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‘WHITEWASHING' HINTED DUE ON LIQUOR Promised Report on Federal Building Mystery May Never Come. Promised report on investigation of disappearance of 1,200 pints of bonded whisky from the federal building more than a year ago is to be delayed until after the election, it became apparent Friday, Statement of high prohibition department officials Ai.. 25, that a “new investigation” would be completed in two weeks has not materialized, although the "two weeks” has been stretched to more than two months. From sources close to the administration, it is reported that efforts to "hush up” the matter are being continued, and that if public protest grows too strong, the whole affair will be given a complete “whitewashing,” but not until after the election. Affidavit Sought, Is Hint It is reported that the third group of investiagtors assigned to the case have been attempting to obtain affidavits that no accurate check was made of the freight car load of bonded whisky seized at Evansville March 4, 1931, while it was en route to Chicago from Ansley, Miss. Investigators are reported prepared to prove that the liquor was checked either at the car and not at the liquor storeroom, or at the storeroom and not at the car, and, Jn either case, that only a casual check was made, the record keeper merely accepting the count of other agents and police. The disappearance was learned when the liquor turned over to Alf O. Meloy, United States marshal, /or destruction under a court order failed to tally with records of the 3,182 sacks of whisky checked as it was removed from the freight car and again as it was placed in the federal building liquor storeroom. Revelation of the disappearance Was followed shortly by unexplained demotion of Charles W. Britt, then deputy prohibition administrator, to an obscure post as special agent at New Orleans, a post he still holds. Reports were made to original investigators assigned to the case that whisky of the same brand, “Old Log Cabin,” was the principal item of refreshments at many drinking parties attended by high local Republican officials at a north side apartment of a prohibition official

Final Figures in Literary Digest Poll State. Hoover. Roosevelt. Thomai. Alabama 4.272 20,161 402 Arizona 2.574 4,910 254 Arkansas 3,712 16,225 225 California .... 81,834 148,832 7,874 Colorado 11,950 14 304 1,546 Connecticut .. 26,469 18,884 4,256 Delaware 2.384 2,546 205 Dtstr't of Col.. 3,937 5,061 514 Florida 9,302 23,606 857 Georgia 4,823 31,849 329 Idaho 3,282 5,159 307 Illinois 78,414 103,920 7,665 Indiana 40.227 33,465 3,546 lowa 23,372 32,956 1.712 Kansas 23,529 29,067 1,602 Kentucky 13,114 24,826 771 Louisiana .... 4,004 19.050 401 Maine 11.462 8,264 557 Maryland 12,834 26,955 2,650 Massachusetts 60,712 34,659 7.125 Michigan 49.728 69,9.79 5.453 Minnesota ... 32.613 52,238 4,047 Mississippi ... 1,051 9,887 88 Missouri 39.071 70,882 3,254 Montana 5,971 8,508 650 Nebraska 11,405 20.952 950 Nevada 701 1,506 55 New Hampshire 6.943 4.625 408 New Jersey .. 69,828 58,101 11,886 New Mclxco . 1,270 1.934 126 New York. ...164,453 172,765 30.568 No. Carolina.. 9,963 28,153 571 No. Dakota... 4.878 8,762 499 Ohio 81.512 109.943 12,275 Oklahoma ... 10,692 22.848 1,409 Oregon 8,551 15,433 994 Pennsylvania.. 93,057 124,675 17,607 Rhode Island. 8,856 7.046 729 So. Carolina... 1.601 15,657 162 So. Dakota.... 5,910 9.131 314 Tennessee .... 11,352 26,635 682 Texas 15,317 74,511 1,458 Utah 4,744 8,274 558 ■Vermont 4.945 3.301 271 Virginia 13.440 34 191 942 ■Washington .. 16.717 30,324 1.624 West Virginia. 14.365 23 153 768 Wisconsin 21,375 44.054 4,289 Wyoming 2.201 2,913 248 Stales unknown ... 17,661 30,749 2,396 Marriage Licenses Paul Kettner. 39. Indianapolis, salesman. and Ann Louise Church.*39, of 947 North Pennsylvania street, dressmaker. William A. Clark. 58, Richmond, building contractor, and Bettie Winters, 42, of 1529 Reisner street. Jack J, Glrvin, 21. of 1233 West Ray street, narking lot attendant, and Evelyn Marie Hale, 18, of 418 Division street. Flovd Denzel Roush. 37. of 1723 North Meridian street, salesman, and Ethel Joy Roush, 36, of 2239 College avenue.

