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Evening star., 1927-10-16
MADDEN VIEWS NEED
OF CANAL RESERVOIR
Appropriations Committee Head
Sails Tuesday for Tour
of Panama.

By the Associated Press.
ACCESSIBILITY of constructing an ad-
ditional reservoir In the Canal Zone
TO supply water for movement of ships
through the canal locks will be con.
sidered by Chairman Madden of the
House appropriations committee, who
Evening star., 1927-10-16

of the responsibility of his position.
and as he said:
"Tt makes fellow sort of good to
know that the whole works Is up to
him."
Evening star., 1927-10-16
Time Is Seen Ripe.

Memel, 'Lithuan:a, has borrowed
1000. 900 marks from German bankers
60 construct a central market hall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
CRUEL PLOT CHARGED
Two Indicted for Atrocious
Murder Conspiracy.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, June 24.-Dr
Dee Hammer, chiropractor and
knitting expert, and Mrs. Anna
Apolonia, portly mother, pleaded
not guilty today to charges that
they conspired to murder the latter;
husband, Joseph, a metal man.
ufacturer.
A grand jury indicted both last
night on twenty-nine bits Of
evidence tending to show they
plotted to have a thug blackjack
Apolonia in an automobile and then
force a screwdriver up his nose to
his brain, and break the windshield
to make it appear Opolonia had
died in a car smash.
Robert Langdon, city detective,
who declared that, posing as a
gangster, he was paid to kill
Apolonia, was the chief grand jury
witness. He is understood to have
testified Hammer hoped to marry
Mrs. Apolonia and that insurance
held by the metal maker carried
double indemnity in case Of &C.
cident.
Apolonia, who had furnished
$4,000 for his wife's release, &C.
companied her, to court and again
swore she must be innocent"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
Living Death
Is Cruel Fate
of Gas Victim

BIZ United Press
FRESNO, CAL, June 24.-The hui
man being that once was Mrs. Clara
Drummond was being kerS alive by
doctors today, but it was only liv-
ing death.
For eighty-two days, since her
brain and nerve system were ode
stroyea by gas poisoning, she has
laid unconscious and, doctors said,
never will return to normal.
Mrs. Drummond, who is %, was
found on April in a gas-filled
room. She had been in there six
hours. The gas destroyed all the
higher brain and nerve faculties, de-
privirg her of reason, volition, hear
ing, speech or muscular control. Her
mind is simply void.
1.-THE heart, breathing, digestive
and other involuntary functions
have been left unimpaired. her
physician said, "and she may live
for many years"
Although she is to all intents and
purposes dead, she will be kept alive
as long as medical skill can do it.
Nurses feed her liquid food through
a tube and her digestive system
without her knowledge or control,
asSimilates it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
DR.. HILL HEADS
new THOUGHT
Alliance Elects Officers at
Convention Here.

DR.. Harry G. Hill, Indianapolis,
today was elected president of the
International, New Thought ALI
ance which is in fourteenth annual
convention at the Claypool. The
Rev. ALBERT Gu Grier, New York,
was the other candidate.
Mrs. Harriet Hale Xix, Los An
geles, Cal, was made first vice
president; Lorenzo B. Elliott. Chi
cago, second vice president; Mrs.
Mary Chaplin, New York, third vice
president. Other officers named
were: Treasurer, Rev. Albert c..
Grier, New York; secretary, Mrs.
Lucy Mcdonnell, New York; audi
tor, William Hoschouer, Chicago.
Mrs. Kenton Wayne of Phila-
delphia, Pa, replaced Mrs. Eva B.
Williams of Washington, D. c., as
a member Of the executive board,
and Dr.. Hill was added to the COM
mittee of school representatives.
James A. Edgerton of Washington
D. c., was In charge Of the session.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
FIGHT CONSTRUCTION or
TOLL BRIDGE OVER OHIO
Highway Head Joins Citizens
Against Private Venture.

