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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-26

one adventurer after another puts up
the highest building on earth, and not
only buildings, but architects VIII be
rivals. However skyscraper architecture
develops, though, the name OF Mr.. Gil
bert will be secure, as that OF man
who supremely adapted the Gothic style
of cathedral building to the purposes of
trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-26
Coolidge Settles
Portrait Dispute
Adversely to Dog
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 26.--
Howard Chandler Christy has q
new Coolidge story.
The question arose as to what
sort of a dress Mrs. Coolidge
should wear when posing before
him for a portrait. The artist
suggested red with a white dog
beside the sitter for contrast. The
President preferred a white dress.
There was a slight argument,
which ended when the President
said: LET it be a white dress, If
you please. To allow for your
contrast, let us have the dog dyed
red"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-26
Tilden Wins Christmas Dinner.

PARIS, December IS (P).-Bill Tilden
had a Merry Christmas because of his
skill at tennis. He won a wager Of
q dinner from Jean Borotra, Tilden
and Charles Kingsley defeated Borotra
and Luis Torralva at Practice doubles,
Is. 17-15.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
CALLS BUSINESS
BASICALLY FIRM
Financial Expert Speaks on
Stocks Crash.

Optimistic predictions regarding
business conditions were made by
John Moody of New York, financial
expert, at the dinner of the Indian
apOlis Bond Mems Club Friday
night.
A definite upward trend in bust
ness and industry after the turn
Of the year is seen by Moody.
"Pyramiding of speculative COM
mitmentS, the heavy marketing and
wide distribution in recent months
of highly speculative securities of
the large holding and trading cor
porations and the prospect of other
huge securities offerings for the
coming month are responsible for
the stock crashes of the last few
weeks" Moondy said.
This distribution of new secur-
tiles at a time when credit condi-
tions already were strained created
apprehension of veteran investors
and ultimately brought panic of
fear, world wide in proportion.
Reaction of the great crash will
tend to intensity a general business
recession, such as probably was due
in this country, regardless of what
might have been happening in stock
market circles, but this will not be a
depression.
"Basically business conditions are
not sound and will remain So"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
NOV. 16, 1929

nary fuel oil. was flown from Detroit
to Capitol airport and return Fri
day by Detroit pilots.
The plane was brought here by
Walter Lee, test pilot, and Captain
L. NJ. Woolson. Packard Motor Car
Company engineer.
Remarkable economy Of the Diesel
engine was demonstrated on the
trip, the 320-mile fight being made
at cost of only IS cents for fuel
oil. Ordinary fuel or furnace oil,
retailing at cents a gallon was
used. A gasoline engine in the same
plane would cost approximately $40
for the sane trip.
The plane. with a top speed of
l40 miles an hour and a cruising
speed of 100 miles an hour, made
several hops here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
JUDGES ACTION
ACQUITS WOMAN
IN DEATH TRIAL
Mrs. Jeanette KiIner Is
AbSoIved of Fatally
Shooting Husband.

While Mrs. jeanette Kilner, 81,
was at liberty today, absolved Of a
charge Of numbering her husband
six months ago. prosecutors were
preparing an appeal to the state
supreme court to test the legality
of the criminal court procedure that
gained her release.
She was acquitted Of a second de-
gree murder charge by an instructed
jury late Friday, after states attor-
neys spent two days in presenting
circumstantial evidence pointing to-
ward her guilt
Her twelve peers. who had been
chosen to weigh evidence in the
charge against her, were instructed
by Special Judge Ralph Kane. who
acted on a motion of the defense
attorney. to find her not guilty. She
faced life imprisonment if she had
been convicted of fatally shooting
her husband. Edwin Kilner, 64. at
their Speedway City home May l..
Can Not Be Tried Again
Regardless of the action Of the
supreme court in passing on Kane's
procedure. Mrs. Kilner can not be
retired on the murder charge.
III, with a lung congestion that
threatens pneumonia, according to
her attorney, T. Ernest Maholn,
Mrs. Kilner is at her home, 14TO
North Pennsylvania street, under
care Of physician for a bullet
wound in her head inflicted about
the same time her husband was
shot. She steadfastly denied she
shot her husband or that she later
turned the weapon on herself.
Ruling on the defense motion to
instruct jurors to acquit Mrs. Kill
ner, Kane said there was nothing
for him to do but sustain the mo-
ton.
Il would not be justified in sub
hitting this case to the jury" he
said.
Evidence Is Circumstantial
States evidence shows there was
no il-will or strife between the ell
derby couple. The states case is
based on circumstantial evidence,
differences based on differences. 1t
Is just as plausible to assume the
husband attempted to murder Mrs.
Kilner, then turned the gun on him
self"
There was no apparent motive
Tor the murder" Kane said.
Deputy Prosecutors Paul Rhoad-
armer and Harry Cause had at
tempted to found their case on the
contention that the defendant shot
her husband because he would not
assign his property or bank account
to her. Two states witnesses teSti-
fed such condition existed in the
Kilner home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
the tunnel, which had been dug
from a well near the wall.

