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28. NO. 132. Entered Seccnd-Claaa Matter at Post Office. Indianapolis, Ind.

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GHEVRQLET BUYS art Chiefs, Hoover 2 Confess Theater Robbery, Kidnaping BODY PLANT HERE Today A Troubled World. Two Instructive Maps. Striking Against Edison. Wall Street's Problem. Stock Crisis 0F1RTI Good Deeds of Thirty Years Ago Finally Chase Wolf From Door Drug Store Porter, Whose Wife Nursed Walgreen Back to Health, Finds Him Head of Big Chain.

CHICAGO, Oct. 14. W) Good deeds done more than thirty years ago today began paying dividends to Charlie Morris, a Negro who had been dodging hard luck unsuccessfully since the Spanish-American war. Before the war Charlio was a $9-a-weck porter in a drug store, where he became a warm friend of Charles Walgreen, an $18-a-week clerk. 3T.

LOUIS POLICE CLEAR UPS1.80D SAFE LOOT HERE Pair Arrested in Missouri Traced by Auto Trouble, Girl Also 'Being Held $1,273 Recovered. IN SECRET SESSION. (Associated Press Photo.) nam RICHARD WHITNEY. Walgreen offices in Chicago. Silverheels Takes to Heels With $70 of Chief's Wampum Ugh! Grunts Eaglefeather, Reporting Dog, Auto, Cat Also Gone Maybe Paleface.

Takes Control Today Will Employ 600 When Capacity on Commercial Units Is Reached. The Chevrolet Motor Company has purchased the Indianapolis plant of the Martin-Parry Corporation and will begin to operate it today, expecting to employ 600 persons when capacity production is begun. Announcement of the purchase was made yesterday in Detroit, by W. S. Knudsen, president and general manager of the Chevrolet Company, which is a subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation.

The local plant will be used in tho manufacture of commercial bodies for Chevrolet cars under the management of J. A. Jamicson, controller of the Chevrolet company, who will come to Indianapolis from Detroit. Feet Floor Spare. The purchase includes forty acres of land at 1,100 West Henry street, buildings providing 850,000 square feet of manufacturing space and square feet of roofed storage space for lumber.

Switch spurs lead into the plant The sale also includes twenty-five branch assembly plants, which the Chevrolet company plans to increase to fifty in order to facilitate national distribution. The Martin-Parry Corporation will continue in business, since it operates plants in York, and South Kearney, N. J. Production Curtailed. The local plant has curtailed its production the last year.

It will be placed In a position for capacity production as soon as possible, a statement by Mrs. Knudsen said. The personnel of the plant, Including all departments, will be retained insofar as Is possible. The sale was approved by the directors of the Martin-Parry Corporation almost a month ago, and the transaction was described as one that would be to the advantage of the stockholders. The plant was started here by the Parry brothers, who came to Indianapolis from Connersville.

It was used in the manufacture of buggies and wagons, and was known then as the Parry Manufacturing Company. One of its foremost productions was the Parry cart, a light roadster that attained distribution in all parts of the United States. Turned to Truck Bodies. D. M.

Parry, once widely known in Indianapolis, was president of the company and his brothers, Thomas and St. Clair Parry, were associated with him in the business. St. Clair Parry is the only survivor. Following the introduction of the automobile, the company turned its attention to the manufacture of commercial and truck bodies.

The company became the Martin-Parry Corporation in May, 1919, CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE. RADIO MUSIC STRIKE LOOMS CHICAGO, Oct. 14. (.) James C. Petrillo, head of Uie Chicago musicians' union, notified eleven radio stations today that if any statioir permits a Republican candidate use of its facilities for political campaign speeches, he will call a strike of the station's musicians.

Petrillo said that he had twice requested the Republicans to substitute live horn blowers in their Btrect parades and meetings for the traveling radio loud speakers they have been using. The Democrats have already signed an agreement to use flesh-and-blool musicians, he said. HERBERT DOW CRITICAL. ROCHESTER, Oct. 14.

