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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
Only One Shadow Casts Its
Pail on This Family
Jack Frost.
BY ARCH STEINEL

One million dahlia blooms, in 500
different varieties and colors, top
pie one upon another on a ten
acre tract of land on the South
Meridian street road.
Motorists take breathing spells on
the citys outskirts to enjoy the
myriad reds, oranges and pinks of
the flowers.
Behind those blooms is a hobby
that grew into a business, a country
home, and married life among the
flowers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph o. Wenning,
R. R. 6, Box BOT, owners of the ten
acres known as the Indianapolis
dahlia gardens, have but one rift
and worry, in their job of marrying
dahlia species, selling bulbs and
husband that is Jack Frost.
Started as Hobby
The dahlia season is short, and
getting Shorter-two months OF
blooming, at the most.
And so now Mr.. and Mrs. Wen
ming listen to radio weather fore
casts and newspaper notices hourly
for reports of the oncoming of the
ogre that Stays their seasonal live
lihood overnight.
MIR. Wenning began growing
dahlias just as a hobby and a spare
time job when we were married.
Soon it became business and now
it takes up all our time" said Mrs.
Wenning.
The Wennings' estate is one
where the welcome sign is always
out for visitors. Any one can drive
up to their backdoor and park a
car and view the blooms, wander in
the gardens, without being called
to account or asked What do you
want?"
"Never Been Bothered"
"You know flowers bring out the
best in everyone We've never had
fence up along the highway.
There's nothing to prevent anyone
from stealing the blooms. We'd
hardly miss them and yet we've
never been bothered by thefts, .
Mrs. Wenning says.
I'VE could sell all we could get
early, but it turned out that the
season merely was late and now
we've just as many blooms as in
good years." Mrs. Wenning said.
Cut 1,GOO an Hour
Watching her gathering a bunch
of the blooms gives rise to the
thought, She must be an expert at
pulling them off by the stems"
But the eyes deceive, for what
in reality looks as if the dahlias
were pulled, is merely the deft
twitch of a small pocket-knife car
ried in Mrs. Wenning'S hand which
ships off the flowers.
Mrs. Wenning and her husband
can cut 1000 blooms an hour, and
sometimes on Sundays when flower
lovers literally storm the Dahlia
House, it is necessary to resort to
speed to keep the tubs in the base
ment supplied.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
Bright Spots
BY United Press

Il
More than 70 per cent of the
country's banks and trust COM
panies having deposits of 500 ,OOO,-
600 or more recorded deposit
gains in the quarter ended Sept.
80, Dow, Jones & Co. reported.
Production of polished plate
glass in September was 1885
square feet, compared with 1,77S,-
DAT square feet in August, ac-
cording to the Plate Glass Man
ufacturerS of America.
Business failures during the
last week were 535, compared
with 551 in the corresponding
week of 1881, Dun's reported.
Atlas Powder Co. reported
earnings in the third quarter were
equal to SO cents share, COM
pared with SO cents a share in
the corresponding period of 1881.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
Unemployed
Army Moves
on London
Thousands in Big Hunger
March; Demonstration
Set for Thursday.
By United Press

