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SEEK MOTIVE FOR SLAYING OF BACHELOR r — 1 ■ Mystery ‘Woman in White’ Centra! Figure in Brutal Killing. $2,000 RING- MISSING Robbery Theory Dropped; Murderer Amateur, Detectives Say. Against the crimson backdrop of murder, the mysterious figure of a ■woman in white conspicuously figured today as detectives strove to establish a motive in the brutal murder of Bert Callahan, eccentric and well-to-do bachelor. A search of the richly furnished five-room apartment at 1636 North Illinois street, where Mr. Callahan’s body was found shot and strangled early yesterday, revealed to police that the crime was not committed by professional burglars. Contrary to reports, the apartment was not ransacked. Bureau drawers were undisturbed and a luxuriously furnished guest room with a large four-poster bed apparently was unentered. Three stickpins and a diamond ring weighing I’z carats and valued at SSOO were found in the apartment. Beyond the missing $2,000 diamond ring which Mr. Callahan habitually wore on his right middle finger, nothing in the apartment was stolen, according to police. Mr. Callahan's .22-caliber blue steel automatic pistol, with which he >s believed to have been killed also was missing. Officer Saw Woman Lieutenant Chester Butler of the state police, who lives across the street from the sceen of the mur, der. reiterated his story today that a woman pounded at the door of the Callahan home at midnight on Friday. “The figure I saw looked to me like a woman.” said Lieutenant Butler. “She was dressed either in white or a light-colored three-quar-ter length coat. I also heard a crash which sounded like breaking glass. The figure on the porch pounded on the door as though seeking admittance. Then the door opened and the figure disappeared inside. “I surmised that everything was o. k. I listened for a few minutes and then concluded that tjothing was wrong. I went back to bed. It is possible, of course, that the figure which I saw may have been a man in light clothes, but from my place of observation across the street, it looked like a woman to me.” Hunt Roughly Dressed Youth Mrs. Sally Robertson, Negro housekeeper for the accentric bachelor who found the telltale bloodstains on the front porch at 6:15 a. m. Friday morning which led her to call the police, said today that Mr. Callahan had no women friends of whom she knew. “Sometimes, he would entertain a man friend and his wife,” said Mrs. Robertson, “but I never knew him to go out with any single women or have a love affair.” From an authoritative source yesterday. The Times learned exclusively that Mr. Callahan was seen an hour before his murder leaving the Traction Terminal from the Illinois street side followed bv a roughly-dressed young man. Police reported that last definite word of Mr. Callahan having been seen alive was when he visited a sick friend late Thursday night at Methodist hospital. Fingerprints Blurred A bloody fingerprint found on the front door of Mr. Callahan's home yesterday by detectives was looked upon as a futile clew’ today w’hen members of the homicide squad reported that the wood graining on the door practically had destroyed the value of the pattern which they had hoped to get. Other fingerprints found in the living room of the house where Mr. Callahan was found shot and his head wrapped in a Turkish towel and an oriental rug. were too badly smudged to be useful, detectives said. A .22-caliber bullet was removed from Mr. Callahan's back at the city morgue and turned over to Arch Ball, ballistics expert, for examination. The bullet is believed to have been fired from Mr. Callahan's own gun. wrested from him in the fatal struggle. Mr. Callahan, a life-long resident of Indianapolis, was a member of the real estate firm of the O. J. Smith Realty Company, 114 North Delaware street. The victim is survived by three brothers. John Emmett Callalfcm 1750 Kelly street, a grocer: Morton Callahan of Chicago and Thomas Callahan of California. A sister. Miss Margaret Callahan of Washington, is a federal government employe. Final announcement of last rites are being held in abeyance until the arrival of Miss Callahan today. The body is at the Hisey & Titus funeral home. WIFE BALLOON VICTIM, MATE SEEKS SIO,OOO Husband of Woman Killed at Delphi Sues Fair Manager. ■When an improperly inflated balloon failed to rise more than 250 feet from the ground at a Delphi (Ind.) street fair, Mrs. Edna Huggins fell to her death before she could use a parachute, a suit filed yesterday In the Marion circuit court charges. Charles R. Huggins, husband of the victim, asks SIO,OOO damages from Oscar F. Ruth, manager of the fair. The accident happened Aug. 18, 1922.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. By United Prep* PHILADELPHIA, April 7. A prosaic wrestling match was enlivened last night by an unscheduled encounter between Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., athletic youngest son of the President, and a newspaper photographer. Young Roosevelt w’as walking down the aisle from his ringside seat after the conclusion of the matches when Don Cavelli, photographer for the Philadelphia Ledger, stepped in front of him, aiming a camera. Roosevelt apparently did not wish to be photographed. First he knocked Cavelli's camera down and then gave him such a violent push that he was sent sprawling. Police forced their way to young Roosevelt’s side and escorted him to a side exit. Cavelli, none the w’orse for his experience, retrieved his camera and carried the undamaged plates to his office. Roosevelt flew here yesterday from Cambridge, where he is a student at Harvard, to visit a roommate. The photographer was the eventual winner. Young Roosevelt’s picture, in fighting posture, appeared in Cavelli’s newspaper today.

