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Editor Times — IAM loath to criticise the religious convictions of any one, but the panacea proposed by the Rev. Mr. Cartwright in The Times of Oct. 13 is pitiably ridiculous. If we must wait for economic Justice until the gangsters are converted to Christ by the church methods now in force, we are lost beyond hope. Our troubles are mainly economic and material, not spiritual. A gangster may be, and often is, a Christian, so far as membership in some of the 242 different sects goes, and the word gangster should include all political crooks in high places. This conversion idea reminds me of the words of the Master, in Matthew 23, especially the fifteenth verse: ‘ Ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves.” Get a man properly converted and he ceases to menace vested rights of property, and meekly submits to economic injustice as “from God.” Christ fed the multitude with material bread and died a martyr’s death for his principles, which included the "neighbor as himself.” His modern followers, with few exceptions, preach "conversion” and vote and work for an economic system that starves millions of "neighbors” and little children in the midst of plenty. D. E. LUNSFORD. a a a Editor Tim rtf — A LETTER in The Times of Oct. 19 by ex-soldier and railroad man concerning Mr. Hoover’s railroad plan for relieving the unemployment situation. This gentleman is extremely fortunate to be working for the Pennsylvania railroad, as that is the only railroad I know of which has made any effort to spread employment. I am a furloughed Big Four telegraph operator and belong to the brotherhood, but they have made no effort to spread work in our department. Had they been interested hundreds of men could be put to work on a five-day basis. The Wabash railroad, one of Mr. Hoover’s heaviest borrowers, still is working its operators sevqn days a week, also the C. & 0., B. & 0., and other large railroads. If this work was spread among their furloughed and extra men, thousands could be put to work five days a week throughout the United States. Mr. Hoover has said he does not wish the wage scale lowered, but it did not take the railroads long to get a reduction in wages last February. When they started agitation for a further reduction, Mr. Hoover told them to keep still till after the election. If he is elected, the whole country soon will learn what regard he has for the laboring man. FURLOUGHED. ana Editor Times — I WOULD like to ask the city's Repub ican newspapers if they really think that the American people are so ignorant that they can make them believe everything they print in their papers about Hoover. I would like to ask those papers if they can name one manager of any big firm who is being kept on the job when the owner's business continuously is drifting away. Every firm employs a manager who is wide awake, one who always is looking for new business, one who is economical. What has this to do with Hoover? It has this much: We, as Americans, are the employers of the United States, and we employ a manager, and we call him President, to run the business of our country for our benefit. We give him our support, our financial aid and resources, and we employ him for four years, and expect him to make good. I think the American public is not so dumb as to be fooled by the press that upholds him. Let’s give Roosevelt a chance, as employers of this large corporation called the United States of America. ANDY MADDALENA. a a a Editor Times — IT is my understanding that railroad companies are limited to ten minutes in holding pedestrians and motorists at any crossing while they are switching their cars. Here is an example of how they adhere to this rule: Sunday, Oct. 16, 1932, on my way to St. Francis hos-, pital, I arrived at the crossing on South Sherman drive at 11:20 a. m., taking prepared food to a patient for his dinner, served at 11:30. At 11:45. the crossing finally was cleared for traffic and I proceeded on my way to the hospital, arriving there a half hour too late for dinner and the food consequently was wasted. Again on Monday night, Oct. 17. another trip to the hospital at the same crossing. I again was confronted with the same condition. After twenty-five minutes I got out of my machine and spoke to one of the railroad employes, told him how long we had been waiting and informed him of our destination. The railroader offered no help, but the very intelligent reply: "So you are on your way to the hospital, are you!” Visiting hours at St Francis hospital close at 8:30 p. m„ and we did not succeed in getting across the tracks until 8:20 p. m. A READER. GO WITH ROOSEVELT Scripps-Canfield Paper* Announce Support of Democratic Nominee. Bn l ailed Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25.—Support of the presidential candidacy of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt was announced today by the ScrippsCanfleld newspapers through S. S. Hahn, general counsel.

