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31. NO. 184. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1933. Entered as Second-Class Matter at Post Office, Indianapolis, Ind.

Issued Daily and Sunday. THREE CENTS. Nln WE DO OUR PART I I WfVffi mm mm 9 Expects Sale by Drink Soon UTAH WRITES FINIS TO PROHIBITION; 18 STATES BEGIN SALE MA I Government Is Prepared for Virtual Dictatorship Over Industry Control Plans Move Forward Quickly With Protection for Dry Districts. IMPORT BAN EASED (Proclamation of Acting Secretary of Slate Phillips announcing death of prohibition, and also President Roosevelt's proclamation on Page 3.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.

a dash of ceremony, Utah late today wrote an end to national prohibition in a decree that opened the doors of liquor Bhops in eighteen states. Almost half a dozen other states were completing plans for legalizing sale under their own laws. The rest of the nation remained dry. Word that Utah the thirty-sixth state had ratified repeal was flashed to the capital a few hours after Pennsylvania and Ohio. But a little later, the final formalities were completed with the issuance of proclamations by the State Department and President Roosevelt declaring prohibition at an end.

There was little ceremony at the signing of the presidential or the State Department proclamations, but in wet states and some dry ones there were celebrations. 13-Year Drought Ended. Thirteen years of alcoholic drought, enforced by tho eighteenth amendment of world war day inception, was ended by the Utah vote. It found the Federal government prepared to control the flow of liquor in wet states, through a virtual dictatorship over the industry, and to protect the arid ones. Several of the eighteen states where liquor could be sold immediately, however, were without regulations.

Repeal celebrations, however, found liquor supplies for immediate consumption restricted in some sections. In a hurried effort to meet the demand and thereby thwart the bootlegger, the government today decided to allow large importations of American type bourbon and rye whiskies from Canada. It also planned to release for beverage pur poses medicinal liquors held in bonded warehouses and customs houses. Proclamation Block Fails. A move of the International Reform Federation to block the issuance of the repeal proclamation was rejected in District of Columbia Supreme court when Justice F.

Dickinson Letts rejected a petition filed by Canon William Sheafe Chase, of Brooklyn. N. on the ground there was no basis for the action. He ruled repeal was effective upon ratification by the thirty-sixth state and not through the proclamation. Repeal was brought about through the convention system, authorized under the constitution, but used for the first time in this case.

The eighteenth amendment is the first to CONTINUED US PAGE TWO. Games Scheduled Santa Claus Fund DONORS TO SANTA FUND. Contributions may be made at The Star, or at the Santa Claus Fund headquarters, 237 North Pennsylvania street. Fund telephone, Riley fi.iil. Yesterday's receipts: Check, Kansas City, Mo $3.00 Billy and Robert 3,00 A Friend l.oo Today Prohibition Is Dead.

Bootleg Crime Much Alive. A Ride in California. Bisons in Japan. By Arthur Brisbane HEARST RANCH, SAN SIMEON, Cal. Dec.

5. PROHIBITION, mother of bootlegging and the world's highest crime wave, died officially today. Bootlegging and crime, unfortunately, are not dead and there is no certainty that crime's annual cost to this country of $13,000,000,000 will not go on. All depends on good judgment in liquor taxation and on police, judicial and general official integrity and energy, If liquors are taxed too highly, Europe and Canada, sending in whisky free of home taxation, will offer to crime all the bootleg profit it needs. And if distribution is hampered in the prohibition spirit, speakeasies will continue to flourish.

It has been said wisely that, if you hamper decent drinking in decent places, there will be indecent drinking in indecent places. Changing to a more pleasant subject, read some details of one ride over a few miles or roinng nuis aim cattle trails along the edge of the Pacific ocean. Charlie Eblen, who looks after the horses and knows how to do it, has two "pintos," spotted black and white horses, saddled early. Cowboy saddles and bridles and girths are used that call for experience and strength. Passing the menagerie with its cages of wild animals, the horses snort, shy and cavort, as they smell the lions and other wild creatures.

They do the same, passing the grizzly bear pits, in another direction. "Queer," says Eblen, "that a horse, that never saw one of those animals ran't nnssiblv know that the animal would eat it, never gets over an Inborn fear. How far back do you suppose that goes?" The answer is "Millions of years." In less than a mile you pass two or three dozen native deer, their brown bodies almost 'invisible against the hillside. Nature is kind. At home, the striped zebras, that stand out here like a lighthouse on a dark night, are equally well protected by nature's camouflage.

