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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-08
By SmedleY D. Butler

Why selected by Philadelphia politicians
hired mercenary to clean up what said to be
Frankly, at first didn' t understand. Later | did
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-08
Smashing
Crime
and Vice
Gen. Butler Writes
About Negotiations
Which Led Him TO
Accept Police Job in
Philadelphia.

Editors Note-This is the nstallment
Buffers story Of his work of Philadelphia
dismissal early this appear daily
The Times exclusive rgh territory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-08
OVER FLOOD MARK IN
SOUTH PART OF STATE
Wabash Also Gets Higher
and 0verfIoWS LOWIandS
-Maumee Mark at Ft.
Wayne Above 1877 Feet
Friday Due to Be Clear.

White River, swollen by the April
rains, was out of its banks and with
in two feet Of the floors Of some
cottages at Ravenswood, summer
resort north Of the city. today.
The water has spread a block back
from the banks at one point.
The United States weather bureau.
saw little danger of a serious flood
either at Ravenswood or in Indian.
apolis. AT other points in Indiana
streams were rising to points re-
garded as dangerous.
White River was far from the
flood stage in the city proper. The
flood walls in the west section Of
the city will take care Of a tre.
mendous increase in the present
stage
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-08
Home Edition

D0OTS in New York with
- brother Bill paying the
billsl Enjoy life with her on
The Times Comic Page.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-08
Forecast

MI OSTLY fair tonight and
N1 Friday; lowest tempera-
ture tonight near freezing; ris-
ing temperature Friday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-11-25

Stanley Cochran was in Walla
Walla Saturday. p
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Gest were
in Yakima Friday. q y r. 4. IL
Fl. r. Loev was in Yakima on
business Saturday. ~. !
B. J. Zarimba and family were
in Yakima the last of the week.
Orrin Beinhart returned Tues
day from short trip to Seattle.
Mrs. George Byrd and Miss Lee
ota Byrd were in Walla Walla
Monday. "E 9:
Mrs. w. C. Mcclure returned
Friday from two weeks stay on
the coast. e..
Miss Sybil Fraser is spending
Thanksgiving with her mother in
Walla Walla.
Fl. H. Flesher and family and
Marjorie Harrington were in Spo-
kane Tuesday.
J. n. Turner and j. II. Siegfried
are among those in Prosser for
jury duty this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Pridley of
Pasco, were guests at the W. L.
Marsh home Tuesday. 81. "a. w.
Mrs. w. S. Walters and children
spent the week end with her par
ents in Walla Walla. ~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-11-25
WINNIPEG KIDDIES

Those charming and entertain
ing little youngsters, the Winm-
neg Riddles will be featured at
the Liberty theatre next Wednes-
day. The kiddies this season are
offering an entirely new show,
new scenery effects, costumes that
really are elaborate in their de-
sign. and a number of new faces
and. all stars having been added to
this review from eastern shows
and from all indications and re-
concentrations from towns where
the Riddles are appearing the Of
fering is said to be a better and
a more elaborate review than ever
offered by this well-known troupe
of kiddies in the history of the
show which is now entering its
tenth annual review, and as the
kiddies at no time failed to please
their audiences, this should be one
of the outstanding reviews Of the
year. and without a doubt it real
ly is.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-11-25

union. of the Pudget Sound acadia
my. = y. u p
Mrs. d. F. Cresswell entertained
at a quilting party Thursday OF
last week. nHl- si.ss ~
Misses Lucy Campbell and Pearl
Buchanan are attending institute
at Prosser this week.
The Get Acquainted club will
meet Friday, Nov. 26th with Mrs
Nelson Williams.
The Progressive Woman's club
will meet Friday, November 26th
with Mrs. J. B. Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. James johnston
and Marjorie had dinner at the
Huntington home, Thanksgiving,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Thompson
are dinner guests at the Hampton
home at Hover, Thanksgiving.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-11-25

