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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
TO INVESTIGATE
DANISH LOTTERY
U. S. Reopens Quiz-Letter
Received Here.

Federal postal officials today re-
opened an investigation of Danish
lottery, said to be operating in this
country, and letter received from
the lottery organization at Copen-
hagen, Denmark, by an Indianapolis
man, was sent into the postmaster
generals office by local postal Of
ficials.
Postoffice inspectors declared there
was nothing that could be done on
the matter in Indianapolis, but asked
that letters pertaining to alleged
swindle be turned over to them i'm
mediately. ~[T
Federal officials said there Is a
fraud order in. this country against
the company, but it is impossible to
prosecute the operators as long as
they stay out of the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
ONE NIGHT
OFLIBERTY
TO RECALL
And 1t Was Worth 1t, Say
Women Caught After
Prison Flight.

With one grand night of free.
dom" to look back on. Mrs. Majella
Thornburg. 2S. of 915 Oliver Ave,
and Mrs. jeanette Commeans. "a, of
Alton, ILL.,. who escaped from the
Indiana Woman's Prison, f. Mich
igan ST., Friday, were in city prison
today.
The two woman escaped from a
second story, sewing room window
with the aid of a rope Of blankets
NJ p. m. Friday.
Thy were captured in the 90C
block on Kentucky Ave, at 2 a. m
by Patrolman Roy f. Conaway. aa
they prepared to enter an auto
they had hired to take them tc
Greencastle, Ind.
'NO Regrets
1--WE have no regrets and they
can keep us in prison for the rest
Of our lives. because we had one
wonderful night Of thrills" both
agreed.
"Of course, it's tough to gef
caught. In fact, it was a dumt
thing to do with a chance to ge
out in a few months" said Mrs
Thornburg, serving a two to four
teen-year sentence for shooting Rob
ert Yopp at 619 Russell Ave. sew
eral months ago at a liquor party.
Il ran away because 1 was dying
to see my baby" she said.
Her baby Gene, age 8. lives at the
Oliver Ave. address with her moth
er, Mrs. Daisy Phillips.
Conaway ran onto the trail Of the
fugftives when he discovered ar
auto stolen from Mrs. Lucy Ho 10
way, 1924 N. Talbot Ave, abandoned
near the Phillips home. A man
lettering near said he had been hired
by Mrs. Phillips TO drive party tc
Greencastle.
Aut Followed
Instructing the man to carry out
orders, Conaway followed the hiret
car in the stolen machine and ar
rested the women as they entered
the auto. The women denied having
anything to do with the stolen car
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
WORKERS REPORT
TUESDAY NOON
Chamber Leaders Make
General Canvass.

Indianapolis First workers to-
day were enrolling Chamber of Com
merce members without regard to
boundary lines.
Dick Miller, drive chairman, an
nounced Friday that all restrictions
were removed and that the ambitious
workers could obtain enrollments in
ant part of the city.
Report luncheons will not be held
today and Monday, but workers were
instructed to produce the quota of
5000 new members at the report
luncheon Tuesday, when the cam
paign will end.
"Our Publications meeting will be
the Tuesday luncheon and at that
time l hope we are above the 5000
mark" Miller said. This will place
the total membership more than six
thousand"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
AIMEE, KENNETH
At -FOUR HOTELS
Chambermaid |TeStifies at
Hearing. I
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6u CHtted Press
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1.-The rec.
ord in the hearing Of the Rev. Aimee
5. Mcpherson, charged with conspir.
acy to obstruct justice, contained
testimony today that the evangelist
visited four hotels in California in
company with Kenneth G.. Ormiston.
former radio operator at her temple.
Agnes Callahan, chambermaid at
the fashionable Ambassador Hotel.
testified for the prosecution late Fri.
day that she saw Ormiston visit the
evangelist in her room at the Am
bassador ION at least one occasion"
and that she reported to the house
keeper what she saw.
One of the evangelists own follow
ers, Thomas Scott Neville, who was
baptized by Mrs. Mcpherson, corrobo-
rated the testimony of Walter Lam.
bert that he saw the evangelist en-.
ter the Clark Hotel five hours before
she disappeared from Ocean Beach.
May 18, and that Ormiston entered
two minutes later. Melville was a
door man at the hotel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
DRY AGENTS
To LAY OFF
vIOLATORS?
Director Harris Denies
Rumor That Arrests Will
Cease Till After Election.
ATTRIBUTED TO AGENT
Raids Being Made Every
Day, Says Official.

