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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17

rodav the good people of Ohio and especially
Of the city of Canton are offering thousands OF dol
lars in rewards for the slayers OF Don MeiletI
All in an instant the conscience OF the COM
munitv urges action against the forces which dc
tated his death.
.- The complacency with which they read MS
charges that the police were protecting criminals
!. now replaced with indignation.
n. THE mild interest taken in his charge that po
II litical machine supported by the underworld was
protecting criminals is replaced by vast horror
stbata good citizen could be killed for exposing cor
eruption
s7ss5 They might have known that either Don Mel
lett or some one else would be killed :
~ = For murder is always the last argument OF
crme the great crime cloak and protect all others
aa That murder was ordained from the moment that
= he showed both the courage and the ability TO go
beneath the surface of things and interfere with
the workings of the modern political machine which
gets its power from bootleggers hijackers gunmen'
gamblers and crooked policemen.
It was when Mellett became dangerous to this
glsgroup when he interfered with the punderng and
the graft that he paid with his life for his passion
? for public service
Had the same underworld been able to still his
charges of corruption of the police by Furnishing his
witnesses had been able to protect its venal OFF,
GERS by higher powers had been able to go on with
4 been touched.
~. Crime is killer, always 1t is snarling beast
which hits back when hurt
b~ It Is unfortunate that the people Of Ohio who
are now thoroughly aroused to the menace OF such
situation showed no greater interest when the
charges were being made.
n Had the same who organize themselves
TO replace corrupt police force organized to stamp
out corruption. there would be no bringing back to
indianapolis of the man who becomes q martyr for
his crusade. IS
The good people of that city thought too late.
Their rewards may catch the men, let it be hoped,
4 who fired the bullets ~
1t will disclose all those who contributed
to the tragedy until it puts into the sackcoth Of ie
pentance those good citizens who refused to listen
when he pleaded for decency and law.
The real killers of Don Meett, martyr and
sader are to be found among the compacent and the
nnterested who refused to take the trouble to clean
up corruption Of government when he exposed it.
- would be- unfortunate if other cities which
are controlled bycorruption and corrupted, fail to
learn the lesson of his death
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17
WILL CONDUCT REVUE
Walnut Gardens Announces Bathing
Beauty Contest.

The first Western Bathing
Beauty Revue will be held at Wal
nut Gardens Aug. Is, Carl Freyn,
manager of the park, announced to-
day. The management has COM
pleted arrangements with Jack
Vance, director of the HOLLYWOOD
Producing Company, S07 City Trust
Bldg, to handle details of the revue
A selection will be made Of Indian
apolis girls to determine the Indian
apolis entry. The winning In
dianapolis beauty. will compete
against girls from various towns of
Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana
The winner of the American
Beauty Revue will be christened
1.-THE American Beauty" In addi-
ton she will be given a silver Low.
ing cup. and a trip to Hollywood,
Cal, with all expenses paid, and
will have a chance to go into NOV
ing pictures. Girls wishing to enter
viii send their names to the Holly
wood Producing Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17
APPEALS ATTACK CASE
Man Sentenced for Striking Wife
Reluctant Witness.

Ira NJ. Holmes, attorney for Will
liam F.. Crosse. 1922 N. Capitol Ave-.
who was found guilty of assault and
battery upon his wife, Mrs. Fern
Crosse, by Criminal Judge James A.
Collins Friday afternoon. today said
he would appeal the case TO the
State Supreme Court. Judge Collins
fined Crosse SIS and costs and SEN
fenced him to ten days in jail.
Mrs. Crosse, principal State wit
ness, was reluctant to testify against
her husband. She denied he struck
her. However. Mrs. Pearl Woods.
4O26 N Capitol Ave. testified Mrs.
Crosse fled to her home and asked
that police be called, because her
husband had beaten her. Mrs. Woods
said there was blood on. Mrs. Crosse
face.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17