NEW SILVER BILL IS BEING MUTED Powerful Movement Under Way in Senate. By United Press April 7.—A bill for nationalization of silver and restoration of 1926 commodity price levels is circulating secretly today on Capitol Hill. It is part of a powerful movement to enact silver legislation this session, compelling President Roosevelt either to accept or veto. Administration leaders appear somewhat alarmed by the silver threat. They now are proposing a compromise built around the Dies silver bill which passed the house 2-to-l over administration objections. White House spokesmen in the senate believe Mr. Roosevelt would accept the Dies bill if its premium provisions were eliminated or modified. As now drafted the bill would give a premium in purchasing power to foreign silver spent, here for surplus agricultural products. MINNEAPOLIS POLICE AWAIT NEW RIOTING Courthouse Resembels Fort After Clash With 5,000 Jobless. By United Press MINNEAPOLIS. April 7.—Riot squads of Minneapolis police patrolled about the huge, fort-like courthouse today, fearing a resumption of rioting which yesterday sent a score of persons \o hospitals and resulted in thirty arrests. ' Many of the blue-coated men still bore scars from their double clash with approximately 5.000 unemployed men and women who answered the arrest of their leaders with a barrage of coal and the police department's own tear gas bombs. Meanwhile, a political storm brewed as aldennen and judge* charged police and firemen with negligence in their handling of the riot. Club Federation to Meet The monthly meeting of the North Side Federation of clubs will be held at 8 Tuesday night in the Rauh Memorial library. Holy Name Party The Holy Name Society will give a roller skating party at the Riverside rink April 9. 8 p. m.

Tm Going to Kill Myself; You Can’t Stop Me, ’ Thalia Massie Tells Doctor

By T'nitrd Prc* j GENOA. April 7.—Mrs. Thalia Massie, central figure of a sensational assault and murder case in Hawaii, lay in a hospital today under close guard of nuns and insisted calmly -and tirelessly: *T am going to die. You may stop me now. You may think you are i more clever than I. But I will show you.” Her wrists gashed deeply but not dangerously. Mrs. Massie was alMhe hospital of Dr. EmiKo Porelli, head of a clinic for nervous diseases, after an apparent suicide attempt j Sunday night aboard the liner Roma as it entered the Mediterranean. She was suffering from severe j nervous shock, the result of her j tragic experiences of the last two,

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Better Times Here, City Leaders Say; Banks, Stores and Factories Reflect General Optimism, Wide Survey Shows

Gain in Postal Receipts, Huge Drop in Vacant Residences Are Other Factors Cited to Indicate Upward Trend. Definite proof of a slow but certain revival of more prosperous times, after the long, hard of the depression, was shown today in optimistic reports by local manufacturers and other business leaders. The business survey conducted by The Times, in which several scores of concerns were queried, not only failed to produce any pessimistic reports, but indicated that, after many false starts, the machinery of industry at last has been thrown into high and the throttle opened.

