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Count Hermann Keyserling

Harper and Brothers announce that on Oct. 6 they will publish "South American Meditations,” by Count Hermann Keyserling. BY WALTER.V HICKMAN IHAVE a book before me that will appeal only to those who are interested in the art world of Paris and London and the ‘ goings-on” In the Bohemian sector. Personally, I am aware that the degree the tourist is “in” with the inhabitants of the art world in Paris regulates just how much he or she knows. Those who are' actually “in” and those who want to “be in” will be interested in “Laughing Torso,” written by Nina Hammett, who is very much “in.” It is published by Ray Long and Richard R. Smith. I admit that the book cover which is the same as the first illustration, will be considered daring by some and just art by others, depending entirely upon the degree that you are acquainted with the art world in Paris and other cities. “Laughing Torso” gets its title from one of the marble torsos made by Henri Gaudier-Brzesjca of Nina Hammett, who is a painter and the author of the book in question. And the book cover is adorned with a reproduction of the marble torso of the author. Some of the biggest names of painters, sculptors and writers find their way into the narrative of the author as she plainly, and I think honestly, mentions or suggests the friendships, ideas and importance of the artist in the strange scheme of things in this little art world. You will catch the mood and mannerisms of such notables as Sinclair Lewis, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, James Joyce, Hugh Walpole, Andre Gide and many others. But the thing that interests me most in this book was the way the author of the book caught and reproduced the mental and living moods of these people in Paris who meet together on a common Bohemian ground regardless whether he be artist, sculptor or author. In other words you will discover a carefree method of living and thought that has a tremendous system back of it. n n n Warwick Deeping, author of “Smith,” a simple story of a work- . ingman’s struggle, writes that as he grows older he reads less and lives mors cmong live things. He likes common laborers, gardeners, postmen and soldiers. He likes young men and women and sensitive children. Warwick says he "curses sentimental women who write letters” and “Fears formidable women who are full of social urges.” I agree with him when he states he “dislikes witty gentlemen who get up to shine at literary dinners.” It is interesting to note that Deeping,, to get His material for “Smith,” shared park benches with the unemployed, explored the London slums and the public hospitals. “Smith” will be ready for your attention tomorrow. It is published by Alfred A. Knopf. nun The Literary Guild s selection for October is "Josephus,” by Lion Feuchtwanger. The guild chose his "Success” as one of its selections in 1930. The new book follows the career of that prominent historian of the first century, Flavius Josephus, through the mast interesting years of his life, using him as a central figure around whom is recreated the rich and varied life of Rome, Jerusalem and Alexandria during that period. u n n I agree with the Junior Literary Guild in selecting as the October choice for boys from 12 to 16 a book called “The Rise of Rome,” by Gordon King. It is published by Doubleday, Doran & Cos. It tells the story of Rome in the terms of the great men who made the little hill city a world empire. Illustrations of the great Roman leaders have been drawn by Gustav Jensen. n n Have been asked if any new book has been published on the late Anna Pavlova. E. P. Dutton & Cos. informs me that on Saturday they will publish "Flight of the Swan, a Memory of Anna Pavlova,” by Andre Oliveroff, who for ten years was first classical dancer to the late Pavlova. This should be of sufficient authority to merit interest and consideration. ‘OUSTED’ HIGHWAYS CHIEF SUES AGAIN Charles W. Mann Demands Immediate Trial on Pay. Demanding immediate trial of his suit against county commissioners for salary. Charles W. Mann, Republican highway superintendent, Thursday, filed a supplementary petition in superior court three. The petition, filed by Mann’s attorney. asserts commissioners have j refused to approve salary claims for Mann since Jan. 1. The board formally ousted Mann, intending to replace him with a; Democrat, but Mann appealed the; decision to circuit court where it is pending. The new petition asked judgment of $697.50 for services from May 20 to Aug. 17. This plus $1,112.50 asked in the original suit makes a total of $1,700.

