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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-28

been discovered by a roadside
There is A definite cOnnec-
ton between Mr.. Dickinson
and Ferris" Chief Frahm said
in making his announcement.
Ferris checked out of the
Detroiter Hotel Yesterday morning
and remarked that ne was going
out with a man named Dickinson 7
First clev IN = possible oonnec-
ton between tho Detroit man and
the socially prominent attorney
came. Chief Frahm said. from
James SmyGen. a tsXIcsb driver.
who told them he met Ferris on
Wednesday morning
Gave Worthless Check
Ferris. Chief Frshm said. had
picked Smvgen up as the tsXlcsb
driver vas walking To his station TO
report for DUTY. During the course
Of q conversation. Smygen told Fer
ms he was a csb driver. and Ferris
had offered IN give him 4 driving
ion on Wednesday night
Il have 2 date with a lawyer at
the Book Cadillac. = man named
Dickinson. He has a lot Of dough. "
police quoted the driver as having
been told BY Ferris.
Smygen told police that he had re-
ported At the Hotel Detroiter at .
.. m. Wednesday night as ordered
by Ferris. The latter told the driver
that his guest had not vet arrived.
Smvgen returned IN the hotel some
time later and was met by Ferris.
There's not going 10 be any
party" the cab driver quoted Ferris
as saving
He reported to police when 2
check rendered him BY Ferris was
found to - worthless. Chief Frahm
said.
Were now looking for Ferris.
Chief Frshm said. He Is also
known as Bill Ferris. 80 years old.
5 feet 7 inches tall. weighs $50
pounds and has light complexion
and light hair.
Telephone Calls Checked
he has blue or gray eyes. and
was wearing a dark suit and shoes.
Hes a neat dresser. but two Of ms
front teeth are badly decayed"
Chisf Frshm added that Ferris
was driving a Hupmobile sedan
bearing license '-X-25-297.
BE added that Ferris has been
known 70 police for eight years and
has never worked IN that time. 50
far as We know
Chief Frshm-s disclosure came As
police. seeking 10 solve the mvSteri-
Gus slavInE or the socially prcull-
nent attorney. we're known 70 have
determined that Mr.. Dickinson had
placed three or four telephone calls
10 Detroit numbers on Wednesday
niEht. the last time he was IN ms
hotel room
Two of the calls. made before go
y. m. when ne left the hotel. Scre
10 the DetrOiter Hotel the United
Press learned. To whom they were
dispatched was not known. as he
calls did not get past the Detroiter
operators switchboard
Police we're known 70 have con-
fscstsd the records of the Book
Cadillac Hotel. where Mr.. Dickinson
vas = guest. and 10 have learned
from them tnst the attorney had
placed four telephone calls from ms
room on the night ne vas slain and
his partially BODY tossed from
an automobile along the roadside AZ
E~sf~r PARK
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TODAY'S WEATHER
lines Index

Tomorrow's sunrise. 4:l9 a. m;
sunset. 7.16 p. m.
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Price Range on Finance Page)
By United Press

By United Prsss
OMAHA. June 26.-"Black rust, "
plague Of the wheat field sent wheat
prices here up 3iz to 5 cents a
bushel today
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Despite their refusal 70 comment
on this phase ~ the case. II was
learned that officials 81 The hom.-
eide squad we're quietly invsStigat-
ing AL persons 70 whom Mr.. Dick
inson telephoned during the dsv.
OncialS we're inclined 10 dismiss
the return 81 the brief case as ~un-
important IN view OF the search for
Ferris. Chief Frahm said that we
know the woman who left The brief
case 20 the B0Ok-Csdillac and We
can get her snv time We want"
However he added. we do not
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Roosevelt Program Now Complete

EtFEN'FNNFN IWt dIII tNV" N''''' F'NF
81 Unifsd presE
WASHINGTON. June 2S.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt virtually has COM
pleted his 1885 recommendations TO
Congress. II was reported today by
sources close to the White House.
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PRANK

by spikes placed on the track
as a prank by small boys. One
man died and three others
were injured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-28
NUISANCE TAX BILL
SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT

