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AUSTRALIANS SPAN PACIFIC TO HONOLULU Kingsford-Smith and Taylor End 3,100-Mile Hop From Fijis. SECOND LEG OF FLIGHT One More Jump Remains Before They Reach California.

By United Press HONOLULU. T. H. Oct. 29.—Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and Captain P. G. Taylor landed their Lady Southern Crass at Wheeler field here today to complete the second phase of their trans-ocean flight from Brisbane, Australia, to California. When the wheels of the plane touched earth here the two Australian fliers had negotiated a 3,100mile water jump from the Fiji Islands. The plane took off from Naselai Bearh. Fiji, at 10:10 a. m. yesterday (Indianapolis time). An unexpected battle with a rainstorm, during which the plane stalled and shot into a dizzy spin, provided an unexpected delay and used up more fuel than the Australian had counted on. While Sir Charles and his companion. Captain P. G. Taylor, the navigator, were fighting against sleep, fatigue and the elements on the la.t stages of their long overwater hop, attaches of Wheeler field prepared the landing field for their brief stop. The Australians, first to attempt a west-to-east crassing from Australia to California, can not tarry long here if they heed weather reports, telling of a storm brewing in the north. Government aerologists expect the storm to hit this area Tuesday and to last several days. Sir Charles saved “The Lady Southern Crass” from disaster early today when the plane stalled and went into a spin during a heavy rainstorm. A dramatic story of th* flier's battle against a force landing on the Pacific came to Globe Wireless and Navy Radio here in messages from the plane. Sir Charles tried to rise above the storm but couldn’t clear it at an altitude of 1,500 feet. While the storm rocked and tossed the sturdy monoplane, an air speed indicator failed. The pilot reached down into the dark cockpit to fix it and at that moment the plane shot into a spin. Not until after he had arrested the spin, after losing considerable height, did Sir Charles learn the cause of that sudden terrifying drop toward the black waters of the ocean. He found that in fumbling around the cockpit he had thrown the switch attached to wing flaps. Half an hour after the dramatic battle with the storm, the pilot messaged that "all is okay; moon just came up.” Record Hop Fails By United Press LYMPNE. England, Oct. 29. Colonel James C. Fitzmaurice, Irish transatlantic flier, and Eric W. Bonar, returned to Lympne airdrome today after an unsuccessful start for Melbourne, Australia, in an effort to break the new' England-Australia airplane record. They left Lympne at 7:10 a. m. (1:10 a. m. Indianapolis time), making for Baghdad, Irak, 2.530 miles away. Over Brussels, a part of their Bellanca monoplanes undercarriage fell off and they decided to return. BANDITS STOP BUS, GET 5125 IN CASH Modem Stage Coach Robbers Hunted After Detroit Raid. By United Press DETROIT. Oct. 29.—A band of modern stage coach bandits was sought today for the holdup of a Chicago-bound motorbus here yesterday. They got more than $125 from ten passengers. Three members of the gang boarded the bus here. At least one other member trailed the bus in an automobile. As the bus reached the outskirts of the city, one bandit drew a gun, forced the driver to stop the bus. His two companions, seated in the rear, systematically looted the passengers of their money and tickets. The bandits left the bus and joined their companions in the auto-

mobile which had halted. 2 YOUNG BANDITS SLAIN Chicago Detective Seriously Wounded in Gun Battle. By I'nitrd Pm CHICAGO. Oct. 29—Two youthful bandits were killed and a city detective seriously wounded last night in a gun battle which occurred when the youths attempted to rob a saloon. One of the robbers was identified as Morris Stell of Omaha. Neb. Police said the other was Joseph Voracher. Chicago police character. Times Index Pag? Bridge 8 Broun 9 Business News 4 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 16 Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Hickman— Theaters 4 Pegker 9 Radio 13 Sports 12,13 state News 5 Woman’s Pages • 7, 8.•

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$160,000 Report Due at First Meeting of 3,000 Charity Fund Workers Special Gifts Division Expected to Make Opening Announcement; Signed Pledges From Large Indianapolis Firms to Give Annual Drive Healthy Start. Community Fund workers today reported 5200,240„ equal to 27.5 per cent of their goal, at the report luncheon today. Indianapolis Community Fund workers made their first report at a meeting today m the Claypool. Encouraging results were expected at the meeting by the 3.000 volunteer workers who are serving the drive. The special gifts division of the campaign, led by Harold B. West. 5510 Washington boulevard, president of the West Baking Company, was expected to report approximately $160,000 in signed cards at the meeting.

