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The Washington times., 1924-07-02

. at the next flashing out with re-
doubled brtlIiance.
But q French physicist. Il.
Vegard, offers an interesting va.
ration Of this explanation. His
researches have led to the con-
cIusion that there exists around
the earth, above the level Of about
fifty-five miles, q shell Of intro
gen dust" probably crystalline hi
structure, and composed Of exces.
sively minute particles. carrying
electric charges. This shell ap-
parently extends to q height Of
several hundred miles, and, &C.
cording to NJ. Vegard, its exist.
ence is the cause Of the auroral
lights. which are produced when
electric rays from the sun pene-
trate the nitrogen shell.
He also assumes that this
electrified dust is the cause of
the blue color Of the sky, which
Il produces by scattering the
shorter waves OF light tthe blue
one0. He remarks that Lord
Rayleigln's explanation Of the
blue sky light as due to scatter
ing Of the short waves by the
gaseous molecules of the atmos-
phere. Is insufficient because 1t
fails to account for the fact that
the sky is just as blue when seen
from the highest mountainous
as from sea-level, although the
upper air is relatively very rare.
Now coming back to the cause
OF star twinkIing, M. Vegard
points out that the narrow cone
Of light from q star. In passing
through the shell OF nitrogen
dust encounters relatively very
few particles, while the broader
one from q. planet, which is many
times larger in angular diameter.
encounters many. In the first
case variation In the number Of
encountered particles produces
rapid and very noticeable
changes Of brightness, while IN
the second case variation IN the
number Of particles included In
the broader cone of light bears
q far small proportion to their
average number. 50 that the ef-
feet upon the brightness becomes
unnoticeable.
The meaning Of this explanA-
tion may be made clearer by
inspection Of the accompanying
diagram.
The Washington times., 1924-07-02
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Y0cQtiOn
D. DR. FRANK cRANE.
Z ACATIoN days are here.

VYACATION days are here
The warmth of summer is in the air the spring
fever IS invading bones. We find ourselves
dreaming Of the old swimmin hole and longing to 81
hiking the mountain or beating down the coast 81
Cape Cod before spanking breeze.
And then-we look at our job, prospects, ia.
terests and ambitions and make up our mind to stick
to business this summer
Concerning which the best advice is-Don't.
Relax.
Let spit your hands, and when you take hold again
you hit harder.
But for that matter it's poor plan wait for vacation
for relaxation We ought do some Of it every day %
That man can hold hardest who knows how to let 60
Keeping eyerAstingy at it brings maybe; also
parcsis.
Every Life needs little vagabondage to offset the bond
age. sba
Take day off and then Stack up your papers, and
It anything comes up let George do it
Get away and don't take anything anybody with you
Play Haroun AL Raschd.
Poke about in little shops. Chat with the pawnbroker
Get the banana peddlers ideas.
Go down to where the shipping is At the waters edge
is always the LATEST life.
Or go into the country.
Sit on q log and white stick.
Lean back against tree and listen the universe.
Find lake. and look long at it. and let your mind run
down.
Follow brook up the way to nowhere
You animal yourself.
You forget that-and come to grief
Be! Don't forever be Doing!
Slow up Let the laundering train Of progress 20 by
and SMILE hear its receding whistle in the distance
tcopyrght 1924 BY the Mcclure Newspaper
The Washington times., 1924-07-02
ONCE-OV ERS
ByJ J. MUNDY.
YOU SHOULD BE ALARMED IF YOU HAVE NO
MONEY SAVED.

If you should lose your job tomorrow and then be forced
to live your savings for month perhaps would your
financial condition be able to stand such predicamentf
Your job may be SAFE but other conditions might make
unusual call on your income. In Of illness have you
anything ahead to meet the emergencyf ,@
Are you depending too much everything running
along smoothyf
Is it not true that you do not worry much about the
future you feel that things likely along
indefinitely as they are7
Sometimes when you think the matter you decide to
start savings account and let it stay savings account
but soon is hard put away that stipulated each
week and you lapse and finally stop trying.
Or you need little money and in twinkng your
savings gone:
Then you decide to put away little than the
you had first intended that the final average may be
what you had planned
But not unless your taste and your habits change will
this make any difference in the total Of your bank
count
It'll time to be alarmed over your lack of business
shrewdness
The Washington times., 1924-07-02
Let Them Combine
Then Watch and Control Them.

