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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29
POLICEMEN FACE
LIQUOR CHARGES
Trial for Two officers Set for
Tuesday by Board,

Liquor again proved the cause for
charges against two policemen before
the board OF safety today. Chief Rlk-
hOff filed the charges.
Trafflicman Howard Martin was
charged with conduct unbecOming to
an officer when 1t is alleged liquor was
found in his home. Patrolman Thomas
Sullivan was charged with intoxica-
ton. Trials were set next Tuesday.
Traffic Captain Michael J. Glenn
was promoted to the rank of Inspector
of traffic at a salary OF $500 a year.
The council has already appropriated
the money for the Increase.
Trafficman Lester Jones was pro-
NOTED to sergeant. Charles Gregory.
battalion chiefs aid in the fire force,
was promoted to lieutenant and Joseph
O'ConnOr was promoted to chauffeur
on recommendation of Chief John j.
O'Brien.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29

developing it, it always petered out
a little ways down.
Whenever they decided a vein
looked poor. 1t usually ran into mil
lions after they got rid of It,
when a mining man called Char
lie Garfield persuaded Doheny to
go to the Los Angeles district after
oil was found, they bought tickets
and Ed had exactly 10 cents left.
He bought grapes with it, be-
cause that was what he could get
most of for his money"
Owing money to. scores of people,
Doheny went to his bankers and
creditors, and demanded money to
buy oil leases. They gave 1t to him.
He finally got contract with the
Santa Fe whereby they obligated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29
From
Far and Near

A Bucharest court sentenced a Rou-
manian youth to pay % 600 francs for
kissing a girl in a railway train. The
girl agreed to give the sum, about
500 to charity fund.
Twenty-Five fishermen are reported
to have been drowned in a tempest
raging off the Norway Coast.
Three bandits Monday held up and
robbed the Citizens National Bank at
Lydonville. near Niagara Falls, N.
Y. Of approximately $4,000.
A steel harness buckle, two pieces
OF coal. a piece of leather and three
matches were removed from the
esophagus Of Adam Eiler, Peoria, Ill.
Eiler is recovering.
The Magnolia, Pierce and Service
OIL Companies, Houston, Texas, today
boosted wholesale and retail gasoline
prices ? cents a gallon.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee late Monday adopted a provi-
sion granting a % per cent reduction
for incomes under $4,000.
President A. A. Murphee OF the Uni
versity of Florida, William Jennings
stated he does not agree with the
Commoner principles of evolution
should not be taught In schools.
Shouting Viva De La Huerta" as
they died, five rebel leaders Sunday
were taken to the Juarez, Mexico,
cemetery, lined up against an adobe
wall and shot.
Sonora Alvaredo Obregon, wife of
Mexico's president. is at the bedside
of her father, Col Francisco Tappa,
seriously i'll at Hermosillo, Sonora.
Chairman Charles G. Dawes COM
mittee Of PREPARATION experts conducted
it's last session in Paris Monday before
proceeding to Paris for further Crap
ping with the problem of German
finances.
Eleven special police were arrested
in a raid on the offices of the Mu.
nicipal Police and Detective Bureau
at Cleveland. Officers stated the men
were waiting assignments and passing
the time playing poker.
''-'-~i+~" ~oholhon has h~oken out
In Chita, Siberia. An official report
...,.. .-.....,,..L,. nails over me Trans
Siberian railway have not arrived.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29

themselves to buy all their oil from
him at 81 a barrel. They had been
paying $3.50, but now all the other
producers were forced to sell to Ed
at less than 81 and he resold 1t, for
the Santa Fe were the only pur-
chasers."
Later Doheny sold his oil prop
critics and rights to the Santa Fe
for 100000; according to Moffitt.
that was the first real stake he made
for his present tremendous fortune.
But long before Doheny and Fail
had parted company Fall became
Senator and Secretary of the In
terror a comparatively poor man,
while Doheny dealt in colossal enter
prises in Mexico that nettee him
millions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29
Forty Years Ago Doheny Was Pennless Prospector

age man might ten-spot But Al
Falls fabulous misfortune persisted.
William H. Moffltt, pal of both
Fall and Doheny from 1884 to 1890,
and who owns mining property
around Kingston, where they pros
pected in those days, told about Do
heny's beginnings.
''All three of us often lived to-
gether in a shack ten feet square
with an earthen floor" said Mof-
fit.
I'VE roamed the hills, following
our lunches, hurrying to every
spot where rumor said the earth
contained wealth.
Every time Ed or Al foand a
property that booked rich on top.
and spent their time and money
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29
BIZ United Netos