President AfixeS Name 10 ReSOlu-
ton Passed Yesterday.
81 fHifrd Prest
WASHINGTON. June 2s.-PreSi-
dent Roosevelt today signed the
Joint resolution extending present
nuisance taxes for two wears
Action on the proposal was com
plete6 by Congress Yesterday.
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New guaranteed tires 15c wk. Save
S1.Oo up. Hoosier Pete.-Ady.
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SPENCER BALKS As STATE POLICE
MOVE FOR CANCILLA PROSECUTION

Flames s h o [
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Evening star., 1935-02-03

world OF bridge some practical joker
does stack the deck. What then, is the
chance that an all-spade hand will be )
dealt by the normal course of play?
Without plodding through the cal
culations the chance is still only one
in $4,000.
Lest one grow dizzy worrying about
chances of million billion to one,
it may be best to explain that the figures cited
are all right mathematically but conditions
necessary for perfect calculations by the laws
Of probability are not completely satisfied IN
bridge game as most people play it. Lady
Luck, as it has sometimes been said, has
mean probability curve.
Why won't straight mathematical probability
apply in a game of bridge? Just because most
people are too lazy or haven't time and patience
enough to break up the pattern of the cards by
shuffiing thoroughly after each completed deal.
The scoffer's suspicion that some of the per
fect' bridge hands are the result Of stacked
cards may be right, but not in the way they
suspect. Cards have a way of stacking them
selves by building up patterns through the
necessity OF following suit In the course Of play.
You lead q spade on the first round Every
together. You believe spades will "go around"
again, SO you lead another. They do. That
makes eight spades in the group.
If the stunning on the next hand Is lazy,
distracted by post-mortems or gossip, one may
build up a deck of cards which is partly stacked.
In more than half Of the 13 tricks in an average
hand of bridge, all players will follow suit. II
such a pack were dealt without stunning each
set of four cards would go out one to each
player, and on the next deal there would be
still more tricks in which every one followed
suit. If this were repeated eventually all four
players would be getting hands containing
1888 cards, by suits, or similar balanced
patterns.
Just to get away from this monotony, the
pack Of cards is shuffed after all the 13 cards
in each hand are played Only when one has
perfect random distribution of the cards after
the shuttle will the factors underlying the laws
OF chance enter with fair certainty.
UST as the cards will try to work them
- selves into the balanced pattern, so, too, will
they build up on rare occasions into more
thrilling hands where two and more people will
hold seven, eight or nine cards of suit. Then
the packets Of four cards on each trick will
Evening star., 1935-02-03

often contain only two cards Of the suit led
And the chances are better that every fourth
card will be of the same suit. This means, Of
course that on the next deal chances are better
that one player may receive the perfect hand.
Prof. L. r. Woodruff Of the electrical engi-
neering department Of Massachusetts, Institute
Of Technology who has gained an additional
reputation for his avocation Of bridge and card
probabilities, comments on how the master
bridge players use their knowledge Of chance
and card patterns in their methods Of play
Writing in a recent issue Of the Technology
Review, Prof. Woodruff says, 1T is almost in
conceivable to the average player the number of
combinations which some Of the leading experts
carry in their minds during match play. Not
only are the probabilities considered, but at
least one player Of the writer's acquaintance
actually makes use OF the combinations that
existed in the deck before the shufne in deciding
the play Of the hand, on the theory that the
ordinary imperfect shufi1e fails to break up
completely the groupings from the preceding
hand"
Most people don't do It, but to start TO break up
previous card patterns, four hand shufY1es ON
nature of the average shufde and the failure
to interleave all the cards properly, an appron-
mate approach to true randomness is hard to
attain Prof. Woodruff indicates.
For players who don't like the evenly dis
tributed hands containing 1854 cards in the
been introduced which actually shuttle and deal
the cards in one operation.
Such shuttle dealing" may give two cards in
a row to North, then three to East, one to
West and so on, until each hand finally has its
allotted 13 cards.
DROF WOODRUFF, who in his spare mo-
mentS devised a card shuttle dealing''
device, has made one Of the few tests to de.
termine how the trick-taking value of hands.
as measured by their long and short suit value.
is affected by the number of hand shufiies after
each deal.
"A hundred hands Of bridge were dealt"
Evening star., 1935-02-03
Aberdeeu Ducks