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TORY CAB , " r T lit BRITAIN IS PEACE MENACE Conservatives’ Rule Means New Snags in Path of Disarmament. ONE HOPE RAY IS SEEN MacDonald and Parliament May Act as Brake on Old Guard. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Seripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—The shake-up in the British cabinet of Premier Ramsay MacDonald is interpreted here as Dortending both good and evil. It tends io leave the conservatives more solidly intrenched in power than ever, at a time when Europe admittedly is drifting backward—toward conditions even worse than they were in early 1914, The problem of disarmament, now before a special committee at Geneva, will become more difficult. The Tories hold that, regardless of what other nations may do, Britain must maintain her own navy at its present size. The Chino-Japanese conflict in Manchuria shortly will come up for settlement at Geneva, and the conservatives traditionally are reluctant to do anything which might offend Japan. No Parliament Opposition Relations between Germany and France notoriously are worse today than at any time since the occupation of the Ruhr, and the Tories, by siding with France, apparently disposed to renew something akin to the old and dangerous European balance of power. France is reported busy at her old policy of “isolating” Germany. Unhampered by the presence of Liberals or Laborites of a particularly fighting character in the English cabinet, the Tories are expected to do nothing to mitigate this peril. As against these apparent drawbacks, it is pointed out that the present government of Great Britain has had no real opposition in parliament. Snowden Accuses Tories Hereafter, it is thought, wholesome parliamentary opposition will be resumed, at first against the Ottawa trade agreements and later on policies in general. The continued presence in the cabinet, however, of Premier MacDonald, Laborite, is expected to have a moderating influence upon his Tory associates. MacDonald has said if they try to “put anything over on him” he is “not their man.” But the retiring Viscount Snowden openly charged that the Tories already were “using” the Liberals and Laborites in the cabinet to further their own ends, and gave this as his reason for resigning. MacDonald May Resign The present rift in the non-party government at London is taken to meur that Premier MacDonald himself, soon may feel the necessity to follow Snowden and resign. The Conservatives last November came in on the biggest landslide ever recorded in Britain. They won 471 states in parliament, leaving only 68 for the Liberals and 13 for the Laborites. The moment, therefore, the conservatives feel the national crisis, which gave rise to the present coalition cabinet, is past, can proceed unassisted under their own steam.

HUNTER IS KILLED Shotgun Discharged as It Is Pulled Through Fence. Bp T nitcd Pi rns LINWOOD, Ind.. Sept. 30.—S. A. Alexander, 55, was Injured fatally while hunting near here when the shotgun b® was carrying was discharged as he pulled it through a fence. JAIL’S ALL-SUMMER RESIDENT IS DIVORCED William Kleine Ordered to Pay Fourth of Wages to Support Child. William Kleine, 1147 English avenue, who during the summer spent fifty-five days in jail for failure to comply with a court order for payment of support money, was divorced today by Superior Judge Russel J. Ryan from Mrs. Bertha Kleine. Decree was granted on the wife’s suit, charging drunkenness and cruelty. In a cross-complaint, Kleine charged that his wife did not care properly for their home. She was given custody us a daughter, Geraldine, 4. and Kleine was ordered to pay 25 per cent of his wages for the child’s support. Kleine was sent to jail by Ryan, who shortly afterward left the city for a trip to Europe. Prior to his return, after Kleine had been a prisoner nearly two months. Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams issued a release order. SEEKS JAIL ‘TO EAT’ Hungry Man Smashes Mail Box Lock to Get Term in Prison. Desire of Raymond Ennrking, 33. of New York, to be sent to jail where, he said, ”1 can be sure of eating,” may be fulfilled, as result of his arrest Thursday on a charge of breaking into a government mail box in the downtown section. Shortly after he broke the lock on a mail box at Merrill and Delaware streets in full view of a government mail employe. Enneking surrendered to patrolman Noel Stark, asserting, “I want to be arrested.” He was placed in custody of federal authorities.

