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$1,000 is LOOT
OF CITY GANG
Hold Up Six Employees in
Street Car Barn.

Five well-dressed bandits, who
early today held at bay six en-
ployes of indianapolis Railways,
Inc, in the car barn. and office at
Illinois street and Mclean place, es-
capped with $2,100.
The robbery occurred as three
office employees were herded into a
room with three street car motor
men and conductors, who were wait
ing to go on duty. The bandits
brandiShed revolvers and shotguns.
While one of the gunner re-
manned in an automobile in front
of the buildings entrance, four 9TH
ers leaped from the car, separating
to various posts in the interior of
the barn.
One bandit, armed with two re-
volvers, was station at the top of a
stairway in full view of the Office
force and the waiting room of en-
ployes.
Three of the bandits rushed into
the Office, ordering Samuel Smith
35251a Salem street; Milton Bush,
3747 Boulevard place, and Ed Muir
ply, 1851 North Meridian street,
into the waiting room after COM
manding that money be produced.
One of the bandits ripped the
phone connection from the wall.
Looting a cash drawer, the gun
men seized $500 in cash, $500 in
silver and about 500 worth of to-
kens. The bandits were about 40.
In another robbery Tuesday night
at filling station at Tenth
street and Senate avenue, Edward
Staub, 81, of 1341 East Tabor street,
attendant, was forced to hand over
SIS to a Negro bandit.
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leave the apartment Of one Of the
tenants, carrying brief case and
portmanteau Of somewhat Travelled
appearance.
The man paused in the lower hall
to light a cigaret with steady, COM
petent fingers, and again on the
front steps to consult his watch by
the light Of the overhead lamp.
Somehow he conveyed the idea Of
man about to take a late night
train, yet one unhurried and with
plenty of time to make it COM
fortably.
He started of with the same BUSH
ness-like briskness toward the near
est subway station. The house
where no one was given occasion TO
mind the business of another re-
manned decently dark and quiet be-
hind his undramatic departure.
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Hourly Temperatures

such. different classif1cations. But
Psychologist your line, not mine"
y =
THERE was the respite of a few
i moments silence, then the
foot began to move again, back and
forth, back and forth, its faint
squee-eek, squee-eek akin g
through the quiet room.
The meter was not quite regular.
not quite what a listener subcon-
sciously would expect. 1t stopped
it started broke its
rhythm the paper cracked
suddenly with stiff rattle.
Then the voice went on again,
comfortable, relaxed, indolent.
Gust what is homicidal
maniac?"
"Thisi"
So quickly. so quietly had the
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other risen that he was standing
over the man in the chair before
a single startled upward look could
more than catch the fixed glare of
the eyes and the inhuman, teeth
barring grin.
There was a tense, animal-like
spring the foot twitched con-
vulsiveiy once the warm
leather squeaking suddenly s. and
was still.
Utterly still. AS the room was
utterly quiet. No creaking. rest
less rhythm, no rafting pages. The
newspaper lay where 1t had fallen
from an inert hand.
Thesold house was quiet, too. The
four-story building with its single
apartments on each floor boosted
no hall service. There was no one
to see a we'll groomed, well set-up
mana recently arrived visitor
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AT IS HoMIcDAL MANIA? HE ASKED THIS WAS TFE sNARL

1t was quiet there in the old re-
modelled house in half-forgotten
corner of the city-a house built in
a day when outside sounds were
less, but walls were better equipped
to repel them, when neighbors' do
ings were not common property and
one could live for years without
giving them, in turn, any great
knowledge of ones comings and
goingS.
Quiet except for an occa-
sional stir and thump when a
burned log parted and showered
out the sparks and except for
the subdued yet irritating oreak-
creak-creak Of shoe leather as the
foot of one crossed leg, poised be-
fore the fire, automatically circled
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Week End Murder :

