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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-28
MATCHED UNIT
SETS CHEAPER
Stewart Warner Announces
Sharp Price Cuts.

Announcement has just been made
by G. c. Mathews, sales manager of
the local branch Of the Stewart
Warner Company, that sharp price
reductions have been made in many.
of their current models of matched
unit radio sets.
Model 800, formerly selling for s65,
has been reduced to $50, the lowest
price ever quoted on five-tube
Stewart Warner set. Increased pro.
duction to almost double the former
capacity of the factory is RESPONSE
BILE. Other models and speakers
have been reduced in proportion.
Nov. / Stewart-Warner will place
on the market it's first f1ve-tube sin
gle dial control set, which will be
known as Model 1856, housed In beau
tiful cabinets of various wood fin
ishes, to retail at $65. L. L. Ban
ford, president and manager of the
local branch, announces that during
the present show they have made
some wonderful dealer connections
and the big job from now on will be
these dealers with enough
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-28
COOLIDGE CITES
j. S. PROSPERITY
Says Business Being Taught
Value of Honesty.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-Ameri-
can business is being taught that the
only method of permanent success
lies in honest, faithful, conscientious
service to the public. according to
President Coolidge.
In his last speech before the con.
gressional elections, the President
Wednesday night told the American
Association of Advertising Agencies
here that wages now are high, while
profits are moderate, bringing a pros
perity which is going more and more
"into~the homes and less into the en-
richment of the few"
Coolidge did not refer to the cleo
ton Tuesday. except to criticise citi-
zens for their Indifference to public
affairs.
He reviewed accomplishments of
his Administration, emphasizing tax
reduction, business prosperity, wage
increases and improved living condi-
lions.
Coolidge recalled there were al
ways fluctuations in trade, but said
our system of banking and enormous
capacity for consumption would pre-.
vent future fluctuations from becom
ing violent and causing depression
He spoke Of the values of advertis-
ing and told Of the efforts of the
Government to put honesty in bust
ness by requiring correct labels on
products and fair practices in indus
try.
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bill mounted up into three figures
While in Indianapolis the boys Will
entertain several of the MONDAY
luncheon clubs and will make several
appearances at the Pettis Dry Goods
Company, where they will play and
sing their latest songs in the radio
department on the fifth floor.
During the past six months they
have covered several thousand miles
and have been heard from all of the
principal stations throughout the
East and North. From here they will
take an extended trip through the
South before returning home.
Arrangements are now being made
to bring them back to indianapolis
for an early appearance over WFBM.
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RAY-O VAC TWINS
HIGHLY POPULAR
Set Record by Broadcasting
From II Stations.

Billy Sheehan and Russ Widely,
the Ray-O-Vac Twins, who are ap-
pearing at the radio show this week
through the courtesy of tho French
Battery Company of Madison, Wis,
makers of RayO-Vav batteries, are
one of the most popular teams on
the air.
Several weeks ago at the Chicago
Radio show these boys established a
new broadcasting record when they
were heard from seventeen different
stations during the week. During
the week they were hauled from one
station TO the other and their taxi
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U. S. JURY TRIAL OPENS
Princeton Man Charged With Using
Mails i'm Defraud Scheme.

Jury trial of Walter M. Smith,
Princeton, Charged with using mails
in a scheme to defraud, was to open
today before Judge Thomas Slick in
Federal Court here.
Smith, alleged to have obtained
several valuable pieces of diamond
jewelry from a local store, used the
mails to establish false credit, the
Government charged in an indict-
ment.
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GERMANS DISLIKE DIX

The German radio fan does not
find distance reception as interest
ing as it is in the United States.
Practically all German listeners pre-
fer to receive their foreign programs
by the rebroadcast system and DIX
tuning is the exception In that coun
try
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EIGHT CRIMINAL CASES
Docket i'm Federal Court Arranged
to Begin Nov. 4.