Herbert Dow, head of the Dow Chemical Company of Midland, is so critically ill at the Mayo clinic it was said today, that physicians have given up hope of saving his life. that was being lightly drawn across his face and that he smelled the odor of chloroform. Suspecting Silverheels as the cause of his awakening, he asked her what she was doing and she replied that she had an ear-acre and was treating it with chloroform. Presently Chief Eaglefeather fell asleep and when he again awakened this morning he learned that Silverheels had absconded with the property above mentioned and intimated that his squaw had run away with a paleface lover. Last week Princess Silverheels deeded to her chief her half interest in the reservation, which they previously had held in common.

The woman has relatives in Ohio and in Indianapolis, and Police Chief Lloyd Nickerson has called officers at all places at which she is known to have relatives and asked them to be on the lookout for the princess. INDIANA CABINET MEN WIN OVER PAINTERS Union Restricted From Interfering With Kitchen Unit Industry in State. CHICAGO, Oct. 14. -m Federal Judge Walter C.

Lindley today made permanent an injunction under the Sherman antitrust act restraining officials of Painters' District Council No. 11 from interfering with the kitchen cabinet industry of Indiana and Kentucky. Arthur W. Wallace, secretary-treasurer of the union, headed the list of thirteen defendants. Cabinet manufacturers had charged that they were forced to send their products unfinished to Chicago, and that tho union took $2 for each cabinet painted here.

Where cabinets arrived finished, they alleged, the finish was scraped off and a new coat applied. A criminal prosecution begun on the same set of charges ended in a jury Weigh VISIT IN SECRET Silent on Meeting They Sought Attaches Decline Comment on Reported U. S. Short Selling Probe. WASHINGTON, Oct.

White House attaches disclosed tonight that officers of the sagging New York Stock Exchange conferred here with President Hoover on Sunday night at a conference sought by them. The nature of the conference was not revealed beyond that It had particular reference to the stock market situation a situation which has been marked lately by declining prices but which moved upward late today. Two Officials Are Visitors. Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Allen Lindley, vice president, were the White House visitors. They had dinner with the President upon his return from his Rapi-dan lodge Sunday night and remained for a conference later.

The conference aroused immediate speculation here tonight. News of it became known after the market had closed today following another sinking spell in the early trading. White House officials declined to comment upon reports that the Department of Justice has been investigating the selling of stocks short, and there was no confirmation of this at the department. It is known, however, that the question of short selling has been brought to the attention of the President since the recent deflation of the stock market No Intimation Given. But if there is any intention of governmental interference with the stock exchange, there has not been the slightest intimation of it in official circles.

The Senate has investigation of the entire credit situation with particular reference to stock market manipulations, but Senator Glass (Democrat, Virginia), who was designated chairman of the investigating committee, has intended to wait until later before starting this inquiry. Denies Knowing of Trobe. John Lord O'Brian, an assistant at-, torney general, said tonight he had never heard of any plans for the Department of Justice to investigate the stock market. "We have no jurisdiction over the stock market," Mr. O'Brian said.

"I know nothing of any investigation into it being planned." Other persons in the department expressed the same opinion, but said that if such a move was contemplated by Attorney General he had not indicated Wis intention to them. Mr. Mitchel could not be reached tonight. JUST TALKING, SAYS LINDLEY. Everything in General Discussed, He Add, Denying Market Reports.

NEW YORK, Oct. L. Lindley, senior partner of Lindley Co. and vice president of he New York Stock Exchange, tonight described the call he and Richard Whitney, president of the exchange, made on President Hoover as "a personal visit." He pointed out that Mr. Whitm.y was a friend of the President and served under him with the States iood administration during the world war.

Asked whether there had been any discussion of the( present CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE. WEATHER FORECAST. Jim Crow says: Some of those Chicago gangsters who "give themselves up" do not seem to he contributing much, at that. Forecast for Indiana for Wednes day and Thursday: Partly cloudy Wednesday and Thursday, not much change in temperature. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for Wednesday and Thursday: Partly cloudy Wednesday and Thursday, not much change in temperature.

t'nltcd Htatei Weather Bureau Special Beport for The Indianapolis Star. ALMANAC OF THE DAY. Sun risei at. 6:56 I Sun eti at. 5:06 WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY.

