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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29

A farmer living near the Bassler
home said that Mrs. Hobough called
at his home during the night and
asked to use the telephone.
The farmer said the woman
called Rev. Mullins, a minister in
Logansport and said she had had
trouble with her brother and would
get him if she had a shotgun"
The body was found by neighbors,
who went to investigate when there
was no sign of life about the Bass
Ter home during the morning. The
bodies were discovered shortly after,
noon.
Authorities have not yet formed
any conclusion as to the cause of the
ragedy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
CHINESE TROOPS
EXECUTE REBELS
800 MutineerS Are Shot
Down. Report Says,

Be United Press
LONDON, Dec. 29.-Eight hun
1red Chinese soldiers who partici-
pated in recent rioting at Kalgan
were lined up along railroad tracks
near Tien Tsin and executed, accord
ng to a Central News dispatch.
The troops mutinied as a result of
not receiving their pay and burned
part of Kalgan. looting shops and
banks. They were promised their
pay if they would return to their
barracks.
This met with approval of the
mutineers and 500 entered box cars,
entrained for Kalgan. They were
locked in and the train was run onto
A siding a little ways out of the
city, where the rebels We're shot tc
death by regular troops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
CONGRESS BACK
FROM VACATION
Action on important Issues
Postponed by Agreement.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Con-
gress came back from its Christmas
holiday today. but by agreement no
business will be transacted this
week if it can be avoided. The big
fights over Muscle Shoals and postal
pay rates will go over until next
Monday.
The House plans to go imme-
diately into the appropriation meas
ures that are awaiting action. The
Senate may spend a few days con-
sidering minor bills on the calendar
before adjourning for New Years
day and the weekend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29

BB NFi Scrficc
7EW YORK, Dec. 29.--I have
I'M just returned from a tour
LII OF the Y3la-Harvard cross
word puzzle camps.
And l pick Yale to win by a
South American River and a Peru
Wan rubber camp in the first inter
collegiate crossword contest in his
tory which will be played in New
York, Jan. 4, at the Hotel Roose-
velt Prominent alumni will repre-
sent the two schools and the gate
receipts will go 10 the Bryn Mawr
Alumni Music Fund.
Harvard may he expected to
score heavily on classical illusions
and medical terms, but Yale will
overcome this handicap with criss
cross word plays and horizontal
hne plunges.
Also Yale's second string showed
up well. Three of them. / predict,
will make the Noah Webster All
American crossword team.
Looking over the individual
players l would say that the cere-
bral weights are about even.
Haywood Broun. the six xfoot-two
giant Harvard captain. was going
through light practice in his IL
brary. using Encyclopedia Brit
tanicas and Thesauruses. together
with the Army intelligence test.
81 credit it all to alphabet soup
in training" he said. Il would ad-
wise all crossword training camps
to adopt this diet"
Stephen Vincent Benet, the Yale
captain. on the other hand, gives
to Yale the composite strength OF
poet, novelist, essayist, book re-
viewer and assistant editor of The
Bookman. He will star as the
back-half of dear old Eli"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
ARE ANKLES CHAPPED? ?
Broad BOttomed Trousers Cause
Trouble, Physicians Say.

indianapolis has new epidemic.
This time it is chapped ankles Men
are the only sufferers. Physicians
say broad bottomed trousers, en-
couraging air drafts, zero weather,
snow collecting on trouser bottoms
and rubbing along the ankles is the
cause.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
WAR ON RATS TO BEGIN
Pied Piper Given Authority to
Conduct Five Months Campaign.

A Pied Piper to rid the city of
its rats has appeared.
After receiving the written ap-
proval of the board of health, Leon
ard B. Paul, who came from Omaha,
Neb, is planning a five months
campaign here to exterminate rats.
y patent poison preparation will be
used.
According to plans, Paul will sell
the exterminator to property owners,
the campaign to be conducted sys-
tematically in the downtown district.
taking one block at a time. From
the business area, the drive will be
continued in residential districts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
S333,0oO IN TREASURY
Year End Balance viii Be Applied
to City General Fund.

