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SUSPECT IN SLOT MACHINE HIJACKING IS ARRESTED HERE Meanwhile Probe Shows County Is Running ‘Wide Open’ Once More; Everybody Has Gambling Devices. REPORTERS PLAY TWENTY OF THEM ‘We Expected Word to Bring ’Em Out,’ Says One Loquacious Proprietor to Times Investigator. Ray Rairdon, 41, of 1033 Willow drive, was arrested on a downtown corner today as the alleged key man in Indianapolis’ slot machine racket. Rairdon, for whom police have been searching for sev-

eral days, was found at the corner of Washington and Alabama streets. He was looked on charges of keeping gambling devices and receiv-; ing stolen goods and was tak-| en into court at once. There, it was revealed that the j “stolen Roods" were "hijacked" slot j machines and, at the request of the police department, the case was adjourned until Thursday morning. Clyde Carter, municipal judge prc tern., set bail at S3OO. “With the arrest of Rairdon. I believe we have the ‘key man’ in the riot machine racket here in town", Police Chief Mike Morrissey told | The Times. He was obviously pleased with the work of his men. Separate Affidavits Filed The chief added that it was his understanding Rairdon had been receiving the machines “hijacked" from private clubs here. The affidavit charging this offense was sworn out today by Detective Louis Fossattl. The keeping gambling devices charges were sworn out by Sergeants William Marks and John Isenhut in separate affidavits. In answer to a direct question from a Times reporter, Chief Morrissey stated that he did not believe Rairdon was an employe or associate of William (Bill) Armitage, whose name, rightly or wTongly. has been linked with the slot machine racket here, and particularly in the county, for years. The chief said that, as far as he could determine. Armitage was not operating slot machines in Indianapolis. The chief said, too, that he did not believe Rairdon was associated with Louisville tKy.) hoodlums, said to have operated here recently in the slot machine field. Mr. Morrissey added, however, that it was quite possible Rairdon had brought machines here from Louisville after J a recent cleanup there. The influx of Louisville machines i was revealed more than two weeks ago by The Times, which also first told of the “hijackings." Good Case. Says Morrisse? The specific “hijacking.” from which Rairdon is alleged to have received a machine, is not mentioned in Detective Fossatti's affidavit, but the date of the alleged receipt is given as July 22. Chief Morrissey said he believed the department had a good case against. Rairdon on both the keeping and the receipt charges, though ownership of slot machines is exceedingly difficult to prove. Rairdon. a large and rather impressive appearing man. appeared unworried in court. He was neatly and quietly dressed in a dark gray suit. His bail was posted by Rebecca Olariu. 39. of 1201 Nordyke avenue, one of two persons arrested yesterday on charges of keeping machines said by police to be Rairdon. Miss Olariu is out on bail posted by Aurel Seuston. also of the Nordyke avenue

address. Sriie 26 Machines The other arrest yesterday was that of Ben McMullen, described by police as operator of the Hocus Pocus Club. 1320 North Meridian street, where twenty-six machines were seized. One machine was taken in a raid on the Nordyke avenue house. The raids bring the number of machines seized in the last month to well above thirty. Meanwhile, the machines are operating again in Marion county, outside city limits. Well hidden for the most part, the illegal gambling devices, which went into sudden retirement a little more than two weeks ago after revelations in The Times had led to action by Prosecutor Wilson, again are tinkling merrily as they gobble up the coins of suckers. Back of baize curtains in little side rooms, behind doors marked “No Stags Allowed," back with the groceries in tavern kitchens, even out in little wooden buildings of a type highly publicized by Chic Sales—anywhere except in the open, the machines can be found and they can be played. Last night. Times reporters found and played twenty of them, only five of which were * *he open with the other fifteen 'ully tucked away. In addition to ihese twenty. Times’ investigators learned on the word of beer spot proprietors themselves that at least a dozen more could be played in places where a necessarily rather casual search did not reveal the machines. The same investigators, visiting an even larger number of taverns than were visited last night, had (Turn to Page Three)

