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COTTON SEED OIL

NEW ORLEANS. March 81
lottonseed oil closed easy; prime
INNER yellow $50; prime crude
IL. March 987; April $50;
lay 900: June 1000; July 1902;
1915; Sept. 1915; Oct. 1015.
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Opening: March 20.80; May 20.82;
bully 2O.30: Oct. (old) zoos; Oct.
Knew 1926; Dec. 20.03.
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GENEVA, March 5.-P}-Ellhu
Root, noted American jurist serving
on a special committee for revision
of the world court statutes. con-
ferred with foreign Minister BRAND
of France today concerning a form
ula which Mr.. Root has prepared as
The basis of an agreement for Amer
| lean adhesion to the world court
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POULTRY

CHICAGO, March 5.-P-Poul-
try firmer; fowls 27@32; springs 80;
ROSTERS %: Turkeys 80; ducks 24G
80; geese 81.
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CASH GRAIN

CHICAGO, March s. up -
Wheat: No. 4 northern spring 1.16;
10. 3 mixed 1.18.
Corn: No. 4 mixed 81 3-4Q92; NO.
white ga ga.
Oats: No. 3 white Al 1-2Q48 ID;
ample grade 44@1-2.
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KANSAS CITY. March s.

KANSAS CITY, March 5.-(F-
Wheat: No. 2 dark hard 1.23; No. 2
ard 1.15Q1.20 IL; No. ? red l.29;
lay 1.18 3-8; July 1.20 1-8.
Corn: No. , white, nominally, so
80: No. 2 yellow. nominally, 500
D; No. 2 mixed, nominally. 87Q38:
lay 90 3-407-3; July 96 $685..
Oats: No. 2 white, nominally, 81
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u. S. BONDS

NEW YORK, March 5.-(Pl-
Government bonds:
Liberty 8 1-2s 98.3; LIST 4 las 1925:
4th 4 las 1929; treasury 4 las
108.10; As 103.16.
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". q. FUTURES

NEW ORLEANS, March 5.-tPl-
futures closed firm at net
.ovance OF IS to AZ points.
High Low Close Prev.
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TEXAS SPOT COTTON

DALLAS, March 5.-(P1-Spot
cotton 1880; Houston 20.40; Calves
ton 20.50.
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Dec. .20O7 1886 20.03B09A 1874
Opening: March 1885, May zoos;
uly 20.11, Oct. 1879. Dec. 1885,
Sked.
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n. Y. FUTURES
NEW YORK, March 5.-lP-Cot-
ton futures:
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STEvE'S APPEAL
DELAYED AGAIN
Former KIan Chief Files
Supplemental Move.

Another delay in decision of the
supreme court murder appeal of D.
G. Stephenson, former Indiana khan
dragon, appeared today when Steph-
enson filed a motion for permission
to present supplemental proceedings,
through his newly retained attorney,
Robert j. Baker, of Michigan City.
Stephenson is serving a life SEN
tence in the Indiana state prison for
the murder Of Madge Oberholzer,
Indianapolis young woman.
The motion for leave to file the
additional proceedings was attested
by Stephenson and alleged that
volume two of the murder case briefs
before the court was filed without
Stephenson having an opportunity
to read it or know its contents.
Bakers petition said that if Ste
phenson is not permitted to file ad-
ditional pleadings his rights will be
jeopardized seriously"
The supplemental pleadings will
contain many points, "germane and
vital TO Stephenson's case, the mo-
ton stated.
Paul Newn II of Gary, who has
represented the former khan leader
in many court battles, was in In
dianapolis Tuesday afternoon and
indications are that he may oppose
Bakers efforts.
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- An Editorial --
Will JeWett Enlighten?

Tonight Charles W. Jewett will make three speeches.
Each night he has talked upon phase of local political
history. Will he tonight select live topic?
What the people would really like to know why Jewet
mayor suddenly accepted" the resignation of George
V. Coffin as chief of police
Will Jewett dare to tell? Will he go into the intimate
history the secret conspiracy of Coffin force Jewe out
of office and take the job himself? Will he tell the part
played by Foppiano? Will he tell about the gathering
at the jail?
Such revelations would give real picture of the Coffin
method of politics 1t would do much to enighen For the
issue in this campaign it must be in every campaign
long Coffin dominates and rules and controls public
Office is Cofinism
Jewett has wonderful opportunity to aid by merely
telling what he knows, not what he thinks
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Gas co. SUIT
is UNDER WAY
Stockholders Charged With
Breach of Faith.

