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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
HOOVER FACES
BITTER CLASH
over DRY Job
President May Be Forced to
Yield to Politicians on
Appointment.
ALC0Rk CHOICE FOUGHT
Connecticut G. 0. P. Leader
Strongly Opposed to
Attorney.
ALC0RN CHOICE FOUGHT

BIZ Scripps-Holcdrd NecsDdper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-Drys
and politicians are awaiting Presi-
dent Hoover's appointment of a man
to Mabel Walker Willebrandt's old
place in the department of justice
for the additional light 1t may
throw on the White House attitude
toward patronage and prohibition
enforcement.
If the President fills the vacancy
without regard for practical politics,
it will reinforce his recent declara-
ton to Florida Republicans that the
success of his party rests upon good
government, not patronage"
But if he is forced to bow to
the exigencies Of powerful political
influences, as he was in the case of
recent Kansas and Pennsylvania
judgships, the job seekers may con-
clude that the warning to new-made
Florida Republicans was not meant
for them.
Attorney General Mitchell has
limited the appointment would be
Forthcoming in day or two, but he
did not give any inkling on the
identity Of the successful candidate.
Alcorn Is Opposed
President Hoover Is known to have
favored Hugh A. Alcorn, states at
torney at Hartford, Conn, for the
place, following the action of dry
organizations in recommending the
Connecticut man. Alcorn is an ex-
IRENE dry, personally and politically,
and a fOrceful prosecutor.
But Alcorn is political enemy Of
j. Henry Roraback, Connecticut boss
and friend of the President. The
latter made clear during preliminary
discussion of Alcorn's candidacy
that it would not be pleasing to the
organization.
Senator Bingham was Roraback'S
spokesman in the negotiations, as
he was the Connecticut Manufac-
turers Associations ally in the tariff
hearings.
The matter has hung fire for some
time, with Roraback recalcitrant.
The question now is whether the
President will name Alcorn because
of his admitted fitness or yield to
Roraback.
Forced to Yield
Despite the White House pro-
nouncement on patronage in his
Florida encounter, Hoover has been
forced to submit to political de-
mandS in several important cases.
Attorney General Mitchell vigorous
ly opposed the selection Of Richard
j. Hopkins of Kansas for the federal
bench, pointing out that Hopkins
had accepted lecture fees from the
Anti-Saloon leage while serving on
the state bench, but Senators Allen
and Capper would not back down.
Though Mitchell had declared the
Hopkins case was the "acid test" of
the administration determination
to take politics out of judicial APP
pointments, the White House found
it wise to waive the point.
The same was true in the dispute
over the naming Of Robert Watson
Of Pennsylvania to the bench. Sem
ator Reed obtained this appoint
ment after months of opposition and
delay.
Both nominations, however, are
understood to have pleased the drys,
as would the selection Of Alcorn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
$4,000 LOOT
OF BURGLARS
IN TWO JOBS
Battered Restaurant Safe
Yields Cash; Bulk Is
in Clothes.
STORE ENTRY MYSTERY
Apartment Believed Used in
Suits 0VerCoats
Robbery.

Burglars who entered downtown
restaurant and clothing store early
today stole $752 and 100 suits OF
clothes and thirty-five overcoats,
valued at $500.
Thieves obtained the money by
entering Wheeler's restaurant, II
North Illinois street, using a skele-
ton key on rear door They pried
open the Office door, battered the
combination off the safe and took
the money from the cash drawer.
The robbery was reported by Ell
mer Schoyer, 80, of 1857 North
Dearborn street, restaurant employe.
Bore 80 Holes
Burglars bored thirty-eight holes
in the rear door of the Birdsong-
Gambrel Company store, 213 Mas
sachuetts avenue, during the night
and removed panel and bars to
steal the clothes.
The clothes we're stored on the
first floor, and, according to police,
the robbers entered the store and
left 1t through the Wyandot apart
ments, 112 East Ohio street. The
rear of the apartment building and
the store structure are adjacent and
there is no way in which the clothes
could have been removed without
going through the apartment, police
said.
Discovered Today
Store officials told police the COM
pany's janltor left the store at 5
D. m. Sunday and the robbery was
discovered by employers at $50
a. m. today.
Persons in the apartment said
they did not see or hear the thieves
and Frank Bohannon, Negro, apart
ment j9nitOr, said the rear door Of
the apartment building was locked
at p. m. and the robbers would
have had to gain entrance to the
rear of the clothing store by coming
through the apartment.
Two negroes hurled a brick
through a front window of the Fair
store, 81 East Washington street,
Sunday night, but ran at the ap-
proach of passersby.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
TO
Be At BRIDGE
OPENING FE17E
Indiana and Kentucky Span
Will be Dedicated
Thursday.
USE TO BEGIN FRIDAY
The Jacksonville louisville
Structure Build at Cost
S5,OO0,000.