That Federal prohibition depart
ment will lay off bootleggers and
violators of the Volstead law until
after the November election, was
a rumor in circulation today.
However. A. r. Harris, deputy
prohibition director, in charge of
Indiana enforcement, Immediately
denied such a condition.
The runior was started when an
Indianapolis business man met a
prohibition agent on the street and
asked him what was doing in the
department.
The agent replied orders were to
"lay off" until after the election, -
it was said.
Says Statement Is Untrue
Harris declared such a statement
was entirely untrue and that no
such order was in effect. He in
dicted he did not believe any of his
agents would make such a statement
and did not question as to who the
agent was.
Harris declared raids are taking
place every day in various parts Of
the State and pointed to recent ac-
tivities of the department in Elwood
and Anderson, where eleven persons
were arrested and Immediately sem
fenced for violations.
Raids Near South Bend
The prohibition director asserted
that his answer to the iumor would
be the departments activities from
now until right up to election day.
His secretary, Miss Helen Malone,
added raids have been staged in
South Bend and vicinity. also.
Oscar Holman. an agent in the de-
partment. said there was nothing to
the rumor and pointed to the re-
cent raids as exemplifying the work
Of the department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
METHODISTS CITE
WONDERS DONE
BY PROHIBITION
Prosperity, Death Rate Cut,
Good Government Aided,
More Go to College.

Bu United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. Amy mod
ification of the prohibition law would
destroy 90 per cent of the country's
prosperity, the Methodist board of
temperance, prohibition and public
morals said today in making public
a list of wonders accomplished by
prohibition"
Prohibition has resulted in a re-
markable decline in general death
rate, the board stated. From the
high peak of 1871 per 1000 popula-
tion in 1918 the rate has receded to
11.S. The death rate from alco-
holism has also decreased materially.
From a high record of 6.S per 100, 900
population this rate has dropped to
less than &c.
The board said that while there
was a steady increase in alcoholism
Immediately after prohibition the
rate again declined soon after the
first outburst. Arrests for intoxi-
cation are placed by the board at
147 per 10000 population as COM
DdT6u WlIH 100 III 1914.
The board said that while arrests
for all causes had greatly increased
since enactment of the Eighteenth
Amendment, the rise in traffic ar.
rests account for this increase. Pro
hibition is not responsible for crime
but rather has aided good govern
ment. Prison population has de-
creased from 1912 per 100000 popu-
lation to 99.7 while commitments
from crime decreased similarly.
Prohibition has resulted in more
men and women going to colleges.
the board continued. 1t pointed out
that while only S504 4,123. 900 was
spent for education in 1910, more
than $1,S7S, ,000, 900 was spent in 1922.
College attendance has increased
from 1000 in 1917 to more than
$50 900.
Juvenile delinquency is decreasing
and reform school population has
fallen off from 172 per 10000 popu-
lation of youth between the ages of
10 and II to less than 161.
"Pauperism is steadily decreasing
because we have ceased to license
the making of paupers," the review
said. There were 91.5 paupers for
every 100000 persons in 1910-now
almhouses have but 71.5 inmates for
the same ratio"
America under prohibition saves
MORE" said the board. Saving de-
posits increased from $4,933, 1886, 900
in 1914 to $S,439,S55, 900 in 1924.
Building and loan assets also mount
ed from $1,357,7OS, 900 in 1914 to
$3,942, $40, 900 in 1924.
The rapid increase in automobile
registration would not have been
possible had America kept saloons,
the board said. pointing out that mo
tor cars increased in number from
7,565.000 In 1919 to about 10000. 900
, To-Day. Z slas11Aiz tsssaklass4 * C
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
CHANGE Of VENUE
SOUGHT BY ALGER
Wants Murder Charge Trial
in Another County.