something which caught and held
his interest.
"Hmp!'' he exclaimed. ''They say
now that truck driver didn't kill
the girl in the Harlem store. Seems
he has an alright alibi."
"Yes?'
The others voice was smooth, ex-
preSsionless. 1t simply filled the
gap left for some sort of response.
I'm s. but no one else'd have
any motive, they say /. looking
now for homicidal maniac"
"Yes?" Again a colorleSs tone, yet
under its surface courtesy lurked
more than suggestion Of irrita-
ton.
''Uh-huh. That changes the
whole case. A lunatic's another
thing again. That is, I suppose the
mans a lunatic. Nowadays they
divide the types Of insanity into
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THE man in the railroad car
stirred uneasily as the rattle
OF a newspaper from across the
aisle brought sudden, unwelcome
flash of suggestion and memory.
Then he smiled a little, with trace
of self-satisfaction.
That was the most recent-weIl.
act in defense of his own comfort
and peace Of mind. Like others, it
hac been a complete, uneventful
success.
There had been the incident of
the covertly insolent porter on the
White Mountain express-and the
convenient curve around which the
bouncing little train had swung,
fiinging of the insolent porter and,
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G. O.P.LOSES
EVERY INDIANA
HOUSE SEAT
Dozen Victories ChaIked Up
by Democrats; Several
Contests Close.
WILL WOOD IS VICTIM
Ludlow and Larrabee Are
Returned to Congress;
Watson Routed.
nv REM STERN
BY BEN STERN

Carried along on an avalanche
BALLOT turnover, Indiana Democracy
today, for the first time in twenty
years, apparently has realized its
dream of filling every state and
congressional post.
Most signal feature of Tuesdays
election is the utter reputation of
the veteran leader of the senate
majority, James E. Watson, and
election of his liberal opponent,
Frederick Van Mugs, by what APP
parently will be the largest plural
ity in the history of the state.
McNutt Comes Next
Next to Van Mugs in plurality
comes Paul V. McNutt, Democratic
Governor candidate. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, presidential nominee,
leads in the number of popular
votes, upon the basis of incomplete
returns. His plurality over Van
Mugs is 1852.
AS had been estimated, size Of
the vote in the state will set an all
time record, totaling more than
100000.
Another feature of the landslide
is the election of all twelve
Democratic candidates for congress,
which means the defeat of three
Republican veterans and assurance
that Indiana will have as it's first
woman member of congress Mrs.
Virginia Jenckes of Terre Haute, a
prohibition repealist.
With only 489 of the 1851 Indiana
precincts to be heard from, most
of which are rural and sparsely
populated, the vote reported is:
Roosevelt 778,086 and Hoover
627 ,592, a Roosevelt plurality of
ISL ,494.
Concentrate on Hoover
Van Nuys 762,524 and Watson
575,848; plurality, 1856.
McNutt 772,016 and Springer
597,996; plurality, $4,000.
1t is apparent that the Repub-
licans concentrated their efforts
upon reelection of Hoover. This is
indicated by the size of the vote
for President and the compare
tive narrowness of Roosevelts plu-
rality.
Remainder of the Democratic
state ticket is well up with the
leaders. The state ticket was car
ried along by the leaders plurali-
ties.
Four candidates for reelection to
state office who are victors are
Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state;
William Storen, state treasurer
Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor,
and George c. Cole, superintendent
of public instruction.
Miss May Is Victor
With the election of Michael
Fansler of LoganSport and James
P. Hughes of Greencastle, the SUI
preme court will be composed of
four Democrats and one Republican.
The appellate court will be COM
posed entirely of Democrats, be-
cause of the election Of William F.
Dudine of Jasper and Ralph N.
Smith of La Porte.
Miss Emma May of Terre Haute,
only woman on the Democratic
state ticket, will succeed Miss Gen
evieve Brown of Winamac as re-
porter of the supreme and appellate
courts.
This will put every state Office,
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back and forth on a narrow arc
and at times stopped, emphasizing
the Slight sound by its temporary
cessation.
The owner of the foot sometimes
cracked the pages of his evening
paper with quick, nervous. mean
ingless gesture which never failed
to bring UP the other mans head
sharply-only 10 have the frown
smoothed out by an Immediate eff
fort of will as his eyes dropped
again to his book.
His apparent wish to concentrate
on its pages seemed to escape the
notice of his more restless com
panion, who, as he skinned
through the paper. frequently in
terjecred low exclamation, a NUT
tered comment, on the news before
his eyes. Suddenly he came to
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THANKS SUPPORTERS
MCNutt Pledges High Moral
Standard in Office.