PB Times Special
JEFFEDSONVILLE, Ind, Oct. %.
Dedication of Louisville's new
SIS 100000 Ohio river bridge connect
ing Jeffersonville with the Kentucky
city, will be held Thursday after
noon, with Governor Harry G. Leslie
of Indiana and Governor Elem
Sampson of Kentucky participating.
Immediately after the ceremony the
span will be opened to pedestrians,
but no automobiles will be permitted
to pass over it until Friday.
President Hoover, at Louisville
last week in connection with the
Ohio river canalization celebration,
was the first person to cross the
bridge in an automobile, special ar
engagements having been made for
his trip.
The dedication ceremonies will be
held in the center of the bridge.
Louisville has invited all southern
Indiana residents to attend. At S
D. m. the lighting system of the span
will be turned on for the first time.
A dedication banquet will be held in
the Brown hotel at Louisville in the
evening.
There will be a continuation OF
the program Friday morning, in
Guiding an aviation show and river
regatta. A concert will be given IN
Louisville's new var memorial audi
forum and football game is sched-
uled between teams of Wabash COL
lege, Charlottesville, and the Uni
versity of Louisville. At night fire
works spectacle will be given on the
river.
The bridge was privately financed
and its users will pay tolls. Under
an agreement between the builders
and the city of Louisville, the span
will become the city's property when
bond issue, constituting a lien on
tolls, is paid. 1t is estimated the
bonds will be paid in ten to fifteen
years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
MINISTER is BURIED
The Rev. John S. Martin of
Greenwood Served Here.

Funeral services for the Rev
John s. Martin. 81, former Irving
ton Presbyterian church pastor, who
died Friday at Greenwood, were
held at 10 today from the Green.
wood Presbyterian church. Buria
was in Crown Hill cemetery.
The Rev. D. A. Sharp. Column.
bus, ofhciated at the service, as.
sisted by Greenwood and visiting
clerygmen, including the Rev. w
r. Dierking, Greenwood Presbyte.
rian church pastor.
DR.. Martin had served thirty
three years in the Presbyterian min.
istry. Surviving him are the wild.
ow. Mrs. Laura Alice Martin, anC
two daughters, Mrs. Charles B. Da.
Wis. Charlotte. N. c.. and Mrs. Har.
vey j. Phelps, Rochelle Ill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
TELEPHONE MEN ELECT
]. w. Harmon Is Chosen President
of Pioneers Chapter.

J. w. Harmon, general plant su-
perintendent Of the Indiana Bell
Telephone Company. has been elect
ed president of the Telephone Pho
neerS of America, Hoosier chapter
No. l6.
Other officers elected are: Senior
vice-president. Guy A. Boyle, IN
diana Bell; vice-president. Belle
Bernetha. Rochester Telephone Com
pany: secretary, Margaret Cooper,
Indiana Bell (re-elected). and
treasurer. Bessie LOOMS. Indiana
Bell also reelected. Balloting was
by mail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
MAN HELD IN SHOOTING
Neigbborhood Quarrel Results in
william Jackson's Arrest.

william Jackson, 81, of 251e Wood
street, was under arrest today
charged with intent to kill Robert
Smock, Al. Of 2517 Wood street, after
the latter is alleged to have knocked
Mrs. Jackson of the front porch
Of her home Sunday.
According to police, Smock ac-
cused Jackson's children of stealing
a hammer from him and he showed
Mrs. Jackson from the porch dur
ing the argument. Jackson, police
were told, went into the house. OBJ
tanned a gun and fired shot at
Smock. The shot went wild Smock
was charged with assault and bat
terry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
Golden Wedding Marked

Ry Times Special
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Oct. 28.--
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Ertle observed
their fiftieth wedding anniversary
at the home of their daughter, Mrs.
William H. Brady. They were mar
ried at Gutenberg and four years
later came to this section Of the
state and have resided here ever
since. For the past ten years they
have spent their winters in Florida.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
SECOND STATE DRY
SPY AFOUL OFLAW
DriUer III at
Truck Wheel
BIZ Timea Nnccinl

