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36. NO. 148. MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1938. Kntered as Second-Class Matter at Post Office.

Indianapolis. Ind. Issued Daily and Sunday. CENTS. rui III P-Wl Ml JV BBil POLIS 111 mm EMS Dies Says New Deal Intimidated Radio Chain Radio Play Causes Nationwide Panic; Woman Stops Church Service Here ROBERT YORK; FUGITIVE, AND BRIDE CM1GIIT Man Who Fled at Funeral Of Mother While Guards Bowed Admits Robbery Series, Police Say.

Flem "Snuck" Up on Child Bride Rosie, Mother Says; Kentucky Ponders Move Prestonburg, Oct. 30. LT) Authorities shook their heads today and pondered legal action as Rosie Columbus, shown by records to be years old, spent her first Sabbath as the wife of 34-year-old Fleming Tackett When County Attorney Forrest D. Short went to the windowless mountain cabin where "Flem," his bride, former wife and her husband and Rosie's mother live in two rooms, he said he was "absolutely amazed," adding "I hardly know what course to take." County Judge Edward P. Hill as to action toward annulment proceed ings.

The judge said he would issue a warrant for Tackett "if it could be shown that the husband has had improper relations with girl, marriage or not. A stove and a table occupy one room of the cabin. The other has three beds, one home-made. The interior is papered with news papers. Eight Sleep in "Bis; Room." Archie, brother of Fleming, and wife once the wife of "Flem" Mrs.

Columbus, the 200-pound mother of Rosie, two small brothers of the child bride and her "ailin" sister," Bcky, with Rosie and "Flem," sleep in the "big room" with the three beds. Rosie who weighs 70 pounds and almost 4 feet, 8 inches tall, said she didn't know what her first grade schoolmates would think of her marriage. Rosie said she Is a good housekeeper and that she can sew and cook. "She can't make pies," one of her younger brothers called out. IN LOVE TRAGEDY Housekeeper, 34, Formerly Of Mishawaka, Sets Self Afire.

Paw Paw, Oct. 30. VP) The death of Miss Mildred Shenk, pretty 34-year-old brunette who thought yesterday was to have been her wedding day, was record as suicide today by Coroner Frank Thompson. He said that no inquest will be held. Miss Shenk died in a Dowagiac hospital last night, four hours after two small boys found her scream ing, her kerosene-soaked clothing ablaze, in front of the modest cot tage of Harry Meade, 37, who had brought her to Decatur last week to be his housekeeper.

Meade today disclaimed any in tention of marrying his housekeep er, formerly of Mishawaka, Ind, Sheriff John Dodge said. Will Query Alderman On Factt of Wedding Los Angeles, Oct. 30. IJPi S. Hahn, attorney for Mrs.

Alma Alderman in her $150,000 love theft suit against Ruth Etting, singer, announced today he would ask court permission to take a deposi tion from Mrs. Alderman's dl vorced husband, Myrl, next Satur day. Alderman was wounded two weeks ago in a shooting for which Martin (Col. Gimp) Snyder, Miss Etting's divorced husband, is under indictment. Miss Etting has denied marrying Alderman in a deposition given Hahn.

Another Airman Climb Rope Into Flying Plane Lancaster, Oct. 30. In another daring maneu ver, Aviator Thomas H. Smith returned to the record-breaking endurance plane "Little Bear" today, replacing Clyde Schlieper, who had been aboard since the flight started last Sunday. Smith, seizing a trailing rope climbed up a ladder into the plane after Schlieper had parachuted from 2,000 feet.

The ship had been in the air ex actly a week at p. m. (Central standard time). Bars Placed Across HOOSIER VICTIM Franco's Brother Dies in Airplane LIEUT. COL.

RAMON FRANCO. Burgos, Spain, Oct. 30. Col. Ramon Franco, brother of the insurgent generalissimo, Francisco Franco, and former avl ation attache at the Spanish em bassy in Washington, was killed Friday in an airplane off Palma, on the Island of Mallorca, an in surgent airplane base.

