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REPEAL VOTE PLEA SOUNDED BY VAN NUYS Senator Calls for Support in Battle to End Prohibition. CITES ECONOMIC GAINS Help in Business Recovery Stressed; Dry Law Held Moral Failure. BY WALKER STONE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. June 2.—A call for every voter of Indiana to go to the polls Tuesday and cast his ballot for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, was sounded today by Frederick Van Nuys, United States senator from Indiana. "If our nation is to return to sanity in its legislation, abolish the lacketeoring evil which has spread lito every branch of our social i ibrie, and reduce the heavy burlien of taxation levied against home owners and business men, the eighteenth amendment shoula be repealed,” said Senator Van Nuys. "I join with the members of all parties in pleading that the Indiana voters go to the polls next Tuesday and vote for repeal. The issue js of paramount importance, not only in relation to our economic recovery but to our moral welfare. Can Not Legislate Morality ‘‘During the last thirteen years we have learned that morality can not be legislated into a people; that, the only method of receiving true i temperance is through education, i and that any attempt to change ! the drinking habits of a nation 1 through legislation results in the growth of vicious racketeering, ; which, octopus-like, spreads its tan- j tacles into all lines of endeavor. "I also desire to emphasize the fact that, our economic recovery will be accelerated if the nation repeals i the eighteenth amendment through the opening up of heretofore closed channels of manufacture, distribution and trade. Repeal will create a demand for our farm products which now are a surplus on the j market, and will provide additional employment, not only through man- ! ufacture of alcoholic spirits, but ; through a demand for additional machinery, equipment of all kinds, and construction of new buildings. Others Dodge Issue “The eighteenth amendment is not and never has been a political issue. It was made so largely as a result of professional reformers, who injected it into our campaign. Repeal, therefore, will kick out the racketeering which in certain localities has grasped the reins of government and also permit education In temperance. • l hope that the citizens of Indi- ! nna. Irrespective of party, will go to the polls Tuesday and vote overwhelmingly for repeal.” Fearful of arousing enmities, other Indiana congressmen are saying nothing concerning the vote on repeal. However, Senator Arthur Robinson. Republican dry. will speak to : the Indiana voters over a National \ Broadcasting Company radio hookup at 9:15 Monday night (Indianapolis time!, under auspices of the organized prohibition forces. LUTZ INDUCES COURT TO BAN RIOTERS BOND Claims Credit for Supreme Bench's Action in Gary Case. Attorney-General Philip Lutz Jr today claimed credit for inducing the Indiana supreme court to forbid freedom under bond pending appeal in cases of four Gary persons, alleged radicals, convicted of rioting. The accused are Charles Church find Gus Lysiak. each sentenced to three months at the penal farm, and Stela Chappa and Lydia Oken, to three months each at the Indiana Woman's prison. The four were at a meeting during which a clash with Gary police occurred. HOLD UP SIGNAL CHECK City Awaits Settlement of Argument on Patented Rights. Check for payment of $420.70 for payment of street safety signals purchased from the Marion Malleable Iron Works. Marion. Ind.. was held up today by Albert Losche. city purchasing agent, pending settlement of a patent dispute. Losche said the city will not complete the purchase until the Marion firm supplies a bond which will relieve the city of responsibility. Protest against the device purchase has been made by Thomas I. Temple. 1006 Cornell avenue. He claims the device is an infringement on a "frog" traffic reflector that he invented several years ago. Times Index Book Nook 15 Bridge' 14 Broun Column 16 Classified 24 Comics 25 Crossword Puzzle 22 Curious world 22 Dietz on Science 26 Editorial 16 Financial 22 Hickman Theater Reviews.... 19 Lippmann Column 11 Racing—Big Business 15 Radio 10 Serftl Story 25 Sports 20. 21 Talburt Cartoon 16 Vital Statistics 22 Wogan's Pages 12, 13

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Mother Fights Dry Law for Sake of Children

