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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
REBATE SLIPS GIVEN

BIZ Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind, June 1.-Gas-
oline dealers today are giving rebate
slips to customers, in anticipation Of
a finding Of the 2-cent gasoline tax
unconstitutional. South Bend dealers
received the tax under protest.
It's Constitutionality Will be de-
cided when Superior Judge Lem J.
Dare hands down a decision June Z,
on the demurrer to be filed by At
torney General u. S. L,esh on behalf
Of the auditor and treasurer, defend
ants in a suit filed by Bruce Gafu
to test the act. If declared uncon-
stitutional, the injunction sought by
Gafll probably will be issued by
Judge Dare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
ROUMANIAN COUPLE HELD

Whether John Sucu, Roumanian, %,
Of 60 w. Maryland St and his young
wife, Leontine, IS, will be allowed to
go through life as man ard wife
was to be decided in Juvenile court
today.
Her father. Petru Russ, 9O41a w.
Washington St, complained to police
May %. Neighbors say her fathers
threat to go back to the old country
caused Mrs Sucu to run away from
home.
Their arrest was made Thursday
night by Detectives Sheridan and Coll
nisch.
Sucu. charged with contributing to
delinquency, was in city prison and
his bride was taken to the detention
home charged with delinquency, but
both later were released on bond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
WIZARD DISCOUNTS SUIT
ASKING KLAN RECEIVER

BB United Press
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The re-
ownership filed against the Ku-Klux
Khan doesn't amount to a row Of
beans" William H. Evans, Imperial
Wizard, said today.
Evans said he had never heard of
David NJ. Rittenhouse Of Philadelphia,
in whose name the suit was brought
yesterday IN Atlanta, and to whom a
temporary restraining order against
use Of Khan funds was granted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
CLARA PHILLIPS
LAUGHS AND TESTS
Tiger Woman Hopes to Gain
New Trial,

BIZ United Press
ABOARD SUNSET LIMITED. June
Her hopes rising higher each hour
as she nears Los Angeles. Clara Phil
lips. convicted hammer murderess. "
was in good spirits today, and conf
IDENTIFY expected she would win a new
trial and eventual freedom.
Laughing and testing with her cap
tors and with her sister. Eta Mae
Jackson. the notorious prisoner no
longer appeared Disconnected over
word her appeal for a new trial had
been nulihed.
Il can tbelieve they would deny me
the chnce to establish my limo
cence," she protested calmly Il
played the part Of a good sport and
waived extradition in Honduras 10
come back here and face the music. &"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01

carefully planned lines. Like a tree
shooting out its branches. one deveIon.
ment would beget another develop
ment and each successive develop.
ment would lead mechanically to a
host Of smaller ones.
Long before Congress could enact
a draft law, in all probability, the ma.
chinery for administering the same
with 5000 local boards from Maine to
California would be in preparation
Long before Congress could make a
war appropriation, contracts for shoes
and shirts would be in readiness.
The United States had no mobiliza-
ton plan when 1t entered the World
War and painful delay and confusion
resulted
Would Cut Time
Under the new mobilization n1an
Army officers are confident, a much
larger and far more efficient military
force than We had in the World War
could be organized in far less time.
One might go into endless detail in
telling how this tremendous operation
has been planned in advance; for ex-
ample, 1t has been calculated how
many blacksmiths would be needed for
an army Of certain size and whether
the civilian population could supply
these blacksmiths without injury to
industry, or whether they would have
to be trained by the army.
The last war caught this Nation
without a definite plan for mobiHzing
its manpower to the utmost in the
shortest space of time.
The next war" will not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
Merely Habit

BY BERTON BRALEY
B HATE to quit the thing We started
. I like to see IL through.
II isn't that I'm valiant hearted
But when I've planned 70 do
A certain P!unt. l cannot quit
Until l seo what comes OF It.
4 WOULDN'T say 1t was persistence
4 That keeps me on the Job,
But, when I've got certain distance,
I'm simply all athrob
To keep on going till / 500
What luck waits at the end for me.
I HATE to quit the game I'm playing
] Until I've played II out
I know that I'm fool for staying
At times. beyond a doubt
But still I stick till have scanned
The pasteboards In the final hand
GO keep on the course I've charted
- Because I want to view
How things come out that, hopeful hearted
] thought that I could do;
hate to quit the thing I've started.
like to see 1t through
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service Inc,)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
CHURCH TO SEND
OUT AUTO SQUADS
Methodist Workers viii TIeI
State Of Program.