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G 3.000 PUPILS EXPECTED HERE Sept. 10 Is Date Set for Opening; 4,000 to Be First Graders. School yards are cleaned; window's of classrooms shined. Large families are digging in attics and sorting textbooks for possible use by younger ones. Department stores are being invaded for school suits. And all because on Sept. 10 the 1934-35 elementary and high school year opens in Indianapolis w’ith 63,000 boys and girls scheduled to drop play for the traditional three R’s. This year’s enrollment is expected to be 500 pupils more than the 62,500 enrolled last year. Pupils who are 6 years of'age or will be 6 before Nov. 16, may be enrolled in the first-grade of any one of the city’s eighty-seven elementary’ schools. Parents taking their first-graders to school are urged by Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of schools, to call the school board to find out w hat school the child goes to or to go to the nearest public school on opening day and inquire of the school’s principal. Children should be accompanied by their mothers or an older sister or brother. Mr. Stetson estimated today that approximately 4,000 children will become first-graders at the beginning of the school year on Sept. 10. Teachers’ institutes, to be conducted Sept. 5,6, and 7 at Arsenal Technical high school for elementary teachers, will preface the actual enrollment of pupils Sept. 10. High school teachers and principals will meet in their respective buildings on Sept. 5 for an outline of the work for the ensuing year and to receive final instructions. The first day of school Sept. 10 will be but a half-day for the registration and enrollment. Actual studies will begin Sept. 11. Nineteen hundred teachers will be employed at the eighty-seven elementary schools and six high schools during the year. Jewish Opening Delayed Three thousand Jewish children of the city will not go to elementary’ and high schools of the city before Sept. 12. It was discovered today by the school board that the Jewish New Year falls on Sept. 10 and 11, the opening days of the first semester of the public school system. Paul C. Stetson, superintendent, said arrangements would be made t v enroll Jewish pupils on the day following the holidays. Jewish pupils also will be out of school Sept. 19, Day of Atonement. The school system has approximately a dozen teachers of the Jewish faith. Hoosier Pastor Dies By United Prc ft WASHINGTON. Ind.. Aug. 28 The Rev. Elmer KofTenstine, 58. former Greensburg minister, died today from injuries suffered in an automobile-truck crash north of here last week.

‘Purely Political, ’ Capital Says of Peters Choice NEC Admits Rule Barring Politicians Was Relaxed in Case of Ft. Wayne Man. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Aug. 23.—" Purely political" was the label being placed here today on the appointment of R. Earl Peters, Ft. Wayne, as associate director of housing" in Indiana. The appointment was made last

Saturday, but no public announcement was made by the National Emergency Council nor by Mr. Peters himself, who was in the city at the time. It was explained today by Eugene Legett. associate director of the NEC. that Mr Peters will be an associate of Fred Hoke. Indiana NEC director, who will be in charge of all activities, including housing and NRA enforcement. Mr. Hoke was made NEC director a year ago when the post was refused by Richard 'Little Dick> Wer- | necke, Terre Haute Democratic boss, j because the "NEC doesn't appoint 1 politicians.” That rule has been relaxed to make way- for Mr. Peters, the head-

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Part of the crowd of Chicago school teachers who packed sidewalks for a block around the bank when they were given seven months back pay, a total of $26,300,000. A federal loan made the jpoyous pay day possible.

1,500 BOLIVIANS ARE ‘CAPTURED’ BY TWO PARACUAYAN TROOPS

By United Press ASCUNCION, Paraguay, Aug. 28.—Two Paraguayan soldiers today brought 1.500 Bolivians, whom they claimed to have “captured,” back to their camp and received an ovation from the front lines, the war department reported. The Paraguayans had been captured by the Bolivians last week, it was explained, but while they were being led back to the Bolivian base their captors lost the way. After suffering from thirst for several days, the Bolivians agreed to lay down their arms and surrender to their two prisoners, if the prisoners would show them the way out of the jungle, the announcement said. TEXAS HURRICANE DAMAGE IS SLIGHT Wind Dissipates Force on Inland Marshes. By United Press FREEPORT, Tex., Aug. 28.—Residents of Freeport and adjoining Texas coastal communities returned to their homes today after a tropical hurricane from the Gulf of Mexico from which they had fled to safety dissipated its force harmlessly on inland marshes. Winds which in one violent gust last night attained a velocity of ninety miles an hour subsided and rain which poured down for hours slackened. No trace of the storm was reported on the coast on either side of Freeport where, in August, 1932, forty persons were killed by a devastating hurricane. There was no property damage here and no lives lost today. SCIENTISTS SEE RARE FISH IN OCEAN DIVE Beebe and Barton Drop 1,500 Feet in Bathysphere. By United Press HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 28. Fish which discharged luminous liquid were seen by Dr. William Beebe and Otis Barton in a dive I, feet deep in the Bathysphere in which they are exploring the ocean, they announced today. Dr. Beebe and Mr. Barton made their dive off Nonsuch island yesterday. Dr. Beebe made a second dive with John Tee Van, another associate. They went to 1,503 feet. GERMANS' PLIGHT TOLD Economic Condition Critical, Envoy Tells Roosevelt. By United Press HYDE PARK. N. Y.. Aug. 28. Germany is in a critical economic condition, President Roosevelt was informed today by Professor Alfred J. Pearson, former American ambassador to Poland, who recently returned from Europe, where he surveyed conditions.