CASE AGAINST INSULLRESTED Government Ends Evidence Suddenly in Chicago Federal Court. By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 29.—The government unexpectedly rested its case against Samuel Insull and sixteen others in federal court today. Insull, one-time ruler of a two billion dollar utility empire, and his former associates are on trial in federal court on charge of engineering a $143,000,000 mail fraud. It had been expected the government w'ould require another week, its fifth, to give to the jury its evidence that Insull defrauded thousands of investors through the operations of his corporation securities company, an investment trust. The surprise conclusion of the prosecution's case, unanticipated by either judge or jury, came after Dw’ight H. Green United States district attorney, read the minutes of the Corporation Securities Company’s last board meeting. The meeting, held two days before the company's collapse, was the “swan song” of the Insull unit which the government claimed was a fraud from the day of its inception. The abrupt closing of the prosecution by Mr. Green was designed as a strategic move to leave in the jurors' minds a picture of the despair that prevailed during the last directors’ meeting on April 16, 1932. CHURCH FIRE FAILS TO HALT 30C WORSHIPERS Congregation Sings Hymns, Hears Sermon, As Roof Blazes. By United Press CLIFTONDALE, Mass., Oct. 29. Despite a fire on the roof of the Cliftondale Congregational church, 300 worshippers remained in their pews until conclusion of Sunday night service. A member of the congregation, arriving late, discovered the fire. The Rev. Charles B. MacDuffee notified authorities, then reassured the congregation. Firemen battled the flames and chopped at the roof. The organist played hymns. At conclusion of the service, the congregation left the church to join a large crowd watching the fire outside. TRACK ELEVATION FOR CITY WILL BE URGED Governor’s Commission to Submit Plans to FERA. Elevation of the belt railroad tracks is being drafted into plans and will be presented in Washington by the Governor's commission on unemployment relief. Wayne Coy, commission director, said an engineer and three draftsmen are at work preparing the details, plans and estimated costs of the project, which will be submitted to the federal emergency relief administration. The track elevation in Indianapolis has the approval of the state relief director. It was sponsored by the Governor's commission as a work relief project. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, the Chamber of Commerce and south side cine clubs are other sponsors of the project Gary R. O. T. C. Instructor Slain By l nited Press GARY. Ind.. Oct. 29. —Captain Harold Baumeister. former commandant of the R. O. T. C. in Gary high school, was killed last night when struck by a taxicab.

Hauptmann Losing Iron Reserve, Jailers Reveal Attorney Still Striving to Build Up Case Against Isidor Fisch, Detective Asserts.

By Cnitfd Pram FLEMINGTON. N. J., Oct. 29. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, stolid German carpenter charged with the Lindbergh baby murder, is losing the iron reserve that has characterized his demeanor since his arrest five weeks ago. He displayed unusual emotion yesterday when he saw his 11months’ old son. Mannfried. in the Hunterdon county jail, where he is awaiting trial Jan. 2. Sheriff John Curtiss revealed that the prisoner s attorney, James M. Fawcett, informed him that Hauptmann said his sleep was disturbed by a light burning outside his cell. "What Hauptmann says about the lights is a lot of hokum,” the sheriff commented. He sleeps longer than I do. I'm responsible for that pris-

