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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16
UNCLE SAM SENDING GREAT TRACK SQUAD
Wonder Sprint Array Includes Scholz, Paddock.
 Bowman, Hussey and Muxch;ecn

and eclipsed Olympic records in IA instances.
 Though veterans held their share of the limelight, the vast majority of the team that emerged from the trials is composed of new Olympic timber, school and college stars upon whose youthful shoulders the brunt of the international battle will rest. Only a score of those picked for the team are survivors of the 1920 Olympics at Ant werp.
 Finland, the little country whose athletes tied the United States in first place honors with nine victors four years ago, will lead the rival charge at Paris, but predictions were made today that Uncle Sam has at least a dozen potential Olympic champions in the array that embarks tomorrow.
 Jackson Scholz of the New York A. C.. hero of - remarkable comeback, who smashed the worlds POO meter dash record twice in successive days, heads a group of ten brilliant sprint CTS, who also include Chester Bowman, of Syracuse, conqueror of Scholz and Charley Paddock, the Olympic cham pion, in the 100 meter final, and Frank Hussey, New fork schoolboy, who gained a place on the team by proving his mettle against the worlds greatest sprinters in his first test in competi- tion with them.
 Other luminaries are J. Coard Fay Tor, of the New York A. C., and Ray Robertson of f-the Boston A. A., who shared in lowering the worlds 400 meter run record; Joie Ray, veteran mile champion, who will bid for Olym- pic triumph at 5000 meters instead of 1900; George Taylor, of Grinnell college, who showed phenomenal speed over the 400 meter hurdles, and Bill Richardson, of Leland Stanford, victor over a remarkable 500 meter field; be- sides stars in the field events. The distance runs are America's weakest spot, though a few stars, such as Verne Booth, of Johns Hopkins {; Johnny Gray, of Philadelphia John Remig, of Penn State, and R. Earl Johnson, of Pittsburgh, are potential point winners
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16
JACK BLOTT TO
 PLAY FOR REDS

7. ANN HARBOR, Mich, June 15.- Jack Blott, catcher of the University of Michigan baseball team, and consid- cred by many to be the best back stop per in the Big Ten conference, will report to the Cincinnati Nationals June g, he announced today. and we can hardly be expected to score in this event.
 The outstanding performances seem ed to be Bowman's surprising victory in the 100 meters; J. c. Taylor's great win in the 400 meters and George Fay lor's victory over Brookins and Riley in the 400 meter hurdles; Richardsons victory in the 800 meters and Hub. bards broad jump of 25 feet, 3s inches. Added to these the performances of the four pole vaulters who vaulted 13 feet must be considered along with Houses shot put of 40 feet 117k inches.
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FILIPINOS TO
 WEAR U. 5. FLAG

PARIS, June 15.-The stars and stripes will float above the flag of the Philippine Islands on the staff which the standard bearer of the Far East Islands carries in the procession of the athletes of the 42 nations entered for the Olympic games as they file past the official tribune and salute President Doumergue on July in the Colombes Stadium
 Should the Filipino athletes, through a victory in the Olympic games. win fine right for the flag of their country to be run up the Olympic mast it will be immediately surmounted by the Ameri- can flag. This decision, which is final, was reached by the French Olympic committee this morning, thus ending the controversy which at one time threatened the participation of the athletes of the Philippine Islands
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NEW YORK, June 15.-A modern Argosy, beating Jasonic host in quest of the Golden Fleece of international athletic triumph, will set sail tomorrow when the main body of Americas Olym- pic team departs for Paris and the 1924 worlds championships.
 Headed by a track and field array of 105 stars, a total aggregation of 253 men and women athletes who will carry the Yankee shield in eight different branches of competition will embark from Hoboken on the specially charter ed steamer America. The departure is scheduled to take place at noon, east ern standard time, to the accompani- inent of a fitting patriotic farewell demonstration.
 In addition to the track team, the expedition will include, according to of ficial announcement tonight, eleven gymnasts, twenty-six boxers, seven- teen wrestlers, thirty-six men and twen- ty-four women swimmers, seven cyclists, seventeen fencers and ten oarsmen.
 The Yale varsity eight, which won the right to represent the United States
 
