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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
ALL DRY AGENTS
WILL LOSE JOBS
Andrews to Drop Every Of
fiCer, Reinstate Some.

BH United Press
NEW YORK, July 17.-Every pro-
hibition officer in the country will
lose his job within the next two
weeks, Roy Haynes, Federal pro-
hibition commissioner, announced to-
day.
Many agents undoubtedly will be
reappointed for merit or because of
their specific knowledge of condi-
tions in their territory. but all will
be removed Haynes said. to give AS
sistant Treasury Secretary Lincoln
Andrews a free hand in reorganiza-
ton Of the enforcement forces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
'CANNONBALl'
IS FINED SIS
Race Driver Pleads Guilty to
Speed Charge.

Erwin, ''Cannonball" Baker, AZ,
of 902 Garfield Pl., cross-country
auto endurance race driver received
pleaded guilty to speeding charge
before City Judge Dan V. White to-
day.
State Policemen Young and Shinn
arrested Baker Friday on warrant
filed June 9, after appearance of a
newspaper advertisement asserting
that Baker averaged fiftyfour miles
an hour on a test trip from Cincin-
natl, Ohio, to Indianapolis. May 20.
Baker had not been in the city since
that time, 1t was said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
'YEWKANT' IN 'KAINTUCK'
Editor Arrested for "Gossiping''
About City Dads.


CoVINGToN, KY, July 1s.-The
Kingdom of yewkant" today was
extended to Kentucky, with the ar
rest OF Bruce I. Susong, editor OF
the Kentucky Post, a Scripps- How.
ard newspaper, charged with violat.
ing the State gossip law"
Susong provided bond for appear.
ance Wednesday in answer to the
cherge that he slandered city ofl.
cials by printing an article com.
menting on the city's attempt to
borrow $4,000. The article said, in
part:
Those who have held positions
In the city financial department say
that insofar as they can remember
this is the first time in history that
the city was broke within a month
after the June taxes were collected. ="
Mayor Dan O'Donovan said the
article slandered city officials and in.
voked the gossip law"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
SAFE is BLOWN:
$1OO OBTAINED
Auto Accessories Store Is
Robbed by Yeggs.

Safe blowers have resumed opera
tions in Indianapolis.
c. Il. Dunham owner OF the United
Auto Accessories store IN the base
men at 23s S Meridian ST., told po.
lice today burglars blew the safe Fri.
day night and obtained approx
mately 500. He was unable 10 esti.
mate the exact loss.
Entrance was gained with tools
belonging to the company through
an opening in the wall at the side
OF the door Tho thieves we're forced
TO use a crowbar to break through
the door. Dunham said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
Cooler Elsewhere
Officials Find
Leaders Away on Eve of
First Meeting Since
CounCiImanic Revolt.
T may be a coincidence, but
still

RI T may be coincidence. but
1 On the eve Of the first meet
ing of city council since Otto Ray,
insurgent leader, Haunted the flam-
ing banner of revolt to the skies,
the casual observer finds many
heads of the city government out of
the city. The council meets Monday
night.
vacation trip in West Virginia.
Joseph L. Hogue, city controller,
who is at swords points with council
over the threatened refusal Of coun-
Gil to approve emergency loan of
$500,000 for the general fund and a
health board loan Of S150.000, has
gone to eastern cities with brief
stop in Canadian territory.
Board on Vacation
Members of the board of works
have declared a vacation and will
hold no more meetings until July "a,
the date set for public hearing on
the track elevation question.
Charles E. Coffin, board president
is out of the city and Friday, DR..
M. J. Spencer, board member, Elmer
Williams, secretary an1 Hendricks
Kenworthy, assistan secretary,
journeyed to Cincinns ii.
Wray Away
H. G. Wray, track elevation
engineer, whose plans for elevation
of Belt Railroad tracks, were at
tackled by Ray because on the
grounds that a number of streets
which are to be closed should re-
main open, has departed for other
climes until July %, the eve before
the fateful hearing.
But there remains on the job, j.
r. Rainier, assistant bureau chief,
who made the fatal mistake Of
pleading scarcity of work in his
department. Whereupon he was
promptly loaded with labor for many
months to come in the form of heavy
assessment rolls by William H. Free
man and DR.. Spencer, board mem
bers. Not only will the four en-
ployes Rainier sought to release re-
main on the city pay rolls, but board
members indicated it may be neces-
sary to hire additional personnel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
U.S.. VICE CONSUL.
SHOT In MEXICO
Government Asks Punish
ment of CuIprit.

