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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-10-09

Millions of homes are made more
pleasant thru q recent discovery.
Scientists at the foremost research
institute of it's kind in the world de-
veloped Fly-Tox. It kills flies, mos
quitoes, asts and other household in.
sects. Fly-T9x is nus used in the best Of
taller, always in bottles with blue
label.
Fly-Tox the place where you throw
your garbage and refuse.
Fly-Tox your home. Health authori-
ties recommend it.
Fly-ToX the cows before milking.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-10-09

With a number of carloads of ma
tcrial at the station and unloaded,
work started on Wednesday rebuild
ing the road between Eastville and
Eastville station. The old road has
been ploughed and the grading pro-
cess is under way.
The road will be Is feet wide. One
half the cost of matchmaking the
road has been paid by the town of
Eastville. The State Highway Com
mission constructing the road bears
half of the cost amounting to 5000.
When the road is completed it will
become part of the State Highway
and will be maintained by the State.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
NAME rs new
PARK employees
Will Select Successor to
Missing Official.

Appointment of twenty-five parks
department employees will be an
nounced at park board meeting to-
day, Emsley w. Johnson, board
president, said.
Names OF employees were decided
at a series OF recent conferences
with Mayor Duvall.
Some of the appointees will be old
workers, while others viii be named
for the first time. it was said. Sew
eral present employees probably will
be dismissed to make way for the
new men.
Edward Z. Mcbride, recrea.
ton director, is to be the goat to al
low retention of other workers. He
will lose his job. It is said Jesse
Mcclure will succeed him.
Appointment of an acting assist
ant parks superintendent in place
of II. Houston Tall, who has disap-
peared, is to be made. III Tan re-
turns, it is understood the appoint
ment will be only temporary.
Transfer of Elmer Wilson from in.
spector in the city engineers Office
to junior field aid in the parks en-.
gineering department was announced
Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
SIX I'M SAFETY
ZONE ARE HURT
Auto Strikes Women
Driver Faces Charges.

Six women are recovering today
at their homes from injuries re-
ceived Wednesday night when they
were struck by an auto while stand
ing in a safety zone at Liberty St.
and Massachusetts Ave. waiting for
a street car.
Police say the auto driver was Ben
Stewart, charged with driving
through safety zone, assault and
battery and reckless driving. He
said he skidded when he attempted
to turn from the car tracks.
Those injured were: Misses Mary
Lees, 18, Of 1925 Polk ST.; Gladys
Muelin, 20, of 4001 E. Thirty First
ST.; Effie Bryant, IS, Of 1850 N.
Sherman Dr.; Clara Bright, 16, Of
1918 Station St; Nellie Golden, 2S,
of 1880 Tallman Ave, and Ruth
Glasscamp, II. of 1852 Langley Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
FIVE PERISH In
FARM BLAZE
Father, Mother and Three
Children Die.
BIZ United Press

Bu United Press
DOWAGIAC. Michv Feb Alive
members of a family of seven. in
cluding 3-day-old infant daughter,
were burned to death by fire of
undetermined origin which totally
destroyed the farm house Of William
Wilkinson, six miles north Of here
today.
The dead are Mr.. and Mrs. Wilkin-
son; a, son Floyd; daughter Ginet
and the infant daughter. Two other
sons, Harold and Arnold, were work
ing on neighboring farm and
escaped.
Neighbors were unable to cope
with the flames, which swiftly roared
through the frame structure and
caved 1T in upon trapped members
of the family who were sleeping.
The dead mother was blind
Coroner S. e. Bryant ordered an
inquest 20 investigate possible
quadruple murder and suicide. The
dead baby was reported to have been
the illegitimate child of the dead
daughter by Pottawatomie Indian
Of the neighborhood. The coroner
believed Wilkinson may have
brooded over the child.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
OF
SCHOOLS STARTED
Chamber of Commerce Committee Orders Inquiry Into
Changes on School ventiating Systems.

struction projects, which changes 1T
has been charged, favor c. G. Shipp.
ventilator manufacturer, to the ex-
clusion of other bidders.
The investigation, ordered by
unanimous vote of the educational
committee at ats noon meeting
Wednesday. was placed under the
dictatorship Of Leonard v. Harrison,
secretary of the Chambers civic af-
fairs committee as an emergency
proposition. before being presented
to the chamber directors for ap-
proval.
The directors next meeting is Feb.
IS, and. the educational committee
is anxious to inquire into the
changes before contracts are let, un-
der revised specifications, according
to G. A. Millett. chairman OF the
committee.
DIR. Ada Schweitzer, State board
of health child hygiene director,
Daniel B. Luten and Edward Morse,
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
STOP PERMITS
FOR HOLLYWOOD
Police Chief Gives Order on
Dance Licenses.