Relative 'Humidity. 7 a. m. 70 pet Noon 29 pet 7 p. m.

41 pet Precipitation. Amount during twenty-four hourn ending at 7 p. no Total amount eince Jan. 1. 19.10 26.32 Accumulated departure from normal Ince Jan.

1 (deficiency) S.ga Temperatures. 7 Dry S9 Wet S3 82 Noon. 80 Wet 60 7 p.m. 73 Wet 59 58 For the Same Date Lam Year. 7 a.

4H'Msxlmum 1 p. 61, Minimum. ii XCHANGE HEADS IT -By Arthur Brisbane 1 TROUBLES all over the world. In Spain, students burn a picture of the King, and Berenguer, prime minister, closes the University of Barcelona. Before burning the picture, the students cut out the head, mounted it on a pole and paraded the streets with it.

That is a mild, but unpleasantly close imitation of French revolutionists. They cut off the head of a public official that advised peasants to eat grass If they had no bread. The mob stuffed the dead mouth with grass, put the head on the end of a pole and paraded with it. Two maps, recently published, will be studied by future historians. One shows locations of all speakeasies in the national capital.

Innumerable bfack specks, each indicating a bootleg resort, make the map look like the face of a child with chicken pox. The other map shows South America, its revolutionary sections heavily shaded. A few small white spots show smaller states, Chili, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay still peaceful. This country may congratulate Itself on the fact that if it hadn't lost its nerve, after a destructive stock gambling fever, it would have little worry. It has no revolutionary tendencies that can not be taken care of by the police, and, more important, it has no "dole," such as in England, destroying desire to work in millions of men, putting idleness on a national subsidy basis.

A strike in the Edison factory at Orange, N. was necessary, perhaps, if it be a fact that wages were reduced. But any workman, knowing what Edison has done for workers, must find it hard to call a strike against him. Thanks to Edison, millions are at work all over the world good wages and millions live in comfort unknown before Edison's work began. However, he is 83 years old, a philosopher and knows that the one thing NOT to be expected is gratitude.

In Berlin the Hitlerites, imitation FasciAi called "Nazi," continue rioting and attacks on the shops and persons of Jews. These "Nazi" represent the second most powerful party in the Eeichstag, but this has not prevented the Berlin police from using their clubs on the rioters. Wall street seems unable to make up its mind about moving up or down. Yesterday, in the morning, it moved down. In the afternoon it moved up.

There are stocks for sale that will go lower, because they are two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen. Other stocks will go far above the highest prices at which they have ever sold, because they are worth the money. And many are selling good stocks gt ridiculously low prices in order to hold bad stocks. Mr. Pabst, one of the able brewers that formerly" "made Milwaukee lamous," has just spent $1,000,000 equipping one of his plants to malts leal beer, in anticipation of a change in the prohibition law.

This may be premature. Any prohibition compromise will probably ignore the law, letting the public drink as much as it pleases ol vile whisky and badly made beer. Beer properly made would be better and would add hundreds of millions a year to government revenues, whereas "bootleg" gives billions a year to bootleggers. In New York state, Governor Roosevelt wisely closes public forests at the beginning of the annual deer hunting season. The forests, following long drought, would inevitably be set on fire in a hundred places, if sportsmen, with their rifles and matches, were admitted.

It is sad to be thwarted just as you are ready to kill a deer. But hunters may find comfort in the fact that there will be more deer to kill, next year. Governor Larson of New Jersey predicts steadily increasing prosperity for his state, now celebrating "Prosperity week." The Governor relies on "the advantageous position of New Jersey," which could not be greatly improved. Of late years, and, especially, under Governor Larson's management, New Jersey has DESERVED prosperity, by energy, displayed in the building of good roads. Not even California has done better than New Jersey in that direction.

Of late New York state is far behind. (Copyright, 1930, KlngFeatureSyndlcate, Inc. Nominees of Third Party Win New York Ballot Tilt ALBANY, N. Oct. names of Robert Paris Carroll, gubernatorial candidate of the Law Preservation party, and Mrs.