The Interstate Commerce Commission looks kindly on the
proposed mergers Of railroads and that's rood thinr
There ought to be only ONE railroad system and THE
PEOPLE OUGHT TO OWN IT, as there is only ONE post
office. E r
But long the people conclude that their government
hasn't the ability honesty to manage national necessities the
next best thing to give shippers and travellers the benefit
Of all possible economies including BIG MERGERS and organ
isatons
LET them merge then WATCH them should be the pub
10 motto
The Washington times., 1924-07-02

ference was due to minute CULVER
ings and currents of unequally
heated air affecting the rays Of
light by producing rapid changes
of refraction. the result being In
reference of the light-waves.
causing alternate extinctions and
brightenings. A star. being a
mere point of intense light, sends
to the observers eye an extreme
~ narrow ray, which, because Of
its smallness, IL greatly affected,
by the unsteadiness Of the air,
its entire light being at one in
slant apparently extinguished and
The Washington times., 1924-07-02
0apgFl5hf. 1924. ~ slar Celapany.

felt this, proved the superiority of Southern
standards over those of the West
WELL it, took my brother long time
to get on his feet and shake off the shame
Of this experience. But by the time he was
thirty he was doing pretty well and he
married. She was pretty, frail, senti-
mental little thing, the kind of woman he
had always liked best The rest of us did
not think much of her; but he was very
much in love-. Before they had been mar
ried year she had turned into nagger
and a street gadder.
ST could make long tragedy Of the
next four years, but the upshot Of it was
this: Last winter she decided she wanted
a divorce. She didn't have thing against
him, but she wanted to be free. So nv
The Washington times., 1924-07-02
Linen Cheap as Cotton?
It's Possible.

Some men in New York think they have discovered 4
process and machinery that will enable them to produce
linen for less than the present price Of cotton
Some serious interested it. but there s no need
for the cotton growers to worry YET They have better
reason TO worry about the American mania for demanding
imported English cotton cloths which upsets cotton manu-
featuring in the United States gives to England control
Ct cotton prices that ought to be held here in the United
The Washington times., 1924-07-02

NE Of the most difficult Of
astronomical phenomena to
~ explain satisfactorily has al.
ways been the twinkling OF the
stars. why do the fixed stars
twinkle, while the planets (which
otherwise resemble stars) do not
twinkle? The light of a large
planet when well above the hori-
zon IL az steady as that Of read
ing lamp, but q bright star in a
similar position often flares and
flutters like an electric arc, be-
sides exhibiting, in flashes, beau
tiful prismatic hues.
The reason for the difference
that would occur to q person I'M
acquainted with astronomy would
be that the star. being, as he is
told, q sun, must exhibit the ap-
pearance Of, q glaring incandescent
body. while the planet, being \
cool globe like the earth, simply
rejecting the sunshine, naturally
shows steadier light. This, how
ever, Is not the true explanation,
which must be sought in the pc
culiarities of the earth's atmos-
phere, through which the light OF
both stars and planets penetrates
before reaching our eyes.
Hitherto the generally accepted
explanation has been that the DIFF.
The Washington times., 1924-07-02
ERE'S a queer letter. have a
hunch that it voices many things

TTERES queer letter. / have a
bunch that it voices many things
you've thought yourself partiCu-
larly if you're 9 man. It's strOng-arm
wallop at our present-day Chivalry-yet it
is written by woman
Dear Miss Robinson:
Maybe you'll think this is funny let
ter for q woman to write. If all this suf-
fering hadn't happened in my own family
I would have thought SO, too. But since
have seen it with my own eyes, my whole
viewpoint has changed. So I am going to
tell the truth to the public. Perhaps it will
help right the awful wrong which is being
done in the name Of 'Chivalry'.
''The story is about my younger
brother. We were born in the South and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
CORONER BLAMES
EASTBOUND CREW
Anderson Official Recon-
mendS Jury Probe,

Coroner Jesse A. Helbert Of Ander-
son this afternoon filed his verdict in
the Union Traction Company wreck
Mt Fortvlle, Feb 2. in which eighteen
persons lost their lives. holding
ROLAND Flynn, motorTnan and Sidney
sawyer. conductor, both of Muncie,
responsible for the wreck and advising
that they be indicted by the Madison
County grand jury on charge Of
manslaughter.
The Madison County prosecutor will
ask that the grand jury be called at
once. The crew was on the castbound
iEterurban
With the Identification OF another
body of a wreck victim, the list of
known dead has reached sixteen.
The latest body to be claimed is that
OF William J. Davis of Ft. Wayne.
The fact Davis was in the wreck was
established through Identification of
a picture of Davis by other passen-
eers on the east bound car. He dis
apeared from Indianapolis on the day
of the wreck.
Identity of a. woman and baby re-
ported to have been killed in the
wreck remains a mystery. The skull
of baby still is in the Albright
morgue at Anderson. No trace of the
woman's body has been found.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18