From every direction came reports of increased retail sales, factories back on full, or nearly full production schedule, increased bank clearings and other certain harbingers of better times. Survey just completed by the Indianapolis Water Company reveals a heavy decrease in the number of vacant residences. Apartments were not included. The report shows a total of 7,679 vacant residences, a decrease of 2.423 under last year. Postal receipts for March showed a gain of 18 per cent over last year and a substantial gain over March, 1932. In connection with improved business condtiions, food prices in Indianapolis show substantial increases, according to a United States department of labor bulletin just issued. Average food prices here March 13, it was reported, showed an increase of 4.5 over the same date a year ago, 23.6 per cent over March 15, 1933, and 2.1 over Feb. 27, 1934. Bank Clearings Increase Bank clearings and debits show an increase for the first time since the boom days of 1928, w’hen a steady decline began. Debits, which are better indication of the actual turnover of money than clearings, because debits include not only checks moving from one bank to another, but also intrabank transactions, show a total of $132,209,000 for January, an increase of $15,865,000 over January, 1933, but still $21,370,000 under January, 1932. February debits totaled slOl,738,000, which was $3,643,000 under February, 1933. and $26,612,000 under February, 1932. For March, the total was $122,618,000, a gain of $39,902,000 over March. 1933, the date of the bank moratorium, and $11,278,000 under March, 1932. Substantial improvement in the real estate business, with' prospects of increased improvement in the near future, is reported by Thomas F. Carson. Indianapolis Real Estate Board president. Block's Reflects Optimism All the larger downtown department stores reported improved conditions. “Sales have improved and the general tone of business is much better,” said F. B. Walker of the William H. Block Company. “Block’s is confident the improvement will continue, as is evidenced by the fact the company is launching construction of an addition to handle the expected continued increase in business. Already we have had to add a number of employes.” Leonard A. Mu chison of H. P. Wasson & Cos., reported a marked improvement in business over this time last year. The firm has increased its force of employes, and is optimistic over the future. Sidney Sullivan, publicity director for L. S. Ayres & Cos., said business increases this year has been extremely satisfactory, adding that heavy buying during the preEaster period required the employment of additional employes. Prest-O-Lite Reports Gain Business of the Prest-O-Lite Storage Battery Sales Company is running equal to some of the best years in the company’s history, according to J. B. Senner, treasurer. “Last year at this time, business was touching bottom,” he said. Employes have increased their average earnings about 50 per cent, due to the increased hours which

years climaxed by her recent divorce from Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, U. S. N., at Reno. Tire safety razor blade with which her wrists were cut penetrated the muscles but not the veins of her wrist. She lost little blood, apparently. •'I am determined to kill myself,” she told Dr. Porelli today when he visited her. “You think that by keeping me here you will prevent it. I shall show you. •T might cut my wrists again. But I was so unsuccessful with that method that I may’ try another one.” Mrs. Massie was calm and smiling as she talked. Dr. Porelli said. •‘The state of mind is such that she will need close attention even

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they have had an opportunity to work.” The Diamond Chain Company has noted a slow but steady improvement in conditions since the last of December, said President Guy A. Wainwright. He said there has been a slight increase in employment, adding that the company anticipates a good summer. C. B. Crets, vice-president of the Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company, said his firm, in the first three months this year, showed a 50 per cent increase in sales over a similar period in 1933. “We shipped more merchandise last Wednesday than in any one other day in the last year and a half,” he said. “The company’s force also has been increased substantially.” Casting Plant Hikes Wages The National Malleable and Steel Castings Company reports that wages have been increased, production is up about 50 per cent and the increase in employment is nearly 60 per cent since last year. Mortimer C. Furscott, vice-presi-dent and treasurer of the Kahn Tailoring Company, said that business of the company in March, under the national men’s clothing code, was 90 per cent better than the same time last year, that employment had increased and wages were up about 22 per cent. The United States Rubber Company Inc. has been operating at 100 per cent capacity since last May, according to C. E. Stoutenburg, factory manager. He added that the number of employes has been increased from 900 to 1,600 and wages are up about 25 per cent. Auto Parts Plant Booms Within the last thirty days, production of the Metal Auto Parts Company has been stepped up 100 per cent, according to E. E. Weddle, secretary-treasurer. He said employment has been doubled during this period. Sales of E. C. Atkins & Cos., saw manufacturers, have increased from 50 to 60 per cent over last summer, it was announced by F. C. Gardner, secretary-treasurer. “Our employe force has been increased by one-third and earnings of the individual employe materially have been increased.” Bleaching Business Better W. H. Reynolds, office manager of the Indianapolis Bleaching Company, reported “business is 25 per cent better than last year. The company is employing two shifts, each of which works thirty-six hours a week.” Improved conditions were reflected in report of F. N. Reynolds, Big Four railroad general superintendent, that “so far this year the road has been hauling 1.000 more carloads a day than a year ago.” The increase, he added, is from 5.600 a day last year to 6.600 a day this year. He reported that the road has increased heavily its force of employes. Bank Supplies Sales Increase During convention this week of Indianapolis salesmen of the Todd Company, Rochester, N. Y., manufacturers of bankers supplies, E. S. Smithson, sales training director, announced increase of 61 per cent in its middlewest territory sales during the first ten weeks of this year. “f>nr business is considered an excellent barometer of business conditions in general throughout the United States,” he said. “Sales showed an increase of 23 per cent for the last nine months of 1933, compared with the same period in 1932.