Grace Robinson Hale, the designee for -torney general, will be upon the No- vember election ballot. Secretary of State Flynn this afternoon denied a protest filed against the nominations by Simeon Beckerman, representing an unnamed "independent Democrat" of New York city. When the latter was called to the colors the Negro sent him money and tobacco. Before ttu war Walgreen was sent home ill and tho Negro and his wife nursed him back to strength in their own home. Then they parted and years neither knew where tho other was.

Fortune and Hard Lurk. 'Dame fortuni smiled on Walgreen. He rose to the head of a huge drug store chain. Morris was luckless and while ill and jobless Baw an advertisement in a Chicago paper the other duy bearing the name of "Walgreen." He wondered if it could be the "Charlie" he knew in his drug store days in Chicago, so he set out from hm home in Watseka and went to the DIM'S HOTEL 'T Returns From New Jersey to Face Police Racketeer Gaining Strength. NEW YORK, Oct.

14. W) Jacob Ginsberg, manager of the Hotel Monticello, who went for a week-end pleasure trip a short time after Jack (Legs) Diamond was wounded critically In his hotel, pictured for authorities late today the events immediately following the shooting. Diamond was reported at midnight to have gained strength and to be in better condition than ho has been twenty-four hours. Although in great pain, physicians at Polyclinic hospital said he slept fitfully. They said they expected him to survive the night.

This caused some surprise as a bulletin issued at 5 o'clock this afternoon said his condition was critical, duo to a pulmonary collapse. Went to New Jersey. District Attorney Crain said that Ginsberg, who surrendered late today, explained his absence since Sunday morning by saying that he, his wife and child went with Wallace D. Bennett to the Bennett home Edgewatcr, N. on Sunday, and that Bennett took him to Philadel- C'ONTINUED ON PAGE THKEE.

"I I slugged a man and robbed him last night." The captain sat up in his chair. "You what?" he demanded. "With this," the boy replied, and he took from his pocket a piece of window cord, knotted at one end around a piece of jagged iron. No Report of Slugging. Police examined records.

There was no report of a man being slugged. But tho boy insisted and finally blurted out all the details of his first venture into crime. He is an eighth grade student and he didn't like to go to school; his teachers didn't understand him. He got no sympathy at home; perhaps his parents didn't understand him either. He got along no better Vith his classmates.

He "put up with things" as long as he could, he explained. He thought he could do better by himself. Pcr-naps a long trip on his own re-fources, a job and some money, and he would be successful after all. He laid his plans. He would need Forac money, just a little to get him CONTINI Kll ON PAGK TWO.

Burglars With Van Take Enough to Set Selves in Business Burglars gad about in moving vans now. Such a duo backed their yellow van up to a barbecue stand at English avenue yesterday afternoon and nonchalantly removed the following: One steam table, one glass show case, one cash register, one ice box, one gas range, all of the built-in cabinet work, all of the dishes, cooking utensils and tableware, seventy-five phonograph records, five tables and sixteen chairs. They left the phonograph surrounded by emptiness. The stand is operated by Mrs. Beu-lah Shaull, 1814 Southeastern avenue, who said that it has been closed temporarily.

The burglars smashed in a door to gain entranc. MANAGER As he sat In the reception room a bald-headed man stopped and looked at him. "Isn't your name Morris?" he inquired. "Sure enough is, boss," said Charlie, and then, "Say, you ain't Charlie Walgreen that used to work with me in a drug store before the war?" Spectators Stare at Greeting. "That's exactly who I am," Walgreen replied, and the spectators stared as the drug store magnate grabbed the old Negro and hugged him like a long-lost brother.

And, to make a long story shott, Charlie walked out of the office with a lifetime Job with his old boss. "Won't Always Have Mother" Proves True Special to The Indianapolis Star. WABASH, Oct. assertion of Jack Gillespie, who has been driving back and forth between his home here and Indianapolis each day to attend his classes in the Indiana university school of medicine there, that "I will not always have a mother to come back to," proved only too true. She died today after a short illness.

