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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-30

Two printers were sentenced to
hang because they wouldn't watch
their commas. One of them began
writing screeds on the injustice of the
thing; the other began watching his
commas.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-30

No man can hope to handle the
money and direct the time of others
until he can properly handle and
direct his own.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-30

The American wishes all it's cor
respondents and other contributors,
advertisers, and all its readers a
happy and contented New Year.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-30

The attitude of some men toward
progress is that they simply won't
stand for it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-30

The dreariest people in the world
are those who merely want to be good.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-30

Advertising pays-try it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
FLOODS TAKE s LIVES
Streams in Texas on Rampage Fol
lowing TorrentiaI Rains

BV United Press
DALLAS, Texas, April %
Flood conditions existed today in
virtually all streams of southeastern
Texas as the result Of torrential
rains.
Eight persons have died from
drowning or lightning in the last
few days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
,
FEE GOES OUT
Tax on Haugen Farm Re-
lief Bill Postponed.
BIZ United Press

Bg United Press
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-The
equalization fee provision of the
Iiaugen farm relief bill was elm
mated today by the House Agricul-
ture Committee in executive ses-
sion. The committee voted to elm
mate collection of such a fee until
two years after passage.
Haugen announced that he in
tended to increase the proposed re-
volving fund in his bill from $780,
100000 to $3.50, 100000
Just what is the equalization fee?
AS written into the bill first pro
posd by the farm organizations, it is
charge to be made to the pro
ducer on each bushel or other meas.
ure of a major food crop. In the
farmers original bill, wheat, cattle
and swine were the products to be
so taxed. This charge, which might
be to 10 cents per bushel on wheat
for example, would create a fund
which could be used to defray losses
which would be sustained in dump
ing the surplus crop abroad and sell
ing it at the world price.
The idea is that by taking the
surplus off the domestic market the
home price will go up enough to
recompense the farmer three Or four
times over for the charge per bushel
or per pound that he pays.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
TAXES IN INDIANA
100000 MORE
Estimate on Increase in Year
Made by Auditor.

Nearly SS,O0O.OOO more taxes are
being collected in Indiana this year
than last, state Auditor i. S. Bow
man, reported today after com.
pleting his tax report for the 1926
yearbook.
Last year the various divisions
of State. county and township, Gov
ernments collected S126.969.3 1853 based
on 1924 valuations. This year total
of 1929, ,7S4.145 is being collected on
the same basis. Marion County,
with an appraised valuation of $741.-
6SS,77O is to pay $2O,117162. The
total State valuation last year was
s5.271,576,4s5 Of which $1,4S7,S6O,-
7S5 was in lands.
Forty-two per cent of the total
State taxes went to schools, Is per
cent to roads and II per cent t&the
State, Bowman eStimated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
HOUR OF LEES
ARRIVAL SECRET
Alleged Murderer. Believed
on Way Here.

If officials knew the hour Ralph
Lee, Indianapolis desperado, alleged
slayer, bank bandit, highway robber
and escaped convict, was due 20 ar.
rive from Buffalo, N. Y, they kept
It secret. 1t was believed officials
were guarding against a demonstra-
ton when the prisoner is brought
back by Prosecutor Remys detec-
tives, Jess McMurtry and Harry
McGlenn.
A small crowd gathered around
Union Station gates Thursday night
to glimpse the criminal following an
nouhcement by Remy that Lee was
en- route here. Subsequent kilograms
to Remy from the detectives, how
ever, contained the information their
trip had been delayed and that they
would start back today,
Lee faces a trial for vhis life. He
is charged with numbering Abner
Peek, Speedway City grocer, in a
hold-up July s, 1924 After the slay.
ing he escaped Jail, fed to Tennessee
was convicted Of highway robbery
and sent to prison. He engineered
n daring prison break April 8 for
fifteeen prisoners. They robbed a
bank and he fed to Buffalo, wnere
Indiana's claim won for his Gus.
tody.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
You Speak of Mother
LOUe! Read of M4rielS
i SEE SAID BLIND MAN
Beggar Arrested When He Picks Up
Dollar Bill.

BU Tunes NDccIdI
KANSAS CITY, Mo, April "a
Emil Porter, blind" beggar, was
arrested here when he picked up
a dollar bill dropped by a detective.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
FRIENDS OF
NJ CRAY TO
GET ASSETS
Tentative Report of Master
in ChanCery FavorS
Goodrich Pool.
EXPECTED TO BE FILED
Trustee Sought General
Distribution to Creditors.