His State and His Profess
sion Owe Don MeIIet
a Great Debt.
By M. 1. TRACY

Words are futile in a case like
that Of Don R. Mellett. ~
The city that he died to make
clean owes him an everlasting debt
of gratitude. So does the state that
he tried to protect from being
Knocked by vice and corruption. So,
too, does the profession that he hon.
ored by raising a fearless voice for
decency.
Nor did he tread path of danger
without realizing, or face the pos
sibility of death without understand
ing that he could avoid it by ceasing
to demand punishment for law
breakers.
His life goes out asa burnt offer.
ing to freedom OF speech, which is
the all important factor in a repub-
lican form of government, and to
freedom Of the press, which is the
only thing that makes newspapers
worth while.
Fine and truthful as such express
sions are, they count for nothing so
long as his slayers go free.
AS the situation now stands, vice
and corruption have won a victory.
The man who fought them. openly
and honorably, lies stretched on his
bier, with widow and four or
phaned children doomed to bear the
greater burden.
If the city of Canton. the State Of
Ohio and the American newspaper
profession would pay fitting tribute
to Don r. Mellett. let them first
hang his murderers and then go on
with his work. The rewards that
have been offered show proper
spirit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17
By Charles P. stewart.

NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON, July 17.-Prohi-
bition referendums, or what, virtual
ly will amount to referendums, are
promised on a Statewide scale in
eighteen States at next November's
election.
They already are definitely as
sured in New York. Wisconsin, Col.
orado. Montana and Nevada.
In New York and Wisconsin they
were provided for by legislative en-
actment. In Colorado, Montana and
Nevada the petition method was
used.
In Missouri a referendum petition
is being circulated now. In Cali
fornia there is a prospect that the
Legislature will follow the example
Of New York's and Wisconsin's.
In Ohio Atlee Pomerene, wet
Democrat, is fighting Florence Allen,
dry Democrat, and Frank B. Willis,
dry Republican. for the United
States. Senate. principally on the
prohibition issue. The vote will be
the equivalent Of referendum.
though not explicitly under that
name.
The same thing is true of Illinois,
where George Brennan, wet Demo
crat, will make his senatorial fight
against Frank Smith. Republican,
solely on the issue Of modification
Of the Volstead law.
In Pennsylvania Representative
William S. Ware is a candidate for
the Senate on a platform which is
wet and nothing else, though the
scandal connected with his nominal
ton may lose him a good many
wet votes to William B. Wilson, dry
Democrat. so that the issue in the
Keystone State is not quite clean
clff
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Answers &

You can get an answer To- any guess
surs rna 3 3sg S% York m 2ye
on r 81 e. &Rf edeaE Legal ssp' and @aa
advice cannot be given nor can EXTENDED
questions win receive a personal reply.
Unsigned requests cannot be- answered.
All letters are confdential.-Editor-
Under Indiana law can boy un
der Is but over 16 get chauffeurA
license? J. X.
Upon proper application and ex-
animation the secretary of State
may grant such youth chauf.
feur's license.
What percentage of the total for
eign-born population of the United
States Is Italian?
According to the census Of 1920
there were 1,610.113 foreign born
Italians or lis per cent Of the total
foreign born population.
Why is a necktie called "craS
vat?"
Cravat is from the French word
"cravate." corruption of "croat.N
1t is a name used by the French in
the time of Louis XIV for the scarfs
worn by Creation soldiers. i
What Is "paradichlOro benzeneT
that is used to destroy moths?
A white crystalline substance, that
vaporizes slowly at ordinary tenn.
perature, forming a gas apparently
heavier than air. The gas is nom
poisonous to man and the fumes do
not injure fabrics. 1t is similar in
appearance to napthalene flakes and
effectively destroys moths when u
in the same way as napthalene am
in the same quantity.
What is the average difference IN
height and weight between q 9-years
old boy and girl?
The average height of boy 8
years of age is 49.7 inches and the
average weight 59.2 pounds. The
average height for a girl Of that age
is 49.4 and the average weight 57.1.
In washing clothes should they be
put to boil in hot or cold water and
how long should they boils
Place the clothes in a boiler OF
cold soft water, mixed with finely
shaved or scraped soap and bring
slowly to boiling. Boil five to ten
minutes. Prolonged boiling yellowa
the clothes.
When was the design Of the Ameri-
can flag adopted and was 1t the same
as the present one?
The design for our flag was OUT
lined in congressional resolution
passed on June IA, 1777, which states
that the flag was to be thirteen alter.
nate stripes, red and white; that the
union be thirteen stars, white in a
blue field, representing the new con-
stellation. AT first a new stripe and
a new star was added for each new
State, but soon it was realized that
the flag would grow too large, and
on April A, 1918, Congress passed a
resolution reducing the number of
stripes to thirteen and providing that
only new star be added'to the field
when a new State was admitted to
the Union.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17
Times Readers
Voice ViezCS
Editor 1.-THE Times"