RULED BY GREED Church Federation Urges Union to Overthrow Designing Politicians, Gangs. CHICAGO, Oct. 14 W-The Chicago Church Federation charged today that Chicago's government "is dominated by designing" and greedy politicians, gangsters and racketeers" who are motivated by "greed for large and easy money." The charge was made in a report on crime conditions by the federation's commission on political action, as approved by its board of trustees. The federation, of which Dean IShaller Matthews of tho University of Chicago divinity school is president, represents 800 churches in metropolitan Chicago, distributed among seventeen Protestant denominations. Results In Crime Orgy.

The situation, the federation asserted, "results in grafting on 'public funds and an orgy of crime. which at times approaches a breakdown of local, civic authority. The impelling motive of this shameful civic situation Is greed for large and easy money, which has developed an interlocking system of control which tends to throttle our civil, business and social life." "This commission," the report said, "is convinced that there is co-operation between the gangster, public officials, newspaper employes and large business interests to a most alarming extent." The report then sums up the reasons for the existence of the allegud conspiracy as follows; Control of law-enforcing agencies by gangsters, from the policeman up to the judgs and including taxing and election machinery; the criminals' command of large capital; timidity on the part of business and civic leaders; confusion and indifference of voters, with corruption of election officials, and finally the part played by newspapers. Newspapers Are Scored. "Certain papers have at times maintained strong-arm squads in circulation wars," the report explains, CONTIMKI) ON PAGE TWO.

Woman Who Guides Collector to 'Man Also Pays Beaten Because she did a bill collector a favor Monday night, Mrs. Hattie Carvey, 51 years old, 624 East Allegheny street, is nursing a severe headache and sizeable bruise and a severed artery In her forehead today. She told the bill collector where he could find a Mr, John Logan Curl of 620 East Court street, against whom he held a bill or two. Last night Mr. Curl went to see Mrs.

Carvey. He carried a Bection of paving stone concealed in his hand. After taking Mrs. Carvey to the hospital, Motor Policemen Kelly and Ball did not have the same success the bill collector had. They could not locate Mr, Curl CHARGES CHICAGO Two bandits who confessed kidnaping the manager of the Alamo theater Sunday night and robbing the theater Bafe of $1,800 were arrested yesterday in St.

Louis, according to word received by Jerry E. Kinney, chief of police. According to the telegram the men are Roy Ba'rtlett, 40 years old, and Henry Maddux, 22 years old. Police did not recognize their names as known criminals. They were arrested In St.

Louis hotels, where they had been staying. Maddux's companion, Miss Vila Slater, 20 years old, also wa arrested. St. Louis police said that they will hold the woman for further questioning. Both men waived extradition and Indianapolis detectives will return them here.

The message from St Louis stated that $1,273 of the stolen money was recovered in tho possession of Bartlctt and Maddux. May Exonerate Manager. Maurico Magcrs of the Royal hotel, manager of the theater, told police that he was returning home late Sunday night and started to enter a restaurant on North Illinois street when two men in an automobile called to him. He went to the car, believing the men to be friends, and was confronted with drawn revolvers. The bandits ordered him to get into the car and, threatening his life, for.ced him to reveal the combination of the theater safe.

Mag-ers was taken back to the theater, where ho was bound and gagged. The bandits opened the safe, took the money and fled through a rear door, leaving the manager still bound In a room on the second floor. Mag-ers was found at about 4 o'clock Sunday morning by employes who arrived to clean up the place. He was arrested on a charge of vagrancy and held for further investigation. The arrest of Bartlett and Maddux, however, Is expected to result in complete exoneration of Mae- ers, police said.

Auto Trouble Gives Clew. Arrest of Bartlett and Maddux re sulted from questioning of a St iouis garage operator, whom th men had instructed to go to Casey-ville, to call for their automobile, which had been left there for tire repairs. "We drove to Indianapolis in a stolen machine," Maddux told St. Louis police, "and waited in front of the theater after it closed Sunday night. "Bartlett waited in the machine.

When I saw the cashier come out of his office, I pressed a revolver against his side and compelled him to return to the theater with me. After pocketing the contents of the safe, which represented week-end receipts, I rejoined Bartlett and we returned to St. Louis, having made the trip from Caseyville here by bus." Bartlett made a similar confession. The automobile which was used In the robbery was stolen Sept. 27 from a St.