By United Press
LONDON, Oct. Thousands of
hunger marchers battled their way
toward London today to the music
of fife and drum corps and the
strains of Keep the Home Fires
Burning" plodding over muddy
reads through cold, drenching
rain.
Groups already on the road to-
tailed more than three thousand.
Many others were preparing to start
the trek.
Pipers, bands, and filters and
drummers cheered the marchers on
the way here to protest dole reduc-
tions in an immense demonstration
planned for Thursday.
Although roads were submerged
in many places, and the marchers
were drenched by cold rains that
have swept the country for a week,
they maintained their march on
schedule.
London police were prepared for
trouble, after the unemployed dem
onstrations that marked the recent
opening of parliament.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
Plans Desperate Fight
BY RAY TUCKER
Times staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Presi-
dent Hoover has agreed to a polit-
ical program that will see him max
ing the most desperate and siren
uous fight for reelection known in
recent presidential annals.
His itinerary, which may include
a trip to California, will be an
nounced soon.
At the insistence of his two prin-
cipal adviserS-Ogden L. Mills, Sec
rotary of the treasury, and Post
master General Walter F. Brown
Hoover has abandoned all pretense
that he is sticking to his recon-
struction task for the duration of
the campaign as originally sched-
uled to be his role.
They have told him that only
he can save himself from defeat.
Worried Over Detroit
Although a New York speech on
Oct. 81 and a stop at Newark are
the only scheduled major efforts,
Hoover's advisers want him to make
trip into the middle west, the
northwest and to the coast.
They want him to deliver major
speeches at Chicago, Minneapolis,
Indianapolis, st. Louis, Denver, Salt
Lake City and San Francisco. These
would be in addition to the New
York trip.
White House strategists still are
discussing the unfriendly reception
which greeted Hoover at Detroit.
Although they discount it, men
who have Travelled with presidential
parties for years say it was UNI
precedented.
The chorus of "boos" at the rail-
road station sounded like thunder"
according to them, and so disturbed
Hoover's friends that the plan to
seat him in a chair with the Gov
ernor was forgotten.
City Officials Apologize
Although official statements gave
the impression that the Anti-Hoo-
yer demonstration was confined to
an alleged Communistic group near
the railroad station, Hoover's friends
are worried by the fact that the
booing continued along the four
mile route to Olympia hall. where
he spoke.
AS the presidential automobile
passed loading platforms, people
rushed up close to the chief exec
utive to express their opinion of his
record.
Local authorities did not try to
stop the demonstration for fear they
might aggravate signs Of disrespect.
AS the President boarded his train
to return to the capital, local off,
Gals offered an apology for the be-
havior of the populace.
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Garner accused Mr. Hoover and
Treasury Secretary Mills of anne
STA and asphasia" in recounting
events of the last three years.
Anticipating "the alibi President
Hoover and his apologists have been
making" Garner admitted that the
expenditures cited included appro-
priations for the federal board, the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton and federal land bank expan-
sion.
Take Credit, Count Cost
But he added that President Hoo
yer has taken credit for every one
of these federal relief agencies.
when Mr.. Hoover takes the
credit, he must count the cost, the
Democratic vice-presidential candl-
date asserted.
All through the campaign, Gar
ner said, President Hoover and his
Republican leaders yet have failed
to cite any relief measure taken in
1879 Vi 1901, Uu6 11cNC booOA VAASA-
campaign claims on measures I'M
dertaken almost at the end of 1881.
Cites Jobless Figures
"The, recollection of the Ameri-
can people who have been brought
to hunger, want, suffering and de-
spair, goes much beyond last Dec.
g." Garner said, referring to Presl-
dent Hoover's frequent mention OF
his annual message to congress on
that day.
Taking up the Republican claim
that the depression in the United
States largely is due to conditions
abroad, Garner said American Fed
Grafton of Labor figures on Oct. IL
showed 100000 of the 122,000,000
residents of the United States I'M
employed, white on that same day
unemployment in England, France,
Germany and Italy, with a total
population of 182,000,0O0, number
9,161 ,O01 persons unemployed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
TROOPS MAY
GUARD HOOVER
IN CITY VISIT
Safety Board Likely to Ask
Ft. Harrison Aid If
President Comes.
CITE DETROIT BOoING
Officials Here Unwilling to
Take Responsibility for
Protection.

Use of troops from FIT. Harrison
in addition to every available man
of the police force, was urged upon
Chief Mike Morrissey today by the
safety board in the event that
President Hoover visits Indianapolis
as one stop of trip planned as a
whirlwind finish to the campaign.
Reports are current that Hoover
will be here Friday.
Recommending that extra pre-
caution" be taken to protect the
President, who was booed in Detroit
last week, the board members re-
ferred to 1.-THE attitude of some
people toward the President in these
troublesome times"
Need Many Precautions"
"These are turbulent times" said
Charles R. Myers board president,
land in view of the attitude of
lot of desperate folks, we must take
precautions unusual even for such
an occasion. We should ask for
troops from Fort Harrison to aid
the police.
1T would be most regrettable to
have anything happen to the Presi-
dent while he is in Indianapolis. -
Myers suggested to Morrissey that
the line of march be roped off and
crowds confined to the sidewalks.
When MorrisSey said he doubted if
the police have sufficient rope,
Myers said funds must be found to
buy more rope.
Statement Is Issued
aside from the political angle"
Myers said, Il sincerely hope the
President decides not to come here"
With persistent, but unconfirmed
rumorS current that Hoover would
be here Friday for an address, Re-
publican state leaders this after
noon issued the following state
ment:
Plans for visit of President Hoo
YER to Indianapolis are contingent
upon his schedule of trips to be
made out of Washington between
now and Nov. 8. The President will
be in New York Monday. Whether
or not he will visit indianapolis de-
ponds upon his schedule after the
New York trip"
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BY BEN STERN