Mrs. Nellie Shaughnessy left
tuesday night for Seattle to visit
relatives and friends.
Miss Dorothy Carlen came down
from Cheney last night to spend
the holidays at home.
w. O.. Workstrom, of the Oak
land-Pontiac., company was down
from Yakima Friday.
Misses Gladys Gooch and Grit
man will spend Thanksgiving at
their homes in Spokane.
j. B. Hayden is home from an
extended visit with his son Carl
at Deer Lodge, Montana.
Gene Spaulding was over from
Walla Walla Sunday where he is
attending Whitman college.
w. S. Walters and family went
to Portland yesterday to spend
Thanksgiving with relatives.
The WINS. of the Methodist
church will meet in the church
study, Thursday, December End.
Misses Ada Mae Little and Cath
crime Kearns of Spokane are hoI-
lday guests of Virginia Gascoigne.
AL Garfield, who has been en-
ployed at the Big Y left yesterday
morning for his home in Spokane.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Nichols and
daughter of Sunnyside, are guests
at the, w. L. Marsh home today.
| Arman Behrman was down from
Sunnyside for Thanksgiving with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. w.
lBehrman. n .f~,ss-2. n....
~ The Arts and Crafts department
will hold an all-day meeting with
Mrs. Cora McKain Monday, No
vember 20. 81
Walter Lodge of the Central
Grocery Co., was at Casey Satur-
day assisting in opening up a new
store there. M s:
/ Miss Inez, Soth will arrive from
Toledo, Iowa, tomorrow night fol-
a short visit with her sister Mrs
l.. w. Soth. 9 ),
Fred Stuhr who has been living
on the old Lincoln place south OF
town, is moving his family to Yak
ina this week. =, Z. -. ii
| Mr.. and Mrs. W., r. Crawford
and daughter Doris, are guests al
the w. M. Broughton home fol-
Thanksgiving.
sBorn-To Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
CARRIER, daughter, Nov. 81; tc
Mr.. and Mrs. Constantine, a daugh,
ter, Nov. 20. E
Glenn johnson who is working
in the Lincoln bank in Tacoma
has recently been promoted to as.
sistant cashier, IL ...E....., .. E.
Clarence Shinn returned Thurs.
day from Astoria and Portland
where he had been with relatives
for two weeks.
| Harris and Spencer Green, stu.
dents at W.S.C. spent Thanks
giving at the home of their uncle
Frank Green. 80
Mrs. D. D. MacLauren writes
friends that they are settled fol
the winter at 557 Washington St.
in Walla Walla.
w. P. Bell, representing the
General Motors Acceptance cor
Iporation, was up from Portland
Tuesday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Haas ane
daughter Gertrude, went to Yak.
lima last night to spend Thanks.
giving with relatives.
/ C. L. Holcomb, J. III. Siegfriet
land DIR. A. G. Tullar acted as
Judges at the high school debate
lin Pasco Friday night.
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EAST KENNEWICK 4

Harold Motter left Friday for
Portland to visit at the home of
his sister over the holidays.
Max Mcclure who has been quite
sick with tonsilitis is improving.
Lee M. Lampson returned last
Friday after a two months bust
ness trip in the interest of the
Three Rivers Growers association.
Bruce Lampson of Denver ar
rived Tuesday and with Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Lampson left Thursday
for Snohomish to attend the re-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-11-25

1t is said the first play to be
produced in North America was
staged at Port Royal, Nova Scotia
in 1906; and no doubt it will as
,tonish many to know it was not
"Abie's Irish Rose"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-11-25

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KANSAS CRY, Mo. 7I6 NY. Life Bldg.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN. 9th & Market 80.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL Sth &c Brannan SIS
, 1926-09-15

The number Of new rural and graded
schools opened is beyond counting as
.sarts Assistant commissioner v zcarrondo.
Several new high schools have been O.
pened, additional teachers have been
contracted Tor to the limit Of the De,
partment's funds ard still the demand
Jar exceeds the supply.
A feature course of the new school year
is the establishment Of ten Teachers In
stitutes. Every teacher IS required to
take a course, which covers a period Of
SIX days, at the institute u his or her
district.
Those Institutes are conducted under
the Joint auspices OF the departments Of
Health, Agriculture and Education. The
course is devoted TO the visiting Of Agri-
cultural stations, farms. clinics, hospitals
and such establishments where the work
ing principals of hygiene and agriculture
will be explained. Lectures and talks
, 1926-09-15