Motion for change of venue from
the county was filed in Criminal
Court today in the murder case Of
Gene Alger, 10, former Butler Uni
versity student.
The attorneys will confer with
Prosecutor William H. Remy Mon
day TO agree on the county.
Undue prejuC''e preventing a fair
trial here was charged by the de-
fense.
Alger fatally shot Traffic Police
man John Buchanan, Negro, July o,
in a running gun battle following
his arrest by another officer. Alger
pleaded not guilty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
Hear the Series
Report Sunday

The Times through WFBM,
local station of the Merchants
Heat and Light Company, will
broadcast the play by play re-
port of the world series game
at New York Sunday, as well
as every other game of the
series.
Announcer Carl Fohl of The
Times staff, will go OH the air
with the United Press story
at 2:45 p. m. Sunday. The
game is scheduled to start at /.
Reports of the game are taken
off the United Press wires, di-
rect from the playing field into
The Times Office and transferred
to the microphone by Announcer
FOhl in the Times office.
You are invited to be The
Times guest at the series via
air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
RAIL ROAD
HEADS SEE:
GAME: HERE:
Presidents of Pennsy and
N. Y. C. Lines Play Golf
in Morning.
BASEBALL TEAMS CLASH
Other High Officials Also in
City.

Indianapolis today was general
headquarters for two of the largest
railroads in the world, roads cover
ing approximately 1880 miles, and
having an annual operating revenue
Of more than $1,000 100000.
High officials of both the New
York Central and Pennsylvania
lines, including the presidents, were
here to attend the railroad world
championship baseball game between
the two road league winners. The
game at Washington Park this aft
ernoon was witnessed by 10000 or
more railroad men Of all ranks.
The Pennsylvania team was from
Columbus, Ohio, and the New York
Central players from Indiana Har-
Dor, Ind.
AS a preliminary to the game a
golf match between Patrick z. Crow
ley, New York Central president,
and William w. Atterbury, Pennsyl-
vania president, was played at the
Indianapolis Country Club this morn
ing.
Crowley won the match, the score
being 80 to 92.
President Crowley and his party
Of road officials, including Director
Jackson E. Reynolds, president of
the First National Bank of New
York City, arrived Friday night on
a special train.
On Special
General Atterbury. with his party,
arrived this morning on a special
train. He emerged before a. M.
clothed in golf togs and ready for
the match. During the World War
he was brigidier general in charge
of United States military railroads
in France.
A tall, 1.-THE man. with ruddy face
and sparce gray, hair, the general
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02

farm census Of 1925 issued bv the
United States Department of Com.
merce.
Earlier tabulations showed the
number of farms had decreased from
2o5'l26 in 1920 to 195,7S6 in 1925. and
That Indiana farmers had taken q
many-million-dollar loss during the
agricultural defation of the inter.
vening years.
Owners Operate One.Third
About one.third Of the Hoosier
FARMS operated by their owners. or
3S,7S4 out of 114,37S, are mortgaged
according to the census. The value
OF these farms was given as $780,.
$4,000, with a mortgage debt of
$ll9'62O,955, or 1913 per cent.
This is a startling increase over
the 1920 mortgage indebtedness. In
that year, 40,416 farms were mort.
gagged, out of total of 112,664 re.
ported operated by their owners, but
the mortgage debt was reported as
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
FIVE KNOWN DEAD
IN HOTEL FIRE
Ruins Are Searched for
Other Bodies.

BIZ United Press
SIBLEY, La, Oct. 2.-Five per-
sons are known to have been burned
to death when the Sibley Hotel was
destroyed by fire early today.
P. w. Minchew, his wife and two
young sons and a nephew, Be
O'Gray, of Castor, La, are among
the known dead. 1t Is believed a
man and his wife and their small
child also lost their lives. Ruins of
the hotel are being searched for
bodies.
A dozen houses in the vicinity Of
the hotel were burned by the fire,
which was discovered shortly before
daylight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
FLOOD IN ILLINOIS
Jacksonville Inundated for Second
Time in Month.

BW UUtted PFeS8
JACKSONVILLE, ILL.,, Oct. q
Jacksonville was flooded today for
the second time within a month.
Hundreds Of homes were inundated
and damage was estimated at hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. The
water is rising rapidly.
Heavy rainfall yesterday and last
night caused a small stream in the
south part of the city to leave its
banks. Railroad traffic is demoral-
lied. A bridge on the Wabash Rail-
road at Arnold. east Of here, has
been undermined, and trains are be-
ing routed over the Chicago & Alton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
Ask WorlUers to Aid
Stricken Florida

Miss Agnes Cruise, Red Cross
secretary, today received an appeal
for additional volunteer relief
workers from Indianapolis to aid
hurricane Rehabilitation work in
Florida. Plans are being made to
send additional forces.
Total of the local relief fund to
date is $19,222.
Need for a larger number of con-
tributors was cited.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02

