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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-22
FILMS BACKED
BY D. A. R.

Moving pictures were given a
final o. K. by the nation conven-
ton of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, this morning.
Mrs. Baldwin says they are the
one sure means of ending war, be-
cause they bring all nations into
an intimate knowledge and sym
pathy with each other. Mrs. l..
Grant Baldwin, chairman of the
committee on better films, in her
report to the assembly said:
Americans who desire better
films can bring about this condi-
ton by their refusal to countenance
films of a questionable character.
'The American moving picture Is
the best salesman of this country,
as it is becoming a means of com.
municating ideas to foreign lands. ;"
Films are necessary part of
the education and diversions of
churches, orphanages, prisons, and
schools
According to Mrs. Baldwin, the
moving picture is not declining in
favor. 1t Is reaching its first
point of usefulness.
Approximately 20,2S3 moving pic
ture houses in the country have a
weekly attendance of 10000 900,
the report showed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-22
BROWNS TRYING TO SAVE
BALL BATTED INTO BAY

NEW YORK, April 22.-James
s. Gleason, member of the Coast
Guard. gave his life yesterday to
rescue a. baseball which had been
batted into the bay.
He leaped into the water to re.
cover the ball, was seized with a
cramp and drowned before it. was
possible to rescue him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-22
.BE TTY BLYTHE
BRINGS SUIT

LONDON, April 22.-The Kings
bench division of the law courts
was concerned today with the busi-
ness troubles of Betty Blythe,
American film star.
Miss Blythe brought an action
for damages against G. B. Samuel
son, a British film producer, claim
ing salary and expenses under Il
contract entered into in Los An.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-22
PORTUGUESE .AvlAToRs
SAVED RY FISHING BOAT

LISBON, April 22.The two Por-
tugese aviators, believed to have been
drowned when their plane. fell into.
the sea while enroute to the Azores,
were rescued today by fishing yes
sell
They were taken to the Island Of
Santa Cruz.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-22
BANDIT MAKES VICTIM
FIT SHOES ON HIS FEET

NEW YORK. pril ga lone
bandit yesterday held up a shoe
store proprietor and took all the
money from the safe and cash reg
lister. Then he ordered Rothman,
the proprietor. to fit him with
pair of shoes. Rothman did so and
the robber walked out with the
shoes and the money.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-22
Brewery Officials Jailed

NEW ORLEANS, La, April 92.--
The president. vice president and
a director of the STANDARD Brewing
Company, of this city, were SEN
fenced to two years in the Federal
prison at Atlanta yesterday for
bribery. They were also fined 81. BOO
each. They were accused OF brib-
ing a Federal dry officer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-22
RoBs GIRL Or
So 900 IN HALL or MILL

NEW YORK. April -. Esther
Iaberwitz, 4 bookkeeper Tor the star
knitting Mills, was seized BY
bandit in 8 hallway yesterday.
He took pay roll Of $1,000 from
her and then choIsed and kicked
her and escaped.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-22

geles for playing in the Berlin
production of a film version of
one of Sir Rider Haggard's novels.
Counsel for Miss Blythe declared
that Samuelson had contracted to
pay her $500 a week.
Samuelson entered counter
claim alleging that Miss Blythe
had broken the terms Of the con-
tract.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
S3,15O LOOT IN
TWO BURGLAR|ES
Woman Finds Rugs Gone
Auto Recovered.

Loot in two burglaries discovered
today totaled $3.50, according to
reports to police. Part OF the loot,
a new $1,000 aut. was recovered.
Mrs. o. B. Jameson, 1885 N. Penn
sylvania ST., returned home from
Philadelphia, Pa, and found that in
her absence three ORIENTAL rugs,
valued at $500, had been taken
from the house. Detectives Stewart
and Reed investigated.
Burglars who entered the George
B. Ray Auto Sales Company, 1110
N. Meridian St., Friday night stole
a 81 900 auto and auto tools valued
at $3.50, according to Motorpolice
oakley and Small.
Police recovered the auto, parked
in front Of 1943 Bellefontaine St.
officers say the burglars entered
by using a passkey at the Robert
Cavelage auto repair shop, 10 e.
Tenth ST., and breaking through a
partition into the Ray company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
UTILITY PLANS
IMPROVEMENTS
Northern Indiana Firm Asks
Big Bond Issue.