Charging lack of faith on the
part of stockholders of the Citizens
Gas Company, Will H. Thompson of
counse, for the gas company trus-
tees, today opened defense in the
federal court hearing of arguments
on pleadings in the suit of Newton
Todd to enjoin transfer of the gas
company property to the city of IN
dianapoliS.
The stockholders, in their articles
of incorporation and franchise con-
tract, bound themselves to receive
no more than the face value of their
stock certificates, together with 10
per cent interest a year, and by this
suit they seek to invalidate that
agreement, Thompson said.
He sought to disprove argu-
mentS of Frederick E. Matson and
Earl Barnes, attorneys for Todd,
who preceded him, that the 1905
franchise contract was invalid from
the start.
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See1" SeeS;;
GirLSniCide::
ACtGOeS On
Miss Lillian Burks, 18
Cheats Prophecy by
Taking Poison.
BY ARCH STEINEL

A barker ballyhoos today in the
Coney Island museum, 18 South Hi
nois street, as crowds Of idlerS listen
He cries in strident tones, "Edelle
the Mentalist, she tells your future
answers all questions, knows all
gentlemen. Only so cents
And Edelle stands blindfolded OIL
a block answering the questions the
barker puts to her.
What has this gentleman in his
pocket?"
"a watch" retorts Edelle.
For Edelle tells your future
answers all questions knows all''
but this-and maybe she knows
something of this:
Miss Lillian Burks, 18, of SAB
Holly street, died today at the city
hospital from the effects Of poison
which she took at her home. The
only reason ascribed for her act,
by friends, was that she went to
a fortune-teller at Is South Illi-
nois street Saturday and was told
that her "fture looked dark"
In the Coney Island museum, the
red lips of the happerish Edelle an
swer quickly the questions put tc
her in the free crowd reading she
gives. While:
Lillian always was cheerful"
says Mrs. Helen Grubbs, her land
lady. "On Saturday, she and I
went shopping. We stopped in the
sideShow and museum on South
Illinois, right next door to the
Rialto theater. 1 watched the
sideshow-and Lillian"
Now those that want full, pri-
vate reading step right behind the
curtain" calls the barker.
Fiji, the woman who walks or
knives, tread her tortuous path fol
the benefit of those who had no for
tune worth the telling. One mar
entered the red-curtained booth o1
Edelle just as
And Lillian went in the booth
and had her fortune told. She
wouldn't tell me what they told
her. but neighbors say that Lii
liam told them her fortune was
bad. This, morning she went to
work at the Robbins Body Corpo-
ration. She told her boss she was
quitting. She returned home,
bought bottle of poison at drug
store. She took it-and, died an
hour later in the city hospital.
The funeral awaits arrival of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Burks,
Rural Route l, Bloomington, Ind.
But at the Coney Island museum
18 South Illinois street, a barker
shouts:
"Edelle, the mentaliSt, she tell:
your future, answers all questions
knows all"
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shoots to death, afterward tax
ing his own life, in Canon City,
Colo. Human beings in the main
are interested in the WHAT of it.
Only a small minority are in
tereSted in the WHY of it.
The conventional observer de-
cries the alleged coddling of con-
victs and demands greater
severity. The humane commen-
tator protests against the poor
food served to inmates, the over
crowded c|l blocks. and the
generally barbarous nature of our
prison population.
Neither group makes any
serious attempt TO get behind the
externals of prison life and dis
cover why prisons fail to protect
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American Telephone and
Telegraph featured today's
upswing, the stock advancing
26 points to 231. 1t held
around that level after the
first hours Spurts forward.
Hundreds of persons thronged the
brokerage Offices. Cashiers and mar
gin clerks were busy as they ever
have been.
Customers, convinced that q turn
was due, got together sufficient
funds to hold their stocks and long
lines of traders formed before the
margin department, waving their
receipts and ordering cancellation
Of sell orders.
Interest in prices replaced the In
difference noted in the recent sell
ing
Steel was watched eagerly. 1t
opened at 1T, up 3, following the
report last night of record earnings
for the first nine months Of 1929
and declaration by the company of
an extra dividend of 81 per share.
Steel Rise Cheered
Steels buoyancy helped the whole
market. Word came from the floor
shortly after II o'clock that the
stock had hit 1873. A cheer went up
in the brokerage offices. The old
leader was back.
Blue chips raced ahead as heavy
buying came from investment
trusts, bankers and individual in
vestors and spectators. The turn
brought out rather heavy short
covering which also helped swing
the market upward.
American Can, which also de-
clared an extra dividend of 81
share Tuesday, rose more than 2
points. Utilities were bid up sharp
ly. They had been the hardest hit
in the selling wave. American and
Foreign Power in this group rose 10
points, Columbia Gas points, and
Consolidated Gas 31s.
Westinghouse Moves Up
Oils moved up, helped by large
decrease in crude production. Rails
responded to another increase in
car loadings. Special issues rose.
General Electric spurted more
than 10 points, and Westinghouse
Electric rose nearly 9 points. United
a Aircraft 1p6 tho aviation c1oorae rryi+.,
a gain Of 8 points. General Motor,
rose more than 2 points.
Steel continued to forge ahead.
At 11;30 it was selling at 1856 and
other stocks were proportionately
strong.
aSles to noon totaled 5,576,300
shares, compared with S,378,200
shares in the first two hours Tues
day.
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the public and reform criminals,
and why inmates mutiny.
More and better food should be
provided in our prisons; bigger
and better sleeping quarters. But
something more is required.
There is nothing unique in the
recent prison outbreaks. But the
army of convicted criminals has
outgrown prison facilities. The
Baumes laws and similar legisla-
ton have helped overcrowd
penitentiaries. And the more
prisoners t ere are, the more
gloom there is within the walls.
Thus, desperate men, becoming
even more desperate than they
were when they were admitted,
take chance against the guards.
They think:
Others have failed in their at
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Hourly Temperatures
Way HEEDLEss, FROM REAL CAUSE OF PRISON HORRORS