quarters here admitted. In addition to being a friend of Postmas-ter-General James A. Farley, national Democratic chairman, Mr. Peters, also is reported to have been "laying low” since he failed to defeat the McNutt organization for the United States senatorial nomination. The new $6,000 job is expected to stimulate his activities this fall. One of the mystery angles to the appointment was the fact that Senator Frederick Van Nuys had approved Mr. Peters for the job and his office was not notified that the appointment had been made. It had been understood he was to succeed Mr. Hoke and have entire charge of housing.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28,1934

STATE LEGION DEMANDSBONUS Veiled Rebuke Is Hurled at Robinson by National Chaplain. GARY. Ind., Aug. 28.—Frank Kossa, Jeffersonville, was elected state commander of the American Legion today by a unanimous vote. GARY, Aug. 28.—Indianapolis was chosen as the site of the 1935 American Legion state convention this afternoon after a bitter, three-cornered floor fight involving Bloomington, Muncie and Indianapolis. The vote was made unanimous after Indianapolis achieved a commanding lead. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer GARY, Ind., Aug. 28.—The Indiana department of the American Legion today went on record in the final session of its annual state convention here as favoring federal hospitalization for veterans with disabilities not service incurred only when the veteran involved is unable to pay for the case privately. The legion, which reiterated its stand favoring compensation for war disabilities and death, with hospitalizatiom where required, also came out for the third time demanding immediate payment of the bonus. The resolution demanding this made reference *to the vast federal emergency expenditures, such as what it said was $150,000,000 spent in the farmers’ corn-hog program. The legion also called for “all just benefits" for all veterans injured during the war and asked that veterans be given access to their service records. City to Get Parley The legion also demanded that the state police system be “removed from the domination of the major political parties,” and, in a resolution understood to have been prepared by Safety Director A1 Feeney, urged legion support of a bill now before congress making it a crime to give facial surgery treatments to a known criminal. The adoption of the resolutions and the election of officers climaxed a meeting at which it was announced that 900 veterans from sixteen states would be invited to Indianapolis in 1935 for a conference on the legion’s child welfare program and at which prizes -were awarded to Ft. Wayne’s rifle and pistol team and to Lake county for attendance. The 6,000 veterans who filled Memorial hall stood in silence for thirty seconds to honor the war dead. Charles O. Warfel and Joseph Lutes, both of Indianapolis, were elected district commanders of the Eleventh and Twelfth districts respectively. Princeton Woman Named Mrs. Morris Barr, Princeton, was chosen president of the state auxiliary at its separate meeting in a church near the convention hall. Mrs. Edith Harry, Gary, was made vice-president for northern Indiana ; Mrs. Agnes Sweeney, for southern Indiana. Earlier developments at the convention had been highly pleasing to supporters of Sherman Minton, Democratic candidate for United States senator, who felt they found much evidence of a veterans’ swing toward Mr. Minton and away from Senator Arthur R. (Li'l Arthur) Robinson, self-proclaimed veterans’ champion. In this connection, there was considerable comment on a remark by the Rev. Father Robert White, Washington, national chaplain, that organized veterans’ should "expose those demagogues who would lead veterans to unjust demands." Mr. Minton and Senator Robinson sat together in apparent friendliness at the speakers’ table at last night's legion dinner. Neither spoke. DIES OF CRATER FUMES Washington U. Student Overcome by Mt. Hood Volcano. By United Prcft GOVERNMENT CAMP. Ore.. Aug. 28.—One last look at a crater 11.000 feet up treacherous Mt. Hood today had claimed the life of Vic Van Norman. University of Washington j student. Poisonous fumes from the crater overcame Van Norman, who plunged j 150 feet into the gas-filled crater in the presence of four student companions.

