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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-03
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Should you lead away from
king?
dummy holds A @ 10, Declar-
er holds x x x. How should de-
clarer flnesse first time played?
3-What are the probabilities of
another players holding the same
card distribution as the declarer?
The Answers
mo, unless you have no safer
lead.
2-Play from small hand and fin
esSe 10.
3-About $3.50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-03

with its warmth and lovely softness
make it an ideal fur for this time
of year.
, 1927-08-03

vice of the University of Wyoming
will have a booth in Agricultural
Hall. The booths will be under the
supervision OF Extension Specialists
who will give demonstrations and
suggestions regarding the various
phases of the departments.
The program each afternoon of
the Fair will be an exhibition of
wild vast and cowboy sports. Sew
eral Unusual free attractions have
been arranged for which will add
variety to the program and make
it one to be enjoyed by all. The
liberal purses offered in the rodeo
events insure the participation of
the best talent in the West. Rodeo
programs are now ready for distri-
button and may be obtained by APP
~plication to the Secretary of the
Fair.
, 1927-08-03
THE WYOMING
STATE FAIR

The T~wenty-third annual Wyo-
min State fair will be held at
Douglas. September 18th to 18th,
nnal event are nearing completion,
according to announcements from
the Secretary.
The building and improvement
project for the year provides for the
construction of a new grandstand
which will double the present seat
ing capacity. The new stand will
be finished below with convenient
quarters for the boys and girls who
est of their Club work.
The Wyoming Pioneer Associa-
ton is building an Old Timers log
cabin on the State Fair Grounds.
The constructions will be made of
rustic logs and the appearance
without and within will be main
tanned in keeping with the shelters
which were used by the early set
tiers of our State. The dedication
of the Pioneer Building will be
Wednesday morning of Fair week
and an attractive program has been
arranged.
Extensive preparations are being
made TO accommodate the exhibits
in the Agricultural and Livestock
divisions. The liberal premiums
and many special cash prizes Of
fered should be an incentive to all
prospective exhibitors to exhibit at
the State Fair. The Premiums
r being mailed out and distribut-
ed ver the entire State, and copies
may be secured by applying to the
Secretary of the State Fair.
A fine Government Exhibit has
been arranged for, covering sub
jects of interest to everyone. Each
department of the Extension Ser
, 1927-08-03
SHOWS OF STOCK
COMPANY PROVE
VERY ENTERTAINING

1t is apparent from the success of
the three performances staged so
far this week that the Trousdale-
Sweet Stock company composed of
actors recognized talent, will CON
clude a very successful week in
Red Lodge on the 23rd and will
entertain Bridger for a week be-
ginning July 25th.
The company has met with sue
cess in various parts of the coun-
try and during the summer months
under a big water proof tent thea
tire. The shows in the city we're
attended by a large and apprecia-
tive audience each evening. The
company makes a speciality of pre-
senting only good clean shows
teeming with many laughs and
coupled with a moral. The vaude-
vile skits and sketches between
acts are of a high class amuse-
ment variety.
Opinions seem to vary rs to the
plays presented. Some people liked
the opening show Monday evening,
THE Only Road" while others pre-
ferred. "She Got What She Want
ed" the comedy of Tuesday even
ing. Her Honor, the Mayor
proved highly entertaining and was
a clever bit of character portrayal
bringing forth much mirth from
an appreciative audience. Support
ing the cast are Mr. and Mrs
Earl Winthrow. Mr.. and Mrs. Post
]. Cogshaull, Neil Trousdale. Pau
Morokoff and Alice Norman.-Car-
bon County News.
Trousdaie-Sweet Stock company
will exhibit in Cody. for one week
starting August Sth.
, 1927-08-03
20 WILLYS-KNIGHT
CONTINUES TO SHOW
BIG SALES DEMAND
Popular Knight Powered Line Main
tains High Position in Motor
Car World

