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$1.50 TAX LAW ‘EMERGENCIES’ RULED VALID Boards’ Judgment Must Be Accepted, Rules State Supreme Court. CHAIN LEVY UPHELD Filling Stations Must Pay, Is Verdict of Indiana’s Highest Tribunal. Two Indiana supreme court rulings on tax questions, one holding filling stations must pay the chain store tax, and the other holding county tax adjustment boards’ declarations of tax emergencies, under the $1.50 law. are final, were announced yesterday. The opinion on the $1.50 law, written by Judge James P. Hughes, held: “These boards may err in their judgment in fixing the levy—all men do not see alike and come to the same conclusion —but as long as there is no fraud or corrupt motives in the fixing of the levies, the judgment of the members of the board must be accepted." Constiutionality of the $1.50 law was not involved in the case, which was appealed from Milford township, DLagrange county. Constitutionality Involved However, constitutionality of the act is involved in seeral other $1.50 law ley appeals pending before the court. The law provided a total levy of more than $1.50 could not be assessed in any taxing unit of the state, unless an emergency existed. The chain store tax ruling was written by Judge Michtel Fansler. The suit was filed by the Midwestern Petroleum Corporation, which sought to enjoin enforcement of the law, in a Marion circuit court suit. More than $500,000 has been paid, under protest, by petroleum companies, the money having been held in a separate account pending high court ruling. The suit charged the chain store tax law was discriminatory, but the supreme court ruled that “so long as all are treated alike, under like circumstances, neither of these provisions < Sec. 23. Art. 1. Indiana law and the fourteenth amendment to the federal Constitution! is violated." Discrimination Stressed The decision said that in its opinion the law was intended to discriminate against chain stores in favor of local merchants and that the court was considering the case on that basis. “This court has upheld statutes discriminating against the itinerant merchant and peddler in the interest of the local merchants,”' the ruling pointed out after stating the small merchant is essential to stability of local communities. -If protection of the local merchant is sufficient basis for a policy of discrimination against peddlers and itinerant merchants, it, is difficult to see why it should not afford a sufficient basis for a policy of discrimination against chain store organizations.” 0..BIDS RECEIVED FOR INSTITUTION SUPPLIES Contract Awards Will Be Made Later, Is Word. Bids on thousands of dollars worth of county supplies were received yesterday by county commissioners and County Auditor Charles A. Grossart. The bids were asked on quarterly and annual supplies for county institutiops. printing and free gravel road materials. It was announced that considerable time will be required for tabulating the bids. Contract awards will be made later. S2OO LOOT TAKEN IN PHARMACY ROBBERY SIOO Cash. Cigarets, Sigars and Other Articles Are Stolen. Burglars who broke into Rector's pharmacy. 1219 Kentucky avenue, last night, escaped with loot valued at nearly S2OO, police were notified today. The loot included SIOO cash, cigarets valued at S3O. cigars at S2O. razor blades at $25, tobacco worth $5 and other articles. A cigaret machine valued at $75 was stolen during the night from the Cole-Fair Grille, 3504 College avenue, it was reported. In the Air ■Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: East wind, 7 miles an hour; temperature. 34: barometric pressure, 30.14 at sea level; general conditions, overcast, moderate fog: ceiling. estimated 200 feet; visibility, one-fourth mile. Times Index Page. Berg Cartoon 6 Black Hawk 13 Bowling School 9 Bridge 5 Broun 9 Churches 9 Classified 9. 10, 11 Comics 13 Conservation 3 Crossword Puzzle 12 Curious World 13 Editorial 6 Financial 12 Hickman Theaters 8 Pegler 6 Radio 2 Sport* 7 State News 2 Sunday School Lesson 2 Woman’s Page 4, 5 Your Health 9

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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 188

DETECTIVE HERO SLAIN BY CONVICT: KILLER FLEES: WOMAN HELD

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Detective Sergeant W. T. Shanley, holder of a heroism award, upper left, was shot to death by John Hamilton, upper center, when he tried to arrest the killer, one of ten desperadoes who escaped from Indiana state prison in September, in a Chicago auto repair shop. Mrs. Elaine DeKant, upper right, was captured

Beaten, Robbed, Woman Falls Victim of Hit-and-Run Driver; Refuses to Talk

Stalked by the menacing figure of a man who finally struck her with his clenched fist at North and Capitol avenues early today, snatching her purse, Mrs. Marie C. Stewart, 36, of 328 East Vermont street, was struck by a hit-and-run driver following the attack. The woman’s screams aroused the neighborhood following the oduble tragedy. She was rushed to city hospital, where she is in a critical condition with a fractured leg and pelvis, internal injuries and bruises of the face and body.