after she leaves my clinic,” he added. “I fear she may use every means to carry out her threat —even to smash her head against a w’all or to jump from a window. I have placed rny strongest nurses in attendance on her, day and night. “Though she is calm, unusually so. she is so obsessed by a suicide mania that I fear an attempt at any time. Mrs. Massie started to learn Italian as soon as she entered the hospital. She tries to read Italian newspapers, and she asks her nurses the names of all objects. Police hold Mrs. Massie's belongings. They include a SSOO letter of credit, 8,000 lire Cs6BB) in cash and some jewelry. M' -

CITY HOSIERY STRIKE STILL DEADLOCKED Workers Meet to Decide Next Step: Real Silk Gives Answer. Striking employes of three local hosiery mills, who walked out yesterday morning, were to hold a second meeting at 10:30 today to consider the next step to be taken in the strike. / Reports on the number of employes who struck still were righly conflicting, Real Silk mills officials announcing that only 755 of a total of 3.200 Real Silk employes failed to report for duty, while representatives of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers claimed that between 2.000 and 2,400 from the three plants were on strike. Not over 400 of the total were from the National and Fulton mills. Real Silk plant does not op-, erate on Saturdays, but officials said it would be open Monday. Regian labor board officials said today they had not been asked to mediate between the companies and union strikers. They take the position that until requested to arbitrate they can not. function as a conciliator. The strike was called shortly after midnight Friday morning, when company officials said they were powerless to meet demands of the union that the entire plant be unionized. Other demands were also made. Undpr direction of an NRA official, an election among employes w r as held at the Real Silk plant last October on company and employe unions, the vote being 2 to 1 in favor of the company union. Real Silk officials assert they have no authority to meet demands of the union, as they signed a contract giving the company union the right to represent all employes. ESCAPED YOUTH IS CAUGHT IN DETROIT v Lay to Be Returned to ‘Chain Gang’ Today. Another plate was dusted off in the Marion county jail today and set at a place in the dining room that has been vacant just a week. For John Allen Lay, 19-year-old escape artist, will return “home” today form Detroit, where authorities captured him yesterday. Held on the charge of burglary, Lay is reported to have slipped a pair of handcuffs from his wrists and stepped out of- A chain gang while being takeiV from the courthouse back to thi jail a week ago. Lay’s absence I was not noticed until Deputy Sheriff Joseph Tragesser took the priabners into the jail. The following- flay, Tragesser resigned his duties to take a job in a brewery. John Boyce, ciiief jailer here, left for Detroit last might, armed with a small pair of handcuffs, to bring Lay back to Indianapolis. CITY MAN IS ARRESTED ON GUN THREAT CHARGE Demanded Money Lost in Poker Game, Tavern Keeper Says. Willis /Cottle. 32. of 1630 South Delawa/e street, was arrested charges with drunkenness and araTying deadly w’eapor.s, on a complaint by A1 Volrath, operator of a •tavern at 118 East Palmer street. Mr. Volrath said Cottle came into the place, brandished a loaded shotgun. said that Dillinger was taking his money and demanded sl4 he said he lost in a pdker game in the tavern. Cottle was captured after a chase in which police fired several shots, in a vacant lot near the tavern. WOMAN DOCTOR ROBBED Thief Steals Purse from Car as She Stops for Traffic Light. Dr. Elsie G. Stewart. 3025 North Meridian street, reported to police that as she stopped for a traffic light at Meridian and North streets last night a purse snatcher opened her car door and took a purse, containing $8 and some checks, that was lying on the front seat of the car. In the Air North wind, six miles an hour; temperature. 48; barometric pressure. 30.16 at'sea level; general conditions. fair; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 15 miles.

