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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
Gang Takes $4,000
in Gambling Hold-Up

By United Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa, April S.-A
group of six hold-up men mingled
with habitues of the Twelfth Ward
Republican Club during the night,
police reported, participating in vari-
Gus games of chance, until suddenly
at an early hour this morning. the
gang leader called to the game
keeper Of a. Craps" game: Hold up
your hands and I'll toss you the
dice"
That was the signal. Four COM
panions leveled revolver at the
crowd Of about a hundred men while
another member Of the gang went
through their pockets. The game
keeper was forced to open the safe.
Police today had the names of only
four victims, but estimated the
total losses as follows: Money OBJ
tanned from safe, $4,000; money OBJ
tanned off gaming table. $1,000;
money obtained from gamblers,
$4,000. Total, $4,000.
The bandits escaped in an auto.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
TELEVISION HAILED AS
RADIOS NEXT STRIDE
Federal Commissioner Caldwell Enthusiastic Over See
Hear Prospects.

broadcasting stations from coast to
coast are broadcasting wonderful
programs every night.
Comparison With Auto
1.-The automobile, infinitely more
expensive both as to original cost
and maintenance, has a greater hold
on the American public than the
radio. There are more than 100000
passenger automobiles in use, or
more than three automobiles Tor
every radio set.
Another comparative factor
upon which one can visualize the
increasing popularity of radio is
that the average radio receiving set
costs around 500, whereas the aver
age automobile costs $1,000. Ten
times as much original investment
and more than ten times as much
maintenance cost"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
Second Section The 1ndananOIiS Times Second
GIRL. 10. SLAIN AFTER DANCING TOO LONG
Embarrassing,
En-, What?

Bu United Press
BELMONT, Mass, April g.
Policeman William D. Heyd
will recover from injuries re-
ceived in an automobile ac-
cident here last night, but not
from the embarrassment that 1t
caused him.
While en- route to head
quarters with two motorists he
had arrested, the car in which
all were riding overturned. FIX
Treating himself from the
wreckage, Heyd discovered that
his trousers had been stripped
off in the crash.
The prisoners did not escape.
however, and may have to pay
for the ruined breeches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
Boys Run AlUay to
See Their Mother

Two little boys at the Indianapolis
Orphans Home wanted to see their.
mother Thursday night so they ran
away, taking chum with them.
This morning. after police had
sought the boys all night, the mother
took the boys back to the home.
The boys were Woodrow Chops,
10; Hedris Chops, IA, and Charles
Johnson. 13.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08

Say, Buddy, how do you spell
separate? "
Twas a sixth grade youth at
Benjamin Harrison school asking
the question, Thursday, after the
preliminary match of the Grade
Spelling Bee.
And Buddy spelled it, using the
correct number of as and e's. But
his buddy had failed.
1t was not Separate" alone
that brought defeat to thousands
of the four upper grades of the
city schools, who competed for
the grade championships in the
spelling bee being sponsored in
Indianapolis and Indiana by The
Times.
There were other words just
as tricky and the pupils, in I'M
known numbers, stumbled over
such as forward, sense, ridge,
scene, saucer, stitch, angrily, ag-
gravate, carriage, pumpkin,
genius, similar, foreign, cease,
endure, glimpse, congenial, and
scores of others.
The words were simple, but
among them were many which
confused even those who have
completed college careers.
So, just to test your ability as
a speller, why not ask some mem
Der of the family to pronounce for
you the words listed on this page.
These were obtained from Miss
Mary MCGEE, principal of Benja-
min Harrison School, Delaware
St, at Walnut, and were used in
the championship contests at
that school.
They are representative Of the
lists selected by the teachers of
the eighty public schools cooper
ating in the Grade Spelling Bee,
in which grade champions are
being chosen
Call them easy if you will, but
don't wager your next weeks
salary that you can spell the en-
tire list correctly. Probably
$4,000 pupils failed in their eff
forts, They study spelling regu-
larly.
While the number of perfect
papers obtained in the grade con-
test is not known, it is estimated
that more than 1000 grade pupils
will meet in oral competition in
the various schools next Mon
day to determine the grade
champions, Of which there will
be 64S. In this contest addition
al words will be selected from
the Mccall Speller, and the con-
tests will continue until each
class has chosen a champion.
When the grade winners have
been selected, attention will turn
to the Building Spelling Bees, in
which the eight champions in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
Foster Father Wounds Her
Mother and Sister and
Kills Self.
PLEDGED EARLY RETURN
Fremont (0hio) Man
Angered by DiSobedience.