EXPRESS GO, GUARD TAKES $39,000 CASH Crowded Chicago Street Is Scene of Action. By United Press CHICAGO. Dec. 16.—An expresr, company guard who stepped from an armored truck into a corwded loop street with $39,000 in currency, was sought today by police. Allen Hammel. 37, a guard for the Brinks Express Company, was left inside the truck by two other guards when the truck stopped at a bank. When they returned Hammel was gone. A witness told of seeing him dash down an alley, carrying the money. He also carried a revolver and police were warned he probably would fight it out if recognized. A police guard was placed at his home. Hammels wife, mother of five children, said he had suffered from dizzy spells recently and might have wandered off while mentally . incompetent. The express company reimbursed the First National bank immediately, police announced. LINER GOES AGROUND Passengers On Brittanic Not in Danger, Say Officials. By United Press BOSTON. Dec. 16.—The White Star liner Britannic with 250 passengers from New York arid Boston went aground in a fog off Governor’s Island in Boston harbor early today. Officials said there was no danger and that passengers would not be tken off. It was expected that tub boats would succeed in refloating the 700-foot liner at high tide before noon. The Britannic was en route for Galway, Cobh and Liverpool. ECUADOR PICKS HEAD Liberal - Conservative President Chosen in Election. By United Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. Dec. 16. Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra was elected president of Ecuador in the national election, returns showed today. He ran as Liberal-Conservative candidate receiving 42.291 votes to 9.730 for Carlos Zambrano, Soc’alist. and 473 for Ricardo Paredes, Communist. Negro Nabbed on Roof Captured on the roof of the When building, 38 North Pennsylvania street, early today. Cecil Hood. 35. Negro, Twenty-second and Alvord streets, was arrested on vagrancy charges. Police said he admitted climbing the fire escape in an attempt to rob a room on the third floor of the building. Alleged Shoplifter Held Gladys Crane. 977 West Thirtieth street, was held on petit larceny charges today by police. She was accused of stealing several articles valued at $6.94 from a downtown store.

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as she fled with Hamilton after the slaying, but maintained stubborn silence under police grilling. Below is the scene of the fatal affray, with Hamilton’s auto, left in his flight, at right, rear. Hamilton is a member of the gang led by John Dillinger. freed from Liama (O.) jail when Sheriff Jess Sarber was killed there.

At the hospital she adamantly rei fused to discuss the circumstances 1 of her case with the police, saying laconically: “This is my funeral and I won’t tell you who I was out with.” Cicero Thornton, Negro, of 538 Roanoke street, told police he was standing in front of 540 North Capitol avenue when he heard a woman’s screams and saw Mrs. Stewart lying in the street and the figure of a man running west on North street. The woman, according to Thorn-

Silver Trail Mile of Dimes Leads On to Happiness. ONE-SIXTEENTH of a mile of dimes are on the sidewalk teday ni front of L. S. Ayres Cos., and S. S. Kresge Cos. on Washington street. One block of dimes have been donated by Indianapolis citizens toward the Mile Os Dimes drive in behalf of Clothe-a-Child of The Indianapolis Times. Three hundred feet of silver, about $575. scorn weather as they carry their sidewalk message of hope of warm clothing for needy school children of the city. Fifteen blocks to go and the Mile Os Dimes will be reached. One week to span the one MILE the whole town’s talking about—then warm garb for children at Yuletide. WALKATHON TO GIVE $1,200 PRIZE TONIGHT Cash Will Be Divided Among Four Surviving Teams. Managers of the walkathon which concluded a three-months stand at the state fairgrounds yesterday when Superior Judge Clarence E. Weir denied a restraining order against police interference, announced that $1,200 in prize money will be distributed tonight. The money will be distributed publicly at a benefit tlance to be held in the Manufacturers building at the fairgrounds tonight. Prizes will be distributed among four dance teams which were going after 2,000 hours of walking. Those who will share in the prize money are Roy O'Hara of Charleston, W. Va.; Miss Doris Weaver of Chicago; Wayne Dooley of Indianapolis; Miss Diana Benar of Chicago; Homer Minor of Indianapolis; Miss Ronnie Garvey of Chicago; LaVerne Hayden of Indianapolis, and Miss Joan Bubuls of Chicago. Gold Price Set at 534.01 WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.—The government today set the price for newly mined gold at $34.01 an ounce, continuing the price in effect since Dec. 1.