Lieut. Col. Franco left Mallorca piloting a seaplane, and crashed during a heavy storm. His body and those of three other occupants of tho plane were recovered, One occupant was missing. Lieut.

Col. Franco, chief of tho Mallorca base, flew across the south Atlantic Jan. 31, 1926. It was tho first flight from Europe to South America. MYSTERY DEATH PUZZLES CHICAGO Woman, Out Walking Dog At Midnight, Found Dy Ing on Street.

Chicago, Oct. 30. Clad only In pajamas and silk stockings, Mrs. Marlon Nlchcls, 30 years old, wife of a research engineer, was found Injured fatally early today on street near her home In suburban Evanston. Police Lieutenant Carl Ekman said puzzling circumstances sur rounding the woman's death had caused him to subject tho husband Richard, 35, to a He detector test, The test, Ekman said, Indicated the story told by Nichols was true.

Nichols told Lieut. Ekman, the officer said, that his wife left their home about midnight to take their dog for a walk, because she was unable to sleep. A coat ond a pair of red shoes which Nichols said she was wear Ing wero missing when the woman was found. Standing guard be side her was the police dog, Ginger, Officers said she might have fal len or been pushed from a moving automobile. Dying Convict Aids New Experiment (Picture otpage II.) Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct.

30. (JPi A condemned man will Join tomorrow in an experiment to de termlne how long a man lives after a bullet pierces his heart John W. Deerlng, 40 years old, will go to his death before a live man firing squad for the death of Oliver R. Meredith Salt Lake City businessman. He has agreed to co-operate with Dr.

Stephen H. Beesloy, state prison physician, in the experiment, A device called an "electro cardiograph" will take a moving picture of Deerlng's heart before, during and after the signal has been given that will send four 30-30 caliber bullets crashing into his body, The primary purpose of the ex neriment is to see the action of the heart at the time it Is pierced by the bullet." said Dr. Beesley, When he Is strapped into the chair Dr. Beesley will wires to each wrist. The will lead to a small, placed on table.

Nearby Dr. Beesley. Each beat of Deerlng shoot electr'cal lmpul wires into the box tiny beam of light a roil or sensitive will record each until it stops, i fastep' wir black be Debonair, fast-talking Robert York, who a year ago pleaded for a life sentence when on trial for ehlcle taking, then later escaped from Indiana state reformatory guards while attending his mother's lunerai here, was captured at Frankfort yesterday. A holdup honeymoon" durin which York and his pretty brunette oricio or three weeks participated in more man a dozen robberies, culminated in the arrest, detectives said. Mrs.

York, formerly Marv Greiner of Eldon, who was married to the escaped convict Oct. 13, and Harold Mobley, 20 years old, 1908 Carrollton avenue, were neia nere with York on robbery and fugitive charges. York was married under the name of Robert Hayden, his wife said. Detective Lieutenant Leo Trout. man reported all three are wanted by Missouri state police for armed roiioery.

Wife's Statement Helps. Information provided to Detec tive Thil Miller of the Indianapolis police by underworld "grapevine" and a statement obtained from Mrs. York led to the escaped con vict's arrest. Mrs. York, arrested in Frankfort Friday, said her hus-band left Thursday and told her he would return In three days.

State police detectives were "planted" in Frankfort and arrested York when he returned yesterday. He was armed with three pistols when caught they said. Mobley was arrested Tuesday on Information gained by Detective Miller, The hunt for York was di-reeled by Lieut. Troutman with co- York, a seasoned convict when 18 years old, was sentenced to from one to 10 years at the state reformatory In November, 1937, by Clyde C. Karrer, judge pro tern in Criminal Court.