Governor Elect Paul v. McNutt,
through his campaign manager,
Pleas Greenlee, today extended
thanks to Indiana voters and ex-
tended a pledge to conduct the
states business on "a high moral
standard"
Il want to extend my sincere
thanks to all my supporters, both
those who were active and those
who gave me the confidence Of
their votes" he said.
AT the outset of my campaign l
pledged to keep it clean and fair,
believing that it would appeal to
the electorate of the state, and the
result bears out my theory. that
the people desire Their. political cam
paigns to be conducted on as high
a moral standard as they desire the
conduct of their official business. +"
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present Governors are Republicans.
Democrats already have won
elsewhere in Connecticut, Georgia,
Massachusetts,, New York, Ohio and
Texas, where former Governor Mi
Ram (Ma) A. Ferguson, returns to
the mansion in Austin.
Republicans have elected Cover
nors in New Hampshire and YER
mont.
The tremendous Democratic trend
of the electorate is represented by
the eighteen states in which today
Democratic candidates for Cover
nor were leading their Republican
opponents. These states are: Ar
kansas, Idaho, Indiana, Montana,
North Carolina, Rhode Island, Ten
nessee, Colorado, Florida, Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico, North
Dakota, South Dakota, West Vir-
ginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Vets Are in Lead
But Republicans were leading in
Kansas, Nebraska and Utah, in all
of which states sitting Governors
are Democrats.
Governor Floyd B. Olson (Farm-
er-Labor, Mimi, appears to have
safe reelection majority.
Democrats won 1913 of the first 1877
house seats definitely allocated.
thereby almost maintaining the 3
to house lead established in earli-
er returns.
Drys were putting up a better
fight in the house than in the SEN
ate, but at a. M, vets had an alb
Solute majority of twenty over drys
elected at that time.
Sixty-three successful Democrats
and thirty successful Republicans
were listed as unqualified vets and
another Democrat said he would
support the platform Tor repeal and
immediate beer.
Lone Republican Is Dry
All elected Democratic senator's
were wet or supporters of the wet
platform, with the exception of
Senator Hattie Caraway Dem.,
Ark0, a dry. Dale, the lone Re-
publican in so far, is a dry.
Only one dry-James P. Pope
Qdaho)-was included among the
thirteen Democrats who are leading
their opponents.
Two OF the six Republicans in the
lead are dry-Senator Gerald P. Nve
(Rep., N. d. and Senator Peter
Norbeck Rep., S. d.. Three of
these Republicans stand on the Re-
publican platform, and the sixth.
senator James j. Davis Rep., Pa +,
is wet.
Republicans are leading in Colo
RADIO (short term, Nevada, North
Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania and
South Dakota.
La Guardia Is Defeated
Representative Ruth Pratt (Rep.
N. ", possessor of a Standard Oil
fortune and representative of the
Seventeenth silk stocking" Man
haitian district, was defeated, as was
Representative Fiorello La Guardia
(Rep., N. ", who was co-leader
last winter of the anti-saIes tax
fight.
Representative John L. Cable
Rep., o., author of the Cable act.
was beaten by a wet Democrat,
Frank L. Kloeb.
E. w. Maryland, Democrat and
one-time extremely wealthy oil man,
was leading M. c. CARRIER, lone Re-
publican representative from Okla
homa.
Representative Gilbert N. Haugen
(Rep., Iowa., dean of the house and
eo-author Of the McNary- Haugen
farm relief bill, was trailing Fred
Bierman DEM, in the Fourth dis
trict.
Republican House Leader Bertrand
H. Smell was safely returned by his
New York constituency.
William G. McAdoo (Dem.), was
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VAN NUYS ELATED
Senator Elect Thanks State
for confidence Vote

Elated at his landslide victory
over Senator James E. Watson and
at leading the state Democratic
ticket, Frederick Van Mugs today
issued a statement in which he
thanked the electorate for its vote
of confidence"
Senator-Elect Van Mugs said:
Il am glad to have this oppor-
tunity to express my lasting and
sincere appreciation to the voters
of Indiana over this record vote of
confidence. 1t is my highest am
bition to live up to that conf
dence and to put Indiana in the
growing list of liberal and pro-
gresSiVe states"
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New York Governor Carries AZ States; Sweep Bril-
Democratic Majority Into Houses of
Congress
BINGHAM, WESLEY JONES
Four New England States and Pennsylvania and Della
ware Are Only Ones Remaining With
Republican President.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press STAFF Correspondent

YORK. 9Fankn D. Roosevelt Governor of New York has
President the United States by of the greatest andd
history.
which carried the Democratic nominee to the White
into both houses and returned
Democratic Governors state after state
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PROLOGUE
QUIET reigned in the big,

QUIET reigned in the big,
< high-ceilinged, old-fash-
Toned room, with its COM
fortably worn furniture,
richly dark hangings and
blazing open fire. Two men
-outwardly at least, enjoy
ing their silent companion
ship-sat reading and smok-
ing before the smoldering
logs.
Each occupied a deep. luxurious
chair. so high of back that only the
tops Of two heads showed from the
room behind them.
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QuickShift?
Hoover Plan to Turn Job
Over to Roosevelt at
Once Is Hinted.
BY LEO r. SACK
Times stan Writer

VXTASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-The
w possibility that President
Herbert Hoover by resigning soon
may speed up the forthcoming
change in administrations in or
der to eliminate what he de-
scribed in his campaign speeches
as four months of chaos and I'M
certainty is intriguing politicians
today.
The procedure which he could
follow is similar to the plan he
said Abraham Lincoln contem-
plated in 1864, when it appeared
that he might not be reelected.
And it is the plan Woodrow
Wilson decided upon in November,
1916, when it seemed as if Charles
Evan Hughes would be elected.
In both instances the nation
was at war.
In his campaign speeches, Mr..
Hoover has likened the nations
efforts to emerge from the de-
preston as war.
His decisive defeat, Democratic
leaders say today, shows clearly
that American voters dislike the
way he has conducted the war.
Joseph P. Tpmulty, secretary to
President Wilson, in a recent
statement, suggested that Hoover's
resignation, in the event Of his de-
feat, would add to his prestige,
and prove generous and pa
triotic act of sacrifice.
TINE transfer of authority to
4 President-elect Roosev
could be accomplished, constitu-
tionally, by Hoover's appointment
of Roosevelt as his secretary of
state.
Then, after Roosevelt assumed
this Office, Hoover could resign.
and his resignation, in turn, would
be followed by Vice-President Cur
It's resignation.
Roosevelt, as secretary of state,
would succeed to the presidency
Immediately, and eliminate the
four months of doubt between now
and next March 4.
That he has such a plan in
mind, many politicians believe,
was indicated by Mr.. Hoover in
his recent speech at Lincoln's
tomb in Springfield last Friday.
Then he said: The wave of dis
couragement that swept over the
country in the summer of 1864
was so extreme that on Aug. %
Lincoln prepared his famous
secret memorandum.
This morning, he wrote, as
for some days past, it seems ex-
ceedingly probably that this adj
ministration will not be reelected,
Then it will be my duty to so
cooperate with the President
elect as to save the Union be-
tween the election and the mag
uration, as he will have secured
his election on such ground that
he can not possibly save it after
wards
DRAWING the parallel further
~ Mr.. Hoover said at st. Paul
on Saturday night in the final
major speech of his campaign:
"A change at this election must
mean four whole months in
which there can be no definition
of national policy, during which
time not only the commander of
the forces in the battle for eco
nomic recovery must be changed,
but the subordinate commanders
as we'll"
In his recent book, 1.-THE
Strangest Friendship in History"
based on the intimate relations
between President Wilson and
Colonel Edward M. House. George
(TYVrra ~ Dora Cayanl
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OuL OIL 20, OCZ,OOC pIOSlUSIl-
tial votes tabulated at 12:45
p. m. today by the United
Press, Roosevelt received 49,
DOL, 452; Hoover, 1851, 166;
Thomas, 350,189. Roosevelt's
lead of approximately 4,5OO,-
900 over Hoover was a steady
trend manifest during the
day.
The vote for the Socialist, Nor
man Thomas, could not necessarily
be considered a measure of his
strength, as it was believed that IN
many states his vote was not re-
corded in the early count.
Governor Roosevelt surpassed the
victory of four years ago of Hoover
over Alfred E. Smith.
Hoover Carries Six States
He was assured 461 electoral
votes from forty-one states, with
the probability he would add eleven
more from Kentucky where an
honest election law" delayed the
count.
In 1928, Hoover carried forty
state with an electoral vote of ,444.
In Tuesdays election, President
Hoover carried only six states.
-Four were in New England
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire
and Connecticut.
Delaware and Pennsylvania re-
manned true to Republican tradition
despite a tremendous popular vote
for Roosevelt.
Not a state west of the Mississippi
did Mr.. Hoover carry, despite his
five trips into the farming country
with fervent last-minute appeals
for votes. He carried every one of
them in 1928.
Stalwarts of G. o. P. Fall
Mr.. Hoover's electoral vote totals
only SO. Smith carried eight states,
with an electoral vote of 81, in
1928.
Down with the President went
such stalwarts of RepublicaniSm as
Senator James E. Watson of In
diana, majority leader, and Senator
George Moses of New Hampshire,
president pro tenn, of the senate
author of the jibe, sons of the
wild jackaSses," against the pro-
gressive-insurgents.
Senator Reed Smoot (Rep., Utah)
for twenty-nine years in the senate
and power in the finance and
high tariff battalion, was trailing.
Senator Wesley Jones (Rep.,
Wash), co-author of the five and
ten prohibition act, was running
behind, 2 to l, for reelection.
The Old Guard casualties include
Senator Hiram Bingham Rep.,
Conn.,, chairman of the insular af-
fairs committee, and leader of the
Republican beer bloc.
Governor Roosevelt appeared to
have won clear popular ma jority,
the first any Democratic President
has received since the days of
Franklin Pierce in 1852. Cleveland
and Wilson won by pluralities. The
final vote may reach 100000.
G. @. P. Lose Governors
Twelve senate seats already
definitely are Democratic. Repub-
licans so far safely returned only
Senator Porter H. Dale (Rep., VT.
Democrats are leading in thirteen
other states including California,
Colorado Qong term, Illinois, Iowa,
Washington and Wisconsin, whose
respective senators now are Repub-
hcanS.
Republicans are leading in six
states but in contests for seats now
held by Republicans.
Democrats have elected eight Gov
ernors including two-Maine and
Rhode Island-in states where the
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Roomer Shot by EStranged
Husband of Woman in
City Aome.