Editor 1.-THE Times"
Dear Sir
1t may be that I have been mis-.
informed, but from all accounts Mr..
Shaneberger Of the board Of. public
works has been stating that he
favored the citys disposing Of their
municipal asphalt repair plant.
can not help being of the opinion
that someone with an ak to grindy
has been giving Mr.. Shaneberger
some bad advice. The city can not
afford to take any backward steps.
When the municipal asphalt repair
plant was installed in 1908, the
writer was chosen by Mayor Book.
walter to superintend it and the
asphalt repair work; he was picked
out on account of his practical ex-
perience (now covering a period OF
thirty-three years. and not from his
political affiliations.
At that time the superintendent OF
the Asphalt Paving Company, which
had the city contract for repairing
asphalt streets, had just been sent
to the penitentiary for defrauding
the city of indianapolis, having pre-.
scented and sworn to false claims.
and the contractor himself, was
under indictment as being a party
thereto. ~
The plant was a complete success
and remained so as long as practi
men, and not politicians, were ~
charge Of it,
Mayor Shank in both administered
tons appointed politicians to. this
department. Mayor Bell appointed
Denny bush, Mayor Jewett also APP
pointed politicians, and of course the
asphalt repair department did not
make the showing it would have,
under competent. experienced man.
agement.
There has never been a failure OF
a municipal asphalt repair plant,
when in charge Of experienced men.
they have all been moneymakers for
the taxpayers Detroit has had one
for twenty years and now lays a
great part Of her new asphalt
streets, and repairs all her old ones,
economically.
This city is paying $14 per ton for
an inferior material, that is interiors
to first class sheet asphalt mixture
which could be produced by the city
plant for less than $40 per ton with
her own labor, instead Of being
shipped in as the cold patching
material is, and the mixture pro-
duced by her municipal plant would
give far better results in the repair
of her asphalt pavements. WE
We hate to think that some polis
tician is collecting commission en-
this material, but we still renember
the last administration. 8r
One thing certain, a municipal
asphalt repair department, cannot be
run successfully by railroad con.
ductors or. cigar ,salesmen, and
neither could an asphalt man con.
duct a train successfully
Let's take the asphalt plant ON
of the politicians hands and put
in the hands of experienced men,
land 1t cannot help being a success.
| for it Is one Of the best investments
that the city still has Left
Yours very truly
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wet, but the prohibition issue will
figure, as usual, in the coming cam
paign, with all of them, and the
test Will, at any rate, determine the
present extent Of their wetness.
Maryland, also always wet, will
be revealed as having grown still
wetter If 1t dominates the very wet
Representative John Philip Hill for
the Senate, on the Republican ticket,
in preference to Senator o. e. We'll
Ter, whose wet-and-dry views are
somewhat difficult to ascertain exact
ly.
Finally, there is an independent
wet candidate for Governor in
Oregon.
Besides Statewide prohibition
referendums, or contests which will
give substantially the same in
formation as would be given by
referendums, the wet-and-dry issue
will figure in numerous and widely
scattered congressional district
fights.
Representative William D. Up
shaw, for example, will have a wet
candidate opposing him in his
Georgia district.
There will be wet and dry can.
didacies in the FIT. Worth, Texas, and
the FIT. Wayne, Ind, districts. Wet
and drys will vote it out in the New
Orleans district in Louisiana. Re-
ports of a prospective wet con-
gressional candidate or two come, OF
all places, from Kansas.
The district contests will not
signify much. Nevertheless their
results will count in determining the
wetness or dryness of the next House
of Representatives.
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Gone TO Seed

We have Just gone to seed over
minor offenses and that. more than
anything else. explains why we have
so many major ones.
Our sheriffs are chasing boot
leggers, when they ought to be
chasing killers and thieves. Our
policemen are acting as semaphores.
Our district attorneys are prosecut-
ing people for interfering with some
uplift scheme. Our court dockets
are cluttered with miserably un-
important cases.
Isn't that one reason why such
men are Don r. Mellett are as
sassInated IN their own dooryards?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17
BLOOD AND CEMENT