Indiana, represented by Director
John D. Williams of the State high
way department, will join with Ev-
ansville citizens andD1 Evansville
Chamber of Commerce in fighting
efforts of private corporation to
construct toll bridge across the
Ohio River near that city. Hearing
is to be conducted by the United
States War Department at Evans
vile July 7.
Plans. for combating the private
enterprise. were outlined at con-
ference between Williams and a
committee of three from the Evans
vile Chamber of Commerce at the
Statehouse Thursday. Members of
the committee were Marcus Sonn-
tag, Edward Wemyss and H. G.
Kleymeyer. With Williams, they
took the matter up with the Gov
ernor.
1t was pointed out that the last
Legislature provided for financing
the bridge with State, county and
highway department funds and that
it was to be a public enterprise,
operated on toll only until the
county and highway departments
were refunded. Estimated cost was
approximately 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
ALL FINLAND
| SALARIES DROP
Movie Producers Vote to
! Cut Everybody's Pay.

BIZ United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June a.
Hollywoods traditional lightheart-
edness turned to gravity with the
announcement today that repre-
sentatives of the Motion Picture
Producers Association last night
unanimously decided to cut all sala-
ries.
This far reaching move was taken,
1t was said, to establish motion pic
lures on a. more economic basis by
reduction of the cost of production.
Executives. departmental heads
and producers will accept reduc-
ton in salary from 10 to 25 per
cent. Compensation Of all non
contract employees and players re-
Ceiving more than $50 week will
be reduced by at least 10 per cent.
Contract employes-stars, direc-
tors, actors, writer's and all other
RrtistS-will be asked to conSent to
a similar reduction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
100000 JOB SOON

ANDERSON. Ind, June "a
Early start is planned on the
$1,O00,000 yard expansion program
Of the Big -Four railroad at South
Anderson, city and county officials
have been assured by the railroads
engineering Office.
Grade separation and a tunnel
are major points Of the program.
1t is hoped to complete the tunnel
before the end of 1927.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
JUNE "a, 1927
MATTHEW KIMES IN JAIL
Notorious Outlaw Loses Gun Fight
Near Grand Canyon.

BIZ United Press
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., June "a
Matthew Kimes, who has played
hide and seek with Oklahoma on
GERS and posses for twelve months.
was behind the bars Of an Arizona
jail today.
X Zines and J. g. Whitehead we're
captured yesterday after a gun bait
tie near Grand Canyon. Ariz.,
eighty-tive miles from here.
Deputy Sheriff Parsons eyed the
pair curiously yesterday In hotel
at the Grand Canyon. Realizing
that he was the object Of suspicion.
Kimes attempted to shoot his way
out, but his shots went wild. He
made a dash for freedom toward the
wooded hills in an automobile. but
was quickly captured by q posse.
Members of a religious scot in
Siberia reside underground from The
q Co IF an until death
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
GIRL ADMITS HOAX
Makes Up kidnapping Story
for Excuse.

A kidnapping story told by Sarah
Terry, II, 1928 E. Minnesota ST.,
when she returned to her home at
midnight. Thursday, was blasted by
police. Under Questioning the girl
admitted the story that she was
forced into an auto by three men
at Meridian and Maryland Sts,
Thursday morning and driven to
Anderson, Ind, where she escaped,
was false.
Instead, she said she drove to
Anderson with a boy friend, and
they encountered tire trouble,
which prompted the story to explain
her late arrival home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
HURT BY LYE WATER

BIZ Times Special
PORTLAND, Ind, June 24.-W. S.
Swhier, 81 contractor, is suffering
from burns caused by I've water
thrown into his face by two I'M
identified men while he was walk
ing along a street near his home at
night. He declares he cannot
ascribe motive for the. attack,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
ElivUer RObed

BIZ Times Special
RUSHVILbE, Ind, June "a
Leslie Cox is unscratched but
his Ford coupe is damaged.
The car got tangled up in a
rope stretched across a street.
Workmen, cutting down some
trees left the rope stretched
overnight and Cox, drying at
an early morning hour, did not
see it in time to stop his car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24

!, New public baths to be built at
Bethnal Green, one of London's
poorest districts, will coQtain cleo
trio baths and an electrical laun-
drv
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
The City
in Brief
SATURDAY EVENTS \