"You might as well give me life, Judge," York Wd Mr. Karrer. "I can't get a decent Job and every time I get out the police are on my trail, hoping to catch me in something. Prisons make criminals Instead of curing them of crime." Had Served Two Terms. York at that time had served two sentences for vehicle taking, had escaped from the state reformatory and had stolen another auto mobile in, an effort to escape capture, Six months later, on May 17, while guards bowed reverent heads, York escaped during prayers at the funeral of his mother, Mrs.

Ada York, in tho Walter T. Blasengym mortuary, 3129 North Illinois street. York, who was allowed to attend the services after special permission had been granted by reformatory officials, slid out of his seat, dashed to the door and disappeared in a side street as tho minister prayed. Mrs. York Implicated her husband In the holdup of a lunchroom at 52d street and Keystone avenue Oct.

22, and also in several holdups in tho West. Mobley, detectives said, admitted participation in a robbery at St. Clair, and gave officials $49 which he said was his share of the loot. The three probably will be returned to Missouri, Lieut. Trout-man said, as Missouri police are prepared to charge the prisoners with armed robbery.

They will thus face a more severe penalty than probably could be obtained here. Get Statement From York. Detectives obtained a statement from York yesterday afternoon, and quoted him as saying he left Indianapolis after his escape May 17 and went to Madison, la. He worked there for several weeks. He then went to Eldon, Mo, where he met Miss Greiner.

They were married in Versailles, Oct. 13 and immediately began a series of holdups. .1 7-l. ltn4AJ VaM. leietuvtrs ttwu xuif iiaicu nv- ups in Carrollton, Union Clair and New and his wife then apolis and helrlJ avenue rest went to "looked- Returp said alV unit Sl Floret) 1 WOt "FORCED" TO GIVE TIME FOR ADDRESS Relates Station "Told" to Let Answer Be Made to His Speech Tonight On Ism Inquiry.

Washington. Oct. 30. (U.P.) Chairman Martin Dies of the House committee investigating un-American activities, charged to night that administration officials had "intimidated" a nation-wide radio broadcasting cnain in connection with purported New Deal attempts to sabotage his group's Inquiry. Dies said he had received authentic information that William B.

Dolph, manager of local station WOL, an affiliate of the Mutual network, had been "forced" to give radio time to Paul Y. Anderson, St. Louis newspaperman, to reply to Dies's own speech over the same network tomorrow night. Proof Work Obstructed. Dies earlier today had said that his address would contain "definite proof" that top-flight New Dealers, Including Cabinet officials, sought to obstruct the committee's work for political reasons.

Dies charged that Charles Michelson, publicity director of the Democratic National Committee, had approached Dolph with the suggestion that Anderson be permitted to speak and that no mention of the White House's interest in the matter be made. 'There you have the Roosevelt administration using the Federal power of licensing radio stations to Intimidate a broadcasting company Into permitting a speaker to follow me on the air in an effort to deny jny charges," Dies said. Not to Deny Charges. Anderson, who has been cover- Inz the committee's hearings for his newspaper (the St. Louis Times-Star) said that he had been asked to speak after Dies's address by WOL officials, but that he had no intention of denying any cnarges made by the Texas congressman, When first questioned regarding Diess latest charges, Dolph said that the station merely had invited Anderson to speak in keeping with Mr.

Roosevelt's press conference suggestion Friday that correspond' ents interview reporters covering the committee to get their opinions on the inquiry. Later, however, when informed that Dies had announced he would subpena him before the committee to explain exactly how arrangements had been made for Anderson's address, Dolph referred all questions to Michelson, who was not immediately available for comment. Approached Only by WOL. Anderson said he had been ap proached only by WOL officials regarding his address. Dies is scheduled to speak from 10:15 p.

m. to 10:30 (Central standard time) and Anderson is supposed to go on at 10:30 to 10.45. The new charges were expected to intensify the feud between Mr. Roosevelt and the committee. Last week Mr.