the killer, are not so tangible.
They are not things that can be
seen. They are not things that
can be touched. The populace
therefore, displays little concern
in them. Yet, they really are the
instructive elements.
In this tendency of mankind to
seize upon concrete situations and
superficial happenings, while ig-
noring fundamental considera-
tons, may be found the reason for
the keen public interest in the re-
cent epidemic of prison outbreaks,
while there has been practically
no interest in the under surface
cause for these outbreaks.
.
DUBLIC imagination can visual
l. ize Danny Daniels. who
lines up his own comrades and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-30
MarOneyLs
Sentenced
in Dry Case
Former Agent, Watson Aid,
Must Serve Is Months
for Conspiracy.

RH IlmeS SDCcldt
SOUTH BEND, Oct. 30.-Jack
Maroney, who, for ten years has
been a figure in Indianapolis and
Indiana politics as a street COM
missioner, department of justice and
prohibition agent and bodyguard to
Senator James E. Watson, today
prepared to spend sixteen months
in the federal penitentiary for con-
spiracy to violate the prohibition
law.
Maroney was sentenced here Tues
day afternoon by Special Judge
Claude E. Luse of Madison, Wis,
on a plea of guilty. Conrad Bivin
of Bloomington, former prohibition
agent, received a similar sentence
and Andrew Kekko, the bootlegger
Wit whom Maroney and Bivin were
alleged to have dealt, received an
eight-month sentence.
Bivin and Kekko we're sentenced
by Judge Thomas w. Slick, who dis
qualified himself in Maroney's case.
Bivin told Slick that Maroney said
he could make $4,000 year in
side money" as an enforcement
agent.
Maroney lost his stand in the
prohibition force when he failed to
pass an examination. He then went
to Florida and on his return told
friends he had been "on confidential
business" and intimated it was at
the request of Watson and other
senators.
A few hours before Maroney was
sentenced Watson announced he
was i'll and would leave Washington
for a three weeks rest trip in
Florida
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tenapts to escape. Maybe we will
succeed. Who knows? Here
goesl"
The real tragedy Of our Amer
ican prison system is not to be
found in the murder of a few
guards or the killing of hand
full of convicts, but in the effect of
prison life upon all who become
a part of it.
7 ARGER buildings Of the
IL present sort, designed to
continue the repressive and puni-
tive system, mean merely the
taking Of more of the taxpayers
money to build bigger failure
out Of a smaller one. The real
menace is in the fact that our
prisons offer no adequate protec-
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ton to society, and certainly they
don't reform.
There has been no rioting at
Sing Sing, yet Warden Lawes'
faithful portrayal Of conditions
there in his Life and Death in
Sing Sing" reveals a more NOV
ing tragedy than could the best
possible composite press story Of
the recent outbreaks at Danne-
mora and Auburn and Canon City.
The worst of it is that this
prison tragedy is not one that is
over in a week. 1t goes on, day in
and day out, year in and year out.
And it can not be corrected by an
other helping of beans or another
coat of paint.
NEXT: DIR. Barnes will dis
cuss What Makes the Criminal"
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BY HARRY ELMER BARNES