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Prohibition Not Way to Temperance, View of State Leader. BY JAMES DOSS Time* Staff Writer Mrs. Sylvester Johnson Jr.. 3668 Central avenue, was prompted by a number of reasons when she started devoting a great deal of time and energy to prohibition repeal and far from the least of them are the three with w'hom she is pictured. Mrs. Johnson is chairman of the Indiana unit of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. She is a delegate to the prohibition repeal election next Tuesday when Indiana will decide whether it is to be the tenth state to ratify the twenty-first amendment which will repeal the federal dry law. “Prohibition has created more law' violators, more disrespect for law and order than any other single piece of legislation in the history of the United States, thereby creating a general disrespect for law which is becoming more and more prevalent,” Mrs. Johnson asserts. Voices Mothers’ Sentiments “Children are taught that they must obey all laws that are for the greatest good of the greatest number, but the general nullification of the prohibition law has broken dow'n the respect for our constitution w'hich should be instilled in every child.” Thus does she voice the seniments of hundreds of mothers. “The dry organizations started out with an inspiring goal in view —the goal of temperance—and were making tangible strides in its direction until the eighteenth amendment was substituted for the teaching of temperance. "Real temperance is not an objective impossible of realization, but the road to it is along educational lines and not by legislation. “I believe sincerely, and I hope that other mothers will face this issue and decide likewise, that, the cause of temperance best can be served through repeal of w'hat we should realize, by this time, is a futile attempt to legislate the morals or habits of the American people.” Handle County Campaign Mrs. Johnson is being most actively aided in getting out the wet vote by Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Jr.. Mrs. Edgar S. Gorrell. Mrs. Samuel Sutphin. Mrs. Edward L. McKee. Mrs. Frank Gritt, Mrs. George Denny Jr„ Mrs. J. S. Holliday, Mrs. Dudley Pfaff. Miss Marie S. Kasier. Mrs. Robert Scott. Mrs. Garvin Brow'n. Mrs. A. W. Nolling, Mrs. Smiley Chambers. Mrs. W. R. Sinclair, Mrs. Frederick T. Holliday, Mrs. I. C. De Haven. Mrs. Mary McNutt. Mrs. Wayne Kinnaird. Mrs. Robert Milliken, Mrs. Fiske Landers. Miss Ellen Rogers. Mrs. Robert Winslow, and Mrs. Antoinette WaJtz. Headquarters are being maintained in the Pettis store room on East Washington street near Pennsylvania, by the Marion County BiPartisan Repeal Committee. The task of handling the Marion county campaign has been entrusted to women repeal workers while the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment takes care of the remainder of the state. Motor cars will be manned election day by volunteer workers lo get as many repeal votes as possible to the polls.

Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 65 10 a. m 79 7a. m 70 11 a. m 80 Ba. m 72 12 (noon).. 60 9 a. m 76 1 p. m 82 Today’s Short Story Parrots stray from home the same as dogs. Mrs. Kossenberg s pet parrot spying an open window flew off its perch and into the open and disappeared. The owner inserted a small lost ad in The Times. Mrs I. Grange, seeing the bird in her yard, notified Mrs. Kossenberg and Mr. Parrot was at home within the hour after considerable coaxing. This ad appeared two days at a cost of 54c. PARROT lost vicinitv 2816 North New Jersey. If seen, call Ta. 5114. Reward. Two guest tickets to the Apollo have been mailed to Mrs. Grange as a reward for assisting in the return of an article or pet advertised in The Times Lost column. If your pet strays, call Ri. 5551 or come to Want Ad Headquarters, 214 West Maryland street.

Mrs. Sylvester Johnson Jr., with her three children. Mary, 9; Nelson. Gladding Johnson, 12. and Sylvester Johnson 111. 16.

