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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-28
Economical

Daniel Guggenheim, who has just
given $2,5O0,OOO to advance aeronau-
tics condemned avarice at a dinner
in New York.
"There is story" he said, that
shows us how absurd avarice is. A
California boy asked his father
Father, can / go down to the
orange grove and pick a few or
anges?'
"'Yes, son, but be all-fired careful
only to pick bad ones.
"But suppose there ain't no bad
ones, father?
""Then you'll have to wait till
some goes bad, of course. We cant
afford to eat good, sound fruit that
fetches dime apiece up in New
York Exchange.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-28
PROVING GROUNDS

PROVING GROUNDS
We learn that scientists are expert
menting with the wave length of
smell, and we are wondering whether
they are working at Bermuda or
Limburg.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-28
Missing

Visitor: What pretty hair you have,
Dorothy. You get it from your
mother, don't you?
Dorothy: I dess I must "a got it
from papa; his is all gone.-Boston
Transcript.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-28

We'll, darling, what did you see at
church today?"
"Oh, muvver, 1 saw the funniest
thin-a man that said his prayers
and den he didn't go to bed."-Good
Hardware.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-28
Out of Luck

Little Billy Kent likes ice cream
cones. just as much as anyone and
during the March heat was asking
his mother for dimes several times a
day. Finally she began to refuse
him, saying he'd had enough.
BILLY, you must think your moth
er's a bank" remarked a caller.
"Well, if she is" Billy retorted,
she's usually closed up"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-28
Guess She Knew

Sunset tells of a young woman
motorist stopping at a service station
and asking for quart of red OIL
"a quart of red oil, Miss?"
eyes" she replied, my tail-light
has gone out."-Boston Transcript.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-28
AN ILL WIND

AN I'LL WIND
Evil is bad for most of us, but
what would the playwrights do with
out it?
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PROSPERITY ATTACKED
Congressman Garrett Says 10000, 900
Are i'm Distress.

Asserting that4O,OO0 900 people in
the United States are in distress as
a result of the agricultural situation,
Finis j. Garrett, Democratic floor
leader in the House of Representa-
tives, attacked Coolidge prosperity"
in Fourteenth ward address at Ray
and Harding SITS. Saturday night.
He asserted the tariff is one Of the
greatest evils that afflicts the farm.
err. Charges Of graft and governmet.
al dishonesty heaped upon Republic
an leaders during the last four years
were contrasted with achievements
Of the Wilson administration.
Garrett is scheduled to make sew.
eral addresses in Kentucky this
week.
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CITIES GOING IN DEBT
Spending More on Operation and
improvements Than States.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-Munici-
palities of the country are spending
more money on operation and i'm
provements than the States and are
rapidly sinking in debt in the proc
ess.
After studying such expenditures
of 247 cities of over 10000 popula-
ton, the Department Of Commerce
announced today that the total out
lay Of this class for the fiscal year
1925 was $1,525,556,7O4, or so per
cent larger than similar expenditures
by the forty-eight States. and only
IA per cent less than comparable
Feleral expenditures.
Net Indebtedness for these cities
amounted to $4,659, 629,234, an in
crease Of 1912 per cent over the prev
ious year. Among the 247, only sew
enty-eight reduced indebtedness.
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LUCKY JACK TO
STAY OFF WATER
Master Marine Quits Sea
After Sixty Years.
BIZ Times SpeciqL

BIZ Times Special
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 49,
Lucky Jack" Sylander, master mar
liner, has quit the sea that held him
under its spell for sixty years.
1t was a weary old man who came
ashore from the Norwegian motor.
ship Florenana when the vessel put
in here from the Galapagos Islands.
Sylander, urged on by pride, had
signed as an able-bodied seaman at
the age Of 70, and the voyage had
not been easy.
II missed the Galapagos in my
wanderings," he said. land 1 want
ed to get there before 1 died. But
all l found was hard luck. ! pricked
my finger while SHINING a seal and
got blood poisoning. I'm glad to get
back"
Adventure and romance have lived
before the eyes of Captain Sylander.
1--WE seen a lot of things" he said,
fights, death, mates lost overheard,
disease-I've seen comrades pulled
right under by my side as we were
swimming for a lee shore. Others
shriveled up and died on the decks.
Strange tropic diseases took a lot
of them.
IT tried soldering. too. Volun-
teered for the Greeks when they
warred on the Turks. Lucky Jack,
they called me, I'cause never got
hit. But I wanted to get back to the
sea again. And when the Floreana
hove up I was fool enough to sign
on.
That's all over now, though, and
I'm going back to Norway to rest
and read. And I'm not going to traV-
ell on water to get there any more
than 7 have to- either"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-18
AMERICAN MURDERED