THERE is a murder, attended
l. by unusual circumstances.
The body of the victim lies in the
morgue. Thousands go to view it.
Few. if any, of that morbid throng
display interest in the long train
of circumstances which led to the
killing.
The body lying there is a tan
gible thing upon which one may
gaze: which one may touch, if one
Is not squeamish.
The things which led up TO the
murder-the psychology of it; the
environment, or the heredity of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-30
"Charlie Jewett's Mind Is Like Streets He
Paved, Full of Chuck Holes" Says Demo-
cratic Leader in Campaign Speech.
II Can See Trouble Ahead if Republicans Are
Victorious, Because of Views Against
Labor" Says City's Chief
BY BEN STERN

Despite his protestaons to the contrary, the strong
right of the student of economy will encirce the
brawny shoulder of the crafty Con if Alfred NJ Gloss
brenner Republican nominee for mayor elected speakers
pointed out at Democratic rallies Tuesday night
At the same time the Republican fanfare of having
business economist" candidate answered with
statistics of the Slack administration.
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PANTAGES NOW SUED
$3.50, 900 Slander Action Aftermath
of Assault Trial

BU nitcd Press
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30.-As an
aftermath of his trial on charges
of assaulting 17-year-old Eunice
Pringle, Alexander Pantages, mil
lionaire theatrical man, today was
made defendant in a S250,000 civil
suit charging SANDER.
The action was filed by Fred T..
Wise, state witness against Pantages.
Wise claimed he was "maliciously
slandered," when Pantages accused
him of entering into ''blackmail"
conspiracy with Miss Pringle.
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business man economist" ca
statistics of the Slack admins
"Let me say in the very be-
ginning" declared Mayor L.
Ert Slack to more than 800 at
the Howard theater, "that we
have had no labor troubles, no
riots and no pressure against
labor in the two years of my
administration.
Il can see trouble ahead if Gloss
brenner is elected, for a man who
as mayor holds views against labor
diSturbs the whole situation.
"Of course we want a man who
understands business, but it is not
necessary to go to the president of
big corporation for that.
Less Competent
"I sometimes think that these
high-toned business men are less
competent to head a big city than
the average man. John L. Duvall
was touted by Coffin as a business
man and banker. His record as
mayor is spread upon the court
docket.
If lawyer is not competent, 1, of
course, am out Of the picture.
How did Charles w. Jewett,
lawyer, become mayor? He says you
ought to have a business man for
mayor But he never knows where
he stands. Charles mind is like the
streets he paved, full of chuck holes.
Indianapolis owed more than
100000 when I became mayor
These debts should have been paid
by the treasurer. but instead inter-
est was being charged on the debts.
To-day. two years later the debts
have been paid.
''Jewett built a street three bloclG
long at a cost of 1892 per front
foot; the same sized stretch Just
north was built by the present ad-
ministration at the cost of $685."
Slack declared.
No Class Beliefs
Slack pointed out that GloSsbren-
ner did not think enough of the
progress of the city to permit the
widening of Meridian street and op-
posed it, because he had three trees
on his front lawn which would have
to be felled.
THE average man makes the best
mayor" Slack said, because he
takes a common sense view of
things and has no foolish beliefs
concerning classes, groups or
masses"
Statements of GloSsbrenner that
the political and economic brains"
of the county were leading the Re-
publican organization were held to
scorn by Walter Myers, Democratic
nominee for mayor in 1925.
George v. Coffin, D. C. Stephen
son, Bob McNay, Ed Jackson, John
Duvall and his six little councilmen
and Bill Armitage are a few of the
economic and political brains lead
ing the party in indianapolis, and
they have led it to the courtroom
and prison." Myers said.
Do as He's Told
"And no matter how much Gloss
brenner may squeal and Squirm and
snort and sniff. if elected mayor
Coffin would say to him, 'Glossie
you'll do as you're told or We'll make
your administration a failure, an
absolute zero. flop.
"And what will Glossie do? He'll
DO as he's told, because he fears
failure. He'll say. a half loaf is
better than none, George. and ev-
erything will be lovely in Repub-
lican ranks
Reginald Sullivan, Democratic
nominee for mayor. reiterated his
promise that there would be no
Democratic machine at the city
hall, but that the best ability would
be obtained to give a business
like administration of public af-
fairs. without discrimination or
prejudice against any class or group
of citizens"
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LEAVES TRUST INCOME
Woman Friend Gets 81 900 a Mont
From Stephen B. EIkins.
BU United Press