Squads of workers in automobiles
will tour the State during July and
August TO take the program Of State
Methodist Church organization to the
l.400 churches in Indiana, the In
diana Council Of the Methodist Church
decided at a meeting at the Central
Avenue Church today.
The program, as announced by the
Rev. Jesse BOgue: Increasing the
membership to 100000; f1ve-year be
nevolent program; construction Of
State headquarters in Indianapolis.
and recognition of Christ in every
home in the State
The council is planning a contest
with a view to the Identification and
improvement Of church property.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
TOM SIMS SAYS:

IN HIS report about the rising gen
!: :: !. !. !. !. :.
Grafton going to the dogs is a
= few million years old. -
About the important things | 80
going hats 9#SsS@ 49, -
June is the month in which Cupid ! VS. s@ssa -
has orders to shoot on sight $500 w
y
Best thing about being captured by
Chinese bandits is you have go TO II XhhA
China TO get it done. LdnlO
In the spring young mans fancy doesn' work
Bet the who thought up huggng surprised the
time he tried it
More boys playing ball this year according the man
who puts in window panes
Skinny girls usually swim much better than the other girls
because they stay in the water.
man on vacation spends money accidentally than
he does purpose while at home
Many people who went to school prove it,
NO one ever became star by staying a night
Talk isn't cheap when you talking back to a cop.
political machine be something like a talking ma
chine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
GAS SALE STEADY.
DESPITE NEW TAX
AutofStS FIJI Tanks to Brim
Before Prices Advance.

without apparent change gasoline
sales We're being made today, with
the new two-cent State tax in effect.
Practically all oil companies fol
lowed action Of Standard oil in reduc-
ing retail price one cent. making the
service station price Just cent higher.
Several station attendants said de-
mand for gasoline was unusually good
Thursday and consumers filled their
tanks to the brim
The Standard was charging % $40
cents a gallon. the National Oil and
Refining Company was charging 27H
cents. and the Western Oil and Rein
ing Company was charging 271a cents
for high test and % $40 cents for or
binary gasoline.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
Await Presidents Command
Churches for 'Spooning'
Is Aim of Organization
BIZ Enited Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. June Establishment
Of love parlors" in churches was
sought today by the Illinois Vigilance
Society.
The society aims to have every
church in the State open its doors
365 days year for girls and boys.
DR.. Lee Alexander Stone. In advi.
eating the movement, said:
THE working girl with a hall bed
room has no place in which to enter
tain a sweetheart. Every street cor
ner, every dance hall and too often
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
DIES IN
BARRIERS CHAIR
Elmer Grub Funeral Is to Be
Held Monday.

Last rites for Elmer Grub, So, Of
2514 n. Sherman Dr.. who died Thurs
day I ma chair at f. D Pryor's barber
shop, 1892 E. Twenty Fifth St, viii
be held at p. m. Monday at Oak
Hill Tabernacle Church. Burial Will
be in Crown Hill cemetery.
Pryor was shaving Mr.. Grubb
when he suffered a heart attack and
slid from the chair.
Mr. Grub, who lived in Indian
apous forty years, was born in Park
County. Ind. For the past six years
he was a supply man for the Inter
state Car Company.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Eliza.
beth Grub. one son, George Grub.
and a step-sister, Mrs. Anne Ker-
michael Greencastle, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01

cheap hotels are made parlors."
Mrs. G. Corvvtn Howell. leader in
the organization, said the average age
of the iuegitimate mother has de
creased within the elast few years
from 20 to Is.
IN many cases freshmen high
school girls Of 10 are expelled because
they are about to become mothers
she said.
Our girls are being taught by bad
movies. bad literature and by dance
halls that immortality is universal"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
COL. HEALEY is TO RETURN
State Official Has Been i'm War De
partnent Conferences.