 victory in the final trials at Phila- delphia yesterday, is scheduled to leave on the Homeric next Saturday, the day after the Blue Boat, attempting one of the most unusual campaigns in aquatic annals, rows its annual four-mile race with Harvard at New London, Conn.
 Seldom in the nearly 30 years of Olympic history has the United States assembled so formidable a collection of athletic stars in defense of the laurels this country has carried off consistently since the first games at Athens in 1896. Particularly is this true of the track and field squad, which, in spite of the fact that it faces probably the stiffest competition of all time, will sail with high hopes of triumph.
 No more sustained brilliancy has ever been witnessed in a track meet than that displayed in the two-day tests at Cambridge, where the pick of talent from all parts of the country, in a desperate and thrilling battle for places, smashed three worlds marks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16
A. H. WOODWARD
 IS MEDALIST
Annual June Tournament In
 Full Swing At Woodward

None other than A. H. Woodward was low qualifier in the annual June tourna' ment of the Woodward Golf club, which Was inaugurated this. week. He shot a clean-cut S2 to outscore the field. There are GA entries in the tourney, comprised in four flights of 16 each. Following are the pairings in the quartet of flights: A. H. Woodward vs. M. c. Tyler. F. A. Hewett Vs. P. B. Gwin.
 Tom Jones vs. o. L. Mccormick. w. c. Patterson vs. E. N. Harris. Lee Moody vs. S. E.. Field.
 l. M. Gravelee vs. J. W. McDougall - W. W. Ellis vs. J. O. Barrett. H. L. Jenkins vs. Ralph Snider
 Second Flight
 H. M. Moffett vs. G. B. Rutledge: 4, L. L. Yam, Jr..s vs. T. J. .McCollum. F. S. Dunlap vs. J. R. Boggs. c. t McDavid ys7 I. B. Bennett. J. H. Leonard vs. J. R. Lyle. c. E. Tidder vs. c. T. Murrah. s-st L. H. Spencer vs. R. B. Peffer. Third Flight
 N. W. Mandy vs. R. N. pavis. D. [. Milton Milton vs. W W. H. Mansfield. L. J. Mancin vs. J. CraIk.
 G. A. Averitt vs. R. 8; Smith. T. l.. Barrett vs. N. W. Scott. Paul Ragsdale vs. H. S. Steele. G. E. Knapp vs. F. c. Owen.
 ~. Fourth Flight
 G. Walsh vs. S. A. Roper.
 w. B. Thompson vs. Joe Woodward. F. E. Butcher vs. G. c. Bryant O. NJ. Cross vs. W. H. Beatty. D. E. Wilson vs. -. D. ID. Billings vs R. E. Burke. R. P. Major vs. T. G. Brabston. J. H. Perkins vs. E. l.. Huey.
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WONDERLICH IN
 FINE'CONDITION

ALTOONA, Pa, June 15.-Jerry Wonderlich, widely known motor racer, who was injured in the 250-mile speed way race here. is resting comfortably after being officially dead" for sev- eral minutes Saturday.
 "Wonderlich's condition is very good today" said bulletin from the Altoona hospital. No serious results are now expected"
 Jerry takes the smash-up philosophi- cally, declaring he is ''only tired and sore"
 When the Wonderlich car went off the track in the 200th lap of the race, it was announced from the field hospi- tai immediately afterward that he had died of a broken neck. Later is was learned that he had suffered a slight coneussion of the brain and two or three broken bones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16
KELLY'S STUNT
 FEATURES HITS

CHICAGO, June 15.-Although Babe Ruth, of the New York Amer jeans, and Jacques Fournier, of the Brooklyn Nationals, retained the home run leadershipsa,4in- their respective leagues, George Kelly, of the New York Giants, furnished the fireworks for the week, getting three circuit clouts in one game. The trio of homers came Saturday when the National league champions were playing Cincinnati.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16
Olympic Team Sails Today 70 Competen Olympic Gaes
COMBS MAY BE
 OUT THIS YEAR

