charges there. Alterie. dude rancher and rodeo performer since he claims he abandoned “racketeering” in Chicago, i lost his fight against extradition. Governor William H. Adams 1 granted the request of Illinois offij cials for the gangster, charged with : being the leader of a kidnaping band. u

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TWO BANDITS SEIZE SIO,OOO IN JEWELSAND MAKE ESCAPE

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Lewis Bassler. president of the Platinum shop, inspecting the safe which bandits looted of SIO,OOO worth of diamonds and rings. (Inset) Harry Hawkins, Indiana Bell Telephone Company employe, who failed in an attempt to nab one of the gunmen.

'PASS BUCK' ON TAX HIKE BILL Each Party Is Anxious to Avoid Responsibility. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Democrats and Republicans vied with each other today to dirrlaim any party responsibility for a tax increase. Spokesmen of each party joined in a mutually satisfactory arrangement for a “nonpartisan” measure. Both parties agreed, likewise, against retroactive increases to be paid this year on last year’s incomes. This was good news to the taxpayer and the voter, and should have salutary political effects. The “nonpartisan” idea served to eliminate political embarrassment for both parties. Neither wanted party credit for such an unpopular measure as a tax increase bill. Both were in a position to get the blame, the Republicans because Secretary of the Treasury Mellon recommended an elaborate program, the Democrats because they are in control of the house and nominally responsible for its legislation. Faces have been saved all around, for the moment. Both Republicans and Democrats will gather about the big mahogany table in the ways and means committee room Monday to start drafting a bill, a task that probably will require two weeks or more. Councilman’s Wife Dies B,u Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 29.—Funeral services were held here for Mrs. Avilla M. Schneider, 66, wife of William Schneider, a Richmond city councilman, who died after a long illness.

Times Prohibition Poll

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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1932

Members of Firm Forced to Lie on Floor as Safe Is Looted. Forcing three employes of the Platinum Shop, jewelry company, 533 Occidental building, to lie on the floor, two bandits today looted the safe of diamonds and' rings valued at about SIO,OOO. The bandits fled down stairs after Clarence Hanson, R. R. 10, Box 323-E, slugged one of the gunman after they had ordered him to join the others on the floor. Harry Hawkins, 1211 King avenue, grabbed the coat of one of the gunmen as he fled down the stairs, but the bandit wrenched free and escaped. The robber dropped a .38-caliber revolver in his flight. Lewis Bassler, president, and his son, Joseph, both of 2622 North New Jersey street, and Sam Piltz, 17, of 825 South Illinois street, company messengers, had opened the large safe when the bandits Mitered. “Get down on the floor, you guys, and stay there,” one of the bandits ordered, while the other ransacked the open safe. As the bandit duo prepared to depart, Hanson entered the office to check a gas meter in the workshop. He was halted by the gunmen. “Hey, you, not so fast there,” one bandit said. “You can get on the floor here with the other boys.” Hanson told police he struck one of the bandits and both fled. Bassler and his son said the loss was covered partly by insurance. The company sets diamonds for Indianapolis jewelry firms. The bandits were described as neatly dressed and about 27 or 28. City Workers’ Pay Cut Bp United Press WARSAW, Ind., Jan. 29.—Wages of all Warsaw street employes have been cut 5 cents an hour by the city council. Policemen’s salaries , were not lowered.