Business. men headed by former
Governor James p. Goodrich, who
loaned $S5O,OOO to former Governor
Warren r. McCray just before he
went bankrupt. will be allowed to
retain the best assets of McCray
turned over to them by McCray,
Solon J. Carter, special mastery in
chcancery. indicated today.
Carter has prepared a tentative
report on the matter, he disclosed
holding that McCray viloated the
Federal bankruptcy act In soliciting
the loan.
Peters, trustee in bankruptcy for
McCray, endeavored to obtain these
assets to liquidate many Of Nc
Cray's debts.
1t was indicated that the report,
to be filed in Federal Court, will hold
McCray guilty Of "hindering, de.
laying and defrauding creditors"
The men who placed money in the
Goodrich pool, however, are not held
responsible, it is said, because they
were, at the time, unaware of Nc
Cray's financial condition and con-
tributed to the fund in good faith.
This was learned following an in
formal hearing before Carter with
legal counsel for Peters and the
Aetna Trust and Savings Company
trustees of the fund.
McCray is serving a ten-year sen
tence at Atlanta penitentiary for
using the mails to defraud. Subject
Of his release, because Of his failing
health has been nationally discussed
recently.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
CITY NAMED IN SUIT
Architects Ask S12,775 Judgment in
Complaint.

The city Of Indianapolis was
named defendant In a suit filed in
Superior Court Two today by Pres
ton c. Rubush and Edgar o. Hunter,
architects. for drawings and specifi-
cations said to have been provided
the park commissioners at a cost
of $13,775. The architects seek to
collect $12,775 judgment.
Suit alleges plans and specifica-
tions We're made for a recreation
building and swimming pool for
Rhodius Park for S4,275, and bath
ing pavilion and pool for Brookside
Park for $9,500 Complaint charges
the plaintiffs received $500 on each
Of these claims.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
NEW OFFER
ON French
DEBT MADE
S25, 100000 Annually for
First Five Years, Says
Ambassador.
$12O,0OO,0OO LATER
Drops Security Clause for
'GeentIeman'S Pact

By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 23-F'rance
today made a new>offer to settle its
$4,277OOO,OOO debt to America.
The terms presented to the Amer,
lean Debt Commimssion by French
Ambassador Berenger, it was learned,
were:
/. Annual payments Of $25,OO0,-
600 for the first five years.
2. Payments of $60,0OO,000 to $50,
100000 per year for the next five
years.
3. Payments of $12O0OO,0OO per
year fSr a period of fifty-two years.
4. France dropped a previous de-
rnand for insertion of a security
clause" in the agreement after hav-
ing been assured that her paying ca
pacity would be taken into considera.
ton should it be seriously impaired
during the period of refunding the
debt. II is understood that France
seeks. however, assurance that she
could, in case of extreme need have
a two-yeaF period of grace or re
duced term-the difference to be
made up in following years.
The session lasted less than thirty
minutes, but the conferees will meet
again tomorrow.
Some American commissioners
indicated they would not be salts
fed with the $4,000, 900 initial figure
since it represented only about
$5,O00,000 more than the French are
now paying as interest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
PLAN CONTEMPT TRIAL
GilliOm and Legal Aids Confer in
Shumaker Case.

Plans for trying contempt charges
against Superintendent Edward S.
Shumaker of the Anti-Saloon League
and two Of his associates before the
State Supreme Court May II were
laid today at a conference between
Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom
and his co-counsels, Solon j. Carter
and VIII II. Thompson.
Gilliom later was, to file additional
information against Shumaker and
Ethan A. Miles and Jess E. Martin,
league attorneys, to prove that the
Leagues 1925 report criticising the
Supreme Courts attitude was in
tended for general distribution. The
new data includes copies Of the In
diana edition of the American Issue,
organ Of the League.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
She Sought a Real Baby
for a Dolly and Al
most Got One.
,y Times SDecidI

