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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
Fad Is. Branded Dumb by
Olive Palmer, Famous
Radio Singer.
BIZ Times SDecidI

BIZ Times Special
CHICAGO, Aug. 14-That the
passing fad of stockingless legs is
not only questionable and unallur-
ing, but extremely unintelligent, is
the opinion of Olive Palmer, dainty
coloratura soprano of the Palm
olive hour, whose coast-to-coaSt
radio admirers number millions each
time she sings to the microphone.
Not only is the Palmolive diva
one of the most beautiful of radio
stars, but she has the reputation
of being the most tastefully dressed.
Her gowns, her hosiery and her tiny
high-heeled slippers are symphonies
of fashion and her ankles are as
shapely as those of any ziegfeld
star.
81 am not surprised that sensi-
BILE women in fashionable circles
have refused to follow the ridiculous
idea of discarding stockings" she
says. Certainly there is no allure
in bare legs and there can be no
hint of feminine attraction in de-
liberate braZenneSS.
at is only natural for woman to
dress to be admired, and lovely
stockings are an essential part Of
every blended costume. That is
why smart sophisticated women the
country over, women who know
true style, have arched their eye
brows haughtily and frowned on
the bare leg folly. Personally, 1
love silk stockings and it seems to
me that they give woman a GER
tain chic which would be utterly
impossible were she to appear in
street dress with bare legs.
Under exclusive contract with the
Palmolive hour, Olive Palmer is
said to be the highest paid soprano
on the air. Formerly grand
opera star, her personal wardrobe is
one of the most extensive in New
York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
TUMBLES into VAT
City Man ScaIdS Legs in
Steaming Pit.

Wading in Steaming water up to
his knees is form of sport in which
Ralph WEIGH, "a, of 2150 East
Thirty-fourth street, chooses not to
indulge again, he decided today in
city hospital, where he is recovering
from burns on both legs from the
feet to the knees.
WEIGH, an employe of the Talge
Mahogany Company, lost his bal
ance on the brink of vat of scald-
ing water in their mill at 1101 East
Thirteenth street Tuesday after
noon. There was about eighteen
inches of water in the large pit in
which he was soaking logs when he
stumbled in.
AS he dropped he reached instinc-
lively for the edge of the vat, prob
ably saving his life, for he landed
on his feet, and in one bound
cleared the five-foot wall to safety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
new COOP IS
SUSPECTED BY
farm BUREAU
Former Federation Chief
Heads 100000 Move
y for Relief.
DIRECTOR VOICES DOUBT
Browns Activity Seen as
Attempt to Muddy
the Waters
DIRECTOR VOICES DOUBT

Indiana Farm Bureau Federation
officials today viewed with some sus-
picion and concern the announce
ment that John G. Brown of Mo-
non, former federation president
and a thorn in the side of the reign
ing farm bureau regime, is organic
ing a 100000 farmer-owned CO.
operative corporation.
William H. Settle, present farm
bureau president, is chairman Of
the organizing committee of the
$20,000,000 Farmers National Grain
Corporation, set afoot at Chicago
three weeks ago to cooperate with
the federal farm board in availing
farmers of relief under the new fed
eraI farm bill.
AS director of the agricultural de-
partment of the Republican state
campaign organization last fall,
Brown lent hearty support to Hoo
yer, who had the farm bureaus dis
favor because of it's dissatisfaction
with the G. o. P. farm relief plat
form.
Clash Frequently
Brown and Settle crossed verbal
swords repeatedly, Brown declaring
he was rot fighting the farm
bureau, BIZ preaching Hoover to
farmers, regardless of their farm
bureau membership. Devoted to
the Democratic pledges, the farm
bureau resented Browns sallieS in
to their ranks.
The cooperative being organized
by Brown will engage in the mar
keting, harvesting and handling of
farm products. These objects are
within the sphere also of the huge
corporation in which Settle is a
prominent figure.
Settle was in Chicago today, but
Lewis Taylor, director of the farm
bureaus tax and legislative depart
ment, said:
ION the surface, Browns move
would appear to be an attempt to
muddy the waters. He is member
of the bureau and I think he should
have conferred with some of us and
got our reaction to this plan. I I'M
derstand some farm bureau men,
bers were called on by Brown, but,
so far as I know, he didn't talk with
any bureau officers"
No Competition, He Says
Brown disclaimed any intent to
establish an organization at all
competitive with that in which Set
tie is interested. "We intend to
work in harmony with the farm bu-
reau," he said.
There is no spite in this propo-
sition. Our corporation will pro-
mote farm relief and bring all farm
ers into harmony"
Brown is president of the Indiana
Good Roads Association, which
came under the fire last spring of
legislators opposed to the Accent
gasoline tax.
Brown admitted that newspaper
advertisements which appeared in
support of the tax increase were
paid for by the Portland Cement
Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
VICTIM
With HAMMER
IN 81 HOLDUP
Andy SchWab, 81, Knocked
Near InsensibiIity by
Two Thugs.