BIZ United Press
FREMONT Ohio, April S.-Audrey
Smith, just 10, danced too long last
night and for her disobedience she
paid with her life and indirectly was
being seriously wounded and her
mother severely dubbed.
Charles Brandall, foster father of
the girl whose childish heart led her
to tragic end. killed himself after
shooting his stepdaughter, Audrey,
and wounding two other members of
the family while in a rage.
Returned Late
Audrey, who with her sister had
promised to return home from a
dance at IL o'clock last night, was a
little late. The two girls, fearing
parental wrath, attempted to enter
their home without arousing the
family. But Charles Brandall was
waiting. His anger mounted as he
demanded to know who they had
been with, and the girls in innocent
stubbornness refused to tell.
Shot in Throat
Later, after the girls and their
mother had etired, Brandall fretted
over the disobedience. Then, in a
rage, he mounted the steps to the
bedroom where Audrey was sleeping.
He fired a shot at the girl, the bull
let striking her in the throat. She
died before medical aid reached her,
Brandall rushed to the room of Dor
othy and fired again. The bullet
wounded her in the right arm and
side.
The mother Of the girls rushed to
aid them and was felled by blow on
the head with the gun.
Brandall reloaded the gun and
then turned it on himself.
Mrs. Brandall and Dorothy Smith
are in a serious condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
Three Students Honored

BID ITMeS NDeCtdt
8 GREENCASTLE, Ind. April s.
Three indianapolis students are
among the thirty-six seniors and
three juniors of De Pauw University
elected to Phi Beta Kappa. honor
airy scholastic fraternity. They are:
Miss Helen G. Fehr. 1892 Wood
lawn Ave; Merrill McFall, 2157 Park
Ave, and LIE Grand Cannon. 1922
Central Ave, all seniors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
DRIVEN FROM MACHINE

While he was sitting in his auto
mobile at New York st. and Senate
Ave, Charles Lark. Of 1903 w.
Morris St., told police two men
ordered him q to get out of his
machine. When he refused to leave
they threatened him with clubbing,
displaying a steel pipe. Then they
drove off with Tanks car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
KING REPORTED WORSE
Ferdinand of Roumania Suffers Re-
lapse Following Rally.

Br Cntfed PreSs
BUCHAREST, Roumania, April 8.
The condition of King Ferdinand
was reported worse today. The King
rallied Wednesday after he had been
near, death for a week.
Prince Carol. former heir to the
throne, was understood to have tele-
graphed his sister here to send him
a detailed report on the Kings con.
dition because those obliged to in
form me have failed" The Prince
is in Paris.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08

Honored by radio fans as being
one of the most welcomed voices
on The Times programs, Miss
Kathleen Bumbaugh, contralto, of
this city, will appear on The Times
radio hour tonight over WF'BM
from the studio at the SEVERN.
Miss Bumbaugh will sing follow
ing the first group by Miller's
Blue Moon Syncopators. The pro-
gram starts at Q o'clock tonight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
VANDERBILT DIVORCE?
William X. III and Wife to Part, Re-
port From Paris.

BIZ United Press
PARIS, April S.-Mr. and Mrs.
William K. Vanderbilt II will soon
seek Paris divorce to dissolve the
marriage which was celebrated
twenty-eight years ago this month,
the United Press learned today from
a source usually reliable.
Mrs. Vanderbilt arrived at Cher
bourg today from New York aboard
the White Star liner Majestic. 1t
was not stated here whether Wander
bilt or Mrs. Vanderbilt would file the
action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
Chicago Singer Hurt

BIZ United Press
CHERBOURG, April S.-NIiss
Mary Mccormick. a singer from
Chicago, was removed from the
White Star liner Majestic today on
a stretcher. Miss Mccormick was
injured during the voyage from New
York bsNa falling trunk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
BANKER FATALLY HURT
Terre Haute Man Dies Following
Auto Crash.