Silently, but with tears streaming,
John William Thomas Jr., 10, of
2249 Ashland avenue, learned today
that he is an orphan, the innocent
sufferer of a murder and suicide
at his home Tuesday night.
John w. Thomas, So the father,
armed with a sawed-off shotgun,
killed his wife, Mrs. Clarica A.
A. Thomas, IS, operator of room
ing house. He then shot and Sc
verely wounded Hugh Lovingfoss.
IS, roomer, manager of Standard
grocery at Twenty second street
and College avenue, and killed him
self. The couple had been sepa-
rated four weeks.
The son ran screaming from the
house to the home of neighbor,
following a shot which brought
death to his mother in fifteen min
utes. Her left arm was torn away.
Shot at Wife Before
Thomas shot Lovlngfoss before
firing on his wife. The slayer
killed himself in the basement, a
charge from the shotgun shattering
his head.
HE did not get along with her
relatives; she did not get along with
his" neighbors told police.
Not until today was the boy in
formed of the great sorrow that had
befallen him. After the tragedy he
was taken to the home of relatives
at 1895 Sutherland avenue.
Breakfast time came.
Where is my mother?" the boy
asked his grandmother, Mrs. Lydia
Perkins of Kokomo, who came to
Indianapolis following her daughters
death.
"Your Mother Is Dead"
The grandmother placed an arm
around the boy.
Your mother is dead" she said.
There was no cry from the boy
With tears streaming, he embraced
his grandmother.
Your daddy is dead. too" Mrs.
Perkins said. The boy remained
silent.
Thomas shot at his wife with a
revolver on Oct. II. Police we're
shown a bullet hole in wall of the
home after the tragedy Tuesday
night by neighbors, who recalled
the attack.
Charges of drunkenness, disorder
ly conduct and vagrancy then were
fled against Thomas.
Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cam
eron fined him SO and costs with a
thirty-day term on the drunkenness
charge, all but the costs, $50 being
suspended. The other charges we're
dismissed.
Entered Through Coal Chute
This method of handling the case,
it is said, was with the understand
ing that Mrs. Thomas would file
a charge of assault and battery with
intent to kill However, she event
TALLY refused to take that action.
AS police reconstructed the
tragedy, Thomas, who has been iv-
ing with relatives in Connersville,
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SHOT IN VOTE BATTLE

Aentuckian Wounded Critically:
Alleged Assailant Escapes.
BIZ United Press
PINEVILLE. KY, Nov 9.-Homer
Fields was shot twice here Tues
DAY afternoon in an election quar-
rel near Island Greek, Pike county.
roosevelt Elswick, charged with the
shooting. escaped before officers ar
rived. Fields was wounded crit
ically.
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CAB DIVES INTO CANAL
Street Dead-End Is Mistaken for
Bridge by Driver.

MiStaking street dead-end for
a bridge, Ora Vorhies, 80, of 1905
Linden street, taxi driver, Tuesday
night drove his cab into waters of
the canal at Thirteenth street, mar
rowly escaping drowning
Although the automobile was al
most submerged, VorhieS extricated
himself. The cab was recovered
by wrecker.
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SHELBY RECORDER DIES
Stroke Suffered in Downtown Store
Here Fatal to Claude Pherigo.

A stroke, suffered in a downtown
department store Tuesday, proved
fatal to Claude q. Pherigo, Sc, Shell
by county recorder. Mr.. Pherigo
died shortly after being taken to
the home of nephew, Faun Pher-
igo, 5124 Maple lane.