Among the signed pledges expected were Eli Lilly & Cos., $35,000; Indianapolis Foundation, $20,000; Indianapolis Power and Light Company, $15,000; L. S. Ayres <& Cos., $12,000; Indiana Bell Telephone Company, $11,500; the Arthur C. Newby estate, $6,000; Mrs. Elizabeth Marmon, $5,000; Kingan & Cos., $5,000, an increase of $2,000 over last year; Indiana National bank, $3,600, and Indianapolis Railways, Inc., $3,600, a S6OO increase over last year. The special gifts division has a quota of $445,000. Other divisions in the fifteen annual drive and their respective quotas are; Employes, $150,000; individual gifts, SIIO,OOO. and national corporations, $22,217. The campaign will end Nov. 7. SLUM CLEARANCE HEARING DELAYED Water Company May Withdraw Protest. The works board today agreed to continue until Wednesday the hearing against the public works administration slum clearance project planned for the area bounded by Blake, Locke and Walnut streets and Indiana avenue. Warrack Wallace, attorney for the Indianapolis Water Company, one of the remonstrators, asked for a continuance of two days to investigate the possibility of the company's withdrawing its objection so that the government might continue work on the project. Charles A. Remster, representing the Citizens Gas Company, previously had withdrawn that company’s remonstrance. He said that the company did not wish to oppose RU"h a humanitarian project, although removal of the gas mains in the area would cost them about $3,000. an expense he thought the government should assume. L. H. Landau, public works commission general solicitor, announced that work on the project would begin immediately after the board’s final approval Wednesday. CONDITION OF BLAST VICTIMS IS IMPROVED Clouse, Jonas Overcome Effects of Gas Burns. The conditions of Richard Clouse, 36, of 3619 West Washington street, and Harold Jonas, 1528 Shepard street, who were injured in an explosion of gas fumes at the Clouse Machine Products Company, 1350 Kentucky avenue, Saturday, were reported greatly improved today at Methodist hospital. Mr. Clouse, president of the company, and Mr. Jonas were burned on the hands, head and chest when the explosion blew them from fne shop with their clothing afire. Mr. Clouse's brother. Harley, 1127 Oliver avenue, and Robert Miller, 35, of 3547 East Michigan street, beat out the flames and took the injured men to the hospital. The blast was believed to have been caused by a spark igniting the gas fumes when Mr. Clouse pulled a switch to start an electric motor. WORLD’S FAIR ENTERS THREE FINAL DAYS Week-End Crowd of 436,000 Breaks Attendance Marks. By United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 29.—Jubilant over a week-end crowd which broke 1934 records by many thousands. World’s fair officials prepared today for three final days in which they expect nearly 1.000.000 persons to jam through the gates. Saturday and yesterday brought 436.000 sightseers to the exposition. A Sunday crowd of 248,737 braved freezing lake winds.

oner, and I'm not going to open any bars. He is getting better treatment than most men get who are charged with murder.” A special panel of forty-eight jurors will be drawn Nov. 30 tn addition to the regular December panel of 150. From these combined panels will be selected the jury that will decide Hauptmann’s fate. It also developed over the weekend that defense counsel Fawcett is seeking to build up his theory that Isidor Fisch, furrier, who died in Germany last March, was the actual kidnaper of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. George H. Foster, private detective retained by the defense, said investigation along that line was “progressing satisfactorily.” Hauptmann has maintained that Fisch gave him the ransom money that was found in his garage in the i Bronx.