improvements and extensions
costing $2,339 800 will be made by
the Northern Indiana Public Service
Company in 1927 if a petition filed
today with the public service com
mission for permission to issue and
sell $12, 100000 worth of per cent
first lien. refundable mortgage gold
bonds is approved.
improvements will be made over
territory extending from W.T.. Wayne
to Charlottesville In the Logans-
port Wabash district, ZOO will be
expended; in the Frankfort
district, $66,20O; FIT. Wayne, 1891 900;
Lafayette, S162, 500, and Crawfords-
vile, $157, 900.
AT the same time. the bond issue
petition was filed a petition was
filed asking permission to issue
$4,000, 600 in per cent bonds of the
Northern Indiana Gas and Electric
Company, which company was alb
sorbed recently by the Northern In
diana Public Service Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
Medieval Torture
Case Is CHARGED

BIZ United Press
ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 31.-The
story of five hours of horror in the
residence of Walter II. Fletcher, a
manufactures was told today by Ed
ward Horrigan. city fireman.
When police broke into the
Fletcher home Friday night they
found Horrigan handcuffed to a
chair and helpless in a makeshift
straitjackot Of canvass.
A terrified boy stood guard with
a rifle while Fletcher beat Har-
rlgan/ to insensibility with his
fists, then sliced waters of skin from
his body next held lighted matches
against his skin and finally lashed
him with the blacksnake whip, Hor-
rigan said.
The fireman tainted three times
during the ordeal. he said. But
Fletcher revived him with dashes Of
cold water. Police said Fletcher told
them he wanted his victim to be an
object lesson to those men who think
htye can play around with other
mems wives and get away with 1t. ="
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NEW ARREST IN
HALL CASE SEEN
Man Seen on Night of Mur-
der Sought.

Bu Cntte6 PTcSS
SOMERVILLE, n. j.. July ST.
A man seen on the Phillips farm the
night that the Rev. Edward W. Hall
and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were mur-
dered was the central figure today
In the States reopened investigation
Of the Hall.Mills case.
With Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall
free under $4,000 bail as the woman
alleged to have accompanied the un-
identified man, the next step in the
inquiry was expected to be his ar
rest. There were rumors that Willie
Stevens. eccentric half-brother of
Mrs. Hall. would be put under ar
rest. Stevens was at the Hall home
today. He had been with relatives
nearby since Mrs. Hall was arrested.
Mrs. Hall remained at her home
today.
The absence of any new witnesses
in the notorious case and the
cleavage by the prosecution to the
former lines Of inquiry has been in
terpreted by defense attorneys to in
dicate that the State will confine
its attack to an attempt to fix re-
sponsibility for the double crime on
the deceased clergyman's widow and
perhaps her brother.
1t has been admitted by the prose.
cution that no haste will be made, in
pressing the presentment of evil
dence to the grand jury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
Rain Falls in City Much
Needed Over State
River Low.

Rain, which descended upon the
city early this morning and, with a
heavier fall shortly after noon,
brought Indianapolis some relief
from a drought which has threat
ened crops all over the State.
Whether the rain would be
enough to afford material relief to
farmers was no certain. Several
sections of the State reported rain
fall.
I'm some places more than an
inch of rain is needed to help the
crops to any great extent" Meteor
ologist J. f. Arlington of the
United States Weather Bureau said.
He stated that the fall should con-
tinue this evening and Sunday.
Corn is very dry, as are tomatoes,
used for canning. Farmers In. the
southwest part of the State have
been particularly hard hit.
So far this month. rainfall in In
dianapolis has been 2.SS inches, while
the normal for the period is Ala.
Rain during June also was about
two inches below normal, Arming-
ton stated.
The city has been blessed with
only one heavy rain this month. On
July the fall was 1.S9 inches. Rain
fell during the next week. but since
the thirteenth the only precipitation
recorded was three-hundredths Of an
inch on the twenty-seventh.
White River has felt the. drought
and is below the four-foot ytage at
the w. Tenth st. bridge. Usually at
this time Of year the river is be.
tween four and five feet deep at this
point. In places it is the lowest it
has been in years.
Below the Indianapolis Water
Company dam, west of Broad Ripple
the Nriver has dwindled to the size
of a creek, being only a few feet
from bank to bank.
Indianapolis has no reason to fear
a water shortage because the water
company is equipped to pump 160,.
100000 gallons of water daily, said
Frank C. Jordan, secretary and as
sistant treasurer.
During the past three days local
water stations pumped an average
from $4,000, 900 to 4S,O00.0O0 gallons
Of water daily.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
Parker, Armstrong and Five
Others Sentenced to
County Jail.
ON CONTEMPT CHARGES
Judge BaItzeII Scores Organ
izer's Speech.