Police Chief Claud f. Johnson.
after a conference with Mayor
Duvall. today ordered no more dance
permits be issued George Abrams
and Harry "Goosie" Lee, Negroes.
operators of the Hollywood Cafe,
black and tan" cabaret at 5321e In
diana Ave. Abrams is manager of
the cafe.
Monday The Times disclosed that
white persons and Negroes danced
together Saturday night at the
cafe. johnson ordered white per-
sons be kept out Of the restaurant
when he took office.
johnson said he believed the pub
lie generally is prejudiced against
the place and felt 1t would be better
not to issue other permits.
He's boss" said Abrams when
told of Johnson's order. He in
dicated he might go to court, by say
ing my money is tied up. there"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04

This would appear to be an un-
considerable contract Rocker S
opinion declares.
Agreement Void
$50 great is the disparity between
the benefits received by the city and
the compensation to the other party
to the contract (the city that we
feel the agreement is void on the
ground of constructive fraud. BY
this we do not mean to say that any
of those connected with the execu-
ton of the contract were guilty OF
actual fraud or of any intent to
wrong doing"
The opinion also is signed by John
X. Ruckelshaus Jr.. city attorney,
and Donald F. Roberts, assistant
city attorney.
The new contract, signed Nov. 80,
1925. by members lof the board OF
works of the last administration, in
cludes rental of five or more teams
of mules or horses for six months
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
H0LD-UP WORK
LOOKED EASY
TO YOUTH, 10
Midget Bandit Tells How
He Started-Three 'JobS'
Confessed.


Apparent ease with which a
hold-up could be staged with a
new automobile in which to
escape, led Andrew j. Carr, 10,
of Detroit, Mich, and 656
Coffey ST., to embark upon his
career as a bandit, the youth
said at city prison today.
Carr. known as the midget BEN
dit" charged with auto banditry
and robbery, had confessed to three
hold-ups in the last month.
Though he is five feet six inches
tall. he received his name OF mid
get" when a clerk in one OF the
stores he robbed described him as
being "about as high as the show
case"
A hold-up Wednesday night at the
Fritz drug store, TAI Virginia Ave,
Wednesday night, proved Cars un-
doing. He only secured SIS here,
while the other two robheries only
netted him $125.
II just got about half enough to
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
COUNTY RECORD
BOOK IS FOUND
Missing Document Seen in
Prosecutors Office.

The 1924 record book, No. 55, con-
tanning minutes Of Marion County
commissioners which County Audi
tor Harry Dunn has sought for sew
eral weeks was discovered today in
the office of Prosecutor William II.
Remy. The book contained records
of the county's negotiations with
George A Weaver & Son, contractors
who erected Julietta, county insane
asylum.
Remy used the book in making his
case against Windsor j Weaver, a
son, jointly charged with his father
in filing false claims in regard to
construction of Julietta The son
asked a separate jury trial, scheduled
to open Monday in Criminal Court
before Special Judge Charles S.
WiItsie.
Dunn had offered 5000 reward
for the books return.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
HOUSE IS GIVEN
new ARMY BILL
Carries s33e,581 ,924-
Provides $4,000 Men.

BV United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The
Army appropriation bill. carrying
$ass. s.5s1 .s24. an increase of s1,OS7,-
500 above budget estimates and
$695,293 above appropriations for the
current year. was reported to the
House today by the Appropriations
Committee.
OF the total recommended $751;
0S1,169 will be used for military ac-
tivities while the remainder, $751;
500.755. is for nonmilitary activi-
ties, such as maintenance and I'M
provement Of rivers and harbor
propects.
The measure provides for $4,000
commissioned officers and 1875, 900 en-
listed men. There are now actually
11000 officers and $4,000 men.
The bin carried the annual appro-
priation of s1O,OOO,0O0 for food con-
troll of the Mississippi River. The
appropriation is the third on a six
year program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
More Divorces
Given Women
Than Men
Wives Beat Husbands in
Fight for Separation,
Records Show.