HAWKS TRYING FOR AIR MARK Mechanical Robot Guides • Plane in Dash From West Coast. By / >tiled Press LOS ANGELES, June 2.—Lieutenant Commander Frank Haw'ks roared aw'ay from municipal airport at 5:51 a. m. today in a specially designed plane piloted by a mechanical robot which he hoped W'ould land him in New' York in record-breaking time. Hawks sought to break his ow r n former west-east speed record of 17 hours and 38 minutes. Jimmy Haizlip made the transcontinental dash tw'o years ago in 10 hours and 19 minutes. Weather conditions were reported favorable and clear across the continent. Curiously he had hoped for bad W'eather. "It w'ould give me a chance to test my mechanical pilot,” he said. He planned to cross Colorado, Kansas City, St. Louis. Indianapolis, Columbus, and drop dow’n on Floyd Bennett airport in New' York. WEST MICHIGAN ST, PAVING JOB IS LET Bids Are Received for Paving of Central Avenue. Contract for the West Michigan street improvement w-as let today and bids received for resurfacing of Central avenue, from Thirty-fourth to Thirty-eighth streets, by the works board. The center of West Michigan street will be rebuilt by the Union Asphalt Company for $10,354. Six bids for the Central avenue job were reecived, the lowest being that of J. M. Morgan & Son Company, at $21,000.

POSTAL RECEIPTS SHOW GAIN IN MAY Increase Recorded for First Time in Three Years. For the first time in three years, receipts at the Indianapolis pastoffice showed an increase in May. Postmaster Leslie D. Clancy announced today. He interprets the gain as reflecting better business conditions. In May. receipts were $302,641. against $279,343 in the same month last year, a gain of $23,292, or slightly more than 8 per cent. Stamp sales total last month was $211,169, and for Mav, 1932, it W'as $199,789. MEDIUMS ASK ‘TESTS’ Willingness to Appear Before Scientists Voted at Session. Willingness to have mediums stand tests given by a board of scientists was expressed this morning in the opening session of the Indiana State Association of Spiritualists at the Claypool. The meeting this morning was theopen- | ing of a three-day convention. Messages will be given tonight by j Mrs. Anna Dennis of Anderson, and I the Rev. Mina Simpson of Indianapolis. Mrs. Maye M. Hibbs of Ft. Waye will speak on "Life's Mirror.”

Girl Steals Taxi Is Claim; ‘Just Party,’ She Says

the dawn; gone, a taxicab and 52.60. Miss Maxine Hinton. 18. of 2037 North Dearborn street, attractive brown haired and blue eyed girl, is trying to explain it to detectives today. About sunrise this morning, a police squad was informed by Mose Byroad. 41, of 329 North Tacoma avenue, a taxi driver, that a girl passenger robbed him of his cab and $2.60 in the vicinity of Michigan and Alabama streets.

Fair tonight and probably Saturday; slightly warmer tonight.

IXDIAXAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUXE 2, 1933

J. P. MORGAN FIRM MADE PROFITS DURING 1929 CRASH, PROBE SHOWS

STEEL CHIEFS MAY BATTLE REVIVAL ACT Veiled Threat Made to Block Law If Organized Labor Comes Into Industry. BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 2.—A veiled threat from the biggest Morgancontrolled industry—iron and steel—to block operation of the national recovery act if it brings organized labor into the steel mills today confronted the Roosevelt administraI tion. It left Washington Pondering if I this new' move, following closely S upon attack by a Morgan utility ] company on the federal power act, | is part of a counter-offensive dej signed to offset disclosures of the senate banking committe. Speaking for the American Iron j and Steel Institute, of which the j Morgan Company, United States I Steel Corporation, is the biggest part, Robret P, Lamont told the senate finance committee at its final 1 hearing that ‘‘the industry stands positively for the open shop,” and that it “most strongly objects to inclusion in the pending bill of any previsions which will be in conflict with this position.” Court Attack Threatened He concluded: “If this position is not protected in the bill, the industry is positive in the belief that the intent and purpose of the bill can not be accomplished.” This last statement was interpreted as threatening a court attack on the recovery act. The Lamont statement did not I mention the thirty-hour week, which j the recovery act is designed to j establish, nor the matter of minij mum wages. It did recall to officials here, how- | ever, the long and bitter struggle on J the part of labor and government to abolish the tw'elve-hour day in the steel mills. Long Hours Worked In 1919, just after the big steel strike, investigation by the InterChurch World Movement, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and' the United States j senate disclosed that 50 per cent of j the employes in the United States | Steel Corporation were working j twelve hours a day, and half of j those were working seven days a I week. It was found at that time that 32 per cent of all steel workers ifi j the country were not earning as much as the minimum subsistence | standard fixed by the government i for a family of five, and that 72 per I cent w'ere below' the minimum-of- ! comfort standard fixed by the govI ernment. In 1922, with the big strike last, it was discovered that the twelve-hour i day still prevailed. Probed Many Times President Harding called on the Steel Corporation to abolish it, and received an answer from Elbert H. Gary saying that it was “not practicable to abolish” the twelvehour day. In 1930, the federal Council of Churches of Christ in America made ! anew investigation of steel, and j I reported that out of 248,000 men j I covered in its survey, 16,600 w'ere | working more than twelve hours, j j and 132,000 w r ere working more than j ten hours. * It found one plant in j I which men worked fourteen nours : ! a day, seven days a w'eek. Wages ; for common labor ranged from 24 I j to 56 cents an hour. In 1931 the United States bureau of labor statistics found that average working hours for skilled workers in five steel mill departments ranged from fifty-tw'o to fifty-six a w'eek. For April of this year the bureau of labor statistics reported that pay : roll totals in iron and .steel were ! ! 24.2 per cent of their 1926 level. GRANT VENUE CHANGES Two Alleged Murderers Win Pleas in Criminal Court. Changes of venue from criminal court were granted today in two murder cases. James Barnes, Negro, charged with the robbery-slaying of Sam Ajamie, grocer, several months ago, will be tried in the Boone circuit j court at Lebanon. The other case was that of Crawford Wilson. 1120 East Twentysecond street, who will be tried in Greenfield for the alleged slaying of i his brother. Edward.