BIZ Jnttcd Press
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, April s.
L.. III. Vaughan, 3S, head of the in.
surance and real estate department
Of the Citizens Trust Company, oied
today at a hospital from injuries
received in an auto crash Thursday
night.
Police reports said Vaughan's auto
crashed with a car driven by a Gin
ton man named Jones. Police arc
seeking him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
RIB DETECTS BULLET
Girl, IA, Survives Attempt to End
Own Life.
Bp United Press

BIZ United Press
NEWPORT, Pa. April s.-A rib
which DETECTED bullet which Viola
Page, IA, fired into her. own body,
today was responsible for saving the
girls life, surgeons said.
1t was said that the bullet was
headed straight for the girls heart.
Viola, although seriously wounded.
is expected to recover. The girl has
refused to give any reason for her
act.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
SEIZE GARAGE ALCOHOL
Guns and Ammunition Also Taken by
Police Raiders.

One of the biggest single liquor
seizures in recent months was made
Thursday night by Sergeant Patrick
O'Connor and squad in a garage at
S29 Indiana Ave.
Eighty-seven gallons of alcohol a
high powered rife, a sawed off shot
gun. and twenty-six rounds of am
munition were conf1scated. The
garage owner is sought.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
500 JAPANESE LAND
Sailors Enter Shanghai After Attack
OH Guards.

OH Guards.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April Slight
hundred additional Japanese sailors
were landed at Shanghai today fol
lowing a Chinese attack there on
Japanese settlement guards, the
Navy Department was advised by
Admiral c. S. Williams of the Asiatic
fleet. He confirmed picketing of
the Soviet consulate in Shanghai.
saying "a Gordon of police and
Shanghai volunteers was thrown
around the consulate at o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08


you spell
GRADE SEVENTH EIGHTH
FIFTH GRADE GRADE GRADE
Explore Ignorance
Faithful = Abroad Importance
Abundant
Perfum Christian
Gloomy Estate
National Forward Surprise Candidate
Congratulate
Advice Acquaint
Exhaust
Gymnasium
Disgrace Plaster Material Nervous
Thirteen Affectonate
Package Ambitious
Angrily Pattern Fifteenth
Plantation Profitable Prey
Delight Dangerous Schedule
Needle Sacrifice
Coward Human Fashionable Chew
Absolutely Intelligent
Mention Final Advertisement Obedience
Governor Population
Sailor Original
Elbow Funeral Umbrella
Cheer Fatal Similar Villain
Action Require Partial
Saucer
Palm Acceptance
Occupation Breath
Potato Celebration
Association Cushion Occurred
Cabbag Separate Broad
Collar
Honor
Interested Relation Provision
Procession
Waffle
Ridge Position Objection
Steel Signal Memorial
Refreshment Endur Apologize
Grocery Scsso
Didn't
Merchan ANNOY
Delight Police Advantageous
Reins Meat Glimpse
Decline Connection Tyranny
Pledge Immediately
Princess Develo
Wen Condition Congenal Electricity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-08
Well Can
You Spell?

Here words typical of those which Indianapolis
grade school pupils spelled in the elimination tests
of The Times State Spelling Bee Thursday.
Have some call the words you and how many
Evening star., 1927-10-20

Sailors once believed that the stormy
petrol was exclusively sea bird, lay
ing its egg at sea and carrying 1t
around under one wing until 1t
hatched -
Evening star., 1927-10-20
TRAGEDY VICTIM BURIED
NEAR FALLS CHURCH
Mrs. Young Laid to Rest Near
Former Home-Friend Awaits
Murder Trial.

While the man accused of strangling
her to death in New York Saturday
awaited a hearing next Monday on
charge of homicide, Mrs. Helen Young
was buried today at Andrew Chapel,
Fairfax County, Va, near Falls
Church. Funeral services for the 26-
year-old woman were held at 10 o'clock
this morning at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Florence Hughes, %
Florida avenue northeast. Rev. John
e. Briggs of the Fifth Baptist Church
officiated.
Surviving Mrs. Young are her
parents, her husband, Samuel Young,
Washington taxi driver; her S.year-old
son Billy and five brothers, all Of
Washington.
Harry Gilmore, butcher, killed Mrs.
Young, according to New York detec-
tives. when she pointed knife at
him, knowing that he was in mortal
dread of this. Police say Gilmore
took Mrs. Young away from her hus.
band here, the couple having met in
Pittsburgh, during the world series of
1925.
Evening star., 1927-10-20
storm CAUSES TWO
DEATHS IN NORTH
Many Homes Are Flooded,
Bridges Out and Rail Serv-
ice Delayed in Pennsylvania.
By the Associated Press.