The Indianapolis Times Colder with showers tonight and probably Wednesday morning, followed by fair in afternoon.

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SURVEY SHOWS FIRST DISTRICT IS DEMOCRATIC G. 0. P. Strongholds Swing to Rivals, Lake County Check Indicates. WATSON LOSES POWER Hoover * and State Ticket Also Are in Bad With Mill Workers. Ben Stern, Times political writer, is making a tour of northern and central Indiana, to feel the political pulse as the campaign draws near its close. This is the first of a series he will write of the situation as he sees it, district by district. BY BEN STERN GARY, Ind., Oct. 25.—Despite the pouring of thousands of Republican dollars Into Lake county, the liberal use of the lash of job fear by the industrialists, and the vigorous support by four city administrations, the First district will go into the Democratic column Nov. 8. There will be no repetition of 1926, when thousands of floaters and repeaters were voted to save the political hide of Senator James E. Watsoh. The election results will not be withheld for three days, to learn how many votes are needed to reelect Watson. Contest to Be Close In other words, Lake comity is going to have an honest election on Nov. 8, if the efforts of watching crews of ex-service men and union laborites will count for anything. Yet the victory will not be easy. Present indications are that a majority of 2,000 will satisfy the most optimistic Democratic manager here. Despite the widespread sentiment against Republican state and national administrations, and the fact that there are 20,000 unemployed in the county, John Scott of Gary, First district G. O. P. chairman, is doing an excellent job of whipping sentiment back to the-party. Weakness Is Admitted Because this is an industrial community, a strenuous fight is made on the issue of a high tariff. Oscar Ahlgren, G. O. P. congressional nominee, Is waging his campaign on this. He also has discarded his party’s national platform and is flat-footedly for dry law repeal. Scott counts on Ahlgren, Joseph Kyle, Lake county resident and nominee for * Lieutenant Governor, and the support of the four city administrations in the county and their patronage to put over the ticket. He makes no predictions as to the size of the possible majority and contents himself with the statement that "we are going to win.” This in itself is an important admission of weakness in a county so strongly Republican as Lake in the past. Democrats, on the other hand, are making extravagant claims of a landslide. They point to the popularity of Paul V. McNutt, Governor nominee, the sincere respect and admiration won here by Frederick Van Nuys, senatorial nominee, and the strong labor following of William Schulte, congressional choice, who is business agent for the stagehands’ union, as basis for this sentiment. "Why, we should do at least as well as in 1930, when the Democrats, won by a majority of 2,192,” they contend. “Since then, unemployment has (Turn to Page Fourteen) WILLIAMSON HITS BACK AT BOBBITT CHARGES Gas ‘Bootlegging’ Ended, State Treasurer Says in Reply. Answering charges of extravagance and failure made by his predecessor, A. N. Bobbitt, Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, today admitted that he had increased the gasoline collection staff from seventeen to thirty-one employes, but pointed out that, as a result, $4,582,625.83 additional tax had been collected. The increase was urged by the legitimate oil dealers to prevent the “bootlegging” which occured under the Bobbitt regime, Williamson said. He cited the $25,000 settlement of a SIOO,OOO bootleg gas case under the Bobbitt regime as an example of the carelessness which prevailed formerly. Williamson is a candidate for reelection on the Democratic ticket. He . defeated Bobbitt, a Republican, for his present term.