BIZ Times SpCciGl
KNIGHTSTOWN. Ind, Oct.
29.-Believed to have been
stricken with paralysis, Ralph
Bailey of Richmond, driver of a
large truck for an Indianapolis
company, arrived here without
use of his body from the waist
down, after he had succeeded
in plotting the machine with
accident although it plunged
down a hill att the rate of fifty
miles an hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
GLADl0LI MEN ORGANIZE
Indiana Harvest of Season Is VAL
ued at S2,eOO.OO0.

The Indiana harvest of gladiolus
bulbs today was estimated at about
$4,000, 900 this season. according 10
Roscoe Huff. Goshen. secretary of
the American Gladiolus Society.
A statewide gathering was held
Sunday at the Smith & Young
flower store. 300 West New York
street, TO perfect the organiza-
ton Of the Indiana Gladiolus So
city. About 100 representatives of
the industry attended.
Officers elected: DR.. James B.
Maple. Sullivan. president; Frank
N. Wallace, indianapolis, state en-
tomologist. vice. president: Miss
Mildred Patterson, Goshen. secre-
tary, and L. ]. Swank, Crawfords-
villes treasurer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
STRANGER BREAKS UP
W0MAN'S FURNITURE

Mrs. Caroline Sturgeon Denies
Knowing Intruder in Home.
An excited voice Sunday after
noon informed police that a man
is beating his wife at 1921 West
Tenth street."
When police arrived they found
Henry Ballinger, 81. of 1874 East
Maryland street, i'll the house. Mrs
Caroline Sturgeon of the West Tenth
street address, said Ballinger had
broken up the furniture after fore
ing entrance into the house.
Mrs. Sturgeon said she never had
seer the man before Ballinger was
charged with drunkenness, disor-
derby conduct and trespassing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
IVAN LAZAREFF DIES

Director of Chicago Art Theater
Claimed by Heart Disease.
BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Oct. 28.-Iyan Lag
areff, So. a member of the Moscow
Art theater for twenty years ago
since 1926 director of the Chicago
Art theater, will be buried here
Tuesday,
Lazareff, native of Saratov,
Russia. died Of heart disease Sunday
at the home Of a friend. He at
tanned fame as an actor by alternat-
ing as the mad emperor and the
crippled beggar in Max Reinhardt's
production, THE Miracle
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
JAIL PLANS DRAFTED
Fourteen New Cells to Be Added to
City'S Prison.

Architects plans have been drawn
for the construction of fourteen
new cells in city prison and the city
council probably will be asked for
$1,000 bond issue to make the
addition, Theodore Dammeyer,
president Of the board of public
works, said today
Vonnegut, Bohn, & Miller,
architects, have made the plans,
Dammeyer said. They call for all
additional story to the dollhouse.
Each cell will be six by nine feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
CAPONE WRIT ARGUED
Gangster's Fifth Bid for Liberty is
Before Court.
BH United Press

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 28.--AH
Capone's fifth bid for freedom is "a
be tested today, when his petition
for writ Of habeas corpus IN the
grounds that his sentence was illegal
will be argued.
Capone's counsel are arguing that
his sentence should have been In
determ.nate instead Of set period.
They claim that under the act Of
1875. gun-toting Is made punishable
by not more than one year in prison.
This was the law under which Ca
pone was sentenced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
ADVANCE SPARKS NAME
Favorable Committee to Act on Ap-
pointment of Judge.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.--Nomin-
alton of Judge VIII M. Sparks of
Rushville, to be judge of the sew
enth circuit court of appeals, was
referred, by the senate judiciary
committee. to a subcommittee con-
sisting of Senator'S Robinson of In
diana, Deneen of Illinois. Republi-
cans. and King of Utah. Democrat.
The make up of the Subcommittee
was believed to forecast an early re-
port favorable to Sparks, as Robin
son has announced himself greatly
grfd With the appointment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
PASTOR SAYS FAREWELL,
Congregation Presents Minister
With $500 Cash Gift.