BIZ United NetcS
r. IL PASO, Jan. 29.-Forty years
T. ago Ed Doheny intimate pal
of Al Fall, could not have
loaned him the price of a bag of
hour-6s cents in those days-much
less 800 O0
But Ed could. and did, tangle with
a tin oven and bake AL the finest
pan of biscuits in New Mexico, for
Ed Doheny, the cook, was as ia
Pzaus in the silver country as Ed
Doheny. unluckiest of prospectors.
Doheny's bad luck faded. and he
is now Edward L. Doheny, multi
millionaire oil magnate, who told q
group of Senators he aould give
away 100000 as easily as an aver
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29
HOLD-UP IS REPORTED

William Johnson, 1874 Kentucky
Ave, is in city prison today charged
with assault and battery with intent
to rob Angelo Barns, colored, 546 N
Senate Ave. According to police
Barns said he was held up by John
son, Sam Burge, 1874 Kentucky Ave
and Charles Harrison, 842 S. fremont
St, at Senate Ave. and Market St
Monday night. The trio got nothing
he said. Burge and Harrison are held
on vagrancy charges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29
CAUSES DAMAGE
Pipe Bursts in Tank ON Roof o.
Capitol Paper Company.

Damage estimated at $3.50 was
caused at the Capitol Paper Company,
225 w. South ST.. Monday night when
a down pipe from the water tank on
the roof burst, reports showed today.
The water rushed into the sixth
floor which. according to Charles
Kahn. sales manager. is vacant The
damage was done by water that ran
down othe fifth floor. The building
IS OF concrete. which saved a heavy
loss. according to Kahn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29
Flu Disastrous
J0CK0 VISITS GOVERNOR
Trained Grow Shows McCray a Few
Tricks.

Jocko, super-crow appearing at
Keith's Theater. paid a friendly call
on Governor McCray today.
Jocko strutted around. said hello, 3"
Juggled balls and did other tricks for
his trainer.
I'VE farmers hardly know whether
to consider crows pests or benefac-
tors" McCray commented. while
they devour field mice, they destroy
the nests of quail and injure crops. -
Joclko had little to say, however.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29
HERE'S SOLON IN
CONGRESS WHO'S
MUM ON POLITICS
DR., Copeland New York.
Saves Energy to Talk
on HeaIthfuIneSS.
Washington Bureau,
1922 New York Ave.


