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Dr. Axel Munthe

This is the author of the sensational best-seller, “The Story of San Michele,” which E. P. Dutton Az Cos. now announces may be obtained in a Deluxe Popular edition which sells for $2. The drawing of Munthe is by Karl Woerner. BV WALTER D. HICKMAN A SERIOUS study of the effect of the World war upon some men who fought, in it is revealpd in “Magnificat,” written by Rene Bazin and published by the Macmillan company. Bazin has tackled the problem of showing the effect, of the religious idea upon some men who fought in the war. Gildas Maguern entered the World war with the thought that when he was released he would begin studies to become a priest. Gildas was from Brittany in northern France and it was not strange when he was a mere boy, a voice out of the air told him, "Gildas, you will be my priest,” that he believed. He had no education when he went to war but a kindly chaplain in his division saw to it that Gildas had a Latin grammer. This book and the rosary were Gildas’ security against death. And that faith in his church and his personal devotion to his life when he left the trenches resulted in Gildas coming out unharmed physically during the war. The first part of the novel is filled really with symphonic beauty because the names of the characters as well as the villages and the various religious holidays reate a certain tempo which really makes the prose at times read like poetry. * n a Bazin is at his literary best in painting tlic homely life of the family cf Jean-Guillaume Maguerin of Brittany. His characters actually step deeper and deeper into the soil and the routine of the simple life on the farm. Even when Gildas makes love as a youth to Anna, a “servant” of pure heart and body, it is not a silly modern petting party, but a spiritual experience on the seat of a wagon en route to Christmas mass. The mental and spiritual struggle of Anna to capture Gildas as her husband and then her defeat when she refuses to interfere with God's program of making Gildas a priest, are wonderfully drawn by Bazin. Here is powerful and glorious writing.

Tremendously effective are the chapters devoted to war and the reaction of death and slaughter on the sensitive spiritual nature of Gildas. Here is a powerful novel and regardless of one's religion, it should be read. It sells for $2. a tt u Among the new books now available in the business branch library are: -'The World's Economic Crisis and the Way of Escape,” by Salters and others; "The New Psychology of Selling and Advertising,” by Link; "Confessions of a Former Customers’ Man,” by Salmon; "Is Capitalism Doomed?" by Dennis, and "What Makes Stock Market Prices?” by Hickernell. H H H Those who are interested in Charles Dickens will find much to enjoy in "The Letters of Charles Dickens to the Baroness BurdettCoutts,” edited by Charles C. Osborne, former secretary to the baroness, and released by E. r. Dutton & Cos. on next Tuesday. These letters have never before been made public. One letter gives Dickens’ idea of how to rule India. HUH Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has turned author again and Houghton Mifflin will publish 'When You Grow Up to Vote.” It is scheduled for release soon. Her new book is on civics for young people. HUH In my mail this week, I received word from the Modern Library. New York City, that they have signed a contract with Sinclair Lewis for the publication in February of 'Arrowsmith.” The publishers inform me that they consider "Arrowsmith” to be “the most important and the most likely novel to endure of all of Mr. Lewis' books to date." HUH In my collection of books, I have a few that are autographed by the authors. The latest one to reach my never-out-of-the-house division of my library is "Tiny Garments,” by Cornelia Otis Skinner, with drawings by A. Winter and published by Farrar and Rinehart. Sells for SI. In sending me this book. Miss Skinner told me that “it was just her little book.” It might be little in size, but it is heavy in humor, satire and thought on "the process of having a baby.” She writes: *T suppose there is no normal event in the ordinary course of human existence that has accumulated more extraordinary taboos than the process of having a baby." The writer insists that when a lady announces to her girl friends that she is going to be a mother, instead of bursting into tears, the friends should “evoke bursts of healthy laughter, for it is not only the most joyous time of her life, but also the funniest.’’