Demand for the 10 WHY'S
Knight line of motor cars contin-
ues as one of the outstanding fea-
lures of the automobile sales field
according to Willys-Overland Of
ficials who declare that the popu-
larity of these Knight engined cars
is reaching W greater heights
during the present year than in
1926, the initial year of produc-
ton. In it's first twelve months
of production the 40" registered
a remarkable sales demand for a
car in its Introductory year but
indications at this time are that
the present year will see the 40"
as an outstanding leader in its
price class.
WHY'S Overland dealers through
out the country are unable to keep
much in advance of demands and
as a result it has been necessary
for the factory to maintain a high
tide production of the 80" line.
1t is a noticeable fact at the Toledo
factory that many dealers come to
the plant from points hundreds of
miles away in order to drive away
the "70-s" rather than have them
shipped. In this manner they are
enabled to fill the orders of their
customers more speedily even tho
it necessitates a drive of perhaps
500 miles or more.
Thousands of owners of the 40"
Willys-Knight declare this car to
be the best automobile value in
its price class. The engineering
principles of the "70", it is claimed,
higher price range, The body de-
sign is long, low and graceful, the
rich color combination giving an
added touch of smartness. The
safety factors in the 40" lie in
the low center of gravity construc-
ton which gives unusual road
stability and in the efficient four
wheel brake equipment.
Power, speed and long life are
the features of the Knight sleeve
valve motor. the power plant m
ployed in the TO-. This motor
develops So horsepower at its point
of maximum efficiency and is noted
for its smoothness, moi only on
straightaway drives but in climb
ing the steepest grades. 1t has a
quick pickup and will develop a
speed well in excess of go miles
an hour.
Willys-Overland dealers declare
that the 80" Willys-Knight will
~out-perform any other car in its
price range or near it.
, 1927-08-03

production record for the manufac-
ture of gear shift cars, according
to figures released today by the
Chevrolet Motor Co.
Production for the month just
ended totaled S9.569 units as
against 50.993 units for July, 1926,
an increase of 1866 percent. This
percentage of gain over the cores
ponding month of last year was
greater in July than in any other
month so far into 1927. The next
highest month was February, when
this years figures revealed an in
rease of 81 percent over February,
1926.
July volume brings production
for the first seven months of this
year to 697.31S units; whereas in
the entire year OF 1926 the total
volume was only 72S,697 units,
indicating that at the present ate
of output the figures for last year
will be passed before August gets
fairly under way.
Chevrolet officials were confident
in view of this extraordinary show
ing, that by the close of the year
the total volume for 1927 would
approach very closely to the million
mark. The great Chevrolet fact
cries are running day and night
to accomplish this tremendous vol
ume and to meet the steadily
growing public favor which THE
Most Beautiful Chevrolet" is every
where commanding.
, 1927-08-03
WHIPPET 6 TRAVELS so
MILES so STOPS | HOUR
Maintains Average of 80 Miles an
Hour in Acceleration and
Brake Test.

The u%nusual acceleration of the
Whippet Six and the efficiency of
the cars four-wheel brake equip
ment was clearly demonstrated in
a test recently made near Los An
geles when the Whippet Six esta-
blished a record of SO miles, maxi
ing so stops, travelling speed ay-
eraging SO miles an hour.
The record was made by a strict
ly stock model Whippet Six stand
ard coach. driven by Ed Hughes of
Los Angeles. The test was made
under the observation of Los An
Igeles newspaper men who accom-
panied Hughes on the trip and held
the stop watch to check the time
accurately.
One of the official observers des-
cribes the 50-mile journey as fol-
lows:
I'VE we're off to a flying start,
the Whippet Six reaching a speed
speed at the end of the first mile
the car came to a halt in about
six seconds, the four-wheel brakes
responding instantly. In making
other starts the Whippet Six de-
CELEBRATED from so miles an hour to
nothing in five seconds. Starts
were made instantly and the car
accelerated to so miles an hour in
20 seconds.
"This was continued for rs miles
on the nearly straight concrete
highway. Time was taken out for
turning the car around and the re-
turn trip started. 1t continued in
the same way and about the same
time for each stop and start.
at required exactly one hour to
make the %round-trip of SO miles,
which was only about three seconds.
1.-THE Whippet Six performed as
notably on the return trip as 1t
did on the first rs miles, the car
coming to a quick stop on the last
mile just as smoothly as it did on
the first one. The terrific strain
put on the brakes apparently did
not affect their efficiency or have
any tendency to throw them out
OF tnelr eQuallZeu adjustment lney
were not even heated nor was the
engine temperature any higher than
during the ordinary running"
No change was made in any CT
the gears and nothing was done
to the engine by way of preparation
for the test. The brakes were ad-
iusted before the test started and
the car was driven to the starting
point.
The test was staged primarily
to prove the claim of Willys-Over-
land sales officials that the Whip
pet six gives quickest response to
the throttle of n other a in
the Whippet Six price class.
At the conclusion of the test trip
the driver said hat one feature Of
the Whippet Six which played al
important part in the record break
ing run was the cars low center
of gravity and its ability to hold
the road at high speed and to hug
the concrete highway when the
brakes were suddenly applied.
, 1927-08-03
CHEVROLET SALES SHOW
BIG INCREASE In JULY