GARY, Ind, Oct. 25.-Despite the
pouring of thousands of Republican
dollars into Lake county, the liberal
use of the lash of job fear by the
industrialists, and the vigorous
support by four city administra-
lions, the First district will go into
the Democratic column Nov. 8.
There will be no repetition of
1926, when thousands of floaters and
repeaters were voted to save the po-
litical hide of Senator James E.
Watson.
The election results will not be
withheld for three days, to learn
how many votes are needed to re-
elect Watson.
Contest to Be Close
In other words, Lake county is 60
ing to have an honest election on
Nov. 8, if the efforts of watching
crews of ex-service men and union
laborites will count for anything.
Yet the victory will not be easy.
Present indications are that ma
jority of 1000 will satisfy the most
optimistic Democratic manager
here.
Despite the widespread sentiment
against Republican state and ma
tional administrations, and the fact
that there are 10000 unemployed in
the county, John Scott of Gary,
First district G. o. P. chairman, is
doing an excellent job of whipping
sentiment back to the party.
Weakness Is Admitted
Because this is an industrial COM
munity, a strenuous fight is made
on the issue of high tariff. Oscar
Ahlgren, G. O. P. congressional
nominee, is waging his campaign
on this. He also has discarded his
party's national platform and is
flat-footedly for dry law repeal.
Scott counts on Ahlgren, Joseph
Kyle, Lake county resident and
nominee for Lieutenant Governor,
and the support of the four city adj
ministrations in the county and
thelr patronage TO put over the
ticket.
He makes no predictions as to the
size of the possible majority and
contents himself with the state
ment that I'VE are going to win"
This in itself is an important adj
mission of weakness in a county
so strongly Republican as Lake in
the past.
Democrats, on the other hand, are
making extravagant claims of a
landslide. They point to the popu-
larity of Paul " McNutt, Governor
nominee, the sincere respect and
admiration won here by Frederick
Van Mugs, senatorial nominee, and
the strong labor following of Will
liam Schultz, congressional choice,
who is business agent for the stage
hands union, as basis for this senti-
ment.
why, we should do at least as
well as in 1880, when the Demo-
Gratis. won by majority of 2,192,"
they contend.
Since then, unemployment has
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HORNSBY HIRED
BY CARDINALS
DepoSed Cubs Manager
Gets Year Contract.

By United Press
ST. LOUIS. Oct. IS. = Rogers
Hornsby, deposed as manager of the
Chicago Cubs last August, has
signed one-year player contract
with the st. Louis Cardinals, preSi-
dent Sam Breadon announced to-
day.
The contract provides that at the
close of the 1888 season Hornsby
will be given his unconditional re-
lease, and, thereafter, will be free
to sell his services to the highest
bidder, subject to the rules of the
National League.
Hornsby'S salary was not an
nounced, but was understood to be
nominal, for the man who once
turned down a $50,000-a-year offer
from Breadon after he had led the
Cardinals to a worlds champion
ship in 1926.
The "Rajah" believes that at
the age of 81, he can come back
as major league star, Breadon
said.
1--WE believe Rog still is a great
player. We think he will help us
win the pennant next year. That is
why we are signing him.
Breadon denied emphatically that
Hornsby was being given amy
consideration as a possible manager
of the club or future successor of
Charles (Gabby) Street, the present
manager.
He will be a player trying to win
a place on the team, and will take
his orders the same as other play
ers, from Street. Breadon said.
Hornsby comes back as a player
in the ranks to the club with which
he rose from obScurity to the pin
nacle of baseball fame--a club that
sent him away as a climax of a
bitter quarrel over salary after he
had won a worlds championship
for the Cardinals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
PAY BANK DIVIDEND
Washington to Give a Per
Cent to Realty Holders.

Dividend of 4 per cent will be paid
this week to holders of first lien
6 per cent real estate savings GER
tificates of the Washington Bank
and Trust Company, it was an
nounced today by Brandt c. Dow
ney, receiver, acting on court order.
Holders of books numbered from
/ to 400 will be paid on Wednes-
day between 9 a. m. and p. m,
and holders of books 401 to 764 on
Thursday at the same hours.
Payment will be made only by
calling at the bank Washington
street and Senate avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
WILLIAMSON HITS BACK
AT BOBBITT CHARGES
Gas BoOtlegging' Ended, State
Treasurer Says in Reply.

