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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09

One Thanksgiving Day plan has al
~ ready gone to smash.
It was the brain product of woman
manager of an apartment house. who
thought lit would be characteristic of
the day If every family in the house
would tax its members Is cents each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
A French Bag Rivals
the Hiehlights of
N1

because Augustabernard
made the little yoke of
soft, dull suede and
the rest Is as smooth and
s h n n g as transparent
velvet we've a stun
ing replica at $40. Street
Floor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
ATHEIST FIGHTS
ARKANSAS LAW
Prepares to Reopen His
Headquarters.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Nov. o. -
Carrying out his threat Of state
wide fight against bible bigotS,"
Charles Smith, New York atheist,
was ready to reopen his atheist
headquarters here today.
His headquarters were closed Oct.
II by Police Chief Burl G. Rothen-
berry, his atheist literature seized,
and Smith jailed, when he refused
to pay $25 fine imposed in mu-
nicipal court. Smiths threat to re-
open headquarters follows close on
the heels of his seventeen-day hun
ger strike in protest against the
Arkansas constitutional provisions
that prohibit an atheist from testi-
flying in court or holding office.
Smith appealed to the circuit
court and the case was nolle pressed
yesterday when it was brought to
trial by Assistant Prosecutor Ken
meth Coulter, acting for the city at
torney.
Smith said that the nolle PROSE-
action, which throws his case out of
court, is an effort to prevent him
from taking the case to the federal
courts, thereby making a test case
of the Arkansas laws against Nthe-
SIS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
GIVES
Ware new HOPE
G. O. P. Majority Likely to
Seat Senator Elect.
B,y Times Special

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Nov. "a posi-
bic result of the Hoover landslide
Tuesday will be the seating of SEN
ator-elect William S. Ware of Penn
sylvania, whose seat has hung in
the balance for two years.
The incoming senate will have a
sufficient Republican minority to
seat Ware despite the protests of the
Democrats and Progressive Repub-
licanS. The defeat Of six Democratic
senators will mean that the next
senate will have SIS Republicans, SO
Democrats, and l Farmer-Laborite,
Senator Shipstead of Minnesota.
There may be more of will, also,
in the next administration to seat
Ware than there was in this aCmin-
istration. Ware from the OUTSET of
the Hoover campaign was one of his
supporters.
Vare's friends now will seek to
prevent his election at the coming
short session of congress, which
the Democrats and Pro -essive Re-
publicans will dominate. They will
seek to delay action when Senator
Reed of Missouri renews his fight
against Ware.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
oUTGRowTH OF sTEvE's HOME FIRE. WILL BE FOUGHT AGAIN

But the connections at the time
did not prove of great interest to
the neighbors, for, according to
them Stephenson, assisted by his
bodyguards, Earl Klinck and Earl
Gentry, was often the host for
orgies in the mansion.
=
CTEPHENSON made no claim
~ for repairs, as he was engaged
busily in preparing a defense for
the Oberholtze rcase. The bank
contracted for repairs and in
July, 1926, submitted a bill to the
insurance company.
1t was learned that Stephen
son was no longer the owner of
the house, having transferred the
property to Holmes prior to the
fire.
The insurance company refused
to allow the claim, declaring that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
AL CHEERED IN
ALBANY RETURN
Whistles Shrek and Red
Lights Flare.
BIZ United Press

BV United Press
ALBANY. N. Y, Nov. 9.-Gov-
ernor Alfred E. Smith was back at
his official home at the guberna-
torial mansion today, convinced that
his friends Of Albany had not de-
serted him.
Proof Of this friendship came last
night Vnen the Governor returned
to Albany from New York City.
Hundreds gathered at the station
as the train bearing the Governors
private car pulled in.
Bombs exploded. Red lights
flared. Train whistles and sirens
shrieked.
When the Governor appeared
there were joyous shouts from the
crowd. Many shouted regrets over
his defeat for the presidency. The
crowd formed so close around the
train that the Governor had to have
special escorts.
Smith was quiet His face did
not break into its customary grin.
His lips gripped his cigar tightly.
Red flares lighted the way of the
entire parade, and occasionally the
Governor would wave his brown
derby, but that was the only no
tice he gave to the crowd.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09

