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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30

Its not my fault. This was all
predestined."
That's how Robert Keith, 10. a
Federal prisoner held in Marion
County jail. explains his predica-
ment.
Keith was brought to Indianapo-
lis Wednesday from Marion. Ind.
He is charged with impersonating a
Government official and passing
fraudulent checks. He was arrested
in a newspaper office in Marion,
where he had gone to get a letter
in answer to an advertisement for
room. He was taken to Kokomo by
Simon t. Hickman, a department of
justice agent. and arraigned before
United States Commissioner John T.
Stroude. who placed a bond which
Keith was unable to meet, and he
was then brought to indianapolis.
Keith admitted having been CON-
mitted to Atlanta in 1919, serving
nineteen months and six days and
In being again committed in 1928,
he served four years and nineteen
months at the same prison. He has
used half a dozen aliases in his
criminal career. among them being
c. Howard Vickey. David c. Jewell,
Robert Lansing, David Baker. He
said to a prison official who asked
him the question, What is your real
manner" "Why, it's been SO many
years since I've even heard or
thought of my own name that 1
can't really recall it,"
According to his story, Keith is
the son Of wealthy New England
parents, was educated at Yale, being
graduated from there in '73.
IT was educated for q civil engi.
neer," Keith said land my parents
had the highest hopes for me. For a
number of years 1 held the same
hopes for myself. I was on Wall
Street seventeen years, on the stock
exchange, and made enormous sums
of money. l married, had a wonder
full home, q child--everything that
successful and happy man could
want"
"Then the fate that was pre-
destined for me began to operate.
Powerful financial friends concoted
a plot to enrich themselves, using
me as goat. 1 was helpless to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
MEX|CO-PAC
COAST SERVICE
TO Be REALIZED
Times WdshinQtor Bureau
TS22 NetD York Aro,,,,r

doSS NetO IOTB ADouue
TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 9O.-The long
dream of the Southwest Of through
trains FROM Pacific coast ports to
Mexico City via the west coast OF
Mexico will come true by March 1.
II. B. Titcomb Of this city, presi.
ydent of the Southern Pacific De
Mexico, has declared that by early
spring freight may be shipped over
the west coast line between Guada.
lajara or Mexico City through the
fertile valleys of the west coast to
Pacific coast and other American
cities. This means that the gap of
10S miles between Topic and La Que.
mada over the mountains northwest
Of Guadalajara will be bridged, pos.
sibly by the middle O.. February, for
freight traffic and by midsummer
at the latest for passenger service.
The entire line, with the exception
Of about four miles of tunnel and
yiaducts, has been constructed, Tit.
comb said. The job has been ac-
complished under not only desperate
engineering and weather odds but
in face of the Yaqui war, which has
resulted in the destruction of much
property and the burning Of twenty.
five bridges and trestles.
Damage totaling more than $780,.
600 in physical equipment has been
caused within the last few months.
Southt of Guaymas 1,730 feet of
bridges were burned by Yaquis. Be.
tween Nogales and Empalme, in So.
nora, forty-f1ve miles of track was
washed out by floods. One whole
town, Carlo, was virtually destroyed
by floods. All the damages, except
to branch lines, has been repaired.
The new road will be an artery
through the most productive and
populous part of Mexico and will
furnish an outlet for untold wealth
In minerals, timber, fruit. winter
vegetables. fish and grain.
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T. S. BANS
POISONED
ALCOHOL
Crank Case Denaturant
Will Make Drinker III, but
Not Cause Death.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-The
Government plans to remove all
poison from industrial alcohol at an
early date. Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon officially announced today.
Federal chemists are now working
on denaturing formula which will
make commercial alcohol nauseating
and unpalatable but it will not be
poisonous, Mellon said
II do not say it is excusable for
poison liquor if it can he prevented" )"
Mellon said. This condition is be-
ing remedied as far as possible"
Secretary Mellon said the Govern.
ment will enforce the prohibition
law, but it does not want to enforce
it by the use of poison. Commercial
alcohol must be denatured or there
will be alcohol all over the country
for bootleggers, and denatured alco-
hol is necessary to protect legitimate
Industries and make the product
available tax free, he said.
Mellon said prohibition is bound
to drive drinkers to use of industrial
alcohol and other substitutes as the
genuine supply vanishes. He pointed
out that before America went dry
people drank bitters, and, in one in
stance, soldiers were known to have
drunk red ink because~1t contained
alcohol.
The new Crank case" denaturant,
which contains very little wood
alcohol, will be placed on the market
Jan. 1. This product is not death
dealing, but would make a drinker
uncomfortably i'll. It contains a
small amount of wood alcohol, and
also animal oils, gasoline and kero-
.sene.
Mellon said there will always be &
certain class in the country which
will drink despite rigid law enforce
ment. 1t is unreasonable ever to ex-
pect prohibition to be complete, as all
laws are violated. but the Govern
ment will make prohibition as effec-
tive as possible. he asserted.
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ST, ,434 AVERAGE
COST OF FAMILY
Food Largest Single Ex-
penSe, Survey Shows.