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SEEK TRUCE OF WORKERS, A. & P. HEADS Proposal to Be Offered Chain Store Chiefs Some Time Today. GROCERY OFFICIALS FIRM Refuse to Accept Closed Shop Policy Demanded by Employes. By United Press CLEVELAND, Oct. 29.—The regional labor board stepped into the controversy between the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company and organized labor thi safternoon in a final desperate effort to prevent removal of the giant grocery chain's 300 stores from Cleveland. Workmen were stripping the company’s two big warehouses of foodstuffs and fixtures w’hen Ralph Lind, chairman of the regional labor board, evolved a six-point compromise peace plan. He submitted the proposal to the national labor relations board in Washington and received approval to submit it to company officials and union leaders for acceptance. The A. & P- Company, meanwhile, went about the task of moving out of the city, declaring it would rather quit business here than to submit to labor’s demands for a closed shop. The devision, company officials said, was “final.” Every store of the company here was closed. More than 2,000 employes. few of them affiliated with the unions whose demands brought about the controversy, had lost their jobs. Bewildered, they were striving to “get out of the middle” in the controversy between the chain store and labor. Mr. Lind did not immediately reveal details of his truce plan, pending presentation of the proposal to the opposing factions. Other developments today included: Cleveland Federation of Labor reiterated its insistence that A. & P. must consent to complete unionization “as the only way to get a fair deal from the company.” James Wilson, member of the Cincinnati city commission and a former vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, arrived here to act as personal representative of William Green, A. F. of L president. Expect No Trouble Here No labor trouble is anticipated here, Frank A. Dalton, A. & P. vicepresident announced today. Mr. Dalton said that company employes in Indianapolis are not unionized and there have been no difficulties between local employes and the management. Closing the Cleveland stores was not brought about by action of the company’s employes but was the result of difficulties with the truckmen's union, Mr. Dalton declared. Strike Flares in Wisconsin By United Press MILWAUKEE, Ot. 29.—More than 100 hain store groceries maintained business on an almost normal basis today in Milwaukee and Racine despite a strike of union meat cutters. Pickets did not appear at any of the stores during the morning, but union officials said picketing would be started later in the day. The strike, affecting 100 stores of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and nine of the Kroger Grocery Company in Milwaukee, was called in protest against the closing of meat departments in twenty-six A.— P. stores. 5 RUSSIANS SHOT TO DEATH FOR STEALING Soviets Executed for Corruption in Economic System. By United Press MOSCOW. Oct. 29.—Five more men ha\a been put to death in a campaign against theft and corruption in the Russian economic system. it was announced today. Four employes of a boot factory at Irkutsk were shot for stealing boots and selling them at speculative prices. The head of a Tiflis savings bank was shot for swindling. JOBLESS INSURANCE PASSAGE PREDICTED Senator Harrison Sees Action in Next Congress Session. By Un itrd Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 29.—Passage of unemployment insurance legislation by the next congress was predicted this afternoon by Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the senate finance committee, after a conference with President Roosevelt. TODAY'S WEATHER Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 39 10 a. m 43 7 a. m 38 11 a. m 44 Ba. m 39 12 n00n.... 45 9a. m 41 Ip. m 45 Tomorrow's sunrise, 6:12 a. m.; sunset, 4:45 p. m. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Northwest wind, 16 miles an hour; barometric pressure. 29.98 at sea level; temperature, 42; general conditions. clear; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 12 miles. lour motor checked, Carburetor adjusted. See Carburetor Sales, 214 East Ohio.—Adv,

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Senator Wagner Considered one of the really strong figures of the United States senate. Senator Robert F. Wagner (Dem., N. Y.), will speak at Cadle tabernacle here tomorrow night in behalf of his party’s state and local tickets. Senator Wagner is known as a liberal and as a friend of labor.

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Mercury Drops Near Freezing Point; Two Ships in Distress. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—The eastern seaboard, from Virginia to the northern tip of Maine, had a prelude of winter today as a biting wind out of the northwest drove temperatures close to the freezing point Two ships were in distress. The four-masted schooner Theoline, rode out a gale off Cape Henry with her steering gear disabled. If the weather abates, the coast guard cutter Mendota will tow her into port. The other, the fishing trawler Exeter, with her rudder gone, was drifting helplessly 300 miles off New York. The coast guarder Cayuga was en route. Light snow flurries convinced New Yorkers and others along the coast that winter had already started around the seasonal corner. Rain was predicted for today. Trawler in Distress By Uni led Press BOSTON. Oct. 29.—Buffeted by gale-torn seas, the coast guard cutter Cayuga sped today to the aid of the Gloucester fishing trawler Exeter, rudderless and in distress with a dozen men aboard 150 miles southeast of Cape Cod. A message from the S. S. Transylvania brought first word of the Exeters’ plight Sunday morning. The Transylvania reported that the Exeter’s crew had jury rudder, set a scrap of headsail, and put over a sea anchor. With these aids it was believed she would be able to ride out the gale. Steamer Sinks in Storm By United Press QUEBEC. Que., Oct. 29.—The waters of the St. Lawrence river today hid the fate of the captain and two of the crew of the steamer Marie Lydia, victim of the season’s first blizzard. Lashed by a driving gale en route up the St. Lawrence from Quebec to Montreal, the steamer-was washed ashore ten miles west of here. Four members of her crewd took to the boats late when it seemed the schooner would be battered to pieces. Joseph Dumont, captain of the vessel, his son Maurice and a seaman named Napoleon Lemieux remained with the ship. They were last seen cliging to the bridge of the vessel as she pounded herself to bits on th erocks. Four Hunters Drowned By United Press DETROIT, Oct. 29.—Four deaths were attributed today to a near gale which swept across southern Michigan and northern Ohio, forcing rescue of several duck hunters on Lake Erie and Huron Saturday and yesterday. John Palka, 47, and Michael Leidal, 31, Detroit, drowned yesterday when their fishing boat upset at the head of the Detroit river. A companion, Anthony Oomm, was rescued. Howard McLaughlin and Buster Vail. Ypsilanti, Mich, drowned Saturday in Mud lake, near Jackson, Mich., while duck hunting. The storm, which brought snow and near-freezing temperatures to Detroit, grounded a steel freighter at Monroe Harbor, where high waves had lowered, the water level. The freighter was the Marita, out of F'urport Harbor. O. Coast guardsmen rescued two men who had taken refuge on a dredge when the storm struck and two others who had climbed aboard a lightship.

