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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12

I do not think that the appoint
ment of $4,000 sleuths would put
down the evil. But I do think
that modification of the act, so
that sale of light wines and beer
would be made permissible. would
restore the peoples self respect.
The American people are sober,
moral and decent. The vast ma
jority deliberately defy the Vol
stead act, not because they want
to drink spirits, but because they
resent the curtailment of their
individual liberty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
HELD AS FENCE
Arrest Youth on Charges of
Larceny Defendants.

Keith Porter, IS, of GOAT Marion
Road was held by police today fol-
lowing the statement of three de-
PENDANTS in grand larceny case
before Criminal Judge James A.
Collins that he was implicated in an
alleged ring to steal auto parts.
Collins took the larceny case
against Charles Vance, 80, Sixty
eighth and Ferguson streets; Bonnie
boxes, 10, of 6420 Ashland avenue
and Lowell Harold, II, of 919 Riviera
drive, under advisement until Satur-
day. They are alleged to have
entered a garage of Harrison Wal
tiers, 1894 College avenue, Oct. 26.
Porter is alleged to have told the
trio what type of auto parts he
wanted and is said to have pur'
chased the articles they stole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
DIRECTORS ELECTED
New C. of C. Board to Take
Office Dec. 20.

Seven new directors elected by the
Chamber Of Commerce for three
year terms Tuesday will take Office
Dec. 20, when the annual election
of officers is held.
The seven directors elected we're:
Harold B. West, president of West
Baking Company, civic affairs di-
vision; Walter B. Harding, G.. and
J. Tire Company president, manu-
facturers; william j. Mooney Jr.,
Mooney Mueller Ward Company
vice-president, wholesale; Hugh j.
Baker, Hugh J. Baker g. Co. presi-
dent, neutrality-suspicious.; Perry
w. LeSh of Lesh Paper Company,
freight and traffic; Leland G. Huey,
Capitol Lumber Company president,
retail; George T. Whelden, realtor,
membership-at-large.
West and Mooney were reelected.
Retiring directors are Paul @.
Richey, Scott r. Brewer, Ferd l..
Holweg, Oscar Schmidt and G. M.
williams.
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Enjoys Scenery
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press staff Correspondent

united PreSS STAN correspondent
ABOARD THE TRANS
SPECIAL EN- ROUTE TO BUENOS
AIRES, Dec. IL. - President Elect
Herbert Hoover spent today in the
grandeur of the Cordillera, the An
DIES mountain range of South Amer
lea.
After a brief visit to Santiago.
where the party was received with
The greatest enthusiasm, the Hoove1
party left Tor BuenoS Aires by the
overland mountain route at 1Op. m.
The night was spent at Los Andes,
a three-hour journey from Santiago.
Los Andes marks the beginning of
the steep narrow-gauge climb over
the range.
Always a keen enthusiast for ev-
erything of the outdoors, Mr.. Hoover
arose early at Los Andes, where the
party spent the night, before begin
ming the mountain trip.
From the time the train left San
tiago for the climb to Los Andes.
the PreSident-elect tried to get ev-
cry possible glimpse of the scenery,
even during the night. South
Americans contend that the scenery
of the Andes far surpasses that of
the Alps.
Pilot Engine Tests
Along the route special caribin-
eros, or guards, we're placed at regu-
lar intervals, and they will guard
the route all of the way to the Ar
gentine frontier, where Mr.. Hoover
will be met by committee repre-
senting the government of Argen-
tina.
A pilot engine preceded the Hoo
yer train through the hills, to test
the route.
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Huge Sum Used to Attempt
Enforcement Since Law
Took Effect.
AMOUNT KEEPS RISING
Department OF Justice
Appropriation Near
rs Millions.
BY JOHN M. GLEISSNER
Times star CorrespOndent