Bu United Press
WASHINGTON. July 18.-The
American vice consul at Aguesca-
lientes, Mexico, Harold G. Brother
ton. has been shot but not seriously
injured. it was learned at the State
Department here today.
The report received Of the shoot
ing, which occurred on July 16,
stated that the cause is unknown
and it is believed the shot was not
intended for Bretherton.
The Mexican foreign office has
been requested by this Government
to start an immediate investigation
and punish the guilty person.
Though the report does not specify,
it is assumed that the culprit was
a Mexican and that he escaped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
DARR0W MAY YET BE
HELD FOR CONTEMPT
Possibility That '0Id Lion
Might Face Charge Is
Lone Remaining SenSa-
ton in Prospect De
fendant Forages for Fine.
b. William ]. Losh

United Press stan Correspondent
DAYTON, Tenn, July 49,
Dayton's day in the sun is wan
ing. Trial Of John T. Scopes for
teaching evolution, to all in
tents and purposes, practically
is over.
A few hours Of flaming oratory.
as William Jennings Bryan sums up
In triumph and Clarence Darrow
fights back in defense. and the
young school teacher viii be found
guilty and the case that put this
little Tennessee town In the spot
light will be on the way TO the
higher courts.
Attorneys for both sides agreed
today that Judge Raulston's ban on
introduction OF scientific evidence
means that by next Tuesday night
the case will be closed and trains
to the north, east. south and west
will be laden with departing experts.
counsel. correspondents and visitors.
Darrow May BE Held
There was a seant possibility that
Judge Raulston, after perusing H..
900 words OF scientific evidence IN
behalf OF evolution presented by the
defense in the form OF afildavits.
would reverse himself and permit
the jury to hear the experts brought
here by Clarence Darrow and his
associates. But the chance was
slight.
What seemed possible was that
Judge Raulston would take action
aaginst Darrow who clearly laid
himself open TO contempt proceed.
Turn 10 Page 81
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
"Mike" to End Days
on Pension

T@OR ten years Mike, a
r mixed bull and fox ter
u terrier. has been the
mascot, at the city salvage
corps, 522 E. New York st.
Blind and toothless, he was ta-
ken to the dog pound today to
spend the rest of his days on
a pension.
Mike, old and inf1rn, became
a nuisance around the head
quarters, and he was ordered
away But Capt. Albert John.
son, Lieut.. Vern Earle and Carl
Ashley appealed to DIR. Eliza
beth Conger. pound master.
Wen pay for Mikes board
if you'll take him in" they said.
I'VE don't want him killed"
''I'll take no board" said DIR.
Conger. And I'll take care
of Mike. He'll spend his las,
days in good care"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
WORK GROWS
Society Makes Monthly Report on
Service and Relief.

Marked increase in families cared
for by the Family Welfare Society
was shown in monthly report of
Miss Rhoda yelling. executive sec.
retary of the organization.
In the service and relief depart
ments 709 families are under care
as against 5S2 a year ago. In the
children's department ESQ families
were receiving aid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
BOOZE Ring did
NOT WORK HERE:
Dry Agent Says Indianapolis
Was Not Included.

A New York liquor ring operating
throughout the Middle West by ship
ping liquor in trunks and sending
the key to the trunk by mail. un-
earthed Friday, according to a New
York dispatch, apparently did not
include Indianapolis in it's selling
territory. according to Fred l. King
of the prohibition legal department
Of Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
TO FLOW AWAY
Supreme Court Orders Destruction
of Duckwall Liquor.