the tunnel, which had been dug
from a well near the wall.
Five convicts were in solitary con-
finement today, suspected Of impli-
cation in the plot.
Fifty crude weapons, fashioned
from every available bit of metal
and stone, we're found hidden in
mattresses, bed springs and under
floors Of prison cells in thorough
search OF the penitentiary Friday
after Captain of Guards Clyde
Smith had discovered the tunnel.
Prison authorities we're amazed
that the plot could have advanced
so far. despite precautions against
another uprising. The convicts have
been in an ugly mood since the riot
last month, in which six of their
number and seven guards were
killed, Warden Francis E. Crawford
said.
The warden announced today that
guard had been linked with the
earlier mutiny and that criminal
charges would be filed against him
and that several other guards face
charges before the civil service COM
mission.
Governor William H. Adams
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
SIX CONTRACTS LET
Board of Works Awards
$49,OOO in Paving.

Six public improvements contracts
totaling $4,000 were awarded this
week by the board Of works.
They are:
MASSACHUSETTS avenue. East to Cornell
avenue, Indiana Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalt and granite curb, s23, 400; War
man avenue. T. H. I. 81 E. Traction to
Morris street. Indiana Asphalt Paving
Company. grade and curbing. $1,000; War
man avenue. traction to Norris street,
Abel Brothers. concrete paving, sl4,o45;
Graham avenue. Pleasant Run boulevard
to St. Clair street, Schwert Brothers. grade
and curbing. $2,o21; Newman street,
Massachusetts, avenue to Twelfth street,
Hugh Mcdonald. cement walks and grad
ing. $1.127; Linden street. Raymond street
to Tabor street. P. F. Carlos, cement walks
and grading s545.
Contracts provided that work be
started when directed by City En-
gineer A. H. Moore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
HUNTING TAKES THREE
Fifteen Other Nimrods Injured in
Opening of Ohio Season.

BU mica PRESS
CLEVELAND, Nov. 16.-Three
hunters were killed and at least fiji
teen others injured as the open sea-
son on wild game got started in
Ohio. Harvey Dalrymple, Is, Nor
row county, shot himself acciden-
tally; Charles Painter, 20, Johns
town, was killed when a freight
train struck his car, and Lewis Cros-
ley, SO, Tuscarawas county, died Of
exertion while hunting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16

aboard and 1900 pounds Of furs, and
returning the passengers and cargo
to Nome and Fairbanks, Alaska.
More trips will be made so the
remainder Of the fur cargo can be
returned. together with fur trader
named Pollister of Seattle and his
daughter. Pollister, it was said,
would remain aboard until all the
fur is safely off and transported
back over the several hundred miles
to the Fairbanks base.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
Air School Approved

An approved rating has been
awarded the Curtiss-- Wright Flying
Service Of Indiana school by the de-
partment Of commerce, according to
word received by H. Weir Cook, gen.
eral manager. The school is one of
the first dozen in the country to
receive the rating. Approximately
$50 persons are enrolled in the
school
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
PLANES RESCUE
men And FURS
IN FAR NORTH
Trader and Daughter viii
Remain on Ships for
Later Air Trips.