- RE the wives wilder, or men
n meaner than in the old crino-
line days? Or has the great
American home lost it's lure for the
modern girl, because Of her recently
gained economic and political inde-
pendence?
Indiana divorce figures reveal that
more wives than husbands obtain
divorces.
Three thousand and six wives
divorced as many husbands in
eighty-four Indiana courts in 1925.
contrasted to this, 804 husbands
divorced their wives. according to
unofficial tabulations of couA clerks
reports to Charles marlborough,
director of the State legislative
reference bureau. The totals include
only the statistics on seventy-fve
out of ninety-three counties.
Same Condition In 1924
The same condition prevailed in
1924. In all the courts in the State,
5,049 wives defeated their mates In
divorce mills, and 2,0S6 husbands
chalked up legal separation vic
tories. During that year, 36.3OS
marriage licenses were issued.
Men in 1925 outdid the wives in
gaining legal separations in only
two counties of those which have
reported In another, the score was
tied. This was in Ohio County.
southeastern Indiana, of which Ris-
ing Sun is the county seat. The
score was three all
Twenty -one Blackford County
wives suffered divorce defeats and
nineteen won separation victories.
Out of seven divorces at Decatur,
Adams County, four were granted
men against three to wives.
Entries on Records
The eighty-four clerks made 1910
entries on their records, like this:
"And the court. having heard the
evidence and being duly advised In
the premises, considers, adjudges
and DEGREES that the bonds Of mat
rimony heretofore existing between
the parties herein, be, and the same
hereby are dissolved and rendered
null and void and held for naught"
These entries, some clerks believe.
can be laid to such things as apart
ment-house life. the cooling OF
physical love. the fading CT the
sanctimonious view Of marriage con-
tracts. and even the Charleston"
The total Includes the three Lake
County courts. which ground out
332 DEGREES for wives and ISL di-
vorces for husbands. The Marion
County totals are not yet available.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
NV WHIRTER is
STATE WAR AID
Bank President Heads
C. M. T. C. Work.

Felix M. McWhirter, Peoples
State Bank president today was
named Indiana civilian aid to Sec
retary of War Dwight Davis
McWhirter's duties will include
the Craftsmanship of the campaign
to enroll 1900 Hoosier boys in the
Citizens Military Training Camps at
Ft. Harrison. July Is to Aug. 13 and
Camp Knox, Ky, July to Aug. 5.
McWhirter is a lieutenant com
mander in the United States Naval
Reserve Corps. I'VE plan to form
a Statewide organization to present
of the camps to families
in which there are boys able to quail
~" McWhirter said. 1T Is an ex-
cellent opportunity for a thtrty-day
vacation at Government expense"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
WIDER MELLON
QUIZ ORDERED
Committee to Offer New
Resolution to Senate.

BB United Press
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.-The Sen
ate Judiciary Committee voted today
to go further into the trust activ-
tiles Of the Aluminium Company Of
America, controlled by Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon and his brother
r. b. Mellon.
The committee decided to report
to the Senate a resolution demand
ing that the Federal trade commits
sion hand over to the committee all
evidence in it's possession relating
to the Aluminium Company.
This evidence is that upon which
the commission recently based a
decision that the company was vic.
lating the antitrust law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
WATCHERS FRIGHTENED
BY SECOND EXPLOSION
Boom Follows Half Hour
After Superintendent An
nounced Underground
Blaze Was Under Control
Two Escape With Lives

BIZ United Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. A.
Nineteen were known dead to-
day as result of an explosion
that wrecked the right butt No.
Is of the Pittsburgh Terminal
Company's mine No. 4 at Horn
ing, near here, late Wednesday.
Trapped in a passageway 1000
feet from the mine entrance only
two Of twenty-one men sent below
to fight blaze escaped alive. They
we're Edward Travis. a foreman. and
Louis Powell. Sixteen bodies still
remain in the mine. Only three
have been recovered.
Second Blast
Anxious watchers at the mouth Of
the mine were frightened at a.
m. today when a second explosion
occurred. William 1vill, superinten.
dent Of Mine No. 8, and Matthew
Blair, superintendent OF Mine No. s.
were overcome. AS they were car
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
Daughter Had No Motive to
Wish Husband Dead, )
She Declares.