A MENACE even more deadly than the
hunters, which threatened to wipe out the
canvasback ducks for which Maryland b
famous, has been eliminated
Thousands and thousands Of these migrating
water fowl have annually made q stopping place
Of the area around Aberdeen and have fallen
victim to phosphoros poisoning.
The phosphoros was spread over the ground
as result Of the testing Of trench mortars at
the Army proving ground and the ducks, when
feeding on the wild celery which is common in
that section. ate phosphoros as well and were
killed by the thousands.
Once 1t was determined that phosphoros was
the cause OF the death Of 50 many BIRDS the
Government, through the Biological Survey and
the cooperation Of the War Department, took
steps to correct the situation. At considerable
expense guards and equipment to keep the ducks
from feeding In the poisoned area were pro-
vided.
In the last year the Public Works Admins
tration made an allotment for the moderniza-
ton OF the Aberdeen Proving Ground and the
dredging Of much-needed channel to Nne
docks.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
BY ROBERT ID. POTTER.

- wO or three times a year one can
pick up the newspaper and read
something like this:
Paris March 4,-Samuel SpadoH
died here today from a heart attack
caused, physicians state, by being
dealt the perfect bridge hand-l3 spades"
Or the story may have a date line from
Pittsburgh, Pasadena or Podunk as the case
may be. And to keep the records straight, the
lucky bridge player does not always die.
Thirteen spadeS-or any other suit to serve
as trump-is the perfect bridge hand always
providing the opponents aren't clever enough
to bid seven no trump over the seven spades).
Are the stories in the papers about the
~perfect" hands mere journalistic imagination,
the work of joking friends who stacked the
deck. or just plain unadulterated luck? Every
one who plays bridge, and there are something
like 100000 bridge players in the United
States alone. has asked this question.
What is the mathematical chance Of being
dealt Is spades? Pull down your hat, button
your vest, tighten your belt and hold your
breath-the answer comes out to be one chance
in 635. .O13559 900 deals.
All of which means that If every one of the
10000, 600 bridge players in the United States
dealt 20 bridge hands 365 days in the year it
would take the whole group of enthusiasts-or
would they be lunatics?-just about eight years
eight months and one week to deal enough
hands to get single one containing 13 spades
The two leap years coming in that time
bringing TWO eXCfa Gays, Will aQd o mere drop
in the bucket-about 100000 deals-but
perhaps it may be best to provide two days of
rest in eight years for the "bridgers.''
Mo ONE, not even the bridge experts"
" averages 20 deals a night for year
straight
That's why mathematicians and even the
laymen, who admit they know little about it,
scof at the frequency with which perfect trump
hon ctr
would have to be the maniac like place pictured
to obtain the results by sheer probability alone
Go ahead and scoff. Charge off 80 or even
30 per cent to hoaXes on the part of newspaper
men portrayed not as they are, but after the
fashion of Hollywood; anything for a laugh
Even the 10 to 20 per cent left is much too high.
After questioning the veracity of the story,
consider the chance of the deck being stacked
While the potential victim was out Of the room.
suppose that once out of a million deals in the
Evening star., 1935-02-03

explains Prof. Woodruff, "after each of the
several procedures for shutting the cards Be-
fore each shutting the cards were grouped into
tricks Of four cards Of the same suit.
First the cards were given one manual shuf-
fling before dealing, for hundred hands. Then
100 hands were dealt which had been shufded
manually twice; next three times and then
four times"
Using a popular system Of computing the
trick value Of the hand in long and short suits,
each additional deal produced more long and
more short suits and increased the trick value
in this way:
One shuttle averaged value of 202 tricks
per hand.
Two shufdes averaged q value of 225 tricks
per hand.
Three shuffes averaged q value of 2.47 tricks
per hand
Four shufles averaged o value of 2ss tricks
per hand
Completely random distribution of the cards,
produced theoretically only by an infinite num-
ber Of shuffles, yields-it can be calculated
an average value Of 264 tricks . hand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
CRAWFORD GREAT
 IN STRAND SHOW
Exotic Star Featured in "I Live My Life" on
 Splendid Twin Bill