‘STEPPING OUT’ The Indianapolis Times is out in front again on society. Saturday night was a busy night in Indianapolis. The C.vic theater opened its season. Tne Highland Golf and Country Club held a dance. So did the Indianapolis Country Club, the Columbia Club and the Indianapolis Athletic Club. The Little Lambs staged their frolic. Today on Pages 6 and 8 of this edition, you can cast your eyes on pictures of Saturday night's "stepping out.” On page 7, Beatrice Burgan, Times’ woman's page editor, chats with The Times’ family about the events as she visited them. We hope you like it.

DEMOCRAT MAJORITY IN STATE ASSEMBLY SAFE, GOV. M’NUTT PREDICTS

GIANT PARADE RIMED FOI SEN.TOM New York Labor Friend to Speak at Cadle: Kern on Program. Preparations for a gigantic torchlight parade Tuesday night as a preliminary to the address of Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York are being made by the Democratic county committee. Members of thirty-one young Democratic clubs will march in the parade, it was announced today by Walter Boetcher, Democratic county chairman. The parade will form at 6:30 at Monument circle under the direction of Michael Reddington, president of the Young Democratic Club of Marion county. On the program at Cadle Tabernacle with Senator Wagner will be Representatives William H. Larrabee and Louis Ludlow, candidates for re-election to congress from the Eleventh and Twelfth districts, and Superior Judge John W. Kern, Democratic nominee for mayor. Talcott Powell, editor of The Indianapolis Times, will preside. Daniel J. Tobin, Indiana labor leader and NRA executive at Washington, will be general chairman. Co-chairmen include James C. Shanessy, president of the International Barbers’ Union; Fred Hoke, Indiana director of the Federal Housing Administration; Ernest C. Ropke, city council president; C. Barrett Moxley, president of the Kiefer-Stewart Drug Company; T. N. Taylor and Adolph Fritz, president and secretary, respectively, of the State Federation of Labor. Senator Frederick VanNuys has been named chairman of a reception committee for Senator Wagner. Other members of the reception group are William Hutcheson, M. W. Mitchell, Charles P. Howard, Woodruff Randolph, Martin Walpole, Leroy J. Keach, William L. Elder, Charles Remster, Boyd M. Ralston, F. B. Ransom, Evans Woollen Sr., Joseph H. Block, Alan W. Boyd, Albert Sahm, William H. Book, Louis J. Borinstein, Henry L. Dithmer, John W. Esterline, Thomas J. Kelley, Frank C. Dailey, Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker, Richard A. Shirley, Edward O. Snethen, Elmer W. Stout, Mayoit Reginald H. Sullivan, Mrs. Clara Hooker, Rudolph Leeds of Richmond and Vincent Bendix of South Bend. Nicholson Is Hopeful Although stationed in far off Paraguay as the United States minister to that country, Meredith Nicholson still retains his interest in the Democratic ticket in Indiana and Marion county. Mr. Nicholson has written Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan that he is watching with keen interest the development in the Indianapolis political situation and has high hopes for the election of a solid Democratic ticket. “I can not conceive of a situation in Indiana where the people would not stand by the greatest peace time President our nation ever has had,” the famous writer said in his letter to Mayor Sullivan. “Os course, to stand by him properly,” he continued, “they not only must send Sherman Minton to the senate and Mr. Larrabee and Mr. Ludlow to the house, but they must elect a local Democratic ticket so there will be complete harmony between the local administration and the President. “It seems to me that Indianapolis could not have picked a finer candidate for mayor than the present candidate, John W. Kern.