Bert I. Morgan. Federal prohibition
director for Indiana in connection with
the investigation of a blackmalI liquor
plot which may involve high Han
cock County officials, according to pro-
hibition officials.
The investiga tionwas the result ~
the arrest Friday and Saturday OF
Kinder. Norman zollezi. 1928 E. Wash.
lngton ST.; Edward Griffith. 1914 N.
Keystone Ave, and Clarence Kinsley.
9lS Park Ave, OH charges of con-
spiracy to impersonate a government
officer.
According to the story told by !.
N. Bridges, farmer living near
Greenfield. Zollezi represented himself
as a Federal prohibition officer and
proposed to drop Federal prosecution
for violations of the liquor law by
Bridges for $500. Bridges paid s195,
according to his statement, and was
to pay the balance Friday night.
Zollezi. Griffith and Kinsley, were
arrested at the Bridges home. Federal
officials say the men confessed to
their part in the scheme
Bridges according to Morgan. said
the immunity contract was a separate
deal.
Waldo Cling, prosecutor of Hancock
County, was questioned by Federal
prohibition agents at the Federal
building Saturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
M'CRAY IS GIVEN
TIME EXTENSION
Sheridan Files Supplemental
Bankruptcy Report.

Governor McCray had no other pro.
fession than that of Governor after
Sept. Z. 1923, when he transferred all
his farm holdings to creditors. Harry
c. Sheridan, referee in bankruptcy,
said in a supplemental report filed in
Federal Court today.
This was in accordance with his
finding in the original report recently,
which held that McCray was not a
farmer and recommended that he be
declared a bankrupt. A payment OF
$4,000 to the Discount and Deposit
Bank at Kentland was said to be a
preference within the meaning Of the
bankruptcy law.
Because Of the illness of Mrs. James
N. Noel. wife of Governors McCray's
attorney, time for filing exceptions to
the bankruptcy report was extended
until March by Judge Albert B. An
derson
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
PROBE OF TRACTION
WRECK COMPLETED
Public Service Commission VIII Begin Writing Order in
FortViIIe Investigation ThurSday

Investigation OF the public service
commission into fatal collision of two
cars on the Union Traction Company
line, near Fortville, Feb. 2, to 8scer-
tain needs for better regulation of
safety devices and general safety
recommendations. has been completed.
1t was stated at the commissions
office today.
Writing of an order. beginning on
Thursday will be rushed Samuel r.
Artman, commissioner in charge of
the inquiry, said.
Commissioners are unanimous in op-
position to thirteen-hour day required
for crews on the Anderson division,
on which the wreck occurred.
1t is forecast reliably that recon,
mendations for abolishment OF the long
Gay, which alternates with an eight
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
EDWIN DENLY RESIGNS
AS NAVAL SECRETARY
President Coolidge Accepts Deci-
sion of Cabinet Member
Named in Oil Scandal

WASHINGTON Feb. 18.-Secretary of the Navy Edwin
President Coolidge accepted the resignation
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt r is
not resgnng he said upon leaving after
ference with the President
I have just been the President and am not resign
ing, Roosevelt said.
Roosevelt IN reply other questions said he not discuss
with the President question of Secretary DENLY
Roosevelt appeared came out of the White
House and waited until all newspapermen within earsho
and then his statement answering questions he assumed
would be made
Charles B. Warren Detroit ambassador to apan and
Patrick Kelly Lansing Nch former representative are most
prominently mentioned to succeed DENLY.
Formal Denbys resignation was scboduod
or M He resigned the ground his as Cabinet
member had been impaired but took position he was ess
ind other naval oil reserves
Denbys formal resignation was placed in tho Preedor
Gands shortly before after telephone conversation earlier
IL the day. IN which DENLY communicated decision
The President just after noon his personal secretary
Theodore Clark to Denbys office and it was believed Clark
red Mr. Coodg acceptance resignation DENLY at thai
whether he had resigned not.
Was Own Decision
Denpy resignation, his letter and that Of the President
make clear it indicated that the result was his own decision
and was not asked for by the President
DENLY, who Evansville Ind entered tho Cai4
Wien President Harding took office March A. 1921
In April 1922 DENLY with then Secretary of the Interior Fall
signed the lease of the Teapot Dome Wyo oil lease h
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
7. TAGGART WILL
NOT TALK POLITICS
Democratic Leader in City En-
Route to West Indies,