BU United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 3O.-A life in
come of $1,000 a month was left b.
Stephen B. Elkins, son of the late
Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of West
Virginia, to friend, Mrs. E. I. Mar4
tin of Hollis, Queens, a copy of Elk
ms will filed here revealed.
The remainder of Elkins' estate
valued at $4,000, 900, was left to his
brother, Senator Davis Elkins OF
West Virginia. Elkins, who died
here Oct. 20, was president Of the
Elkins Coal and Coke Company and
of the National Fuel Company.
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COUNTESS HELD SUICIDE
So-Called English Peeress Took Life
While Insane.

BIZ United Prrss
CHICAGO. Oct. So Suicide
while insane" was the verdict of a
coroner's jury in the death of Mrs.
Eve Waddington Greeley, who
claimed to be an English countess.
She shot and killed herself because
of a blighted romance with John
Maier. policeman. farewell notes in
dicated.
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SLAYER FOUND GUILTY
Horace Peters Faces Life Term for
Murder of Girl.

BIZ T-nfted Press
NORTH VERNON, Ind, Oct. 30.--
A jury here today, found Horace
Peters. Is, guilty Of first degrees MUIR
der for the shooting of Miss Mabel
Van Osdol, 1s. Life Imprisonment
was recommended.
The girl was shot when she re-
fused to accompany Peters to .
concert April g. Peters tried unsuc-
cessfully to kill himself imnediate-
ly after the murder.
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This is the first of a series OF articles
BY DIR. Harry Elmer Barnes, noted
soeiologist, dealing with criminals,
prisons and advanced ideas regarding
their treatment and reform, written
especially for The Times.
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Kenosha Wis, where friends and
relatives gathered of the Inflated liner Wisconsin,
steamer seventy which the waters
Michigan with loss of eight lives
the actual wrecage of the Wisconsin is shown
part OF port only
marker of the watery grave.
photos by special
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-30

NEW YORK, Oct. 3O-The stock market back
smashngy today Wall street reechoed cheers that the
tremendous weight of the bear market at last had been
broken.
Prices jumped from 1 to 80 points. The market swung
along at 10000 0OOsharesa-day rate Tckers
than an hour behind actual floor sales.
But throughout that busy financial world of lower New
York smiles replaced gloom and excited buying of bargains
left from Tuesdays terrific break took the place of detected
selling.
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STOCK Market ON UPWARD
TREND, AS buying ORDERS
serve TO BRACE confidence

A. T. and T. Features Upswing, Advancing
rs Points; Steel's Buoyancy Helps Whole
Market and Blue Chips Race Ahead.
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TAPE RUNNING FULL HOUR LATE

Utilities Bid Up Sharply, After Being Hit
Hardest in Selling Wave; Oils Also
Move Up; General Electric Spurts.
BULLETIN
~
NEW YORK, Oct 30.-The New York Stock Ex-
change today voted to close Thursday morning until
and to close Friday and Saturday
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NEXT: DIR. Barnes will dis
cuss what Makes the Criminal"