Eight cases are on the criminal
docket in Federal Court beginning
Nov. A, before Federal Judge Robert
c. Baltzell. No cases of wide interest
are scheduled TO be heard.
Defendants and charges are: VIII
lard Conner, Kokomo and Walter
Cisco, Jeffersonville, motor theft;
William Baker, Evansville, forgery;
Walter 1. Scheible, theft Of United
States property; Otha Hayes. Henry
Hayes and Glenn Sebler, Lawrence
burg, liquor law violation and Ralph
A. Jackson, Muncie. narcotic.
Evening star., 1926-03-03

Mrs. A. F. Brice, Mrs. John T. Vance.
Mrs. Price Whitaker, Mrs. Wrisley
Brown, Mrs. Adolph c. Miller and
Miss Laura G. Brossard.
The following members of the
Junior League will act as ushers:
Miss Louise Clayton Miss HildaN A.
Hill, Miss Elizabeth Johnson, Miss
Dorothy Hill and Miss Ellen Wise
Crenshaw.
The Richard Arnold Chapter of the
D. A. r. has issued invitations to
meet the State regent and officers of
the District of Columbia, Daughters
of the American Revolution. Tuesday
evening, March 16, at 8 o'clock, at
the Shoreham Hotel
The Woman's National Democratic
Club at 500 Connecticut avenue, has
issued cards for a series of Lenten
teas, Friday afternoons, from to S
o'clock, March 8, IL and 10.
The District of Columbia Alumnae
Club of Alpha Chi Omega entertain
ed last night at bridge in the ballroom
at the RoChambeau. There We're ten
tables. Mrs. William w. Arnold wife
of the Representative from Illinois.
and Mrs. Chester Leasure presided
at the buffet supper served following
the evening of bridge. Club members
and guests present were: Mrs. Helen
Arnold Heacock, Mrs. j. NJ. Barnes,
Mrs. Melvin j. Prentice, Mrs. VIII
Continued on Twenty-first Page)
Evening star., 1926-03-03

Eastman, Mrs. Frank j. Hagenbarth,
Mrs. Henry Smalley, Mrs. Earl Ven
able, Mrs. Paul Foster, Mrs. Adams
Shubert, Mrs. Edgar Hunter. Mrs.
Kenneth Parkinson, Mrs. Hugh Smith,
Miss Ina Gray, Mrs. Joshua Evans,
Mrs. John Arnold Cannon, all of
Idaho. Mrs. Dubois will be assisted
by Mrs. w. De Sales, Mrs. Hardie
Meakin, Mrs. John Fitzgerald and
Mrs. James Douglas Blackwood.
Former Senator Fred T. Dubois
gave an Idaho baked potato lunch to
his associates at the National Press
Club at II o'clock today in celebration
of Territory day. The baked potato
was served in it's tissue paper wrap
per, which has the name of the par
ticular farmer who raised each in
dividual potato stamped upon 1t.
The Maine Society will give a
dance, followed by a buffet supper,
this evening at the Hamilton Hotel.
One of the most interesting con-
certs of the season will be given to-
morrow afternoon at the Mayf1ower,
where Abraham Haitowitsch, the
noted blind violinist from Russia, will
be heard in a varied program. The
patrons and patronesses. include Mrs.
Arthur Jeffery Parsons, Mrs. William
Walker Smith, Mrs. Alan Reed Nc
Cracken, Mrs. Howard Hyman. Mrs
James Dudley Morgan, Mrs. Charles
V. Wheeler, Mrs. Lawrence Heap,
Mrs. Anthony Francis Lucas. Mrs. J.
S. Flannery, Mrs. Charles w. Need
ham. Mrs. Rudolph B. Behrend. Mrs.
w. G. Adams, Mrs. William H. West,
Mrs. B. F. Saul, Gen. John B. Bel
linger Mrs. Louis s. Greene. Mrs.
William Beverly Mason, Mrs. William
d. Leahy, Mrs. David st. P. Gaillard,
Mrs Percival S. Ridsdale. Mr.
Thomas Lloyd Jenkins, Mrs. Carl A.
Droop, Mrs. G.. Carroll Todd. Miss
Jessie Dell, Mrs. Arthur D. Addison,
Evening star., 1926-03-03
Idaho State Society
BANQUET This Evening.