WASHINGTON, Jan. ga United
States Senator who thinks it is a
waste of time to talk politics and
longs to raise his voice on d very diff
ferent subject is a figure entirely
unique in this town.
But such a one has arrived. He is
DR.. Royal S. Copeland of New York,
and the message he wants TO shout
from the housetops every hour Of
che day is health.
The other day he addressed an au-
dience of $4,000 persons on political
questions, and afterward he said it
Beemed a shame to talk politics to
them when what they needed was bet
ter health.
In his office they discuss flesh and
food. beauty and bad colds, rather than
committee assignments and the SOL
der bonus. And while he talks to
you, DR.. Copeland will pace up and
down the room practicing what he
breaches by getting his daily quota Of
exercise.
No Laughing Matter
Seriously" he said, flesh is no
laughing matter. A man so years Of
age who is so pounds over weight
has so per cent less chance of life
than fit man.
We eat too much. We don't exer-
else enough.
1T Is q great temptation for Con-
gressmen to neglect exercise and to
eat TOGO heavily. If they do. their
lives will undoubtedly be shortened.
Judge for yourself whether that
viii be a benefit or a loss to the coun.
try.
Everything depends on health. Per
sonality and beauty can't be secured
without 1t. WOman's winsomeness.
her clear skin, her sparkling eye, all
must have health for their foundation.
They can't be painted on.
1.-The Government must aid the
States in educating people. The aver
age man doesn't know how to live.
He doesn't know what is good for
him and what is not
THE other day, out near my farm,
I met an old man doubled over with
rheumatism. asked him what his
trouble was. He told me the cold had
crippled him.
Flu Disastrous
Il looked in his mouth and told him
TO go to a dentist if he wanted to get
rid of his atlment. He looked at me
IS if he thought was crazy.
Education is the only way to stamp
cut the common cold, companion of
the flu, which has killed more people
than all the wars in history.
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+ it is necessary to have pupils study in
rooms in which Rotations are also
going on. This, high school officials
say, Is particularly undesirable. as 1t
/ Is almost impossible for a pupil to con-
/ centrate wholly upon study and not
have his attention districted by reel
tations which are under way at the
same time. Due to this Overcrowding
/ it Is not possible for pupils in many
/ instances to have access to the library
during study periods.
/ Fully so per cent OF the students
are forced to go outside the building
+ for lunch, so cramped is the lunch
room space.
! The lunchroom. with the kitchen in
/ one corner, is crowded far beyond ca
[ paclty every noon hour and the over
flow pours out to drug stores and
cafeterias. In cold and rainy weather
/ this occasions endless inconvenience,
to say nothing Of the economic loss to
the students as the school lunchrooms
In all high schools are operated on
very narrow margin Of profit for the
benefit of students.
Plans Are Blocked
In December the school board en-
ployed architects to prepare plans
for a new and modern Shortridge at
/ Pennsylvania and Thirty Fourth st.
The actions was taken over the vote
/ Of Charles l.. Barry, a former Short
ridge graduate who in the past when
otter high school projects were being
pushed always pleaded for adequate
+ facilities for Shortridge. He also
voted against the employment of
architects and purchase OF ground tor
rev west side and colored high
schools
/ On Jan. /, two new board members,
Charles R. Yoke and Fred Bates
Johnson, succeeded Bert s. Gadd and
/ w. D. Allison. They joined with Barry
I at the last board meeting and ordered
all high school extension work
I stepped.
! Since then civic league and the
/ Shortridge Parent-Teacher Association
have held meetings and appointed
/ committees to demand that the high
school program go through. The
Shortridge committee expects to call
upon the board at it's meeting Tues
DAY night and demand an explanation
of the last delay in relieving con
ditions which fast are becoming in
/ tolerable at the north side school.
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In his rebuttaI. he sid:

IF there is a personal God. able to
interpose in human affairs, that God
has failed at an opportune moment"
He cited the recent war as an example.
DR. Stratton surprised his audience
when he said he once was an evolu-
zionist. Study convinced him it was
a colossal error. He characterized II
as "a lie out Of hell"
Nothing ethically false can be in
tellectually true, Stratton said
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L
The Scottish Rite cathedral, SO S.
Pennsylvania St. may be purchased
by the Indianapolis Chamber of Com
merce. This became known today,
following a meeting of the Scottish
Rite Monday night, at which the board
Of trustees was authorized to sell the
building.
The Chamber of Commerce has been
looking for new quarters and has con-
sidered the Scottish Rite site. among
others. John Reynolds, secretary. said
today
Charles F. Coffin, chairman Of the
committee in charge Of this matter,
is out of the city" Reynolds said.
However, I do not believe a definite
offer has been made"
John Saulter. chairman of the Scot
fish Rite trustees, said that. az the
meeting Monday night was a lodge af-
fair, he was not at liberty to give out
information.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29
FEDERALS TAKE CITY
Report Says Mexican Rebels Suffer
$500 Casualties.

BIZ United Press
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 29.-"General
Serrano reports Experanza and Orien-
tai have been taken by federal forces,
the war office announced today.
Our troops are continuing their
advance on Orizaba which is expected
to fall within two days.
1.-THE rebels have suffered $500 cas-
ualties.
I'VE have captured much war ma
terial and several trains"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29

Brooms are a part of the Pittsburgh
Pa.) fire departments standard equip
ment They're utilized in extinguish-
ng brush blazes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29

Thousands of ''pillboxes" and con-
crete dugouts built by the Germans
during the war still are a problem in
France.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29