Joan Crawford's newest hit q Live My Life" heads the program at Warner Brothers Strand the ater tomorrow, with the handsome young English actor, Brian Aherne, as her new leading man, and featuring such noted players as Aline MacMahon, Frank Mor- gan, Eric Blore, Fred Heating, Hedda Hopper, Arthur Preacher, Sterling Holloway and others.
 Dramatic, as the clash of per- sonalities can be, it is also glori- ously humorous. Tense moments and gales of laughter follow each other from start to finish.
 Miss Crawford, a bored young society girl, cruising the. Mediter- ranean on a yacht, meets, or rather. stumbles onto young archaeologist, at the moment hard at work diggng out priceless statue he has just discovered.
 From this beginning anything can happen-and literally every thing does before the picture has sped on to its laughter compelling conclusion. ,t~s
 With her customary leadership in fashions, Miss Crawford wears a dozen-odd ensembles the like of which have never been shown on the screen before. All were de- signed by Adrian, crack Holly wood stylist.
 The companion feature is to be Bad Boy" starring James Dunn with Dorothy Wilson, and Louise Fazenda. He's dangerous to girls and all the mothers warn their daughters against this wise crack ing Bad Boy," but one brave girl takes 8 chance and backs him to win. It's packed with laughs and presents genial Jim my at his best in a role you like him best to play.
 Thursday next brings Wallace Berry and Jackie Cooper Tn "O'Shaughnessy's Boy' and Ed ward Everett Horton in His Night Ont"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
CAMEO

The thrill and romance of naval officers in the making, men who in peace or in war, heroically brave death for their country in their line of duty, is colorfully depicted in "Shipmates Forever" which. heads the new double feature program opening at Cameo theater tomorrow. starring Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler with a great cast.
 It is an intimate and revealing story of the lives of the rnidshipmen in their study rooms at Annapolis. on the parade grounds and their cruises at sea. It pictures them at work and at play; their loves and their laughte..;; their loyalty and their courage under fire"
 The film company spent month at Annapolis, the movie actors en- acting their roles with the training school as . background, and with 1000 cadets taking part.
 There is Q talented supporting cast which includes Lewis Stone and Rose Alexander.
 The added attraction is Two Fisted', starring Lee Tracy, Roscoe Karns and Gail Patrick.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
CAPITOL

Another phase of the U. S. Gov ernment's efforts to rid the nation of its arch criminals, is shown for the first time on the screen in the Cosmopolitan production, Special Agent" Warner Bros. picture which comes to the Capitol theater tomorrow and Monday with Bette Davis and George Brent in the fea- tured roles.
 Special Agent" is a powerful drama with a glowing romance. based on the daring exploits and thrilling adventures of the under cover men of the Treasury Depart ment.
 These sleuths rentlessly follow the trail of gamblers, cxcortionists and racketeers of every sort, until they get their men and land them behind the bars of federal prisons for yio- lation of the income tax. In "Spe- cial Agent" the inner workings of these operatives are revealed.
 The added feature is Two Fisted' starring Lee Tracy, Roscoe Karns, Gail Patrick and Kent Taylor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
CARROLL

The latest of Erie Stanley Gard ner's best selling novels to be screened by First National, The Case of the Lucky Legs" comes to the Carroll theater tomorrow and Monday, with Warren William again cast in the role of the famous and astute lawyer-detective, Perry Ma son.
 Genevieve Tobin has the leading feminine role as the wise-cracking secretary of the lawyer detective.
 The picture opens with contest for the girl with the most beautiful legs, with the murder of the man who promoted it. after he had skipped town with all the proceeds. The killing is tied up with a trian- gular love affair in which the win ner of the contest, Patricia Ellis, her boss, Porter Hall, and her doc tor-lover. Lyle Talbot, are involved.
 After the police, are completely baffled, William steps in and solves
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07

are more than 100 persons whose domestic relations are polygamous.
 Fled from Utah
 Disturbing nobody, they have lived there for decades, since the flight from Utah of members of the Mormon church, who refused to fol- low the edict of the majority when plural marriage was banned by fed eral law and ecclesiastical act in the last century.
 Some of the early corners found- ed the outpost of Fredonia, mean ing Free Woman"
 Others pushed further west to the most isolated section of the "Ari-. zona Strip" and settled there in the belief they never would be disturbed in what they regarded as religious observance of supreme law.
 Enterprise of 8 promotional or ganization in Salt Lake City, Utah, associated with a venture in the Short Creek district led to the &C., tions which now threaten the prac- tice.
 Planning irrigation of 2,500 acres with water of Short Creek, 8 land settlement scheme was launched.
 Applications Led to Expose
 Into the Salt Lake office of the federal emergency relief admins tration came applications of 25 families seeking transportation to Short Creek, where they said they would be self-sustaining, through working upon a community plot.
 Among the applications were sev- eral of women who signed them selves as plural wives" of Short Creek residents.
 Forwarded to Kingman. the ap- plications were investigated imme- diately. Sensational disclosures fol- lowed.
 One 18 year old boy, Bollinger re- portedly found, was living with three wives. Scores of men had from two to five wives. Upon evidence of a relief investigator, he swore out his first complaints, naming six for al- legged "open and notorious cohabi- tation," the only section of Arizona law under which they could be pros- ecuted.
 From six, the cases were reduced to three.
 Prosecutions, when completed, will cost Mohave county thousands of dollars-a huge sum to this stock raising and mining district.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
ALHAMBRA