BIZ Times SDeciaI
NEW YORK. April 23.-Many a
youthful miss of or 10 has longed
for a -y.real 1--we baby" instead Of
the china doll whose painted eyes
close and open in the same old way.
But as far rs is known. 10-year-old
Muriel Hausner is the first girl of
her years to perpetrate a naive and
nearly successful plot to obtain one.
The Department of Public Welfare,
which has charge OF abandoned or
phaned infants suitable for adoption,
was thrown into some confusion by
letter, typewriter. signed:
Mrs. Muriel Hausner, $40 Van
Cortland Park Ave"
In the letter the writer claimed as
her own an infant which had been
found abandoned in a subway sta
ton some months ago.
She MisEaid Ii
Mrs. Hausner" explained that she
had mislaid the baby, "along with
some other bundles."
The department heads, who al
ready had arranged for the infants
adoption, inquired of one another
how it happened that the waif should
be assigned to foster parents when
the real mother was alive and anx-
ious to recover her offspring.
Dear Sir" the letter began.
That's my baby you found on
Gath St., station of Lexington Ave.
subway. I am sorry to say that I
was careless but it will never hap
pen again had so many bundles my
arms were tired so L laid down my
bundles in my hurry to get the train
1 forgot the best bundle hope you
won't charge me more than S5 be-
cause L spent all my money for him
when I bought him would have no
titled you sooner, but had the grip.
Police Get Slam
Fl would like you to send him as
soon as possible I will pay the nurse
her fare please don't have a police
man bring him as its shame to
have such a young baby connected
with the police please make this as
quiet as possible because 1 don't
want anybody to know If you cant
send him Ill call for him and if I
cant Ill send my little sister after
him It'll be all right because she is
very careful don't say a word to
her just give 1t to her because It
will be a surprise for her if you
want her to call for him just drop
a card to come to your hospital to
have tonsils cut by order of DR.,
Wolfe.
"Then some one will take her
down town 1 think Ill have to send
her as I am a school teacher and
my husband is away and 1 cant
come after school because I teach
dancing then my sister will soon be
ten so you can see she will be able
to bring him home safely onley
don't bother her with to many ques-
tions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
COFFIN DENIES PART
G. O. p. Boss Ridicules Report on
Ordinances,

George V. Coffin. Republican city
chairman, today denied heinstigateG'
city councilmen to introduce or.
dinances, abolishing the office of
traffic inspector, authorizing an In
vestigation at police headquarters
and other innovations.
Coffin ridiculed a report that he
sought removal of Police Chief
Claude +. Johnson.
why, Claude is a good friend Of
mine" he said.
City Clerk William A. Boyce Jr..
had received no request to call
special council meeting tonight, as
was contemplated by the Boynton
J. Moore council faction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
BREAK IN ON GAME
Ten Negroes Arrested by Police in
Early Morning Raid.

Sergt. Orel Chitwood and squad
raided a house at 326 Usage st.
early today and interrupted an al
legged poker game. The officers had
been informed that the game would
not start until after midnight.
Robert Harris, %, Negro, Of that
address was charged with keeping
a gaming house. Nine Negroes were
charged with visiting a gaming
house and one OF them, William
Findley, %. OF 242 w. Vermont ST.,
was charged with carrying concealed
weapons. Police said they found
a revolver in his pocket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
SAYS 1900
S. H. S. PLAN
IS MISTAKE
Shortridge Principal Op-
poses Proposal for School
With Less Capacity.
FoRESEES CONGESTION
Would Have $500 Pupils as
Now, He Says.

Erection of a new Shortridge
High School to accommodate 1900
pupils at Thirty Fourth and Meridi-
an SITS, as proposed by the school
board and some Shortridge patrons
would he a mistake, George Buck,
Shortridge principal, said today.
Probably $500 or more pupils
would attend the new school and the
situation would be identical with
the one now prevailing at the school
at Pennsylvania and Michigan Sts.,
Buck stated.
This school has a capacity of
1900, but for the past five years
has been overcrowded and now about
2,700 children attend school there in
jammed quarters.
Not AntagOnistic
'I do not want to take an an
tagonistic stand against the propo-
sition, but l do believe erection of
school for 1900 pupils would be
mistake he said
Buck declared the only solution
for the problem was construction Of
n building for $500 pupils.
He said if the new building is
erected, teachers and persons in
touch with handling the children
will have to wage another battle
against overcrowding.
Buck stated that the junior high
school Program which the board
has in mind to support the smaller
high school, "is in the experimental
stage" lie said he was not against
the Junior high school program, but
believed that with it in such status,
the larger school should be erected
No Official Action
The principal further declared
that construction Of the Washing
ton and Crispus Attucks High
Schools, for Negroes and west side
pupils, will not take enough chill
dren from Shortridge to aid con-
ditions.
The board has taken no official ac-
ton on the question Of putting
Shortridge at Thirty Fourth St. or
on the type of building to be erected,
but it las announced it favors put
ting this type of structure on the
site and supporting the school with
junior high schools in Broad Ripple,
Irvington and possibly on the south
side.
1t is the general feeling among
Indianapolis Public School Welfare
Association members that erection of
the 1900 capacity school at Thirty
Fourth st. Immediately will solve the
problem, This association took court
action to prevent the board from sell
ing this site and buying another on
Forty-Sixth St, between Central
Ave. and Washington Blvd.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
SHOWERS ARE PROBABLE
Rainfall to Date Exceeds Normal for
April.