6r- F all the world forsakes you.
your mother loves you
4 stillw--just the words OF a
popular song. but they tell what
mothers have whispered from the
beginning OF time.
They are what Mrs. F. d. Feasel,
SIT N. Delaware ST., snatching few
minutes now and then from her
work in hotel kitchen, tries to con
vey TO her daughter, Mrs. Ruth
Gipprich. 26, who is accused OF con-
spring with Grafton A. Clary. 20. to
murder Mrs. Gipprich's husband. Leo
Gipprich.
Clary said Mrs. Gipprich asked
him TO kill her husband so she could
obtain his life insurance. They were
arrested on vagrancy charges after
an attack on Gipprich I'm his home.
Clary's confession to the love muir
der pact has been placed before the
grand jury.
MY little girl couldn't have done
this hideous thing" the mother de-
clared with tear-filled eyes. There
are two sides to every question.
People who are saying Ruth was a
gold-digger and a would-be murder
ess. are saying cruel things that are
terribly untrue. Why Ruth loved
her husband-they got along wonder
fully, would have known If she d
wanted to get rid of himl
Just reason this out. There
would have to be a strong motive
for such a terrible crime. Theye
was none here. Ruth's husband
made a good salary, and gave it all
to her. / would also have given
her my last cent.
Then she didn't hate her hus.
band as people must, who plan to
get rid Of a person. I'd have helped
her get a divorce If she'd disliked
him. but never, l swear has she ex.
pressed anything, but love for Leo.
Is 1t reasonable then that she'd
want him killed."
For years the mother said she
worked at washtub to support her
daughter Two other daughters
died.
Mrs. Gipprich has been in poor
health since she was struck by a
motorcycle when IA and has under.
gone many operations. her mother
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04

beginning April 1, 1925, said teams
to be cared for and fed at the city
barns at the expense OF the party
of the first part (the city,"
Under the contract Armitage was
given ''the right and option to re-
new this contract during the four
years following the date of this
agreement by giving to the party
of the first part a written notice OF
his intention so to do and by pay
ing to the proper office Of the party
OF the first part the sum OF five
dollars for eabh renewal"
Never Approved
Rucker sets forth the contract in
valid. because 1t never was. approved
by city council, was not let after
bid had been submitted and because
OF evidence Of other peculiarities.
This sum was for use Of an aver
age of ten teams OF mules by the
city for not more than six or seven
months in each of the respective
years." the opinion reads.
Rucker scored the practice of
allowing eleventh hour contracts.
This contract was executed in
the closing days of the last admin
istration and for no public purpose
that is evident" the report said.
Nothing appears to show that the
personnel OF the contract or the man
ner Of the execution Of the work was
so pressing or important No the
city that the hoard should sd at,
tempt to tie the hands of this and
a future administration" is also
said
Not Public Welfare
"The contract, to say the least OF
1t, is a remarkable one, entered into
under unusual circumstances, and
which would seem to Indicate that
the motive which prompted the ex-
ecution was not the welfare OF the
public"
The roprt points out that un-
der similar contract, Gin the years
1923, 1924 and 1925, Mr.. Ar7nitage
therefore drew from the city
treasury the sum of $17,547.5 so; had
his mules stabbed, fed, sh0d and
cared for in every way, including
veterinary services free Of charge
by the city, and still owns the
mules"
Attacking the attemppt of the old
board of works to tie hands OF the
new administration. the statement
IF the city may contract with
Mr.. Armitage for five years in ad-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
FEDERAL TRADE BOARD
PASSIVE, is CHARGE
Young Bob Asserts Combine
U VIII Mean Price Control
of Everything Farmer
Sells and Everything Con-
sumner Eats.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. A.
The Federal trade commission
is protecting big trust mergers
and the justice department has
ceased to prosecute them, Sen
ator King, Utah, Democrat, told
the Senate today in speech
denouncing the $2,200,000
Ward and National Food
Products combines.
King warned Senator La Toilette,
Republican, Wisconsin and author
OF resolution for a Senate investi-
cation Of the combines that he need
expect no action from the legisla-
tive department Of the govern
ment."
Apathy Apparent
THE apathy of the justice depart
ment in prosecuting antitrust cases
is apparent King said THE Fed
eTdi lTdue commission, unuer lJS
present personnel, has ceased to
function and ought to be abolished"
In statement explaining his reso-
luton introduced Wednesday in the
Senate to provide for an immediate
investigation of the consultations
Ny the Senate manufactures com
gmittee, La Toilette said:
"On Jan. 81, the Ward Food
Production Corporation was formed
in Baltimore, with a potential
capitalization of $1,000, ,00O, 900 for
the purpose Of dealing in all food
and .by-products.
Sees Price Control
This huge combine which will
buy the farmers products on the
farm and sell them to the consumers
at market is obviously intended to
control the price Of every table
article from milk to bread 1t will
go into the milling business to buy
wheat and will sell bread. It's OBJ
vious result will be to control prices,
not only the farmers prices but
the consumers prices.
ut is a very dangerous thing to
let such a monopoly be erected"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
ARMS FARLEY MAY 6