CLEVELAND, June 15.--Physicians who examined Earl Combs, injured in sliding home in today's game between New York and Cleveland, state that the injury to the Yankee outfielder. is so se- were that he may be out of the game the remainder of the season. Besides the fracture there is complete dislocation of his right ankle.
 Combs was purchased from Louisville last winter for $00O00.
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MERRIMACK WINS

team won a double header from the Cowan, Tenn, team yesterday after noon. The first game went to Merri- mack IS to and the second to Merri- mack 9 to 1.
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 NEW ISSUE
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Approved by the Public ServceC Commission Exempt County City Federal Income Tax Dividends payable quarterly January s April 5 July E. October IS
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FRED SOLE IS
 STAR OF BAUS
Georgia Collegian Twirls Score. = less Ball On Exhibition

KINGSTON. N. r., June lS.-rhs Pitts. burg Nationals defeated the Kingston Colonials in . l0-inning exhibition same today, q to 0. Sale, youngster from the University of Georgia. pitched shutout ball during bis stay on the mound. PittsburE ...... 900 900 900 2-s Q Kingston ....... 900 900 900 % !
 Batteries: Sale. Yde and Knox; Cullo- ton and Mclaughlin.
 '..Sold before noon"-the usual report following a For Sale" Want Ad in The Age-Herald.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-18
THE CASH AND CARRY METHOD

F1OUR years ago the Republican national committee pub
II cy and soemny declared that campaign contributions
would be limited to $1,000 per person.
Then ahead and spent eight million dollars to get
the million popular majority for Harding and Coolidge
After the campaign huge deficit existed 1t in the
form of great loans from New York banks.
In the oil scandal hearing Will Hays forced to admit
these huge borrowings repaid by big secured
after election
He specifically mentioned of $4,000 from the Sin
clair oil outfit
Sinclair got Teapot Dome.
The Mellon aluminium outfit Clipped in $4,000 in 1922
Mellon got a high tariff aluminium that is col
ected from every housewife who has aluminium in her kch
She figure how much she paid she will remember
find the price of pots and pans 1920 and compare
it with what she pays
MELONS aluminium trust also got fifteen mlion-dolar
rebate from the United States Treasury while Mr.
Mellon Secretary of the Treasury.
Senator Borah may find out lot of things about
pagn contributions but he won't find anything about
this kind He can't because they not made until after
election. They the big wad that from the
thing players.
The money not given to help party win election
but is given party because it has already cleo
ton and in position deliver oil lands tariff schedules
refunds and such The delivery made of the property
of the public of about thousand dollars every
dollar contributed. 1t is the well KNOWN Cash and Carry
principle applied to politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-18
Science

The planets Saturn and Jupiter
have been the objects Of much study
in recent years. due partially to
their great size and to the improve
ments IN methods Of observation.
Jupiter, the giant Of the solar sys-
tenn, is now the most noticeable OBJ
ject in the southwestern sky. 1t is
500 times as large as the earth
and II revoves around the sun once
in twelve years, dragging with 1t
a number Of moons. Saturn is the
greatest planet next to Jupiter. 1t
has ten moons. Saturn Is the planet
with the ring around 1t. Calico,
who rst studied the planets with
telescope. saw that Saturn did
not look like the other planets. but
he could not discover why, as his
telescope was one of the first if not
the first made, and it magnified only
thirty times.
1t Is now known that the ring
around Saturn in reality is COM
posed Of a number of rings with
openings between them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-18
Remnants
BY Hal COCHRAN

Out In the yard there's a garden,
once fair, but it's withered and faded
away. Only a trace of what used to
be there is the sight that will greet
you today.
During the summer It echoed Of
toll through the blossoms that shOne
in the sun. Somebody played with
and planted the soil, but the growth
thus created IS done.
Stems that were once in their
greenest of green and stood proudly
high in the air, now droop in sad
ness, just making a scene that is to-
tally wretched despair.
The warm summer sun has neg
lected the spot while the chill winds
have taken it's place. Beautiful bios
SONS have shriveled to rot and of
beauty there's hardly a trace.
Just one little rose in this garden
still grows. but twill fade ere much
time can elapse. IT'S surrounded BY
death, maybe gasping for breath.
It's the last rose of summer. perhaps.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-18
MAN, 1O3,
WILL VOTE
FIRST TIME
Never Took Trouble Before
but Wants to Start
Now,
By NEA Service