PLANT FORCE NEARING NEW HIGH RECORD Warner Gear Company of Muncie Has Added 500 Workers in Month. STONE MILL OPERATING Shawnee Company Unit Gives Jobs to About 100 at Blo|mington. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times A business and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today shows that 500 men have been added To the force of the Warner Gear Company, Muncie, since early in December, and the total working is now between 2,000 and 2,100. George W. Bunner, works manager, predicts addition of more workers, expected soon, will bring the force to a point setting anew high mark. For the first time in several months a full force is working in the central mill of the Shawnee Stone Company at Bloomington. About 100 men are working. It is understood there are sufficient orders on hand to assure steady operation for several months. Printing Order Placed Booking of a large contract from the M. A. Donohue Company, Chicago, insures full schedule operation of the R. R. Donnelly & Sons printing plant at Crawfordsville. Annual volume of the contract is estimated at $300,000. Capacity operation is in effect in the Greenwood plant of NoblittSparks Industries, Inc. Additions have beer, made to the force during the last month, and personnel is now complete in all departments. Arrangements have been completed for moving the foundry of the Globe-American Corporation from Macomb, 111., to Kokomo. Plant No. 2 of the Clay Products Company of Brazil resumed operations this week on a full time basis, with a force of 150 men on the pay roll. , Repairing of the Columbia Brewing Company building, at Logansport, following damage by fire, was prompted in part, according to Joseph Schmittei, an official, by the expectation “that conditions will be such within a short time that production of 4 per cent beer will be permitted.” $10,000,000 Mill Opened In the Calumet district, one of the outstanding developments of the week was opening of the new $10,000,000 strip mill of the Inland Steel Company at Whiting. Employment is being given 200 men in an expansion program at the plant of Lever Brothers, soap manufacturers, in Hammond. Day and night' shifts, providing work for nearly 1,000 men, are In effect at the Auburn plant of the Auburn Automobile Company. Annual statement of the Lincoln Life Insurance Company of Ft. Wayne shows $924,000,000 worth of insurance in effect Dec. 31, 1931, against $890,000,000 in force on the same date in 1930.

PIN IN JJABTS LUNG Brooklyn Child Removed to Philadelphia Hospital. An 18-months-old baby is being rushed today to a Philadelphia hospital in the hope that physicians there will succeed in removing a safety pin from one of its lungs. Two operations in Methodist hospital at Indianapolis failed to dislodge the pin. When the child’s condition became critical, physicians decided to take it to Philadelphia, where a bronchoscope will be used. The child is the- son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Baughman of Brooklyn. The parents said the obstacle had been in the child’s lung more than six weeks. THALLIUM POISONING CLAIMS SIXTH VICTIM Toxicologist Speeds to California to Aid Sufferers. By United Press FRESNO, Col., Jan. 29.—Thallium poisoning’s death toll mounted today as physicians awaited aid from a renowned toxicologist to combat it. Mrs. Celia Deloa, 28, who died at general hospital, was the sixth victim of the poisoning, which attacked Mexican farm workers who ate poisoned barley at a dance. Alesandro Deloa, the woman’s husband, has lapsed into the coma which precedes death, physicians said. Seven other patients are in a critical condition. A 19-year-old girl also Is receiving treatment at Visalia. Although little hope was held for the victims, doctors were confident that Dr. J. C. Munch, famous Pennsylvania specialist en route here, would be able to prolong their lives. ritchTe lauds rivals Willing to Support Any of Ohio Quartet, He Says. By United Press CINCINNATI, Jan. 29.—Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland today declared he would support heartily any one of four Ohio favorite sons for the presidency. • j Ritchie. himself prominently 1 mentioned for the Democratic nomination, praised Governor White, Senator Bulkley, James M. Cox and Newton D. Baker. Ohioans. "Any of these men is thoroughly fitted to give us a good administration,” he said.

WOMAN FOILED IN HER FIRST EFFORT AS SAFE CRACKER

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U.S. AGENT AND • POLICE CLASH Operative Charges Abuse by Muncie Officers. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 29.—A report of a clash involving a department of justice operative and Muncie policemen, during which the government man is reported to have shoved a revolver against one of the city officers, has been filed in the office of George Jeffrey, district attorney, at Indianapolis. About a month ago it became known publicly that federal agents were engaged in an investigation here, presumably seeking evidence of a conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, and factional strife in city administration circles increased as a result. Joseph H. Denny, the operative who reported to Jeffrey, said he and Fred Bohlinger, employed as an undercover worker by Mayor George R. Dale, during the first year of his administration, were in a house questioning two men ivhen patrolmen Davis, Doolittle and Sims entered. “We have had complaints about this place and don’t want to hear any more about it,” Davis is reported to have said. Denny says he told the officers he was a government agent, and displayed his credentials. With an oath Davis is declared to have said, “Government or no government officer, you are going to jail.” Three more policemen were called as reinforcements, and the entire party went to police headquarters, where Chief Massey, Mayor Dale and Denny held a conference. Finally all were released. BAR GROUP TO MEET University of Michigan Expert to Speak Wednesday. Professor Edson R. Sunderland of the University of Michigan law school, will speak Wednesday night at the meeting of the Indianapolis Bar Association at the Columbia Club. The meeting will be in charge of Paul G. Davis, recently named president of the association. Sunderland recently spent six months in England studying courts and is known as one of the leading United States authorities on case pleading. arresTTo for attack I Jobless Girl Victim of Assault Attempt, New York Cops Charge. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Ten men were under arrest today charged with attempting to attack Lillian Russel, 19, who came here from Cleveland two months ago in search of employment. Detectives were notified a girl was being attacked in a restaurant and arrested the men.