A small herd of elk, escaped from their inclosure, thrive, multiply and stick to the ranch. This country, its hillsides, covered with wild oats, suits them. Charlie is training for use on steep hills a young, high-spirited horse that must learn to go fast and safely on a steep down grade. "Shoe their hind feet, leave their front feet bare for awhile and let them get a little tender. That way, to save their front feet, they learn to use their hind legs K111 anH that as a DraKe going uuwim.i., means no falis." Consider what these hillsides produce.

On a' ten-mile ride to the Arab horse farm you see in the Hearst groves and orchards peach, fig, date, pomegranate, orange, lemon, grapefruit, avocado, pear and apple trees, and grapevines, of course. And on 'one side is the Pacific ocean, on the other a row of tall hills running back into the mountain range that runs for a thousand miles along the coast. This is called "the Little Hearst Ranch" because, when the late Senator Hearst had it, it contained only forty thousand acres. Ahnut three hundred thousand acres have been added by Senator Hearst's son, but still it is the "little" ranch, because the big Hearst cattle, ranch of Babicora has 900,000 acres, and the third ranch farther south that produces chicle for the chewing gum industry has more than a million acres. On the horse farm at Pico, beside the Pacific, all sorts of horses are bred and breeding experiments carried on to develop better strains.

The West still will be riding horses over these hills after the rest of the country takes to automobiles and airplanes only. In a field pasturing seventy to a hundred yearling, Arab, Morgan and thoroughbred horses, you observe a sedate old mare, with a big clanging bell around her neck. "Oh," says Charlie, "she is there to teach common sense to mose vearlings. They get galloping don't know what they are galloping for or what they fear, become panicky and would go through barbed wire or anything. Then they hear the bell, see that old mare not frightened at all they recover their wits.

You could preach a sermon about that. And there is another good sermon in the great herd of heavy bisons, signs in their inclosure of 1,000 acres reading "animals in this pasture dangerous to pedestrians." Some of the big bull bisons at this season have "fly sore" and make them worse rubbing against trees. It would be easy and a pleasure to help them and cure the sores without waiting for colder weather to end the fly nuisance. But if you tried to help a bull bison, he would trample and gore you, not thank you. (Copy Baker Says Excise Director's Power to Waive Requirements May Make Liquor Law Void.

Prohibition of hard liquor sales by the drink in eating places (or any- fwhere else for that matter (may not last long under the new postprohibi-tion era, Judge Frank P. Baker of the Marion county Criminal court said yesterday. Judge Baker anticipates that some one will ne arrested tor violating the rules laid down by the state excise director forbidding the sale of hard liquor by the drink. Looks Up law. Therefore, he is looking up the law.

He said he can not give his opinion in advance, but it appears the 1933 statute providing for the sale of hard liquor is unconstitutional. The section he refers to provides that whisky shall be sold in drug stores, but gives the state excise director power to waive the requirement that the seller be a druggist or that the drug store must be in existence for three years prior to making application for a license to sell hard liquor. Decided by V. S. Court.

Granting of this power, Judge Baker said, gives the excise director authority to discriminate. He said that a California case has been taken to the United States Supreme court and that it was held that the legislature could not delegate to an official power which could be used to discriminate against a class or group of citizens. The case in question was a law intended to discriminate against Chinese laundry owners. It provided that all laundries had to be in brick buildings, but that the state officer in charge could waive that provision and permit some laundries to be in frame structures. The power to waive was granted so that the state official could permit some of the whites who owned laundries to operate them in frame structures, the judges said.

The high court held that no Legislature could write a law providing for the exercise of discrimination on the part of an official. Einstein to Sue Nazis to Recover Property AMSTERDAM, Holland, Dec. 5. (U.P.) Dr. Albert Einstein, world-famous scientist now at Princeton, intends to sue the German government through The Hague tribunal for recovery of property confiscated since his self-ordered exile from Germany during the Nazi regime, it was understood here today.

The report said the Einstein suit would provide' a test case for all German-Jewish confiscations by the Nazi authorities. Byrd at Wellington; Bay of Whales Next WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 5. (U.P.) Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and members of his south polar expedition arrived here today aboard his flagship, the Jacob Ruppert.

Byrd said they expected to proceed to tne nay oi wnaies, me next step on their way to their base at Little America in the antarctic circle, this week-end. The ship arrived after bucking a fifty-mile gale, one of the worst encountered on the trip from Boston, Mass. WEATHER FORECAST Jim Crow says: Drinks in Indiana will be both on and in the house. Forecast for Indiana for Wednesday and Thursday: Generally fair except possibly rain along the Ohio river in morning, colder Wednesday; Thursday generally fair and warmer. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for Wednesday and Thursday.