Col. George II. Healey. clerk OF
the State printing board who has
been on a six months leave of alb
sence doing special work with the
War Department at Washington. D.
c., will return to duties here June Is.
Healey has been in conferences Of
officers Of the general staff. He was
commander of the 38th Division over
seas in the World War. During his
absence Thomas J. Carter has been
acting clerk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01

INDICTS 3 tOndry conJureS up two ngures IN the
GARY = mind One is that of Judge E. H. Gary,
head of the Steel Trust, who huge
profits tweveho day labor of in the steel mills
The other Nunsey early life
steel stock and who his profits to dabbe heavily in
metropolitan newspaper publishing
Generally Munsey' New York Herald is the apostle of
all is reactonary. Nine times of ten, and he is
for the quo Mr. Munsey Judge Garys gor
fcation of the twevehour day little too to be taken
straight and read in the Herald:
''When President Harding last May asked the steel to
abolish twevehour day the New York Herald applaued his
ameOrate the conditions Of the mill workers and hoped
would find the end desired
The report which the institute has accepted makes certain
is that the workmen themselves
not demanding change from the twelvehour day Another
that because Of the periods allowed the there is less
actual work twevehour day than of eight hours The
fact remains that working twelvehour swing has little
spare time for anything except eating and sleeping If the
TEN does not nue him physically nevertheless is condu
Give to happy home life
1T will do say that the twevehour swing has be-
traditional in the steel industry The home ideals of this
country tradition The spirit of these times
makes the twelve-how day Archaic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
BODY IN BARN;
MURDER FEARED
Relatives Believe Wealthy
Farmer Was Slain,

BIZ Times Special
BOOEVILLE, Ind. June hives
tigation into the death Of Mike sover-
cool sc, wealthy farmer whose body
was found in his barn Thursday. vas
pushed today. Five empty wallets
were strewn about the farmhouse.
Relatives said Sovercool recently sold
considerable property They believed
he was murdered. Sovercoors hand
was severed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
'PARLOR LADY, ARRESTED
CoIored Man KilIed-Wife Tells Police
of Threats.

Costello ST Clair. Al, colored. Key
stone Ave. and Thirtieth St. is said
to have called his wife, Emma St.
Clair, %, a "parlor lady" Thursday
night.
st. Clair is dead. His wife is
charged with murder.
He threatened his wife and their g.
year-old daughter because Mrs. St.
Clair did not have water pumped for
his'horses when he came home, accord
ing to police. He is said to have hit
his wife on the head with a skillet,
from which he had thrown meat that
was being fried.
st. Clair was stabbed near the heart
with a small knife.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
Rules on Insurance Policies

Farm insurance policies are merely
imperative for periods when premium
notes remain unpaid. and are not per
manently Cancelled, Thomas S Nc
Murray, STATE insurance commissioner,
mas ruled
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
SEVEN ARE GRADUATED
Students of St. Mary's Academy Give
Class Entertainment.

Seven students of St. Mary's
Academy were graduated in exercises
at the Athenaeum last night. A
play, ruth, the MOabitess,' was
given. The principal talk was by the
Rev. Raymond r. NolI Of st. Frances
de Sales Church. An essay was read
by Miss Frances Cecilia Glenn, mem
Der of the class. Other graduates:
Misses Mary Frances Hunter, Clara
Catherine Schuck, Helen Anna
Schwegman, Dolores Kathryn White,
Marie Anna Hergel and Mary June
Power.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
Boy Burned to Death

BIZ Times Special
GARY, Ind, June Edward Nc
Cullough, 8. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Mccullough, was burned to death
in a fire which destroyed four-apart-
ment building in Aetna, suburb of
Gary. Loss was estimated at $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01

A reader of this column asks
for a list of suggested articles
and remedies for a Home Medi-
cine Cabinet. Any other reader
interested may obtain a bulletin
giving such a list, by writing to
our Washington Bureau. enclos-
ing a 2-cent postage stamp.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
HUMAN
MIND
WORKINGS