Shakespeare's income, toward the
end of his life, was equivalent to
$4,000 in modern money
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29
TATE CONSIDERS ERECTION OF COUNTY HOME FOR INSANE
Secretary of Charities Board Confers With Head of State
Institution on Care of I 900 Patients Now
in Crowded Quarters,

ACCESSIBILITY Of erecting separate State hospital Indian
apos of the Marion County considered
today by charity officials j. A Brown secretary of the
State Board of Charities declared
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29
For Colds. Grip

For Colds, Grip
and al Preventive for Influenza, take
LaxatEe BROM0 QUTNINE Tablets.
The bNx bears the signature OF z. W.
Grove I 2Oc.-Advertlsement
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SHORTRIDGE HIGH
SPACE DECREASES

Continued From Page u
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''-'-~i+~" ~oholiion has Nroken out
In Chita, Siberia. An official report
-,,s g. --~..~p 4,... 4.ialls over Inc Trans
Siberian railway have not arrived.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29

A Bucharest court sentenced a Rou-
manian youth to pay %, 900 francs for
kissing a girl in a railway train. The
girl agreed to give the sum, about
500 to charity fund.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29

Eleven special police were arrested
in a raid on the offices of the Mu.
nicipal Police and Detective Bureau
at Cleveland. Officers stated the men
were waiting assignments and passing
the time playing poker.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-29

Twenty-Five fishermen are reported
to have been drowned in a tempest
raging off the Norway Coast.
The Washington times., 1924-02-06
An Automobile Is an
Investment
And It Lasts.

You have heard Of ancient horsee carriages" all driven
by students of the Stevens Institute of Technology The win
foreign car, twenty-four years Old
how long automobile can live if you will let it.
The first Ford car is said to be still running MANY Amer
can cars te twelve and fifteen years old are exactly
good apart from oldfashioned" look the day they
were made.
An automobile is investment and there such thing
Is a pleasure car
Every pays for itself in health and time saving on
perfect business basis.
You ought to the automobiles of many kinds and Of
many GOOD kinds at the automobile shows in the
Of the various automobile concerns which contain
automobile show all the year round.
family without automobile is family without the
most important thing in FAMILY LIFE apart from the roof
that the family.
And very many for months at time make Of their
mobile both the family home and the family travelling machine
Whole families 60 in where COOL winter
months travelling with the and attached that goes
with it, taking the place of home and hotel
Do you doubt that the is actually AN INVESTMENT
and frstcass investment?
It time; that means it makes life LONGER. Surely
that's good investment.
It takes you to the country where you your own
land the sky and the trees and above all where you get
FRESH AIR That surely is good INVESTMENT
The automobile keeps the family UNITED all members of
the family enjoy the pleasure at the time
the four wheels filled with air. And that ABOVE all
good investment.
yours is family without automobile make up your
mind to end that situation. GET YOUR CAR NOW
The Washington times., 1924-02-06
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Crying.

}nY crying mean weeping yet not exactly widow
weeps but we do not Of child that it weeps, but
that it cries. There's difference.
Let analyze crying and what it means.
Take, for instance, Tommy aged He is driving
nails. He accidentally drives the wrong NAIL his thumb
nail Immediately he sets up that performance known
crying That u.s. he comforts his face opens his mouth
widely and ems from series of intensely dsagreeable
noises. This is accompanied by water oozng from his
eyes and running down his cheek.
What the object of this? His mother does not know.
She running and says, Don't cry, Tommy CRYING
doesn't do any good"
Tommy knows perfectly well that crying does good He
is not trying to do good 1t not benevolent noise that
he is making He is not at present in the upft business
His auntie aso and equally mistaken She says
There Tommy, don't You know that crying doesn't
help your thumb any,
But Tommy not crying because it helps his thumb any,
He is crying because it does not help his thumb any
So the female slaves do the best they They wash
the thumb, put medicine and tie it up in nice clean
rag. And by and by the noise
That u.s. until the rest Of the family home. Then he
bawls all over again. He has exhausted all the supply Of
sympathy from mamma and aune but soon as others
come he starts boring for supply.
And have discovered what manner of thing cry
ing is It not benevolent noise his mother conceived
medicinal noise as his aune held 1t an Advertis
ing noise
It meant ct want everybody within the sound Of my
voice. and wish that circle extended widely possible
to know that my thumb hurts"
Tommy is laboring under the nfante deusiOn that the
world is interested in his thumb.
Let us now take the Honorable Thomas aged ortyseve
When he makes slip and cracks his thumb with hammer
he does not whine; he shuts his lips tightly and says
nothing, at least until he gets out behind the barn
In those forty years of experience the Honorable Thomas
has learned the important truth that the population of
this world does not whoop In Hades whether his
thumb hurts feels good
Crying is simply the utilization of pain to enable
get the spotlight and attract attention 1t the
tors disease
Unfortunately it is not confined to children Of
do not call it crying when grow up AS advance
in years become adopts in hypocrisy. We have long
Latnzed for vices, attempting to disguise them,
while for virtues retain the simpler and shorter
Saxon terms We continue speak of love- kindness and
goodness but instead of weakness say gentene and
for pure cusSednesS employ the term firmness.
So instead of the word crying the word complain
ing. But the two things the in Dutch. And
the complaining woman is nothing less
than grown-up bawlbaby.
Suffering is inevitable in this vale of tears We must all
occasionally have the grpes and be blamed for
But at least conceal it. We owe that much
to already over-burdened world.
There used be song sung in evangelical meetings
called, "Go Bury Thy Sorrows" But it does not
be sung any It had too much to it. The good
die young
Copyright 1924 Mcclure syndoats)
The Washington times., 1924-02-06