Mr.. Roland Wallace, grandson or the
first Governor of Idaho, who was ter
ritorial delegate from Washington
when Idaho was made a territory,
March 8. 1868, and who named thu
new territory idaho is now living
in Washington and will be seated at
the speakers table at the Territorial
day banquet to be given tonight in
the ballroom of the Mayfiower by
the Idaho State Society. Former SEN
ator and Mrs. Fred T. Dubois of Ida
ho will have as guests at their table
Mr.. Stephan T. Mather, director of
national parks; Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
w. Mondell, DR. and Mrs. Elwood
Mead and Mr.. joshua Evans, jr. Mrs.
Anthony Payne Cook president
general, N. S. D. A. r.. who is their
guest, will be at the speakers table
and will introduce Mr.. Ezra Meeker.
Mrs. Edward Franklin White, first
vice president of the General FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs, will repre-
sent Mrs. John Sherman, national
president, at the speakers table. Each
of the "a hostesses will have table
made up of IdahoanS now in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Fred T. Dubois entertained
all of the hostesses for the banquet at
luncheon in her home today in honor
of Territory day. Among her guests
will be Mrs. Frank r. GoOding, Mrs
Burton l.. French, Mrs. Addison T
Smith, Mrs. D. w. Davis, Mrs. w. N
Johannesson, wife of the president OF
the Idaho State Society; Mrs. Charles
Jennings, mother of the vice president
of the society and banquet chairman
Mrs. Marshall Wright, Mrs. Frank
Evening star., 1926-03-03
SOCIETY
The President and Mrs. Coolidge Honor
Guests Last Night of Postmaster
General and Mrs. New

I Of the two families. owing to the
serious illness of the bridegroom S
| father. After March Is Mr.. and Mrs
| Kleberg will be at home at the Santa
Gertrudis Ranch, at Kingsville, Tex.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Norment will
entertain q company of IS at dinner
| this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hampson Gary enter
tanned at dinner last evening com
pany of 20 in honor of the Ambassador
of Great Britain and Lady Isabella
Howard
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Whiteford and
their young son and Mr.. NoyeS'
father Of Mrs. Whiteford. are spend
ing some time in Florida, dividing
their time between Daytona, Ormond
and st. Augustine.
Mrs. Wilson Compton entertained
at luncheon today at the ConSreSslon-
al Country Club In honor of Senator
and Mrs. Charles S. Deneen's house
guests, their daughter, Mrs. Carl A.
Rirdsall of New York, and Mrs. George
NJ. Hough of Chicago.
Mrs. Martin of Boston, widow of
William Martin, consul general TO
China for many years, has ar
rived in Washington from the West
Indies and is staying at the May
flower. Mrs. Martin will be at the
hotel until late Spring, when she will
leave for Europe, where for some
years she has spent her Summers.
Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Marye will
entertain a company at dinner to-
morrow evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. /. c. Williams of War
renton, Va, arrived today at the VIII
lard for a short visit.
Miss Rosale Waters, daughter of
the late Mr.. Somerset r. Waters. has
given up her apartment at Wardman
Park Hotel and gone to New York to
make her home.
Col. and Mrs. Stephen LII. Socum
will arrive in Washington today from
New York City and will be guests at
the Mayflower.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Charles Lauier
Dasher, jr., are in the city for n visit
to their parents prior to leaving for
Honolulu, where they will make their
home for the next three years. Lieut..
Dasher. who is attached to the Field
Artillery of the United States Army,
has recently been transferred from
duty at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. to
Schofield Barracks, near Honolulu,
Hawaiian Islands. and with Mrs
Dasher will sail from New York for
their new station. via the Panama
Canal, about April 20 Both Lieut.
and Mrs. Dasher, the latter formerly
Miss Helen Rowzee, are graduates OF
Central High School and have a host
of friends in the city
Evening star., 1926-03-03

Mrs. Baldwin knight of St. Louis,
Mo, has arrived in Washington for
her annual visit, this having formerly
been her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. William NJ. Fray of
Brooklyn, N. y, are at the Willard,
where they will spend the rest of the
week. They arrived today.
Miss Claudia B. Read has returned
from a weeks visit in New York.
and is at her home, 1712 Sixteenth
street northwest.
Capt. A. w. Ellis, L. S. A.. and
Mrs. Ellis, with their two children, are
spending q month at the Logan Hotel.
Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Ryan is
Evening star., 1926-03-03
spending some time in New York and
Is at the Ambassador Hotel.


Is at the Ambassador Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs e. A. Hartman will
be hosts to company of IL at the
eighth of the series of Sunday eve
ming dinner concerts being given at
the Mayf1ower, and at which Miss
Ruth Peter, soprano, will give the
program.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mischa Guterson gave
their daughter, Miss Anne Guterson,
who has recently returned from Flor
ida, a surprise birthday anniversary
party Monday night at LIE Paradis.
The guests included Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Abrahams, Mr.. and Mrs. Sol
Tryer, Mr.. and Mrs. Mendes Names
Of Baltimore, Mr.. Charles RivitZ,
Cleveland, Ohio; Mr.. Maurice Vein
berg, Miss Sadie Brown. Bladensburg,
Md, and Ben and Larry Guterson,
sons of the hosts.
Miss Kate Smith, the singer, and
Chappie ard Libby Kay, the Charles
ton dance team, surprised the party
later In the evening by appearing un-
announced to entertain the guests.
Mrs. D. F. Emery has as her guest
In her apartment at Wardman Park
Hotel Miss Lillian Densmore of Port
land Me.
Evening star., 1926-03-03
Marriage Announced of
Miss Campbell to Mr.. kleberg.