Thomas Taggart, Indiana Demo.
cratic leader, refused to comment to.
cay on his statement supporting the
candidacy of DIR. Carleton B. Nc.
Culloch for the Democratic nomina.
ton for Governor. The statement
has caused profound stir in the
Democratic ranks.
THE statement speaks for ITSELF"
he said. Il will not talk politics
until my health is better"
Taggart was in the city for a short
time preparatory to leaving for q.
cruise Of the West Indies. He has been
In the Presbyterian Hospital at Chi
cago for observation Of digestive dis.
order about a month.
Il shall return in four or I'VE
weeks he said. ST expect to be com.
pletely well then. I am going to con-
tinue treatments while on the trip"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
'|ND|ANAPOL|SCA CAN
HAVE GOOD HEALTH
Detroit SocioIogist Points to
Fact of Moneys Importance.

Indianapolis can have the best So
cial conditions. good health, freedom
from pauperism and character for It's
children if the price is paid in money =
said William J. Norton, executive Sec
retary Of the Detroit Community
Union, on his arrival In the city today.
Norton will address members of the
Community Fund tonight at the Clay
pool.
Every citizen pays an average of
$2.40 for public health, Norton said.
If one dollar was added to this the
death rate from tuberculosis would
be cut In half and the infant death
rate reduced
George Eastman, president of the
Rochester Community Chest. Roches-
ter, N. T., and Norton were enter
tanned at luncheon at the Indianapolis
Athletic Club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18

Board of Accounts Employees
Open Meeting.

Governor McCray. in an address to-
day to field examiners of the State
board of accounts at the Statehouse,
urged them to be "diligent and cour-
teous, but impartial in examinations
OF public offices.
The Governors address opened an
all-day program for sixty-five exam
iners called by Lawrence f. Orr, chief
examiner, o>review auditing matters.
Other speakers were State Auditor
Robert W. Bracken, who cited how
mis- officials were chosen from the
personnel of the State board of &C.
counts, DIR. William f. King, sec
retary OF State board of health: John
:. Brown and ". c. Harrison, State
board Of tax commissioners, L. D.
Farmer. State budget clerk. and w
G. De Hority, first examiner Of the
accounts board.
A banquet will be given at the
SEVERN this evening.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
KEEP OUT SKID CHAINS
Weather Man Says Slick Pavements
May Continue Two Days.

Keep out the skid chains and
Sneakers
There's not much chance for the
slippery pavements to he any less
slick for about two days, j. II. Arm
ington, Government meteorologist said.
Sundays weather will be reproduced
today, Arlington said. Partly cloudy
and unsettled tonight and Tuesday,
not much change in temperature, was
the official forecast. Lowest tempera-
ture will be about % tonight.
A cold rain falling on pavements,
below freezing temperature, caused
the slippery weather, Armington said.
The ground had retained it's tempera-
ture from the previous cold snap.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
Roosevelt Declares He Will Not
Quit Position as Assistant to
Former Indiana Man

DENLY letters to President Harding the transfer of
the Falls jurisdiction presented
along with his testimony.
AS he left the Navy Department shortly before IL m
DENLY said
"Ths is my birthday. 1 am "a years old today. am going
home have nothing to say. hope you will let alone
my birthday. If you o'clock may have state
to make"
When the President ordered plans for the polar fight
the Shenandoah stopped he struck at Denby
thus clearly indicated the Navy Secretary his usefulness
Cabinet member had been impaired by his connection with
leasing of the naval oil and the consequent
the Senate he resign.
Asks Picture Caption
Photographers snapped DENLY he leaving the Navy
partment
What will the caption be that picture9'
Nobody replied.
WELL said Qenby don't it right away if you are going
to make RESIGNED 4"
Denbys decision to quit just his friends begin
ming campaign clear his the criticism attach
ing to him on the oil leases
Two Detroit lawyers Ralph Smith George L. Garfield
sought of getting the public they called the truth
about Denby."
Michigan Sends Attorneys
The two attorneys here by Michigan friends of
DENLY They said in that doesn't want his
trends TO interfere but declared necessary steps be
taken to give Edwin DENLY somehow somewhere fair hear
ing
They alleged he has been the the "most extraor
binary political chicanary.'
An innocent doing his full duty without suspicion Of
couPon Is being sacrificed concession public caor and
this camor aroused and driven the so5d
partisan and malicious purposes" they said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
GRAIN GROWERS TO MEET
Effect OF Wheat Pool on Certified
Seeds to Be Discussed.