For 50, two thugs early today beat
Andy Schwab, 81, of 931 Park ave-
nue., almost into insensibility with a
mechanics hammer and escaped as
a passing motorist stopped his auto
mobile to aid their victim.
Schwab, night doorman at the
Elks Club, was attacked at Talbot
and st. Clair streets while en- route
home. One of the men grasped him
from the rear, and, as his compan-
ion struck the aged man with the
hammer, took two 81 bills from his
pockets.
With blood streaming down his
face, Schwab wrenched his arms
free and tried to defend himself
against hammer blows the thug
rained on his head. He was struck
six or seven times.
When George Whiteside, %, of 631
North Noble street, who saw the
battle while driving by the inter-
section, halted his car, the two men
fled in opposite directions.
5chwab was taken to the Elks club
where DR.. Charles R. Bird, 301
Hume ansur building, treated his
wounds, and sent him home. His
condition today was serious, physi-
clans said.
Seeking clews to his assailants,
police found the blood-stained ham
mer, and Schwab's knife and glasses
near the intersection. A light road
ster, bearing Ohio license was found
half block away, and police be-
lieve it is a stolen car, planted for a
getaway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
AWAIT ORDERS
TO BOARD Yep
Huge DirigibIe Ready to
Leave for Toxic.
BIZ United Press

bH CnttBu Press
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
Aug. 14.-PaSSengerS and crew we're
ordered today to stand by and await
possible summons to board the
dirigible Graf Zeppelin after mid
night tonight for the second part
of the journey around the world
and for the longest nonstop flight
ever OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to
Toxic.
The engines tuned up, her fuel
tanks filled and everything else re-
adjusted, there was little to be done
to the huge ship today. The Of
flcers of the Graf spent most of
their time perfecting the system of
weather reports.
According to latest information
from Central Europe and portions
of Siberia, the weather has i'm
proved considerably during the last
twenty-four hours.
Locally it was much warmer,
which caused considerable annoy
ance to the officials Of the line and
to the officers of the ship, because
the gas loses its lifting power when
warm and the Zeppelin, with a
record load, might be unable to rise.
For a while Tuesday it was be-
lieved a new passenger had been
added to the list of those going to
Tokio-King Gustav of Sweden. A
surprise visit of the king to Fried
richshafen momentarily threw the
community into excitement and i'm
mediately the rumor began going
the rounds that the royal visitor
was to be among the passengers.
The rumors, however, were
promptly denied 1t developed that
the king was merely summering in
the neighborhood at his wife's
castle on Lake Constance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
SON BARRED FROM
HOME BY FATHER

Heron Riddle of 225 South Summit
street, but said they were given to
him by another boy.
Patrolman John O'Brien, who ar
rested the boy, said he had investi-
gated and found the statement to be
true.
The boy told Wetter that his father
had obtained his wages and directed
his discharge from a job, refused to
give him money and would not per-
NIT him to enter the house.
The probation department is at
tempting to obtain clothes and a job
for the youth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
DITCH DIGGER INJURED