Indiana Probation Association meeting
and luncheon. SEVERN.
Pattern Makers Association banquet.
international New Thought Alliance
Congress. Claypool. all day.
Beta Theta Pi luncheon. Board of Trade.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon luncheon. Chamber
of Commerce.
Thirty thousand are expected to
attend the second annual picnic of
the Beech Grove Civic League on
July in Sarah K. Bolton Memorial
Park. Last year 10000 participated.
Police today were asked to aid E.
E. Holcomb, Brevort Hotel, find a
former friend and ex-room mate,
who disappeared owing room rent,
other debts and took three suits BEL
longing to Holconb.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-22
COLORADO RIVER
AIRPORT ION MENT
STORY Is DENIED

THOENIX, April Il 0p-Objection
to a statement carried in an AS
Socated Press dispatch from Sacra-
mento, Calf, Of the report made to
the lower house of the California
legislature relative to the tri-state
conference between Arizona, Cali
fcrnia and Nevada tc the effect thac
a tentative agreement had beer
reached by the three state commit
tees was made in Il telegram sent
today to the speaker of the lower
house, the president of the senate,
As&emblyman Myron D. Whittier.
and Governor G. c. Young, of Cali
fornia. by f. S. McCluckcy, memoer
Of the Arizona Colorado river COM
mission.
The Associated Press story in
fcrred that the three committees
lad agreed upon a tentative pro-
rosal for the development of the
Colorado river M McC!uskey re-
crived a telegram from Senator
Ralph f. Swing today IN answer
rcfuting the report made to the
| ,ower house of the California legis-
lature and quoting a statement from
a report made by a committee head
ed by Senator Swing to the CALI
! f0rnia senate.
McCluskey's telegram sent to the
| California legislature and to Gov
ernor ioung today follows:
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-22
WONDERING CHILDREN BROUGHT
BEFORE JUVENILE COURT HERE

"a Mexican hoy told me i cOuEL
ride the bicycle, judge" a 11-year-
old boy told Judge SameS when
brought in ON 81 charge of having "a
bicycle IN his possession reported
to the police to have been stolen.
Bat he did not know the Mexican
boys name nor his address, when
questioned by the court.
The boy who had the bicycle in
his possession has been absent
from school 80 days in the past
three months. reports given Pro-
baton Officer Mrs. G. II. Hirst
indicated. He admitted that he had
been out on the streets at night.
In remandinG the boy to 11le
charge of the probation officer,
Judge SameS said to the boys
mother: 81 am placing your son
in custody of the probation officer
and he is 10 remain with you so
long as he stays out of trouble.
But If he is ever brought before me
again on such "a chargei shall send
him to the Industrial school at
Tucson"
To the boy he said: "BOyS of your
age should go to school regularly
and stay off the streets at night.
1 am giving you another chance to
stay at home and go to school.
Take advantage of it,"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-22

Wide-eycd and wondering why
they had been brought before the
digmified man seated behind the
high desk, three orphan children,
two girls, four and five. and 81 boy,
six years old, stood before Judge
Albert Sames yesterday afternoon
in Juvenile court and listened
while they were made wards of the
court, in care of the chief prOba-
zion officer at Tucson, who will
find new homes for them.
The parents of the children have
lived in Douglas and vicinity about
20 years. Mrs. G. III. Hirst, prOba-
of the case, said. They were mar
ried here and the children have
spent the greater part of their
short lives in this city. Their aunts
have large families and Osher bur
denS and are unable to care for
them. Tears stood in the eyes of
one of the aunts as she heard the
order making her young nieces aNh
nephews wards of the court. The
parents were OF Mexican blood.
''These are real nice children"
the Judge said, as he finished ask
ing how they would like "a new
home. sit will not be hard to get
good homes for. nice children such
as these.r
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-22
FORMER RECORD
HOLDER TO TRY
ATLANTIC FLY
French AviatOrs Tune Up
Plane for Hop Across
The Waters
4 * x 4 =: i: * ** 81 4 4 4 Il

TARIS, April u E1-The French
aviator, Nj. Drcusin, who only recent
ly lost his duration flight record OF
~ hoars, II minutes and SO see
.Cnus 10 Bert Acosta and Clarence u.
Chamherlin, is the latest entry intn
The French lists for the honor of
being the first to cross the Atlantic
between New York and Paris by
air Drousin whose compatriots
Captain Charles Nungesser ana
MaCr Francois Coli, now are round
/ ing their pla&e into shape for the
| trans Atlantic attempt, has with
held the name Of his partner His
machine, 4 Farman BimotOr, which
has been tested secretly on the
F&rman aviation field. is reported
tuned t. perfection, but no fore
casts are forthcoming as to when
tie aviator viii take off.
| Captain Nungesser and Maor Coll
spent the day at the Villa Coublay
ail dome working at slight modifica-
tiors in their machine, but without
attempting a trial flight The motor
lhoW in their plane Will be repiaced
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-22
TRIAL REVEALS
SORDID TALE OF.
LOVE, SLAYINGS
Common Law Couple Gets
Life Term for Double
Murder In Ohio