Roosevelt Closes Campaign Tour at Baltimore Tonight

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent FAIRGROUND, RALEIGH. N. C., Oct. 25.—Assured that North Carolina would be back in the Democratic column this year. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt promised today an attempt to restore prosperity in every part of the nation. "We are going to make a sweep of the United States that will bei word for all that the voters of the country want progressive, liberal government,” he said. Thousands were massed around the fairground. Roosevelt speke from the rear platform of his special train. The North Carolina j State college band was playing as the train arrived. Roosevelt said he would have entered thirty-six states in all by the time he reached New York. • At every stop today crowds were (

Unemployed Army Moves on London Thousands in Big Hunger March; Demonstration Set for Thursday. Bn United Press LONDON, Oct. 25. —Thousands of hunger marchers battled their way toward London today to the music of fife and drum corps and the strains of "Keep the Home Fires Burning,” plodding over muddy reads through a cold, drenching rain. Groups already on the road totaled more than three thousand. Many others were preparing to start the trek. Pipers, bands, and flfers and drummers cheered the marchers on the way here to protest dole reductions in an immense demonstration planned for Thursday. Although roads were submerged in many places, and the marchers were drenched by cold rains that have swept the country for a week, they maintained their march on schedule. London police were prepared for trouble, after the unemployed demonstrations that marked the recent opening of parliament. hornsbylhred BY CARDINALS Deposed Cubs Manager Gets Year Contract. By 1 tilted Press ST. LOUIS, Oct. 25. Rogers Hornsby, deposed as manager of the Chicago Cubs last August, has signed a one-year player contract with the St. Louis Cardinals, president Sam Breadon announced today. The contract provides that at the close of the 1933 season Hornsby will be given his unconditional release, and, thereafter, will be free to sell his services to the highest bidder, subject to the rules of the National League. Hornsby’s salary was not announced, but was understood to be nominal, for the man who once turned down a $50,000-a-year offer from Breadon after he had led the Cardinals to a world’s championship in 1926. The “Rajah” believes that at the age of 37, he can come back as a major league star, Breadon said. "We believe Rog still is a great player. We think he will help us win the pennant next year. That is why we are signing him.” Breadon denied emphatically that Hornsby was being given "any consideration as a possible manager of the club or future successor of Charles (Gabby) Street, the present manager. "He will be a player trying to win a place on the team, and will take his orders the same as other players. from Street,” Breadon said. Hornsby comes back as a p’ayer in the ranks to the club with which he rose from obscurity to the pinnacle of baseball fame—a club that sent him away as a climax of a bitter quarrel over salary after he had won a world’s championship for the Cardinals. FEAR ROBINS IS DEAD Close Friends of Missing Crusader Are Nearly Cominced. By l n ited Press CHICAGO, Oct. 25.—The seven weeks’ absence of Raymond Robins, social worker who vanished en route to a luncheon engagement with President Hoover Sept. 3, was believed by his friends here today to indicate he had met death at the hands of unknown enemies. Salmon O. Levinson, Chicago attorney and close friend of Robins, today said friends and relatives of the social worker had become almost convinced he had been slain. Robins had been visiting at Levinson's summer home in Maine just prior to his disappearance. ARMY HONORS CITY MAN Lieutenant-Colonel Warfel to Take Course at War College. Lieutenant Colonel Charles O. Warfel, 825 East Fortieth street, the first reserve officer in Indiana to be so honored, left Indianapolis Monday night for Wasfiington to begin a thirty-day course at the United States Army War College. The war college, highest and most advancedl.schaol for army officers, selects only specially qualified officers for special tactical instruction.

on hand in large numbers. Long before Roosevelt was up, cheers could be heard as the train sped through small communities. At Charlotte and Monroe, N. C., there were large crowds. Following the Raleigh appearance, the candidate was scheduled to stop at Henderson, N. C., and a number of localities in Virginia, arriving in Baltimore at 6 p. m., where he will make a major address at 8 p. m., leaving at midnight for New York. He declined to say in advance whether he would discuss prohibition, or beeT, in closing the present tour. The Baltimore address tonight will end up the Democratic presidential candidate's second major j campaign tour, one that led himj through the border states and the! solid south.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, OCT. 25, 1932