Chevrolet production for July
raised the total volume for the
first seven months of this year to
nearly on a par with its entire
output for 1926, in which year
Chevrolet established an all-time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-04
PLOT AGAINST KING
+. OF ITALIANS DENIED
Ambassador Says Rumor
Originated With an Adven-
turess in Europe.

The Italian embassy today formally
denied a dispatch from Paris yester'
day relating strange rumors of a
Fascist plot" to depose King Victor
Emmanuel and Crown Prince Hum
bert The rumors originated in boil
shevik agency, the embassy stated.
Mobile Giacomo de MARITIME, the Am
basador from Italy, sent the following
telegram to The Star:
IT have seen in tonight's (yester.
day'sl Evening Star story OF Fas-
cist plot against the King and Crown
Prince of Italy This story is abso-
lutely false and has been widely spread
by a bolshevk agency In Russia. 1t
was originated by an adventures who
invented the plot with the idea OF get
ting money. Identified and arrested,
she has confessed her INVESTIGATION.
will be grateful to you If you will give
publicity to this telegram"
The Russian adventures. 1t was
said at the embassy, had threatened to
embarrass the Fascist government
with the widespread publication of an
alleged plot unless it paid her tremen-
dous sums of money. When the threat
was ignored 1t was said, the woman
sought to carry it into execution
through the medium of the Bolshevik
agency, which set the rumors afioat
in Paris.
These rumors persisted so consistent
ly that newspaper men picked them
up and cabled them to all parts of the
world. The Stars story was from
Paul Scott Mowrer, prominent Ameri-
can journalist, who said it was report
ed that King Victor Emmanuel did not
approve certain of Mussolini's more
drastic laws, including re-establish-
ment of the death penalty and sup
preston of the opposition press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-04
SLAYER COFFEY
| GETS LIFE TERM
Pleads Guilty to Staying
Woman to Whom He Was
Bigamously Married.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LANCASTER, Wis, February A.
William N. Coffey was sentenced to
life Imprisonment in the Waupon
Penitentiary today when he pleaded
guilty before Circuit Judge Sherman
ID. Smalley to a charge of numbering
Mrs. Hattie Hales, to whom he was
bigamously married.
Coffey, who had engaged no legal
adviser, told county officials that his
signed confessions contained all de-
tails of the crime.
Blames Infatuation for Widow.
An infatuation for a gray-haired
widow and the coveting of her mod
est fortune led Coffey first to bigamy,
then to murder, and finally to the
forgery which caused his arrest.
When he met Mrs. Hales, 81, of
La Crosse. he forgot his wife of %
years in Madison and their three
children. After a swift courtship
Coffey married her at Winona, Mimi,
September Is, 1926.
After a four-week honeymoon
Coffey, having obtained most of
Mrs. Hales' funds, decided upon
murder to hide his bigamous mar
riage, The Staying took place in a
woods M ar here.
A base ball bat and hammer were
used.
To aliay the suspicious of Mrs.
Hales' family. Coffey sent them let
ters purporting to have been written
by his wife. signing them with a rub
Der stamp in imitation of her sigma
ture. While he was practicing this
deception, Mrs. William s. Holdridge,
a sister of Mrs. Hales, was quietly
working with brother to bring Coffey
to justice.
Coffey was induced to return to Wis
consin from Asheville, N. c., by the
prospect of obtaining more of Mrs.
Hales' property. Forgery of her name
to $500 worth of stock led to his ar
rest. Then followed three confessions,
with Coffey eventually leading officers
to the graves In Riter's Woods.
Changes His Story.
Coffey first said he had accidentally
killed Mrs. Hales when she attacked
him with the bat. He said he threw
her body into the Mississippi River.
Later he admitted that the killing had
been deliberate.
While Coffey led officers to the
burial place, Mrs. Coffey filed suit for
divorce at Madison.
Coffey was born in Iowa. An affair
at the age of "a with a woman many
years older than himself led to Cof-
fey's conviction on larceny charge,
and he served a three-and-a- half-year
sentence in the Iowa State Prison.
His first marriage took place four
years later at Lawrence, kanS
For many years Coffey was engaged
in prison reform work, Later he was
an advertising solicitor, a collection
agent and a bond salesman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-04
TAYLOR SECRETARY
ASSUMES BLAME
Senate Committee Hears She Took
Responsibility for Letters Under
His Signature.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
Responsibility for letters written
under the signature of Representative
Taylor, Republican, Tennessee, to
postmasters in his State soliciting
campaign funds was assumed before
the second grand jury at Nashville by
Miss Dorothy Schultz, Taylor's secre-
tary, a Senate judiciary subcom-
mittee was told today.
w. H. Lindsay, assistant prosecu-
tor at Nashville. who presented the
charges against Taylor to the grand
jury, told the subcommittee hearing
protests against the reappointment of
District Attorney McLane that Miss
Schultz said she returned the money
on instructions from Taylor.
Under severe cross-examination By
Senators .Caraway, Arkansas, and
Overman, North Carolina, Democratic
members of the committee, Lindsay
said he did not think Taylor ''techni
cally was guilty" He said he had told
McLane that before he was assigned
to the case, but added that McLane
held contrary view.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-04
LIBERALS ACCUSE MARINES.
Declare 1900, 900 Rounds Were Seized
Protest to State Department.