BY Jne Associated FTeSS.
PHILADELPHIA, October 90
Western and central Pennsylvania re-
manned today in the grip of the storm
which has been lashing the East since
Sunday while Philadelphia and sur
rounding territory welcomed bright
sun.
Reports from many sections of the
State told of flooded homes, bridges
down and interrupted railroad service
as the downpour of the past several
days swelled rivers and small streams
to flood stages.
In the Manayunk section of this
city 5000 residents and dozen textile
mills faced the prospects of serious
flood as the Schuylkill River continued
to rise.
Two deaths were attributed to the
storm near Hallstead, Susquehanna
County, when a Lackawanna pas
senger train struck a washout last
night, killing the fireman and engineer.
Near Wilkes-Barre the Susquehanna
River had reached flood level of II
feet and was still rising. High water
was reported at many towns on the
river and nearby local streams were
out of their banks. Two collieries
were forced to suspend operations at
Avoca..
Evening star., 1927-10-20
ALABAMA OFFICIAL
RESIGNS FROM KLAN
Attorney General Mccall Hits
Certain Leaders as He De-
nounces Conniving.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. October 90
A KlanSman whose wholesale inyesti.
cation of reported fioggings incrimi-
mated the invisible empire has branded
''the ku Klux Klan in Alabama as the
greatest menace to constituted au-
thority" in rendering his unconditional
resignation from that order.
In sweeping condemnation Of that
organization, Attorney General Charlie
c. Mccall directed his letter of with.
drawai yesterday to the Exalted Cy-
clops, Klan No. 8. Province No. 2,
Realm of Alabama"
The action follows Immediately
after the extensive probe of the at
torney general into series of alleged
whippings in Oneonta, Blount and
Crenshaw Counties. His activities
prompted an investigation by a spe-
cial Crenshaw County grand jury last
week at Luverne, which scored the
klan in returning 102 indictments.
Adheres to Principles.
While processing an adherence to
those fundamental principles which
the klan has publicly pronounced"
the attorney general in his letter de-
clared that he had become convinced
hands of lawless leadership"
II have become convinced that IL Is
not the purpose or intent of it's lead.
ers to aid the duly constituted officers
OF the law where crimes are commit
ted by its leadership" he continued.
Il have become convinced that many
of these crimes by hooded mobs which
have investigated have been plotted
and planned by klan leaders,
Instead of the leaders of the Klan
in this State aiding the officers of the
law in their efforts to ferret out crimes
committed by klan members, the
leaders Of this organization have
spread wave of intimidation over
many law-abiding members. and have
dealt in caustic and cowardly remarks
concerning the motives and action of
officers of the law he declared.
Holds Leaders Responsible.
MANY of these leaders, in nv juds-
ment. are responsible for the wave of
lashings and floggings which have
taken place in this State and many
members of the Klan are placed in
fear of drastic action by its present
State rulers, if they tell the truth In
courts"
In conclusion, he said he regarded
his oath as an officer of the law su-
perlor 10 any private or fraternal OBJ
legation, and he did not feel he would
follow longer behind the banner and
under the leadership of those leaders
in their religious, political and crimi-
nal connivings. placing themselves at
war with constituted authority"
Mr.. Mccall, at the same time, in a
public statement, denied that he had
launched Statewide investigation of
the Klan.
Evening star., 1927-10-20
BRITISH IN TRIBUTE
|. TO UNKNOWN HERO
Admr. CoWan Places Wreath
on Tomb-Theater Party
for Guests Tonight.