WOMAN DIES IN RIVER AS FEUD CLIMAX Fourth Attempt at Suicide Succeeds for Mrs. Anna Schwarz, Beech Grove. ! SHOT HER SON-IN-LAW I —* 1 Freed After Investigation by Grand Jury; Walks Into Stream. Culminating a domestic feud, in which she was freed of a charge of shooting her son-in-law as he J slept, neariy six months ago, Mrs. Anna Schwarz, 57, of Beech Grove, committed suicide early today by drowning in White river. Mrs. Schwarz walked into the river south of Washington street after laying her coat on the bank. William H* Holthoff, 25, of 342 South Walcott street, the son-in-law, who recovered from a bullet wound in the head, identified the body when it was recovered an hour later by police. The act was witnessed by several persons, who were unable to reach her before she sank.

Charge Is Dropped Following a hearing before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron, shortly after the shooting, Mrs. Schwarz was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. On recommendation of Holthoff, Mrs. Schwarz later was discharged. Her asseriion that she shot Holthoff because, she declared, “he ruined the lives of myself and daughter” was believed by grand jurors to be a hallucination, according to Oscar Hagemeier, grand jury deputy prosecutor, who conducted the investigation. Hagemeier however, that a relative of Holthoff last week sought to reopen the investigation. Hagemeier said he did not know what action will be taken. Suicide Attempt Fails At the time of the shooting, Holthoff lived at the Schwarz home. Mrs. Schwarz attempted suicidt after shooting Holthoff, but was prevented when the revolver jammed, according to her statement to deputy sheriffs. Authorities first learned of the shooting when Holthoff ran into the street in front of the Schwarz residence shouting that he had been shot. He was picked up by a passing motorist, and .hurried to St. Francis hospital where deputy sheriffs found him. A revolver slug had pierced his skull, emerging at the top after missing the brain. Mrs. Schwarz then was found in the home, where she admitted shooting Holthoff, then turning the gun on herself. Death Again Denied Her Within the last week Mrs. Schwarz twice again attempted to end her life by inhaling fumes from a gas stove, according to neighbors. Following the attempts, she was given medical treatment In St. Francis hospital Sunday and was released. A son, Carl Schwarz, called at his mother’s home early today, and, finding her gone, informed police and relatives that she was missing. They were notified of the suicide a short time later. t>r. John Salb, deputy coroner, gave a verdict of suicide. Mrs. Schwarz was the widow of Rudolph Schwarz, Indianapolis sculptor, who designed and executed bronze work on the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument.

Bright Spots

By United Press More than 70 per cent of the country’s banks and trust companies having deposits of $100,000,000 or more recorded deposit gains in the quarter ended Sept: 30, Dow, Jones & Cos. reported. Production of polished plate glass in September was 3,495,854 square feet, compared with 1,773,047 square feet in August, according to the Plate Glass Manufacturers of America. Business failures during the last week were 535, compared with 551 in the corresponding week of 1931, Dun’s reported. Atlas Powder Cos. reported earnings in the third quarter were equal to 83 cents a share, compared with 36 cents a share in the corresponding period of 1931.

Roosevelt has kept gingerly away from the subject of beer throughout his tour except to make brief references to a beer tax at Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and one or two other places. At St. Louis, where the slogan this year is "open the breweries,” he omitted any reference whatever to the question in his prepared text. But he threw one paragraph into his speech. Roosevelt has been cautious in discussing beer partly because he has spent much of his time in western territory where he felt the subject was not particularly popular. and partly because anti-prohi-bition Republicans have been waiting for him to open up. They could charge the Democrats with having blocked the Bingham beer bill in the last session. Some believe he will bring the subject

1,000,000 Dahlias in 500 Colors —Peak of a Hobby That Built a House

Center—The house that dahlias built on South Meridian street. Left Inset—Mrs. R. O. Wenning, housewife in the "dahlia house” and co-partner in the business, snipping blooms with the motion of pulling them,