Generally fair and colder Wednesday; Thursday generally fair and warmer. United State Weather Bureau Special Report for The Indianapolis Star. ALMANAC OF THE DAY. Sun rises at 6:53 I Sun lets at 4:20 WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY. Relative Humidity.

7 a.m. 8 pet. Noon 67 pet. 7 p.m. 83 pet.

Precipitation. Amount during twenty-four hour ending at 7 p. 00 Total amount since Jan. 1, 1933 39.7 Accumulated departure from normal lnc Jan. 1 (exceaa) 2 40 Temperatures.

7 a.m.. Dry 53 Wet 47 Maximum 58 Dry 5 Wet 50 7 p.m.. Dry 47 Wet 44 Minimum 46 For the Same Date Last Year. 7a 40 I 57 7 p. 51 i 35 bnbhi TEST 1L 1W IE IS WD I Heavily Laden Plane 630 Miles Out Reports Friendly Wind, Perfect Weather for Flight.

LINDBERGH LOG. BY THE ASSOCIATED II ESS. Col. and Charles A. IiiKlbergh, who took oft' from lialhurst, Gambia, at p.

in. (Central standard time) Tuesday. The position reports follow in Central standard time: 9 1 M. 12:17 north latitude, west longitude. (150 miles at sea.) 10 P.

M. 11:05 north latitude, 19:05 west longitude. "All well." 10:50 r. M. 2,000 feet altitude; visibility unlimited one-tenth overcast.

Wind 30 degrees (off the tail) and ten knots (about 11.6 miles an hour); making KM) knots an hour (aboirt llfl land miles). The message did not give position. 12:27 A. M. Skies overcast, Weather squally.

Visibility three miles. Daybreak. All well. 1:15 A. M.

miles out from Itathuist, (One-third of distance,) BATHURST, Gambia. Dec. 6 (Wednesday) iP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh lifted his heavily laden red monoplane into the air at 2 a.

m. today (8 p. m. Tuesday, Eastern standard time) and with Mrs. Lindbergh at the radio headed across 1.900 miles of open sea toward South America." After a score or more of unsuccessful attempts to lift the heavily laden plane in an almost dead calm, he was helped on his way by a light breeze from the interior which rippled the surface of the lower Gambia river.

(A message direct from the Lindbergh piane to Bahia, Brazil, relayed to Pan-American Airways in New York, reported their position at 3 a. an hour after the takeoff, as 12:17 north latitude, and 17:50 west longitude, 115 miles at sea. The mes sage reported a true course and was signed Delayed Four Days. For four days the Lindberghs had been balked by inability to lift the heavy load of fuel required for the longest hop yet attempted in their aerial survey tour of Atlantic ocean airways. Excess fuel and baggage was jettisoned, and at 4:30 p.

m. today the colonel went to the plane for a final inspection. Ready for the flight, the craft bobbed in a gentle bo'drin. h. rivel.

The colonel was informed that weather indications insured bright, clear tropical night for the takeoff. The German steamer Westfalen, which had been in Brazil securing supplies, was due to return to its mid-Atlantic post yesterday, affording further security for the Lindberghs on their long flight. The Westfalen is used by the Geramn Lufthansa line as a base for trans-Atlantic flights, and officials of the line previously had offered the Lindberghs use of their facilities. Annual Basketball For Benefit of Three Contests to Be Played Dec. 16 at Y.

M. A. With All Proceeds Going Toward Making Needy Children Happy Christmas Day. BY- CLAl'DE A. MAHONEY, Director Star Santa Claus Funf.

As The Star Santa Claus Fund boomed with its largest day to date yesterday, the announcement came that basketball of a spirited sort would come to the aid of the fund Dec. 16. For the fourth 'consecutive year the fund has benefited by the work of several young men in the classified advertising department of The Star Paul Patterson, especially and this year Patterson has arranged a triple-decker evening of basketball that should attract the fans who ad mire the best in semipro sports. All Proceeds to Go to Fund. Through the courtesy of the central branch of the Y.

M. C. A. the games may be played there free of charge. Referees and other officials will donate their services, as will all RGHS I OR BRAZIL Police Prepare to Make Christmas Shopping Safe "Arrest all persons with police records found in the downtown shopping district." This order was issued by Michael F.