Across the fast growing State of North Carolina
east and west and north and south, stretch mag
nifcent new paved roads. and are building
They the first sign offered to travellers of the
States bid for leadership and the first thing the re-
turning traveller mentions as he tells you how North
Carolina is coming to the front 6 Il
In the little town of Albemarle, N c.. Judge
and jury began yesterday the hearing of case that
may take for the time being some of the glory from
the States good roads
On trial is former boss of chain gang that
worked on these roads. He is charged with the
murder of Two negro convcts whose labor and lives
went into the making of the highways He denies
the charge, Saying the two Negroes died of sun
stroke, not the result of beatings administered by
himself charged by the prosecution Nearly every
important attorney in the county has been employed
in his defense
Conditions surrounding the case assure a thor.
ough airing The whole State is watching the out
and good may come to North Carolina as
consequence
When the people of the State look the question
of convict road labor fairly in the face the end of
that system, handed down from darker day will
be The methods that built the pyramids and
the Roman roads ere not methods that can be used
today
Doesn't matter, but wonder if shoe dealers. ever
walk to work?
Charleston dance is said to be healthy So is
hurdle jumping.
Found booze in a hearse in ST. Louis 1t hadn't
died of old sge.
You are making serious mistake when you
learn nothing from 1t. .4
Statistics show there are about 2OO0OO,O00 dolls
in the United States not counting the human ones
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17
CITY MARKET TO BE UP
General Discussion Expected al
Cabinet Meeting.

General discussion of the future
of the city market was expected at
city cabinet meeting today.
Mayor Duvall is sticking to his
guns on opposition, to a committee
proposal to build market for
s1,OO0,00O despite the statement by
Boynton j. Moore, city council presi-
dent. that he would never agree to
appropriate $4,000 for market re-
pairs.
"A million dollars s, is lot of
money" Duvall said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17
PURDUE MAN WILL TALK
Prof G. 1. Christie to Address Rotary
Luncheon.

Prof. George I. Christie. director
of the agricultural experiment sta
ton and the Department of Agri-
cultural Extension at Purdue Uni
yersity, will address the Rotary Club
Tuesday luncheon at the Claypool
Members are planning to attend
the outing or group five Of the club
at Terre Haute Thursday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17

and say that he is the most popular man in the
world today, in sport out
Since the days of John L. Sullivan, America has
had no idol to compare with Bobby Jones. Babe
Ruth was. and still is, gigantic figure, but Babe at
his best could inspire the affection and we'll
wishes that the nibck wieder from Atlanta can.
Here's to Bobby, and may he win many more cham
pionshps
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17
KNOW YOUR STATE

INDIANA annually makes enough furni-
ture to refurnish every Hoosier home with
averv necessity and have a surplusage for ex-
MORT From kitchen cabinets in which the
STATE leads all others, 1.-THE highest grades OF
living room and overstuffed furniture nc, patri-
.o+ic Hoosier need go away from homo to shop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17

BUFFALO, N. r., July 17.--Auto-
mobile accidents claimed fifteen
victims in this vicinity last night.
Seven persons are dead and eight
injured. Six were killed when q,
passenger train on the Buffalo,
Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad.
struck a stalled automobile at Lacl<q-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17

In Massachusetts,, If as expected,
David 1. Walsh opposes Senator
William M. Butler, the Republican
candidate for another term, he will
do SOY among other things, as a
wet Democrat.
In New Hampshire, If Senator
George H. Moses is returned, it will
be as a wet as we'll as a conserva-
tive Republican.
New Jersey, Delaware. Connect
cut and Rhode Island, in their con-
gressional representation, always are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, July 17.-After
nine years, Trube Dawson, million
aire son of the late Henry P. Davi-
son Of Morgan & Company, has come
back.
When they picked him out Of the
wreckage of his plane with a dis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17
Two Public Band Concerts to Be Given
Sunday Afternoon and Night in Parks
GTSl WO concerts will be given
ii Sunday by the Indianapolis