Former Representative and Mrs.
Philip Pitt Campbell announce the
marriage of their daughter. Helen
Mary to Mr.. Robert Kleberg of Santa
Gertrudis ranch at Kingsville, Tex,
Tuesday, March 2. The ceremony
was performed in Corpus Christi. Tex,
in the presence of only the members
Evening star., 1926-03-03

Mrs. John B. Henderson entertained
at dinner last evening for the famous
portrait painter of London, Mr.. Lasz-
10, who is engaged on a number of
portraits here, among them those of
the President and Mrs. Coolidge.
Evening star., 1926-03-03

The Secretary of the Smithsonian In
stitution and Mrs. Walcott have gone
70 Beaufort, n. c., for a fortnight.
Evening star., 1926-03-03

The chief of staff and Mrs. John L.
Hines will be the honor guests at din
ner this evening of Maj. and Mrs.
Parker w West
Evening star., 1926-03-03

Mrs. Charles Fairchild of Casa
novia, n. Y. has taken a suite at
Wardman Park Hotel for an indef-
mite stay She is accompanied by
Mrs. e. Remington, also of New York.
Evening star., 1926-03-03

Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Edwards. re
tired former commander of the 2Gth
Division in France, was the guest of
honor at the annual dinner of the
Yankee Division Club of Washington
at Wardman Park Hotel last evening.
Gen. Edwards was accompanied from
Boston by Gen. John =. Sherburne,
Gen. Edward L. Logan. Gen. Charles
Evening star., 1926-03-03

Mrs. Glare Hilliard of New York
City is making an extended stay at
Wardman Park Hotel. She had with
her over the week end her son, John
H. Hilliard. who is a student at Ran
dolph Macon Academy. Front Royal
Va and her daughter Miss Geraldine
Hilliard, who attends Fairfax Hall. at
WaynesborO, Va.
Evening star., 1926-03-03

Gov. John Hammill of Iowa is
spending some time in Washington
and has taken an apartment at the
Lee House.
Evening star., 1926-03-03

Mrs. Clayton Garvey of Pasadena
Calf. arrived in Washington today
and is at the Willard, where she viii
remain several days.
Miss Julia NARROW is spending a
few daVS at the Hotel Hamilton
Evening star., 1926-03-03

Representative and Mrs. William r.
Coyle entertained a small company at
dinner and bridge Monday night at
their home at 5000 street. Their
guests were Representative and Mrs.
Guy U. Hardy, Representative and
Mrs. Samuel S. Arentz and Mr.. and
Mrs. Torbet.
Evening star., 1926-03-03
Saturday Morning Hunts
Planned for Lenten Season

Mr.. Samuel Joe Henry, president OF
the Rock Creek Hunt Club, will enter.
tain the members at a hunt breakfast
to be given at the Riding and Hunt
Club on Saturday, following a drag
hunt at Point to Point. Rurs will be
held every Saturday until the close OF
the hunting season, the middle of
April: March 6. Point to Point: March
13. Tennallytown carbarn; March 20
Fort Myer; March 27. Congressional
Country Club. followed by a hunt
breakfast at the club; April 8, Grant
Circle, breakfast to the field by the
invitation of Miss Anna Hedrick
April 10, Mr.. Walter r. Tuckerman
Edgemore; April II, Point to Point
with a hunt breakfast at the invita-
tion of Mrs. George Plummer.
Mr.. Melvin Hazen and Mr.. Earl
Graeves will act as joint masters Mr..
George Plummer and Mr.. Wilbur Hub
bard have been appointed whips, and
Mr.. Roland Dawson huntsman.
Evening star., 1926-03-03

Mrs. Eugene z. Stevens. Jr., will
entertain this afternoon at a bridge
luncheon in her home in Edgemoor
in honor of Mrs. Charles L. Dasher,
jr. Lieut.. and Mrs. Dasher are stay
ing in Washington until April 20,
when they will sail from New York
for Honolulu
Evening star., 1926-03-03

H Cole, Col John F. Herbert, Col
William j. Keville, Col. Charles A.
Stevens and Capt William j. Blake.
Among other guests of the club were
Representative Johnson, the Assistant
Secretary of War, Mr.. Hanford Mae
Nider; the director of the Veterans
Bureau, Gen. Frank T. Hines, and all
members of Congress from New Eng
land.
Evening star., 1926-03-03

lContinued on Twenty.first Page.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-04-13
NOTICE OF DISTRICT TERM
 OF COURT.