George v. Coffin, for an alleged
attempt to bride Ex-Governor
McCray. The charges were dropped
because of the statute of limita-
ton.
At the time of his purchase,
Stephenson executed a mortgage
with the Marion County State
Bank for $4,000.
Prior to the sale, Marsh had
obtained an insurance policy for
$4,000 on the house.
Transfer of the insurance to
Stephenson was duly entered.
On April II, 1925, while the
dragon was under arrest for the
Oberholtzer Staying, the building
was damaged by fire
Witnesses told deputy fire mar
shals that men were seen running
in and out Of the house and there
was a great commotion prior to
the fire.
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as Stephenson had not entered
the transfer with the insurance
company, the policy was void as
far as payment for the fire dam
age was concerned.
The bank filed suit for recovery
in Marion county superior court,
and on Aug. Is, 1925, while
Stephenson was on trial in HAM
ilton county for the Staying, he
was served with a subpoena to
appear before Judge feathers.
On motion for the insurance
company, which claimed diversity
of citizenship, the suit was trans
ferred to federal COURT Oct. Is,
1925.
I'm the meantime, on Oct. S,
Il Stephenson, his secretary, Fred
Butler, and bodyguards, Klenck
and Gentry, were indicted by the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09

Marion county grand jury on
charges of arson in connection
with the fire. Large quantities Of
gasoline and oil had been found
in the house following the blaze.
The suit has been pending be-
fore the court for three years,
while both sides have filed de-
murrers and petitions.
The arson cases against Butler,
Klenck, and Gentry were nolled in
April, 1927, but that against
Stephenson has been continued.
The legal fight Dec. 10 will be
concentrated on the point that
Stephenson made no record to the
insurance company of the transfer
of the property to Holmes and in
that event the insurance company
need not pay the bank, because
although its $4,000 interest was
insured, the bank itself carried no
insurance upon the building.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
ROm1bing Days
Children to Play in White
House for First Time
in 20 Years.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES,
United Press staff Correspondent


DALO ALTO, Cal, Nov. g.
Il Children will romp about the
White House in the next admins
tration for the first time in twenty
years.
Herbert Hoover the third is just
a year old now, to be true, but
within two or three years he will
have reached the age that delights
in riding a velocipede on such
places as the East rooms shiny
floors. They have not been marred
since young Quentin Roosevelt,
who now occupies q soldiers grave
in France, urged his pony to try
the slippery footing.
y u II
HERBERT'S sister, flaxen-
H haired, blue-eyed Peggy, al
ready has reached the mischiev-
eous age. Knowing her grand
father only as big, kindly, man,
and not as President-elect of the
United States, she marches into
his study here, calmly pushes
aside his papers and insists on a
romp.
And the President-elect sets
aside important matters and
plays with his 21z-year-old
granddaughter. He is proud of
her. People tell him she is the
living image of him, and needs
only a cigar in her pert little
mouth to be a double as far as
facial features are concerned.
II r
HER father and mother will
h l. not live in the White House
all the time, but they will be in
and out of there much of the
time, on week ends, during college
holidays, and during the summers.
The mother and children will
become familiar figures about the
executive mansion. Herbert
Hoover Jr. is an instructor in
business economics at Harvard,
taking after his father, and re-
Gently has become interested in
aviation. He has completed a sur
vey of aviation fields in connec-
ton with the Guggenheim avia-
ton foundation.
The younger brother Allan, who
recently became of voting age,
still has one quarter of study to
complete in Stanford university
before his graduation.
y
TINE President-elect is enjoy
l. ing a family reunion. Behind
the walls of his beautiful home
here, he is taking the first real
vacation in a long time, shut away
from the world. This is think
ing and listening" time for him.
Hoover is giving good deal of
thought to his success in break
ing into the solid south, and what
this near-miracle means to the
future of the Republican party.
He and party leaders are planning
to capitalize it by encouraging
establishment of live, active, eff
fective organizations there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09