DECEPTION LAID TO HOOVER BY GARNER Chief Executive Lacks Honesty in Attempting to Explain Away Futility in War on Depression, Is Charge. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Speaker John N. Garner struck back today at President Hoover’s defense of government finances, charging that "the chief executive lacks honesty, has practiced deception’ and can not explain away his record of futility on measures to relieve the depression. The Democratic vice-presidential candidate, taking figures in the Republican campaign textbook, said the Hoover administration had increased the cost of government $1,213,700,000 in the last two years, exclusive of public debt retirement and interest. Garner said total expenditures chargeable against ordinary receipts excluding public debt retirement and interest, were $2,781,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and $3,994,700,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932.

Garner accused M r - Hoover and Treasury Secretary Mills of amnesia and asphasia” in recounting events of the last three years. Anticipating “the alibi President Hoover and his apologists have been making,” Garner admitted that the expenditures cited included appropriations for the federal board, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and federal land bank expansion. Take Credit, Count Cost But he added that President Hoover has taken credit for every one of these federal relief agencies. “When Mr. • Hoover takes the credit, he must count the cost,” the Democratic vice-presidential candidate asserted. All through the campaign, Garner said, President Hoover and his Republican leaders yet have failed to cite any relief measure taken in 1929 or 1930, but have based their campaign claims on measures undertaken almost at the end of 1931. Cites Jobless Figures “The recollection of the American people who have been brought to hunger, want, suffering and despair, goes much beyond last Dec. 8,” Garner said, referring to President Hoover’s frequent mention ol his annual message to congress on that day. Taking up the Republican claim that the depression in the United States largely is due to conditions abroad, Garner said American Federation of Labor figures on Oct. 11 showed 11,000,000 of the 122,000.000 residents of the United States unemployed, white on that same day unemployment in England, France, Germany and Italy, with a total population of 182,000.000, number 9,161,001 persons unemployed. CITY MAN IS KILLED Milton Scott, Struck by Train, Dies Instantly, Report Says. Milton Scott, 23, sen of Mrs. M. E. Scott of Indianapolis, was killed instantly today at Lebanon, Ky., when run over by a train, according to word received by police. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: South wind, 12 miles an hour; temperature, 66; barometric pressure, 29.96 at sea level; ceiling, high, broken clouds, unlimited; visibility, 10 miles; field good. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 57 10 a. m 70 7a. m 58 11 a. m 72 Ba. m 63 12 (noon).. 74 9 a. m 66 1 p. m 74

forward more prominently as the campaign ends. Everywhere on his southland tour, Roosevelt was hailed as a conquering hero. At Atlanta he was welcomed as a returning son with crowds, noise and enthusiasm seldom seen at any other time in his campaign. He has been on the toad exactly one week today, a grueling trip, at least for every one else on his special train. He has been in seventeen states, traveled 3,C00 miles, slept in Pullmans except for one night. He has been up until midnight or later almost every night and out again before 8 a. m. Roosevelt, in his Atlanta speech Monday night, said that less research and more thinking, fewer figures and more ideas, and fewer commissions and more leadership are needed in Washington.

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but irf reality using a knife to cut them. Right Inset—Mis Pauline Wenning, daughter of the Wennings. gathering blooms in her school colors, red and white, for a Southport high football game.