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CANADA DEALS NEW BLOW TO TRADE OF U. S. Empire Tariff Agreements Will Cause Exodus of American Factories. BITTER PILL FOR LABOR Workers on% This Side of Border Will Suffer More Seriously. By Kcrippg-Hnxcard rtpaprr Alliance WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—Their products definitely barred from Canadian and other British markets, indications of a further exodus of American factories to Canada were in evidence today. A telegram to Scripps-Hovvard Newspapers from H. B. Keenleyside, general manager of the Toronto industrial commission, stated that “American manufacturers are finding a serious threat to their British and Canadian markets in the preferential trade agreements reached at Ottawa.” This, said a statement from the commission, “will result in further establishment of branch factories in Canada by American concerns,” One Way Left Open Only by taking this step, the statement makes clear, can American manufacturers ward off the severe blow the new empire trade agreements will deal them. By establishing factories in Canada, it is pointed out, they will be able to compete with British manufacturers in the dominion market and at the same time export their “made in Canada" products to the United Kingdom, under British tariff preference. Thus Canada's threat to retaliate, brick for brick, against the Hawley - Smoot tariff of 1931 has been made good with a bang. Led by Premier Bennett, the Canadian .Mussolini, Canada is turning the American tariff into the biggest, boomerang in the economic history of the United States. G. O. P. leaders here fear the news from Ottawa will prove another blow to the chances of President Hoover. His Boston speech is quoted where he said that should we not be able to sell our 9 or 10cent surplus abroad, “we might sur- | vive as a nation, though on lower j living standards and wages.” 1,100 Go to Canada More than 1,100 American concerns already have established I branches in Canada, most of them ! since the Grundy tariff schedules were proposed in 1950. American manufacturers admit they have been forced to choose between two evils. Faced with total loss of their Canadian and empire trade, or building branch factories within the empire walls, they have taken the latter cause. This, economists observe, may salvage some of the profits to American capital, but the blow to American labor is tempered very slightly. American factories abroad are forced to employ foreign labor. The loss to American rubber workers, according to an official of Akron, United States rubber capital, is cited as a case in point. Blow at Rubber Workers Canada's total rubber production, according to the latest available figures, amounted to $91,500X00 a year. Half of this represented labor and distribution costs. At S2XOO a year, that meant 22,000 jobs—jobs for Canadians, instead of Americans, for practically all the automobile tires and other rubber products of Canada are turned out by American branch! plants.

RELIEF MOBILIZATION CAMPAIGN TO OPEN Hoover and Newton D. Baker to Speak Over Radio Sunday Night. By Scripps-H tucard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. Oct. 14. —The national welfare and relief mobilization, sponsored by the administration and organized charity, and intended to insure America's 25.000.000 unemployed and their dependents against suffering this winter, will be launched Sunday night. President Hoover, Newton D. Baker, who is the head of the mobilization, and Walter S. Gifford, telephone magnate, will speak during the half-hour nation-wide radio program. The program will begin at 5:30 p. m. (central time). On subsequent Sunday evenings, until the mobilization ends late in November, forty-five-minute programs will be held. National leaders will speak on each. The purpose of the mobilization is to co-ordinate local fund drives, and furnish national leadership and publicity. Taxicab Stolen From Driver Russell Cruea. 406 North Liberty street. Union Taxicab Company driver, reported to police a "customer” robbed him of $1.50 and his cab Thursday night after taking a ride to Emerson avenue and the Pennsylvania railroad tracks.

ARMOUR & CO. WILL CELEBRATE SIXTEENTH ANNIVERSARY AT PLANT HERE

With an average of 380 persons employed and several million dollars expended annually for wages, supplies and livestock, Armour & Cos., packers, will celebrate its sixteenth anniversary m Indianapolis next week. The company has a record of never submitting to seasonal shutdowns, operating every week in the year. Officials of the company. as preparations are made for the anniversary celebration, point out that all wages, totaling about $750,000 annually, are returned to Indianapolis channels. In addition, the company spends %{>out $500,000 a year for fuel,

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INSULL BECOMES CHICAGO OPERA KING

Cup of Joy Bubbles Over on Gala Night in Palace of Art

The Power Kin*, the Aladdin of Chicago. Sam Insull on Nov. 4. 1929. became . also Lorenzo the Magnificent. Builder of the *20.000.000 Chicago Civic Opera House, he gleamed in the reflected glitter of Egyptian pomp of pegan glory. Yet as this master mi dynamos and turbines stalked into the world of art he did not relinouish his attention to detail. Raised the money; planned the structure; selected the cast and opera. This is the Sam Insull whom Forrest Davis e'ches in this article of his series ton the rise and fall of the English insurance clerk. BY FORREST DAVIS Times Staff Writer 'Copyright. 1922. bv the New York WorldTUegrajn Corpora’iont 'T''HE clouds gathering about the Jovian head of the Superpower King were not in evidence the night of Nov. 4,1929. They were stayed providentially, perhaps, or else dissipated momentarily by the effulgence of the scene in which he took first part. In either event Sam Insull’s cup of earthly joy brimmed over on the night he opened the forty-six-story, $20,000,000 Civic Opera House—an occasion whereon he stood at the peak of a prestige dazzlingly unexampled in the history of American cities. First Citizen, indeed! To Aladdin had been added this: Insull, immigrant English clerk, had become the Lorenzo the Magnificent of the Midlands. The papers said so. Santa Claus, too! Insull's speculative investment trusts had poured a half billion dollars net into thg lap of Chicago and the Midwest in exactly fifty days of frenzied trading in La Salle street. No such flood of easy gold ever before had drenched the lake shore metropolis. In distant Wall Street, tired bankers studied with premonitions of doom the tale of Black Thursday, a shattering day when 23,000,000 shares were traded on the Big Board in a convulsive liquidation.