DRY LAW, UTILITIES ASSAILED BY SLACK

By Times Special DELPHI, Ind., Jan. 29.—“1f there was a time when Indiana needed a real Governor, that time is now. We haven’t had one for fifteen years.” This assertion was made Thursday night by L. Ert Slack, former Indianapolis mayor, at a Jackson day banquet attended by several hundred Democratic leaders, and officials of Delphi and surrounding towns. Slack appealed for a change of administration in the state and nation, declaring Republicans would fail in their attempt to date the depression to the Wilson administration. He said the time had arrived for a change in administrations, “which sometimes is an absolute necessity.” Slack declared increases in taxation and road costs in Indiana could be laid at the threshold of the Republican party. He also

Entered ss Second-Class Matter at -’ostoffiee, Indianapolis

Miss May Mattox

Pinched as She Sits Atop Strong Box in Office of Western Union. Sitting atop a safe which detectives say she admitted trying to open, Miss May Mattox, 32, of 1628 East Washington street, was captured early today in the Western Union Telegraph Company branch office at 31 South Delaware street. Ronald B. Coapstick, manager, interrupted her alleged burglary attempt as he opened the office this morning. “I broke in. Now go ahead and call police,” she is said to have told Coapstick. Detective Sergeant Plez Oliver, who was passing the office at the time, found the woman sitting on the safe as Coapstick had found her. “Yes, I tfred to open the safe,” she explained. ‘‘l threw a brick through the front door glass, reached in and turned the knob. When I couldn’t work the combination, I was afraid to escape because of the traffic outside. So here I am,” Sergeant Oliver said she • explained. She was slated at city prison on a charge of burglary. She said she had stolen S2OO from her mother, Mrs. Lena Mattox, recently and fled to Kentucky to avoid arrest, according to Sergeant Oliver. When she learned her mother did not intend to prosecute her, she returned here, she said. She admitted having been arrested in New York and Louisville for thefts, according to Sergeant Oliver. “I don’t care any more,” she said when placed in a cell. WRITER IS SPEAKER ‘Personality’ Is Subject of Collier’s Editor. The part that personality plays in “this business civilization of ours” was discussed by John B. Kennedy, associate editor of Collier’s, before the Town Hall audience at English’s today at poon. Kennedy discussed the personalities of the late Knute Rockne, Clarence Darrow, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, A1 Capone, the late Arnold Daly and others that Kennedy has interviewed. “The greatest aim of A1 Capone is that he will be considered as a decent citizen,” said Kennedy. Kennedy said when he interviewed Capone there were two big revolvers on the gang leader’s desk “and a large picture of Abraham Lincoln directly over Capone’s head.” Thieves’ Loot Is Varied Thefts reported to police today include: Mrs. Kenneth Shreve, R. R. 14, Box 301, $10; F. C. Cox. 4204 Rockville road, cigaret machine, $100: Mrs. M Wingard. 1229 North Pennsylvania street, apartment 108, valuable papers; Good Taste Cookie Company. 511 North Kealine avenue, $8 84. and Roscoe Hand. 2840 Allen street, Jewelry,

rapped the last session of the legislature, asserting “the people will not stand for any more failures such as we witnessed in the last legislative session.” “It is very evidept that we must have general relief from certain indirect taxes in the form of excessive utility rates,” Slack declared. “Water, light, power and transportation rates now are based upon excessive valuations because not a single public utility pays taxes on its property in proportion to the charges and rates it collects.” Attacking the Hoover administration for Its handling of the prohibition problem. Slack said: “The question is not political. It is personal, and I don't mind saying here and now that I reluctantly have come to the personal conclusion that national prohibition can net be operated and enforced successfully” *