The Rev James A. Long, who has
announced his resignation from the
North Park church to assume the
pastorate Of the West Side Chris
tian church in Dayton, preached his
final sermon Sunday n ght at North
Park church and today prepared to
enter the Dayton church Nov 3.
Former Governor Ed Jackson was
a speaker Sunday night and pre-
sented Mr. Long with a $500 cash
gift from the congregation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
PORTERFIELD GETS POST
Appointed Marketing Director by
United Typothetae.

David P. Porterfeld of Indianap-
oils has been named director OF the
department Of marketing of the
United Typothetae, it was an
nounced today.
Porterfield, former advertising
manager for the Holcomb g. Holke
Manufacturing Company. succeeds
Alexander Rogers. who resigned re-
Gently.
He viii have headquarters in
Washington. D. c.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
Is DEAD IN STATE
AS VIOLENCE TOLL
40 YeaY-OM
Bill Paid
BU United Press

By United Press
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Oct.
GA 40-year-old warrant for
$3.50 for jury service has been
presented for payment here.
Byron B. Downward, who pre-
sented the warrant, said he had
forgotten to cash it and later
lost it. 1t was only recently
found. 1t will be paid and the
paper turned over to the Hart
ford County Historical Society.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
DRIVER LOSES LICENSE
George Cooper Pleads Guilty to
Using Car While Drunk.

George Cooper, 815 East Michigan
street, today W. med $40 and pro-
hibited from dt ing an auto for a
year by Municipal Judge Paul G.
Wetter today after Cooper pleaded
guilty to drunkenness and operating
an auto while drunk. Coopers car
collided with another auto several
days ago.
Morgan German, ITO East st.
Clair street, with Cooper at the time
of the accident, was fined $40 for
drunkenness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
Navy Day Observed

BIZ Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct. 3d.
Bloomington civic organizations,
schools. and Indiana university
joined observance of Navy day to-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28

Two of Americas most famous
girl flyers-Elinor Smith, inset,
and Bobbie Trout-plan to es-
tablish the first endurance re-
fueling record for women at Los
Angeles early in November.
Miss Trout, who will handle the
refueling hose, is shown, at right,
as she practices making contact.
The other picture shows her
talking to Jack Sheriff., who will
be manager of the flight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

The average factory price which
each motorist in the United States
paid for his automobile last year was
$67310, according to figures of the
American Motorists Association. The
1928 average price was $6o.40 cheaper
than the average price for 1927, which
was $733.50, the associations figures
show. There were sold to purchasers
in this country last year q total OF
1893, 430 passenger cars.
Comparing the average costs Of
passenger automobiles since 1900, the
figures show that as production in
creaSes the American purchaser of an
automobile profits thereby to the ex-
tent that he can make his individual
purchase at q correspondingly lower
figure. The average factory price In
1900 was $l,168, increasing slightly to
81 ,189 In 1910 and dropped to $949 In
1920, compared with 1918 last year.
With yearly increased production
there Is no reason why American pur-
chasers Of automobiles cannot buy bet
ter cars at a lower cost each year,
declares Thomas j. Keefe, general
manager Of the association.
1.-THE present low cost of q good au-
tomobile Is q tribute to the high ef-
ficiency Of the automobile manufac-
turing industry, coupled with the fact
that In recent years there have been
numerous consultations by manufac-
turers, the net result being better
product at lower price"
The associations survey shows tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

the analysis shows. To bring about a
lessening Of these types Of accidents
the council for several years has been
sponsoring a campaign of education in
the schools and is now carrying the
work into the home through womens
organizations In the city.
The traflc accident records show
conclusively that fewer mishaps occur
in the neighborhoods. where junior
safety councils or safety patrols are
functioning In the schools than in vi
entities where such organizations do
not exist. The school authorities
are cooperating with the safety coun-
Gil in efforts to organize junior councils
or patrols in all schools that do not
have them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
ENGINE TROUBLE CLEARED
Carburetor Not Always to Blame
for "Bucking."

Missing of the engine and 'bucking,"
frequently blamed on the carburetor,
are often due to nothing more than
improper adjustment Of spark plugs or
breaker point gaps, or both. according
to spark plug company engineering
bulletin. Before making carburetcr
adjustment in high-compression ell
gines. the bulletin says, the owner OF
mechanic should make sure that the
plug gap. is 0020 inch or less, and dis
tributer points are filed square and
capped from 00l5 TO 0.022 inch-the
smallest workable gap the better.
The bulletin adds that dirty or worn
out spark plugs cause trouble often
blamed on the carburetor. To clean
plugs, I'LL the lower part with alcohol
metal polish or equal parts ammonia
and water and allow to stand for a
few seconds; rub the carbon from the
insulator with stiff wire or small
wooden peg covered with one thickness
of cloth; wipe the plug dry, then clean
sparkling points with emery cloth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Siam Rubber Planting Set Back.