Morrissey, chief of police, to members of the police department yesterday to prevent theft and pocket picking during the Christmas shopping rush. The order, he said, applies to all former convicts, pickpockets, shoplifters and "persons of police record." Special policemen, plain clothesmen and special police women will be stationed in the downtown district to preven. shoplifting and holdups during the holiday season, he said. Pfil! ERA COST INDIANA HEAVILY Fines and Confiscation Total High 3 Big Conspiracy Cases. With repeal of Federal prohibition a fact, it now is possible to sum up what the experiment has cost the state of Indiana and what effect the strict Indiana laws had on the city of Indianapolis.

Indiana, as a state, went dry April 3, 1918, and the Federal prohibition law went into effect Jan. 16, 1920. During the period of Federal prohibition, approximately five thousand Hoosiers were indicted on liquor charges by the two Federal grand juries in the state and more than forty-three hundred of the number pleaded guilty or were convicted. This does not include at least fifteen hundred more who were arrested for Federal offenses and were not indicted by the grand juries. Pines Only Half Fald.

A total of approximately $800,000 in fines and forfeitures was levied against these liquor law violators, but only half of the amount was collected. This other half was not collected principally because the defendants were able to prove they were poor persons, i In addition hundreds of automobiles were confiscated by Federal prohibition agents, thousands of gallons of bootleg liquor, beer and wines, hundreds of stills and enormous amounts of corn sugar and other brewine paraphernalia were seized. In Indianapolis alone nearly was collected in the city courts as fines for violation of the state liquor laws. More than sixty thousand persons were arrested on charges of intoxication, 6,500 for operating automobiles while under the influence of liquor and 23,250 for operating stills, maintaining nuisances or operating "blind tigers." Prosecutions Mount. During the fiscal year ending June 30.

1921. the first full year in whirn Federal prohibition was in effect, there were only 172 Federal liquor law prosecutions started in the entire state and thirty-one convictions. During the fiscal year of 1932 there were a total of 968 prosecutions in the two Federal court districts in the state and 837 convictions. Three gigantic Federal liquor conspiracy cases stand out among those which were prosecuted by the government during the prohibition periodthe Remus case, the Gary com spiracy and the Ferracane con spiracy. There were two oases in which George Remus, "king" of the earlier bootleggers participated.

The first was in 1922, when prohibition agents raided his "Death Valley" liquor cache near Cincinnati, O. Remus was prosecuted in Cincinnati but Federal agents here participated by seizing 1,500 cases of bonded whisky in the old Squibb distillery at Lawr-enceburg, on which Remus had taken an option. Caused Scandal Here. The liquor was transferred to the basement of the Federal building here and was the cause of a great scandal when a large amount of it disappeared. Later, while Remus was serving a prison sentence at Atlanta, the Jack Daniel distillery in St.

Louis, on which he also held an option, was "milked" of nearly one thousand barrels of whisky. Remus, who testified for the government in this trial, was said to have lost approximately $100,000. The Gary liquor conspiracy in 1922 involved many city officials as well as Lake county officials. City officials also were convicted in the more recent liquor conspiracies in Anderson and Muncie. Probably the largest and most far-reaching liquor conspiracy of the prohibition era in Indiana was the Ferracane conspiracy, in which 156 person were indicted and most of them, including Tony Ferracane.

alleged "king pin," were convicted. MARSHALL ELECTED STOCK SHOW LEADER HENRY W. MARSHALL. Lafayette Publisher Becomes President of. International Exposition.

Special to The Indianapolis Star. CHICAGO, Dec. 5. Henry W. Marshall, Lafayette (Ind.) publisher, tonight was named president of the international live stock exposition, the largest live stock show in America.

He succeeds John Clay of Chicago who has been head of the exposition for many years but who resigned at the annual board meeting because of his advanced age'. Mr. Marshall owned an outstanding Hereford herd for some years but presented it to Purdue university in 1928. He now has an outstanding herd of Angus cattle and has one of the largest live stock farms in Indiana. Mr.

Marshall has judged beef cattle at numerous state fairs and live stock shows. Former Marion Newspaper Man Succeeds Williams as Democratic Secretary. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic state chairman, yesterday an nounced the appointment of Keith L.

Johns of Marion as secretary of the Democratic state committee. Since establishment of the state gross income tax department Mr. Johns has had charge of publicity and policy in that division of state government. Previously he was managing editor of the Marion Leader-Tribune and had newspaper experience in Lafayette, St. Petersburg, Fla.