Louis man who reported the theft at the time. Twins Eat Fly Paper; O. But Little Stuck Up EELOIT, Oct. 14. (P) Aa accidental diet of fly paper today landed Janet and Janice Norem, 2-year-old twins, in the Municipal hospital here.

Lured by sugar scattered over the fly paper, the twins pro ceeded to lick up the mixture. Doctors at the hospital washed th youngsters' stomachs. Outside of feeling a little stuck up, the twini said they were all right. A COMPLETE USED CAR GUIDE delivered to you, today and every day, In The Indianapolis Star. In Classification 15 you will find used cars of practically every make and model.

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Chief Eaglefeather told the police that he was awakened at 2 o'clock this morning by something CO. P. PLEADFWATSDN Let Hoover Complete Platform Policies, Senator Urges at Terre Haute. Special to The Indianapolis Star. TERRE HAUTE, Oct.

14. Calling for the election of a Republican Congress to aid" President Hoover in completing farm relief and tariff projects already launched. Senator James E. Watson roused an audience of 3,000 persons which packed the gymnasium of the Indiana State Teachers college here The senator from Indiana told the audience that President Hoover had redeemed all the policies on his campaign platform, but haf been hindered jn bringing certain measures to fruition because of world-wide depression and the effects of the double stock market crash. "Certainly, at a time like this, we should give the Republican party the opportunity to work out tho problems committed to it two years ago and not thrust it out of power simply because it has not been able to work miracles," the majority leader of the Senate stated.

Young Voters Addressed. The address was radiocast from station WBOW. Delegations of Republicans from Vermillion, Clay and Parke counties joined with the local crowd at the meeting. Senator Watson was accompanied here by Donald E. Bowen of Bloom-ington, who addressed the young voters.

The address of Senator Watson in part follows: "Twenty millions of American citizens voted for Herbert Hoover for President in 1928. While there were other issues than those mentioned in party platforms, yet it can not be questioned that a large percentage of this vote was cast for him because of the pledges made by the Republican party and also by him in his campaign speeches. "It is evident that the people believed that those pledges, if religiously redeemed, would be helpful to the country and so supported him and his party on those platform pledges. Cites Unforeseen Hindrances. "Now, It cannot be denied that those pledges have been redeemed in full just as they were written in the platform, and Just as they were advocated bv him on the stump.

It is my contention that conditions whicn could not have been foreseen at any time during that period have prevented the full fruition of the passage of the laws our party then promised, but nevertheless we have redeemed our pledges and fulfiilled our promises and should not therefore be held accountable for unfortunate conditions which have suddenly arisen and which have prevented the realization of our hopes. "It might be said by the President's extreme critics that, even though the stock market crash and the drought were not foreseen at the time of his nomination, he ought, CONTINUED OK FACE THREE. CONGRESS He couldn't sleep. Accusing figures closed about his bed and so a 15-year-old bny ran all the way to police headquarters to pour out his story last night. "I want to be locked up," he demanded of Capt.

Jesse McMurtry. "Then, maybe, I can sleep." "Why, what have you done?" Thinking Things Over With Calvin Coolidi BY CALVIN COOLIDGE NORTHAMPTON, Oct. 14. In al llmost all peacetime governmental decisions economic results are a dominant motive. The imperial conference among the dominions of the British empire now being held at London is largely given up to questions of trade regulations.

The delegate for Canada proposed an empire policy of protection good against the rest of the world with preference antong the different dominions. The most important decision of the conference was'inade by Chancellor Snowden in announcing that the present government would not favor the adoption of such a policy. This came after the declaration favorable to the principle by Stanley Baldwin, leader of the conservatives. A counter proposal has come from the board of trade, pledging Great Britain to purchase a certain percentage of her imports from the dominions. But in this there will be difficulties of allocation.

Protection for a compact country like the United States is entirely different from applying the policy to a world empire. The desire of trade to buy in the cheapest and sell in the highest market then makes all artificial restrictions exceedingly problematical. Each dominion would have to make some sacrifice. The decision of the British Cabinet will have a very important effect on world trade. (Copyright, McClurt Newspaper tyrfftW I.