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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21

Manhattan youngsters La the neighbor-
hood viii line up in the drive outside.
intently listening. And little work is
done in neighbcrhood kitchens when
the windows are open and Roger feels
like playing.
A most appreciative audience greeted
the youthful violinist. He was called
back for two encores after the Mem
delssohn Concerto" and even then the
audience was not satisfied. 1t ccntin-
IteR
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
ALCOHOL DEATHS
GAIN IS REPORTED
Temperance League Declares
Prohibition Has Failed to
Aid Dry States.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
! NEW YORK, October 21-The Mod
! Grafton League whose object is 1.-The
restoration of temperance" yesterday
made public a statement saying figures
compiled by the United States Census
Bureau show that of 81 States which
we're dry before national prohibition,
only one has reported drop in the
death rate from alcoholism in the years
between the passage of the eighteenth
amendment and 1927.
A report of the leagues survey of the
Census Bureau figures has been sent to
President Hoover's Commission on Law
Enforcement. Accompanying the re-
port is a letter from Austen G.. Fox,
chairman of the league, to George W.
Wickersham, chairman of the commits
sion.
Rate Drops in Maine.
Before national prohibition was
adopted" Fox said in statement, lit S
proponents contended that the prohibit
ton States could not become really dry
because many of them had wet neigh
bors. Only by the adoption of national
prohibition. and thus drying up their
wet neighbors, it was commended, could
the dry States succeed in making them
selves dry.
THE death rates from alcoholism in
those States indicate how far this result
has been achieved. These figures show
that in none of the dry States, with the
exception Of Maine. has the death rate
from alcoholism gone to lower level
than it was under State prohibition.
"On the contrary, in almost every
case where the figures are available, the
rate is higher than it was under State
prohibition. This means that the ex-
pectation that national prohibition
would assist the dry States has not
been fulfilled, and that on the contrary,
intemperance has increased"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
Halloween's Next Week!
Here's Your Costume

Riding Hood, Page Boy
or Girl, Pumpkin, China
man. Pierrot, Devil, Gyp-
sy, Dude, Witch, Flapper,
Dutch Boy, Pirate, Felix
the Cat, Jazz Baby, b.
Peep, Dutch Girl, Span
ish Girl, Rainbow, Jockey,
etc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
SERIES HERO HONORED.
Bling" Miller Is Welcomed by
Hometown Folk.

VINTON, Iowa, October 81 P).-
Hometown folks today welcomed home
the man who just week ago made the
$4,000 hit for the Philadelphia
Athletics in the world series.
Edmund j. (Bing) Miller, was home
to attend a banquet arranged by his
schoolday neighbors. Born and reared
on a farm near here, he first starred as
pitcher on the old Vinton Cinders
serfli-pro club. with his brother
Eugene, who received his losses, Bing
lost only one game in the two years
while playing for Vinton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21

year covered by the survey the rate
reached its highest point at 81 per
100000 population. In Maine, the old
est prohibition State, the rate was 81
in 1927. The Maine average of the last
10 state prohibition years was ISL and
in eight national prohibition years, 225.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21

thorities one Of their most vexing prob
lens.
Under the decision, motorists would
be permitted to park their cars in the
crowded downtown area unrestreted--
a Situation which police contend would
cause an economic loss of thousands or
dollars daily in delay to traffic move
ment.
Loop store owners have fought the
non parking ordinance, claiming %
per cent falling of in business ives due
to the restrictions against car owners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
NEW YORK ACCLAIN1S SECOND
VIOLIN PRODIGY FROM WEST
Knee-High to Grand Piano, Roger
Ricci, Just Turned 9, Plays With
Manhattan Symp hony.
BY FOSTER B. HALEY,


sost the
ardent admrer of Yehud
of the West 1925
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
CHICAGO DOWNTOWN
PARKING BAN ILLEGAL
Severe Traffic Problem Follows
Ruling by State Su-
preme Court.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, october 21-The state
Supreme Courts decision that the ordi-
nance against downtown parking Is IL
legal has turned back upon traffic au-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
Montana Has Highest Rate.