Roosevelt twice criticized the group. He accused it of attempting to bring influence against re-election of his close friend, Governor Murphy, by hearing testimony of Republican witnesses that Murphy had been guilty of "treasonable" conduct in handling the 1937 sit-down strikes. Creek King in London To Ditcut Nazi Drive London, Oct 30. King George II of Greece arrived here today on a visit which, though pri vate, he is expected to utilize to discuss with British leaders Greece's position in the Balkans in the light of the four-power Munich agreement and the German trade drive into southeastern Europe. Weather Forecast Jim Crow says: Too cannot expect to believe everything tee en Halloween.

Indianapolis Fair and somewhat wanner Monday. Indiana Fair and somewhat warmer Monday, V. Weather Bareaa Bacelal Eprt ALMANAC OF THE SAT. Sub rttea at 6:13 1 Sua kU at. .4:44 WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY.

Humidity 1 a. m. pet Noon 68 pet 1 p. m. 64 pet Precipitation Amount Surtnj 24 bora endini at 1 in.

Total amount tfnee Jan. 1, Accumulated departure from normal taea Jan. 1 loom)-. 3I.U 6.33 Temperature a. ta.

-Dry 1ST Wet 37.0 Maximum. Moon. S2.S Wet 46 7 p.m. Wet 4S.1 Minimum. 3 Tot the lama Data List Tear 10 to 14, in a 6 RAIL PAY CUT ISSUES TO GO TO ROOSEVELT Agents of Labor, Operators Will Meet Today With President, Seeking to Avoid Strike.

Washington, Oct. 30. President Roosevelt will confer with representatives of railway labor and management tomorrow in an effort to avert a strike of 1,000,000 rail workers against the proposed wage reduction which his factfinding board has declared unjustified. The White House gave no ink ling tonight as to what the President would have to say to the deadlocked parties. There was some speculation in the capital, however, that an effort might be made at this and subsequent con ferences to reach an agreement on recommendations to the next Con gress concerning liberalization of government railroad loans and other rail legislation.

Loans Are Predicted. Some executives in New York predicted yesterday that the government might offer the railroads about $1,000,000,000 in easy-term rehabilitation loans, as a sequel to the presidential board's recommendation that the managements abandon their proposal to reduce wages 15 per cent on Dec. 1. Existing law forbids the Kecon struction Finance Corporation to make loans to railroads, except for maintenance purposes, unless the Interstate Commerce Commission certifies that the carriers are not in need of reorganization. In reliable circles re It was said that the roads w'riich could obtain such certification were the ones least in need of loans.

Although the President's fact finding board recommended yester day that the rail managements withdraw their notice of a pay cut, the recommendation is not legally binding. Strike Threat Hovers. The managements have not yet indicated whether they will com ply. Still up to the President, in the words of one member of the fact-finding board, is the problem of averting the nation-wide strike which the workers have voted the reduction is put into effect. John J.

Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads and George M. Harrison, head of the Railway Labor Executives As sociation, have been invited to the conference with the President to morrow. The joint conference committee, composed of railroad executives who conducted negotiations with employes before the wage cut was decided upon, also is to meet here tomorrow. H. A.

Enochs, chairman, said this group probably would turn tne question of reducing wages back to the individual railroads. Enochs commented that the board's report still left the prob lem of finding money with which to meet the railroads' expenses. Irrespective of the final solution of the present controversy, it ap pears to have pushed the railroad problem to the fore for considera tion at the 'ext session of Con gress. Gen. Booth Cancel Vitit On Advice of Phytician London.

Oct. 30. UP Gen Evangeline Booth, head of the Sal vation Army, cancelled today on medical advice her proposed visit to the Salvation Army congress Nov. 5-7 In Manchester. A spokes man said that doctors had advised the 72-year-old leader not to un dertake public engagements until she had recovered fully from the shock of the death Oct.