14 Killed, 40 Injured in $55,000,000 Blast, Fire All Buenos Aires Threatened by Flames From Gasoline Explosion: Plant Wiped Out; Scores Missing. Bn United Press CAMPANA, Argentina, Aug. 28.—The entire plant of the National Oil Company, valued at $55,000,000, was wiped out today by a series of explosions and fires that caused a loss of life estimated at fourteen, and injuries to forty others.

Scores of workers are missing, an area two-thirds of a square mile is devastated and blackened and the entire city is threatened by spreading flames. Mdre than 1,500 citizens and six fire brigades, rushed by train from nearby Argentine cities, were fighting the spreading blaze. Ten huge gasoline tanks belonging to the National Oil Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil, exploded or were burned to the ground, destroying 150,000,000 liters (nearly 40.000,000 gallons) of gasoline. Two bodies were recovered after the first explosion at 3 a. m., but many more were believed to be in the ruins. In a desperate attempt to save the city, the main residential and business section of which is half a mile away, hundreds of volunteers pulled down scores of wooden structures connecting the oil district with the more populous center. The wind was favorable to the volunteers, but it was feared that any change would drive the fire directly through the heart of the city. Aided by the fire brigades sent by train from Buenos Aires, the volunteers cut a huge “safety boulevard” parallel to the conflagration. It was believed that if the wind holds in its present direction for an hour, the city can be saved. The first explosion, it was believed, was caused by an employe’s thoughtless smoking in the danger area. It shattered every window in town and blew in doors half a mile away. Eight houses near the first tank that went up were blasted to pieces, their wooden frames catching fire. 20 HEIMWEHR TROOPS ARRESTED IN VIENNA Drive to Exterminate Nazis Opens With Raid. By United Press VIENNA, Aug. 28.—A police riot squad of fifty men raided the Angerer street barracks of the Heimwehr early this afternoon and disarmed and arrested more than twenty of the soldiers. The police and troopers engaged in several hand-to-hand fights before the latter were disarmed. The raid was believed to be the beginning of a drive to exterminate Nazi influence within the Heimwehr. VAN METER IS BURIED IN SECRET SERVICES Brother, Sister-in-Law, Minister and Idlers Only Attendants. By United Press FT. WAYNE. Ind., Aug. 28.—With secrecy that contrasted his last rites those of his gang chief, Homer Van Meter, “payoff man” of the Dillinger outlaws, was buried in Lindenwood cejnetery today. Only a dozen persons—a brother, sister-in-law, an unnamed minister and several idling cemetery attendants—attended the brief ceremony. Rain soaked the heavily-wooded cemetery as the casket of Van Meter —shot down by police in St. Paul last week—was removed from a receiving vault and carried to a small lot. Times Index Page. Berg Cartoon 10 Bridge 4 Broun 11 Classified 16 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle 5 Drought Pictures 14 Editorial 10 Financial 15 Hickman—Theaters 9 Hobby 5 Let's Go Fishing 13 Pegler 11 Radio 6 Serial Story 17 Sports 12, 13 State News 6 Vital Statistics 15 .Woman's Pages 4. a

LEGISLATORS SUPPORT TIMES’ PROPOSAL FOR NONPARTISAN JAIL RULE

The Times Plan — Based on the theory that the state penal and police systems must be revised to insure a minimum of prison escapes and maximum of efficient law enforcement, The Indianapolis Times’ proposal for inauguration of civil service in Indiana’s penal institutions is gaining headway. 1. Selection of a central department of correction, the members of which will have complete authority in the administration of state penal affairs. The members of this department shall be selected on a civil service basis. 2. Appointment of wardens of prisons and other state penal institutions on the basis of civil service and experience in the administration of similar institutions. Executive assistants to these wardens also would be civil servicl appointees. 3. Removal of the control of jails from politically named sheriffs with the civil service provision also applicable to the wardens or jailers of these county penal institutions. 4. Operation of the state police force on a civil service basis. The Times has advocated this step for several months.