With rainfall of thirty.seven hun
dredths of an inch Thursday, total
precipitation for the month reached
3.61 inches. the United States
Weather Bureau announced today.
This exceeds the normal rainfall of
3.47 inches for lall of April.
Further showers are probable to-
night and Saturday, Meteorologist j.
II. Arlington said. Saturday night
Should be cooler, he stated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
Sl1,925 LOOT IS
NIGHTS WORK OF
THIEVES IN CITY
Thirteen Autos, CigaretS and
Rings Taken-Safe Is
Robbed.

Thieves took loot valued at $11, ,925
during the night, police records
showed today.
Robbery of a safe netted yeggs
$3.50. Burglars broke into a cigar
dealers warehouse and made off
with 10000 cigarets valued at 81, 400
Auto bandits 'stole thirteen autos
and a motorcycle of total value Of
at least $4,000.
John Grubb, ia N. Senate Ave,
an employe at the Otto Schaaf barber
shop, 100 S. Illinois St.. opened the
shop this morning and found the
safe moved to the dressing room.
Schaaf said the combination had
either been worked or the safe was
not locked when the shop was closed.
A rear window had been broken open
and $3.50 was missing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
Mayor HeardA
HAYNES DEFENDS LAW
Tells Dry Rally Attacks Only Show
Prohibition Is Effective.

Bv United Press
DETROIT, April 23.-Public opin-
ion passed the Eighteenth Amend
ment and is maintaining the law
and the bitter attacks on prohibition
only go to show that prohibition
is effective, Roy Haynes. Federal
prohibition commissioner, told the
Michigan Anti-Saloon League today.
"A law that is dead letter chal-
lenges no opposition from its foes
Haynes said.
He declared enforcement is tight
ening, pointing to the increased per-
sonnel, increased equipment OF the
coast guard and efforts of friendly
foreign powers to stamp out liquor
smuggling. He scoffed that prohi-
bition had increased crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23

cussion, a skull fracture, high
fever, superinduced by his ner-
vousness, and a threat of men,
ingitis was a pretty heavy load
for an undersized convalescent.
Just few weeks before-when
school resumed after spring va
cation-Donald had gone back
to school after a siege of pneu-
monia.
Before he had the pneumonia,
Donald had the measles. He
has been at school about one
month since September. His
chief concern as he became
conscious was when he could
go back to school.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
School Boy Fights Way Back
From Death for Third Time

Rousing from stupor at
Methodist Hospital today, Don
aid Spicer, ". Of 1884 King Ave,
appeared to be winning his
third encounter with death in
year.
Donald walked into the path
Of an automobile driven by
Clayton Swift, Thirty-First st.
and Lafayette Rd., last Friday
afternoon in front Of School 75,
at Fourteenth st. and Belle
Vieu Pl. The lad had disobeyed
a schoolboy traffic officers sig
nal.
They clicked him up-one of
the years auto victims-a first
grade schoolboy. Brain con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
TO VOTE AT COURTHOUSE
Those Who Cannot Go to Polls May
Give Ballots to Clerk.