WASHINGTON, Dec. -. - The
federal government has spent APP
proximately a quarter billion dol
lars in its effort to enforce prohibi-
ton since the Volstead act became
effective Jan. Is, 1920.
This figure is based on amounts
appropriated for the prohibition
unit, the coast guard, and the de-
partment of justice during that
period, including the current fiscal
year.
1t makes no allowance for en-
forcement work done by the bureau
of customs, the border patrols, the
secret service, or other agencies of
the government, the amount of
which it is difficult to estimate.
The major portion of the money
voted has been for the prohibition
unit. Appropriations for this agency
from Jan. II, 1920, to the end of the
current fiscal year total 500, 1854 $50.
Amounts Grow Rapidly
Starting with an appropriation of
$2,200.000 for its first six months of
operation under the Volstead act,
the appropriations for the unit
have grown steadily until they have
averaged about $13,000,000 for each
Of the last three fiscal years. The
sum of $13,500.0O0 for the next ifs
cal year is contained in the treasury
appropriation bill now before the
senate.
The department of justice in the
nlne-year period has spent $73,50O,-
600 in connection with enforcement,
it is estimated. The amounts spent
by the department because of pro-
hibition are not separately listed.
1t was testified before a senate
committee in 1926, however, that the
department figured that about one
third Of its total funds are used in
this way. More than half of the
total litigation of the department
has to do with liquor laws.
$7S,OOO,OOO for Prohibition
Since enactment of the Volstead
act, total of 1920, 1886 ,314 has been
appropriated for the department. a.
third OF which, or $73,46l 900 is
credited to prohibition.
The department prosecutes cases
made by the prohibition unit, and
cares for prisoners convicted of
violating the liquor laws in the
federal courts.
Appropriations for the depart
ment of justice for the current fiscal
year were $26,8O8,O62. The year be-
fore the VolStead act went into
effect they we're $14,974,858.
The coast guard has spent $67.-
l47, 1903 in combating the smuggling
Of liquor since this duty became
major assignment in 1924. Ap-
preparations for this work during
the current fiscal year totaled $l5,-
ll0,530.
Coast Guard Costly
This is more than half the entire
sum appropriated for the coast
guard, which was $28,902,570. The
appropriation for the coast guard
the year before enactment of the
VolStead act $7,533,335,
The total of these three major
items is $236,772 900, to which must
be added the unestimated ex-
penditures of other government
agencies during the nine years. 1t
does not include anything spent by
the states. nor does it take into ac-
count amounts recovered through
fines, fJrfeitures, and seizures.
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leaned young men and women,
singing, hooting, cat-calling and
worse.
Then they began throwing
things-bedroom furniture, bottles,
glasses, trays, pillows, chairs; any
thing movable.
The fury was maintained
through a sleepless night.
I asked a doctor, who was busy
there the next morning, how it
happened.
Its GIN" he said, synthetic
gin. 1t drives them temporarily
mad. The most pathetic thing is
that so many young girls are af-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
COUNTRY CLUB TO NAME
3 DIRECTORS THURSDAY
Members to Ballot On Officers at
University Club.

Members to Ballot On Officers at
University Club.
Members of the Country club of
Indianapolis will ballot on officers
Thursday, between 4 and 8 p. m. at
the University Club.
Business session will begin at 8 p.
m. Three directors will be named
to serve three years.
Candidates are: Edward B. Raub,
Walter r. Shiel. Benjamin P. Co.
bun, Robert P. KruSe, Frank l..
Littleton and Homer Mckee.
Three membership committeeman
will be chosen from the following:
Cornelius E. Holloway, Guy Lem
mon, William E. Munk, John A.
Refs, Eleanor E. Taylor and Charles
r. Weiss.
DR.. w. B. Mumfod and w. Hath
away Simmons have been nom
mated by life members to serve on
the board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
THWART PLOT
TO BLOW Up
HOOVER TRAIN
Heavy Guard Patrols Tracks
in Argentina; Numerous
Arrests Made.
FIND BOMBS IN RAID
Police Withhold Details;
PreSident-EIeCt on Way
to Buenos Aires.
FIND BOMBS IN RAID
By United Press