Gas 'BoOtleggIng Ended, State
Treasurer Says in Reply.
Answering charges of extrava-
gance and failure made by his
predecessor, A. N. Bobbitt, Floyd
E. Williamson, state auditor, today
admitted that he had increased the
gasoline collection staff from seven
teen to thirty-one employees, but
pointed out that, as a result,
$4,582, 625.83 additional tax had been
collected.
The increase was urged by the
legitimate oil dealers to prevent the
"bootlegging" which occurred under
the Bobbitt regime, Williamson
said.
He cited the $4,000 settlement
OF a 100000 bootleg gas case un-
der the Bobbitt regime as an ex-
ample of the carelesSnesS which
prevailed formerly.
Williamson is a candidate for re-
election on the Democratic ticket.
He defeated Bobbitt. a Republican,
for his present term.
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WOMAN DIES
IN RIVER AS
FEUD CLIMAX
Fourth Attempt at Suicide
Succeeds for Mrs. Anna
SchWarz, Beech Grove.
SHOT HER SON-IN-LAW
Freed After Investigation by
Grand Jury; Walks
Into Stream.

eliminating a domestic feud, il
which she was freed of a charge
OF shooting her son-in-law as he
slept, nearly six months ago, Mrs
Anna Schwarz, 81, of Beech Grove
committed suicide early today by
drowning in White river.
Mrs. Schwarz walked into the
river south of Washington street
after laying her coat on the bank
William He Holthoff, 25, of 342
South Walcott street, the son-in-
law, who recovered from a bullet
wound in the head, identified the
body when it was recovered an hour
later by police.
The act was witnessed by sew
eral persons, who were unable to
reach her before she sank.
Charge Is Dropped
Following hearing before Mu-
nicipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron,
shortly after the shooting, Mrs.
Schwarz was bound over to the
grand jury on charge Of assault
and battery with intent to kill.
On recommendation of Holthoff.
Mrs. Schwarz later was discharged.
Her assertion that she shot Holt
hoff because, she declared, "he
ruined the lives of myself and
daughter was believed by grand
jurors to be hallucination, accord
ing to Oscar Hagemeier, grand iurv
deputy prosecutor, who conducted
the investigation.
Hagemeier disclosed, however,
that relative of Holthoff last week
sought to reopen the investigation.
said he did not know
what action will be taken.
Suicide Attempt Fails
At the time of the shooting, Holt
hoff lived at the Schwarz home.
Mrs. Schwarz attempted suicide
after shooting Kolthoff, but was pre-
vented when the revolver damned.
according to her statement to dep
uty slleriffs.
Authorities first learned of the
shooting when Holthoff ran into
the street in front of the Schwarz
residence shouting that he had
been shot.
He was picked up by a passing
and hurried to st. Francis
hospital where deputy Sheriffs found
him. A revolver slug had pierced
his skull, emerging at the top after
the brain.
Mrs. Schwarz then was found in
the home, where she admitted
shooting Holthoff, then turning the
gun on herself.
Death Again Denied Her
Within the last week Mrs.
Schwarz twice again attempted to
end her life by inhaling fumes from
a gas stove, according to neighborS.
Following the attempts, she was
given medical treatment in st.
Francis hospital Sunday and was
released.
A son, Carl Schwarz, called at his
mothers home early today, and,
her gone, informed police
and relatives that she was missing.
They were notified of the suicide a
short time later.
Or. John Salb, deputy coroner,
gave verdict of suicide.
Mrs. Schwarz was the widow of
Rudolph Schwarz, Indianapolis
sculptor, who designed and executed
bronze work on the Soldiers and
Sailors monument.
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HONOR GRANDDAUGHTER
OF MAYOR CERMAK

Elected President of Dramatic Club
at lakewood School.
Vivian Graham, granddaughter of
Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago,
was elected president of the Du-
jarie Dramatic Club of lakewood
school at the clubs first meeting
last week. Other officers are Emily
Serhant of Chicago, vice-president;
Mary Nolan, secretary, and Helen
Smith, treasurer.
First presentation to be sponsored
by the club will be a patriotic pro-
gram Armistice day.
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GO WITH ROOSEVELT