A balance of approximately $685..
600 will be left in the city treasury
at the close Of the year instead of
$275. 900 as first estimated, Joseph
L. Hogue, city controller, said to-
day.
Balance is the largest ever car
ried over by the city in recent
years. 1t will be applied to the gen.
eral fund for use in 1925. Hogue
expects to have his annual report
ready the latter part Of the week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29

Z Z n -1IliII iIHliICAGO, Dee. 29.-1n
IL the murky shadows
of a cell in death row' at
the county Jail sits a "back
o the yards boy with hair
almost snow withdrawing
for the coming of the new
year and wondering whether
it Will bring life or death.
Bernard Grant, 19, when
he was arrested two years
ago with a companion for
numbering a policeman dur
ing a hold-up, is certain of
life until Jan. 16, when a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
BANDITS SET FIRE
TO TEXAS VILLAGE
Nine Buildings Destroyed
With $4,000 Loss.

BU United Press
POTTSBORO. Texas, Dec. 29.-
Fire set by bandits destroyed nine
buildings in downtown Pottsboro
early today with loss of $150000.
One safe was cracked and robbed.
Pottsboro is the fourth bandit
casualty in two weeks. Valley View.
Texas, was robbed and fired ten
days ago and a week later Britton
and Paradise, Texas, were sacked.
Five frame and four brick struc-
lures were destroyed today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
BIZ I HitCd Press
CHIEAG0 |

BIZ United Press 49,,
deaths and huge property damage as
its toll, the latest sub-zero wave was
dispelled today.
Six persons. including an So-year-
Old woman. died here over the week
end from the cold. Scores were TAX
en- to hospitals suffering injuries.
The temperature fell to L below
in the city and % below in the su-
burbs.
Chicago fire department answered
358 alarms in less than twenty-four
hours. Several fremen were injured
in their work and the proptry loss
mounted into hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
Two men were shot and slightly
wounded by an enraged janitor when
they demanded more heat in their
apartment
Train schedules throughout the
Middle West. especially on lines
west and north Of Chicago. were
knocked out by the cold. Sleet and
snow-covered rails added TO the diff
hculties and many trains We're
twelve hours late in reaching Chi
cago from Omaha, Kansas City and
St. Paul.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29

The dead:
JOHN Bassler, 50.
KATHERINE Bassler 60, his
wife.
VIOLA HOBOUGH, his grand
daughter, 3 years old.
JOHN BASSLER, %. his son.
The tops of the heads of three Of
the victims We're shot away. The
bodies of Bassler and the little girl
were found in the house. Those Of
his son and wife were found in the
yard near the house.
Mrs Mary Hobough daughter of
Bassler and mother Of the murdered
girl, is missing. Authorities are
searching the farm in the belief that
her body may be found.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
Denies EnsinuatiOns

Shepherd made a categorical de-
NAL of all insinuations that his
wards death was due TO causes 9th
er than typhoid. He also said the
win was drawn up along the lines
prescribed by McClintock, who he
said. was not willing for his cousins
to receive any of the money. Several
second cousins from Iowa are con.
testing the will
Il shall start suit against my ira
ducers," Shepherd said Il came
back from out of the State volun.
tarily, went TO the States attorneys
office of my own free will. 1 told the
whole story, answering every ques
ton put to me. / have nothing to
conceal. Certain persons who hope
to profit by the breaking of the will
are behind the whole thing"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29

a government free from debt.
The State finance board arranged
to borrow s2,5Oo,0O0 from the
Fletcher American National Bank
in order to pay the same amount
in notes due the Meyer -Kiser Bank
Dec. 81.
Every Six Months
The move is part OF the process OF
borrowing every six months to re-
pay loans which the State has
faced for two years.
The treadmul was started when
the Legislature made approprja-
tons for the new reformatory at
Pendleton available OF passage Of
the bin instead Of at the beginning
Of the next fiscal year when tax
money would have been on hand.
Interest Charge SiO,625
The Meyer-Kiser loan will cost the
State $S3,375 interest. The new loan
made in tax anticipation notes at
81 per cent. will cost the State
$40.6B in interest charged June 80
when the loan falls due.
With the State general fund down
TO 5000, 900 and including half of the
December tax settlements from the
counties no part of the State in
debtedness can he paid off, it was
stated. 1t now totals 1920, 900. of
which 100000 is owed to the auto
theft fund and $4,000 to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
STATE Of INDIANA BORROWS
S2,5OO,OOO TO MEET BILLS