MACARTHUR, O., April q a. A
soriG tragedy of unlawful love and
CT murder was brought to close
in Nint0n courty court today when
Inez Palmer pleaded guilty to d
first degree murder indictment and
was sentenced to life imprisonment
in the woman's reformatory at
Marysville
Mrs. Palmer. an attractive woman
CT a. was Indicted Tor the Staying
CT William Stout, wcll to do farmer
and father OF Arthur Stout, with whom
Mrs. Palmer lived, without benefit
Of clergy" for nearly a year in Il
little shack in the hills near hera.
Arthur Stout, 33, is serving Il life
term IN Ohio penitentiary tor inn
llicatiCn ia the murder of his step
mother, Sarah Stout, second wife Of
William.
The story of the two slayings, as
brought to life from the witness
stand in Arthur Stout's trial here
weeks ago began in he spring of
last year when Arthur brought Mrs.
Palmer from. Moundsville, w. Va,
and settled down on one of his fathers
farms. The young couple did rot
nary and the countryside gossip
about them soon reached the ears or
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-22
y ***xxI*xY* X a * X y y !
new RECORD In
AUTO LICENSES
ISSUED COUNTY
More Issued to Date Than
For Any Entire Year
Previously

More automobile licenses have been
issued in Cochise county to date
tnan for any entire year up to this
time, Deputy Sheriff o. a. Ash yes
terday announced. Deputy Ash is
the Official automobile license rep
resentative for the county in the
Douglas district
Nearly S,000 licenses have been
issued in this county to the present
date, Ash said. This is said to be
considerably in excess of total auto
mobile registrations for last year.
The greater number CT licenses
fer this year is accounted for by
the fact tha- many new residents
have moved irto the county, Deputy
Ash said He also called attention
to the fact that no licenses for 1925
are now seen OH the streets Of Doug
las.
In former years It was not un-
common to sec licenses for the year
previous on cars up into the sum-
mer months, Ash said. The owners
.os such cars when called to account
tor not having q new license would
say it took 200 long to get one.
To cope with this situation, Sheriff
George Henshaw made arrangements
with the assessors office to have
deputy sherifts collect automobile
license fees III their respective dis
tricts and to issue license plates at
the time the fees We're paid. in
formr years all automobile licenses
were issued through the assessors
office, Ash stated. This caused con
siderable delay and gave motorists
an excuse for not having licenses
until late in the season in many in
stances.
Deputy Ash. now has license plates
in his Office in the city hall and
can collect the fees and deliver the
new plates in few minutes. he
just received g new consignment OF
license OlateS
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-22
MUSICIANS FAIL TO PRODUCE.
EQUAL OF NATIONAL ANTHEM

CHICAGO, April 21 ga new
national anthem, great CROUCH to
take :: pace beside '"Thc star
Spangled Banncr" has not yet
hecn fouhd. the National FEEDER
alton OF Ma.ic cluIrs announced
tonight.
a contest in which nearly 1000
RanuSeriDts were entered frOm
every state in the GniOn. Alaska.
Hawaii. ENGLAND. India and
France failed to produce "a
melody of sufficient merit to
provides n,uSio to carry the
famous poem of katherine Lee
bates, ''Amcrica. the Beautiful"
Fcur nationally known music
critics. DIR. Frank DMmrOScI, of
New York City; Frederick y.
Converse of Boston; Felix BcrOw-
ski, of Chicago, and Dean Peter
N. Lutkin, of Evanston, HIS,
were instructed by the past
presidents assembly of the fed
Craticn to select hymn only il
it showed unmista<abIe great
ness. Thcy were told they were
pOt to pick "a winner from the
deluGe of manuscripts unless 1t
was Of magnitude sufficient to
"sweep people off their feet"
after giving careful conSiJ-
erntion to them, 1854 Offcrimgs)
we beg leave to report that al
though some of the settings
showed fine muSicianShip, no
one impressed uS as reaching the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-22