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SEMBRICH DEBUT STUNS OPERA LOVERS

Amazing Success Achieved at Diva's First London Appearance

Like phantoms from a fabulous past, living men and women flit now and then through the news, always well back of a Page One they once dominated. Their names may mean little or less to the younger generation, but stir mighty memories among those who know of the influences they exerted on their times. In a series of articles, of which the following is the second. William Zngie summons these giants of other years from their present obscurity for a review of the careers that made them famous. BY WILLIAM ENGLE Times Staff Writer (Copyright. 1932. by the New York WorldTelegram Corporation! BACKSTAGE at Cement Garden, London, the impresario, Ernest Gye, was fuming. He cut even such a shining one as Adelaide Patti with a curt word, for there, asking him for a hearing when he was badgered by things gone wrong, stood a strange, insistent girl—a dark-eyed, intense Polish nonentity who called herself Marcella Sembrich. She had got to him at last. The great Patti's rehearsal of “The Pardon of Flormel” just had ended. He turned to her, exasperated. And this was the goal of her years since she had started as a child back in Lemberg to sing her way out of Poland, across the operatic stages of Athens, Dresden and Vienna—always toward the Covent Garden of her imagings. Brusequely, he told her to accompany him to the stage. “Now sing,” he said. In the half light, then, with the auditorium deserted and the Garden cast clattering in the wings, the nonentity let her voice go. She sang Patti’s own roles—she had no more discretion than to do that, no less soaring ambition—the mad scene from “Lucia” and the bereft girl’s refrain from “Flormel.” The voice that later was encored up and down the world rose and fell across the darkened stage. Gye, the skeptic, who had agreed to the audience only because his conductor had implored him, was dumbfounded. n n n “T HADN’T thought,” he said X afterward, “there could be another Patti, let alone one who would come out of the blue.” She went away that April afternoon in 1880, the slight, small girl of 22, with the burning eyes, carrying a season contract. She was off to a career that swept her fame around the planet, brought her finally to New York, kept her there intermittently for twenty-five years as a leading soprano of the Metropolitan, leaving her today, at 74, still a force in her art and living in New York, though to the opera-going public she is a legend lived to its end two decades ago. Gye introduced her, unheralded, to London in “Lucia.” She stampeded her first night audience that evening of June 12, 1880, made history in Covent Garden, captured the critics. * n n GENIUS was in her. From the time she was a little girl it was as plain and compelling as her candor.

Digest Poll Gives Small State Lead to Roosevelt

Democratic Nominee Also Is Leading in National Count. Roosevelt gained a slight lead over Hoover in the second week’s returns from eleven states in the Literary Digest’s presidential straw vote, according to returns published this week in the magazine. The Democratic nominee forged ahead of President Hoover in Indiana, but the lead is small. The second week’s vote from the state gives Roosevelt 3,951 against 3,399 for President Hoover. Total vote from the eleven states reported is Roosevelt, 102,185, and Hoover, 100.323. The Indiana vote shows that of the 3,399 cast for Hoover, 2,673 came from those who voted Republican in 1928 and 255 from former Democrats. He also gets 3 Socialist votes, 1 Socialist Labor, 1 Prohibition and 1 Communist. Roosevelt's vote of 3,951 came from 1.995 Democrats of 1928, 1,360 Republicans, three Socialists and two Prohibitionists. The Republican poll also gave the vote of 465 who did not vote in 1928! while the Democrats gained 588 who did not vote. Roosevelt’s gain of former Repub-