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Church Choir to Sing ‘The Pirates of Penzance’

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Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta to Be Given Here. Next Wednesday evening, the Roberts Park M. E. choir will offer to the public “The Pirates of Penzance,” a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta which has not been heard in Indianapolis for several years. “The Pirates of Penzance” is one of the most popular of those operettas which were so often heard a decade or more ago. The production is under the direction of Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs. The cast and chorus of forty are all members of the choir. They will be supported by an orchestra composed of students from Indiana Central college. The story of the operetta is peculiarly appropriate to this year, as it concerns the leading man. Mr. Delmer Huppert, attaining his twentyfirst birthday. As he was born on Feb. 29, the pirate band to which he has been apprenticed contends he has had only five birthdays, even though 21 years of age, and they refuse to release him. The difficulties that ensue add zest and humor to the story. The operetta is noted for its clever tunes. The modern version of “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here” is an adaptation of one of the outstanding melodies. It has always rivaled in popularity the famous “Pinafore,” by the same composers. The operetta will be given at Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge high school, Nov. 9, at 8:15 and will be open to the public for a small fee. Among the principal singers are Fred Koehrn. Beulah E. Bailey and Frances E. Wallace. CLOVER AIDS ORCHARD Increases Size and Quantities of Peaches, Tests Show. Bn l )iiled Press DANVILLE, Ky., Nov. s.—Peach orchards improved in growth and color and produced larger fruit where a good croop of sweet clover was maintained, tests by the experiment station of University of Kentucky revealed.

(PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT) A USEFUL MEMBER OF CONGRESS f LUDLOW Democrats do not concede 4 j jigigßl 'bat. the Indianapolis district ill jig rvp r had a belter represents - nvP ,lian Louis Ludlow. RepubllF beans generally accredit him as 'fH ”SF Vi being "the best representative * IflF the district has had since Jesse Hon. Louis Ludlow READ HIS RECORD Here Are Some of His Achievements: 1. The establishment of the United States Veterans’ hospital in Riverside Park, this city. 2. With 125 cities competing and bringing every ounce of influence to bear he induced the Navy Department to name the new cruiser, the last word in naval construction, for the city of Indianapolis. This great warship, which will advertise Indianapolis on the seven seas, will be placed in commission next month. 3. He led the fight that secured establishment of air mail service from Indianapolis to New York. The opposition forces, which favored Cincinnati, were led by Speaker Longworth. He has done a fereat deal to develop Indianapolis as an air center and is now cooperating with the Chamber of Commerce and other civic interests to establish air mail from Indianapolis to Detroit with every prospect of early success. He is deeply interested in promoting Indianapolis as “the air center of America.” 4. He secured an appropriation of $1,200,000 to complete the Indianapolis federal building by construction of a north wing. This will soon be started and will relieve Indianapolis families now suffering from unemployment. 5. He prevented removal of Schoen Flying Field to Chicago, after all arrangements had been made to do so and he has been very helpful in developing that field, which is so important to Indiana aviation interests. 6. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the shorter week in industry. 7. One point not to be overlooked is that he has brought to Indianapolis a committee assignment that is of inestimable value to Indiana and its capital city. He was placed on the great Appropriations Committee at the beginning of his second term in Congress, which was a very unusual recognition. Such an assignment is hard to obtain under any circumstances and ordinarily a reward for long congressional serv.ee, and few are the instances on record of a "second termer” falling heir to a place on the Appropriations Committee. The surrender of that committee assignment by the defeat of Representative Ludlow would be a heavy loss not only to Indianapolis but to Indiana and would retard material progress in our city. 8. Last but not least, the value oT Mr. Ludlow's services as a member of Congress is not so much in the big things he does, although he knows how to do big thing* in ai> big way, as in the zeal and fidelity with which he takes care of nis constituents in the thousands of calls for service along all conceivable lines. He receives a prodigious mail and his replies are immediate and satisfactory. He is practical and efficient. His off fare ,md his home are real “Hoosler spots” where genuine Hoosier bospit'Uity prevails. Mr. Ludlow is nationally known as one of the most useful members of Congress—useful to his district and useful to the country. WHY SWAP HORSES NOW?

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DEPRESSION HURTS PIKE’S PEAK BUSINESS 30 Per Cent Fewer Tourists Go Up Mountain This Season. Bn United Press DENVER, Nov. 4. —L vivid example of what the depression has done to the tourist industry—by far the greatest industry in Colorado, —is seen in reports from the tourists season on top of Pike’s Peak. Only 55,000 persons rode up the cog road, or the motor road to the top of the peak in the season just closed. It was a 30 per cent reduction over the traffic on the same roads last year, and last year’s figures, in turn, were 30 per cent less than the year before.

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SPANKING FIRST LITERARY PRIZE, SAYS AUTHOR Vicki Baum Tells Story of Her Life in Address at Town Hall. Her first award for writing stories when she was a girl in pigtails in Germany was a good spanking from her father, Vicki Baum, author of “Grand Hotel,” told a Town Hall audience at English’s at noon Friday, discussing her career. “My parents were quite sure that I was a black sheep and I was spanked three times when my dark secret of writing was discovered,” said Mrs. Baum. To escape and to be allowed to write she" said, she married a young wirter and “soon discovered after the first month there was no money in the household.’’ “My husband did not have the