struction due either to lack Of teachers or
&. scarcity of seating space.
To San Juan there are over 5000 ele-
mentary school children unable 20 enter
schools due to the lack Of instructors. The
municipality needs Is additional teachers.
The Department OF Education has stated
there is nothing for the children to do
but wait.
Maricao lacks accommodations for
many of its pupils and has requested the
Department of Education 70 furnish a
continuation school, This the Department
has not done, due to lack Of funds and
Maricao is seeking a mandamus against
the Commissioner of Education in an ef-
fort to force the establishment Of a con
tinuation school. Other towns and dis
trlcts in all parts Of the island report a
lack of seating space and of teachers.
In all cases the Department is doing its
utmost to relieve matters.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-03-26
CarrbOrO People Give a Play

A crowd that jammed the
auditorium of the Carrboro
school saw the performance of
Borrowed Money" last Friday
evening, and tidy sum was
realized for the Carrboro Bap-
tist church. The principal
parts were taken by Miss Elva
Williams, Romey Cheek, Bernice
Fitch, and Miss Margaret Stan
field. Carl Bradshaw and Miss
Rose Durham, as the two negro
servants, provided most of the
comedy. Others in the cast were
Miss Bennie Jean Andrews, Mrs.
Couch, Mrs. Webster, Mrs.
Grist, Alonzo Hoyle, Theodore
Ray, Miss Laura Sparrow, Miss
Ella Riggsbee, and Sidney Walls.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-03-26
Cantata Tomorrow Afternoon

"The Holy City," a sacred
cantata, will be sung at the Pres
byterian church tomorrow ~af-
ternoon at half past four o'clock.
The public is cordially invited.
George II. Lawrence is the di-
rector, and Mrs. A, S. Wheeler
the organist. The soloists will
be Mrs. G. H. Lawrence, Mrs. G,
A. Harrer, Mrs. j. H. Swartz,
and G. A. Harrer, In the chorus
are Miss Ames, Mrs. L.. M.
Brooks, Mrs. ]. C. Bynum, Mrs,
Chase, Mrs. A. B. Leigh, Miss
Simons, Mrs. e. L. Winslow, Rev.
E. I. Olive, G. L. Paine, L. Wiley,
L. M. Brooks, H. D. Carter, U.
T.. Holmes, r. H. Wettach, Mrs.
G. w. Johnson, Mrs. G. H. Paul
sen, and Mrs. R. H. Wettach.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-03-26

Realty Co. and George Denny Open
Il Headquarters in Bank Building

The Chapel Hill Insurance and
Realty Company and George
Denny, in combination, are to
open an office on the ground
floor of the Peoples Bank Build
ing, next week, for the sale of
land in Western North Carolina.
They are agents for building
plots in the Beverly Hills sub
division, three miles east of
Asheville, as we'll as for the
acreage offered by the Carolina
Mountains Realty Corporation.
Asheville's new municipal
golf course, laid out by Donald
toss, runs alongside and through
Beverly Hills. The office in
Chapel Hill is the only one, out
side of Asheville, representing
the owners of this tract.
Free busses will run from here
to Asheville, to take persons in
terested in the mountain land.
They will probably go once a
week; one day will be spent on
the way, one in Asheville, and
one returning.
George Denny, John M. Book
er, and |. w. Summerlin motored
to the mountains last week and
were joined there by w. S. Rob
ersOn, who went up by train
Thursday night. Sunday they
drove out to the country around
Waynesville and dipped into
Georgia for two or three hours.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-03-26
The Plant Exchange
Opportunity for Citizens to Swap
Flowers and Shrubs

The winter has been long and
trying, and to Chapel Hill gard
eners, spring has seemed very
slow in coming. But these last
balmy days have called to the
garden; and everybody in the
village who loves the great out
of-doors, and who owns a few
feet of ground, is longing to
plant something. For weeks
seed catalogues have been much
in evidence particularly in the
many new homes in which a
flower garden is a cherished
dream. Old established gar
dens are being looked over and,
in neighborly fashion, their
owners are seeking out bulbs,
shrubs, vines, volunteer plants,
that they may be handed over
the fence to a nearby neighbor
or sent across town to the gar
den Of a newcomer, a home
builder eager to have-and right
away-a flower garden.
The village plant exchange
seeks to encourage this exchange
Of plants and flowers among the
residents of Chapel Hill. Thous-
ands of plants have been given
away and exchanged in the last
few years.
The Plant Exchange conducted
by the Ciyics Department of the
Community will Z be glad to
bring together those who wish
plants and, those who have them
to give away. Mrs. w. D. Toy,
telephone 33, has charge Of this
work.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-03-26
MIR. Shapiro Leaves