/ Tgl W. CUHCeIlS Will De given
ii Sunday by the Indianapolis
~ Military Band in two Of the
city parks under the direction of w.
S. Mitchell, conductor.
One concert will be given at
Garfield Park at 8 p. m. and the
other at Jameson Park at 1880 p. m.
The soloists will be Mary Case. T.
K. Cox and Pasquale Montana
The programs follow:
w...s Garfield Park. $500 P. NJ.
Musical COMEDY w. sele;cti;on.ait' Hap wo00'
pened in Nordlandi -. Herbert
Musical Scenes from Switzerland"
...,,:.;,..... .............. LanSey
Mr.. Moniani flute; Mr., Cox. horn. ii'
Prologue from 'Pagliacci". -Leoncayallo
fsextette from Lucia (reauest) ..... -"
Miss Case. Mes;rs. Thromis. Ruth. Worth.
.srh. c,ou P Wvs, ana Howard. r..o,,o
Excerpts EXEC S0T from morT The Fortune Teller 'ncAe
sc, n,nnsr Heroert
Jameson Park. 1880 P. NJ.
hree Spanish % sh IpS Synces he STe
Quartet from s'Rigoletto'' Verdi
scenes from 1.-THE Wizard OF ozz'' '
Comm Through the Rye'.Humn1e9rr.s enS
overiSre Tempci weiiie -. .Keier, Beis
troupe oi 'o's Miss Case. selected
s;e.l;ectionSS-"The Fortune Teller, Herbert
"sstaprllIsps Suid Banner Art Nahsey
ri RS. FLORENCE PARKIN
lMl WEIGH, 1905 N. Pennsyl-
w. vania ST.. is in Toledo. Ohio,
to join the master class OF Madame
Rider-Kelsey of New York City. who
is spending the summer In Toledo
and teaching a limited number Of
advanced vocal students. Mrs. WEIGH
is soprano soloist at the Tabernacle
Presbyterian Church at Thirty.
Fourth ST. and Central Ave. in the
city.
I'm TUDENTS attending the
summer school of the Metro
@ politan School Of Music will
give a recital at the central school
building, corner North and Pennsyl-
vania SITS. next Saturday afternoon
July "a. 81 three o'clock. The pro-
gram is open to the public free OF
charge. On the program will bs
piano, cornet. voice. violin. and cello
numbers and readings. Taking part
will be-.
William Rouse Maud Lou MahrinR,
Jane Rogers. Ida Jean Waltz. Charles JEFF
fries. Margaret Wells, Lawrence Hewitt
Clyde Hose. Vera Dearborn Pearl Stock
dale. Mary Alice Snider Mary Lohrmann,
ter 4 The'ma Gardner. Margaret Mating
w. Janet Dean Beatrice Morley. Eva Nave
Marie Teter. Frieda RodeFick Josephine
Mazer. Florence Schwartz. George Byfield
Esther Steinmeier and Charles p. Emers
The puBis are students of Mrs. Nora
Beaver. Laura Doerflin Otis Priiitt. Helen
Louise Quig. Frieda Heider. Hugh Nc
Gibeny. Lucille. Wagner, Frances BeilS
Howe Zones. Frances Wishard. Grace
Hutchings and Adolph Schellschmidt.
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, You are making serious mistake when you
learn nothing from it. .4 ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17

Statistics show there are about 200O0O,000 dolls
in the United States not counting the human ones
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17

Found booze in hearse in St. Louis 1t hadn't
died of old age
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17

States in which referendums or
clear-cut wet and dry political
contests this fall will give a text
Of the extent Of antiprohibition
sentiment, voted as follows in
the prohibition poll conducted
last spring by NEA Service:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17

Charleston dance is said to be healthy. So is
hurdle jumping.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-17

Doesn't matter, but wonder if shoe dealers ever
walk to work?
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ter st. Prvy pokus sa mu MEDIA
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preto vyjddc z vody, siel ma dru-
hi stranu rieky a tam vystiipiac
ma schody ved1ce do Republic l.
ron and Steel Co., skocil so 40
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sho "a Wac hodin, ale nenasli no
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Barrett Co, pr Poland Ave, Mrt-
fola bold tax nasia knata Eterom,
ze nemohly byt' ma .nej najdene
ziadne znaky a preto ze v jeho
satach ndbolo ziadnych pisem,
totoznost' zatopenca ME je ziste-
ma. Bol 6 stop a a'poldruha inca w
soky 4 vail 22O funtov.