bY OWIC6U 1TSoS
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. IL. - An
anarchist plot against the life of
President-E Elect Herbert Hoover has
been discovered in this city but the
Argentine government believes it
has been frustrated.
Numerous arrests have been made
and more are expected today.
Elaborate precautions have been
taken to guard the entire line of
the trans-Andean railway over
which Mr.. Hoover will travel today
from Los Andes, Chile, to BuenoS
Aires.
Bridges, culvertS, snow sheds in
the mountain passes of the Andean
CordilleraS and other danger points
along the transcontinental rail line
from Chile across the mountains
and over the pampaS of the Ar
gentine are being picketed by troops
and police.
Army Aid Recalled
General Juan Carezza, who was
appointed to act as Hoover's aid
during his visit here and who left
Monday on a special train to meet
the Hoover party at the frontier,
returned here Tuesday on orders
from the government. No reason
for Carezza's recall was given.
Existence of the plot against Hoo
yer, who now is en- route to Buenos
Aires from Santiago, Chile, where
he was given most cordial recep-
ton, was confirmed in an official
statement issued Tuesday night.
The statement indicated the
identity Of the disturbing element
was known to police.
Bombs Found
The official statement indicated
that the police had taken early pre-
cautions to avoid American
demonstrations during the goodwill
visit such as those which had oc-
CURED during the Sacco- Vanzetti
trial and executions last year.
In a raid Tuesday, police found
seven bombs, dynamite and arms
and ammunition in the house of
Manuel Scarzo, anarchist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
TRACTION HITS
AUTO;BOY DIES
Two Lads Seriously Hurt in
Crash.

A 17-year-old youth was injured
fatally and his two boy compan-
Ions hurt seriously Tuesday night
when the car in which they were
riding crashed head on into an in
terurban car at Fourteenth street
and BBrookSide avenue.
The dead youth is Hershell STAINS
bury, >1l35 Tecumseh street. He suf-
fered fractured skull.
Those injured are Robert Graham,
II, of 5235 Altha avenue, who suf-
fered a compound fracture of the
right arm and severe cuts and
bruises; and Stanford German, II,
of 512 Arch street, who is recovering
from severe cuts on the head.
Eli Applegate, Newcastle, motor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12

THESE men are the five prin-
i cipal indianapolis assistants
Of Santa Claus.
Many boy and girl is puzzled
each Christmas to understand
why there are so many Santas,
so The Times is printing these
pictures of the five Santas doing
business in the city at present
and has obtained from them the
correct explanation.
It's very simple. Santa Claus
is the worlds busiest man at this
time of year. And every true be-
lever in Santa knows that what
he hates most of anything is to
disappoint any of the millions OF
boys and girls who look to him
each year to make it a merry
Christmas for them.
There we're so many to consider
that some years ago Santa be-
came worried. He wanted to heard
from each of his youthful admir-
erS and find out what they WlSneo
of him, but found he couldn't
make the rounds.
At first he tried having each
boy and girl write him a letter.
But that didn't work so well. Let
ters will get lost in the mail no
matter how hard and carefully
the mailman works.
So now he is using the assistant
plan.
He has a lot of assistants in
each town and city. They wear
some of his old suits of clothes,
or brand new ones made like his,
and take his place before Christ
mas in talking to the millions Of
boys and girls who want to be
sure they will not be forgotten on
christmas daV
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
MAIL SLEUTH LEARNS
TT. Wayne Detectives Warn Grad

TT. Wayne Detectives Warn Grad
uate of Correspondence School.
By Times Special
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 12.-Loran
Shaw has been warned by real
sleuths not to function again as an
officer of the law until he has more
authority than a card showing he
was graduated from correspon-
dence school Of detection.
Local detectives took Shaw into
custody after he had offered his
services to several stores, display
ing his card and a new. shiny star.
After the warning, he was released.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
PEACHES NAMED IN
'RACY' DIVORCE SUIT

Servant, Witness, Fails to Identify
Her as Defendants Guest"
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Dec. IL.
The name of Frances PeacheS)
Browning now figures directly in the
divorce action brought here by Mrs.
Edgar Allen Allen is former book
ing agent for Peaches Browning.
Lee Parsons Davis, Aliens attor-
ney, tried to get Henry Arnstead,
former Negro servant in the Allen
home, to admit that Peaches Brown
ing was the woman who spent sew
eraI nights with Allen in his
Larchmont home near here.
He refused, however, to identify
a newspaper picture of Mrs. Brown
ing which was shown him.
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ton ever played upon itself in
the history of civilization.
I went to many private dinners
in all parts of the country, and
with one exception-in Chicago
I never saw prohibition table.
went to cocktail parties at
tended by state officials, United
States legislators, judges and col
lege presidents, and with the few
est possible exceptions they all
drank as much or more than they
did before prohibition.
All of them said that prohibi-
ton is sad and a degrading
farce. Many said that before the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12