By NEA Service
GREENSBORO, n. c., Oct. 10
Robert Leonard, a native of Guiford
County, now in his 104th year. will
cast his first ballot at the Novem-
Der election.
Although he has been eligible to
vote for ninety-two years. has seen
twenty Presidents occupy the White
House, Leonard has never visited
the polls This year, however. he
intends to vote-and he also says
that he Is going to walk TO the polls
with the rest of the folks.
Il didn't think the country would
be materially helped by my vote. ."
he says, in explaining why he never
exercised his citizenship rights
Now they have convinced me that
it is my duty. So I'll be there"
During the time that Leonard has
been eligible to vote, James x. Polk,
Zachary Taylor, Willard Fillmore.
Franklin Pierce. James Buchanan,
Abraham Lincoln. Andrew Johnson.
Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B.
Hayes. James A Garfield. Chester
A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Ben
jamin Harrison, William Mckinley,
Theodore Roosevelt, William II.
Taft. Woodrow Wilson. Warren G..
Harding and Calvin Coolidge have
been President.
Leonard explains his longevity by
saying, Leading a clean life and let
ting bad liquor alone"
He has some very decided ideas
about modern customs and practices
of the young folks. He thinks night
automobile riding by youngsters d
great evil.
why. young girls stay up until
10 and II o'clock at nights now.
Then they don't want to get up in
the morning. I've always gone to
bed about 7 O'clock ut night, and 1
get up early in the morning."
Leonard is not opposed to dancing
providing people wouldn't stay up
too late to do It.
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BY GAYLORD NELSON

GNEl AYOR ROSWELL o. JOHN
I'M SON of Gary. and fifty-one
III other residents of Lake
County were convicted In Federal
Court in Indianapolis, in March 1928,
for conspiracy to violate the pro-
hibition law.
Yesterday the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals, at Chicago,
affirmed the conviction.
A good stiff bracer follows the
Gary spree.
The case involved wholesale viola
ton of the liquor law in Gary, and
many Of the defendants besides
Mayor Johnson We're identified with
the city and county administration.
The prohibition law may or may
not be a failure. Most laws are if
one hundred per cent enforcement is
taken as the determining factor.
But even prohibition can be en-
forced with reasonable rigor. If the
responsible authorities so will.
And there is no place in Indiana
even in industrial centers like
Gary with it's large foreign element
where open and notorious violation
Of the liquor law meets with public
approval.
Not from more than a thirsty
minority.
Years ago Boss Tweed Of New
York. when charged with appalling
corruption, could ask insolently:
What are you going to do about it?"
And got away with 1t.
City officials in present day In
diana who try to run wide. open
towns may adopt the same con-
temptuous attitude.
But they can't get away with it.
Not with the United States Circuit
Court Of Appeals.
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Suicide

ri ICTOR RATLIFF. 22s E.
| v Pratt St., in Jail on an en-
IL bezzlement charge, ate the
heads off matches in an attempted
suicide Thursday. He failed.
He was the fourth to essay self
destruction in the city this week
with only moderate success. And
just few days ago a veteran United
States Senator took his own life.
Suicide collects Its toll of human
lives with the regularity of any dis
ease.
In Indiana it IS the cause Of near
ly FIVE hundred deaths annually.
The yearly total fluctuates. Depend
ing on economic conditions appar-
emily. For in the State the few
est suicides were recorded in years
of greatest prosperity. Annually
since 1920 the number has steadily
increased.
Normalcy's deadly work.
Suicide offers an easy way out.
It's not surprising that a person,
harassed by crowding family trou-,
bles or economic disasters should
contemplate self-oblteration with
favor.
And many Of us might like to try
tiff we could return IN case it
didn't suit.
But, despite the obvious scenic at,
fractions of the suicide route, it's
restricted to one-way traffic.
1t offers no return ticket
So it's the uncertainty of what lies
at the terminus of the route, not the
pain of the journey, that re-
strains us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-18
Living