Scripps Garfield Papers Announce
support Of Democratic Nominee.
BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25.-Support
Of the presidential candidacy Of
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt was
announced today by the Scripps-
Garfield newspapers through S. S.
Hahn. general counsel.
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DECEPTION LAID TO
HOOVER BY GARNER
Chief Executive Lacks Honesty in Attempt
ing to Explain Away Futility in War
on Depression, Is Charge.
By United Press

WASHINGTON Oct 25Speake N today
President Hoover defense charging that the
chief
Democratic candidate taking
of $123700O0O
exclusive of public debt retirement and interest.
chargeable
excluding public
ending 1880 $990000 for the fiscal
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In the Air

Weather conditions at 9 a. m:
South wind, II miles an hour;
temperature, Sc; barometric pres
sure, 1896 at sea level; ceiling, high,
broken clouds, unlimited; visibility,
10 miles; field good.
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SOCIALISTS ARE BARRED
Oklahoma Supreme Court Bans
Party From Nov. Ballots.

BIZ United Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. Is. -
The Oklahoma supreme court today
denied the plea Of the Socialist
party to place candidates on the
ballots in Oklahoma at the general
election, Nov. 8.
The party, which was ruled of
the ballot when it failed to register
a constitutional number of voters
at the last election, had sought a
writ of mandamus forcing the
state election board to place its
candidates on the ballot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
GETS 1-10-YEAR TERM
Negro, Convicted of Petit Larceny,
Handed Long Sentence.

Convicted of a charge of petit
larceny after he was alleged to have
disarmed Mrs. Mary Moore, former
Indianapolis policewoman, during a
brawl in Military park, July 81,
Robert Breckenridge, %, Negro, of
indianapolis, was sentenced one to
ten years in the Indiana reforma-
tory today by Thomas Garvin, Grim
inal court judge pro tenn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
SURVEY SHOWS
FIRST DISTRICT
IS DEMOCRATIC
G. 0. P. StronghoIds Swing
to Rivals, Lake County
Check Indicates.
WATSON LOSES POWER
Hoover and State Ticket
Also Are in Bad With
Mill Workers.

Ben Stern. Times political writer. is
making a tour of northern and central
Indiana. to feel the political pulse as the
campaign draws near its close. This is
the first of a series he will write of the
situation as he sees it, district by dis
trict.
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FEAR ROBINS is DEAD
Close Friends of Missing Crusader
Are Nearly Convinced.


By United Press
CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-The seven
weeks absence of Raymond Robins,
social worker who vanished en-
route to a luncheon engagement
with President Hoover Sept. 3, was
believed by his friends here today
to indicate he had met death at the
hands of unknown enemies.
Salmon o. Levinson, Chicago
attorney and close friend of Robins,
today said friends and relatives of
the social worker had become al
most convinced he had been slain.
Robins had been visiting at Levin
sons summer home in Maine just
prior to his disappearance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
CITY MAN is KILLED
Milton Scott, Struck by Train, Dies
Instantly, Report Says.

Milton Scott, %, sen of Mrs. M. E.
Scott of indianapolis, was killed in
stantly today at Lebanon, KY, when
run over by train, according to
word received by police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
ARMY H0N0RS CITY MAN

Lieutenant Colonel Warfel to Take
Course at War College.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles o.
W'arfel, 825 East Fortieth street, the
first reserve officer in Indiana to be
so honored, left indianapolis Mon
day night for Washington to begin
a thirty day course at the United
States Army War College.
The war college, highest and most
advanced. school for army officers,
selects only specially qualified off,
GERS for special tactical instruction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
CIRCLE DANCE PLANNED
Monument to Be Roped of Next
Saturday Night for Holiday Fete.

SATURDAY NIgnt TOT HOLIDAY Fete.
Monument Circle and all ap-
proaches excepting West Market
street will be roped against traffic
Saturday at $50 p. m. for a pre-
Halloween fete, the safety board
decided today. 1t is planned to hold
a dance on the Circle in co-opera-
ton with the park board, the fire.
mems string band to provide music.
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Indy BABY NAMED JON

Intimates of Colonel and Anne Re-
veal Selection to Press.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-Jon Nor
row Lindbergh has been selected as
the name of the second son of Col.
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, in
Inmates of the family said today.
The baby was born six months
after their first baby, Charles Au-
gustus Jr. was kidnapped and killed.