With opening of two additional
parcel post windows at the Indian
apolis postoffice, the annual Christ
mas rush officially is started, Post
master Robert H. Bryson said to-
day.
Bryson repeated his request that
Christmas greeting cards for de-
livery in Indianapolis be mailed
now, that they may be sorted and
cancelled before the rush.
If such cards are tied in bundles
and marked Hold for late delivery"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
PLAN BLAST REPAIRS

Officials of Evansville Company
Confer After Heavy Factory Loss.
By Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. r.
Officials Of the Globe Bose World
Furniture Company today are con-
sidering plans for rebuilding half of
factory No. l, wrecked Tuesday by
an explosion and fire with a loss es-
timated at from $150,000 to 5000, 900.
An overheated air compressor ex-
ploded and flames followed. Only
one was was hurt. He was Aaron
Patterson. Negro, cut by flying glass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
PEOPLES

Eddie Frodell, 631 North New
Jersey street, at the Peoples
Quitting Company, has played
Santa Claus each Christmas for
twenty years. Frodell is the
clown who patrolled the streets
advertising the police and fire.
mems circus. He explains to
his child visitors that he is just
one Of the assistants used by
Santa Claus, because Santa
can't be every place at once"
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Colonial

For years Dan Donohue, 10
North Holmes street, was a
clown in circuses and car
nivals. He has been living here
with his wife and six children
for several years. This is his
first year as Santa Claus. He
is at the Colonial Furniture
Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
I Z
SEEMS
TOME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

nNCE upon time it used to be
~ fun to speculate about Mars
and the possibility of the Martians.
The astronomers gave an inch of
substances to such contingency, and
that was ample to inspire f1ctition-
lists to full-length novels.
But always the fantasy ran that
men in Mars we're very different.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
HEALTH EDUCATION
URGED IN SCHOOLS
Fine YuLetide
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Paul
Wegland was fined $25 for reck-
less driving, but the judge Sus-
pended sentence when Veg
land promised he would spend
the money for Christmas pres
ents for his ten children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
HOLIDAY STAMPEDE
ON AT POSTOFFICE

they can be delivered few days
before Christmas.
While several hundred additional
postal workers have been employed
for the holidays, Bryson said, it is
impossible to employ additional
clerks familiar with city distribu-
ton. If mailing of greeting cards
is delayed until the last minute,
many will not be delivered until
after Christmas.
Parcel post windows will be open
from 7 a. m. to 1870 p. M, begin
ming Dec. II.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
Blocks

Another old-time Snowman
aiding Santa Claus in his work
for Indianapolis children is
Thomas McMyers, 627 German
street, the Santa at the William
H. Block Company store for six
years. McMyers for thirty
seven years has been a carnival
man and Snowman, and all
those years has played the part
of the white-bearded saint at
Christmas time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12

indeed, some OF
the drea m e rs
doubted whether
the place was
co = educational
and abolished all
the more famil-
iliar sexes. Oc-
casionally these
people in the
far-of red plan
ct were pictured
as gods and
then again as
devils. Wells, as
I remember, did
them as splindly
little fello W S
W 18th h u g e,
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4wgS

Joseph B.. Elliotte got the
training which enables him to
act as one of Santa's assistants
on the vaudeville stage. For
fourteen years he was a comedy
singer and blackface actor.
Most of the year he operates a
lock and safe repair shop at els
Indiana avenue, but for three
years he has been the Santa
Claus at the L. S. AyreS & Co.
store, at Christmas time.
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trusted EmpIOye Accused

BU IlWtS HDtCtut
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Dec. r.
Otto Shields faces a charge of grand
larceny here after serving for many
years as a trusted ernploye Of the
Houston hotel here. He is alleged
to have taken 500 of the hotels
money. F'ingerprints on cash reg
lister and check provided clews
upon which Shields, employed as
night clerk, was arrested.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
PettiS

John D. Stuart, Santa Claus
at the Pettis Dry Goods Com
pany store, lives at GIT st.
Peter street with his wife and
three children. During the
winter he does ordinary labor
WORK. but he always can find
time to play Santa Claus" and
for three years has been at the
Pettis store.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
LEARN BY MACHINE

Pupils of New York School Spell,
Write on TypewriterS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Children
of 5 and 6 years are learning to
spell and write on typewriters in
stead of manually in the Horace
Mann elementary school at Teach
ers college, Columbia university. Al
though the touch system is not
compulsory, the pupils are shown
the system by chart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
Gas Fumes Cause Death

BJ Times Special
RICHMOND, Ind, Dec. 12.-Mrs.
Flora Showalter, 10, is dead here
from fumes which escaped from a
gas stove in her apartment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
TWIN BABIES AS GIFTS
Father of Five Others at WinSlOw
Unable to Care for Two More.