Yoo-Hoo! ‘Drate Big OF Mans’ Baer Is Crooner

BY HENRY M'LEMORE t'nited Pres* Staff Correspondent Nirvv YORK. Dec. 16.—The orchestra in the pit eased into the strains of "Have You Ever Seen a Dream Walking?” A baby blue spotlight stabbed the crimson curtain. The curtain parted softly and there—in a double-breasted blue suit, soft red necktie and enough grease in his hair to fry half a dozen pork chops—stood our heavyweight challenger. Max Adelbert Baer. He smiled that old movie smile. Vou know, the one that enables

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ton, raised herself to her knees, fell back exhausted and was struck by a car which did not stop. A few minutes later, a car driven by William Paune, 331 Indiana avenue, came along and stopped. Occupants of the car notified the police who rushed her to city hospital. Austin Harlan, 442 North Concord street, and Francis Long, 458 Goodlet street, witnesses of the tragedy, told police of the attack by the woman’s companion and the hit and run driver who hit her as she lay on the street and fled. Still conscious after the arrival of the police Mrs. Stewart told police that she had left her mother’s home in South Missouri street early ip the evening. She went to her brother’s home at 328 East Vermont street, where she changed her clothes and went out on a date with a man -whose name she refused to reveal to police. The couple visited a number of beer resorts, according to the police, | but Mrs. Stewart was not drunk. While riding along Sixteenth street ; near Capitol avenue. • Mrs. Stewart j is alleged to have told police “the | man got fresh with me so I got out of the car near Sixteenth street and Capitol avenue. t According to the story pieced together by the police, then man followed her to the middle of the 600 block on North Capitol avenue where he struck her on the face several times, grabbed her purse containing 25 cents and some cosmetics and fled. Dazed by the blow Mrs. Stewart staggered to the middle of the street and fell. While she was attempting to get up, she was run over by the hit and run driver. Ray Long. 234 East St. Joseph, 3 taxi driver, told the police that he saw Mrs. Stewart standing at Ninth street and Capitol avenue. The woman began to walk, according to Long, and the man followed her closely. He described the man as short, slightly built and wearing a dark coat and light trousers. According to the police Mrs. Stewart is separated from her husband. Max Stewart, 641 South New Jersey street, an employe of a local packing house. Mr. Stewart was being questioned at police headquarters tdday. They have one daughter, according to the police. Mrs. Pearl Conners, who lives at Alabama and Walnut streets. After more than an hour of questioning by detectives at police headquarters today Max Stewart, husband of the injured woman, insisted that he had not seen her for some time. He said he was working at the time of the attack last night. Negroes Caught in Coal Shed Three Negroes were arrested last night on burglary charges after they were captured by police in the coal shed at the home of Thomas Gill, 853 Kemp street. They gave their names as Edward Kennedy, 33, of 761 Indiana avenue; John Crosby, 32. of 741 Kinney street, and Robert Allen. 38. of 621 Blackford street.

you to count his teeth right on back to the wisdom sector. He fluttered his hands like a male seamstress admiring his latest creation. He did a few mincing dance steps in soft shoe. Then, throwing the old smile clear back to his cauliflower ears, he leaned over the microphone, and in a voice not unlike that of the aigret calling for its mate, said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I trust you’ll bear with Baer. I have a im* number