A. A. Shapiro, who was teach
ing Spanish in the University,
resigned his place at the end of
the winter quarter and has gone
to live, in Revere, Massachusetts.
He and his family left Chapel
Hill Tuesday. Aside from his
teaching, Mr.. Shapiro made a
valuable contribution to Univer-
sity athletics by organizing and
coaching the wrestling team. He
liked Chapel Hill and his work
here, but the business opportun-
ity that opened to him in Mass
achusetts was so promising that
he could not let it pass.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-03-26
6 Dogs Rabid, 3 Not
Latest Examinations Show No Infec.
ton; Pasteur Treatment Given

Of nine dogs whose heads have
been sent from Chapel Hill to the
state bureau of hygiene, within
the last month, six were found
to have been rabid and three
not.
The two latest dogs killed,
which belonged to Bud Perry
and A. C.. Mcintosh, were not
rabid. These animals were des-
patched not by governmental
authority but at the wish of
their owners, because they had
been sick and their condition
seemed suspicious. Mrs. Will
kie's dog, also, was found not to
have been infected.
There have been no develop
ments of Importance, this week,
in the mad dog situation. A
number of persons, about a
dozen in all, are still taking the
Pasteur injection treatment.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-03-26
May Pave Sidewalks
Aldermen Consider This Improvement
for Towns Business Block

1t is possible that the town
government may decide to pave
the sidewalks on the business
block of Franklin street, be-
tween the post-office and the
Columbia street corner.
Some stretches are already
paved and these will no doubt
remain as they are.
The bad condition of the side
walks on this block is due in part
to the way in which the state
highway commission graded the
street when it laid the central
concrete strip four or five years
ago. The grade was lifted so
that, when the concrete curbs
and cutters were built later,
these curbs and cutters were a
bove the sidewalk level at sever
al places. Thus the water fall
ing on the walks has nowhere
to go. So it stays and forms
puddles, to the distress of the
population. 1t is not possible
to build the walks up so that
they may drain into the gutter,
because, if they were built up,
they would be above the en-
frances to the buildings and
then the water would flow into
the buildings.
A committee of the aldermen,
composed of Messrs. Hogan,
Braune, and Williams, are MAX
ing a survey of the towns
streets for the purpose of as
certaining what improvements
shall be undertaken. 1t is
thought that they will probably
recommend this sidewalk paving
and the construction of curbs
and cutters on Rosemary and
other streets where traffic is
heaviest.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-03-26
Damage Suits against Village
Because of Sewage; Knox Says
Municipality Has Good Defense

was discharged, runs through
the land. The sewage is still dis
charged into this stream, but
does not come into it now until
after passing through the dis
posaL plant.
The statement is made by G..
H. King that the situation was
bad during the drought last
summed and that his cattle
would not drink the water in
the creek. He says he had to
haul water for them, and the
cost of this enters into the a.
mount he claims as damages,
eve hold that no nuisance
was created by Chapel Hills
sewage, within the limits of the
land of these persons" said Mr..
Knox yesterday, "and we are
prepared to prove it. There is
no claim based on injury to
personal health; and we expect
to show that, at such a distance
from where the sewers emptied
into the creek, the sewage could
not have rendered the water un-
fit for cattle"
Since the disposal plant was
built the town has made chemi-
cal analyses of the water in the
creek, and these analyses indi-
cate that, even at a point only
a few hundred yards away from
the plant, is not in a polluted
condition.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-03-26