MIND Mighty minds the theory of relation;
WORKINGS also Ensteins to maggots. In
point, fellow Hoosier Al
pheus Meyers with tapewom trap 1t is product of much
mental labor simple and has promise of godsend
and we yearn for fuller details
First wait until your tapeworm is hungry. Inventor
Meyers doesn't how tell when hungry. Maybe
when to sloshng around biting inside parts you
Anyhow when think that it you swallow little
gold platinum Meyers cylinder with string
baited with food decacy, leaving string
hanging from mouth Any wOrmy reader easily
remainder of the program. 1t plain sitting banks
of White River with your soul bent buIheads-simpy
jerk and up she comes Note that this apeworm trap
matter the time give him the hook doesn't
You swallow and swallow again. jerk jerk again going
about with string hanging from your mouth until your jerk
fits the bite.
In behalf of the rising generation urge Meyers
to put his mentality other traps Lord What would
not have for faworm trap
abbed old watch key into cheeks inches
for what she thought but which merely from
playing marbles "for keeps with Tommy Willamsl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01

On the day the Franco Prussian
war was declared, military men saw.
General Won Molke, that far-seeing
old German warrior. calmly reached
into his desk and drew forth a com
plete plan Of campaign for the Prus
sian armies.
Apostle of Preparedness
Won MolKe was the apostle of pre-.
paredness and other European nations
were CLICK 10 learn the lesson he
taught. They saw the wisdom OF
thinking out problems before thew
arose, preparing carefully-weighed
plans and Seing ready to move swiftly
when the call for war came.
Today. the United States Army. gen.
eral staff, acting under it's chief. Gen.
eral Pershing. has followed their ex.
ample
Now, for the first time in its his
tory, this Nation has a definite and
minutely-detGiled plan of mobilization
for any national emergency that might
arise
Speed, speed, speed-that's the big
idea.
II Congress should declare war at
10 o'clock tomorrow morning. by
nightfall the greatest military ma
chine this Nation has ever had could
be well in the making.
Await Presidents Command
One brief command from the Presi-
dent. mobilize the Army" and the
wheels Of this military automaton
would start buzzing
Swiftly and almost automatically II
would grow. always expanding along
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
ARMY STAFF PREPARES FOR WAR IN TIME OF PEACE
PerShing Has Every Minute Detail Worked Out for Forming
Gigantic Military Machine Should
Conflict Come
Conflict Come,
By ROBERT TALLEY.
Times Staf Correspondent

WASHINGTON June lin time If naaoo nuo r
w war, the old slogan runs
But the new version is In time of peace prepare against
war; and that's what the general staff of the United States ~
has now done after than year intensive effort
preparedness program in peace time that ro15 ~ 49,.
nation so formidable in time of no foreign mower would
dare attack it is the aim of General Pershng chief of staff and
his officers "' "10
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01

how connected with what we call
magnetic storms on earth. These
manifest themselves in Interruptions
OF our telegraphic and telephone COM
munlcations, in violent disturbances
OF the mariners compass and in ex-
ceptional auroral displays. The con
nection between the two sets Of
phenomena cannot be doubted, even
though at times there may be a great
sun spot on the sun without any cor
responding magnetic storm" effect
on the earth. The surprising fact
about sun spots is that they show
definite periodic variations in number.
The best defined period is one of
about eleven years. To be periodic the
spots must have some deep-seated
connection with the fundamental facts
Of the suns structure and activities.
What was the range Of the
German gun known as the Big
Bertha?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
NIOtOrcycljst Hurt

Montgomery Morton, 1882 Kenwood
Ave. was slightly hurt when his mo-
torcycle colhded with an automobile
driven by j. A. Buchmier. 22O5 N
Alabama ST., on Thirtieth ST. be-
tween Illinois St. and Kenwood Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
To what is the difference be-
tween hard and soft rubber due?