Bu Times Special
CHICAGO. Dec. 3O.--It costs
S1,434 a year to support the av-
erage family of ASS persons. the
survey of $4,000 typical Ameri-
can homes revealed. it was de-
clared by Miss Ina S. Lindman,
food specialist of Ball Brothers Com
pany of Muncie. Ind.
Food constitutes the largest
single item in the family budget" F"
said Miss Lindman. amounting to
S2.S per cent or $547.7S a year. Cloth
ing ranks next in expenditure with
1876 per cent or $23S.04. Outlay for
shelter totals 1912 or 1874 per cent,
while $3.50, or 5.S per cent goes for
fuel and light. The remaining 26.4
per cent or $35s.57 is spent on amuse-
ments, doctor bills and incidentals.
Home manufacture of many food
commodities, it was found, is an i'm
portant factor in reducing the cost
of living. Preserving of fruits and
vegetables in green glass jars for
the pantry shelf cut 500, 100000 off
the nations food bill last year. while
home baking effected extensive econ
omies.
Average income of American fam
lilies. the survey showed, totaled
$1,513. It was found that only SO
per cent of the wives contributed any
cash income to the family resources.
A total of 1876 per cent of the in
come came from the efforts of the
family offspring of various ages"
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Mrs. Worthy's husband died. Then
friend told Garden his old-time
sweetheart was living near him.
when / saw him it recalled my
childhood days" said, the bride. He
told me how lonely he was and
asked me if l would not spend the
rest of my life with him. said
Yes. and we planned the wedding
DO you know, one of the first
things he asked me after we were
married concerned my cooking. He
asked if 1 had forgotten how to
cook gingerbread like we used TO
carry on picnics years and years
ago. told him 1 could cook it even
better now.
That's fine he said; 4 have a
lot of syrup in the smokehouse, and
well kill some hogs soon.'
The groom is now rs, his bride
is 81. Both are very happy.
We've been separated a long
time. but it's all over now" he said
as they started on their belated
honeymoon. I'VE are going to spend
the rest of our lives living over our
childhood days"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
F|FTY-F|FTY
BILL TO Be
INTRODUCED
Mrs. Ella V. Gardner to
Garry Fight Into Legis-
" Iature.
SCORES COFFIN MOVE
Tells How She Was 0uSted
for Independence.