Despite the Of Governor Emmett F. Barnch
the campaign that the State would be out of debt by
The end of his administration the State today completed
rangcmens to borrow $2,500000
Governor Elect Ed Jackson repeatedly boasted before cleo
on that the present Republican administration would give him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29

Bp CHifcd Press
CHICAGO. Dec. 29.-Grand jury
Investigation Of the teath OF VIII
liam McClintock. millionaire or
phan' VIII be demanded even
though chemical analysis of the
vital organs fails to reveal evidence
Of poison, it was declared at the
States attorneys office today.
So far the examination has failed
to reveal anything unusual, it was
stated Typhoid germs We're found.
Typhoid fever was given as the
cause Of death by the attending ply
sicians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
GLOSSBRENNER RENAMED
Reappointed Head of City Sinking
Fund for One Year.

A. M. Glossbrenner today was re-
appointed chairman Of the city sink
ing fund commission by Mayor
Shank for one year, term starting
Jan. ].
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
To Grand jury

Assistant State Attorney George
+. German said he is prepared to ask
the grand jury to investigate, regard
less Of findings of city chemists.
Chief Justice Harry Olson of the
municipal court, friend of the Nc
Clintock family. is urging the case he
given to the grand jury. it was re
ported.
Partial report of the chemical
analysis may be available today, Cor
oner Wolf stated.
In the meantime. William D.
Shepherd. foster father of McClin-
took. is back at his home here, await.
ing the call of the States attorney.
Shepherd and his wife wers be
queathed the bulk of a $2,000,000
fortune by McClntock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
Six Die in Chicago as
Temperatures Drop to
Near Record Levels
Niagara River Frozen,
TRAIN SERVICE IS HIT
lrate JanitOr Shoots Tenants
Complaining of Chilly
Apartments,

After the coolest weekend IN
many years for some sections'of the
East and Middle West, temperatures
were rising everywhere today.
The latest cold wave was broken
in Atlantic coast States before it
was fairly under way. Chicago and
Kansas City reported warmer wealth
er. Sundays cold took toll of
dead. however. six dying in Chi
cago, one in New York, one in De
troit. one in Philadelphia and one
at Hanover. y. II.
New records for the cold weather
were set in the Mohawk Valley and
throughout western New York. Ice
foes jammed the Niagara River from
the cataracts to Lake Ontario. In
spots the ice vas eighteen feet
thick. The town of Lewiston was
threatened by flood waters.
Twelve below zero At Concord, y.
H. 90 below in Chicago suburbs and
30 below at Humboldt, Mich, were
among the extreme temperatures re-
ported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
'CLINTOCK CASE
WILL Be PROBED
BY GRAND JURY
Foster Father Threatens to
Sue Those Who Started
Investigation,

~ UtFIT pF.F4
CHICAGO, Dec. ga hint
that something OF an unusual
nature has been found in the Vi
tai organs Of " lliam McClin-
took, millionaire orphan" "
whose death is being investi-
gated, was given today by Coro-
ner Wolf. McClintock's death
was ascribed to typhoid fever.
but Wolm is having a chemical
analysis made for traces of
poison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
-Four Persons Are Discovered Dead
From Shotgun Wounds at Home
Eight Miles North of Logansport
Today.