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-The
United States Government, through
Charge Schoenfeld, has urgently re-
quested the Mexican government to
apprehend and punish murderers OF
J. e. Spriggs, American citizen and
superintendent of Pepper Fruit
Company near Culioan. Sinaioa, the
state Department announced today.
The murder occurred Saturday.
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Indiananolis. Ind. Oct. II. fae6' -
~. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS


will be received by the Board OF School
Commissioners nm Of the city of Indianapolis,
ian St., Indianapolis. Ind. until the hour
995aS 9 9or tbo 3o,I m Tuesday. Oct. 20,
The furnishing Of all materials. tools.
drayage and labor necessary to properly
the nT side Of XhG st. sfd T pT6
proaeh on the east side Of Rich i d. St. at At
the south property line of Miller st.
"A All %! Of said work to be done in accord;
by the Superintendent OF buildings and
grounds and in all respects to conform to
the regulations imposed by the civil city
ton, of walks. .curbs and approaches
-, The proposals for the construction of
mitted in a sealed envelope with writing
thereon plainly indicating the nature of
Specifications may be obtained from
the Business Directors office upon appli-
All bids must be submitted on blank
form No. SO. prescribed by the Indiana
state Board OF Accounts. which blanks,
sSed by W the BDsess % uP be fur
plication. These proposals must be ac-
companied by a certified check on an In
or Indianapolis exchange. for go of the
maximum bid. The check or exchange
the Board of SchoIs Commissioners of the
City of Indianapolis
Bidder shall specify in his bid when he
win complete work If awarded the con-
tract
In case bidder whose bid shall be &C.
cepted, shall not within five days after
notice of such acceptance, perform his
bid by entering into a written contract
with the Board. to perform the work in
accordance with the provisions of the
specifications and within that time secure
surety bond, with sureties to the APPROVAL
of the Board his certified check or DRIFT
and the proceeds thereof shall be and re-
main the absolute property Of the Board
such failure. it being impossible. to esti-
mate the amount of damages such failure
would occasion to the Board.
III The right is i, reserved s; by the Board to
accepting or rejecting proposals for a
Board OF scHooL COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS
BY URE NJ. FRAZER.
Businessl Director.
INDIANAPOLIS Ind Oct II 1926.
You Read the Want Ads--
Have YOU tried to use themf
AK Tor i s" al Faksss..
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ART TALKS ARRANGED
Heron Institute Principal Will Ad-
dress Indiana Teachers.

Miss Edna Mann Shower, principal
Of the art school Of John Heron
Art Institute. has arranged a pro-
gram of talks for art teachers dur
ing the convention of the Indiana
State Teachers Association, to be
held here Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday.
Seven faculty members will take
part. An artists dinner will be given
in the Propylaeum at $50 p. m.
Friday and art teachers from
throughout the State will attend.
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GREAT LAKES CASE SET
BIZ United Press

bU CWTTBW ITt06
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-Hear-
ings to take evidence in the Wiscon-
sin Great Lakes diversion case will
start here Nov. 8, Charles Evans
Hughes, appointed by the United
States Supreme Court as special
master, announced today.
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JOHN f. minor.
FRANK DRIVER.
MARY E. HOSS.
ADOLPH EMHARDT,
Board of Park Commissioners. City OF In
dianapolis Ind.
Dot IA 1920

NOTICE OF SALE OF BUILDINGS
Notice is hereby given that the Board
of School Commissioners of the city of In
dlanapolis. Ind will Up to the hour of s
ocock y. m. Oct. %. 1925. offer for sale
TO the highest bidder certain buildings To-
Gated on school grounds, as said buildings
cannot be simultaneously used for school
or library purposes.
All bids must be submitted in writing
IN a sealed envelope. with writing thereon
plainly indicating to which building or
buildings the bids refer.
offered for sale:
One frame residence at School No Al.
known and designated as 1045 w. Thirty
First st:
One frame residence at School No. Al
First St;
One frame garage at School No. Al In
rear of 1O45 w fhirty-Firs st.
Said above named buildings 70 be re-
moved from the premises by the .pur-
chaser within forty-tive (45) days from
date of sale
In all cases the foundations are to he
removed to az least twelve inches below
ises to be left free of all debris
The right is reserved to reject any or
all bids and TO refrain from accepting or
rejecting bids for not more than ten (1O)
days
BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS.
By URE NJ. FRAZER.
Business Director.
TWN1a .l1s III nAN
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ELEVEN WRECKS REPORTED