A few Chicago financiers, white shirt-fronted, benign under the elation of a great event, wondered even then about the “Insull bubble.” Within two years, the ruddy, self-assured hero of that night would be dodging forlornly about Europe, a fugitive. His brother Martin, ill of humiliation, would be lodged in an Ontario cellblock. a tt tt BUT on the night of Nov. 4, 1929. no intimations of grand disaster or persona! tragedy entered the opera house, which rises sheer above the Chicago river, its Italianate arches rendered somewhat oppressive by enlargement. Chicagoans, tubbed, gowned and habited in the newest from Michiigan avenue or Paris, jeweled, radiant, gathered with Sam Insull to rejoice in occupation of the first opera house, naturally, this being Chicago, in the world. Insull, his harsh features broken unfamiliarily into the smile of a bashful boy, beamed acknowledgments as, with Chicago at his feet, he patronized the opera, “Aida.” The royal march must have set kindred rhythms going on his ears as he gazed about, smiling here, nodding there, at the Fields, the McCormicks, Ryersons, Swifts, Palmers—descendants of the pioneer kings who once had reigned where the immigrant clerk now rule alone. tt n ROSA RAISA, his favorite, sang the title role. Chase Baromeo played the King of Egypt. Insull had chosen the opera, selected the cast; attended, as was his habit, to every detail. f It was his opera house, uniquely. He built it, from supplying the

BURT’S SHOE STORE TO OPEN SATURDAY New Shop Is Located in Pettis Downtown Building.

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Burt's shoe store will open Saturday at 35 East Washington street, fi:Lt of the three stores to be established in the old Pettis dry goods store location soon. Ralph Snyder. 'Trmerly wfith Edison Brothers, Inc., in Detroit, will have charge. Milton Fiel; ng, formerly located in Louisville and Detroit with Edison, will be assistant manager. ' . D. Everett, district sales manage.-, will be in charge of the formal opening Saturday. The store was remodeled undrfr supervision of I. Herman Kanner, head : v'hitect for the company. Both interior and front are said to be among the most beautiful in Indiana shoe stores. A special offering to women shoe buyers Is designed to introduce Burt’s with a large attendance. Twenty employes, all local residents. h-v e been given work for the opening.

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idea of a self-sustaining opera house “on a business basis,” to raising the money. He sold the parcels of property on which it stood. A Commonwealth-Edison power plant remained within the buildings bowels; a station of the elevated railroad had been incorporated in the structure. Atop the impressive pile Insull maintained a penthouse, where ignorant gossip declared he gave Roman orgies in honor of beautiful singers. A glance at Insull’s cramped, severe features and a thought of his socially timid nature would have given such gossips the lie. He had housed the Electric Club near the roof; offices of a dozen of his companies and their satellites on the office floors. It was Sam Insull’s opera house. No doubt of that. * He ruled opera in Chicago, from