The figures, which do not include
deaths from wood or poison alcohol,
show that of the dry States for which
records are available. Montana has had
the highest rate since the institution of
national prohibition. In 1927, the last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21

United States troops IN Panama viii
wear civilian clothes hereafter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
BR|BE MOVE IS:[A|D.
. TOPANTAGES'' AIDE
Prosecutor Says Statement
Puts Theater Magnate
ION the Spot" ~.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 17.-After
filing a formal information charging
Alexander PantageS, 54-year-old theater
magnate, with q criminal attack on
Eunice Pringle, 17-year-old dancer,
announced that Roy Keene, an execu.
tive of the PantageS theater system,
had been taken into custody as a mate
rial witness In an alleged attempt to
bride witnesses to alter their testimony
in the case.
Fits said that Keene had made q
statement that puts the theater mag
nate right on the spot" Keene was Or
dered held in jail pending investiga-
ton. He was named today by Fred
Wise, q witness at Pantages' preliminary
hearing. which closed yesterday. as the
man wise saw in Pantages' private Of
flee shortly after the alleged attack
there on Miss Pringle on Friday, Au-
gust 8. Wise said Keene tried to bar
him from the room whittier Wise had
gone when he heard the girl scream.
Keene was taken into custody shortly
after Fits had announced that two Of
the States principal witnesses during
Pantages preliminary hearing had Med
certain parties" had attempted to
bride them to change their testimony.
They said large sums of money had
been offered.
An the states witnesses In the case
were ordered placed under guard today
and Fits declared he would stand for
no foolishnesS." These included Miss
Pringle and her mother, Mrs. Irene
Pringle: Fred Wise, w. L. Gordon and
w. c. Hale.
Pantages was held for trial In SUI
perior Court after hts. hearing yester-
day. He is at liberty under $4,000
bail. His arraignment is set for 10 am.
Monday, at which time he is to plead
to two charges Of criminally attacking
Miss Pringle. It IS expected the date
for his trial will be set then.
Miss Pringle alleges that when she
called on the theater owner in pri-
vate once to get him to reinstate a
dance act. he attacked her and tried to
prevent her escape afterward.' PhySi-
clans who examined the girl substan-
tiated her assertions. -.......
Pantages vigorously has denied the
accusation and said he Is the victim
Of q "frame-up."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18

evening public meetings was 1884.
Members attended from 81 States, the
District Of Columbia. Porto Rico, the
Philippine Islands and from eight for
eign countries.
Frank Tannenbaum, nationally known
penologist of the Brockings Institution,
speaking today before the closing ses-
sion of the law-enforcement round ia
BILE, declared American prisons fail
completely in their duty to return pris-
oners to society as better men.
He advocated turning the prisoner
over to representatives Of the Depart
ments of Education and Health, with
the possible assistance Of the Depart
ment Of Labor. s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18

Officials Of the Eastern Kentucky
Utilities Co., a subsidiary of the Pub
lie Service Corporation of Chicago, re-
ported the sale. The nine properties,
it was believed, will be under the con-
troll Of the Standard Gas & Electric
Corporation, the largest Byllesby con-
Germ.
The companies purchased were the
Eastern Kentucky Utilities Co., Preston
burg Gas Co., Paintville Gas & Water
Co., Salyersville Gas, Electric & Ice
Co, West Liberty Electric & Gas Co,
Louisa Light g. Power Co, Crystal Ice
d Cold Storage Co. and Kenova Ice
Co.
Several properties of the Federal
Public Service Corporation were In
cluded in the transaction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18

tised for sale. Part can also be taken
care of under the "yardstick" by which
Great Britain is to be allowed a slight
" greater number of cruisers, In view
Of the fact that most of hers carry g.
inch guns, while most Of the American
cruisers are equippedewith 8-inch guns.
While parity probably can be reached
In this way, It seems almost certain that
there must be considerable building on
the part of the United States to at
tain It. ~ So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
CHICAGO SCHOOLS ADOPT
WEEKLY RELIGIOUS HOUR
Pupils to Be Excused From Secular
Work for. Regular Instruc
ton by Churches.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 17.-Chicago's
School Board today opened the way for
the introduction of weekday religious
instruction in connection with the pub
lie schools by ruling that public school
pupils may be excused from school for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
BYLLESBY EXTENDS
UTILITY HOLDINGS
Nine Companies in Kentucky and
West Virginia Are Taken
Over by Chicagoan.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 17.-Extension
of the public utility holdings Of the
Byliesbv interests of Chicago was an
nounced today with the purchase of
nine power. light, gas, ice and water
properties In Kentucky and West Vir-
ginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18