Asserting that women's organi-
cations in both parties now are
mere shadows" State Representa-
tive Ella V. Gardner of Indianapolis,
told a mass meeting of women this
afternoon at the Claypool, she would
introduce a bill in the General AS
semblv to allow women equal rep
resentation in party organizations.
The meeting was held to protest
against expulsion of Mrs. Gardner
from the caucus of Marion County
Republican Representatives by legis-
iative lieutenants of George V. Cof-
fin, G.. o. P. county boss. when she
would not agree to unit system or
voting.
Mrs. Gardner was expelled until
after election of the speaker of the
House of Representatives" She and
three other Representatives are sup
porting Harry C. Leslie, while most
of the Coffin men favor Lemuel A.
Pittenger, floor leader in the 1925
session.
She'll Watch This One
-Four years ago $3.50 amend
ment was introduced and was finally
lost in a mans pocket" Mrs. Gard
ner said. "But I will watch this
bill from the inside and expect In
diana women TO watch it from the
outside. for I am informed the or
der has gone out to kill this bill
in committee"
Mrs. Gardner said Mrs. Vivian L.
Wheatcraft, State vice chairman, to-
day refused a request OF the old
line politicians that she use her in
fiuence to prevent the holding OF
the meeting.
"The politicians are denying they
ordered me to leave the caucus, but
it is a fact" Mrs. Gardner said.
II am not fighting any one, but
a. system, and it is a corrupt sys-
tenn. too. 1t Is a system that has
brought the fair name OF 1ndisna
into disrepute.
Play Fair Ball
MANY of the men fought su1raSe
for years because they were afraid
the women would not play politics
their way. I have been accused of
not being willing to play ball; am
willing to play ball, but do not
care to be hit by a foul
Necessity for women to clean
house was emphasized by Mrs. Hes
ter NJ. Hart. former Republican
county vice chairman.
Ve are fighting a system that
mas grown up through long usage,
she said. Women must have the
power to eliminate many irregulari'
ties now existing, for government,
whether municipal. State or Nation.
is only an enlarged household man.
agement, and women have been
thorough house cleaners"
Retention of the primary was ad-
vocated by a number of speakers.
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BU NEA Scrricf
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 81
After waiting sixty years. Gable Par
ker Garden has married his child
hood sweetheart. Hanna Moore Wor-
thy.
After a quiet ceremony here the
two left on their long-deferred honey.
moon for Gardens plantation at Mil.
ner. Ga.
I'VE are going to spend the sun
set of our lives together" said Mrs.
Garden. 1--WE are going to live over
Our childhood days-and they were
very happy days"
The two were sweethearts in their
teens, and planned to get married.
But the parents of the bride to.be
interferred. thinking her too young
to marry, and forbade her to see him
again.
Each married someone else. And
for sixty years they lived not more
than Ave miles apart, neither know
ing where the other was. But neith-
er one had forgotten.
Two years ago Garden became a
widower. AT about the same time.
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Tries to Induce Attorneys
to Let Him Argue His
Freedom Battle.
STATE COUNTER-ATTACKS WRIT
Prisoners Lawyers Fight Contention
He Admitted Jurisdiction.
By Frank J. Prince
Times Staff Correspondent

SUPERIOR COURTROOM, MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Dec
3Davd c. Stephenson may make his plea for freedom
this afternoon before Judge Harry L. Crumpacker.
For two hours this morning Stephenson former old man.
of the Kan serving life sentence in Indiana State
Prison for the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer indianapolis
girl sat in court here and heard attorneys argue for
against his plea that he be released prison on writ of
habeas corpus
He carefully took notes of all that sad and desired
this afternoon when all the legal angles of the have
arued to make himself the final appeal to the Judge it was
learned
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ering love of Franklin Crane.
Crane comes back into Sonia s
life in the sequel and situa-
tions just as entrancingly in
teresting as those which arose
in "Sonia" result.
If you have not read the
story Sonia" you will want
to read the sequel anyway.
The sequel stands alone as a
complete novel. 1t is not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
The Sequel to Sonia

Starts in The Indianapolis
Times Wednesday, Jan. 5.
If you have read the story
Sonia" as it has appeared in
The Times, of course you will
want to read the sequel, the
story of Sonia's married life
with DR.. Don Saltwater.
Sonia thought she finally
had conquered her overpow-
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accepted jurisdiction and went to
trial before the court at Noblesville.
The answer contends that after the
transcript was delivered to the Ham
ilton County clerk it was docketed
and its authenticity thereby recog.
nized by the Hamilton court, and
that at no time perior to the start
OF the trial did Stephenson attack it's
authenticity.
Three Exhibits
In support Of this contention the
state filed three exhibits:
No. l. A copy of the commitment
of Stephenson to prison.
No. ?. A receipt showing the filing
of the transcript and the order of the
Marion Criminal Court with the
court at Noblesville.
No. 3. All motions made and en-.
tries Of record wherein Stephenson
sought bail or made other moves be.
fore he actually went to trial.
The State contends that exhibits
No. constitute admission on the
part of Stephenson that the Mobiles.
vile court had Jurisdiction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
PAROLE IS
EN|ED IN
AYRES CASE
Prison Trustees Refuse to
Free Touhey, Caught in
Attempted Robbery.
MINIMUM TERM SERVED
Convicted After Battle With
Underworld.