Sentences Of ninety days in Ma
rion County Jail were imposed on
John M. Parker and Robert Arm
strong, union organizers of striking
street car men, today by Federal
Judge Robert c. Baltzell.
Five of nine strikers who faced
the judge were given Jail sentences
of from ten to thirty days.
All were charged with contempt
Of court by violating an injunction
issued July by Judge Baltzell, pro-
hibiting interference with operation
Of street cars.
II never knew Of a more contemp-
tuous case" Judge Baltzell said in
sentencing Parker and Armstrong.
Back to Jail
The two were taken back to Jail
pending perfection of an appeal to
the United States District Court of
Appeals at Chicago. William c.
Bachelor. one of the mems attor-
neys, was granted sixty days to file
a bill of exceptions.
Frank P. Baker, defense counsel,
said no Immediate moves to obtain
freedom for the two men will be
made. Attempts to realese the men
on appeal bond must await filing Of
legal papers, which cannot be filed
until a transcript of the case is COM
pleted next week, he said.
Others Sentenced
Edgar Day, 2241 Kenwood Ave,
was sentenced to thirty days in Jail
by Judge Baltzell and ordered to
pay costs of his jury trial. Edward
Ellis, 1909 RAIDER St., and John
Frakes, 1920 S. Richland ST., were
given twenty days in Jail. Russell
Bane, 1903 N. Illinois ST., was re-
leased on his own recognizance, and
his case taken under advisement.
A strikers meeting at which
violence was planned was held in
Days home, July 1S, and following
the meeting the other three men
placed explosives on the car tracks
at Ray and Division SITS, the Gov
ernment charged. United States At
IOrHey WdrU recommended 6dne De
given leniency.
Others sentenced were: Oscar
Southern, living near B9inbridge, ten
days, and Joe Wiggonton, 1886 N.
Illinois St., ten days.
Everett Tally. 131 Mclean Place,
was released when he told the judge
he has two sick children in the hos
pital. He will be brought before
the judge later.
Jefferson Fade, 2204 N. Illinois St.,
was taken back to Jail. If he hnds
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Starving, Baron and
His Wife End LiUes

BU JNfed Press
MIAMI. Fla. July 31-Penniless
and starving. Baron Michael Royce
Garrett. crippled former Russian
army officer and Baroness Sophie
Royce-Garrett. formerly OF the I'm
perial Russian Opera Company. com
mitted suicide rather than ask aid
Of their wealthy friends here, police
believed this afternoon.
The Baroness. known on the con-
cert stage as Vera Lavrova. leaped
from the tower of the Everglades
Hotel.
In the luxurious suite in a fashion
able hotel in which the Royce Gar
retts lived. police today found the
following note:
I'VE die happily as we have lived
together"
II was signed THE Royce Car
retts."
The waters OF Coral Gables were
dragged this afternoon for the body
OF the Baron. Police are confident
he. too. has killed himself.
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then as a dangerous foe, his later
years found him a solid conservative
Coolidge" Republican, whose
earlier legislative views were made
to seem tame by the policies intro
duced by such men as Brook art
and his associates.
Funeral services for Senator Cum
Minis, probably will be held tonnor-
row with the commonwealth Of Iowa
providing the reverent honors which
his past quarter of a century of
service to the State merits.
Governor John Hammill today
wired the Cummins family, offering
Iowa's capitol for the bier of the
statesman and directing Adjutant
General Louis G. Lasher to pro-
vide the proper military guard and
escort for a state funeral.
Nation MOurnS
Messages of coincidence came to-
day not alone from Iowa, where for
a quarter Of a century Cummins had
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
DIFFERENCE ON
CROSSINGS SET
Broughts About by Train
Bus Crash in City,