The executive committee OF the In
diana Wheat Growers Association will
meet committee from the Germ Grow
ers Association at SOC National City
Bank building, Friday at 7:30 p. m,
to discuss the effect lof a wheat pool
on certified seed grains.
Walton Peteet, secretary of the Ma
tional Farmers Association. touring
the State in behalf of the farmers CO.
operative wheat marketing plan, will
attend.
Formulation of 1924 taxation pro-
gram for farmers will be taken up
Feb. 20,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
BALL UP FOR PROMOTION
Police Sergeant Due for Lieutenant's
job TO Fill Vacancy.

Police Sergt- Barrett Ball is slated
for promotion to a lieutenant to fl
the vacancy caused by resignation of
Lieut.. John Corrigan, it was reported
today. Ball is understood to be
supported by Mayor Shank. The board
Of safety will act on the recommenda.
ton of Police Chief Rikhoff, Tues
day Balls successor has not been de-
termined. Corrigan had been a mem.
Der of the police force for thirty-eight
years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
MRS. JAMES NOEL
TAKEN BY DEATH
Wife of MCCray Attorney Sue
CumbS at Long Hospital,

Mrs. James Noel, wife of James
Noel, caunsel for Governor McCray.
died at Fobert Long Hospital today of
pneumonia following two weeks i'll
ness.
Mrs. Noel was born in Decatur, IL
She was graduated from Wesleyan
College, Cincinnati, and came to In
dianapolis in 1898,
Surviving beside the husband: Three
sisters, Mrs. Charles Dryer, xndian-
apolis; Mrs. William Campbeii, Kan
sas City, and Miss Aidella Sloan, Kan
sas City: two brothers, William and
Clifton Sloan, Kansas City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
REGRETS FOLLOW
SUICIDE ATTEMPT
Girl in Serious Condition After
Taking Poison,

I've been a fool" said Miss Delda
Price, IS, Of 636 N Illinois St, as she
walked unsteadily into the Franklin
Jewelry Store, Is S. Illinois St, today,
according to Philip Brock. clerk. She
called a taxi and went home.
Later she was sent to the city hos
pital In a serious condition from pois-
oning, by DR.. William c.. Culloden,
who said she had feared an operation
for appendicitis.
Now she's sorry. hospital attaches
report.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
MAYOR HAS A BUSY DAY
Shank at Office First Time In Three
Weeks.

Mayor Shank, at his desk today for
the first time in three weeks, was
busy all day. A stack Of city bonds
were signed and a steady stream OF
callers received.
The mayor announced he was feel
ing better" and lost no time in in.
quiring about activities during his ab-
sence.
Joseph Hogue, city controller, and
Mrs. Hogue, arrived home today from
French Lick, Ind, where they went
last week for a few days rest with
the mayor, following Mrs. Shank's 3
death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
$1,000 for Creditors

o. F. Calvin, receiver for the In.
dianapolis Dressed Beef and Provision
Company, today informed Superior
Judge James M. Leathers he has ap-
proximately $1,000 to pay on an in
debtedness Of 1000 as first divi-
dend. Other dividends to creditors
seem certain, said Frank A. Synmes,
receivers attorney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
CITY MAY SINK WELLS
Schloss Says Hospital Bill Could Be
Cut 81, 800 to $1,8O0 Year.

The city can save $1,000 to 1900
annually by sinking wells at the city
hospital and supplying It's own water
instead of using city water. Sol
Schloss. president Of the city health
board, estimated today.
Schloss announced estimates on
cost Of sinking the wells would be
asked. The cityas water bill for jan
uary under new rates was $342. Is.
compared 90 former monthly rates Of
approximately $125.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-18
COOLIDGE TAKES CHARGE
President VIII Investigate Dry En-
forcement at Washington.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-President
Coolidge has taken personal charge Of
an investigation of the prohibition en-
forcement situation in Washington as
result Of shooting of Senator Greene,
Vermont, by a stray bullet fred in a
battle between dry agents ana boot
iesErs;