Sentenced by the mayor of Strass-
burg, Germany, to "a hours imprison-
ment because his son failed to attend
his religious instruction class at school
for a month, the father has entered an
appeal against the sentence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
religious instruction one hour

systematic religious instruction one hour
each week.
The plan will first be inaugurated in
the Lake View district, it was ex-
planned, with the possibility that it
may be extended over the entire city
If the experiment proves a success.
The action was heralded by its spon-
sors as a far-reaching step for the
strengthening of churches OF all de-
nominations in the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
PUBLIC AFFAIRS FARLEY
ENDS THIRD SESSION
Penologist Tells Institute q. 3.
Prisons Fail to Return Pris-
oners az Better Men.
oners as Better Men.

BY the Associated Press.
UNIVERSITY, Va, August 1.-THE
third session of the Institute OF Public
Affairs came to close today at the
University of Virginia. oficials an
nounced that the average attendance
for the round tables. open forums and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
U. S. MINISTER IN ITALY.
John w. Garrett Reaches Naples
for Mediterranean Tour.

NAPLES, August II (P).-John W.
Garrett, newly appointed American
Ambassador to Italy, whose yacht Is
anchored here in preparation for q
Mediterranean tour, arrived In Naples
today and was received by Homer M
of1cials Of the port. @ =
Mr.. Garrett said that he was happy
to represent the United States In. italy
and hopes to continue successfully the
work of making even more cordial the
relations between the United States
and italy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
Fur Coats, Valued a
$1,790, Are Lifted
by Thieves.

Expert Shoplifters, apparently
keen judges of furs. operated in In
dianapolis Wednesday afternoon.
Police were seeking d woman and
girl of about 16 years, while two
stores repo- ed losses of fur coats
aggregating S1,790 in value and two
other stores reported visits by the
fur thieves.
A mink coat valued at 81 ,495 was
stolen from the William H. Block
Company by the woman and girl. A
Hudson Seal coat valued at S295 was
stolen from the New York store by
the same pair.
The same two visited II. P. Was
son & Co., and the L. s. Ayres
store, Wednesday afternoon, but
both stores reported nothing miss
ing.
The woman, wearing a mink coat,
and the girl, wearing a brown pony
coat with beaver trimming, visited
the stores and the woman tried on
coats. While clerks served them,
the two disappeared with the miss
ing garments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
LIBRARY COMMISSION
APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR

Governor Harry G. Leslie today
appointed the state library COM
mission, charged with locating and
building the new S1,0O0,O00 state
library provided by a special levy
passed by the 1929 legislature.
Four of the membership are from
the Indiana Library and Historical
board. They are William M. Taylor
and Charles N. Thompson of Indi-
annapolis, Mrs. Elizabeth Claypool
Earl of Muncie and Mrs. Bess NJ.
Sheehan of Gary.
William P. Dearing of Oakland
City, Who is the fifth member of the
board, declined appointment to the
commission, it was announced at
the Governors Office. The act
creating the commission provides
for but four members from the
board.
Senator C. Herman (Repl Car
bon, and Representative George L.
Saunders, Dem. BlufTton), are the
legislative representatives chosen.
The act also provides for three
members drawn from the citizenry
at large. These are Arthur r.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
Accounts, Health Boards
Cited in Statement by
Township Trustee.

Charge that G. G. Shipp, heating
speciality manufacturer, controls the
state board of accounts and the
state health department" was made
by Albert Yeager, Decatur township
school trustee, before the state tax
board today.
Yeager based his allegations on
a direct statement from Frank
Copeland, one-time Shipp employe
he said. Copeland was present and
made no denial until cushioned after
the hearing by newspaper men. He
admitted being employed by Shipp
and circulating a petition to halt
erection of a $175,000 school in De-
catur township, Marion county, rrl-
der the holding company plan.
The hearing was on the proposed
bond issue for the school and was
continued until the supreme court
rules on holding company consti-
tutionality.
Plans for the school were upset
once by the health board and board
of accounts. Yeager charged that
after that action, Copeland came
to him and said:
"You never viii build that school
house unless you get right with c..
G. Shipp. He controls the board of
health and the board Of accounts
both"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19