ri GOD prices in Indianapolis
r. were 3 per cent lower on
IL Oct. 1 than year ago. So.
the figures published the other day
in the retail food index Of the
United States Department Of Labor
reveal.
Which, OF course. is cheering
news.
For a surprisingly large fraction
Of the expenditure of the average
family goes directly for food and in
directly for the preparation and
serving of food.
It's the largest single item Of
family budget.
Hence the rise and fall Of food
prices is of interest to most families.
Three per cent decrease isn't
much. but a decline Of any amount
in the cost of living is better than
an increase.
But in spite of lowered living
costs in this city people will be
unable for some time to initiate the
lilies Of the field, who neither toll nor
spin. And the family purse will con-
tinue to be gaunt just preceding pay
day.
Still according to the statistics of
the department of labor an In
dianapolis family which spent SO
a week for groceries last year must
only spend 1910 now for the same
amount.
From the so cents thus saved they
can buy country homes or take up
any other hobby of the idle rich.
Statistics were a great invention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-18
ZOniing

FEW days ago application Of
IA the National Refining Com
III pany for permission to erect
filing station at the southeast
corner of Forty-Sixth St. and Col
lege Ave. was denied by the city
plan commission.
Perhaps there's need for a filing
station at that corner. Anyway It
might be argued a filing station is
not a commercial enterprise-fre-
quently It's a work Of art.
Cities used to grow in careless.
slipshop manner.
1t was a common occurrence for
fine residential districts to be in
vaded by noisy smelly neighbors. An
aristoc-aic section might become
overnight the savory backyard Of a
garbage reduction plant
And that was termed municipal
progress.
Then the idea prevailed that an
individual owner could do as he
pleased with his real estate. It was
his-that settled the matter.
Indianapolis still exhibits on its
face the scars Of those wild free
days Of civic dissipation. And some
scars Will be carried to the grave.
But now we have reformed and,
with the adoption Of definite city
plan and zoning measures, a better
day has dawned
OF course, strict enforcement of
coming measures takes from private
owners some Of their ancient prop.
erty rights. But they are not robbed
Of all the joys Of real estate owner
ship.
They are still permitted by the
plan commission TO pay the taxes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-18
Tom Sims Says

Truth is stranger than fiction, and,
among our present books. a stranger
to fiction.
The soil Of Siberia Is sometimes
frozen to a depth of sixty-three feet,
so it is very difficult to dig fishing
worms
The Dead Sea is fishless, compar-
ing in this way favorably with all
streams, lakes and seas.
The lengths Of a mile vary in diff
ferent countries. and with different
people you ask.
The visiting card is Of Chinese
origin, and so, evidently, is the habit
of signing letters.
While yellow is the favorite color
of Chinese officials they are busy
now seeing red.
A man in Washington has devel-
oped a stingless bee, which should
be shipped in large quantities for
picnics.
Germany plans to lead the world
in aircraft building. She once mis-
led in aircastle building.
In Victoria, 3. c., already $50, 900
cases of salmon have been packed,
boarders being powerless.
They held a parade Of girls with
long hair in Hull, England. which
was very nice and quaint and old
fashioned
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service. Inc)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-18
TONGUE Tbs

Kathleen Norris, author: "One
feels a sort of kindly contempt for
the jealous wife,
Simon Michelet, Washington: 1.-THE
stay-at-home vote and the women's
vote are two hitherto unknown fac
tors that have weight enough to set
tie the issue Of any national cam
paign."
Samuel L. McKelvie, former Gov
ernor of Nebraska: America with
the Dawes peace plan is guiding the
destiny of the world today"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-18
4 THOUGHT

He that passeth by, and meddleth
with strife belonging not to him, IS
like one that taketh a dos by the
ears.-Prov. 26:17.
We should enjoy more peace II
we did not busy ourselves with the
words and deeds Of other men. which
appertaln not to our Charge
Jeremy Taylor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-18
The BObber Shop

Prof. Diggendelve, in the end chair
this morning, said the expression,
pulling in their horns" is purely
figurative, except in the case of
trombone players.
A volcano is just like some people
in that it spends most Of its time
just standing still and shooting off
its mouth.
Pete, the porter, says he is going
to get married as soon as he can
lind a girl sensible enough to have
serviceable feet.
A man don't have to wear a col
lar to get hit under it.
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