ts Mt all favorable. The way has
been traced out. and 1t has been
demonstrated that trained noun
taineers can endure the dreadful
fatigue of the climbing struggle.
Reaching the summit in that
way, with scientific instruments
for meteorological and other OBJ.
servations, the climbers could col
lect vast amount of extremely
interesting information not other.
wise to be obtained. The sue
cess of such an expedition would
become an event in mans actual
conquest Of this globe on which
Providence has confined him,
that would be star mark in his
tory.
If you glance back through the
story of the past Of mankind you
will find that 1t has always been
achievements of this sort that
have furnished the high lights.
1t Is not their daily scrabbling
for money and for the satisfac-
ton Of transient needs and int
pulses (which goes on in all
times) that makes the civilized
peoples Of old so renowned thou
sands of years after their day on
the earth, but 1t Is their adven-
lures in the striving after pure
knowledge and beauty.
The Washington times., 1924-02-06

"HE North Pole mas 9OmetlmeS
been spoken Of as the top Of
Il the world" But the South
Pole would be equally entitled to
bear that designation If it proper
ly belonged to eithen In fact. the
South Pole is higher, measured
from the earth'S center, than is
the North Pole. But both poles
are low and not high points of
the globe.
The surface of the earth is
about thirteen miles higher"
around the equator than it is at
either OF the poles. But the true
top is unquestionably the sum-
NIT of Mt. Everest in the Hima-
laya mountains, which lies in
latitude only twenty-eight de-
grees north Of the equator, and
rises almost exactly five and one
half miles above mean sea level.
The third attempt Of man to
plant his foot on the eternally
white crest Of the worlds high
est mountain Is to he made this
year. The second, in 1922, ended
with defeat at 27.20O feet. which
was about 1000 feet short of the
top, although It Is the greatest
elevation that man has ever at
tanned on his feet and without
the aid Of balloon or airnlane.
People are asking: "Why trv It
on foot? why not flv over it2"
And some say: There's moth.
ing IN It, anyway
Until the practice of aerial
navigation has been advanced
considerably beyond it's present
point. no attempt to flv over
Mount Everest. intrenched In tho
midst Of a vast ENHANCEMENT ut
not much less lofty peaks. which
clouds and tempests love. Is likely
to be made.
II would, Of course. he I've.
Ynendously interesting thing tc
look down on that knob. or ridge,
Of ice-encaseA rock, lonelv in the
Isolation Of It's kingiy height, ard
to snap a photograph Of II: hut
there would he no stopping th@re.
nor anywhere in that frozen noun
tain wilderness. The aeronaut
would he Columbus, wind.
driven, catching passing glimrse
OF the new world through driving
nists but unable to land.
Going on foot seems at present
the only practical way, and 1t has
many advantages. In the first
Mace the preliminary attemn's
have proved that the top can he
reached on foot. II the weather