Seizure and destruction by Amerl-
can Marines in Nicaragua of 1,SOO,0OO
rounds of ammunition belonging 10
the Sacasa liberal faction was charged
last night by DIR. T. S. Vaca, repre-
sentative here of the Sacasa group.
DR.. Vaca said he had been informed
by cable from Puerto CabeZas that the
ammunition was dumped into a river
Thursday a week ago. The cable
gram, which was from DR.. Espinosa,
foreign minister in the Sacasa CAP
met, said a protest and demand Tor
reparation had been made to the state
Department through the United states
consul at Blue1elds.
In making public the message
Vaca reiterated that Sacasta was
willing to resign his claims TO the
presidency in favor of third candi'
date to be agreed upon by the Dlaz
and Sacasa factions.
Vaca said he had accepted, on be.
half of DR.. Sacasa, the reported
mediation offer of Secretary Kellogg,
and had informed the Secretary of
Sacasa's real attitude"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-04

consideration of tax-reduction bill
N the remaining days Of this session
He said the Democrats would even
help to apply a cloture rule in order
to pass tex bill.
In closing the debate in favor of
the Norris plan, Senator Smoot, Re-
publican, of Utah, and chairman of the
finance committee, said he would over
look the political aspects of the ques-
ton and appeal to the Senate to look
at this problem of Government as
business men. Any man in private
business, he said, would see the wis.
dom of using any surplus he might
have toward payment of his debts.
He reminded the Senate that in 1928,
50 800 0o0.0 OF Government bonds
will fall due, adding that some of these
bonds already have been bought in by
the Treasury. The public debt, he
said, has been materially reduced in
recent years by using surplus tax
money in addition to the sinking fund.
Sees Reduced Surplus.
Some of you say, let the coming
generation pay the debt? The coming
generation, rear, will have all they
can bear to take care of and we should
reduce our public debt while the Ma
ton is prosperous and we can do 1t.
Senators have not stopped to con-
slider that in the last six months Of
1926 the surplus was nothing like
what it was for the first half of last
year"
Senator Smoot concluded by saying
that no man In the country can tell
with any degree of reliability at this
time TO what extent taxes could be
reduced He said that when the full
effects of the last tax reduction bill
are known, Congress will then be in
a position to decide whether taxes can
be further cut.
The proposal of Senator Harrison
was characterized as nothing more
than a gesture by Senator Killette
Republican. of Massachusetts, In the
Senate today.
ut is a palpable and bare-faced at.
tempt on the part Of the Senator from
Mississippi to transfer to himself and
his associates some of the popularity
coming to this administration as the
result of previous tax reduction" Sen
ator Gillett declared. Those tax re
auctions were brought about by the
exercise of stringent economy on The
part of the administration, and now
| he opponent wants to take some OF
| the credit. This same gesture was
/ made in the House, which was the
only place 1t could have any effect
and it failed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-04
.1,242 j. S. WORKERS
IN D. c. DROPPED
Commission Reports Reduc'
ton of Personnel for Last
Six Months of 1926.