BIZ Emitted Press
NEW YORK. Nov. 16.-Out of the
clutches of the Arctic ice, six per-
sons and part OF a S1,O0O,O00 fur
cargo have been rescued from two
shipe locked in off the north cape
of Siberia, according to advices to
the Aviation Corporation here from
Carl Ben Eielson of the Alaska Air
ways, Inc.
With the two machines, they sue
ceeded in getting off six of those
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
U-BOAT TO BE LAUNCHED
French Underwater Craft to Be
Largest in World.

CHERBOURG, France. Nov. 16.-
Final preparations were made today
for the launching of the new French
submarine Surcouf next Monday.
The underwater craft will be the
largest in the world. Strengthening
the powerful French submarine
fleet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
PRISON ESCAPE
PLOT is NIPPED
AT CANON CITY
Guards Discover Tunnel to
Walls of Penitentiary
From Well.

BIZ United Press
CANON CITY, Colo, Nov. TO-
Vigilance of guards at the state
penitentiary, scene of a bloody mu-
tiny last month, was increased to
the utmost today as discovery of a
tunnel to the base of the south wall,
had frustrated convicts in another
desperate attempt to escape.
Sledges, drills, crowbars and a
quantity Of powder were found in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
State Garage Is Looted

Automobile and truck parts, val
ued at more than $500, were stolen
Friday night from the Central gar
age Of the state highway depart
ment. A truck was backed to the
entrance to carry away the loot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
VOTE FRAUDS CHARGED
-Four Under Arrest in Detroit in
MayoraIty Banoting.

bB LNltG0 FftSS
DETROIT, Nov. 16.-Four men
have been arrested and others are
expected IN connection with the
alleged fraudulent voting practices
of workers for Charles Bowles, vic
tor in Detroit's recent mayoralty
election. The arrests resulted from
charges made before the city cleo
ton commission by former Mayor
John w. Smith, defeated candidate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
BRITISH EXPLORER DIES
Death Recalls Story of Ill Fortune
to DiSturberS of Tomb.
BIZ United Press

BB United Press
LONDON. Nov. 16. - Captain
Richard Bethel. heir of Lord West
bury. died suddenly in his sleep to-
day at the age of 46.
His death recalled the story that
i'll fortune would follow those who
disturbed the tombs of the Pha-
roahS. Bethel was member of
Howard Carriers party which
opened the famous tomb of Tut
ankh-amen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
Reaches Goth Birthday

BIZ Times SDectdt
DUBLIN, Ind, Nov. 16-Mrs.
Sophia Elliott, a resident here for
seventy-f1ve years, quietly celebrated
her ninetieth birthday this week.
She lives alone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
Make Diesel Test

Making its second long distance
fight. biplane powered with a
Diesel type engine, burning ordi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
GETS SERVICE CROSS
War Department HOnors IOwan for
Heroic Feat in War.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-Award
OF Distinguished Service Cross to
former Sergeant Lane E. Stansberry,
Fairfield. Ia, was announced by the
war department today. Stansberry
was a member of Company M, One
hundred sixty-eighth infantry. For
ty-Second division and was rewarded
for Single-handed capture of a
German machine gun with twenty
prisoners near Flirey, France, Sept.
II. 1918.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16
CHEER LEADERS BACK
Suspended Drake Students to Lead
Yells; Barred From School.

BIZ United Press
DIES MONIES, Ia, Nov. 16.-The
six Drake university cheer leaders
suspended for painting Iowa State
college buildings at Ames were given
permission to lead cheering at the
Drake-Ames football game today by
the Drake faculty council.
Suspension from classes still
stands, however. No action had
been taken in connection with the
egging of Dean of Men Raymond
Davies home and the hanging Of his
effigy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-16

The worlds largest library is the
Bibliotheque Rationale, in Paris. It
contains over 1000, 00O,0 volumes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
BARRIERS Union Reflects
J. c. Shanessy President;
Delegates Keep Old Name