Sheriff omer Hawkins will destroy
about $4,000 worth OF liquor. for.
mer property OF Herbert r. Duck
wall, 3Sls N. Delaware St.. follow.
Ing dismissal of an appeal by the
State Supreme Court today.
Duckwall's attorney. Floyd j.
Mattice, appealed from an order OF
Criminal Judge James A. Collins. In
which II was ordered that the liquor
be destroyed. The liquor was seized
in October, 1923.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
HAWKINS BOND
fight APPEALED
Asks High Court to Reduce
Bail.

Attempts to secure the reduction
of the $4,000 appeal bond of Nor
ton s. Hawkins, recently sentenced
in Federal Court to fifteen years at
Leavenworth penitenIary on
charge of using the mails to de-
fraud, were carried to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals at
Chicago, today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
KOREAN CAPITAL
IS UNDER WATER
City of Half Million Inun-
dated by Floods.

Bu Unftd Press
TOXIC, July 1s.-Seoui. the capi.
tai OF Korea. with a population OF
half a million, Is inundated and 5000
inhabitants are isolated on some
high ground as a result OF extensive
foods, according to dispatches from
that city.
The reports add that 500 have been
drowned.
The city is threatened with star.
walton and pestilence. Water. light
and food are lacking. Boats dis.
patched from Fusan, were swamped.
The flood waters continue rising. and
II is feared that the dead at TOXIC
Island alone will reach $500.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
Sniff! Sniff! Big
Theft Reported

Police worked their noses
overtime today.
Thieves teok seven pounds Of
liInberger cheese. fifteen pounds
of brick cheese, thirty-six pack
ages Of mixed cheese and
twenty-four pounds of butter
from Schlosser Bros. Cream
cry truck at Meridian and Ohio
SITS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
HUTSELL GIVEN POST
Public Service Commission Turns
Down Chairman's Choice.

Ignoring the wishes Of John W.
McCardle, chairman of the public
service commission, the remainder
Of the utility body today employed
George Hutsell, secretary Of the Ma
rion County Republican committee,
as a special examiner on motor bus
cases.
McCardle favored Joseph Bell, sec.
retary to Walter Bossert, Klan
leader, and had announced that Bell
would receive the appointment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
GUM STILL
Explosion Causes $25O,OOO Factory
Fire.

COVINGTON, KY, July 1S.--Ex-
plosion Of still at the Colker chew
ing gum factory caused S250,000
fire today. Flames spread to the
knights of Columbus Hall. Abra-
ham Colker, president of the gum
company, was arrsigned for possess
ing a liquor still but denied knowl-
edge of 1t.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
LADIES

There Is lots OF money 10 be made
right In your own home with little
effort or work needed on your part
That new dress you have been want
Ing, that new piece Of furniture taat
you haven't bought because you felt
that you couldn't quite AFFORD them
Just now can be yours at any time
II you will only do ~ hundreds of
other women are doing each day
These thrifty people are renting
spare rooms selling different ar.
ticles OF furniture. etc, that are
no longer In use. They are going
up into the attic and down into the
basement and hnding things that
they don't need. but that other
people do, They're getting cash for
them. You can DO Il. too. Use
the TIMES WANT ADS.
PHONE YOUR ADt~
MA In $500.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
EXECUTION COMMITTED

Father OF Accused Mans Illicit
Lover Confesses Murder.
Bu Times Special
HAVANA, Cuba, July 1s.-Ten
minutes before Valentine Martinez
was to have strangled to death at
Penardelrio in the iron collar of the
medieval garrote. Secretary of JUS
tice Barraque, arrived at the scene
of the execution Friday with a
Communication that substituted thirty
years in prison for death. Martinez
was sentenced to die for the murder
of his wife. Paula. The confession
Of the father of Martinez's Illicit
lover caused the Communication.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
ANTI PETTING MOVE
Shifts of Park Watchmen Changed
-Curfew at Eleven.