A conference with officials of the
Monon and Nickel Plate Railroads.
looking to making more safe the
crossings Of those roads in Indian.
apolis, will be held Monday, Traffic
Inspector Lester Jones announced
today. The conference is the result
of an accident early Friday at the
Nineteenth ST.. Monon crossing, in
which Clyde Newell. 25. of 2046
Roosevelt Ave-, was seriously in
jured.
Peoples Motor Coach Company
bus driven by Newell was struck by
a Monon passenger train. The Nickel
Plate uses the same tracks at the
place where the crash occurred.
Under a city ordinance, tracks at
this point are unguarded from mid
night to 6 a. m. The accident took
place at 5:45. Jones said he will
recommend new ordinance, pro-
viding for guarding the tracks twen-
ty-four hours day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
25DR|VERS FROM
KENTUCKY TAKEN
States Reprisal Campaign
May Be Extended.

State police have arrested twenty.
five Kentucky motorists in the vi
cinity Of Evansville for failure to
have Indiana licenses, Secretary of
State Frederick e. Schortemeier an.
nounced today, as the States repri-
sal campaign against Kentucky ar
rests of Indiana motorists entered
its second day.
Schortemeier wired Kentucky off,
cials the arrests will cease when In
diana motirists are assured they
will not be molested.
Unless assurance is forthcoming
by Monday, however. orders will be
issued for the arrest of all Kentucky
motorists within Indiana's borders,
whether in commercial vehicles or
not, he said. Kentucky laws give In
diana tourists thirty days In which
to obtain Kentucky licenses. but give
no grace to Indiana commercial We
hicle operators. Indiana laws extend
sixty days grace to all motorists
from States reciprocating.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
R|OT|NG IN
ME:X|CO;; SIX
DIE, REPORT
Blood Is Shed as Catholic
Close Churches in Pro-
test at Law.
100000 ARE AFFECTED
Weeping Men and Women
Take Part in Final Rites.
100000 ARE AFFECTED
The Situation
Summarized

BU ChtteG Press
The controversy between
church and State in Mexico
reached a climax when, on
June "a, President f. Plutarch
Gales signed a presidential de-
gree providing penalties for
the violation of religious laws
of Mexico. The decree is ef-
fective at midnight.
The decree. which reforms
the penal code, enforcing the
constitution Of 1857, which in
turn was reaffirmed by the con-
stitution of 1917, provides,
among other things, that:
/. Ministers of any creed
must be Mexicans by birth.
2. All church property be-
longs to the State.
8. Religious orders, converts
and monasteries will be dis
solved.
a. All schools are to be sec.
ularized.
Gales acted, he indicated be-
cause he believed that the
churches in Mexico exercised
political influence. The church
emphatically denies the charge.
The decree is not directed
specifically against the Catho.
lie church, but the Catholic
church is most severely Of
fected, as Mexico is preponder-
antly Catholic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
POOL
CUPBOARD
WAS BARE.
Police, in Drive, Get Only
Three on Selling
Charges.
OTHERS COVERED up
Appeared to Know Officers
Were Coming.