high standard called for, none
were fully adequate to- the im-s
spring test said the JndGes im
their decision.
''Wc. thercfore, recommend
that no aWaigI he made"
"America, the BcnutifuI." was
written in 1909 by Miss Bates.
for many years professor of
English IiterntUrec at wellesley.
Printed in viriuaII! every song
l'e0k published in the last de-
c:dc, the poem has been SUNG
Ia various old tunes and many
new ones. 1t has been set 20
music. more frequently than ANY
hymn iU hundred years.
Believing the numerous attempts
t. set the poem to. music have, NOT
met with universal favor the rast
l residents assembly sponsored the
nationwide contest, offering cash
rri2e of $500. Wives of governors
throughout the country contributed
$1,000 as an additional inducement.
\ contest of more restricted ma
ture viii be held in year or So
Mrs. William Arms Fisher of Bos-
ton, announced, and nationally known
musicians win be asked to set the
rGem to music.
Winners of FIRST and second prizes
in the young artists and student
contests in voice, piano and violin
were awarded their prizes tonight.
First place won cash prize OF
$500. Second place paid cash
prize OF $50,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-22
PLANES USED.
IN HUNT FOR.
BANDIT GANG.
Government Lays Attack
Blame On Catholic Revo-
lutiOnists.
CHURCH DENIES
Children Slain as Troops
Battle Bandits In Train
Coaches.

MEXICO CITY, April 81 P.-While
large forces of federal troops aided by
airplanes are securing the country in
the state of Jalisco in an endeavor to
round up the bandits or revolutionists
who attacked Guadalajara- Mexico
City train Tuesday and brutally
slaughtered at least 100 passengers
and soldier guards and wounded SO
more, there is speculation here as to
the leaders of the murderous band.
The government charges that the OUT
rage was commit ted by Catholic revo-
lutionists, and some of the survivors
who had reached Mexico City assert
that many in the attacking party
cried: viva Crfsto Rey," (Long live
Christ the King) and declare that
Catholic priests We're among the lead
ers. A
This is denie1 by persons closely
identified With the Catholic faith who.
hotiy resent the governments definite
assertion that the Catholic Episcopate
directed the outrage and that priests
We're among the leaders in the attack.
The whereabouts of the dignitaries
of the lEpiscopate is a closely guarded
secret in Catholic circles, for there is
considerable fear of government pun
ishment if anything is said offensive
to the authorities,
The earlier reports that from five to
seven Americans were aboard the train
are not substantiated in information
reaching the. United States embassy.
II. Dock, an American for many years
resident in Guadalajara, and Els De
Lima, vice president of the Banco De
Mexico, who is naturalized American,
are apparently the only Americans on
the train when it was attacked, who
have reached Mexico City.
Like most of the other survivors, the
newspapers and Catholic leaders, they
seem to be fearful of the consequences
of anything they may say and decline
to be quoted
Impartial opinion here is that the
outrage was committed by revolu-
tionists who at the same time are
bandits, as is often ath6 case in
Mexico.
The theory is that their object was
both to loot the train and diseredt as
far as possible the Gales government.
But the train guard offered such un-
expected resistance that the affair de-
veloped into regular battle in which
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-22
'RUMOR ANOTHER
CALLED SESSION
OF LEGISLATURE
Administration Heads Pre-
dict Holding of Third
Special Meet

FHOENIX, April 81 R.-Before the
echoes of the regular session of the
eighth Arizona legislature finished
with sine die adjournment had reached
the remote corners of the state, rumb-
lihgs of the third special session since
the eighth Legislature was sworn in
as the official lawmakfng body of the
state Were reliably verified at the state
capitol
Leaders of the administration forces
in both houses of the Legislature today
predicted that the call for an extra
ordinary session would be issued
within ten days and that the eighth
Legislature would assemble for the,
sixth time within five months to the
call of the gavel.
Equally firm in their prediction We're
administrative solons that the forth
coming calls would be limited to the
relief of creditors of the state high
way department. Administration
leaders, who were in the minority on
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