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HOPE DIM FOR AGREEMENT IN ARMS PARLEY Nations to Meet at Geneva in Atmosphere of Hate and Fear. OBSTACLES ARE MANY Truce in Armament Race Best Result That Can Be Expected. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor Against a 'background of war and rumors of war, and in an atmosphere acrid with international enmity and fear, the fifty-odd ’ ations of the civilized world will meet at Geneva next Tuesday in an effort to disarm. Few informed observers on either side of the Atlantic expect the conference to succeed. The obstacles are too

big and too many. The best any of them reasonably hope is a truce—an arms holiday pledging the powers not to increase their arms for a given time. Some of the obstacles are these: 1. Japan’s conquest of Man-

churia and failure of the signatories to stand by the peace pacts, the basis of disarmament. 2. The quarrels of Europe, revolving around the Treaty of Ver--1 sailles. 3. The bitterness growing out of i the reparations and war debts set- ! tlements; economic rivalries; the scramble for markets; tariff w-alls; I the Franco-American corner on : gold and other barriers to trade. 4. The threat of armed revolt in India and Britain’s fight to prevent eclipse as a world empire. 5. Germany’s ‘‘will to come back,” come what may. 6. Communist Russia’s fear of the capitalist w'orld and the capitalist world's fear of Communist Russia. 7. Chaos in the far east and the 1 possibility of China’s break-up or partition. 8. Danger of a clash between Japan and Russia in the Orient spreading to Europe. 9. The general unwillingness of the more heavily armed nations to reduce their fighting equipment in an ill-tempered, suspicious, snarlI ing w-orld flecked all over with danger spots. Few Factors in Favor j The factors favoring disarma- : ment are neither as numerous nor j as potent as are those against dis- ! armament. Here are the principal ones: 1. necessity for economy. 2. The need to banish the uncertainty which is killing trade, freezing credit, retarding constructive measures, and holding back business recovery and prosperity. 3. The threat of national bankI ruptcy everywhere and budgets unbalanced by billions, in a world in w-hich approximately 75 per cent of national incomes go for wars, ] past or to come. 4. The growing realization that j an armaments race almost certainly will result If the parley fails, I leading to another conflict in I which women and children and : whole communities will be wiped I out from the air. Each to Its Own Task j Failure of the Geneva conferi ence—including failure of the prinI cipal powers to agree on at least a limited arms holiday—admittedly would turn the world into a pow-der-barrel wide open in a rain of sparks. Yet agreement among so many nations with such totally different aims, fears, hates, and ambitions is not regarded as being among the probabilities. At Geneva there can be no such thing as majority rule. Each nation there will be sovereign. The smallest will follow its own national inclinations. If a single one of the more important countries refuses to join in arms reduction the rest also will hang to their guns. All must trim or none. Several of the most heavily armed nations present will not disarm, so barring a miracle there will be no disarming by any. An arms holiday, therefore, looms as the most promising alternative to an out-and-out fiasco. Yet this will be far from acceptable to some. For Germany—to one—is insisting, vdth blood in her eye, that either the rest of Europe must disarm down to her, or she will consign the Treaty of Versailles to blazees and arm up to them. „ / ra . nce ’ Gprmatl T, Japan and the tnited States will fix the fate of disarmament. POLICE~FIND liquor 5N FALSE DRAINPIPE Two Charged with Blind Tiger When Cops Uncover Strange Cache. A drainpipe which yielded fifteen half pints of liquor to police Friday afternoon, resulted in Floyd Schuler owner of a poolroom at 2118 West Morris street, and Emery Wallace, R. R. A., Box 115, an employe, facing blind tiger charges today. Sergeant John Eisenhut, Lieutenant Leo Troutman and squads raided the poolroom, and discovered a false drain pipe. Pulling the plug on the pipe, police found a chain which brought the liquor bottles to the surface, they said. Raiding a soft drink place at 1418 South Belmont avenue, the officers said they found six half pints of booze concealed in a stairway. They arrested Oscar Lesser, operator, on a blind tiger count.

The long-her-alded arms conference is only a few days off. It starts Feb. 2. The outlook appears gloomy. It seems doomed before it begins. As Times readers are vitally concerned with its success or failure, here is the first story of a short series intended to give the ABC of it all.