i of a self-sustaining opera ' ' U- -> • ,* \ 4 ' \ ’ 4 - '. •’.’..in :t ■’ %.\' r ■ ’’l ‘ . . Cr>rrn:o>. .w -P ci-sm jwr JR ” ", ff. v rfma-ned within the build- L \ s bowel-; a station cf the eie- If" ?d railroad had been mcorpori in the structure. Atop the 'irklm, ressive pile Insull maintained enthou.se. where ignorant gos- "aBT . <v " '" v ’-^pf riedared he gave Roman orgies i . J xWNWI lonor of beautiful singers. I, f gldtice at Insull's cramped. 1 < . J :* Irfllf re features and a thought of- If - I I lift IfPP? socially timid nature would If f; 1 || 1L • : e given such gossips the lie. li -• 1. Mg! M■■ e had housed the Electric Club CSrtL jr. 12 |i| /!.; r the roof: offices of a dozen SMMkI fei. / jj| MB* as- - companies and their satel- |ja| B| a.*,. MM r ■ ...... $ .... on the office floors jyy • ’’• was Sam Insull's opera house. 1 ' f doubt of that. JjlMMßliL s . - WJJK ruled opera in Chicago, from i ? 'lll.,rib (i it --* < 1 Mt.-n mil unirni t *■ ' 111 had .i ~ -i :•> . ■ - V ' rl \; i, b-,d p ' m: xvl ‘° was the petite ingenue of tn V cf a half million annual de- as Lady Teazle i 922 0I J S arbitrarily afheTon- iif an?blae^k'bon Eet ings of "the 'boarcf'of truv- >,rS ' Samll e 1 r' net. did his prestige no harm, al were confined to ratification. ac , ariv though her subsequent ambition ve that on the word of a trus- 1 Ld ‘ ea son of 1927-1928 wit soprano, to depa^'in 0 Teaz,e ,n revival a repertory of modern play er than yield a trifling deci- , „ . . Wm}- <diminished his—or the public'sof The School bank roll by upward of $200,000. * * * „ T he Insulls had their tow S a business necessity,’’ he for Seandal.” house at 1100 Lake Shore driv l telegraphed the diva “the their 4,300-acre estate, Hawthorn

the day he accepted the responsibility of a half million annual deficit from Harold F. McCormick in 1922, as arbitrarily as he conducted his power interests. Meetings of the board of trustees were confined to ratification. I have that on the word of a trustee. He permitted Galli-Curci, first soprano, to depart in 1923 rather than yield a trifling decision. “ A S a business necessity,’’ he -TL telegraphed the diva, “the management of the opera company must be supreme in the matter of arranging the repertoire.” “I fiad assumed that courteous consideration would be shown 3 my desires regarding the opera to be selected for my debut, but as the present attitude of the company clearly indicates that you consider that entirely unnecessary, I am obliged to accept your decision, inasmuch as I am bound to the company for this season,” she replied. That was that. Mme. GalliCurci sought, as traditionally is the leading singer's prerogative, to name the opera for her season's debut. “Business necessity” intervened. Insull was all for business—until the end. In 1929, not only the opera, but pretty much all of Chicago, emotioally, was Sam's. He possessed

ROUTED BY FLAMES Ten Persons Forced to Flee in Nightclothing. Ten persons were routed from their homes in their night clothing early today when a roof fire in a double house ;.t 17C9-41 West Morris street caused damage estimated at less than S3OO. Quick work of firemen prevented greater damage to the home when Mrs. Hazel Taylor, living with her husband, Cecil C. Taylor and a son Carl, 17, was awakened by smoke pouring into her bedroom. She awakened her son. who ran into the street to the home of a neighbor, from where the alarm was sounded Meanwhile, Mrs. Taylor awoke T'". ari Mrs. Alex Jones and their three sons and A and Mrs. Walter Shaw, occupants of the other side of the double.

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LONG-TIME RESIDENT HERE DIES SUDDENLY Succumbs to Heart Attack in Downtown Restaurant ; Rites Arranged. Jacob Kellum, 65, of 2710 Allen avenue, resident of the city for twenty-five years and long an employe of the Progress laundry, died of heart disease in a restaurant at 503 East Washington street. Funeral services will be held at the home, probably Sunday afternoon. although arrangements for the rites have not been completed. Survivors are the widow. Mrs. Lillian Kellum. and a son living in Chillicothe, 6.

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Samuel Insull, right, and Stanley Field at the opening of Insull Chicago Civic opera house in 1929.

rare facilities for bringing his personality home to Chicagoans. They were lighted, heated and powered by Insull. They rode on his trolley lines, th£y climbed the stairs to his elevated stations, they commuted from the far suburbs on his fast, well-appointed electric trains. As they bustled through the geometrical streets of the loop, they read, at intersections, pasted overhead on “L” platforms, huge posters reminding them of this or that event—the opera, for example—in which Sam was interested. M tt tt IF they motored abroad, through northern Illinois, Indiana or the lake region of Wisconsin, they

Twins Plan to Span U. S. in Planes Tied Together BY C. B. ALLEN Times Staff Writer