Baby Elephant Dies in St Louis of Pneumonia Toto Tembo, Flown West by Plane, Succumbs to Sudden Attack of Lung Congestion. By United Press ST. LOUIS. Oct. 29.—T0t0 Tembo, baby elephant recently purchased from the Martin Johnsons and flown from New York to St. Louis in an airplane, died last night from a sudden attack of pneumonia, it became known today. Dr. R. A. Kammerer, zoo veterinarian, first noticed the young elephant ailing yesterday morning. He began to doctor Toto, who steadily bccam6 worse. Toward nightfall Toto’s breathing was under such labor that electric heating pads and various hypodermics were applied in vain. Shortly

after 9 p. m. the infant succumbed. An immediate autopsy by Dr. Hammerer showed both lungs badly congested. Dr. Kammerer said the illness came rapidly after tjie young animal was put up for the night Saturday. He said that a sudden drop in temperature must have been re- j sponsible, as Toto’s health had been perfect. Saturday when it began to get cooler, the doors to Toto’s shelter were closed but were opened frequently as thousands of school children streamed by to see the zoo’s newest addition. The youngster, only about 4 months old, had become the most popular attraction in the zoo since \ coming here Oct. 12, in a special

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Governor Concedes G. 0. P. 23 House Seats, With Democrats to Retain 45 and 32 in Doubtful List. ADMINISTRATION HEADS OPTIMISTIC Party Will Elect 45 Senators, Is Claim; Chief Executive to Hold Open Forum Session at Gary. BY JAMES DOSS Times Staff Writer Governor Paul V. McNutt thinks the Democratic majorities in both houses of the 1935 Indiana general assembly; will be safe by generous margins. Supplied with the results of his political lieutenants’ surveys in doubtful counties, the Governor fixes the probable lineup in the house of representatives contests at forty-five Democrats, thirty-two “doubtfuls” and twenty-three Re-

publicans. In other words, the Democratic high command concedes twenty-three house seats, is sure of forty-five and believes the law of averages will see that the administration gets its share in thirty-two races where the outcome is doubtful. Restraint has been used in making the calculations, according to

UTILITY STRIKE IS THREATENED Unionized Employes May Go Out This Afternoon, Times Learns. Unionized employes of the Public Service Company of Indiana and the Northern Indiana Power Company probably will go out on strike this afternoon and precipitate, at the same time, sympathy strikes which will affect the entire state except for Indianapolis, The Indianapolis Times learned today. A strike vote was to be taken early this afternoon and the strike, if it is called, probably will begin at 5:30. At the meeting place of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the union of the utilities’ technical department employes, it was said that 3,283 union men might be involved and that the strike would affect 831 cities, towns and villages. No strike call had been issued shortly before 1 this afternoon, but it was learned that Irwin Knott, business agent for Local No. 9, I. B. E.'W., was dissatisfied with the results of a conference this morning with John Shannahan, president of the two utility companies. Following the conference, Mr. Knott started to the statehouse to see Governor Paul V. McNutt. The union is asking specific wage increases for 236 employes, time and a half for overtime, double time for Sunday and traveling expenses for line crews and other changes in working conditions. MERCURY WILL FALL TO FREEZING TONIGHT Weather Man Predicts Colder Temperatures Tomorrow. All who have not done so already should shake the moth balls from their winter coats today and see that the furnace is burning well, for Indianapolis’ toes will be colder by nightfall, according to J. H. Armington, local meteorologist. Mr. Armington said that the mercury will drop tonight and hover around the freezing point.