Good health Is the best beauty aid,
in the opinion of students and in
structors at the Normal College of
North American Gymnastic Union.
Ais E. Michigan st.
Miss Pansy Lanning, Dayton,
Ohio, and Katherine Kincaid, La
Porte, Ind, are advocates of plenty
Of exercise instead OF cosmetics in
building beauty. And Dean Emil
Rath and Miss Clara Ledig, assist
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
APPEAL MADE TO STATES
u. 8. Flooded With SaIacious Read
ing Matter, Charge.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-America
is being flooded with salacious read
ing matter and indecent pictures,
Horace j. Donnelly, postoffice depart
ment solicitor, said today following
Inauguration of the w. 7. c. U. cam
paign to curb the sale Of such mat
ter.
To rid the country of obscene and
scurrilous matter, Donnelly urged
rigid enforcement Of State laws for
bidding display for sale of indecent
publications and pictures. Nearly
every State has such laws, he said
but they are seldom enforced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
INDICTMENTS IN
OIL CASE UPHELD
Fall, Doheny and Sinclair
Must Stand Trial.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-Appeals
Of former Secretary Of the Interior
Albert B. Fall, Harry Sinclair, e. l..
Doheny and his son, questioning val.
idity of indictments charging them
with conspiracy to defraud the Gov
ernment, were dismissed in the
District of Columbia Court Of APP
peals here today.
The four men, indicted in connec-
ton with the Teapot Dome and Elk
Hills oil leases, now must face trial
in District Of Columbia Criminal
Court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
PLANS CAR REROUTING
City Council President Occupied by
Traffic Study.

Rapid turns about the corridors of
the city hall have been strangely in
frequent for majority faction city
councilmen during the last few
weeks.
Yet it would appear that council
men are occupied.
Today President Boynton J. Moore
announced that he is working ON a
plan to re-route city street cars to
provide for expansion of the down.
town business district.
Moore a few months ago broached
the plan of routing cars on Delaware
and Georgia Sts., Capitol Ave. and
Ohio st.
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ant dean, heartily agree with them
Dean Rath pointed out that many
students come to the school under
weight and physically imperfect and
through the training received bloom
forth into robust young men and
well-developed young women.
More than one thousand graduates
Of the institution are physical di
rectors, teaching their secret for
building health and beauty. About
1hO are enrolled this Year-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
CHINESE SEIZE
AMERICAN SHIP
Plight of Foreigners De-
CIared Desperate.
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BU United Press
PEKING, Oct. 2.-The plight of
foreigners in the besieged city of
Sianfu is desperate, according to
kilograms to the United States lega-
ton here today.
The legation asked the military
chiefs to permit the Americans to
depart.
The American steamer Hing has
been seized at Kiskiang and COM
PEELED to transport Chinese troops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
PLANE CRASH KILLS

BB United Press
LONDON. Oct. 2.-The pilot, me-
chanic and five passengers were
killed today in the wreck Of q
French Union passenger plane at
Penshurt. Kent, the air ministry an
.notInced - e@s~s.@e-@ .fssf.sst N s- ~ -,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
MUSSOLIN| HOLDS
SAY AS TO WHO
MAY CAST VOTES
Dictator Does Not Believe in
Popular Suffrage-Too
Many DemagogS.

Editors Note: This is the third of
by William Philip Simms Times foreign
editor. Simms has Just completed a
tour Of Italy and held long audience
with Mussolini.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
THOUSANDS
CHEER SUN
AT GOTHAM
Threat of Showers, How
ever, Still Hangs Over
Series Opener.
YANKS 1917 FAVORITES
One of Greatest Crowds in
History Forecast.
YANKS 1917 FAVORITES
Probable Line-Ups

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-The proba-
BILE lineup in today's world series
opener at Yankee stadium, New
York:
YANKEES. CARDINALS.
Combs Of Douthit. CT
Koenig, IS Southworth. rf
Ruth rf Hornsby. 2b
Meusel II Bottomley. 1b
Gehrig. 1b L. Bell, 3b
Lazzeri 2h Hafey, II
Dugan 3b O'Farrell. 9
Severeid Thevenow. IS
Pennock, d Sherdel D
Umpires: Dneen, behind the plate;
KLEIN. third base Hildebrand. second base;
ODay first base,
First world series game, 1890 p. m.
Indianapolis time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02