NEW YORK, Oct, 14.—Newman and Thurman, the flying Wadlow twins of Wichita, Kan., are in New York this week makingfinal arrangements for a brand new stunt. They have a pair of Wright-motored Cessna monoplanes chat look as much alike as the pilots themselves, and they're going to fly them across the continent tied together. Two or three planes tied wing-to-wing with light rope frequently have demonstrated their pilots' skill in precision flying at air meets, but the Wadlow brothers say no one ever has gone cross-country in this fashion. They plan to start some time this month from Los Angeles, following the regular T. W. A. air route

to New York, with stops at Winslow, Ariz., Amarillo, Tex., Wichita, St. Louis and Columbus. "Our ships will be tied together when we take off, they will land tied together, taxi tied together and sit tied together in a hangar when we stop for the night,” Truman declared. "And,” interjected Newman, “if we can arrange it. we’ll have a representative of the National Aeronautic Association inspect the rope and put a seal on it to eliminate the possibility of any skull-dug-gerv.”

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Thd Wadlow boys call themselves the "Transport Twins” because they both hold transport pilot licenses—the highest rating given by the department of commerce. The only other flying twins of whom they have heard are Flight Lieutenant R. L. Atcherly, British royal air force pilot, and his brother.

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followed the road on an Insull map. They read—it was impossible to escape them—huge lithographs illustrating tall deeds of the region and pointing an Insull moral. The Lindbergh beacon, characteristically the tallest in the world, stood on the lake front, an Insull reminder. He furnished the gas and somehow, by being photographed in the act of providing the first illumination, contrived to make it appear a Lindbergh-Insull beacon. Insull had not been exceptional as a music lover before McCormick tendered him the burden of the opera company in 1922. He shouldered the load as a

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Yellow lights, whirring taxicabs, smartly dressed men and women —opening of the Insull Chicago Civic opera house. means to power rather than, shall it be said, a means to grace. He blossomed as an after-dinner speaker. By 1929 he had mellowed also. Friends observed that he sometimes addressed them “dear boy” or “my dear fellow.” The assurance of power was neutralizing the early acid. v u tt HE had reason to be mellow. All Chicago hailed him. He had permitted Mrs. Insull, she who was the petite ingenue of the 1890s. Gladys Wallis, to return to the stage. Her return, as Lady Teazle in “A School for Scandal,” dressed in a canary gown and black bonnet, did his prestige no harm, although her subsequent ambitions in the season of 1927-1928 with the Studeb&ker theater, leased for a repertory of modern plays, diminished his—or the public’s—bank roll by upward of $200,000. • The Insulls had their town house at 1100 Lake Shore drive, their 4,300-acre estate, Hawthorne Farms, out from Chicago. She had her art; he his penthouse. Incidentally, Insull bred brown Swiss cattle and Suffolk Punch draught horses on the farm, which, he boasted, cost him $73,‘IOO one year, exclusive of the cost of maintaining the manor house and 100-acre grounds. And the chief pleasure of this strangely limited magnate outside business was to show guests about the sheds, barns and stables of the farm on a week-end, illustrating how almost every conceivable chore, including washing and milking the cows, could be performed—at staggering expense—electrically. It was November. 1929, Insull rode high, wide and handson\e, but the clouds, banished for a moment, soon would gather blackly. An empire, whether political or elecIrical. presupposes enemies. How Insnll met onslaughts against his power will be discussed here next.

WOMAN IS SLUG6ED Beaten With Gun When Intruder Enters Home. Miss Catherine Burke, 23, of 515 East Wabash street, was beaten on the head by a gun butt in the hands of a well-dressed intruder Thursday night, when she screamed a warning to a friend in the next room. Miss Burke said the intruder ignored appeals to "put up his gun” when she let him in the house in answer to a knock at the front door. As the intruder continued to advance, Miss Burke screamed to Mrs. Kiture Skibby, owner of the house, who was sitting in the next room. The intruder then knocked her unconscious with a blow from his gun and fled. LAUD AG RI CULTURE’S GREATJtDVANCEMENT Purdue University Experiment Station Celebrates 45th Anniversary. By I nited Press LAFAYETTE. Ind., Oct. 14.—Agriculture has advanced more in the last forty-five years than the entire world did in the previous 2,000 years, it was asserted here Thursday night at a meeting celebrating the forty-fifth anniversary of the Purdue university experiment station. Dean J. H. Skinner, director of the station, was honored as he completed his thirtieth year with the institution. Approximately 300 Indiana agricultural workers and representatives attended. .

fined to large midwest livestock centers. The local plant has a capacity for daily handling of 200 cattle, 600 hogs, 50 sheep and 25 calves. Loading and unloading docks accommodate sixty cars. A. L. Leonard, general manager of the plant, is a long-time employe of the packing firm. During the anniversary observance, the plant will be open to the public. Decorations were being put in place today for the affair. Many of the leading products of the company will be displayed in Indianapolis retail meat markets.