Matt Hayes, 81, Negro, 5511s North
California tsreet, probably will re-
cover from a skull fracture inflicted
by fellow ditch-digger in an argu-
ment at Seventy-f1rst and Pennsyl-
vania streets Tuesday afternoon, city
hospital attendants said today.
Ed Scott, 400 Douglass street, his
alleged assailant, was arrested on
charges of assault and battery with
intent to kill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14

DENTONVILLE, Ind, Aug. 14.-In these
ID days of endurance flights and other
nonstop records, James Stoten, tenant
farmer on farm near here for forty
five years, makes his bid for fame. Dur
ing all those years Stoten had but one
landlord, the late James Huston Of Con-
nersville. The nonstop tenant was so
highly respected by Huston that no con-
tract regarding their relations was ever
signed.
Although a lifelong Republican, and a
supporter of President Hoover, Stoten has
little faith in farm relief plans. He as
serts that so long as the majority of the
nations population continues to live at
the farmers expense there will be no
Improvement in the way of better prices
for farm products. He recalls eggs at s cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
Bandit Goes Visiting After
Escape From Officer
in Florida.

BIZ Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. IA
Henry Davey, former resident of
Shelbmn, twenty-one miles south
of here, wanted on charges of bank
robbery and counterfeiting, once
more has given the law the laugh.
A few weeks ago, Davey, in Gus
today of federal officer who was
bringing him from Miami, Fla, to
Louisville, KY, to face a charge of
counterfeiting, escaped when the
officer left him for a few minutes to
kiss his wife good-by just before a
train was to depart.
Only a few days ago, Davey re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
VICE-POLITICAL
TIE-UP Still
IN SPOTLIGHT
District Attorneys Denial
of Lake County Story
Without Effect.
PRESS REMAINS ACTIVE
South Bend Paper Asserts
1t Kept Silent to Aid
Government.
PRESS REMAINS ACTIVE
gyTimes Special

Eg Times SDectdt
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. IA
Reports that a sweeping investiga-
ton of an alleged link Of vice and
oolitics in Indiana's Calumet dis
trict will not down, despite declara-
tions of United States District Av-
torney Oliver NJ. LOOMS that only
Lake county election law cases are
being probed by federal agents.
The South Bend News-TimeS, both
in its news and editorial columns,
continues to give the alleged gl-
gantic plot much space.
In a News-Times news story ap-
pears the following:
1.-THE News-Times for weeks has
been in possession of information
derived from other than official
sources, bearing on the Lake county
situation and the connection be-
tween organized law violation and
politics and the apparent exemption
Of racketeers in the Lake county
region from interference on the
part Of either local or federal Off
Gals.
Sought to aid Probe.
publication of the stories has
been withheld solely in order to give
governmental agencies an oppor-
tunity to sift the sensational
charges to the bottom, but there
have been several developments
which give color to the belief that
political pressure of the strongest
kind has been brought to bear to
prevent the investigation from
achieving It's ends. Expected &C
ton has been delayed until a Chi
cago newspaper which is understood
to have obtained its information
from official sources in Chicago pub
lished an article Saturday and sent
it out over press association wires
giving the general outlines of the
secret inquiry.
IF the inquiry is pushed to its
logical conclusion-if it overcomes
powerful political obstacles which
have been placed in its way-it may
be expected to involve a United
States senator, some of the highest
persons in the councils of the Re-
publican party in Indiana and vari-
Gus law enforcement agencies, both
federal and local"
Declares Agreement Kept
Editorially, the News-Times says
in part:
"a number of Indiana newspapers
have known for sometime that fed
eral agents were collecting evidence
in East Chicago, Hammond, Gary
and other Indiana points in the
Chicago district. In order to assist
the government in what the news
papers hoped would be a clean cut
effort to break the alliance between
vice and politics in Lake county,
the newspapers made gentleman's
agreement with the district at
torney'S Office. They agreed not to
publish the news of impending ar
rests; until the warrants were
served and the accused men under
arrest, nothing was to be said.
THE story having broken unex-
pectedly in Chicago, there was no
reason for further silence on the
part Of the Indiana papers that had
been keeping faith with LOOMS for
the good of the cause.
LOOMS can not say that the
newspapers have not played square
with him. A man who has had
small experience in dealing with
the press and who has shown little
tact or wisdom in his newspaper
contracts, he has had full co-opera-
ton"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
NAVIES DISCUSSED
Forecast New Step After
TWo-Hour Conference.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. IA new
step in the Anglo-American naval
exchanges was forecast in informed
official quarters today following a
White House breakfast at which
President Hoover discussed the ne
gotiations with Secretary of State
Stimson, Secretary of Navy Adams
and the executive committee of the
navy general board.
Details of the American yard
stick" for measuring relative naval
strength were understood to have
been the principal subject of the
conference.
White House officials made no
statement after the two hour con-
ference. Those who took part were
reticent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14