Science Service says the hardness
OF rubber depends on the proportion
Of sulphur compounded with the
rubber. Hard rubber is compounded
with a relatively high percentage of
sulphur and cured for a comparative
ly long time at a relatively high
tennDera t1Ire
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01

What are the chemical eIe-
ments of gelatin? Is there much
protein?
approximately as follows: Carbon,
1916 per cent; oxygen, 25.4 per cent;
nitrogen, 1873 per cent, and sulphur,
Oh per cent. As the proteins are the
heterogeneous element, there are con
siderably more carbohydrates than
proteins in gelatin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
What is thyme and what are

WHAT IS thyme and what are
its uses?
Thyme is a plant cultivated very
extensively in Europe. often for it's
fragrance, but it is also used as a
fiavoring in cooking and sometimes
as a medicine. The common garden
thyme has a pungent, aromatic odor
and is largely cultivated as a season
ing for soups, sauces, etc. From it
also is distilled, especially in France,
where the plant abounds. the oil of
thyme, which is used considerably in
veterinary practice and in perfumery,
and in the latter use often passes for
oil of orieanum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
What are sun snnts9

The name given TO the dark spots
upon the solar surface. They vary
in diameter from 500 to 10000 miles
for the central dark part, and range
up to 100000 miles or more for the
surrounding less dusky portions. Very
little is definitely known about sun
spots. Perhaps the most popularity
known fact is that they are some
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01

UNTYING Z YNCLE SANS bookkeepers are auditing
TAX 100000 income +av ro+I,rn = 100 ~
IANGlES ~ about 100000 behind the game A
newspaperman figures that it will take
fifty years catch up
taxpayers would be saved millions if income tax laws
were Smped The lawyer politicians make the laws NAV
say II impossible but the Ten Commandments of all sem
sible aw-cOntan only 39 words including all EXPLANATORY
clauses And amendments have been necessary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
Who invented the safety razor?

Michael Hunter, an Englishman,
Sheffield, England. about 1875. 1t
was, however, merely an ordinary
razor with a guard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01
Should a guest ask for or accept
second helpings at q dinner?

The guest should never ask for a
second helping at a formal dinner,
but second helpings may be offered
and accepted if desired Soup is not
offered a second time however. Hos
tesses should never be insistent in
pressing more food on their guests.
When was King AIphonso of
Spain born?
May II. 1885. g.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01

SIGNS = TTNDENBURG tells Mcmahon American cap
OF OLD tain that he expects another very short
AGE = L ~ Hook for struggle between the Unit
ed States and Japan"
Hndy has been expecting that for good many years
an old man. and the aged unable get their obsesons
nature kindly sends death about brain cells
petrifyng No is really old long he can change his
viewpont-keep up with changing times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-01

IN Y VAST is the scope of human mentality
" Mighty minds the theory of relation
lINGS also, Einsteins to maggots. In
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-02-24
Success.

A very young painter, who afterward
became great. stood in his obscure and
struggling days, when no one had
heard his name or would look at his
pictures, before the greatest canvas
of the greatest painter of the time.
The grandeur Of the work, alike in
conception and execution. staggered
him Possibly there was despair at
his heart as he asked himself how
could he, too poor for proper oppor-
tunity for study, too poor even to af-
ford a model. or to buy oils, ever hope
to emulate such "A masterpiece as this.
But there was at his heart no mean
ness, no envy, no disposition to be-
little or to grudge the other mis- high
place Throwing back his head, with
flashing eyes and throb in his voice,
he exclaimed proudly, radiantly, And
|, too, am an artist "'-C0ulson Kerna-
han.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-02-24

church on me Uml1an coast wnIcn is
obviously built of ship timbers, and
recently an enthusiast waiting for a
coasfing steamer bethought him that
If the building came from a ship the
bell probably did as well. A climb
among the rafters did not reveal the
name of the ship, as he hoped, but.
sure enough, round the edge Of the
bell were the words, Fifteen men on
the dead mans chest All that the
priest could tell him was that the
church bell came from q ship that was
wrecked in 1922, which was just the
time that the West Indies We're getting
rather hot for the pirates, and many
were being driven into the Pacific.
1t is an interesting sidelight on the
strange hooks and corners from which
Stevenson OR. L. So collected the
material for his books.