9 of her veteran secretary, Lieutenant Com missioner Richard Griffith. Theater Doors have had serious consequences re Saturday night. patrons could leave. Small boys, rather than the mythical witches and goblins, are the direct concern of harassed par ents and police, however, and the latter especially girded themselves for an attempt to keep vandalism to a minimum. Circle Roped Off.

Masquerade festivities will, center on Monument Circle, where Michael F. Morrissey, chief of police, has ordered the two southern segments roped off from traffic for the benefit of revelers. Traffic will be blocked there from 6:30 to 10 o'clock tonight. Police issued a warning against vandalism last night Chief Mor rissey has ordered special details Star and Police Phones Swamped With Calls of Those Who Heard New York "Destroyed," "In- vaded," Etc. REACTION CRITICAL Hundreds of Indianapolis citizens joined in the mistaken fear spread throughout the nation last night by the radio dramatized "war of the worlds." Services in St.

Methodist Church, Rader and Eugene streets, were disrupted when an hysterical woman member of the congregation entered shortly after worship had begun and walked to the pulpit of the Rev. Charles R. Llzenby. Something so terrible has hap pened that I must interfere," the Rev. Mr.

Lizenby said the woman asserted. She then announced that New York has been destroyed. I believe the end of the world has come. I heard It over the radio." Lets Some Go Home. Worried over the agitation caused in the congregation, the Rev.

Mr. Lizenby gave a short prayer and then announced that those who wished could go home. Several members of the choir doffed robes and went from the church, followed by a portion of the congregation. The pastor proceeded with his regular sermon, and in a brief time some congregation members re turned to announce they had dis covered the alarm was caused by the radio drama. Switchboards at The Star and police headquarters were flooded with queries.

Several persons said they packed their bags and wanted to know which was the best way to go." Women alone at home or with their children hurried to the homes of relatives and friends. Several callers asked: "People are running out into the streets what's the matter?" Those with the greatest fear In their voices had drawn the con clusion that New York or the Eastern coast had been attacked by air. Others, not so concerned, believed a meteor had fallen. Persons, when they learned nature of the radio program, were sharply critical of the broadcast. "I'd like to get hold of the fel low who thought that up," was one comment.

Heard on Auto Radio, Too. The scare reached people not only in their homes, but over automobile radios. Filling station at tendants reported that persons stopping for gas asked anxiously whether they had "heard it right" and whether the attendants had heard of the horrible catastrophe. One man who drove up to a West side station gasped out the news and said: "Fill 'er up, Doc. I may be driving a long way." Preacher Bag Deer In Hi Dining Room Cameron, S.

Oct. 30. (P) The Rev. C. E.

Hill bagged a seven point deer right in his dining room last night. He shot twice and the 250-pound beast dropped in his tracks. The Methodist minister, his wife and 4-year-old daughter were sit ting there, when the buck crashed their supper right through the window. The family made a hasty exit, and no one was more taken aback than the buck, standing in a cor ner nantlnz and blowing. Mr.

Hill, however, recovered and re turned with his shotgun. 6 Killed and Injured In But-Automobile Crath Jackson. Oct. 30. WP-Slx persons were killed this afternoon in a crash between a New Orleans- bound passenger bus and an autO' mobile at Byrum.

a small town south of here. Paul Gaines of New Orleans, driver of the bus and five occu pants of the automobile were killed outright. All of the dead occupants of the automobile were from Brookhaven Miss, Five persons on the bus were injured seriously. German Confer Honor Ojt Witcontin Profettor Munich, Oct 30. iT)-The Ger man Academy conferred the honor badze "for conspicuous merit In promoting German culture" today upon Professor Emeritus Alexander R.

Hohlfeld of the University of Wisconsin. Prof. Hohlfeld was born in Dresden, Germany, 72 years ago and served as professor of German at Wisconsin irom iwi to 1D36. Two Firemen Killed, 10 Hurt Going to $2 Blaze Philadelphia, Oct. 30.