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A camera-dodger when she sailed from New York, Katharine Hepburn, the film star, proved a more affable subject on her return. She is shown in contrasting moods as she told reporters that it may have been homesickness that brought her home after only 1 five days in France. §0 KILLED BY MOUNTAIN SLIDE Mass of Rock Slides Into Lake, Waves Swamping Two Villages. By United Press AALESUND, Norway, April 7.—A tremendous mass of mountain rock which crashed into the narrow, deep Norddalsfjord today caused two waves that overwhelmed the fishing villages of Tafjord and Fjoerra and killed perhaps forty to fifty persons. The peasant fishermen and their families who make up the villages were asleep when the rock crashed into the almost bottomless fjord at 3 a. m. The first great wave roared through the villages, immersing the power plant and plunging the valley into darkness. Cries of drowning persons, groans of victims buried in debris of houses, continued until there came a second wave, which swallowed up many who were calling from windows for help. The pastor of the tiny church at Tafjord—the larger of the villages, with a population of 260—said to a United Press correspondent. “Motor boats and rowboats were tossed half a mile up the valley by the waves. The crash of the rock had been expected, as it was overhanging, but nothing could be done to avert it. “The dead here include twelve women, eleven men and seventeen children. Several whole families were wiped out. The villages along with Aalesund, are on the island of Allesund. one of many off the west coast of Norway. Pickpocket Gets $44 John T. Scanlan. 1128 East Vermont street, custodian at Arsenal Technical high school, reported to police that a black billfold containing $44 was picked from his pocket yesterday at Meridian and Washington streets.

| Race TRACK S elections 4> BY TOM NOONS 4"— —-- M + (Race results will be found on Page 13) NOONE’S SELECTIONS FOR TODAY Day’s Best—Pillnita. Best Longshot—Wise Nat. Best Parlay—Phildia and Synod.

At Arlington Doivns — One Best—Pillnita 1. Phildia. Barney Allis. Clang. 2. Manya, Annarita, Ceylon. 3. Wise Nat, Essential, More Anon. 4. Flying Cadet, Cash Surrender, Fortunate Youth. 5. Tiempo, Winged Wind, Indian Boy. 6. Bender First, Plight, Indian Salute 7. Pillnita, Jack Collins, Happen. 8. Whippercracker, Forceful, Carbon, , ‘ ffc.''* T~~ -

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Arkansas ‘Bad Man’ Dies as He Leaps IJrom Window of House Into Line of Officer’s Machine Gun Fire. TWO PISTOLS ARE FOUND ON BODY Victim Hunted by Police Throughout State Since Bullet Duel With Welch on Tuesday Afternoon. Relentlessly trailing a suspicious automobile for three nights and days, detectives early today trapped Ivan Coy, Arkansas “bad man,’’ and killed him as he tried to escape from a west side hideout. His body riddled by machine gun bullets, Coy died when he attempted to escape after leaping from a window of the home of John Nelson, 770 North Tremont street. In the raiding party was Detective Sergeant Charles Russell, partner of Detective Sergeant John Welch, who was seriously wounded by Coy in a pistol duel Tuesday afternoon. Police revealed today that the “bad man” was killed after detectives had trailed a car owned by Fred Turner, a pal of Coy, who was arrested after the slaying of the burglar suspect and moonshiner. Detectives said that they had known for several days that Turner was meeting Coy at a secret rendezvous.