BIZ Unfted Press
TOXIC, Oct. 1S.-Eleven wrecks
were reported today in a gale which
struck northern Japanese waters.
The Kaitsu Maur. a vessel Of 1903
tions. was reported to have foun.
dered with passengers aboard.
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FRANKLIN BANKER DIES
Succumbs at Hospital Here Follow.
ing Operation.

e. E. Smith, Franklin, Ind, bank
err died at noon Sunday at st. Vim.
cents Hospital following an oper.
alton on his throat.
He had been at the hospital a lit.
tie more than two weeks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-18
CONVICT OUTWNS
HANGMAN AND IS
BROUGHT TOL|FP
Doctor Who Bought Mans
Body ReSurrectS Him,
Letter Reveals.

BOSTON, Oct. 1S.-A collector Of
old letters and manuscripts has
made public here a letter written
back in 1888 by a condemned con-
vict who, with the aid of doctor,
outwitted a hangman and was liter
ally resurrected after he had been
taken from the moose as a dead man.
"You will no doubt be greatly as
tonished" wrote Joseph Taylor, of
Boston, to his friend, Phelim Don
ance Whitesmith, also of Boston, Eat
receiving a letter from one whom
you so lately saw to all appearance,
numbered with the dead, with all the
ignominy of a public and shameful
execution"
He then told of his time in prison.
as he awaited the date Of the execu-
ton, land told Of his unconcern UNI
til one day a doctor visited him in
his cell and bargained with him for
his dead body For the first time
it dawned upon him that "hell was
yawning for me-" II was in a cold
sweat. My knees smote together,
and my tongue seemed to cleave to
the roof of my mouth" -
The doctor seemed moved by ~
boys story-Taylor was only a boy,
but the authorities wanted to make
an example Of him-and instead of
arranging to buy his dead body for
purposes of vivisection, planned to
bring back to life a body that to all
appearances was dead.
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G. O. P. CANDIDATE DEAD
Operation Fatal to George j. Muller
at Vincennes.

BIZ United Press
VINCENNES, Ind, Oct 49,
George Joseph Muller Jr., deputy
attorney general and Republican
candidate for Knox County prescott
ing attorney died in a hospital here
late Sunday night following an opera
ton for appendicitis.
Muller was operated upon Friday
night and complications followed
which resulted in his death.
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Stuudebaker
COME IN!

Well show you how we can
back up every sale. Cars like
these account for it.
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Describes Hanging

"My first feeling after the shocl,
of falling was a violent strangline
and oppression for want of breath
this soon gave way to a pain in my
eyes. They seemed to be burned by
two balls of fire which appeared be.
fore them. and which seemed to dart
on and off like lightning. After one
terrible flash. in which the two balls
seemed to join into one, sank away,
without pain, like one falling to
sleep"
That was all he knew until he felt
eXcruciatng pain, surprising that he
had suffered when suspended by his
neck in mid-air.
1t was, as he was later told, two
hours and forty minutes after he
had been taken from the moose that
the doctor perceived signs of life bv
a small melton and warmth in my
chest; twenty minutes later 1 gave
a violent, deep groan.
Here description fails; I cannot
describe the intolerable agony of that
moment. Ten thousand stranglings
are tritiing to 1t.
when I awoke It was dark. I
felt yet somewhat light-headed and
confused from the dreadful scene
had passed through. All hands were
now called, and a solemn oath was
taken not to tell anything that haG
happened until was safe out Of this
country"
The letter, which wa written just
prior to his leaving the United
States, closed by informing his friend
that he was sailing the next day for
Gottenburg, Sweden. ~
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Help Wanted Male
AUTOMOTIV'E
SPECIALITY
SALESMAN

We have an article of unusual merit
supreme in the field OF hEd lniGI d sa9lSS
and price. One speciality man will be
con Immediately, for exclusive dis;
tributiye, rights in Indianapolis: Ind, o.r IL
mi detail as to ~ financial responsible
ity. (2) experience. CD Organization q
lines now being handled. This Is pig pig
us, Do not answer unless you are serious,
for prospects are unusually promiis,itng ana
wifi be considered. Address Times Box
A 1876.
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Gets Instructions