Two boys we're killed and heavy
damage inflicted on crops and trans
mission by lightning and hail storms
in Indiana within the last twenty
four hours.
Edward Lowey, 10, and jackson
Robertson, IA were instantly killed
when a bolt of lightning jumped
from a wild cherry tree fifteen feet
away, to a shack at Huntington.
Fred Tuxworth, Is, suffered a
burned arm as the bolt went through
the doorway in which he was stand
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
SEEK TO 0ISANNEX
NORTHEAST SECTION
Civic League Strives to Secure
transportation for Children.

Civic League Strives to Secure
Transportation for Children.
Committees of the Northeast Civic
League today planned to confer with
city officials in an effort to disannex
territory bounded by Thirty-eighth,
Orchard, Sutherland and Eastern
avenues.
j. j. Swarm and Clovis English
were appointed to confer with the
Peoples Motor Coach Company in
an effort to obtain extension of bus
service to the neighborhood.
Children of the locality must walk
along keystone avenue to Forty
sixth street to a school and are ex-
posed to many traffic hazards in
crossing streets, President John @.
Wilson declared. If the territory is
disanneXed the children would have
benefit of transportation provided
by the township.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
TWO BOYS KILLED
IN INDIANA STORMS

ing, and Dick Willis, 9, who stood
near the death victims, was shocked.
At Marion a barn burned after
being struck by lightning, a home
was damaged, and crops in the sur
rounding territory were reported
badly torn. especially corn. Similar
crop damage was reported from Wa
bash, Goshen and Greentown.
Muncie and Kokomo reported In
terruption of light and power serv-
ice, and the latter was temporarily
cut off from telephone communica-
ton, due to hail and lightning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
FREED BY A KISS;
EVADES LAW AGAIN

turned to his old haunts here, but
officers failed in efforts to capture
him. He was reported at the home
of a relative in the Salt Creek Hill
district. A squad armed with riot
and shotguns and rifles surrounded
the house, but found no trace of
Davey.
The elusive man is believed the
last of the Billy Evans band of
counterfeiters, other members of
which are serving terms in the
federal prison at Leavenworth, Kas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
Tenant on One Farm As Years

Stoten tried to enlist for service in the
Civil war, but was rejected because he was
too young.
Regarding his long tenancy, Huston
says:
II never could get enough ahead to buy
a farm of my own, so what else was there
for me to do?"
Stoten declares the farmer is forgotten
when it comes to rewards. He says:
Pensions for all, but none for the
farmer With railroad men, government
employees, school teachers and what not
being showered with pensions, why is it
that no one ever suggests pension for the
farmer. We support the people. Why
don't the people support us after we are
too old to produce their food? Why, even
are being talked of for preachers"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
Chorus Girl Bride of Sea
Filler May Ask DiU0rce
Madame Jean AssoIant Is
Offered Lead Role in
Paris Revue.