Minneapolis, and Indianapolis. Succeeds Williams. He succeeds Marshall Williams, who retired as secretary when R. Earl Peters resigned as state chairman recently. "Names of many prominent Democrats were suggested by their friends as prospective appointees," Dr.

McCulloch said. "After considering these suggestions, however, I have decided to appoint Mr. Johns, who will be able to combine several duties in connection with the activities of the state committee. "The nature of the duties to be undertaken by the new secretary narrowed the prospective appointees considerably. I am sure that any one of those mentioned for the post would have made an excellent To Have Charge of Publicity.

Mr. Johns also will have charge of the publicity of the state committee, Dr. McCulloch said. Among those who had been mentioned for the place were James Penman of Brazil, Clay county chairman. He was said to have the backing of Pleas Greenlee, patronage secretary of the Governor.

Failure of Penman to obtain the place is accepted as an indication of Greenlee's waning power in the inner circle of the administration and is the basis, in part, for the prediction that the position of patronage secretary is to be abolished when a suitable berth can be found for Greenlee. Appointmnt Forecast. Mr. Johns, whose appointment was forecast last week, is a native of Jonesboro. He attended Battle Ground high school, Purdue university and was Fifth district chairman of the Young Democratic Club in the last campaign.

He is married and has one daughter. Clarence A. Jackson, head of the gross income tax department, said that Mr. Johns' place will not be filled, but that publicity of the department w-ill be directed by another employe on a part-time basis. Mr.

Jackson said that the public is now acquainted with provisions of the law that a full-tim publicity man not necessary. VMM PICKS mum NOT ABLE TO UST AuiJiM 68 to Be Elected in 1934 and Devices Have Space for Only 60 Candidates Paper Ballots Necessary. BY MAURICE EARLY. Marion county politicians are preparing for a superwrangle next year because there are so many offices to be filled in the 1934 election that the voting machines can not accommodate the entire ticket. This situation was pointed out yes terday by W.

W. Spencer, veteran member of the state board of election commissioners. State, county, township, city and school city officials are to be elected. Too Many Names. Indianapolis voters will be called upon to vote for sixty-three people on the party tickets and for five members of the school board on a nonpartisan ticket.

The rub comes when it Is discovered that the voting machines have space for only sixty candidates. Therefore one or another group of candidates must be segregated from the ticket on the voting machines and be subject to a decision of the voters on paper ballots. At this point the politicians begin to rub their eyes. Chance to Cheat, G. O.

P. Sees. Some of the Republicans take the position that the city ticket must not be relegated to the paper ballot because it would give too much opportunity for cheating. They want the city ticket with its eight candidate- to be on the voting machines. Mr.

Spencer uelieves that it will be mandatory for one group of candidates in all Indianapolis precincts to be voted on with paper ballots. He points out that there are eleven to be elected on the state ticket, thirty-seven on the county ticket, seven on the township ticket, eight on the civil city ticket and five on the school board ticket. He believes that some place can be found on the voting machines to place the school board tickets, but either the state ticket-the township ucKei or tne civil city ucitei win have to go on paper ballots. Politicians Have Own Ideas. Some politicians think that it would be best to place the state ticket, headed by the nominees for United States senator, on the paper ballots, while others think the rumpus could be settled more quietly if the seven persons on the township tioket were left off the voting machines.

The fact that one of the tickets will have to be segregated makes it apparent that the candidates on that ticket will have to fight their own battles. They can not count on being put over by straight party voting. For instance, if the Democrats decide to make their campaign on an appeal to support Roosevelt, the entire ticket on the voting machine might be elected provided strong sentiment existed in favor of the President on election day. Slap at Some One Made Easier. Then the voter would turn to the candidates on the paper ballot.

Should these be the candidates on the state ticket the votor might take a notion to take a slap at the State-house because of the gross income tax or for some one of many peeves he might have at the state administration. Or should the city ticket be shoved over on the paper ballot the voter might think that there is no connection between national and municipal affairs. He might vote the Republican ticket for mayor even though he was a booster for Roosevelt. These are just a few of the thoughts being turned over in the minds of the political leaders. The entire question will come before the county board of election commissioners to be named next year.

Edgar Hart, Republican county chairman, and H. Nathan Swaim, Democratic county chairman, each will name one member of the election commission. Glenn Kai-ston, county clerk, Democrat, will be the third member. Mechanics of Voting Is Problem. In addition to the political phase of the question there is another one of importance to voters in large precincts.