BIZ CHtfed Pres
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.-Informal
assurances have been given Ameri-
can Minister Gibson at Berne,
Switzerland, by the League OF Ma
tons that the postponed prepara-
tory arms commission will meet at
Geneva on May s. Gibson advised
the state Departmen today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
SNOW CRUSHES I'm
ROOF; SO BURIED
Two Bodies Taken 0ut-SM Injured Rescued in Eastern
Factory District

were carried away soon after the
accident.
Fire companies and police ire
serves were called out and rescue
work in the belief that forty or
more men probably remain trapped
beneath the wreckage OF the roof
and the mounds Of snow.
About 700 men are employed at
the plant.
The roof gave way suddenly with
a crash like an earthquake. None
Of the men employed in the build.
ing had a chance to escape.
The two known dead were found
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04

BU Jnfted Pffs8
NEW BRITAIN. Conn, Feb. A.
Weight of snow which for almost
twenty-four hours had been falling
here, caused the roof Of the foundry
of the North and Judd Manufact-
uring Company to collapse today.
Fifty workmen were reported
buried. Two bodies were taken out
and six persons, seriously injured
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
ATTORNEYS SAY AGREEMENT
LET BY OLD BOARD INVALID
Score Last Administration for At
tempt to Bind Present Officials to
Garry Out Compact Against Public
Welfare.

On original investment of from 900 $780, James
E. Armitage brother Of William H. Armage political director
of the Shank administration rented mules the city, receiving
net profit for three years rental Of months
year.
This statement made today in a report Avah Ruc-
corporation counsel submitted to the board of works which
seeks to destroy contract for the future Armtage holds with
the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
MAY RETAIN POLICEMEN
CounciImen Confer with Chief john
SON ON Fate Of 115.

Following conference Of three
Republican councilmen today with
Police Chief Claude f. Johnson, 1t
was rumored, the retention of a
large number of the lis policemen.
appointed during the dying days OF
the Shank administration, was
agreed upon.
Councilmen were President Boyn-
ton J. Moore, Walter Dorset and
DIR. Austin H. Todd.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
Jazz Babies Feared

mothers and influence the char
acters of their babies.
I'VE recognize" the petition
says, that we are living in a
jazz age but we object to i'm
periling the happiness Of future
generations by intoxicating in
them before they are even born
the madness that now rules the
country"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
HOURLY TEMPERATURE


CINCINNATI. Ohio. Feb. A.
Because it would inspire jazz
emotions in unborn babies. the
Salvation Army is sueing TO pre-
vent a theater being erected
next to its maternity home here.
The suit charges the music
from the theater would have an
unfavorable effect on expectant
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
FINDS HUSBAND NEGRO
Tragic Death Of Child Bares Race Of
Groom.

rI3U United Press
DAVENPORT. Ia. Feb. A.
Tragedy stepped on the heels of
tragedy today when Mrs. Edna
Healy Bogie, 80, wealthy widow.
discovered her handsome new
white" husband was negro
Mr.. and Mrs. Bogie were taken
into custody when their foster child,
Harold, was scalded to death. While
in Jail, Boyle broke down and ad-
mitted that he was negro and was
the father Of a girl in Columbus,
Ohio, by former marriages to a ne
gress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-04
TAX PUBLICITY
BEFORE SENATE
Problem to Be Tackled To-
day, Belief.

BH Untfed Press
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.-The Sen
ate today will tackle the highly con-
troversial question of income tax
publicity. repeal OF which was voted
by the House and concurred ia by
the Senate Finance Committee.
Chairman Smoot Of the commit
tee in charge OF the tax bill said he
would take up the publicity question
as soon as the Senate has disposed
OF several minor provisions.