PAY BANK DIVIDEND Washington to Give 4 Per Cent to Realty Holders. Dividend of 4 per cent will be paid this week to holders of first lien 6 per cent real estate savings certificates of the Washington Bank and Trust Company, it was announced today by Brandt C. Downey, receiver, acting on court order. Holders of books numbered from 1 to 400 will be paid on Wednesday between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m., and holders of books 401 to 764 on Thursday at the same hours. Payment will be made only by calling at the bank, Washington street and Senate avenue. HONOR GRANDDAUGHTER OF MAYOR CERMAK Elected President of Dramatic Club at Ladywood School. Vivian Graham, granddaughter of Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, was elected president of the Dujarie Dramatic Club of Ladywood school at the club's first meeting last week. Other officers are Emily Serhant of Chicago, vice-president; Mary Molan, secretary, and Helen Smith, treasurer. First presentation to be sponsored by the club will be a patriotic program Armistice day. lindTbTbTTaled jon Intimates of Colonel and Anne Re- * veal Selection to Press. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Jon Morrow Lindbergh has been selected as the name of the second son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A, Lindbergh, intimates of the family said today. The baby was born six months after their first baby, Charles Augustus Jr. was kidnaped and killed. G ETS 1-10-YEAR~TERM Negro, Convicted of Petit Larceny, Handed Long Sentence. Convicted of a charge of petit larceny after he was alleged to have disarmed Mrs. Mary Moore, former Indianapolis policewoman, during a brawl in Military park, July 27, Robert Breakenridges, 23, Negro, of Indianapolis, was sentenced one to ten years in the Indiana reformatory today by Thomas Garvin, criminal court judge pro tern.

He attacked the foreclosures of farm mortgages by land banks, and said the administration farm policy is imbued with the "doctrine of dispair.” “The time has come to eliminate political secretaries of agriculture and to substitute for them a secretary whom the farmers will recognize as one of their own,” Roosevelt said. The Governor, in discussing reforestation, which Secretary Arthur M. Hyde had ridiculed, advocated that 10 to 20 per cent of farm acreage in states east of the Mississippi river should be converted to tree crops. “I am convinced that herein ’ics a fertile field, not only for the legitimate investment of capital, but also for the employment of labor," he said.

Only One Shadow Casts Its Pall on This Family— Jack Frost. BY ARCH STEINEL One million dahlia blooms, in 500 different varieties and colors, topple one upon another on a tenacre tract of land on the South Meridian street road. Motorists take breathing spells on the city’s outskirts to enjoy the myriad reds, oranges and pinks of the flowers. Behind those blooms is a hobby that grew into a business, a country home, and a married life among the flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph O. Wenning, R. R. 6, Box 307, owners of the ten acres known as the Indianapolis dahlia gardens, have but one rift and worry in their jcb of marrying dahlia species, selling bulbs and buds —and that is Jack Frost. Started as a Hobby The dahlia season is short, and getting shorter—two months of blooming, at the most, And so now Mr. and Mrs. Wennin listen to radio weather forecasts and newspaper notices hourly for reports of the oncoming of the ogre that slays their seasonal livelihood overnight. "Mr. Wenning began growing dahlias just as a hobby and a spare time job when we were married. Soon it became a business and now it takes up all our time,” said Mrs. Wenning. The Wennings* estate is one where the welcome sign is always out for visitors. Any one can drive up to their backdoor and park a car and view the blooms, wander in the gardens, without being called to account or asked “What do you want?” “Never Been Bothered” "You know flowers bring out the best in everyone. We’ve never had a fence up along the highway. Theres’ nothing to prevent anyone from stealing the blooms. We’d hardly miss them and yet we’ve never been bothered by thefts,” Mrs. Wenning says. “We could sell all we could get early, but it turned out that the season merely was late and now we’ve just as many blooms as in good years,” Mrs. Wenning said. Cut 1,000 an Hour Watching her gathering a bunch of the blooms gives rise to the thought, “She must be an expert at pulling them off by the stems.” But the eyes deceive, for what in reality looks as if the dahlias were pulled, is merely the deft twitch of a small pocket-knife carried in Mrs. Wenning’s hand which snips off the flowers. Mrs. Wenning and her husband can cut 1,000 blooms an hour, and sometimes on Sundays when flowerlovers literally storm the Dahlia House, it is necessary to resort to speed to keep the tubs in the basement supplied. CIRCLE DANCE PLANNED Monument to Be Roped Off Next Saturday Night for Holiday Fete. Monument Circle and all approaches excepting West Market street will be roped against traffic Saturday at 6:30 p. m. for a preHalloween fete, the safety board decided today. It is planned to hold a dance on the Circle in co-opera-tion with the park board, the firemen’s string band to provide music.