Starting Saturday morning and
continuing until next Saturday per
sons who cannot vote at the pri-
mary, May 4. may vote in person on
the third floor of the courthouse
Albert H. Losche. county clerk. said
today.
Losche said about ] 900 p srsons
have applied for ballots with "hich
to vote by naaA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
BELL OF 70
OVER RADIO
SAVES SHIP
Epic Battle With Seas Told
by Skipper After 130-
Day Voyage.
BIZ Times Special

~ ItmcS SDectdt
SAN PEDRO, Cal, April 23.-"We
had given ourselves up for lost on
Christmas day and were waiting for
our fate when we decided to play
a game Of pinochle so we could for
get our troubles, ! turned on the
radio and the sounding Of the
Liberty Bell in Philadelphia came
clear and strong. We can't give
up now boys, l said and we broke
up the game and got to work"
So runs the wild tale of Skipper
Allan Rosendal, who brought his
four masted lumber schooner Irene
into port Thursday after a madden
ing l30-day voyage.
On Dec. IA. the Irene left Grays
Harbor. Wash, bound for Miami in
a race with another ship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
CONVENTION ADJOURNED

Police Hold Assembly of BOotleggers
at Chicago.
BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. April 2S.-"Convention
is adjourned announced Chairman
Joe Salts. when police invaded the
spring meeting of Chicago boot
leggers. The delegates are now in
Jail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
Home Edition

Swing around the local golf
courses with Brassies and
Birdies-on the Sport Page
every day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
BIG USED CAR SHOW
Will Be Held at Riverside Park,
June 5 to 13.

Indianapolis will have a selected
used car show with special sales fea-
lures at Rivers<e Park, June 5 to
13, 1t was announced today by
Marvin Thorton and Mark F. Rhodes
Of Riverside Park. Automobile
dealers are cooperating in the affair.
The show will be ushered in by a
parade of cars through the down
town streets. Lew Shank, former
mayor, will be in charge of the
special sales. Each dealer will have
five cars at the show.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
CHURCH HAS CONTEST
Temperance VIII Be Topic of Young
People Tonight.

Young people Of First Friends
Church, Thirteenth and Alabama
SITS. will have temperance contest
tonight. Miss Martha e. Bennett,
religious education director, said the
winner Of the contest will represent
the church at the yearly meeting Of
Friends at Plainfield in August.
Walter Johnson, Robert Taylor.
Donald Wright, Ann Carson, Elma
Hohkett and Robert Jennings will
participate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
CONDUCTOR FOUND DEAD
Big Four EmplOye Succumbs at HO-
tel-Heart Disease Blamed.

o. T. Hyer, about so, Columbus,
Ohio, Big Four passenger conductor,
was found dead at 1890 p. m. today
in his room at the Sherman House.
G. l.. Fry, who lives in an ad-
joining room, reported that he heard
violent noises in Hyers room. When
entrance was gained to the room,
Hyer was dead Fry said he be-
lieved heart disease caused the
death. Coroner Paul F.. Robinson
was summoned. The widow sur
wives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
Don't 'Fede" Him

II trust her so you can trust her
to let me know as soon as possible
and don't fede him to much so he
wont get so fat my sister will be
able to carry him home she will
bing IS for his bord please send me
back the picture because it is so
cute of him / want to keep it.
"Hobping 1 will get my baby back.
Yours truly,
"MURIEL HAUSNER."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
Drug Store Entered

Burglars entered the c. NJ. Jesse
drug store, 22O4 Madison Ave, by
forcing a side window. A baseball
glove, candy, tobacco, a pay phone
and small amount of change, total
s65 was taken, Jesse told Motorpo-
licemen Mueller and Giles.
Mrs. Anna Crawford 4526 Wash
ington Blvd, told police she washed
her hands at the Guarantee Gazette
ria and left her diamond ring, value
S65.. When she returned it was gone.
o. f. Mann, 567S n Meridian ST.,
reported 1000 yellow brick, valued at
S25, stolen from a box car at Euclid
Ave. and Thirty-Seventh SITS.
c. G. Allen, 500 Massachusetts
Ave, reported q Harley Davidson
motorcycle, worth $3.50, stolen from
1000 N. Harding st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
DROPS DEAD IN PARK

John Allen, 20, Negro 1908 E.
Seventeenth St, for twenty-eight
years a city fireman, recently an
empIoye of the park department,
dropped dead while at work in
Douglass Park today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-23
WATSON FOR FARM AID
Says Senate Must Consider Relief
Before Adjournment.
Bg Times Special

Bp Times Special
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Sen-
ator Watson of Indiana has told the
Senate that it will consider agricul-
ture relief legislation before ad-
journemtn "if I have anything to
do with it,
Senate program includes the Ell
lott Public Buildings bill, the Wat.
the McFadden banking bill and the
farm relief.