WILL ROGERS REFUSES TO STAND FOR LAZY DAUGHTER

BY EVELYN SEILEY Times Staff Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 30. “"TvADDY doesn’t care what I do YJ when I’m through school,” said Will Rogers’ daughter Mary, “so long as I do something. I’ve got to do something, he says, whatever I like to do most. “But he won't have a lazy daughter around the house who’s not interested in anything but loafing.” Mary Rogers, blond and debonair and spirited, started to school Monday at Sarah Lawrence college, in Bronxville, her first year away from home. She returned from a summer in Paris a few days ago with her aunt. Miss Theda Blake, and rushed about the city seeing friends and shows and shopping for college. "Mother and I chose the Sarah Lawrence ourselves because it is so good musically, and because it is near New York. I can go to school and have New York, too, with its concerts and theaters, and that will be grand. ”1 don’t know what I’ll study, except music, of course. I study voice, you see.

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She was Praxede Marcelline Proschanski then, skinny, overworked daughter of Casimir Proschanski, a poor music teacher in the village of Wisnewezky, near Lemberg, and by the time she was 5 years old she was playing Mozart and Beethoven on the piano. She learned the violin, too—even tried to get harmonics out of her first, playing first on a homemade instrument, and at 12 she was earning her own livelihood with dance music that kept her up late into the night. At the Conservatory of Lemberg, still a child, she raced through the intricacies of Chopin and Bach, studying both piano and violin, and it remained for a young professor, Wilhelm Stengel, to discover her voice. It was Franz Liszt who, with Stengel, set her dreaming of opera. Stengel took her, at 16 to Liszt.. “We went to Vienna.” She was telling about it long afterward. “First I played the piano. Polish airs I loved. ‘She must be a pianist,’ Liszt said. ‘She will have a career.’ “Then I played the violin. The others said I must be a violinist. I was blushing a lot. Finally Professor Stengel, very pale, came over to me. “ ‘Sing, Marcella,’ he said quietly. “This time, when I finished, it seemed to me there was a great buzz of voices. Liszt was putting his hands on my shoulders and his face close to mine. “ ‘Child, you must sing. Remember, a voice is the greatest of all gifts’.” n n THAT was the day of decision. Vienna was her springboard for the European operatic stages, and these, in turn, led her, under her mother’s maiden name, Sembrich, toward the day when she

lican votes is six to one in comparison with Hoover’s gain of former Democratic votes. Hoover leads in the polls from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, while his opponent is ahead in California, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. CONFER ON PLANS FOR TRACKLESS TROLLEYS Park Board Objects to Proposal of Using Riverside Loop. Officials of the Indianapolis Railways Company were in session today with members of the park and works boards at city hall to settle details concerning proposed trackless trolley service on the Riverside car line. A. C. Sallee, park superintendent, said residents in the affected section are anxious for elimination of street car tracks along the South Grove golf course, but that the park board objects to proposal of street car officials to use the present trackage loop as a loop for trackless trolleys. This section of ground, south of Thirtieth street, between Riverside drive and White river, is on the park board program for beautification, Sallee said.

life, but, of course, I don’t know that I’ll turn out to be good enough to sing professionally. I’d like to.

—4 I MARY ROGERS

began the spectacularly successful London engagement. But her brightest glories were in New York. She came over in 1883, after audiences had acclaimed her in St. Petersburg, Madrid, Warsaw and Moscow; after Stengel, who had loved her since her childhood, had married her. Henry E. Abbey’s company was going to open the new Metropolitan Opera House, and he engaged her as coloratura soprano. She made her debut at 25 on the second night of the season, Oct. 24, in “Lucia,” and that was a dark time. She had anticipated a welcome and New York sat on its hands. “Her success was not at all commensurate with her artistic excellence,” W. J. Henderson wrote a long while later, “simply because the public did not know what to make of singing which combined such purity of style with purity of tone; but before the end of the season, in which she sang Elvira, Zerlina, Violetta and Ophelia, she had won the undying affections of all the connoisseurs.” Still, the season was disastrous. Mr. Abbey had to invite the public to a benefit performance. nun THEN Sembrich was compensated for the dismal beginning. She was advertised to play a violin concerto by De Beriot and it was expected this would be merely the prima donna’s caprice, requiring only the audience’s food humored indulgence. She turned it into a peculiar triumph. x After the violin solo drew twelve curtain calls, she sat down at the piano and played a Chopin nocturne. The audience was clamorous. She gave it another surprise. Sweeping to a climax in a tripartite performance unparalleled in New York, she sang “Ah, non giunge” from “La Sonnambula.”