Baxter of indianapolis, Charles T.
Sansberry of Anderson, and James
r. McCann of Lebanon.
Within sixty days the commission
must meet and elect officers, the
statute provides. The director of
the state library, Louis j. Bailey,
will serve ex officio as secretary of
the commission.
The commission is empowered 70
select the building site, select plans
and let contracts for the work. It
will carry on until the building is
completed and dedicated, when the
structure will be turned over to the
custodian Of state property and the
commission ipso facto dissolveS un-
der the law.
First funds for the commission win
be available when the 1929 semi
annual payment is made next June
rhe law provides a half cent spe-
cial levy for 1929 and 1890 and a
1-cent levy in 1881.
All funds will be not collected
until the close of the fiscal year
1892, as taxes levied one year are
collected the next.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
PROBE IN HAITI
is SIDETRACKED
Hoover's Plan Apparently
Doomed to Delay.
Charles r. Myers
Bu United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Presi-
dent Hoover's plan for an immediate
investigation of Haitian conditions
appears doomed to indefinite delay.
Although a resolution authorizing
appointment of a commission 'Of
seven members and expenditure of
$4,000 was adopted in the house
late Wednesday. 1t encountered
cloudy situation in the senate today.
Chairman Borah of the senate
foreign relations committee, who
never has been sympathetic with the
marine policy in Haiti or Nicaragua,
declared his committee would be un-
able to consider the matter until
after the Christmas holidays. AS the
senate already has entered a gen.
tleman's agreement to consider no
matters save tariff after the holi-
days, the resolution may not reach
the senate floor until February or
later.
AS matters stand now the reso-
luton probably could be adopted
in the senate if brought to vote.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
ALCER SEEKING
JUDGE CHANCE
State viii Contest Move on
TechnicaIity.
BH Tim es Special

BU Times SpeciGL
VERNON, Ind, Dec. 19.-Motion
for a special judge to try Gene
Alger, parole violator and alleged
bank bandit, in Jennings circuit
court Dec. 26 on robbery charges
was filed late Wednesday by Claude
Mcbride, defense counsel.
Circuit Judge John R. Carney
Friday is to name three candidates
from which one will be selected to
hear the Alger trial.
Prosecutor Earl Wolfinger said he
will contest the motion on grounds
that it did not comply with the
statute requiring fling ten days
previous to the trial date.
Following arguments on this ques-
ton Friday, Alger is to be taken to
the state reformatory, Pendleton
for safe keeping until his trial is
called.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
FOUR ORPHANED
IN SUICIDE PACT
Widow Ends Her Life With
Invalid Lover.
Frank C. Daley
RN United Press

| BIZ United Press
WESTERLY, r. l., Dec. 19.-While
her four young children were asleep
in a single bed in a nearby room,
Mrs. Edith Stewart, 35-year-old
widow, died in a suicide pact today
with George Shippee of Pawtucket,
her invalid lover.
They left a note which read: This
is a suicide pact" 1t was signed
with both their names.
Mrs. Stewards four children were
asleep in stuffy little front room,
entirely unaware of the tragedy,
when police entered the three-room
fiat and discovered the bodies and
the farewell note.
Behind the double shooting, au-
thorities discovered evidence of a
love affair which had extended over
several months, since the death of
Mrs. Stewards husband Harry, a
World war veteran.
1t was learned that Shippee, also
a World war veteran, had been con-
fined recently to a sanitarium.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
Morris Davis Nabbed by
State Cops as Owner
of Rum Car.