Baseball pool operators had been
driven to cover today.
Reports of policemen, who late
Friday visited more than thirty
places where sale OF the gambling
tickets was suspected indicated that
the pool sellers knew the police were
coming and had covered up"
Three days of advance agitation
of the question in an afternoon news
paper was sufficient warning to the
gamblers 10 hide or destroy the
ticket books. some of the policemen
assigned TO the cleanup" job said
While the police arrested thirty
seven men, only three were charged
with pool selling.
The reports to the chief showed
that there. was considerable evidence
indicating that pool selling has been
widespread but the officers making
the rounds discovered such stu
ations as these:
Suspected poolrooms almost de
serted. the customers nonchalantly
loafing on the sidewalk in front.
Torn pool tickets on floors.
The usual crowds absent from the
baseball tickers.
Chief Johnson and Acting Inspec.
tor Lewis johnson. said that as a re
suit OF so many policemen being de
tailed to car guarding and other
special duties during the street car
strike petty violations OF the law in.
creased. The men sent on the clean.
UP mission were instructed to watch
for other violations than pool sell
ing.
The underworld also appeared 10
sense that this was coming for the
reports showed that most of the
known vice haunts were practically
deserted Friday afternoon and eve
ming.
Sergeant O'Connor and squad ar.
rested Quillan Jones. u. Negro, 25
w. Pratt ST.. on pool.selling charge.
O'Connor said he saw Jones throw a
handful Of tickets on the floor OF
the poolrooom OF Lee Dean, 905 N
Illinois st. When Earl Munger. 43,
OF 1896 Astor St. said he bought pool
tickets from Dean, police charged
Munger and Dean with pool selling
Tickets were found on the floor OF
the place. O'Connor said. Eleven 9TH
ers in the place were charged with
vagrancy. The other arrests were
on minor gambling. visiting a gam
bling house. blind tiger and vagrancy
charges.
Chief Johnson said police would
concentrate on checking vice.
He said the great difficulty in stop.
ping baseball pool operation lies in
the fact that most OF the tickets are
sold by sub-agents employed in big
downtown stores or in big manufac-
turing places.
Police cannot invade these places
in the numbers and with the speed
necessary to catch the agents in the
act of selling without search war
rants. The job of getting a search
warrant for a reputable place of
business is monumental, the chief
indicated.
Hence, the chief said. the police
would be grateful II business men
who have been complaining that
baseball lotteries financially sap
their employees would weed out the
employees who are selling to their
fellows and discharge them.
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Fined $4,000 for
Traffic Violations
BU United Press

BU United Press
ST. LOUIS, July 31.-What is be-
lieved to be the largest traffic viola
ton fine ever assessed was imposed
here against Bert Flynn. who was
fined $4,000 by default when he failed
to appear in court.
Flynn was arrested Thursday
night after he had violated four diff
ferent traffic ordinances. The
charges were driving while intoxi-
Gated, leaving the scene of an acci.
dent, and two charges of failing to
obey a police officer. resisting arrest
and careless driving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
FALL INJURIES THREE
Men Redecorating Lyric Theater
Hurt, One Seriously.


Three men were injured, one
seriously, when scaffold on which
they were working at the Lyric
Theater fell at 2 a. m. today.
William Lauer, So, of S33 College
Ave-, was taken to the city hospital
cut about the head and bruised about
the body. Alfred Huter, 40, of 227O
N. Dearborn ST., was taken home
bruised and shocked, and William
Koch, 5S, Of 2044 N. Delaware ST..
was able to go home alone.
The men fell twenty feet when a
rung on the ladder that supported
the scaffold broke, police say. All
were engaged in redecorating the
theater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
Forecast

Unsettled tonight and Sun
day; probably showers or
thunder storms; not much
change in temperature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
UNIONLEADERS
GIVEN NzNETYDAY US;
STRIKE CONTINUES
Street Car Strike
Developments

James NJ. Parker and Robert
Armstrong, organizers of the
Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway EN-
plOyes, are sentenced to ninety
days in Marion County Jail by
Federal Judge Robert G. Baltzell
OH contempt Of court charges.
Five \ strikers are given jail
terms of from ten to thirty days.
Strikers ignore pleas of national
union officers that strike be called
off and ask Central Labor Union
to arrange mass meeting of union
labor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
Weather for Week

WASHINGTON. July 31.-Weather
outlook for the period Aug. 2 to 7,
inclusive.
Ohio Valley and Tennessee
Mostly fair the first half Of the week
except possibly showers in upper
Ohio Valley Monday; partly cloudy
with probability Of local thunder
showers the latter half of the week.
Temperature about normal the first
part of the week and probably aoove
normal thereafter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
FIVE STILL ENT0MBED
Little Hope Held for Men Caught in
Tunnel.

BU UHifed Press
WESTPORTAL. Colo. July al
Five men were still buried today in
a cavein in the Moffat tunnel.
which occurred when timbering
gave way beneath the weigmt OF the
mountain through which the tunnel
passes.
Rescue crews worked throughout
the night, putting in new timbering
and removing the tons of rock that
fellsinto the bore.
Little hope is held out for the
men. although II is said air could
have reached them through the
mass of rock and splintered timber