A few’ hours later a man who refused to give police his name or address said he trailed a girl driving a taxicab and saw ner park it in the rear of the Brookside avenue address. He waited until she was out of sight, removed the ignition key which the girl left in the lock and called police. The girl under questioning by detectives told a story differing greatly from the report Byroad gave.

Morgan Thrilled by ‘Outrage’ of Holding Midget on Knee

Enjoys Gossip With Tiny Circus Woman While Cameras Grind. BY RAY TUCKER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 2.—This is the true story of the mighty Morgan and the midget—of the "richest man in the w'orld” and the "littlest woman.” He met her at the senate investi- ! gation, where talk of billions ceased : once this tiny, fantastic creature from the sideshow saw’dust traipsed I into the room. She climbed on his knee—tw'ice —and he enjoyed it. He gossiped with her. Though Chairman Duncan Fletcher (Dem., Fla.) denounced the incident as a “damned outrage” and sent wires to picture services begging i them not to use pictures of the | strange scene, J. P. Morgan and his partners did not make a move to prevent publication. George Whitney even refused to do so w'hen requested by the boyish committee clerk. Thrill for Morgan It w-as a thrill for the financier. He played grandpa to this twenty-one-inch-tall thing from the tented top. It was at his royal command that she went to him, displayed her ear rings and gaudy attire, told him her circus name and her right name —and posed for the photographers. Bending down as she juggled on his broad, right knee, he said to her: “Why. I’ve got a grandson bigger than you.” “But I’m older,” she pouted. “How old are you?” asked Mr. Morgan. “Thirty-two years old.” piped up the press agent with her, thinking of circus contrasts between years and size. But for once the lady of the circus was living a real, though dazzling moment. She could not lie to the great man. And a True Gallant! “I'm only 20,” she whispered. Mr. Morgan was a gallant. “You don’t look it,” he said with a bow. “Where do you live?” he asked, as any man w'ould ask of any girl. “In a tent, sir,” she replied, as girls will. He admired her bizarre costume She wore a red-mesh raffia hat, blue sateen gown, light blue stockings and black slippers. Then up spoke the press agent: “Lya, take off your hat.” “Get It Over With” “No, no,” she protested as they tugged at it so that the photographers might get another and fresher pose. * “Don’t take it off,” said Mr. Mor- ! gan. “It’s pretty.” As the midget first approached, he arose. She shook hands with Mr. Whitney, but she knew her Mor- 1 gans. Meeting him, she shook hands, I curtsied, and said: “I'm the smallest woman in the world and I want to meet the richest man.” Mr. Whitney grew' restless and said to the camera men: “Come on, get it over with.” Her Big Moment Sadly, slowly she climbed down. At the door she said to the correspondent: “My real name is Margaret Furman. We’re moving to Wilmington tonight. Will you send me a copy i of your paper?” The press agent who managed the stunt said: “He w'as very nice. He set her on his knee. I didn’t think j he’d want to do that.” But the midget danced back to her stall in the sideshow'. To her—maybe—it was not a stunt. It may have been one of those great moments to which every girl, big or lit- j tie. is entitled now and then. But around the committee room : there still rages a furious argument j as to whether “the richest man on j earth” or the “littlest woman” got the publicity break. ‘RED PAINT’ BILL CUT Nebraskan Thanks Cops for Taking Charge of His Bank Roll. By Times Special OMAHA, Neb., June 2.—The first person. James Kinney, Ulysses, Neb., met w hen he arrived here to paint ! the town red with $855 he had accumulated, was a detective, who took him to the station and impounded the money. The desk sergeant allowed Kinney $5 per day for red paint work and he thanked the entire depart*; ment upon leaving several days later with his bank roll intact. 1