LOGANSPORT, Ind2 Dec. 29-Bodies of four members Of
the family Of Henry Basser &c. farmer living eight miles
north of here were found on the farm at today.
They had been killed with shotgun The gun and several
empty shells found near the house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
INAUGURATI
G. O. p. State CO
FavOrs for Jas

Five hundred honc% Al
in bronz have been
Republican State con -
Inauguration Of Govt s.
Jackson, Jan. II. u
The medals are in Z
the State of Indiana
Of Jackson embossed on d
Each county chairman
given five badges for his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-29
Forecast

UNSETTLED with light
~ snow probable tonight and
Tuesday. Rising temperature.
Lowest tonight 20 to 25.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-06

When the eligibles attended these parties, they couldn't very well help being thrown into one another's company. bit of green ribbon, worn in coiffure or buttonhole, identified the candidates" Green naturally became the countryside symbol of the movement.
 The results were heart-warming, both to club officials and guests, For engage ment after engagement ensued,. and the Encourage Marriage" agitators rubbed their hands and emitted little, soft chuckles of justifable pride.
 So far, so good. But Paris is, after all, only a small part of France. The suburbs pricked up their ears. They would "show" the mother city. So the "Foire aux Fiancees," or "Fiancees' Fair" was made a reality.
 Just which town had the honor of start ing the custom is even now hotly de- bated issue. But it is said that the De-
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emoiselle would receive SO many thou. sand extra francs from Papa.
 In all such cases there was a vital proviso. Mademoiselle, should the pros pective suitor fail to strike her fancy, re- tained the right of rejection. A light tap with her sunshade on the bidders back or wrists informed the eager ,fance-to-be that he was not wanted-please apply else where.
 The "auction" at Fontenay, as was to be expected, reused rival ambitions among jealous nearby towns. Arcueil read the reports of the Fontenay fete with green eyed attentiveness. L'Hay thought that the L'Hay rnademoiselles could give any corners cards and spades. As for Villejuif pooh! murmured the Villejuifians, we'll have little "Foire" of our own.
 They were as good as their word. And that is how, why and where Mile. Simone dArville and Monsieur Georges Mercadet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-06

Formal Questionnaire Which All Entrants Must Fill in Before Being Auetioned
 Off at the French Marriage Markets. with rosy-cheeked young maids-and "old maids" whose eyes also held some burn ing question.
 In a word, Villejuif was holding it's first "fiancees' fair," which might have passed of calmly enough if it hadn't been for Mile. Simone's little marriage joke on M, Georges-a joke which bathed Sim One's papa in tears and all Paris in mirth.
 Most Americans know these French "fancees' fairs" as an amusing legend. But they are real enough, and important, too. Springing into existence immediately after the World War, by gradual stages they passed from fad to vogue, and from a vogue to rage.
 The wars effect on the male population of this country need not be stressed now. As everyone knows, it was appalling. When the birth rate dropped and statis- ticians began issuing alarming bulletins and marriageable bachelors seemed to register an increasing coyness, the first cry of the justified alarmists was:
 EFrance has been made safe for democracy Now she must be made safe The French are not only, as the old school books used to say, "a people fond of dancing and light wines" They are foresighted, provident, ingenious and re-
 Instantly the Encourage Marriage" movement was unofficially launched. Almost before the ink was dry on the statisticians' pessimistic statements, most of Paris was chattering over the new blow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-06

their disastrous engagement"
 arrangement, and the de
 rangement of Alphonse d'Arville, Simone's awfully proper papa.
 Monsieur d'Arville, living in Arcueil, is a well-to-do jewelry merchant, and, as such, is justly looked up to by his towns men, who know more about fodder and plums and harness-making and blacksmith ing than about pearls, rubies and diamonds. Esteemed by his fellow citizens, Monsieur d'Arville in turn esteems his gems. The greatest of these is no cold precious stone, but that living, lovely, lively jewel, his daughter.
 Simone, frankly, is, or was, a spoiled and only child. Used to having her way in all ways always, she gave Papa many an uneasy moment. But he continued to love her and to guard her zealously from undesirable suitors, since the sole daughter of a prosperous parent is apt to be perilously popular with the young men of the vicinity.
 D'Arville, however, with all his precau tions, couldn't dream what was destined to occur He couldn't guess that Simone, scanning the local weekly newspaper, "Les Chroniques," would discover that Villejuif was about to hold it's 'Fiancees' Fair"; that she would be amused, then in- terested, then fascinated by the thought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-06

PARIS. THE market-place at Villejuif, a suburb of this city, was Gen fete
 galante." j" From booths already vivid with color streamed pennants- bright green ones. Sturdy, tanned youths with curiously searching eyes mingled A Young French Couple Sealing Their Marriage Compact with a Kiss, in
 the Presence of Witnesses, at a
 "Eiancees' Fair" on the
 Island of Chatou.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-06