airplane with his own special mahout, Terenogsi, a native African who attended the baby since captured. The zoo paid Martin Johnson $2,500 for Toto. Terengosi left St. Louis for his home in North Agrica last night only three hours before Toto died. Toto Tembo visited Indianapolis several weeks ago with the Martin Johnsons and an African keeper on his way, by airplane, from New York City to St. Louis. The little elephant stayed here overnight. At that time, the Johnsons, explorers and authors, explained that he was being transported by air because a train trip rfom the east coast to St. Louis might prove too arduous.

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the Governor, in order to avoid self-deception. The Democratic majority will be larger, if anything, he thinks. Concession of twenty-three seats to the Republicans involves a slight inroad on the Democratic majority in the house. On any question that came before the 1933 house, on which the voting was along strictly party lines, the lineup was ninetyone to nine. The Governor's estimates place the Democratic majority in the state senate at a sure forty-five, moke no concession of Republican seats and, as in the house, allow for the law of averages to give the Democrats their share of the twenty-six seats at issue. The Democratic situation is less in doubt in the upper house, since the administration has twenty-two holdover senators as a nucleus. There are only two holdover Republican senators. The division of the senate in 1933 along strictly party lines was forty-three Democrats to seven Republicans. Marion County Doubtful The Governor said he included the Marion county delegation in the doubtful list. Meanwhile, with the election barely more than a week away, the political strategy of the Democratic state high command calls for a concentration of efforts in Marion and Lake counties, the most populous _ in the state. The forerunner of this drive on Marion and Lake counties was made here last week when Governor McNutt conducted two “open forum” meetings in which he confounded hecklers by answering a number of questions on what Republicans regarded as embarrassing state affairs. Plans hurriedly developed during the week-end call for an appearance tomorrow by the Governor at Memorial auditorium in Gary. Dillinger “Expose” Awaited It is whispered rppeatedly that the Gary address may involve a “showdown” on the John Dillinger escape from Crown Point jail. The Governor has announced several times in recent weeks that an expose with indictments is imminent in the Dillinger case, and the Republicans repeatedly have challenged him to show his hand. The Democratic strategists realize the necessity of capturing Lake county and they want Marion county with its 12 per cent of the total voting power. Lake county went Democratic by only 2,000 in 1930 and only by 4,000 in the 1932 Democratic landslide. The Republican turnout in the Lake primary indicates to some observers that Lake Is a “tossup” county this fall. Democratic leaders, however, point gleefully to the tumultuous reception given last week to Hammond to Sherman Minton, Democratic senate nominee, when Mr. Minton was introduced by John Scott, former First district Republican chairman, Wagner to Speak Here The Scott defection from the Republican ranks, with an accompanying denunciation of Senator Arthur R. Robinson, the Republican senate nominee, is viewed by Democratic leaders as indicative of further gains in Lake county. Meanwhile, with Governor McNutt in the Calumet tomorrow night, the Marion county situation will be taken care of with the address of Senator Robert Wagner, New York, at Cadle tabernacle. Preparations to overshadow the huge Republican turnout in the opening of the campaign at Cadle are under way. Mr. Minton takes to the air tonight on a statewide broadcast over a six-station chain. Second in a series of three broadcasts sponsider by the Democratic state committee, Mr. Minton’s “cards-on-the-table” address will be from 9 to 9:30 from WKBF here, over WOWO. Ft. Wayne; WIND, Gary; WGBF, Evansville; WAVE. Louisville, and WBOW, Terre Haute. More than 20.000 “Stand by Roosevelt" radio clubs have been organized through Indiana and will hear Mr. Minton tonight. Governor McNutt was the speaker on the first of the broadcasts. Omer S. Jackson, state chairman; Mrs, Emery Scholl, state vice-chairman; Mrs. Samuel R. Ralston, national vice-committeewoman, and Thomas Taggart, national vice-committee-man, will speak o nthe concluding broadcast Nov. 5.