A drawback TO rubber planting in
Siam seems to lie In securing suitable
areas sufficient to satisfy the needs Of
the white" producers. In Siam there
would be no difiiculty in acquiring small
tracts of land, either uncleared or al
ready planted, suitable for rubber, but
to get unbrolken areas Of an extent suit
able for cultivation on a large scale
would not be so easy. Difficulties are
likely to arise, not so much with refer
ence to obtaining rights thereto in the
case Of government-owned land. as 70
obtaining q title from number of
small holders. Apart from this, the fact
that rubber may, to all intents and pur-
poses, be raised as successfully and as
economically In much of Siamese Ma
laysia as In the Federated Malay States
seems to have been adequately demon
Stratad,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Uncertainty in Rubber Production

The Rubber and Tea Quarterly directs
attention to the uncertainty as regards
the status of rubber production in Ma
laya on estates and native holdings I'M
der 10 acres. They point out that Ma
layan statistics of rubber stocks on
estate over 100 acres failed to indicate
anything like the quantities which have
been exported since November !, 1928,
and credit part of this failure to the
probable existence Of large stocks on the
small estates and In hands of natives.
The possibility that natives may still be
shipping from accumulated stocks is
indicated, rather than that present high
native production Is responsible for the
continued high Malayan exports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

They are equipping cars with radios
now and it Is r,lmored that "I1l Get
BY" is to become the theme song of
motoring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
FEWER CHILDREN
KILLED BY AUTOS
Baltimore Safety Council
Survey, However, Shows
Greater Nuzaser Injured.

! BALTIMORE. June 22.-Fewer chill
.dren have been killed by automobiles in
the FIRST four months Of this year than
for the corresponding period of 1928,
according to a report of the safety
council.
There were children under 16
killed this year, compared with II in
, 1928 and 10 In 1927 for the same
months.
More were injured, however, the total
being AL, compared with 426 last year.
In 1927 there were 400 injured In the
four-month period.
Darling in front of moving vehicles,
stepping or running from the sidewalk,
bicycle riding, roller skating and play
ing in, the streets are the principal
causes of accidents involving children,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Average Factory Price on Automobiles
Sold In y. S. In 1923 Is Placed at $3.50

automobile purchasers are rapidly be-
coming sold" on the closed type Of
car. OF all the passenger cars pur-
chased In the United States last year
885 per cent were closed models. The
rapid change from open to closed
models Is shown by comparative fig-
ures of 1921, which show that cal
per cent Of the total production were
closed cars, compared with IS per cent
In 1923, SOS per cent in 1925, 1913
per cent In 1927 and SS.5 per cent
last year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
MOTOR OUTPUT FOR MAY
TOTALS 6O3, 1863 VEHICLES
Production in q. s. for Month Less
Than in April, but Exceeds
1928 May Figures.

May production factory sales) Of
motor vehicles in the United States, as
reported by the Department Of Com
merce, was 1899, Of which 516,055
were passenger cars, 1886 trucks and
1918 taxicabs, as compared with 621,-
331 passenger cars. trucks and taxicabs
in April and 425, 1913 in May, 1928.
The table below is based on figures
received from ISL manufacturers in the
United States for recent months, 81
making passenger cars and 1l8 making
trucks GA making both passenger cars
and trucks. Figures for passenger cars
are revised so as to include pleasure We
hicles only, the output Of factory built
taxicabs being shown separately from
January, 1925, to date. Pleasure cars
which are later converted to CONNER
cial use are not reported as taxicabs.
Figures for trucks include ambulances,
funeral cars, fire apparatus, street
sweepers and buses. Canadian figures
have been supplied by the Dominion Bu-
reau Of Statistics since January, 1926.
Seyenty-two of the railroads in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Question Iowa Law.

A novel form of motor vehicle taxa
ton is being challenged In the United
States Supreme Court, which has been
asked to pass on the legality of the
Iowa law, according to the legal depart
ment of the American Motorists AsSo-
citation. The law imposes on public mo-
tor-bus carriers ton-mile tax for the
maintenance and repair Of highways.