Shortly before Taylor was led from
his cell to the gallows he was handed
a. note from the doctor. 1t read:
"Taylor-Everything depend S on
your presence of mind. Remember
that the human machine may be put
in tune again if you preserve the
spinal muscle from injury and do
not dislocate the vertebrae of the
neck; so you must endeavor to work
the knot behind your neck and press
your throat upon the halter, which
will prevent the neck's breaking and
likewise the compression of the
jugular, and preserve the circulation
in some degree. Keep up your
spirits"
That encouraged him. but, as he
mounted the scaffold, he neverthe-
less dreaded the pain Of hanging;
what worried him most, however,
was the possibility of meeting IAN
offended memorable judge" in the
event the doctors plans didn't work.
But he kept his head and as the
minister was reciting a farewell
prayer, the man on the scaffold with
the moose around his neck, kept
gently turning his head so as to
bring the knot to the back of hi
head, as the doctor had instructed.
when the trap fell 1 had all -
senses about me, "-he related.
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SPECIAL TODAY
STUFF INDIANAPOLIS co

1896 TOURING
Starter and demountable rims; ne,w
Firestone cord tires new DucO finish. w
Red Seal inspected.
WANGELIN-SHARP
Drex 5000 443 Virginia Ave.
Omen evenings and Sunday
1928 COUPE
Starter and demouItable rims; four new
Miller cord tirCs: lock wheel and other
extras WANGELIN-SHARP. 443 Virginia
Ave. DreX 5000. Open evenings and
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Legal Notices

GooDs stored in the name Of a; e
Ter, Msymie H9uchin. ~ Charlie wilkins
Bright w. + Clements Katie Parks and
Mrs. Anna BRAY will be sold for storage
charges Tuesday. Oct 20. 1926 at 8 80
a. m. Goods having been in storage the
required length of time and charges IN
paid BANNER STORAGE CO 32S E
Mahash St Riley 5000.
ESTATE. BETNG StPART or EAND
bEPARTMENT' OF Public PARIS.
CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS. IND,
To whom 1t may concern:
NOTICE is hereby given that the Board
Of Park Commissioners of the city of In
dianapolis. will receive bids on Thursday;
the Board; and from day to day there
South one-half u Of lot No.
"a. of Marion Highlands. an adj
dit1on to the city of Indianapo-
lis. Ind
Said sale will be for cash. and under
Property Resolution No. l. 1926. and as
authorized by Special Ordinance No. 4.
1925. of the Common Council of the city
of Indianapolis.
Said land is now owned by the city of
Indianapolis. and is a part of the park
and boulevard system of said city. and is
no longer needed for park purposes. and
the same should be sold.
quired by law must be furnished. Forms
NAV be had at the office of the Board
Said land must bring the appraised value
thereof.
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Death Notices

RAY. HUDSON D-Passed away at the
home of his. son. George Ray LILY LILY
Wednesday, Oct. 20. 2 D. M. at the above
address, Friends inVted. Burial Me-
Evening star., 1926-10-24

dustrial girls employed in the vicinity
Of e street will be served in the back
parlor Wednesday from IL to l pm.
Tea will be served in the same room
on Thursday from to pm. for girls
employed in homes.
The regular meeting of the Greek
Club is scheduled for Thursday at 1880
pm. at 614 Z street.
Chapters.
Dupont Chapter will have its regu-
lar October meeting at the Elizabeth
Somers Annex tomorrow, at pm.
Miss Imogene B. Ireland. music direc-
tor, will be the guest of the chapter.
The Piney Branch Chapter will have
a luncheon meeting at the home of
Mrs. j. o. Bobie. 3S12 Jenifer street.
tomorrow at l pm. Miss Minnie V.
Sandberg, executive of the education
department, will present Mrs. Frank
Engington, who is to conduct the Bible
study Of the chapter this year.
The Mount Pleasant Chapter will
hold a luncheon meeting at the home
of Mrs. John Alden. 100 Michigan
avenue northeast. Tuesday at 1890
PM, Mrs. T. E. Brown, president of
the association. will speak on the fur
nishings of the tearoom in the new
Evening star., 1926-10-24