DARIS, Aug. IA. - Madame
l. Jean Assolant, the former
New York chorus girl, Pauline
Parker, has been offered the
lead in a Paris revue at the
Casino De Paris, the United
Press learned today.
Harry Pilcer, who is at present
starring in the revue, offered
Nine. Assolant a contract to re-
place the French star now hold
ing the role.
Nine. Assolant, when seen by
a United Press correspondent in
her modest Latin quarter board
ing house, burst into tears and
neither would discuss the re-
ports of arrangement from her
famous aviator husband, pilot Of
the French transatlantic plane
Yellow Bird, nor the proffered
theatrical engagement.
However, she said that she was
in communication with her hus-
band, having received letters
from him at the various halts in
his European tour. The last one
she received was from Madrid,
she said.
Papers for the divorce are now
in process of preparation and
will be fled probably within a
authority that Assolant claimed
living in a style beyond his mes
Nine. ASsolant countered by
to live a modest home life.
Her husband, she said, durir
Paris, stayed out each night unit
She called attention to the
IN a modest boarding house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
WICkERSHAM INVITED
Law Enforcement Group
May Hear Address.

George w. Wickersham, chairman
Of President Hoover's law enforce
ment commission, has been asked
to speak at the Indiana law en-
forcement conference to be called by
the Governor late in October.
The program for the conference is
being arranged by a committee
named some time ago by Leslie, and
authorized by the 1929 legislature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
BLAST KILLS GUARD
Sunrise Gun ExpIodes at
Connecticut Camp.

By United Press
CAMP TRUMBULL, Mantle,
Conn. Aug. 14.-One National
Guardsman was killed and two 9TH
ers seriously injured today when an
explosion occurred when the sun
rise gun" misfred.
Peter T. Tinskowich, 20, of Bran
ford, private first class, died shortly
after the accident,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
ChrysIer Officials Changed
BIZ Times Special

NEWCASTLE, Ind, Aug. IA
Frank D. Brebner, manager Of the
local Chrysler automobile plant, has
been transferred to the staff Of K.
T. Keller, vice. president and gen.
eral manager Of all the Chrysler
properties. E. S. Chapman, who
has been in the company's manufac-
turing division at Detroit, will take
the place here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
PAR0LED YOUTH Is
SLATED FOR SPEEDING
Gene Alger Charged With Reckless
Driving by Police.

0CAC EAAACA OAaA SCu wen NNONAACoo
Driving by Police.
Gene Alger, 81, of 1929 North
Alabama street, on parole from the
Indiana state reformatory, where
he served two years of a two-to-
twenty-one-year sentence for the
fatal Shooting of a Negro police
man, today faced charged of reck-
less driving and speeding. He is at
liberty on his own recognizance.
The youth formerly was a Butler
university student and was re-
leased on parole from the reforIna-
tory by Governor Harry G. Leslie
the day before Mothers day last
May. The parole was regarded as
a gift to Alger's mother.
Twenty-six others we're arrested
on traffic charges Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
THREE TOURISTS KILLED
Crash Fatal to Michigan Resi-
dents.

bU FIHIEtI F1TFEN
WINDSOR, Ontario, Aug. Ia. -
Three Hamtramck (Mich) residents
returning home from a vacation at
Schenectady, N. Y, were killed near
Maidstone, OntarioS early this
morning when their automobile COL
lided with one driven by Theodore
Maxwell, 40, Of Kingsville, Ontario.
The dead women are Mrs. Paul.
inc Kluzinsky, SO; Marion Kluzin-
sky, 25, clerk in the Hamtramck
board Of education; Stella Ujazdow-
ski, %. Maxwell was but slightly
injured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
Heart Disease Causes Death.

BIZ Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, Aug. IA
Charles Ehli, 70, was found dead on
the porch of his home here, a VIC
tim of heart disease. He was an
active member of the Red Mems
lodge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
TURTLES EASILY TAKEN

Heads Under Water While Fighting
Muncfe Man Explains.
By Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, Aug. 14.-Fish sto~
ries don't interest Harry B. Retz,
Muncie board Of works member. He
prefers yarns about turtles.
Retz displayed two large turtles
which he claimed he captured while
they were fighting in shallow wa
ter. With their heads submerged In
battle, he had no difficulty IN lifting
them from the water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-14
B9 Times Special

for farm products He recalls being