$1 QUART WHISKY YIELDS PROFIT, EXPERTS ASSERT

CHARGE AGAINST SOL C. BODNER IS DISMISSED Attorney Stands Free on Accusation of Receiving Stolen Goods. Sol C. Bodner, 5429 Central avenue, today stood free of charges of receiving stolen goods from a bandit gang, following dismissal of an indictment against him yesterday in criminal court. Mr. Bodner was charged in the indictment with receiving $l5O of the loot stolen several months ago from the Burlington State bank. Prosecutor Herbert Wilson asked dismissal of the indictment because of lack of sufficient evidence to convict. Also, he said, the state supreme court several times has held that not much weight can be given evidence in cases where the state must rely solely on testimony of convicts. Principal witnesses for the state in the case were Harold Keil, 1209 North Mount street, and John Stroh, former city policeman, confessed members of the gang that robbed numerous Indiana banks, said Mr. Wilson. The two are alleged to have told police that, as attorney for the gang, Mr. Bodner knew of their criminal activities and accepted the stolen money as attorney fees. The charges were denied vigorously by Mr. Bodner, well known here as an attorney. Besides Keil and Stroh, Thomas Howard and Louis Reese are serving terms in connection with the bank robberies. LINDBERGHS ON WAY TO U. S. Leaves Dominican Republican; Destination Believed to Be Miami. By United Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dec. 16. Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh bid a spectacular farewell to the Dominican republic today cutting wide circles over the capital in their speedy monoplane before heading northward on their homeward flight. The fliers, who tooff off from San Pedro De Macoris, forty-five minutes earlier, appeared over the capital at 7:19 a. m. and dipped the wings of their plane in salute to the throngs clustered in the streets and on the housetops. Colonel Lindbergh, as usual, had declined to indicate their destination but it is believed to be either Havana or possibly direct to Miami. VETERANS ANNOUNCE ‘V. F. W. WEEK’ PLANS Propose to Acquaint Public With Organization's History. Coincident with the convening of the seventy-third congress, the Veterans of Foreign Wars have designated the week of Jan. 6 to 13 as “V. F. W. week.” In making this aiinouncement at ! a meeting of the state executive committee, J. W. Scherer, Indiana department adjutant, explained that the week will be designed to acquaint the public with the history, purposes and activities of the organization. By special action of Department Commander Charles R. Michael, each state V. F. W. member will ; contribute to the national orphan i home in Eaton Rapids. $1,200 IN CLOTHING, JEWELRY ARE STOLEN Loot Includes Valuable Diamond Ring and Bar Pin. Jewelry and clothing valued at more than $1,200 were stolen from the home of Harold Taylor. 34 East Forty-fifth street,. police were | notified last night. The loot included a SSOO diamond ring and a S2OO bar pin. Two fur coats, said to be worth I $350, were stolen from the apart - 1 ment of Emma McDuff. Negro, 218 ’-2 Indiana avenue last night, police were notified. While Mrs. Ervin Green, 823 West Twenty-eighth street, was entertaining guests last night, a thief I entered a bedroom by raising a win- : dow and stole about 521 from four , purses.

to attempt to sing if you'll bear with Baer.” With that he approached the microphone like a father caressing his sick child, gazed rapturouesly at the Loew’s State audience, and crooned as follows: "Don’t forget dinner at eight, "To gardenias at your plate, "Under the table our hands will meet, "We must remember to be Discreet.” "Aaaaaahhhhhh! Ooooohhhhh!” sighed the lip-sticked portion of the audience.

The Gawky Age —Let’s Not Forget DO you remember your gawky age? The age, you know, when you stumbled over chairs, knocked dishes of of tables, and was just plain clumsy. Remember how you thought no one cared for you and you were about ready to go out into the proverbial garden and eat worms. Well, Clothe-a-Child of The Indianapolis Times has fifteen of that lanky stage in life, 10 to 13 years, in the campagn and more beng checked daly. They’re the children no-one wants. “Gie us a 6-year-old,” has forced the cracky voiced ones to take a back-seat. They wait for donors but the wait is long. They see their younger brothers and sisters clothed before they are cared for. Give ’em chance! Who remembers those days in the early teens when hands and feet seemed useless adjuncts to the body and always in the way? You? Then step forward. You can have your pick, boy or girl. You can go into the home of the child. LYou shop for the child. But if you can’t dress him or her, The Times will do it for you. But if you just don’t want those of the awkward years, then Clothe-a-Child has the age you desire or at least within one year of it. n a a AND speaking of age partiality, there’s another partiality and that is for girls. Who wants boys? Who wants to play Dad or Mother, Aunt or Uncle, to them in city stores? All you need is the will to make one child happy on Christmas and through the new year by providing him with warm clothing. Children are selected through the Community Fund relief agencies. They can not spare funds at Yuletide and hope to raise homes out of poverty the rest of the year. The social service department of the public schools vouches for the child’s clothing needs. You are the last to check and certify the need when you go into the child’s home. Children can be outfitted completely at costs ranging from $7 to sl2. Want a child, Then call Riley 5551 and ask for the Clothe-a-Child editor. New donors to the campaign, bringing the total to 213 children clothed, follow: Real Silk employes of lingerie department machine line division, inspectors, cutters, four children. Powell Commission Company, Union stockyards, three children. Route Men of Excelsior Laundry, two boys. Indianapolis Firemen’s Credit Union, boy and girl. Social Guild Home Builders class. Third Christian church, girl. Thirteen Painters, Civil Works, Crispus Attucks school, cared for two children and took another. Marcus W. YVarrender. child. Real Silk employes, Production and Order and Receiving departments, girt. From Teddy, boy. K. of P, Building employes, boy. Claim department State Life Insurance Company, child. Frank C. Powell, boy. I Just Got a Job. girl. Central States Envelope Company’s Bowling League. Pritchett alleys, girl. Marion County Recorder's Office, girl. State Auto Insurance Company, Claim Department, boy and girl. Power Department, Public Service Company of Indiana, girl. Kingan's, Refrigerator Department, child. Good' Lady Out on Drexel, girl. Indianapolis Water Company Rowling League, Pritchett alleys, hoy. Alice and Perry O’Neal Jr., two boys. Slugged On Head With Bottle John Oltine, 60, of 1737 Somerset avenue, was treated at city hospital last night for head injuries received while he was asleep on a rear porch. He said he was slugged on the head with a bottle by an unknown assailant.