DILLINGER JURY AROUSES JUDGE Contempt Citations Face Crown Point Probers After Report. By United Press CROWN POINT. Ind.. April. 7. The spectacle of a grand jury cited for contempt of court by the very judge that impaneled and instructed it, amazed jurists and attorneys today. A legal battle was assured. Judge William J. Murray was believed by some to be within his rights in citing his own grand jury for contempt because it criticised him without indicting him. Others were emphatic in their opinion that the grand jury is beyond the jurisdiction of the court. Judge Murray, the principal in this latest aftermath of the daring escape from the Crown Point jail of John Dillinger, meanwhile stood by his guns pending appearance of the jurors to answer the contempt charges Monday. If convicted, they face penalties of as much as six months in jail and up to SSOO fine. Their guilt or innocence will be determined by the judge who cited them, but they have recourse to appeal to the state supreme court, if convicted. In his original instructions to the jurors, Judge Murray pointed out that criticism had been made of his own failure to order Dillinger removed to'the state penitentiary at Michigan City. The jury discussed the situation thus: ‘ The public may have been led to believe that politics was responsible for the escape of John Dillinger. The grand jury, from the evidence presented, does not concur in this belief unless the difference of opinion in regard to the transfer of Dillinger from the county jail to the Michigan City penitentiary could be interpreted as politics.” Judge Murray apparently did not relish this. Times Index Page Bridge 15 Broun 9 Business News 8 Catholicism in Indiana 3 Church Services 13 Classified 13, 14 Comics 15 Conservation 16 Crossword Puzzle 15 Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 i Hickman—Theaters 9 Pegler 9 , Radio 8 j Sports 12, 13 i Sunday Sermon 13 Wallace Series 16 ! Woman’s Pages 5, 6

At Bowie — One Best—Caerleon. 1. Synod, Aperitif, Evangelist. 2. Hawk Moth, Texas Tommy, i Appomattox. 3. Lough Port, Fred Almy, Lacquer. ! 4. Greentree Stable Entry, Angelic. No Saint. 5. Soon Over, Bonanza. Happy Go. 6. Judge Schilling, Irene's Pob, Gloritone. 7. Caerleon, Gallic, Impeach.

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marlon County, 3 Cents

Early today squads of detectives trailed Turner and Coy to the home of Nelson. From several vantage points, police watched Coy and Turner enter the North Tremont street house. Lieutenant Donald Toole.v and Detective Sergeant Charles Russell walked through the front door of the Nelson home, pistols in hand. They demanded of Nelson’s wife and two daughters that they disclose the whereabouts of Coy. The desperado at that time was hiding in a back bedroom. Pound on Bedroom Door Turner told the police that it was his automobile which was parked in front of the house. Pushing him aside Lieutenant Tooley and Detective Russell pounded on the bedroom door and ordered Coy to come out with his hands raised. Instead the desperado, according to the police, dived through a window on the south side of the house. As he appeared through the window, patrolman Chester Timmerman opened fire on the fugitive with a machine gun and brought him down before Coy could take a step to escape. On the desperado police found two pistols, one in a homemade holster and one in his coat pocket. Coy has been hunted by police throughout the state since he shot detective Sergeant Welch Tuesday in a running pistol fight in rn alley behind 1515 Reisner street. With Detective Russell, Welch went to the Reisner street address to question Coy about the robbery of a store in North Salem several weeks ago. Welch Reported Recovering , As the detectives approached, Coy fled from the house closely pursued by detective Welch. Running throug an alley Coy opened fire on the policeman, hitting him twice, once in the abdomen and once in the right leg. Detective Welch emptied his gun after the fugitive as he lay seriously wounded on the ground. Later detective Welch was taken to city hospital where he is reported to be recovering from his wounds. After shooting the detective, Coy ran to iHatt street where he forced Ernest Ray, 23, of 1545 Hiatt street, who was sitting in an autojnobile with his wife, to drive him to Martinsville where Coy leaped from the car. Later police traced Coy back to Indianapolis through a car stolen in Martinsville and found abandoned here. Relief Corps in Session The juniors of Woman’s Relief Corps allied with the Grand Army of the Republic were to meet this afternoon at Ft. Friendly, North Illinois street. The same group will give a drill at School 22 Wednesday afternoon. HOURLY TEMPERATURES a. m 40 8 a. m 46 7 a. m 40 9 a. m 48

YOUR LAUGH You should have your share of laughs each day and the re is no better guarantee of delivery than the comic page of The Indianapolis Times. Events are occurring in rapid-fire order on The Times’ comic page today. Major Hoople has been forced to the basement to mutter and sputter about his mining interests in the west. He’s found his first stockholder to the tune of $l5O. A factory dice game falters and finally stops when the general manager's nephew wants a turn at the dice in today’s “Out Our Way.” Easy and Wash Tubbs run into a hail of real bullets in what was supposed to be a phoney raid at the dude ranch where they cast their lot after leaving fortune behind them. These and other strips make The Times’ comic page famous. You can't afford to miss them. Each day there's a riot of laughter. It’s one of the pages that makes The Times the right paper to read.