DEATH CLAIMS 2 EX-HOOSIERS Former Prominent State Men Succumb in West. Two men, former prominent residents of Indiana, died in California this week. Dr. Barton Warren Everman, a graduate of Indiana university, former professor at Indiana State Teachers’ college in' Terre Haute, and former superintendent of schools of Carroll county, died on Tuesday of apoplexy in San Francisco. Charles C. Hauger, who, until four years ago, was an Indianapolis clothier, died Thursday in Los Angeles after an illness of five weeks. Dr. Everman was director of the Steinhart aquarium in San Francisco since 1921. Author of a score of books, he was internationally known for his biological work. He likely will be buried in Burlington, Ind. Mr. Hauger came to Indianapolis twenty-five years ago from Salem, his birthplace. At one time he owned a chain of thirty-nine clothing stores throughout the middlewest, including three here. He was a member of Roberts Park M. E. church and of the official board, of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.

“Sometimes I think I want to go on the stage. But if I decide to try, I won’t let Daddy help me. I’ll do it on my own or not at all.” Miss Rogers has poise and beauty and she speaks in a low and

Mr. Abbey's failure, though, sent her back to Europe, and it was not until Nov. 30, 1898, that she returned as prima donna, singing Rosina in Rossini’s “II Barbier di Siviglia,” to become a bright perennial of the Metropolitain in two centuries. By that time she was a world figure, the little Polish girl grown plumper, but with the same glowing eyes and the delicate, sensitive mouth. The favor of Europe's capitals was hers. She owned a mansion in Dresden. Royalty deferred to her. Her repertoire was prodigious. She sang in ten languages. Her forte was comedy, though she did not shun all the operatic tragedies, and in the pure art of bel canto the critics put no one beside her. Professor Stengel was her manager and the happiness of their home life was broken only by the death of their two children. He lived to see the opera’s highest honors come to her. nun SHE scored no triumph, though of all those that followed in New York, such as her departure from the Metropolitan; then, twenty-five years after her debut on that stage, the city showed more graciously in what regard it held her than in any of her other conquering moments. As her farewell she arranged a kind of old home night program for opera lovers—an act from each of three operas, with the musically great of that time as her companions behind the footlights.

Gotta Gag? Rush It In and Win a Cash Reward

Palace Theater Is to Award Money and Tickets for Best Ones. Who’s gotta a gag for Laurel and Hardy? It may be worth $2.50, $5, $7.50 or-even $lO, there is also ten pairs of guest tickets to the Palace for the lucky persons, so get busy. Laurel and Hardy’s full-length feature, "Pack Up Your Troubles," opening today at Loew’s Palace for an exclusive Indianapolis engagement, is so full of gags that before the irrepressible comics start on a new feature they must have more laugh provoking material. So the comedians are offering $25 in cash and ten additional prizes of two guests tickets each to Loew’s Palace theater for gags submitted for use in their next feature by readers of The Indianapolis Times. “Gags,” in Hollywood slang, are anything which makes an audience laugh, and may consist of dialogs, action or a combination of them. To enter the Gotta Gag contest, all you have to do is write out one to five gags which you believe funny enough for the next Laurel and Hardy feature, and send them to the Gotta Gag Editor of The Times. It is suggested that you first see Laurel and Hardy in “Pack Up Your