The anti-petting season was
ushered in at city parks today by X.
Walter Jarvis, park superintendent.
To forestall petting, Jarvis
changed the shifts of park watch
men, who have been working from
to 10 p. m. to the hours between 4
D. m. and midnight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
RECEIVER is DISCHARGED
Dean, O'Nativia Brokerage Firm
Not Insolvent, Creditors Say.

BU Unitei Press
NEW YORK, July 1S.-William
M Cannon, receiver for Dean,
Onativia & Co., was discharged by
Judge Hand in Federal Court today.
Creditors withdrew bankruptcy
petition, saying the brokerage firm,
which recently was reported to have
failed for $30,o00,OO0 was not in
solvent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
LIMITED IN WRECK
Train Is Derailed, Blocking Traffic
for Several Hours.

Bp United Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 1S.-Four
cars of the New York-St. Louis Linn
tied on the Pennsylvania Railroad
were derailed near here early today,
shaking up more than 100 passen-
gers. Two Pullman porters were
slightly injured. Traffic on both
tracks were blocked for several
hours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
Sundays Could
Be Blue in
Indiana
Old Law, Dragged Out for
Race, Would Curtail
Everything.
BY John l.. Nlblack

by JOnn L.. NlDlack
@F Governor Jackson follows
up his action of Friday. when
~ he forbade a public automo.
bile race at Winchester. Ind. under
the old blue Sunday" laws, citizens
of Indiana will be in a pickle"
Governor Jackson ordered the
sheriff at Winchester to stop the
Sunday race at Funk's speedway be-
cause the Winchester Ministerial AS.
sociation complained 1t would be a
violation of the Sunday laws. State
police may be sent TO help.
Jackson said that he would ask po.
lice officers in all parts OF the State
to stop Sunday automobile racing.
It was pointed out to him that
several speed events are scheduled
for Sunday in different towns in the
State and for subsequent Sundays.
He said they would be banned when
his attention was directed to them
officially.
The law prohibits following the
usual avocation or engaging in COM
mon labor. Works of necessity or
acts OF charity only are excepted.
plus baseball and bona fide travel.
Ing. The penalty is a fine Of 81
to $40.
Selling gasoline or motor oil would
be taboo. Filling stations and
garages would be closed.
No coIe pIaxyiuo
Golf playing would be impos-
sible, under this law. Employees
of the links could not work. A
fee Is charged for playing at most
links. and all sports wherein fee
Is charged or prizes or money Of
fered I'm connection with the game
are expressly forbidden.
Sunday football would be stopped
unless promoters quit charging ad-
mission or paying players, as II is
singled out for special mention in
this statute.
Swimming at municipal pools and
other places where fee is charged
would be prohibited.
Fishing and hunting on the Sab
bath would be no more. in fact, are
no more under the statute, unless
you are under Ia years old. The boy
or girl under fourteen can fish and
hunt on Sunday, or swear In public
with impunity, unless father takes
1t up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
Could Close Shows

Movies and legitimate shows would
have to close. AS selling merchan'
disc is not an act of necessity, un.
der a Supreme Court ruling on the
law. drug stores and soft drink par.
lors would have to shut up at Satur.
day midnight. You can't buy fee
cream or cigars in Indiana y legally,
on the Sabbath. Drug stores can,
however. sell drugs.
Another statute makes the
housewife guilty of crime and
liable TO a fine Of not more than
$500, to which may be added
ninety days Jail sentence. II she
ties the legs of a chicken she is
carrying home from market, or
carries IL upside down.
AS rioting and quarreling are pro-
hibited by the old Sunday blue laws,
citizens will at the same time be
kept at home with nothing to do
and fined II they start a riot or
quarrel with their wives or children
from sheer lack Of occupation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
Forecast

IL AIR tonight and Sunday,
i probably becoming unset
tied by Sunday night; rising
temperature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18
Home Edition

X HICKIE is saved from Luis
~ Lamarck by her dog. Read
"Chickie," on the back page,
every day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-18

.F Governor Jackson follows
up his action Of Friday, when
. he forbade a public automo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17
Franklin Mott Gunther S
Career Is an Example
For Young Diplomats
Mexican Affairs Bureau
Chief Has Risen Rapidly
And Promotion Is Seen.