By VIDA HURST


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CHAPTER H.
1t was Sonias mother who settled the argument.
'Thats enough from you Sonia Run, change dress
and help with these dishes'
"But, Mother, want this settled right
'There will be plenty of time decide what you going
do You ought be ashamed to talk your father like that
Sam Marsh tapped the ashes from his ppe nervously His
blue eyes looked beaten and washed with lump sud-
denly in Sonia throat She flung her strong about him.
Daddy! Don't stand there and look pahetic
'But, Sonia, you can't go to San Francisco ."
Now there you go. Mother is right We won't discuss it
any tonight
She kissed him and ran upstairs.
Late that night when the dishes were finished Sonia stood
before the mirror her cheap golden oak dresser pracng
her art cigaret dangled loosely from her lips In
striped paamas she like Vogue than the pic
lures themselves She cultivated was not for nothing that
she studied her mothers magazines Her cherished
possessions carved ivory cgaret holder picture from
Vogue which she had been told 16 resembled her. and
silk night she had made herself The gown was cream
white when all the other girls in wearing pink or
orchid Disinctive-that was Sonia!
Standing before the mirror she admitted # sbamoess
The other girls had beautiful homes families with wealth and
social position Background she had nothing but her charming
clothes, and haunting hearshaped face with grav green
eyes, Long ago she had made up her mind to make the most
them But there were certain things she did not quite under
stand
wonder why Sdneys mother looked at me like that? she
pondered " AS If l were something not quite clean"
Inc memory OF the thrladen moment before the door
opened came to her. w
Oh God!' she whispered naively
e ao oeen possibilities in that kiss 1t was like flash
of fire all through her.
Then why didn't stranger unknown nvs
again? he
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-02
SO, 900 FARMS IN
STATE MORTGAGED
Federal Figures Also Show That Indiana Has Suffered
Huge Deflation Loss-RuraI Population Decreases
BIZ Times iSpeciol

Br Times Sneci1I
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. - More
than $4,000 Indiana farmers are car.
rying a mortgage debt averaging
two-tifths the full value of their
farms, according to the national
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BY Henry l.. Farrell,

United Press Sports Editor.
YANKEE STADIUM, New York.
Oct. 2.-Thousands of eager fans.
filing in this huge stadium and SLOW
ly filing the tiers and tiers Of seats,
cheered just before noon today when
the sun broke through heavy clouds
and gave promise Of good weather
for the first game of the world series.
Forty minutes before the game
was scheduled to start, the skies
continued overcast and cloudy and
while it was not raining there was a
threat Of showers at any moment.
The batteries were officially an
nouncea as: For st. Louis. Sherdel
and O'Farrell; for New York, Pen.
mock and SEVERED.
One of the greatest crowds in the
stadiums history seemed assured,
as countless thousands poured in
from every direction.
The gates were opened at 10 a. m.
and two hours later more than ten
thousand were in the park.
Yanks Favorites
Assuming the burden Of the
curse and the jinx that has fallen
to the lot Of champions in one Of
the greatest seasons of upsets in
history, the Yankees went into the
series with the wise money making
them a 10 to favorite.
Miller Higgins, manager Of the
Yankees, jesting with the writer's.
who had picked Jack Dempsey to
win in a few rounds from Gene
Tunney, asked as a favor that they
pick the Cardinals to win.
Many writer's cast their votes for
the National League champions, but
the bettors in the financial district
placed their money behind the
Yankees.
Yanks Out First
The Yankees came on the field at
noon for batting and fielding prac-
tice. The field was heavy, despite
efforts of the groundkeepers.
The outer bleachers were jammed
and the unreserved sections of the
grand stand were filing rapidly.
Prolonged cheers greeted Babe
Ruth. The Yankee infield was on its
toes and worked out snappily. Ruth
made five fans happy by driving as
many liners into the stands.
The stadium was bedecked with
the Stars and Stripes.
Camera men were out In full force.
Ruth, his wife and daughter posed.
Cards Gorgeous
The Cardinals emerged from their
dugout at 1915, and from then on
there was no doubt as to which club
would be the feminine favorite.
They were more colorfully attired.
In comparison with the white uni
forms, thinly striped with gray and
blue caps worn by the Yanks, the
Cards wore fresh gray suits and caps
adorned with cherry red visors, and
sox stripped with scintillant- red.
Rogers Hornsby who Is to st. Louis
what beer once was. drew hearty ac-
claim from the ever increasing Gus.
toners.
AS fans from all over the country
joined with the native species in a
furious scramble for tickets that
weren't to be had, there seemed
every indication that this world
series will mark a climax in every
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