Indianapolis (ILNS) James G.
Shanessy, st. Louis, was unanimously
reelected president of the Journey
men BARRIERS International Union az
the sixteenth convention here. Her
man C. Wenzel, of ST. Paul, Mimi,
was unanimously elected secretary
treasurer of the organization to sue
ceed Jacob Fisher, who resigned a
few months ago. Both Shanessy and
Wenzel were given big ovation by
the delegates on the presentation OF
their names to the convention.
Mr.. Wenzel is city commissioner
Of st. Paul, and has not been promi-
nent in labor politics for long time.
He said he intended resigning as a
commissioner before taking up his
new duties as international secretary
treasurer. The terms are five years.
The officers were installed on the
closing day of the convention, the
ceremonies being conducted by Miss
Lilyan Moscovicz, a delegate from
Brooklyn, N. Y, who was appointed
by President Shanessy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
BEAUTY WORKERS
In Change of Name Of
BARRIERS international

Indianapolis, Ind. (ILNS)-More
than 1000 delegates representing
every state in the Union, Canada,
Alaska Hawaii and Porto Rico at
tended the sixteenth convention of the
Journeymen BARRIERS International
Union here, the largest convention in
the history of the union.
After considerable debate the name
of Journeymen BARRIERS International
Union of America was changed to the
Journeymen BARRIERS and Beauticians'
International Union of America. The
workers, mostly women, who have
been admitted to the union, it being
the desire to recognize the beauty
workers and to further organize this
craft, granting them separate char
ters.
The laws committee will also bring
in a recommendation for the estab-
lishment of school for barbering and
beauty work under the jurisdiction
of the union President Shanessy
pointed out the necessity for such a
school in view of the many "shyster"
schools springing up purporting to
give instruction in such work. A rec
ommendation for trade schools on
which the membership voted some
time ago was turned down.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
Farm Bloc Plea Is Held Baseless


1t was pointed out during the con-
ference that while there has been
destitution in agriculture there are
fully twice as many miners destitute
as there are farmers, to say nothing
of destitution in other industries. The
farm bloc plea that the present con-
gress confine its relief measure to
agriculture was declared to be base
less, since nothing in the call, the
presidential message, or any other
document implied any such thing
This was put down as political sub
terfuge.
With the pledge of President Green
for full support to the finish, the con
ference voted also to ask all unions
subordinate to the affiliated bodies to
! record their positions with their re-
spective senators and congressman
A separate letter is to go out regard
ing the matter of Cuban cigars. A
provision has been included in the
senate finance committee report
which would open the doors to small
parcels of Cuban cigars. These would
come by parcel post, mostly duty free
and would wipe out much of the do
mestic industry. The issue is vital to
the cigar makers and is fostered by
big importers, mail order houses and
some others. The present law re.
quires a minimum shipment of 5000
/ cigars, which must be examined IT 9
customs house and pay duty. II
/ is felt there is chance to beat this
amendment and the conference re
/ solved to do all in its power to do so
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04

The II vice presidents constitute
the international executive board,
which will determine when the next
international convention will be held
in 1884.
The convention, after changing the
name of the union to include beat
ticians," changed the name back to
the former "Journeymen BARRIERS In
ternational Union of America" MANY
delegates objected to the word "beau-
tician" or beauty workers and did no,
wish to depart from the name under
which the union was started.
President Shanessy said the con-
vention was the best ever held by
the BARRIERS, and that more construc-
tive work was done The delegates
have spent great part of the ses-
sion in making over the international
constitution following recommends
tions made by a special committee
which has made a long study of the
subject in respect to progress made
in tonsorial art and allied profes-
sions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
PUBLIC PARK
In Chicago Named in Honor
of Samuel GOmpers

Chicago ULNS)-A 20-acre public
park and field house costing 100000
at Tripp and Foster avenues, in the
northwest section of Chicago, has
been named in honor of the late Sam
uel Gompers. The park is surrounded
by the Cook county forest preserve,
one of the show places of Chicago.
The Samuel Gompers Park and
Field House was dedicated with ap-
propriate ceremonies participated in
by the Chicago Federation of Labor
and many affiliated local unions.
William B. Wilson, secretary of
labor under President Wilson, was
the principal speaker. Mr.. Wilson
urged congressional action to curb
judges in Furnishing for contempt in
labor disputes. He praised Gompers
for his fight against labor injunctions
and contempt of court punishment
without real trial by jury.
While John Fitzpatrick, president
of the Chicago Federation of Labor,
could not be present at the dedica-
ton, he made statement relative
to the naming of the park after Mr..
Gompers. He said in this statement:
1T is most fitting that this park
should be named in honor of Samuel
Gompers. If ever man was inter-
ested in the working man, it was Mr..
Gompers. A great part of his life
was devoted to bettering the condi-
tions of labor and procuring better
educational facilities for the laborer.
with the dedication of this park
and the erection of the Samuel Com
pers school, we feel that the honor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04