So packed with entertainment is Broadway Melody of 1936," which comes tomorrow to screen at the AL 'hambra theater, that it at once reg isters its right to acclaim as the greatest extravaganza yet to be made by Hollywood.
 For players the cast has as its top personality the gifted Jack Benny, now lending to the screen the bril- liant talents that have made him a star of stage and the outstanding genius of radio broadcasting. He handles a grand role perfectly, and he has the most ample and able sup port from noted performers like Una Merkel, who rings the bell as a wise-cracking secretary; Robert Taylor, grand romantic male lead, and others.
 Eleanor Powell wins triple honors in this picture for she is not only seen as the worlds greatest fem mine tap dancer" but handles the ballerina demands finely, and in ad- dition proves she is fine dramatic actress.
 The companion feature is Moon light On the Pralr;e" starring Rlch- ard Foran.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
LASKY PLAYERS
 TO GIVE COMEDY
"It's a Wise Child" Opens Tuesday-Present Play
 Tomorrow Night

Really, if you miss seeing "Her Majesty, The Widow" at Jacques Theater either tonight or tomor- row night, it is your own fault. It is without question the heartiest laugh in town, and those who have seen it since it opened last Tues day evening, have been immensely pleased and have applauded and cheered. The LaSky Players are without question one of the finest companies ever to have given stock performances in Waterbury. Their production is on a par with any of those on Broadway, and the gowns worn by the ladies of tho company were the exposure of all feminine eyes in the audience.
 For the first time, Jacques The ater will give a performance of a dramatic stock bill on Sunday eve- ming. There will be no showing on Monday. And "Her Majesty, The Widow" will terminate its engage ment Sunday evening. So don't miss it, folks, if you don't wish to miss the most hilarious laugh play of the past season.
 Next week, commencing Tuesday evening, The Lasky Players will be seen for the first time in David Belasco's most sensational comedy cussess "It's A Wise Child" by Laurence E. Johnson. "It's A Wise Child" was MT. Belasco's last pro- duction, and was a fitting climax to one of the most glorious careers in theatrical history. ''It's A Wise Child" made New Workers shriek with delight for over a solid year.
 Its Wise Child" is the story of a successively white, scarlet, red and whitewashed lie girl tells in an effort to break 8 distatefufl en- gagement. She plunges the whole family into a mess by telling it, but decides to let the story go the limit when she discovers that not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07

Members of 8 cult which split from the Mormon Oatted Day Saints) church over the question of plural marriages, the three will be called before an Arizona jury to face documentary and testimonial evidence, against which no defense case has yet been hinted.
 Convictions may send them to state prison at Florence.
 Since the little colony of back woods agriculturiStS at Short Creek, Ariz., was exposed information con- corning alleged practice of polygamy has amazed the southwest.
 Chudch Gusts 12
 Fastening to free itself from any possible suspicion of Sanctioning the practice, the Mormon church ex- communicated 12 members in the district, following their refusal to sign statements of opposition to polygany.
 Three court hearings have re- suited in holding I. c. Spencer, his alleged plural wife, Sylvia Alfred, and Price Johnson for trial after charges of prejudice had been made against Justice J. M. Lauritzen, of Short Creek. Lauritzen freed the defendants at the first hearing.
 One hundred and thirty-tive miles northeast of Kingman as the crow fiieS-400 miles by automobile lies the little farming center of Short Greeks, only few miles be- low the Utah boundary. Thence south for 8 distance of more than 60 miles lies almost virgin wilder ness, the widest and most deso- late section of northern Arizona. There are no telegraph or telephone lines, and only crude roads.
 Within this district, according to County Attorney Elmo Bollinger,