Admiral Sir Walter Cowan, COM
mander.in.chief of the West Indies
feet, who is here for Today visit
with two light cruisers from his fleet,
journeyed yesterday to Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery and placed a wreath
on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
AS Admiral Cowan and his staff en-
tered the military reservation at Fort
Myer a field artillery battery fired a
salute of II guns. A troop of cavalry
escorted the British officers to the
cemetery.
Admiral Cowan laid the wreath on
behalf of the Royal British Navy, of
which he is one of the outstanding
figures.
The Canadian Minister, Vincent
Massey, today entertained Admiral
Cowan and his staff at luncheon. This
evening the officers and men of the
cruisers. the Calcutta and the Cairo,
will be guests Of the Belasco Theater.
This afternoon the British sailors
will pit their strength against Ameri-
can tars in a tug-of-war at the Navy
Yard. Other athletic events will be
staged, weather permitting.
Evening star., 1927-10-20
By the Associated Press.


CAMBRIDGE, Mass, October 90
An electrical machine with a me
chanical mind" that solves involved
mathematical problems with ease has
been perfected at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology by DIR. Van
nevar Bush, professor of electric
power transmission, and a staff of re.
search workers.
The institute, in announcing the de-
velopment today, said the apparatus,
known as a product intergraph,"
would open the way to hitherto mac
cessible fields of research. These are
expected to lie largely along electrical
lines, as the work was begun several
years ago in an effort to evolve a ma :.
chine that would solve rapidly and
accurately problems of advanced cleo
trical theory which have troubled en-.
gineers.
1.-THE product integraph," DIR. Bush
explained in the announcement today,
might be called an adding machine
carried to an extreme in its design.
Where workers in the business world
are ordinarily satisfied with addition,
subtraction, multiplication and divi-
sion of numbers, the engineer deals
with curves and graphs which repre-
sent for him the past, present and fu-
ture of the things in which he deals" I"
In operating the machine the mathe-
matician or engineer, in effect, feeds
into it the equations and parts OF the
problem which cannot now be solved
by formal mathematics. The answer is
turned out in from eight minutes to
a few hours.
A watt-hour meter. similar to those
iTN inn al
trical power consumption, Is the foun-
dation for the engineer using the
machine, plots on paper the equa-
tions used, and these are passed slow
ly under pointers which operators, sta.
toned along the apparatus, keep on
the curves of the plots. AS the pointers
move along the curves the power flow
ing through the meter varies proper
tionately and that used Is totaled and
Evening star., 1927-10-20
WEATHER BUREAU
ANSWERS CRITICS
Crop Season of 1927 Held on
Par or Better Than Many
Others Recently.
~ the Associated Press.

Answering critics of its. special
weather review of last August II the
Weather Bureau, in its weekly wealth
er and crop bulletin, declared that the
crop season of 1927 up to October /,
when the composite condition is con-
aidereo, has been ION a par with or
better than many other recent sea.
sons" and that the weather has mot
been markedly harmful to general
crop production"
Recalling that marked attention
has been drawn by the press to the
Summer Of 1927, whose weather char
acteristics were to be so adverse to
crops as to at least menace the Ma
tons food supply" the bureau issued
q summary OF facts" which, it said,
fully justified the statement" Of two
months ago.
Cites "OH-Year" Tendency.
Reviewing both favorable and un.
favorable weather conditions up to
October /, the bureau declared the
Outstanding unfavorable features of
the early season comprised the exces-
sive rains and severe floods in the in
terror valleys, whose harmful effects
TO the general agricultural situation
were most pronounced in the conse.
quent delay to Spring planting and
tu0 uhHfdH0 10 ITuit III some SECTIONS
by frost"
"As previously stated, however" the
bureau added, "the latter was due
largely to the prematurely advanced
stage Of fruit by reason OF the preced.
ing unreasonable warmth, while an.
other cause for the general small fruit
crop this year was the natural off.year
tendency in bearing following last
years enormous production, and this
is not properly chargeable to the
weather"
Answers North Dakota Charge.
The bureau also reviewed more or
less localized adverse conditions
which it had said had not had a
marked general bearing on crop pro.
duction and, referring to private fore.
casts OF hail damage to crops in North
Dakota and to criticisms OF it's special
August review for not featuring crop
losses, 1t concluded:
1.-THE relative unimportance Of these
Is now indicated by the latest official
report on the 1927 harvests for North
Dakota. which shows that the wheat
crop was one OF the five largest in the
history Of the State. Furthermore
the composite condition of all crops in
North Dakota was more than 20 per
cent aboye the 10-year average for
the State"