Post of the American Legion, and the
Scouts wear on their arms an insignia
presented by the Legion.
The annual booster meeting of
Troop 90 was staged last Saturday
night at Epworth Church, and was re.
ported success.
Standing on an S0-foot bluff at
Camp Livingstone. Glymont. Md.
overlooking The ajestic Potomac
River. stands the log cabin built by
the Scouts of Troop s. Work on the
cabin was started on Thanksgiving
day. 1925. and has progressed with
such rapidity that it is now nearing
comp.etion. The building is made
of hand hewn logs, chinked through
out with cement 1t is 10 feet wide
by IS feet long. and has door, a
window and large stone fireplace.
The place has won the admiration
of many visitors and is a source of
great pride to the whole troop"
The above paragraph won the
Sigma Corps compass offered for the
best item of Scout news. The next
compass will be awarded for para
graphs received by November ?.
Troop 1873 of Kensington, Md,
Bernard Donnolly. scoutmaster.
started its season with hike and
report many tests passed ana three
new boys added to the troop.
Troop % announces the addition Of
George Rose to it's official staff
as assistant scoutma aster. Mr. Rose
is "A graduate of Princeton and a for
mer student of law at the University
of Pennsylva
Insta ling radios for invalids and
for the blind is good turn. 1t
means quite an expenditure of
energy and requires skilled hands to
do the work. There is no material
remuneration. Headquarters has re-
quests for TWO of these good turns.
Glasses in first aid. signalling and
map making are being conducted
Evening star., 1926-10-24

each Monday evening at the Wilson
Normal School.
The District of Columbia Cour' OF
Honor was convened at the Metro
politan Baptist Church October 16
by DR.. Paul Bartsch, chairman. and
six boys were granted merit badges,
as follows: Troop is, Floyd Willett,
firemanship; Troop 40, Thomas A.
King, first aid: Troop 73. Ralph
Matan. music: Troop 81. Billie Coch-
ran. handicraft. life saving, masonry,
swimming: Jack Hahn firemanship.
handicraft life saving and SWIM
ming: Fred Schaeffer. handicraN,
firemanship. hiking, scholarship.
AT court of review convened
simultaneously with the court of hon
or by Deputy Commissioner c. G.
Sch'aefli. Scout Sylvan Steiner. Troop
73, became first-class Scout and NJ.
Dantuano. Troop rs. WIS advanced
to sec nd class r. 8. Mott and Field
Executive Hovey were associate
judges on that court
Evening star., 1926-10-24

building. the project which this chap
ter has undertaken.
The October meeting of the George
town Chapter will be Wednesday. at
2:30 pm. in the Georgetown Presby-
terian Church.
The annual bazaar. of the Chevy
Chase Chapter will be held Friday at
the Chevy Chase Library. The affair
will begin with luncheon at noon and
continue until s pm. Some of the
wares for sale will be fancy work
cakes and pies. aprons. candy and a
prize pumpkin.
The education council will meet for
supper Wednesday at $50 pm. with
Miss Ruth Jeffers presiding.
The class in church history will
study the following outline. beginning
with the meeting next Thursday at 5
pm: The background of the Christian n
church and its rapid development in
the first century; the anti Eicene
church; the rise and growth of the
papacy: the work of Gregory. Angus
tine and Boniface; the Reforma ton:
the Calvinistic reforms; the English
Reformation and the development of
the various branches of the modern
Christian church.
The Booklovers will meet with Miss
Evening star., 1926-10-24

Blue Triangle. Mrs. G. E. Frazier>was
chairman of the occasion. She was as
sisted by Miss Grace Shannon.
Activities for younger girls in
business have been started and will
be continued throughout the Winter
each Thursday evening. The meetings
will be held at the Elizabeth Somers
residence. 1104 NJ street. Following
supper at $50 pm, there will be
hobby" hour at o'clock, and gym
nasium work and games at 8. The 25
members of this group are from two
clubs of which Miss Anna Marie
Clarke is one president and Miss
Thelma MacWilliams the other Miss
Mary Richardson and Miss Grace
Brame are the volunteer advisors. and
Miss Edith Dawson the secretary in
charge.
On Tuesday night representatives
Of the Czechoslovakian legation will
join in the program of the assembly
hour. to o'clock, of the young
business and professional womens
department. The anniversary of the
recognition of Czechoslovakia as a
world republic will be celebrated. All
young business and professional wom-
en- in the city are invited to attend
and enjoy the program.
Evening star., 1926-10-24
Y. w. C.. A.

Halloween festivities mark the clos
ing of both Vacation Lodge and
kamp kahlert for the Winter months.
kamp kahlert is having, over the
week end, a group of 25 members of
the Alpha Delta Theta Sorority of
George Washington University. The
Misses Margaret Cole. Camen Pitt.
Gladys Weikert and Peg Schneider
are in charge of the house party.
The Elizabeth Somers residence
will be the setting for a jolly masquer-
ade dance the night of October 2S
There will be good orchestra, favor
dances, and the rooms will be gayly
decorated. An award will be given for
the most original costume.
Young Business and Professional
Women's Department.
On Saturday night the Amicitia
Club of young business women held
its first dance of the season at the