(U.P.) Two firemen were killed and 10 ftthor. uorit Iniured today when a fire truck and a rescue squad car crashed while en route to a $2 blaze. Listeners From Coast to Coast Badly Scared by Too-Realistic Drama on Air Pray, Weep and Call Newspaper Offices. SOME "SEE" TRAGEDY New York, Oct. 30.

Hysteria among radio listeners throughout the nation and actual panicky evacuations from sections of the metropolitan area resulted from a too-realistic radio broadcast tonight describing a fictitious and devastating visitation of strange men from Mars. Excited and weeping persons all over the country swamped newspaper and police switchboards with the question: "Is is true?" It was purely a figment of II. G. Wells's imagination with some extra flourishes of radio dramatizn- Senator to Offer Bill To End Radio "Abuse" Dps Moines, Oct. SO.

Senator Clyde L. Herring (Ilia.) said here tonight he planned to Introduce a hill in the next session of Congress "controlling just such abuses as was heard over the radio tonight." "Some of the bedtime stories which are supposed to put children to sleep hut involve murders and violence are an outrage and should be stopped," he continued. "There no freedom of the press or radio Involved at all," he said. "It Is merely a move to tell radio what we want to come into our homes." tion by Orson Welles. It was broadcast by the Columbia Broad casting System.

But tho anxiety was Immeasur able. At Fayettevllle, N. people with relatives in the section of New Jersey where the mythical visitation had its locale, went to a newspaper office in tears, seek ing Information. A message from Providence, R. said: "Weeping and hysterical women swamped tho switchboard of the Providence Journal Tor details of the massacre and destruction at New York and officials of the electric company received scores of calls urging them to turn off all lights so that the city would be safe from tho enemy." Some "Saw" the Invasion.

Mass hysteria mounted so high In some cases that people told police and newspapers they "saw" the invoslon. The Boston Globe told of one woman who "cinimea sno could 'see the lire' and said she and many others In her neighborhood were "getting out of here," Minneapolis and St. Paul police switchboards were deluged with calls from frightened people. In Atlanta there was worry In Turn To Page 9, Column 4. Samaritan Knifed: Friend Arrested Charles Iloltsclaw, 27 years old.

of the Gem Hotel, Is In a critical condition from knifo wounds in the chest and abdomen, the results of nerformlne a service for a friend vesterdav. The friend, Alton Arrant, 34, who also lives in the hotel, is under arrest for assault and battery with intent to kil! Arrant has a broken ankle and uses crutches. Evary night Holts claw has met him on the lower floor of the hotel and assisted him upstairs to his room. Arrant, Holtsciaw told police hnd been drinklnz when he enterei the hotel yesterday. They had ascended the first flight of steps, Holtsciaw said, when Arrant sud denlv whinned a knife front his pocket and stabbed Holtsciaw.

Arrant then went to the room of an other euest. where he was founa bv police. Holtsciaw is in City Hospital. Slade, Latt of Bentz Bank Robber Gang, Held Chicaeo. Oct.

30. WB Daniel M. Ladd, director of the Chicago office. Federal Bureau or invest gation, announced tonight the ar rest of Georae Slade. 30 years old, whom Ladd described as the last member of the Edward Bentz gang nf bank robbers.

Ladd said the prisoner admitted participation in 12 bank robberies in New jersey, rennsyivanm Ooreia. Missouri and Wisconsin, He further confessed, Ladd said that he burglarized three banks and three post offices, Ladd said Slade was being for removal to Pennsylva: where he will stand trial for robbery of the Milford (Pa.) 1 on Dec. 17, 1935. other I 5 Short said the "affair cannot be exaggerated" and Tackett had told him "I love her, better than I love myself." The county attorney continued: "A fraud was perpetrated when Mrs. Columbus alleged her daughter's age to be 15, and, according the state marriage age limit of a Void marriage' was performed." Couldn't Stop Them.