lovely voice. She likes the sort of outdoor life she leads on the Rogers ranch in California, riding fast horses and driving speedy cars. She likes to wear tweedy clothes, like the gray tweed suit and hat she wore with her silver fox. But she is feminine and enjoys drawing-rooms as well as the great open spaces. “I’m afraid I do like ranch life the best,” she said apologetically. “But I’m not an athletic girl—that type, I mean—really I'm not.” • mm ROGERS, one of three children—she has younger and older brothers—has lived most of her life in California. She went to college there for a year. She is very fond of her brothers and the older one is her hero. “No, I’m not interested in politics except when Daddy talks about them,” she said. “But my brother is. “My brother is good at a lot of things. He’s qqjte a good writer, for one thing. I can’t do anything much but sing, but you can’t tell how I’ll turn out.” J

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The Metropolitan was jammed. “All the opera lovers in New York, it seemed, were there to bid goodby,” the World said. “Not an inch of standing room was unoccupied.” By popular subscription $20,000 had been raised to buy her a pearl necklace and a jeweled watch. But the night thereafter was the great one, the one to make a Polish singer choke and forget a pat speech. Then the musical artists of America, not the public, said goodby. „ In the Hotel Astor there was a gay dinner. Sembrich cried a little and laughed a great deal. Paderewski, enthusiastic in quaint, cramped English, told her she was the most musical of all the singers he had ever heard. H. E. Krehbiel said she was a vocal sunbeam—no less —and Caruso, Damrosch and Emma Eames toasted her. That night was Sembrich's last in the world of opera. But she did not slip at once into the shadows. For years afterward she was a consummate concert artist up and down two continents, “the supreme exponent of bel canto.” In later years she has lived at her great estate at Lake George, teaching there in summer, and in winter teaching here at the Juillard Musical Foundation. Among her pupils have been Marion Talley, Alma Gluck and Drusalina Giannini. Next—William Travers Jerome, New York’s most spectacular prosecutor.

Snobbing Plus By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. Pleasure that President Hoover’s re-election campaign has been indorsed by four former president’s - general of the Daughters of the American Revolution “whose personnel includes women of undisputed lineage” was expressed today by the Republican national committee’s women’s division. Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, announcing the support of Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, Mrs. Grace L. H. Borsseau and Mrs. George Maynard Minor, said: “It is with much pleasure that we welcome four such leaders from this organization whose personnel includes women of undisputed lineage and highest ideals.”

Troubles,’ so their riotous cavortings will be fresh in your mind. Be sure to mail your gags before midnight, Friday Oct. 7, when the contest will close. Gagmen are in demand. This may Joe your chance, so let’s get busy. Winners of the contest will be announced in The Indianapolis Times as soon as possible thereafter. Don’t forget. This is your one and only opportunity to see these two clowns in “Pack Up Your Troubles.” This film never will be shown in any other Indianapolis theater at any other time. This one engagament at the Palace, then gone from this city forever. NATURE CLASS TO OPEN Autumn Course Starts at 9:30 Saturday Morning at Museum. Autumn classes in nature study will open at 9:30 Saturday morning at the children’s museum, according to Arthur B. Carr, director. Miss Inez Hinchman, school No. 12 instructor, will conduct the first class on ‘ Moths and Butterflies.” At 10:30 Saturday morning the regular Saturday story hour will be held with a member of the museum staff giving a lecture on “A Trip to Latin America,” illustrated by stereopticon slides. 600 Attend Party at Church A candlelight party in the church gymnasium was attended by approximately 600 members of the Willing Workers of the Zion Evangelical church, 601 North New Jersey street, Thursday afternoon. Mrs. W. E. Nendel was general chairman of the program.