A FADED gray and white pal
N ace in Irvington, where once
David G. Stephenson dreamed
his roseate visions of power ana
where was conceived the deed
which led to his downfall, will be
the cause of contention in federal
court, Dec. 10.
And Stephenson, occupying the
cell of life prisoner in the In
diana state prsion, will be a de-
PENDANT to the suit, although he
will not be present.
Named with him as co-detend-
ants are the Great American In
surance Company, New York, and
Ira M. Holmes, lawyer.
For three years the fight OF the
Marion county state bank, holder
of a $4,000 mortgage on the man
sion. at 542S University avenue,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
GOSHEN GETS
FACTORY TO
EMPLOY 100
T etroit Auto Radiator
Maker Chooses Branch
Site.
AIDED BY FREIGHT CUT
MunCie Manufacturers to
Pay Lower Scrap
Iron Rate.
AIDED BY FREIGHT CUT
BY CHARLES C. STONE
State Editor, The Times

Addition of a branch factory OF
the Long Manufacturing Company
to GoShen'S industries was an i'm
portant event of the week ended
today, a business and industrial
survey of Indiana reveals. The Long
company, one of the largest man
ufacturers of automobile radiators,
has two plants at Detroit.
At least 100 men will be employed
when the Goshen branch is opened,
set within the next few weeks. 1t
is planned to have at least $50 on
the pay roll within six month.
Manufacture of radiators for
Studebaker automobiles will be the
principal item of production for the
plant.
Sixteen Companies Benefited
Sixteen Muncie manufacturers
will be benefited by a reduction of
freight rates on scrap iron, brought
about through efforts Of the Cham
Der Of Commerce.
Showers Brothers Company,
Bloomington, one of the largest fur
niture manufacturing concerns in
the world, announces that business
for October was the largest for that
month in the company's history.
Shipments for the month ran above
100000 in value. President j. M.
Nurre expects November will show
q larger volume than october. The
plants are running daily from 6 a.
m. to 10 p. m.
Production of auto head lamps,
new line for Plant of the DelCo-
Remy Corporation Anderson, will
begin about Nov. IS, and more men
will be put on the payroll.
The Kokomo Economy Tool Cor
poration, Kokomo, has been incor-
porated with a capital of $4,000.
Establish River Terminal
An important development in
Ohio river traffic is announced at
Mt. Vernon where the Ohio and
Mississippi Transit Company and
the Emerald Coal Mining Company
have established coal shipping
terminal, which it is estimated will
handle 100000 tons annually of the
Emerald company's production.
Contracts for building ten steel
passenger cars, has been placed with
the Standard Steel Car Company,
Hammond, by the South Shore
electric railroad.
Roy G. Bryant, Franklin, has been
awarded the contract for erecting
new school building at Sheridan
on bid of $130,286.
Contracts will be let Tuesday for
erection of an addition to the Ora
ham Bros. Truck Manufacturing
plant at Evansville. The addition
will have approximately $4,000
square feet of floor space.
Construction of an addition to the
Valparaiso Home Ice Company
plant, Valparaiso, is under way. The
structure covers nearly half block.
Factories Seek Sites
Shoes, clothing, airplane motors
and clay products are represented
among companies which are nego-
tiating with the Chamber of Com
merce regarding location in Terre
Haute. One of the companies en-
ploys TOO men and another 1875.
De Luxe Tire Service Inc, New
York, has signed contract for
erection of building 60X145 feet in
Ft. Wayne as a salesroom for gaso-
line tires an dother automotive
products.
The Citizens bank, a new financial
institution, has been opened at
cambridge, with a capital of $4,000.
Curtis K. Hughes of Greencastle is
president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
Search Continues to Bare
Fallen Soldiers Bones
on BattIefieIdS.
BY MINOTT SAUNDERS
NEA Service Writer