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TROOPS MAY GDARD HOOVER IN CITY VISIT Safety Board Likely to Ask Ft. Harrison Aid If President Comes. CITE DETROIT BOOING Officials Here Unwilling to Take Responsibility for Protection. Use of troops from Ft. Harrison in addition to every available man of the police force, was urged upon Chief Mike Morrissey today by the safety board in the event that President Hoover visits Indianapolis as one stop of a trip planned as a whirlwind finish to the campaign. Reports are current that Hoover will be here Friday. Recommending that “extra precaution” be taken to protect the President, who was booed in Detroit last week, the board members referred to “the attitude of some people toward the President in these troublesome times.” Need “Many Precautions” “These are turbulent times,” said Charles R. Myers, board president, "and in view of the attitude of a lot of desperate folks, we must take precautions unusual even for such an occasion. We should ask for troops from Fort Harrison to aid the police. “It would be most regrettable to have anything happen to the President while he is in Indianapolis.” Myers suggested to Morrissey that the line of march be roped off and crowds confined to the sidewalks. When Morrissey said he doubted if the police have sufficient rope, Myers said funds must be found to buy more rope. Statement Is Issued “Aside from the political angle,” Myers said, “I sincerely hope the President decides not to come here." With persistent, but unconfirmed rumors current that Hoover would be here Friday for an address, Republican state leaders this afternoon issued the following statement: “Plans for a visit of President Hoover to Indianapolis are contingent upon his schedu:e of trips to be made out of Washington between now and Nov, 8. The President will be in New York Monday. Whether or not he will visit Indianapolis depends upon his schedule after the

New York trip.” Plans Desperate Fight BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—President Hoover has agreed to a political program that will see him making the most desperate and strenuous fight for re-election known in recent presidential annals. His itinerary, which may include a trip to California, will be announced soon. At the insistence of his two principal advisers—Ogden L. Mills, secretary of the treasury, and Post-master-General Walter F. Brown— Hoover has abandoned all pretense that he is sticking to his reconstruction task for the duration of the campaign? as originally scheduled to be his role. They have told him that only he can save himself from defeat. Worried Over Detroit Although a New York speech on Oct. 31 and a stop at Newark are the only scheduled major efforts, Hoover’s advisers want him to make a trip into the middle west, the northwest and to the coast. They want him to deliver major speeches at Chicago, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Denver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. These would be in addition to the New York trip. White House strategists still are discussing the unfriendly reception which greeted Hoover at Detroit. Although they discount it, men who have traveled with presidential parties for years say it was unprecedented. The chorus of “boos” at the railroad station sounded like “thunder,” according to them, and so disturbed Hoover’s friends that the plan to seat him in a chair with the Governor was forgotten. City Officials Apologize Although official statements gave the impression that the Anti-Hoo-ver demonstration was confined to an alleged Communistic group near the railroad station, Hoover’s friends are worried by the fact that the booing continued along the fourmile route to Olympia hall, where he spoke. As the presidential automobile passed loading platforms, people rushed up close to the chief executive to express their opinion of his record. Local authorities did not try to stop the demonstration for fear they might aggravate signs of disrespect. As the President boarded his train to return to the capital, local officials offered an apology for the behavior of the populace. SOCIALISTS ARE BARRED Oklahoma Supreme Court Bans Party From Nov. 8 Ballots. B>i United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 25. The Oklahoma supreme court today denied the plea of the Socialist party to place candidates on the ballots in Oklahoma at the general election, Nov. 8. The party, which was ruled off the ballot when it failed to register a constitutional number of voters at the last election, had sought a writ of mandamus forcing the state election board to place its candidates on the ballot.