A Term of the District Court of Al aska, Third Division, has been called to convene at Seward, Alaska, Thurs day, April 22nd, 1926, at ten o'clock a. m. in the Federal Court room in said town.
 w. N. CUDDY,
 Clerk of the District Court,
 Territory of Alaska, Third
 Division.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-04-13

Good program at the Liberty.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-04-13
ARREST PossEssoR NARCOTICS

SEATTLE, April 12. (P)-The Fed eral narcotics agents arrested Arthur Blibbings after they had disarmed him knife to prevent their entrance to his while slashing at them with large hotel room where search of the room revealed two hundred grains of mor- phine. They snatched some morphine from Blibbings as he was attempting to swallow it.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-04-13

Chas. I. L. Cadwalader, formerly en- gagged in the transfer business at An chorage, returned to Seward Friday from the States where he has been on a combined business and pleasure trip over a few months duration.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-04-13

H. G. Hderton, general agent for the Alaska Railroad, arrived in Seward Saturday on his regular official week end trip.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-27
FIRST PRIZE WINNER.
The Lesson That Birmingham Teaches

charge by the Birmingham police, and
when these latter seemed about to be
pushed off their feet by the grief and
anger-crazed widows and children, and
their friends, a colored preacher
mounted an elevation and began
chanting, Swing Low Sweet Chariot,
Coming For to Carry Me Home" thus
effectually quelling the disorder and
humbling the crowd
After this, as the mine burned out
and cooled, ambulances, Costing the
mine-owners nothing), were employed
in carting away the remains Of the
scabs, tho none-the-less unfortunate
miners, as rapidly as the bodies were
brot to the surface. The mine shafts
and passages, under the combined ef-
forts of government, state, city, Red
Cross, police, and volunteer citizen
workers, Costing the mine-owners
nothing), rapidly assumed their nor
NAL condition, and within an unbe-
fievably short period the places of the
luckless victims Of the accident" had
all been filed, Costing the mine own
ers nothing), by recruits from the un-
employed army which annually
marches southwark upon the ap-
proach of the season of ice and cold
in the ATTITUDES farther north.
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Lewis and His Bunch
of Crooks Must Go, Is
Kansas Miners Demand
BY : Worker Correspondent

ARCADIA, Kansas, Feb rs - The
ending Of the miners strike brings to
light the sell out of the anthracite
miners who have made such noble
fight. II is to the disgrace OF the
entire working class of this country
that the anthracite rank and filers
have not repudiated the yellow heart
ed John l.. Lewis settlement which
sells them into slavery for five long
years. II they had stood by their
tri-district convention the whole labor
ing world would have come to their
aid.
have followed the anthracite strike
from beginning to end. thru The
DAILY WORKER articles and also
thru the capitalstic press. am con-
WINGED that it,is high time for the rank
and fle of the United Mine Workers
Of America 10 expel the labor faker
John l.. Lewis and his puppets. We
are not red blooded fighting union
men unless we do. Lewis is in our or
ganisation to, drive us to our destruc-
ton.
Down with John l.. Lewis and his
bunch OF crooks
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BY a Worker Correspondent.


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. 25-Many
people, in the face Of such accidents"
which not long ago shocked Birming-
ham, Ala. land, more recently, sew
eral other localities) may ask why it
is that safety devices are not being
more rapidly installed in the mines
thruout thes country. The answer is
safety devices cost money. On the
other hand,3lack of them costs only
lives of workers.
Note the following facts specifically
relating to the Birmingham disaster:
Within aefew moments from the
roar and shock of that explosion, the
government offered help, Costing the
mine-owneron Othing), as did also the
state, Costing the mine-owners moth
ing). The Red Cross promptly got
busy, Costing the mine-owners moth
ing), and it was quickly joined by
scores of citizen-volunteers in at
tempting to reach the entombed men.
The frantic wives and wailing chill
dren struggling to reach the entrance
to the tomb where their husbands and
fathers lay buried alive or perhaps be-
ing slowly roasted, were taken in