One suit for damages, based
on the allegation that water
flowing through the plaintiff s
land was polluted by sewage, has
been brought against the town
of Chapel Hill, and five other
suits are threatened. The pollu-
ton is alleged to have been
caused before the present mod
ern sewage disposal plant was
installed.
Gattis and Gattis of Hillsboro
and Brooks, Parker and Smith
of Greensboro have been retain
ed to appear for the town.
Town Manager Knox said yes
terday that he expected the
town to be able to defend it.
self successfully against the
charges.
G. H. King, through his at
torney, w. L. Foushee of Dur
ham, is the one who has already
filed suit. Three other men,
brs of the King family and Ira
Sparrow have retained McLen-
don and Hedrick of Durham; and
Mrs. Heater of Cary has retain
ed Fuller, Reade and Fuller of
Durham. '
The land where the pollution is
alleged to have caused damage
is in Durham county, several
miles below the Strowd "one-
mile" bridge. Bolin creek, in
to which Chapel Hills sewage
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-03-26
Chapel Hill Chaf

While l was pounding my
typewriter Wednesday morning
our house-servant came to me
in great excitement and said her
wrist watch had been taken off
the kitchen window sill while
she was sweeping out a bedroom
upstairs. A delivery of grocer
les had been made a few minutes
before. | went to the merchant
who had sent them and found
that the man on his truck had
accepted the services of a pass
ing negro boy who offered to
carry the packages into my
house. The man didn't know
the boys name but did know his
face. l notified Policeman
Sloan. The policeman called on
the truckman, and together they
found the boy. The boy soon
confessed he had taken the
watch, but he had traded it to
another negro who had then
taken it to his home out in Chat
ham county five miles from
Chapel Hill. Mr.. Sloan got a
message to the Chatham youth.
Evidently it was a message that
meant business, for the watch
was sent to Chapel Hill by an en-
voy. Mr.. Sloan telephoned me
a little while after supper that
heNhad it ready to deliver to me.
| call that competent police
work.
The other morning Vernon
Howelf,> bachelor, found a milk
bill at his door. 1t was for some
huge sum. At least it seemed
huge to Mr.. Howell, who is not
an inordinate milk-drinker. He
was about to raise a howl about
it when he discovered that it
was meant for A. C. Howell, in
whose home there is a young
baby. Yet a stranger who ex-
amined the pharmacy deans COL
lection of scurios and antiques
might think it quite fitting for
him toreceive a big milk bill, for
in this collection is a rich and
varied display of baby caps.
If | had a cartoonist on the
staff of the Weekly | would pub
lish a picture entitled: eff the
Dogs Ran the Chapel Hill Gov
ernment." 1t would show Town
Manager Knox, Chief of Police
Featherston, and Health Officer
Nathan walking up the main
street, all with muzzles on.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-03-26
Lamar Rankin Here

Lamar Rankin of Tampa, Flor
ida,. was in town a few hours
Sunday. His name means moth
ing to most of the Chapel Hill
population of today, but he is
we'll remembered by that rapidly
dwindling group of patriarchs
and patriarchesses who were
here twenty-five years ago.
He hadn't been back to. Chapel
Hill since he quit the University
along about March of the year
1901, which means that he
had to be guided about the vii
lage almost as though he had
been total stranger. His look
of stupefaction disappeared mo-
mentarily when we passed the
New West building, his face
frightened up, and he ex-
claimed "There-that's where
we used to have a Dia-something
debating society,"" His clearest
recollection seemed to be of
George Pickard and the two
horse buggies Mr.. Pickard used
to hire out to the students who
were ambitious to make a trip
to Durham.
Lamar Rankin went to Har-
ward year or so after he left
Chapel Hill worked for the drug
company of his ancestors in At
lanta; and in 1909 or therea-
bouts settled in Sarasota, Flori-
da.
y
He and have exchanged let
tiers, though not frequently,
since we parted in 1901, and l re-
call that twelve or fifteen years
ago he used to write to me about
the wonderful future of land in
Florida. In those days, of
course, nobody had begun even
to dream of the boom of the
nineteen-twenties. l thought my
friend was-to use a slang
phrase of that era-afflicted
with bats in the belfry.
You'd better buy some land
around here" he wrote me.
"You can get a lot of it for so
cents an acre" Or it may have
been a dollar-I don't remember
the exact figure. | had little
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