Bu Times Special
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Dec. 30.
Trustees Of Indiana State Prison
in regular session here last night
refused parole to Thomas
Toughey, 32, the bandit caught in
the attempted $4,000 robbery of the
L. S. Ayres & Co. department store
at Indianapolis in June, 1924.
Touhey, who had wide influence at
Chicago and was convicted in Marion
Criminal Court after Prosecutor
William II. Remy had put up stiff
battle with forces which Touhey's
underworld friends had marshaled,
was sentenced on Dec. II, 1924, to
two to fourteen years in prison.
Five i'm Gang
Touhey was one of a gang of five
who, about 10 o'clock in the evening,
posed as A. D. T. inspectors and got
the Ayres night watchman to let
them in the Meridian st. entrance.
They Immediately took command of
the store. forced the watchman to
register his regular report calls to
the A. d. T. Office, tied up several
bakers and other night employees in
the stockroom in the basement, blew
three safes, gathered up thousands
of dollars worth of valuable mer'
chandise and placed it at the rear
door. ready for transfer to an auto
mobile in which Touhey was sitting.
One of the employees freed himself
and called police about a. m, just
as the bandits were ready to speed
away. A squad of police and de-
&Rctives rushed to the store. Four
the bandits got away through an
elevator shaft onto the roof of an
adjoining building and thence to the
street.
Found in Bin
= Patrolman Roy Bartlett chased
Touhey, who had leaped from the
automobile, west on Pearl st. to
Illinois, thence to q barn in the
rear of 124/W. Maryland ST.. where
he captured the bandit covered with
sawdust in a bin.
1t happened that Prosecutor Reny
and Michael A. Ryan, who defended
Touhey in Criminal Court, were
guests of the trustees at the prison
last night Ryan said nothing in
Touhey's behalf. Remy told the trus-
tees that he has two other indict-
ments against Touhey and he would
press them the instant Touhey was
released,
Although names were not given
out, 1t was learned the trustees re.
fused paroles to several prisoners,
who had received combinations of
sentence from Governor Ed Jack
son, making them eligible to earlier
consideration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
Fair Weather VIII
Usher in NeuU Year

Fair weather, with normal tenn
perature about. 2O.22 degrees above.
will greet 1921 Friday at midnight,
according to the forecast of the
United States Weather Bureau to-
day. The mercury will rise to about
35 In the afternoon of Jan. l..
Metereologist J. H. Armington pre-
kdicted.
RThe cold waves which settled on
indianapolis Wednesday night was
the second coolest snap Of the year,
tthe mercury standing at above
from to a. m. Somewhat warmer
temperature was promised tonight.
Probable fair weather for Satur-
day and Sunday and normal tenn
perature was predicted.
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necessary to have read the
first book in order to pick up
the thread of the second.
However, to make the sequel
of even greater interest to
you, The Times will print on
the day the new story be-
gins a condensed version of
Sonia.
The sequel starts Wednes-
day, Jan. 5.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
BLIND JAZZ BAND

NEW YORK, Dec. S0.-A modern
jazz orchestra, made up entirely of
blind musicians, with a blind leader,
recently was organized under the
auspices of the New York Associa-
ton for the Blind. All instruction
is vocal, the players being taught by
hearing the piece played on the piano
first. The musicians memories are
highly trained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
HUGE STORE ROBBERY
Harrod's Of London LoOted-Nearly
1000 Watches Stolen.

BIZ United Press
LONDON, Dec. 30.-Burglars bold
as any in the United States today
escaped from Harrod's, one of Lon
don's largest department stores, with
jewelry and watches valued at ap-
proximately $250,0O0. 1t was Lon
don's largest recent burglary.
The burglars took everything of
good value in the jewelry depart
ment, including nearly thousand
watches, in addition to rings. brace
let's, necklaces and cigaret cases.
Scotland Yard operatives believed
the looters may have secreted them
selves inside the store when it closed
last night.
Harrod's is located in the fashion
able Knights Bridge section of the
west end of London.
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Lest We FOreet

Marion County grand Jurors
who returned a no indictment
report in the probe Of alleged
graft and corruption in Indiana
politics, after eleven weeks in
vestigation, to Criminal Court
Judge James A. Collins Monday
afternoon, were:
Wilson Furnas, foreman,
Bridgeport.
Joseph c. schaf. Marott Ho-
tel.
Otis Calvin, 1906 Splnk.Arms
Hotel.
William E. Webb, 1915 w.
Washington st.
Herman S. Sprandel, 1135
Central Ave.
Hilary Morris, 6o45 Ashland
Ave.
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NEVER SENT A BILL