Washington, D. c. (ILNS = The
record level of activity which bust
ness has maintained throughout the
greater part of 1929 continues to be
reflected in reports of earnings which
should prove of value in negotiation
of wage agreements.
Profits of industry are running
nearly 33 per cent larger this year
than in 1928, it is indicated by a
compilation of half-year figures made
by the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York Public utility earnings show a
1916 per cent increase over a year
ago. Railroad revenues are up ap-
proximately % per cent.
Net incomes for the period of 236
corporations representing 16 indus
trial and mercantile groups shows a
total of 1892, 100000 as compared with
some $670,000,000 earned by the iden-
tical corporations in 1928.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
SCORE P0ORH0USE
SYSTEM

Des Moines, Iowa-The poorhouse
is a reproach to America, declared
John C. Lewis, president Iowa FEEDER
alton of Labor, in urging organized
workers to support an old-age pen
sion bill introduced in the United
States senate by Mr.. Dill, of Wash
ington.
The poorhouse has been discred-
tied as result of research, said
President Lewis. "Poorhouses are
economically unsound, fundamentally
wrong and are regarded as one Of the
monumental social blunders of the
age. They serve as pest houses rath-
er than an institution to properly care
for men and women in the evening of
their lives"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
OLD-ACE PENSION
Gradually Is Winning Over
the Business Men

New York. - Business men are
changing their view toward old-age
pensions, according to statement
made before the New York commits
sion on old age security, which is
holding public hearings in this city.
A representative of the National
Industrial Conference Board, repre-
senting score of anti-union employ
ers' associations, canvassed 31S busi-
ness men. He reported that many
employers who had previously held
that such legislation is "socialistic" :"
and antagonistic to the American phi
losophy Of individualism, have chang
ed their minds, in view of the enor-
nous complexities Of modern econom-
ic and industrial life.
Prominent social workers claim
that neither private charity nor group
insurance or industrial pensions can
cope with old age dependency.
Economists, statisticians and repre-
sentatives of charitable and relief
agencies insisted that old-age pen
sions is the only method of dealing
satisfactorily with the problem. All
admitted, however, that even pen
sions would not do away with the ne
cessity for additional relief in special
cases.
Witnesses declared it is untrue that
bank savings and regular insurance
take care Of the aged. Figures
showed that the amount of industrial
insurance (the only kind the poor can
atford) lapsed in 1927 as compared
with the amount paid out III death
claims
1t was estimated that between 30
and 40 per cent of the workers have
no insurance The prosperity of the
nation it was claimed, is largely due
''to the lack of foresight of the popu-
lation and their reckless expenditure
of their income"
State Senator Mastick, chairman
of the commission, has declared ir
favor of old age relief in some form
and that an investigation of the en-
tire subject is necessary. He did not
venture an opinion on what form the
commissions report to the Legislature
will take.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
HOW IT WILL WORK

If the patent and trademark
provisions adopted by the SEN
ate finally become law they will
work this way in all industries:
AS an illustration, Henry Ford
makes Fordson tractors in Ire
land. They are protected in
America by patents and by reg
istered trademark. He can now
import them and sell them, just
as if they were made in Detroit,
and duty free. Under the amend
ment adopted by the senate
Ford could not import those
tractors. He could make trac
tors in Ireland and sell them in
any other country, but all trac-
tors, so protected by American
patents and registered trade
mark would have to be made IN
the United States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04

cent larger than in 1928, and Sd per
cent above 1927 The 1929 demand
is averaging some $4,000 tons
monthly, it is found. This compares
with $4,000 tons per month in the
corresponding period of last year, and
100000 tons the year previous.
The current years bookings have
been sufficient to maintain operations
in the structural steel plants at "a
per cent of capacity on the average,
where a year ago only 68 per cent
was required. For the past two
months demand has run above 80 per
cent of capacity.