I RACE TRACK j Selections ! BY TOM NOONE * + NOONE’S SELECTIONS FOR TODAY Day’s Best—Pan Toy. Best Longshot—Woolorac. Best Parlay—Thermopylae and Rubio. At Houston —

One Best—Pan Toy 1. Ocean Flight, Sun Thom, Forget Not. . 2. Rubio, Euryalus, Meany. 3. Pan Toy, Scimitar, Miss Corinne. 4. Quatre Bras 11, Pari Mutuel, Mad Wind.

But a dissenting voice boomed down from the messanine. It was a voice such as Wallace Beery might have concealed somew’here about his person. It said: “Whoops! Show us your muscle, you drate big ol’ mans!” Trouper that he is. Baer ignored the dirty crack and, stepping back from the microphone, swept into his tap dance routine, flanked by eight honey babies. And what flanks! Mr. Baer is getting $3,000 a week for doing this four times a day.

Entered as Recond-C/ass Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

EXONERATED NEGRO SLAIN BY MOBSTERS ‘Mystery Lynching' Takes Place in Tennessee: Officials Silent. By United Press COLUMBIA. Tenn., Dec. 16. County officials today professed to be completely mystified as to the size or identity of a mob which lynched a Negro after he had been exonerated by a grand jury on a charge of attacking a white girl. The body of Cord Cheek, Negro, newest victim in a series of mob outbreaks in various sections of the country, was found hanging from a cedar tree near the city last night. The body was riddled with bullets. Coroner Bert Erwin cut down the body and delivered a coroner’s verdict of “murder by parties unknown.” No investigation was undertaken immediately. The mob had long since departed when county officers arrived. They had been summoned by an anonymous telephone caller. When the lynching took place, how many composed the “necktie party,” whether the Negro was hanged and then shot, or vica versa, was unknown. Cheek was arrested Nov. 16 on a charge preferred by an 11-year-old white girl. A mob immediately formed in front of the Maurie county jail here, while officers spirited Cheek out the back and to the safety of the Nashville jail. The mob did not disperse until it had been permitted to search the jail. The garnd jury convened this week. Neither the girl nor any member of her family appeared to pi-ess the charge. The jury returned a no true bill and Cheek was released. He returned, to his home here Wednesday. The body was taken to a mortuary and a large crowd stood in the street outside for several hours. There was no sign of any feeling other than curiosity and the crowd finally dispersed. WARMER WEATHER IS DUE HERE TOMORROW All-Time Record for December Set With 68.9 Degfrees. Twenty-nine degrees drop in tem--1 perature here today, compared with yesterday morning, was to be folj lowed tonight and tomorrow by ; warmer weather, according to the j weather bureau forecast. Temperature tonight was expected ■ to remain above freezing tonight, mounting to between 40 and 50 degrees tomorrow, according to J. H Armington, meteorologist. An all-time record for December was set yesterday when the mercury mounted to 68.9 degrees at 1:45 p. m. NATION’ BUSINESS ON GAIN.JFIGURES SHOW Continued Climbing Is Promised, Confidence Appears. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.—The nation’s business continued this week to regain lost ground and gave promise of continuing its rise. Various trade indixes showed a gradual rise aided by governmental recovery expenditures and a brisk holiday retail trade. Uncertainty appeared to be giving way to confidence over the immediate future. Industrial reports showed increased activity in construction, iron and steel, automobiles and retail trade.