Here's how Mrs. Grace Columbus described to the county attorney the courtship between Rosie and "Flem." "Rosie was In the first grade school down in Johnson county when Flem snuck down and brought her and Becky up here. He snuck down at night-time. "I follered them and got the license. Rosie and Flem had been sneakin' around and courtin' for a long time.

They just wanted to get married and I couldn stop them. "Flem married her right after he had helped Archie build this new cabin and had worked a spell the coal mine." Short said he would confer with TO DEFEAT HOLT Democrats Join Republicans To Rid City of Mayor Regarded Liability. By EVERETT C. WATKINS. Kokomo, Oct.

30. If one may judge the temper of its citizens, Kokomo Is preparing to get rid of "Holtism" on Nov. 8. The tide of public sentiment apparently has turned against Mayor Olin R. Holt because, in the judgment of men and women of both parties, he has come to represent bad advertising for a city that is entitled to good advertising.

Election of Harold G. Freeland, mayoralty candidate of the Repub lican ticket, wouldn't be regarded wholly as a party triumph, it would also be considered a victory for Kokomo. Freeland, at present city councilman, is considered by all citizens to be an able, honest man. He is a teacher of government in the Kokomo High School, Mayor Holt was once a "fair haired boy" at the Statehouse. but, according to reports, the State house Democrats are prepared to drop him because he is now re garded as a detriment to the party.

His defeat, if it is brought about as now anticipated, will result from a coalition of Democrats and Republicans who believe that a change in mayors would be good for Kokomo. Mayor's Father Listed. The mayor's father, Lee H. Holt, is listed as secretary-treasurer of the "Kokomo Beverage Company," 125 Elm street, one of the city's two wholesale beer distributors by Statehouse favor. The mayor's father had been a city employ an employe of the city-owned cemetery before he was set up in the beer distribution business.

The mayor's brother, Oliver Holt, is the city street commissioner, The mayor's brother was first as sistant street commissioner, but Anally displaced the commissioner, Jim Bob McReynolds, an old-time popular Democrat who had at one time served as Democratic county chairman. The mayor's second brother, Henry Holt, who came on from Missouri, is an employe of the city sewage disposal plant Mike Mascari, Democrat, and Braun Brothers, Democrats, held the wholesale beer distribution privileges when Holt came into office. Mascari was soon displaced by the "Miller Transfer Company, 800 North Washington street, and within a year Braun Brothers, without warning, suddenly dis covered they were out of business and that, through Holts influence at the Statehouse. the "Kokomo Distribution Company," with the mayor's father an officer, was the new 4eer wholesaler. The man on the street in Ko komo, as well as the retail liquor dealer, refers to the Kokomo Distribution Company "as "Holt's wholesale beer place." Father Doesn't Work.

While use is made of the name of the mayor's father in connection with the wholesale beer privilege, the senior Holt is not required to work at the- distribution job. He was absent from the offices. Ex planation was made that the senior Holt doesn't show up often, that his presence is required only about once a month when there is a ai rectorr meeting. At this time Kokomo citizens are wondering if the state excise K0K0M0 PRIMED the his is Bring Grief to Halloween Pranksters A Halloween prank which could sulted in arrest of four youths late Police were told the youths placed wooden bars across the outside of the doors of an East side theater. It was necessary to break down the doors from the inside before Police pointed out that what the youths regarded as a Halloween prank could have resulted in loss of life and injury to many persons in the theater in event of fire.

Police Chase, Capture Boys. While the officers were making an investigation at the theater, an automobile containing the youths who placed the bars against the doors was driven by. The police gave chase and halted the car. Two of the boys, 16 and 18 years old, were arrested on charges of malicious trespass. The other two, who were 15, were taken to the juvenile crime prevention bureau.

Witches wfll ride straw brooms and goblins will perform nocturnal antics tonight, Halloween, the eve Ta. MIMasroram a. 61 1 KinMum 12 on duty tonight. of AH Saints' day. Turn To Pagt 7, Column 5.

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