G. 0. P. SALTS OLD SORES TO WIN NEBRASKA Digs Up Roosevelt Plea of 1920 to Inflame State’s Foreign Born. PIN HOPES ON TARIFF Democratic Triumph Seems Assured Unless Late Reversal Comes. BY RAY TUCKER Times Stsff Writer LINCOLN. Neb., Sept. 30.—“ Our Republican friends are seeking the hyphenated vote. We Democrats do not want that hyphenated vote. We want only the American vote.” Through liberal use of this reported 1920 statement by Governor Roosevelt and emphasis on the Republican tariff s protection of Nebraska farm and livestock products. Republican leaders still hope to overcome a Democratic presidential lead now placed at about 100,000 votes. Unless these tactics succeed, it is admitted that the Democratic presidential nominee will win the state through the aid of discontented Republican farmers and Norris progressives. Roosevelt’s reference to the ‘hyphenated vote,” alleged to have been made during his J 920 vicepresidential tour, is regarded as good ammunition. There are many voters of foreign descent here. Moratorium Is Played Up The G. O. P. also is playing up Hoover’s moratorium to Germany and the pakt Roosevelt took in the World war as assistant secretary of the navy. “We will win after we begin pounding on the tariff,” declared Robert Smith, Norris champion, but now Republican state chairman. Except for Senator Howell, Smith is about the only friend of the progressive senator who is vocal in support of Hoover. Smith points out that beef is one of Nebraska's principal products, and about the only one nolding up i- price. Wheat is another. Without Republican tariffs and the hoof-and-mouth embargo on Argentinian cattle, Republican orators proclaim, the Nebraska farmer would be worse off than he is now. Polls at the state fair showed Roosevelt leading Hoover three to one on Democratic day, and 2H to 1 on Republican day. Canvasses by rural Republican newspapers give similar results. Despite the state’s reputed dryness, prohibition repeal is ahead by three to one. Stress AI Smith Issue As elsewhere, Democratic registration has increased. Besides being hard hit, the state always has displayed independence and progressivism when given a chance. It reelected Norris by a tremendous majority in 1930, despite his support of Al Smith in 1928, and La Follette in 1924. The Republicans are trying to keep alive soreness among Smith’s admirers, especially in Omaha. Frank McDermott, Irish-Catholic treasurer of the Republican state central committee, has attacked Roosevelt, National Committeeman Arthur W. Mullen, and Speaker Garner for “knifing” Smith., “Roosevelt owed his political prominence to Smith,” says McDermott in his radio talks, “but he forsook Smith to achieve his own personal ambitions.” Howard Refutes Claim But Representative Edgar Howard, long-haired former secretary of William Jennings Bryan, answers this charge by telling of his part in the Garner shift to Roosevelt at Chicago. Howard says it was he who eonferred with Garner at Washington on request of Roosevelts friends at the convention, and that McAdoo had nothing to do with the agreement until, it was negotiated. Howard says that he at Washington and Senator Tom Connally at. Chicago handled the affair, and that McAdoo jumped on the band wagon because there was nothing else to do. The Democrats have high hopes of carrying all five congressional seats, but admit that two Republicans will be hard to defeat. They are Representative Malcolm Baldridge of Omaha, former Yale football star, and Representative Robert Simmons. Governor Charles W. Bryan is expected to win easily, and probably help Roosevelt, despite the 1932 soreness against the “ins.” Rural Republican publishers are in revolt against the small volume of Republican advertising, due to use of the radio. CITY-UNIT BASIS FOR POWER RATES ASSAILED Columbus Electric Hearing la Held Before Cuthbertson. That the city-unit basis for rate making can not be equitably enforced, where a large district system supplies the power, was contended by Public Service Company of Indiana officials in the Columbus rate hearing Thursday afternoon. The hearing was conducted by Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson, who backed the “south system” plan of the Insull company, which serves Columbus. District power loop set-ups were banned when the federal court here upheld the Martinsville decision, putting rate making on a city-unit basis. Missionaries Safe in Puerto Rico A cablegram from Manati. Puerto Rico, received by the United Christian Missionary Society, 222 Downey avenue, Thursday, reported that ail of the society’s missionaries and workers were unharmed by the recent hurricane in Puerto Rico.