DRUNK HUNTING WIFE TO CONTINUE BEATING IS KILLED IN FALL

By United Press CLEVELAND, Aug. 28.—They listed it on police records as “accidental retribution.” Frank Tucker, 38, got drunk and beat his wife last night. She ran from the house with her children. Tucker chased them. They hid in the weeds of a vacant lot. Tucker returned to the house for matches, tried to scale a fence to reach the lot where his wife was hiding, fell to the ground and broke his neck. Mrs. Tucker, with two black eyes, found his body this morning. MERCURY TO DROP TO 50 DEGREES Rise Not Due for 24 Hours, Is Word. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 59 10 a. m 69 7a. m 60 11 a. m 69 Ba. m 63 12 (n^on).. 70 9 a. m 66 1 p. m 72 The temperature dropped to 59 degrees at 6 today, six degrees below normal for this time of the year, with a promise that by tomorrow morning the mercury will fall to 50 degrees. J. H. Armington, local meteorologist, said that fair, brisk weather would prevail until tomorrow night, when the temperature will begin to rise again. Clipper Heads for Home By United Press NATAL, Brazil. Aug. 28.—The air liner Brazilian Clipper, carrying a party of American newspaper executives, left on its homeward cruise today. It is due at Miami Thursday.

Fred Krueger Corners Lead in Brown Derby Passes Dr. Paul Kernel to Take Front Place; Fred Steinsberger Is Third. Finding a hole on the rail, Fred W. Krueger, manager of the Walgreen drug stores, shot into the lead in the Brown Derby race and the right to be called the city’s “most distinguished citizen.”

Krueger, with kangaroo leaps and carrying pouches of ballots, jumped over both Dr. Paul Kernel, Hoosier Athletic Club president, and Fred W. Steinsberger, president of the Indianapolis Retail Meat and Grocers’ Association. Clinging tenaciously at Krueger’s heels was Dr. Kernel, with but sixtyone votes separating the two leaders. Booting in the ballots, the “Steinsbergerians” kept the independent groceries of the city in a turmoil between weighing out bologna and ballots. Dr. Will H. Smith Jr., executive of the Cosmopolitan Democratic Club, lost 200 ballots by taking the overland trail and was 600-odd behind the grocer today, compared with approximately 400 yesterday. Dave Mitchell, Jim Clark and Clarence I. Baker were running cold. Jo-Jo, the judge, says today is the last call for photos of the seven leaders. The Kruegerites and the Steinsbergerians have had their candidate “mugged,” but the other five seem loath to part with the glossy prints of their favorites. The photos are to be printed this week—maybe—and if they ever arrive. Send in skull sizes, accompanying the pictures so that the hatter can prepare the crown. .The Indiana state fair i& in readi-

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HOLY ROLLERS' SONJSJYING Operation on Infected Leg Too Late, Doctors Indicate. By United Press FT. PAYNE, Ala., Aug. 28.—Eight-year-old Wallace Doyal Sharp fought a brave, but losing battle for life today following an emergency operation, delayed four days by the religious convictions of his parents, on his badly infected left leg. Murder indictments against the parents if he dies were threatened by Judge W. E. Hawkins. Doctors said his condition was critical. If he had received medical attention when it was first needed there would be no question of his recovery, they said. The child lay on an iron bed in a small bedroom on the second floor of the ramshackle home of his parents. The room was filled with praying members of the Holiness faith (Holy Roller), who still insisted that only God could cure him. The operation was performed last night at the insistence of Judge Hawkins, but no amount of argument could persuade the father, Doyal Sharp, to permit removal to a hospital. Two doctors cut into the leg, swollen twice its normal size, and found a large part of the shinbone eaten away by infection. From ten to twelve ounces of fluid was drained. The infection started with a bruise and had developed into osteomyelitis, the disease that killed Calvin Coolidge Jr.

ROOSEVELT IS DEFIED BY GARMENT INDUSTRY Operators Flatly Refuse to Cut Hours and Increase Pay. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—The cotton garment industry, with a membership of 4,000 manufacturers operating in forty-two states, today defied President Roosevelt’s order to reduce hours in the industry by 10 per cent and increase wages by 10 to 11 per cent for 250,000 workers. A resolution informing the President that the industry “can not accept or acquiesce” and protesting the order as “unjustifiable, unwarranted, burdensome and inequitable,” was passed unanimously at a meeting of 160 leaders, representing fifteen subdivisional industries under the cotton garment code.