She said she entered the cab at Illinois and Washington streets about midnight and she and Byroad visited several places w’here they drank. Shortly after 4 this morning. Miss Hinton said. Byroad left her in the cab and went into a restaurant. She drove away, leaving him behind. She continued driving several hours and said that she gave two high school girls a ride shortly before her arrest at her home. Confronting the girl at police

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A circus midget sitting on the lap of the Wall Street giant! It happened between sessions of the senate banking committee inquiry. Morgan, who until the hearing had studiously avoided photographers, posed with the midget, Lya Graf, at the request of a circus publicity man. Morgan and midget conversed while photograohers snapped this remarkable news picture.

Hitler Decrees Subsidized Marriage of Working Girls Loans Provided If They Agree to Cease Work: Bachelors, Unwed Women to Provide Funds by Tax. By United Press BERLIN. June 2 A tax on employed bachelors and on unmarried women to subsidize marriages of working girls was decreed today by the I government.

M'HALE FIGHTS TAX RULINGM HEARING Appears as Attorney for Manufacturers’ Group. Frank McHale, one of Governor Paul V. McNutt's chief advisers, appeared today before Clarence Jackson, state income tax division head, as an attorney for a group of manufacturers seeking partial exemption from payment of onefourth of 1 per cent levy under the gross income tax law. The manufacturers are seeking exemption on receipts from goods sold outside the state. Jackson is said to have taken a stand at first that such receipts were exempt from the levy, but changed his mind when advised to the opposite by McNutt and the legal staff of the division. Appearing with McHale as counsel w'as Frederick Matson, who previously presented pleas for the manufacturers. Bombing Threatened, is Report Robert Pritchard, operating a barber shop at 9 West Morris street, reported to police today that a man who called on him at the shop warned. “Join the union or we'll blow the nlace ud.”

headquarters, Byroad said she was attired the same as when she was in his cab. including a white jacket, into a pocket of which Byroad said she thrust a hand as if holding a pistol. "But the jacket has no pockets," a detecitve pointed out. Miss Hinton was charged wdth vagrancy and placed under SI,OOO bond and in custody of efficers who took Byroad along, is making a Our of places the couple is said to have visited before the sun came up.

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Desiring to lessen the number of girls competing for jobs with men, Chancellor Adolf Hitler devised the plan of offering a loan of 1.000 marks ($250) to brides who have been employed for six months, provided they promise to cease work and not seek re-employment as long as their husbands are earning at least 125 marks ($31.25; a month. The loan would be available to buy household equipment, and would be issued in voucher form. The interest rate was fixed at 1 per cent a year. The government hopes to induce 150.000 working girls to get married so they can get the loan. The special bachelor anad spinster tax decreed to pay for the loans amounts to 2 per cent on incomes of between 75 and 150 marks a month and rises to 5 per cent on those of 500 marks or more. INSULL EXTRADITION TO BE SOUGHT, IS REPORT Chicago District Attorney Denies Story Published by Paper. By J'nited Press CHICAGO, June 2.—Another attempt to return Samuel Insull to this country from Greece is planned in the near future, the Chicago Daily Times said today, quoting Dwight H. Green, federal district attorney. Green flatly denied t v story which quoted him thus: “I am confident the return of Samuel Insull can be effected. The government will seek to secure custody of Samuel Insull in a manner different from the Cook county's attempt which failed. I think we will get Insull.” The story' said .Green made the statement in Washington. He was iin Chicago today and refused to confirm it. Insull, head of a vast utilities empire which collapsed, fled to Greece where he successfully resisted at- ' tempts at extradition.