SqulNdleHC SlBnl1ylng [ n a [ Papa was Fall wet"-that he, Georges, had bid Simone in, and that she had backed out. From a window above Simone watched the quarrel, as did a number of gabby townsfolk who had gathered outside the shop.
 The kindest thing to do next Is not to record the de- tailed frenzy of the fray, but to hint at its final solution. Just how peace was achieved -ah, that is the secret of Papa and Georges! But the fact is established that Mile. Simone is still a bachelor girl" cured of gadding about to "Fiancees' Fetes;" that Papa wears a satisfied smile as he bends over his trays of pearls, and that the husky Georges Is back home with his vegetables. They do say that he has opened a neat little bank account.
 Meanwhile Paris laughs.
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 friend (that old gag Is still potent in the suburbsl. Simone darted upstairs, donned her sweetest fnery and, parasoi in hand, sneaked off to Vil1ejuif,
 There she thrust knot of green rib- bon into her curls and, with no thought of the consequences, entered herself (alasi under her correct name) as an auction block possibility.
 There were lots of competitors, but none quite so chic, self-assured and charm ingly inpudent as Simone. The reader may write his own sequel without fear of going wrong. Nine-tenths of the men present sped up the bidding for Sirnone. Particularly active was Georges Mercadet, husky young truck farmer, who had come several miles from the south to grab off bride, for while he was de- voted to his vegetable patches, he felt that they were poor substitute for a wife.
 His dog-like devotion amused Simone, and when she was Knocked down" to Mercadet, she was more entertained than angry. She hadn't, however, the faintest intention of marrying him, so she gave him a tap with her sunshade. Or meant to.
 Somehow, the blow missed it's mark, and Simone, realizing what she had let her self in for, darted from the market place, bounded into a facre and whisked back home.
 A day elapsed. Papa d'Arville, bland ly ignorant of his daughters goings-on, was startled the next afternoon to be con fronted in his jewelry shop by a stern young farmer who demanded hoarsely:
 Where's your daughter, cousin of a pig? demand my fianceev'
 There was terrific scene. Papa bel lowed that HIS daughter was no one's Aanree CeOrres harkad hocIr +ha UNpo~.L
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-29
South Slavic Branch,
Bentleyville, Works
For Communist Press
Especial to The Daily worLsr)

BENTLEYVILLE. Pa. Nov. "a
The members of the South Slavic
branch of Bentlyville are consistent
builders of our press. On November
z successful anniversary celebration
netted $4,000 to Build the DAILY
WORKER" This money went to
establish more firmly the oficial or
gan of our party. a
But this branch also believes in
reaching workers who do not speak
English. They believe in reaching the
South Slavic workers with their mes
sage and an entertainment, besides a
great deal Of pleasure resulted in a
$4,000 donation for "Radnik" the lead
ing South Slav Communist paper.
The South Slav branch of Bentley
vile, Pa, under the leadership of
Secretary Adam Getto believes in &C
ton on all fronts-and they prove it,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-29
Dunno Speaks Monday
Night, Dec. 1, for the
North Side Branch

William F. Dunno, editor of the the
DAILY WORKER, will speak at the
next open meeting of the North Side
English branch next Monday, Dec. 1.
at p. m. at Imperial Hall, 24O9 N
Halsted ST., on the Report of the Fifth
Congress OF the Communist Interna.
tional.
The Communist International, the
leader of the revolutionary working
class force thruout the world, engages
the attention of all intelligent work
ers. All comrades must be acquainted
with the activities and program of the
Comintern. Comrade Dunno, also
member of the Central Executive
Committee, former editor of the Butte
Daily Bulletin, fighter for years in
the American labor movement is ex-
ceptionally well fitted to handle his
subject. Comrade Bill Dunno was the
delegate of the Workers Party to the
Fifth Congress of the Comintern and
delegate of the Trade Union Eudca-
tional League to the Third Congress Of
the Red international of Labor Unions.