WINCHESTER, Va, Dec. SO.-Dr
Isaac NJ. Brumback, old-fashioned
family doctor and Confederate vet
eran, never sent p patient bill, He
died recently, leaving an estate
valued at 900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
Phone Marriage
Won't Do
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 30.
Seeing that telephone service
between New York and London
viii soon be a reality. Poark
Montgomery, naval officer,
thought he might be able to
telephone from her to Corsi-
]. cana, TeXas-object matrimony.
In obtaining a marriage IL
cense, Montgomery explained
he could not go to Texas at
present, and asked if he and his
flancee, Miss Jewel Coewinn of
Corsicana, could be married by
telephone. The city clerk told
him 1t would not be legal.
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40 ON HELPLESS SHIP
Captain of British Freighter Re-
ports Craft Not in Danger.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-The S. S.
Clearton. a British freighter with
forty men aboard, was drifting help.
lessly early today about 500 miles
east of Baltimore, according to
S o S MESA ges picked up by the
Independent Wireless Company. The
craft was rudderless. Captain Hick-
man reported at 4:49 a. m. He re-
ported the vessel was in no immedi-
ate danger and only required towage
service.
Three ocean liners picked up the
distress calls and prepared to go to
the disabled vessels aid, but the
master of the Clearton decided that
the expense of being towed to port
by a transport liner would be too
high. He broadcast that he pre-.
ferred to drift and await less ex-
pensive accommodation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
PLAN
Of JACKSON
MAY Be CUT
State Offices Ask $780,
600 Increase in ApprO-
priationS.
PURDUE SEEKS RAISE
Budget Body Can Curtail
Economy Program.

Governor Jackson's economy pro-
gram" will be curtailed considerably
if the budget committee acts favor
Dly upon rekuests for the 1928
budget sent in by the various depart
ments and institutions. Departments
whose offices are in the Statehousc
have requested the committee for in
creases totalling more than $15O,OOO,
according to requests on file at the
State board of accounts. Institu-
tions also are said to have sent in
increased schedules of operation.
The budget committee is busy try
ing TO trim these figures down to
meet Jackson's demands. 1t was
understood at the time the commit
tee was appointed that they would
function as a body to reduce ex-
penditures.
Orr Sent EOtIce
Acting upon this idea State Ex'
amincr Lawrence Orr sent cut no.
tices to all departments saying that
increases in salaries of those clas-
sihed as officers" would not be ap-
proved by the committee. Later it
was determined py Attorney Cen
eral Arthur L. Gilliom that the COM
mittee could not rule on Officers,
Is this was the function of the
trustees and commissions.
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Forecast

Fair tonight and probably
Friday. Somewhat warmer to-
night; lowest about Is.
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Home Edition

DO you believe Cobb and
Speaker got a square dealt See
the sport page today.
Evening star., 1926-11-30
Opposes Outside Control.

The subcommittee also showed inter-
est in her suggestion that public util-
tiles should be home owned and op-
Grated. Mrs. Henderson complained
that at present New York interests
are coming into control Of the public
service corporations in the Capital and
Evening star., 1926-11-30

that they are destroying the best RESI-
Dental streets here, as they old VIII
Fifth avenue in New York.
Mrs. Henderson agreed with MT.
Gibson that the big busses operating
in Washington at present are not
paying enough to make good the dam
ages they cause to the streets, so that
the taxpayers are suffering. Mr.. GID
son asked an opinion from the cor
poration counsel's Office regarding re-.
strictions as to outside ownership OF
the utilities here.
The three members Of the subcom--
'mittee present, Gibson, Houston and
Hammer, were surprised when MAI.
Hesse stated that there Is no fugitive
law in the District, so there Is no
justification for holding a fugitive
even though the court knows that OF
ficers of the law are on the way from
another jurisdiction to take MIN lnto
custody. They were also much IN.
terested in Maj. Hesse's statement
that from a police standpoint one OF
the greatest needs in the District Is
new vagrancy law. because 1t is now
practically impossible when police ar
rest a bootlegger or other hanger-on
around poolrooms to get the court 10
hold the prisoner.