THE STANDINGS Fred W. Krueger 17,523 Dr. Paul Kernel 17,462 Fred W. Steinsberger 16,391 Dr. Will H. Smith Jr 15,763 Dave Mitchell 12,701 Jim Clark • 8.213 Clarence I. Baker 6,264

ness to receive the king of kings on the night of Sept. 6 at 8 p. m. in front of the race track grand stand. If it comes up muG, as El Runyon says, then the ceremonies and coronation will be held in one of the fair buildings. The last derby ballot will be printed Saturday. It will be due in The Times’ office by 7 p. m. Monday night. The winner will be announced next Tuesday. Today's ballot on Page 2 is void after Thursday at 4 p. m. Every one wants to know w’ho will receive the silver plaque, be called the city's “most distinguished,” and receive the brown derby! Every one wants to hear the King of 1934 pay grace to his subjects in any language from the unknown tongue up to a high-pressure sales talk. Who will it be? Your vote is the answer. Mail or bring to The Times office.

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Democrats and Republicans Join in Pledging Aid for Move. PARTY LINES WIPED OUT Clyde Karrer Only Foe of Plan to Remedy State Penal Ills. Casting aside political alignments, Marion county legislators and candidates for the general assembly today pledged their support to The Times’ proposal to take the state police department and Indiana penal system out of politics. That a move to institute civil service regulations among penal and law enforcement agencies would be launched early in the 1935 legislative session, was apparent when several of the legislators and candidates, both Democratic and Republican, voiced their demands for action. Party lines fell before the expressed desires of the Marlon county assemblymen to aid in remedying the prison and jail situation which has been marked with numerous escapes during the last year. Civil Service Proposed Under the proposal the state police department would be removed from politics and placed under civil service; penal institutions would be supervised by a central department of correction, the members of which would be civil service appointees, and the executives of the state penal institutions and jails would be civil service appointees. In addition to the present legislative program to halt the growing number of escapes from the jails and prisons of Indiana, some of the legislators and candidates proffered points to the program. One state senator suggested more than one, prison and reformatory in th-c state in which could be housed many of the more dangerous criminals and thereby cancel the use of many jails, majority of which already have been branded inadequate and antiquated by penal system experts. Branded as “Disgrace” Others suggested that the proposal be carried out in the operation of all state institutions, thereby erasing the political influence from properties of Indiana which are supported by taxes. Branding operation of state institutions under the political spoils system as “a disgrace to Indiana and dangerous to the people,” Laurens Henderson. Republican candidate for the state legislature, pleaded that the institutions should be "free from political interference.” “State institution-- require specially trained people foi efficiency, without regard to political affiliations,” Mr. Henderson said. "Our penal institutions, state hospital and some of our school now are operated under the political spoils system. This is a disgrace to Indiana and dangerous to the people. “These institutions should be free from political interference and placed in the hands of trained personnel responsible to an independent, non-paritsan board. The Times’ proposal has possibilities and certainly is commendable.’’ Favorable to Plan Stress upon removal of the state police from politics was the keynote of the statement of Joseph C. Buchanan, R. R. 5, Republican candidate. “I am very favorable toward The Times’ plan for prison management. Furthermore I am interested in seeing the state police placed in the same list to become a nonpolitical civil-service-controlled department. “I shall express myself more fully on the plan at a later date.” Demanding that penal affairs must be divorced from politics, Senator Jacob Weiss charged that the last legislature would have enacted a law creating a “state police system with full and complete authority” had it not been for the incessant activities against the measure by lobbyists. Mr. Weiss also advocated the addition of several prisons in the state. “The Times’ idea for revision of (Turn to Page Three)

THE TIMES TODAY— Brings you one of the greatest picture smashes of the day. Margaret Bourke-White, internationally known photographer, toured the region of the midwestern drought and has produced from her camera the most outstanding studies of the drought area. The pictures will be found on Page 14. TOMORROW— The Times will present the first of a series of four photos and stories in the ‘‘Missing Title” contest, the winners of which will share in prizes of $25 and fifty tickets to the Indiana theater. Watch for the four contest chances to name the Bing Crosby hits from memory. The first of the series will appear in The Times Wednesday.