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Money Kept Rolling In While Other Fortunes Were Crumbling. ■PANIC POOL* DESCRIBED Operations to Maintain Prices During Stocks Break Revealed. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff CorresiKndent WASHINGTON, June 2. Stock market operations which showed that J. P. Morgan & Cos. made money even during the desperate days of 1920 when fortunes were lost in crumbling stock prices were made public today in the senate Morgan investigation. Some of the market operators went back to 1926. But questioning by Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel, revived the dramatic episodes of black October, 1929, when Morgan partners joined with Guggenheim brothers and five banks in a “panic pool” to maintain stock prices. Inquiry also revealed a list of persons who obtained personal loans from J. P. Morgan & Cos. On the list was Frank W. Stearns of Boston. one-time confidant of the late Calvin Coolidge. The Stearns loan was paid off May 2, 1930. The amount was not given. Kings on Favored List? Another highlight of the morning was the questioning of Senator Robert R. Reynolds (Dem., N. C.), who attempteed to elicit from George Whitney, Morgan partner, whether any members of the British royal house. King Albert of the Belgians and Premier Mussolini of Italy were on any of the “bargain counter” stock lists of the House of Morgan. Whitney said he knew of no such royal connections. The “market crash” syndicate bought 1,146,609 shares of various stocks in three weeks of operations which ended November 11, 1929, it was brought out in Whitney’s testimony. Early in 1930. the syndicate sold out at a profit of $1,067,355. A list of Morgan pools, joint accounts and syndicates, going back to 1926, showed that Morgan was in forty-one operations in which there was but one 1055—590,396 in stock of Cellanese Corporation in 1928. Profits Are Revealed Profits on the others was $3,998,014, the largest being $1,853,939.18 in Proctor and Gamble common in a deal from July 15, 1929, to June 2 1930. The next largest profit was $803,929.20 in Alleghany Corporation representing 60 per cent of a syndicate in which the Guaranty Company was a 40 per cent participant. The exhibit put in evidence showed Drexel & Cos. made a profit of $103,874 in six operations, but lost $28,268 in a Sharp and Dohme syndicate in March, 1931. An example of Morgan operations during this period w’as in a common stock option account with the Alleghany Corporation, a railroad holding company. “Panic Pool” Described On May 11, 1929. Morgan & Cos. agreed to loan $9,675,000 to General Securities Corporation and to O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen. Recipients of the loan, ‘“with the object of liquidating it.” offered Morgan an option to purchase 272,500 shares of Alleghany common stock at $29 per share. The provision was made that Morgan would pay to the Van Sweringens any net profits on the transaction up to but not exceeding $1 a share. J. P. Morgan Cos. ceded to the Guaranty Company a 40 per cent interest in this option upon original terms. The Guaranty Company sold the 272,500 shares. J. P. Morgan & Co.’s 60 per cent of profit amounted to $803,929.20. Whitney said that the “panic pool” was organized because all “serious minded people" in the New' York financial world believed it necessary. The participants assumed a serious risk, he continued, but did so because they were members of a (Turn to Page Twenty-Three)

Going Fishing? If you're out for a little week-end angling, you’ll be interested in the fishing column starting in The Times today, on Page 11, written by Lefty Lee, who’s a personal acquaintance of moafc of the fish in the state. You can find out the condition of the streams and lakes by watching for this feature every Friday in The Times. And there’ll be other features of interest to the angler on other days of the week also. Carrying on in The Times conservation department Saturday will be another article by William F. Collins, who writes of stream pollution, disclosing an amazing condition in Indiana streams which most people do not know exists. Watch for these features In The Times.