5. Coequel, Sound Money, Wild Transit. 6. Woolorac, Portmanteau. Flaunt 7. Suneur, Plucky Lady, Donday. At Charles Town — One Best —Black Target 1. Holland, Brilliant Girl. Belle Fille. 2. Blue Foam, Peedeeque, Lauretta Nash. 3. Dark Star. Mainsheet, Redivius. 4. Luck In. Flag Boy, Chrysmute. 5. March Step, Phantom Legion, Gloritone. 6. Black Target, Dark Vision, Swaggerstick. 7. Thermopylae, Angry Lass, Armageddon. At Jefferson Park — One Best—Malimou 1. Sure Pop. Dug In, Probation R. 2. La Salle. Flo M., Mueller. 3. Garbn, Vindicated, Chance Age. 4. Toe Dance, Nyack. Gorgeous. 5. Malimou, Little Lad, Pacheco. 6. Muslet, Black Flash. Zaidee. 7. Buzzy 800. Bonnet, Monkeyshine.

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

Figure Includes All Costs Except State Pint Tax, Is Claim. LIQUOR TYPES DEFINED 25 Cents a Gallon Is Price of Distilling, Say City Men. This is the third and last of a series of stories on the post-repeal whisky problem in Indianapolis. BY AL LYNCH Times Staff Writer Now that you’ve learned that some of the “whisky blends” being: sold in Indianapolis are nothing but alcohol. water and coloring, and that bootleggers are trying to crash the local market, what do you think prices and quality should be? You've learned that so-called whisky blends range from $1.85 up and aged whisky costs approximately $3 up. You’ve heard father or grandfather talk about $1 a quart whisky and in view of current high prices, you’ve probably wondered what he meant by $1 a quart whisky. From several local persons who formerly spent years in connection with the distilling business cornea the answer to $1 a quart whisky. The following are rough averages, it is explained, but they are as accurate as notes and memory can make them. They trace a gallon of whisky through the various stages of its journey from the distillery' to the consumer. 25 Cents Distilling Cost A gallon of whisky as it flows from the coils represents about 25 cents. This includes grain, steam, labor costs and depreciation and allows a 45-eent to $1 spread in the corn price by the bushel. The gallon grows to 47 cents after it had aged four years, the cost of cooperage added and allowance/ made for one-third evaporation Ten cents more is adoed for warehousing charges, interest on the investment and insurance. That's 57 cents. Add sl.lO federal tax. Bring the totai to $2 in the form of a 33-cent profit for the distiller. Fifty cents more go on for bottles and labels and the cost of bottling and labeling. $1 Profit for Retailer The gallon now represents $2.50, Add a 50-cent profit for the wholesaler and $1 more for the retailer s profit and the cost of transportation to him. There you have $4 a gallon or $1 a quart whisky. Os ccurse, in the case of Indiana, it would be necessary to add the 25-cent pint state tax. The Times asked an Indianapolis expert, who spent years in the whis- ’ ky business prior to repeal, to define whisky types as to straight and blended whiskies. Asking that his name not be used, he said: True Blend Is Uncut “Straight whisky is what the term implies. Rectification is any change in the character of the spirits. Blended whisky properly is made of different types of straight whisky. They can be sweet mash bourbon. sour mash bourbon or rye. There may be a difference in age, but not necessarily. “True blended whisky is not cut with anything, not even wine. “Compound whisky was a dignified name given by distillers of whisky in the old days to really spurious whisky. It resulted when the alcoholic content of good whisky was reduced with water to about 75 proof and often was flavored with caramel. Sometimes, a little almond flavoring was used and sometimes even malt extract.” CHARITY SKIT TO BE PRESENTED BY WFBM Playlet Is in Interest of Pres* Campaigns for Needy. A radio skit depicting the adventure of a “hard-boiled’’ reporter, who discovers that the hard hand of depression has touched even the most aristocratic homes in Indianapolis, will be presented Monday night at 10:30 p. m. from station WFBM. The playlet, one of a group offered by the Junior Chamber of commerce, will be given in the interest of the “Clothe-a-Child’* campaign conducted by The Times, the "Santa Claus" campaign of the Indianapolis Star and the “Christmas Sister” fund of The Indianapolis News. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 34 8 a. m 34 7 a. m 35 9 a. m 33

Bowling Mrs. Floretta McCutcheon, woman's world champion bowler, started giving free lessons to city women today under auspices of The Indianapolis Times. The lessons will continue through Dec. 22 and all women interested in bowling are invited. The attendance blank is on page nine.