!—I!. r. I ! . • ... BUSINESS MEN WHO BELONG TO THE INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ARE BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. TH£Y UNDERSTAND TAXATION, FOR TAXATION PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART IN THEIR BUSINESS OVERHEAD. THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BULLETIN IS, THEREFORE, A NONPARTISAN PUBLICATION. m tu/ i^ FE ——- ■ 1 uiiLu. m " 1 Mm] oca! Taxes Reduced 10 r m v/ Chamber Tal<e S p7omine n t P ert in |Q t n '™ YZaT Aeee.l Joined"By A officials RS Bnd tax "levying to pay j °oly one other offUiai * T* 18 red,lc tion of F and that i 8 J^ v ,‘*‘ ep s and * to n.ak/ fix*, sjsJ THE REPRINT HEREWITH published is a replica of the •toSXiSIT —SfSKSa OCTOBER ISSUE OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OFlinquency,'is"sj eSt ' mate d < * e " mon, hs. staff FKCIAL ORGAN—IT SPEAKS THE TRUTH. cent below the° levv 00 cnn r per sen tativ e s 39-2. This is the first tim! 6 b e me '', Ce have many years thaf tune in a great analysis of reduction 0 f Ux ea * * UbstlMlt, ,lnit of s Jjr SAYS r achieved The ten!t has been Wfth 'he f 11 1 ° either ai TutToZ faCf ’ an(i ’ in l S=; ‘jjafSa. “Local Taxes Reduced 19.8% for Next Year” 1 downward beL n**n rend ,a * 3992, taxes levied deer a 1 and ta * M S oredourc!*iM 0 red o u r c!*iMf per c n b t out ZTth The Chamber of Commerce Bulletin Says: this year's levy j s Tlhi'strtted" be, ° W I Seßß ‘ on l) ‘ m-i.uw "" SS.”/ “THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN A GREAT MANY YEARS THAT Center twp.. .*ls 1933 Levy rates, aiol "“>• SUCH A substantial reduction of TAXES HAS BEEN 'Vaynetwp... 4ai ’*? 3.345.693 tax rates \ <■ Ss‘Tc".'”'2 ACHIEVED. THE TENDENCY WAS, IN FACT, EITHER ABOUT stationary, or constantly upward since days be“rST:! IS r YOND THE experience of local officials, until 1931, S'Sw tolr,’^ 11 S3 when the upward climb was halted and a defi£f nite trend downward was begun.” and small tow n writ toWnshi P HleA estimated the total wfl° be ,°2 2- '* iS p,i A w!iSV“ I T °"7 H 1931 WAS THE FIRST YEAR DEMOCRATIC ECONOMIES ST BEGAN TO BE NOTICED. DEMOCRATS TOOK OFFICE par ed with th. ioia??’ 000 83 co “- boY IAUfTADV 1 la* of approximately s2l l -.V r c V his year pai JANUARY ly 1931* f c ' ine or u M sZ ad - af the entire area 20 cent of b !l J 4 THE BULLETIN SAYS FURTHER: crease for that J . * sma In- Lett *■ 1. F.w ■".! “IN 1931 AND 1932 TAXES LEVIED DECLINED ABOUT $400,000, *tantial increase “ p A su h- the* ' , £ fca OR ONLY ABOUT 2% ■” ~<i b 0.., ,rom sharing in “ th,a ar ea cf caused by lowered ci £ e rßductiop haA jSSjjafs .4 But for 1933 the Decline Totals $3,655,913 t r “W or 1.9.8% aw sfts:tSr br ° D cit isfst" £zsip YOUR TAXES WILL BE LOWER IN 1933. VOTE th. recommendation B 'e* °® cials 3 *”^°ln 8 ° f *“ f TO END “SPECIAL PRIVILEGE” AND CAPlfold It ,7 WHI, ln f* et . b. two SSf• TALISTIC SUPER-GOVERNMENT! DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE The Democratic Lever Is the First on the Voting Machine

endurance to fulfill his contract for short stories,’’ she said, “and I wrote ! the stories and he sold them under ■ his name. “From the money obtained from ( my stories, we started a magazine, i My husband was the editor. He loafed on a lounge, smoked cigarets and tried to snatch ideas. I wrote the stories.” The magazine and her married life both were failures, and at the age of 19 she was divorced. She said she remarried. In speaking of successful people, she said the danger wes that they lost their proportions and couldn't see that they were funny. She apologized for her “bad English” and declared that she was told that it didn’t matter so much what she said, but that ‘ people were curious to see the woman who wrote ‘Grand Hotel’.” 100 YEARS IN HOUSE 104-Year-Old Woman Still Lives in Ancient Log Home. Bn f ntted Press WINDSOR. Ontario, Nov. 5. Mrs. Mathilde Girard, 104 years old, is living in the log house here that i her father built 100 years ago.

WARNS HUSBAND DF BRIDE, H, TO BEJIODEL' Nintey-Day Sentence Will Be Carried Out, Judge Warns Youth. Unless Ramon Robertson, 20, of 1442 Herschell avenue, proves a model husband to his wife, Marie, 14, he must serve a ninety-day jail sentence. The sentence was imposed and suspended by Judge John F. Geckler Friday. Robertson was convicted in juvenile court of contributing to hii young wife's delinquency, on complaint by her father, John Woolbright. The couple eloped and were married a few days ago. When the father demanded the court annul the marriage, Robert-

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riage, advising the court it “*m best to let her daughter continue married life.” “From now on,” the judge ordered, "you must treat your wife right. Remember that word 'right' takes in a lot of territory, too.” “11 be a good husband.’ Robertson promised.