State police today turned over tc
Putnam county authorities two mer
they believe can clear up the slay-
ing of William Ke1npe Jr., alleged
hijacker of indianapolis, near Balm
bridge, Ind, Tuesday night.
They regarded their case com
pletc with the arrest this morn
ing of Morris (Mose) Davis, alleged
Indianapolis rum runner, in the Of
fee Of Eli Gmil, professional bonds
man, opposite police headquarters
here.
Davis is believed owner of the
alcohol-laden automobile which
Kempe attempted to hijack. Davis
was taken to state police headquar-
terS in the statehouse, where Off
GERS already were holding Roscoe
Pearson of Evansville, captured in
North Alabama street apartment
wednesday night by Lieutenant
Charles Bridges and Policeman.
Nicholas Rawlings. The same Off
GERS arrested Davis today.
Davis and Pearson are charged
with possession of liquor. They
were to be removed to Greencastle
this afternoon by Deputy Sheriff
l.. A. Bryan, Putnam county, where,
officers say. charge OF murder will
be lodged against Pearson. He is
believed to have been the driver
of the rum car. Davis was
endeavering to raise $4,000 bond. No
bond was allowed Pearson.
In Pearson's apartment were found
mud-stained suit of clothes, over
coat and hat, identified as having
been worn by one of the occupants
Of the rum car, who the police
claim was Pearson.
Pearson was seen standing near
Ford coupe in front of the Y. NJ
@. A. here at a. m. Wednesday. He
hailed cab and went to Davis
headquarters.
The Ford coupe was. traced by
state police. who learned it had
been stolen at Bainbridge, where the
fight with the hijackers occurred
Tuesday night.
State police believe Pearson stole
the coupe and made his escape after
tie rum car had turned over.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
Warning

An impostor, representing
himself as a Times radio inter-
ference engineer, is victimizing
radio owners of the city.
The Times has only one man
representing it's radio interfer-.
ence department., John T.
Hawkins, radio editor, who al
ways makes radio interference
calls in Roosevelt car, labeled
Times Radio Interference" !"
and carrying a radio receiving
apparatus. No charge is made
for his services.
r. o. jackson Of 5211 Car
rollton avenue, reported today
his wife paid a man, represent
ing himself as Ray Cheney,
1925 for repairs" to a radio
set. The man was about %
years old, with brown hair,
weighing about lao pounds
and 5 feet z inches tall. In
another case a woman paid the
same man $3.50.
Hawkins, sole representative
of The Times radio depart
ment, Is 5 feet 4, of dark COM
plexion, with small mustache,
weighing about ITO pounds.
Citizens are urged to report
Immediately to The Times or
the police department visits of
any other person representing
himself to be a Times radio
representative.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
KILLER BURKE
CLEWS found
IN MICHIGAN
Woman Identifies Pictures
as Those of Man Who
Was in Flint.
GIRL IS WITH FUGITIVE
Watch Is Kept in Blizzard
for Gunman Along
Country Roads.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
FLINT, Mich, Dec. 19.-Search of
highways between Flint and De-
troit failed to reveal any traces Of
Fred Burke, notorious gunman, re-
ported marooned in the snow some
where between the two cities today.
Sheriff Frank Green told the
United Press he was inclined to dis
count reports that Burke was in
this vicinity.
State police and deputy sheriffs
watched roads of Genesee county in
a driving blizzard all night, after
Mrs. S. H. Parvis identified news
paper pictures of Burke as those
of the man who spent Wednesday
at her rooming house and drove
off toward Detroit.
The man and his companion, a
pretty young woman, had been gone
for hours before Mrs. Jarvis chanced
to pick up a newspaper. One glance
at the picture of Burke and she
tainted.
POllce SAID Sne was positive IN
her Identification and even described
characteristics of Burkes appear
ance that did not show in the news
paper photo.
The blizzard which howled down
from the north Wednesday made
roads between Flint and Detroit al
most impossible, and if Burke start
ed for Detroit, officers say, he is at
some farmhouse along the way.
The landlady's Identification" is
the latest of a series of reports that
Burke has been "seen" fleeing with
woman companion through south
ern Michigan. He is reported to
have slept in an oil station at Jack
son Monday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
FIVE DEAD IN Indiana AS
WORST BLIZZARD SINCE. 1878
RIPS THROUGH MIDDLE WEST
State Struggles to Restore Communication;
Traffic Demoralized by Sleet, Snow
Storms Since Wednesday.
RELIEF FROM COLD WAVE PROMISED
Gradually Rising Temperature Forecast
for Friday; Two Injured When
School Bus Goes Over Bluff.

While Indiana struggled today to restore traffic and
communication the broke through the the first
time in ten days. promising relief from the blizzard
experienced here since January 1918
Following than week of high temperatures and
excessive rainfall seet and descended the
midwest Wednesday to paralyze automotive steam and
electric travel and impair communication for more than
swelve hours.
Three deaths in the state attributed directly to the
cold while two others indirectly were traceabe to the
weather