Reduction of civil service personnel
during the last six months o. lSze
resulted in dropping 1,242 empIoyes
in the District of Columbia, according
fo figures made public today by the
civil Service Commission. During
the same period 14,364 employees were
dropped throughout the country
There were 60,S11 civll service en-
ploves in the District June ~, l9zo'
the figures show December 81 'IeIe
were 1860. The national totai June
40 was $50. 7O5; December 81 1t was
546.34I. The reduction in the District
for the whole of 1925 was 1,94O.
Both District and national totals are
lower now than they have been AT any
time since the armistice. AT that time
there were l17.760 civil service EN-
ployes in the District and 917,!be II
the Nation. Since then there has been
steady decline The figures. how
ever, are still higher than the pre-War
totals, which showed 39,442 for the
District and 1896 for the country.
1.-THE Post Office Department is the
largest employer of workers. Its M
tional total December 81 was sos, 1854,
but this figure does not include 34.944
clerks at fourth-class offices and q, S9l
mail messengers.
District civil service forces by de-
partments at the close of 1926 were OF
the following strength;
White House, 45: State, o62; Treas
ury, 14.172: War, 4069: Justice, 100;
Post Office. 1910; Navy, $3.50; Interior,
1886; Agriculture, ABA; Commerce,
4,437; Labor, 622; government print
ing office. 4142; Smithsonian Institu-
ton, ass; Interstate Commerce Com
mission. 1896; Civil Service Commits
sion, 3l9; Bureau of Efficiency, 81;
Federal Trade Commission, 302; Ship
ping Board, $50: Alien Property Gus
todian, 233; Tariff Commission, 201;
Employees Compensation Commission
6S; Federal Board for Vocational Edu-
cation, 60: Panama Canal, IA; Public
Buildings and Parks, National Capt.
tai, 2.274; General Accounting Office,
1884; Veterans Bureau, 4.466; Rail-
road Administration, 81: Commission
of Fine Arts. .; War Finance Corpora
ton, As; National Advisory Commit
tee of Aeronautics, "a; Federal Re-
serve Board, 1874; Board of Tax APP
peals, 109; Board of Education, 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-04
IRREGULARITIES CHARGED.

Alleged inequalities and Irregular
ties in proposed appropriations for
public schools in divisions 1913 were
attacked in resolution passed by the
washington Commercial Association
at a meeting held in the Prudential
Bank Building last night. The resolu-
ton provided that the chairman OF
the Senate District committee be mott
fed of the action of the association.
The newly elected officers TOOK once
as follows: President, G. w. Banton;
vice president, ]. A. Landlord; secre-
tary, w. r. Wilks, and treasurer, A.
w. Mitchell.
President Banton announced the fol
lowing committee chairmen: G. b.
Reid, street illumination; A. w.
Mitchell, public schools; ]. A. Lank-
ford, new enterprises, and Lieut.. Col.
West A. Hamilton, membership.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-04
Woman Held in Robbery.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

DIhVdbNlI 20
CLARENDON, Va, February g.
In arresting Maggie Harris, colored,
of Halls Hill early this morning
county police authorities believe they
have cleared up the robbery Wednes-
day night of the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. NJ. Moss of Aurora Heights, when
clothing estimated at $500 was stolen,
She was scent the vicinity of the
Moss home Wednesday night, Sheriff
Howard B. Fields went to her home
and found goods identified as those
taken. He also arrested Bessie Page
for investigation.