Principally through the zeal and
energy OF the late Henry Cabot Lodge
and John Jacob Rogers, the foreign
service has assumed tangible form and
the State Department proper has be-
come a sort of postgraduate course
for those who have passed the pre-
liminaries and are in direct line for a
post of Minister or some important
charge daffffaires. The chief Of the
Bureau of Mexican Affairs, Mr..
Franklin Mott Gunther. is pre-emi-
nently an example of the possibilities
which now open to the career" man
In diplomacy. After taking his A. B.
degree in Harvard in 1907 Mr.. Gun
Their selected a diplomatic career, and
to perfect himself in the languages
and necessary accomplishments he
matriculated in L'Ecole Libre des Sci.
ences Politiques in Paris and finished
his course two years later. The late
Robert Bacon guided the helm of
state when the young New Yorker
passed a brilliant entrance examine
ton and was assigned as private sec
rotary to the American Ambassador
in Toxic, then Mr.. Thomas G.. O'Brien
of Detroit. Since that time, October
1908, Mr.. Gunther has risen step by
step In his profession. and, having
served as counselor of the American
embassy In Rome and for the past Is
months as chief Of the Mexican Blu
reau, he Will soon be promoted to the
head of mission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17
Activities of Clubs
And Other Societies
Noted In Chevy Chase
Dinners and Teas and Bridge
Parties Also of Record.
House Guests Enter
tanned.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Burkhart,
who have been travelling in England,
France and Switzerland for two
months, have return to their home,
on Connecticut avenue.
Mrs. J. Liddon Pennock of Lans-
downe, Pa, has been the house guest
of DIR. and Mrs. Arthur B. Crane at
their home, on Northampton street,
for several days. Mrs. Pennock at
tended the International Council of
Women.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. Craig Peacock en-
tertained at dinner on Friday evening
at their home, on West Irving street.
d.. and Mrs. Janvier w. Lindsay
entertained on Sunday at christen-
ing party at their residence, on Broad
Branch road, in honor of their daugh-
tiers, Catherine and Ellen.
The Chevy Chase Circle of the
Florence Crittenton Mission met
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. William T. Pollard. Mrs.
Arthur B. Crane was the hostess
Mrs. Dewitt Scott entertained at
luncheon and bridge Friday.
Miss Anne Pollard, daughter Mr..
and Mrs. William t. Pollard was
hostess at luncheon and bridge
Thursday at her home, on Mckinley
street, in honor of Miss Ellen Newell
of Atlanta, Ga, who Is the house
guest of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. George Hillyer. at their home,
in the Woodward Apartments.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Sanford are
house guests of their son and daugh-
ter in law, Mr.. and Mrs. r. l.. San
ford, jr., on Forty-sixth street. Mr.
and Mrs. Sanford are returning to
their home in Vermont after spend
ing the Winter in Florida. Mr.. and
Mrs. E. H. Moon of Detroit, Mich,
are also house guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sanford.
Miss Mary Gale, an instructor in
the National Park Seminary, at For
est Glen, Md, is the week end house
guest of her uncle and aunt. Mr..
and Mrs. Bert Sommers, on Elm
street.
Mrs. J. J. Bryne entertained the
members of her club at luncheon and
bridge Friday, at her residence, on
Jocelyn street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph NJ. Garrett en-
tertained Saturday evening in honor
of the fifth birthday anniversary of
their daughter Catherine.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Stein of
Jocelyn street have motored to Phil :
adelphia, Pa, where they are spend
ing the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Craig Peacock are
spending the week end in Annapolis,
Md, visiting friends.
Mrs. Sidman of Philadelphia, Pa,
is the house guest of Mrs. George NJ.
-Depew, Mrs. Charles Roberts and