BJ Times Special
WINSLOW, Ind, Dec. Irwin
girl babies born Saturday night at
the cost of their mothers life, are
offered as gifts by their father, Jas
per Nolan, to anyone who will as
sure him that they will grow up in
a good home.
The father, a section hand, has
five other children, and cannot sup
port or care for the twins. The
babies weigh six pounds each. Their
names are Catherine Ray and Max
inc Fay.
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TWO BORN UNDER FIRE
wisconsin Woman Gives Birth 10
Twins as Home Burns.

CASSVILLE, Wis, Dec. 12.-As
flames cracked on the roof of her
home, Mrs. Matt Adrian gave birth
to twin boys. AS soon as the pair
arrived the doctor bundled the fam
lily into cave near by. One of the
boys weighed 10A pounds and the
other liz. The house was de-
Stroyed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
BY RALPH ID. BLUMENFELD
Editor of The Daily EXPRESS

T ONDON, Dec. 12.-I have OBJ
IL served the working of the
VolStead prohibition act in the
United States during a two
months tour across the continent
and back; and I regret sincerely
to have to say that it is perhaps
the most tragic joke that any ma
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law was passed, they never
touched liquor.
q y n

y y u
TN one town we visited there was
Il a great football match. We
never expected to see what we did,
nor do ever wish to experience
it again. In the evening, at
dance at the hotel where we stayed,
ed, the place was crowded by II
o'clock with young couples in eve
ming dress, shouting, roaring,
riotous. BY midnight the place
was bedIam. From every window,
shouting across the hotel wings,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
ASKS $1,000 MONTHLY
Warsaw Woman Seeking Divorce
Asserts $4OO Not Enough.

Asserts $500 Not Enough.
BIZ Times Special
WARSAW, Ind, Dec. 12.-Mrs.
Jessie Dalton alleges in petition
on file in KosciuSko circuit court
here that a $500 month allowance
granted pending hearing of her di-
vorce suit against Donald A. Dali
ton is insufficient to maintain her
home and she wants a raise to
$1,000 a month. She has the Gus
body of the couples son Mat
them, 6.
Dalton is head of the Dalton
foundries here. He is said to have
employed both Chicago and local
attorneys in preparation for a
strong fight against a divorce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12

The following is made up of excerpts
davis London Daily Express by its editor.
who lust has returned from a two
months tour of the United States as
head Of party If British editors. visit
ing under auspices of the Carnegie
Foundation for International Peace.
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Princess WEEDS New Yorker

BIZ United Press
CHICHESTER, England, Dec. IL.
Princess Marie Louise D'Orleans
and william F. Kingsland Of New
York were married today.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-28
City Items

Mrs, E. J. Bergin and daughter of flatbush, N. Y.. are spending a two weeks vacation with her mother Mrs, Mary Murphy of Fremont street.
 Attorney S, Gerard Casale has sold to Harry Battistoni, land on Park reserve. The grantor agrees that he will not construct a house larger than a one family dwelling not to cost less than Sl0,ooO.
 A lease has been granted Frank Prosperi for a store at 26l Myrtle street for an automobile sales room. Gordon J. Ely. agent of Fafnir Bearing Co.,. granted the lease.
 William German has transferred 10 Matas Skrabulls property on Jubilee street.
 Waiter F. Linn, son of August Linn of this city and Elizabeth For shaw of Plainville were married in Plainville on March IT by Rev. A. C. Theodore Steege, pastor of St. Matthew's German Lutheran church i'll this city.
 daughter was born Sunday to MT, and Mrs. Joseph Maloney of New York city Mrs Maloney was formerly Miss Margaret Kennedy of 75f East street, this city.
 Vernon Hodges, first president of the New Haven Rotary club, will speak on Business Methods" at tNe Rotary club meeting tomorrow.