DARTS, Nov. 9.-The tangle un-
Il derbrush Of the Meuse- Argonne,
st. Mihiel, Chateau Thierry and
other battlefields still are giving up
the unidentified bodies of American
soldiers who fell in action ten years
ago.
The country has buried its IN
known Soldier in a national shrine
at Arlington. But during recent
years 1926 bodies have been brought
out of the old battlefields, to be
buried in American military ceme-
teries over here as unknown" be-
cause identification is impossible.
Ten years have passed since the
armistice. But today, and every
day, American searching parties are
going through the backgrounds,
looking for the lost remains of boys
who did not live to toss their he'll
NETS and cheer on that November
day 6. decade ago.
Still 1874 Missing
Forty bodies have been recovered
in the last few months. The Ameri-
can Graves Registration service esti-
mates that there still are 1874
American bodies to be found.
A few weeks ago a searching
party went through the Belleau
Wood sector. Overgrown dugouts,
covered with second growth bush
and brambles, nearly hidden be-
meath fallen trees, concealed by
vines and creepers, were explored
painstakingly.
In them, at one place and another,
were found five bodies. They lay
where they had fallen ten years
ago.
The registration service spares no
effort to learn the identity of the
dead men. An elaborate system of
Identification has been developed
The task, as can be imagined, is
extremely difficult.
Tooth Chart Helps
Marks on clothing and equipment
have been, in most cases, obliterated
The Identification disk is often mis-
sing. When it is, the army tooth
chart is consulted.
According to Colonel F. w. Van
Duyne, in command of the Regis
tration service, this method is al
most infallible whenever units can
be associated definitely with the
neighborhood in which a body is
found.
Nearly all the 3O,7l3 graves in
the American military cemeteries in
Europe now bear the new Stone
crosses. In most of these cemeteries
work is in progress for the erection
of the memorial chapels planne
by the Battle Monuments commits
sion, headed by General John J
PerShing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09

By United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-One of the
most delicate operations known to
medical science proved at least par
TALLY successful today, when Bert
Ferguson, once blind, looked dinly
at the world through another mans
eye.
Ferguson's one eye failed him
several weeks ago and the doctors,
in an effort to restore his sight,
decided to transplant the cornea
from another eye. Charles Green
blatt, whose eye was removed be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
SIGHT is RECLAIMED
BY GRATING EYE

cause of a tumor, offered it to the
surgeons and the cornea, still alive,
was removed and grated to Fer
guson's member.
The medical world awaited the
result anxiously and there was great
interest today when the bandages
were removed.
Ferguson was able to distinguish
objects ten feet away. Surgeons
said that development of sight and
permanent success of the operation
would depend upon the ability of
Ferguson's optic tissue to nourish
the cells of the grated cornea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
SET BUS LINE HEARING
Park Board to Decide Butler Route
on Nov. 10.

Petition of the Indianapolis Street
Railway Company to run BUSES to
Butler university on Meridian street
will be heard by the park board
Nov. 10.
The Hoosier Motor Club, which
has objected to the proposal, and
other demonstrators will appear in
protest.
The city council will be free to
act on the request of the bus COM
pany if the park board should favor
the plan and release Meridian be-
tween Sixteenth and Fall creek
from its jurisdiction.
Use Of Meridian would relieve
congestion on Delaware street. it
was declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09

to collect $4,000 insurance, has
been before the federal court.
The insurance suit was swept
into the background when the
master of the mansion was sem
fenced to life Imprisonment for
the Staying of Madge Oberholtzer,
and it gradually was drifting into
oblivion as the former Ku-Klux
Khan dragon attempted to win
his way to freedom on supreme
court appeals.
TINE wheel of time again has
4 swept it onto the stage.
Stephenson bought the mansion
from Robert !. Marsh, Khan at
torney, March 8, 1924.
This is the same Marsh who
was indicted with Governor Ed
Jackson and the Republican boss,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
PASTOR IS WELCOMED
North Methodist Church Holds Re
ception for New Minister.

Members of the North Methodist
Episcopal church greeted the new
pastor, the Rev. Warren w. Want,
at a reception Thursday night in
the church. More than $50 mem
bers of the congregation attended.
Speakers we're: Bishop Edgar
Blake, Dr. o. w. Fifer, superintend-
ent of the Indianapolis district, and
Fred Hoke, who represented the
congregation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
WHITE DRAFTS
Civil SERVICE
PLAN FOR CITY
Every Municipal Branch
Would Be Requested by
Merit System.
COMMISSION OF THREE
Political Activity Barred;
Would Be Regulated by
to Discharge.