Some of the precincts in Indianapolis have from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred voters. It is difficult to vote all these people when machines only are used. But when the voter must use the machine and then step over to a booth to vote his paper ballot much more time will be consumed. Mr. Spencer believes it will be next to impossible to take care of the voters in these precincts.

It may be necessary for the county commissioners to create additional precincts to take care of the emergency, he believes. The extra leneth of the ticket in In dianapolis results from the fact that the city election was postponed one year, making it coincide with the general election. Officers to Be Named. Officers to be voted on in Indianapolis next year are United States senator, secretary of state, state treas- C0 TIMED ON PAGE I WO. Roosevelt Proclamation Calls for Temperance, Warns Against Return of Saloon Special Levies Will Be Supplanted.

LIQUOR TO PAY BILL WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. (U.P.) President Roosevelt issued a plea for temperance tonight as the end of America's thirteen-year experiment with constitutional prohibition was proclaimed officially. In a proclamation issued at 6:55 o'clock, an hour after Acting Secretary of State Phillips formally had announced the passing u. constitutional prohibition.

Mr. Roosevelt called upon all citizens to confine their purchases of alcoholic beverages to duly licensed dealers, a plea that was, in effect, an appeal to eliminate the bootlegger from the nation. The President also appealed to states not to permit return of the old-fashioned saloon. The Roosevelt proclamation automatically repealed taxes yielding $225,000,000 a year which the government will replace by liquor levies. The proclamation as issued by the White House was somewhat confusing in that this was not specifically stated, only the text of the tax withdrawal provision as passed by Congress being quoted.

Taxes Automatically Cancelled. White Houso officials explained that tho taxes automatically were canceled with signature of the repeal proclamation by the President, and that it was not necessary for the taxes involved to be listed in the proclamation. The special taxes which the liqurx levies will supplant are the 5 per cen! dividend tax, one-half cent of the one-and-one-half-cent Federal gaso line tax, the one-tenth per cent cap ital stock tax and the 5 per cent tax on excess profits on corporations earning more than 12. per cent ol their capital value. In his plea for temperance the President said: "I trust in the good sense of the American people that they will not bring upon themselves the curse of excessive use of intoxicating liquors, to the detriment of health, morals and social integrity.

"The objective we seek through a national policy is the education of every citizen towards a greater temperance throughout the nation." Fledges Government's Aid. The President pledged the government's aid in seeing that "social and political evils that have existed in the preprohibition era shall not be revived nor permitted again to exist." "I ask the whole-hearted co-operation of all of our citizens to the end that this return of individual freedom shall not be accompanied by the repugnant conditions that obtained prior to adoption of the eighteenth amendment and those that have existed since its adoption," the proclamation continued. "Failure to do this honestly and courageously will be a living reproach to us The chief executive then said "we must remove forever from our midst the menace of the bootlegger and such others as would profit at the expense of good government, law and order." Acting Secretary Phillies had Dre- pared the text of his proclamation. in the diplomatic room he held a "dress rehearsal' for camermen. reading the document, while await ing word Irom Utah.

Wires Cleared for Message. The telegram from Utah's secretary of state announcing ratification was filed at 3:32 o'clock Mountain time, or 5:32 Eastern time, Telegraph wires had been cleared and the message reached Phillips's office three minutes later. The acting secretary used an ordinary pen to sign the proclamation in the presence of Assistant Secretaries of State Caffery and Sayre and other department officials. The pen will be presented to Congress as an historic souvenir if requested. Before signing, Phillips read the announcement into microphones.

Actual repeal became effective as soon as Utah had ratified the repeal amendment. Phillips's proclamation was -a mere formality. The nronln- mation of President Roosevelt was issued at the White House without ceremony. Iowa 16th State to Ratify Child Labor Amendment DES Dec. 5.

UP Iowa today ratified the child labor amendment to the Federal constitution, becoming the sixteenth state to add its approval. The administration supported resolution, which previously had been approved bv th Senate, was passed by the House by a vote of 61 to 42. C.WB and Boys 25.00 Cash l.oo R. H. 1.00 J.

R. 5.00 Christmas for the Children 5.00 Donnie Bowman 1.00 Check 10.00 Total $57.00 Previous report $280.79 Grand Total $337.79 players. Every cent will go to The Star Santa Claus Fund for brightening the lives of poor children at Christmas time. The first game will be called at 7:30 o'clock and will bring together the Crimson Cubs, winners of the North side championship last year, and the Ryker Wooley Shoe Re-builders of the South side. Following that The Indianapolis Star Bulldogs will oppose the William COMIMID ON PAGE ELEVEN.

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