‘DOC’ BRINKLEY iTO BE TARGET OF RADIO WAR U. S. and Canada Will Seek to Block Program for Gigantic Station. PERIL TO BROADCASTING Many Stations Would Be ‘Drowned Out’ If Plans Go Through. By Scrippg-Hotcarit Setcspaprr A Wanes WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. Dr. John R. Brinkley, the radio-medico-politico Kansan, who broadcasts panaceas for the physical, economic, and governmental ailments of man, will be the subject of diplomatic controversy in far-off Madrids international radio conference. In the Spanish capital, as now in Washington. Mexico City and Ottawa, he will be discussed as a menace to orderly radio broadcasting in the North American continent. Meanwhile, as an independent candidate for Governor, he harangues the voters of Kansas, promj ising to convert the dry prairies of ! Sunflower state into a Garden of Eden by building a lake in each ! county and promising to make Kansas a Utopia by driving out the two major political parties. Probe Radio Activities The state department and the radio commission have sent the American delegation in Madrid information concerning Mexico's recent authorization to Brinkley to construct the world's largest broadcasting station. It is hoped t’.e American delegates at Madrid will talk the Mexican delegates into an agreement to prevent actual construction of the giant station, which, it is feared, will drown out the broadcasts of many American and Canadian stations. If the Madrid negotiations fail, it is believed that the state department will ask Canada to join in informal protests to Mexico City. Brinkley’s present station, XER, at Villa Acuna. Mexico, across the Rio Grande river from Dei Rio Tex., already has a power of 75,000 watts, the highest power used on this continent, and greater than any in the world except a few European j stations with power up to 160,000 i watts. Protests Are Voiced His 75.000-watt broadcasts, over a wave length of 735 kilocycles, already have aroused protests from American and Canadian stations. But the broadcasters of the United States and Canada say . that the Brinkley station will interfere far | more seriously if the doctor is allowed to go ahead with his plans to increase the power to 500,000 watts and change the wave length to 655 kilocycles, which have been authorized by the Mexican government. These international difficulties are the outgrowth of the action of I the federal radio commission in rescinding the license of Brinkleys Kansas station in 1930, after hearing doctors representing the American Medical Association and Johns Hopkins university testify that Brinkley’s goat-gland advice and patent medicine sales were dangerous to public health.

Promises Board Abolition Over Senator Arthur Capper’s radio station in Topeka, which is forced by law to allot to Brinkley as much time as it gives his Republican opponent, the “doctor” is telling the voters that one of his first acts as Governor will be to abolish the state medical board, which revoked his medical license in 1930. He declares he will Install two microphones on his executive desk, through which he will talk directly to the people, since the newspapers of Kansas are unanimously hostile. LAVISH GRAND OPERA AT POPULAR PRICES Spectacular Presentation of ‘Aida’ to Be Offered In Chicago. By Times Special CHICAGO, Oct. 14.—The largest and most spectacular grand opera presentation ever attempted on an indoor American stage will be offered to music lovers Saturday night, when Maurice Frank gives the orders to ring up the curtain on Verdi's famous opera, "Aida.” More than 350 people will make up the huge ensemble of musicians, chorus, singers, ballet and symphony orchestra. This number exceeds by 100 the number of people used in the Chicago civic opera companies’ same presentation last season at the Civic opera house. ft will be the first time in the history of American music that real grand opera has been offered to the public at the popular prices of $2.20, $1.65. sl.lO and 55 cents. More than 20.000 people will be enabled to attend this gala premiere performance. LECTURER IS SELECTED Dr. McConnell Will Give Series al De Pauw. By Timm Special GREENCABTLE, Ind., Oct. 14. Professor Charles M. McConnell, a member of the faculty on the De Pauw university school of theology, has been chosen to deliver the Mendenhall lectures at De Pauw. They will be given during the last week of November. Dr. McConnell will talk on “The Rural Background of the Bible.” This lectureship foundation was established by the late Marmaduke H. Mendenhall, who provided a bequest of SIO,OOO, the income from which was to be used for an annual series of lectures on "The Divine Origin, Inspiration and Authority of the Holy Scriptures.” Dr. McConnell will make three addresses, two during the regular chapel period and one in the evening.