City Councilman John F. White.
who fathered the local civil service
movement, has submitted regula-
tons for the proposed classified
civil service system to the municipal
committee.
White, A. B. Goode, deputy city
controller, and City Attorney Ed
ward H. Knight will submit the
recommendations to the mayors
cabinet.
The committee of city officials
was named to recommend the regu-
lations to the mayors cabinet. after
city council unanimously adopted
a resolution demanding that Mayor
L. Ert Slack established the merit
plan.
Whites plan provides for the
classified civil service system in all
city departments. including police
and fire. The plan is designed to
deprive the politicians Of the spoils
of Office and establish a non-politi-
cal system of appointment, promo
ton, suspension, and discharge Of
city employees.
Provides for Commission
The plan provides for appoint
ment of a commission OF three by
the mayor. Two commissioners must
hold no city or political office, while
the third may be city employe If
desirable. The commission will
serve without pay until Jan. l. 1880,
when the city manager form OF gov
eminent will be effective.
Not more than two of the COM
missioners can be of the same
political faith. The mayor can dis
charge a member on giving written
notice and permitting the dis
charged official a hearing IN his
own behalf.
One member shall serve as chair
man, another as secretary. A city
employee will be designated as COM
mission clerk. The commission will
have authority to employ expert
help to give the physical and mental
examinations required to determine
fitness.
Bans Vote Working
Compilation of a list of employees,
their position, date and character
of appointment and subsequent
status, is recommended by White.
Proposed rules prohibit donation
to or solicitation of political funds,
use of official position or political
influence in awarding positions for
partisan political services, and pro-
hibit discharge of employees for
political reasons.
Civil service workers would be
prohibited from working at the polls
on election day, a time-honored
tradition with Hoosier Office holders.
Executive heads of departments,
one chief deputy and an executive
officer, and unskilled laborerS would
not be affected by the regulations.
Unskilled laborers would be protect
ed by a system of registration and
priority and other regulations
deemed practical by the commission.
May Appoint Fire Chief
White changed the former civil
service regulations used in the po-
lice and fire departments to provide
that the mayor can name either the
fire or police chief from within or
without the department. The reg
ulations provide that all other va
cancies be filled by promotion.
Applicants will be appointed on
the basis of physical and mental
fitness without regard to their po-
litical affiliation, religious convic-
ton or fraternal association"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
PUNCH HORSE; FINED So

Election CIoutS on Animals Nose
Draws Ire From Judge.
By United Press
BROOKLYN, Nov. 9.-Charged
with punch4pg a horse on the nose
during an election night argument,
John Casidans, 20, and Stanley
Mathewson, 10. were fined 81 and
costs each in a Flatbush magistrates
court.
Patrolman Norton Dreamer OF
traffic force testified that he was
sitting on the horse at the time and
that the two men leaned out Of an
automobile and struck his mount
when he ordered them to move on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
Accept Election Proposal
By United Press

By United Press
VIENNA, Nov. 9.-The govern
ment is understood to have accepted
the proposal of the agrarian party
that the president of the republic
be elected by popular vote. A bill
to that effect will be introduced
next week, amending the constitu-
ton by referendum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
Man Struck by Auto Dies

BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, Nov. 9.-Arthur
Freeman, 55, Losantville, died at a
hospital here of injuries received
Saturday when struck by an auto
driven by Monroe Barber. He was
pushing his own car on road after
the engine stopped, when the acct
dent occurred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
MATE DESERTS BEAUTY
Fourteen Year Old Bathing Queen
Taken Back Home to Texas.

BH Times Special
DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 9-Marian
Sherman, IA, bathing beauty prize
winner, was brought to Dallas today
from Helena, Ark. where her hus-
band, E. G. Edwards, is alleged to
have deserted her while the two
we're hitch-hiking.
Edwards has been held in the
county jail here for several weeks
on charges of false swearing and
criminal assault, both being denied.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-09
CONCEDE HATFIELD WIN
Republican Victor in West Virginia
Senatorial Race.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Nov. g.
Democratic leaders today conceded
the election OF Henry D. Hatfield,
Republican candidate for United
States senator, over Matthew Nicely,
Democrat, incumbent. Returns
from all but thirty-four of the
states 2,31O precincts gave Hatfield
323,281 and Nicely 313,462. President
Elect Herbert Hoover carried the
state by 10000 majority.