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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-24
REMUS PLANS FETE
Prepares Merry Christmas
for Fellow Prisoners.
Rg United Press

Rg United Press
CINCINNATI, Dec. 24.-Becom-
ing reconciled to the fact that he
must remain in jail over Christmas,
pending his final sanity hearing on
Wednesday, George Remus today
prepared to give his fellow prison
ers merry Christmas.
The former bootleg kings last
chance for liberty vanished when
Probate Judge William H. Lueders
denied a petition to release him
On bond. The petition bore the
signatures Of the twelve jurors who
found Remus not guilty of the muir
der of his wife, Imogene, ION the
sole grounds of insanity"
Remus has received hundreds of
Christmas greetings from friends
and strangers, most of them women,
from throughout the country.
Things might be worse" he told
jail attaches.
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times with the German army, and
"was buried, too, whereby he got
a collapse Of the nerves.
"I have no words to describe to
you what I have gone through on
account of this" the mother con-
tinued. my only thought, my sole
desire is to have him back, and
the ful1llment Of this dream
would make me the most happy
person in the world. I am a
widow, and he is the only being,
after my husbands death in the
war, that keeps me alive
The word spread through the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-24
BANDITS, BURGLARS
HOLD CELEBRATION

Bandits and burglars made the
pre-holiday season a carnival of
crime Friday night. Money and
foodstuffs made up the loot in the
dozen places reported robbed.
Besides the spectacular hold-up
which resulted in capture of the
bandits at the Butter Crust gPie
Company, a drug store and grocery
were held up and $108 taken.
The r. c. Snoddy drug store, 1868
N. Olney ST., was entered by a
gunman who relied the cash drawer
of $63, covering Clerk Myron Beb-
bles, 1885 Linden ST., and three
customers.
The Standard Grocery, 9o2 Eng
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A FEW days ago came letter
4 n to Governor jackson from
Frau Muethal. She had not been
notified that her son had been
freed and did not know that soon
she, could clasp him in her arms.
With the help of a friend fam
liar with English, Frau Muethal
wrote the Governor to defend her
boys fall as having been an after
math of his World War expert
ences, and to plead that he be re-
turned to her.
Frau Muethal explained that
her boy had been wounded three
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ernor Jackson to pardon him. He
had been sentenced in South Bend
March 8 for robbery to a maxi
mum of twenty-one years.
The mothers letter to the Gov
ernor was accompanied by a GER
tificate from the Berlin police de-
partment, testifying to Kurt's good
character while he was an appren-
tice in one of the largest banks
there.
The German consul at Cleve-
land, DR.. H. Borcher, convinced,
as were others, that Kurt went
wrong because of bad associates,
assisted in winning the pardon.
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lish Ave-, was held up by pair Of
bandits, who took $45 from the
cash register. Pursued by three
men as they left, the bandits turned
and fired, halting the chase.
Foodstuffs, mostly of the Christ
mas dinner variety, made up the loot
of numerous burg.arieS. r. L. Un-
versall, proprietor of a meat mar
ket at 2646 Harding ST., had $50
worth of butter. eggs and chickens
taken. August Pottenseaker Of the
Standard grocery, next door, lost $50
worth of groceries.
George Shirk, Standard grocery
3214 E. Twenty-Fifth ST., reported
eggs, apples, walnuts and oysters
stolen, valued at $50.
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BY WILLIAM E. HALLBERG

A JOY BEARING cablegram
IA will reach q lonely home in
Berlin tonight at about the same
time the Christmas candles begin
winking through windows to guide
good Saint Nicholas and his rein
deer.
It will bear news of the gift
which Frau A. Muethal desired
more than anything else in the
world. It will tell her that her
boy, Kurt, is coming home.
What matter if he comes from
the cell Of a prison in the United
Statesa
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Statehouse that letter about
Kurt's pardon could not reassure
his mother until long after Christ
mas. So the Statehouse employees
got up Merry Christmas list"
and raised the fund for the cable
gram.
THE message telling Frau Niue
4 thai of her sons pardon was
timed to reach Berlin tonight
when st. Nicholas, according to
German belief, starts his trip over
the housetops.
Evidence that young Kurt was
deranged mentally prompted Gov
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hickman STORY EXPLODED;
MAN He CALLS killer Was
IN JAIL AT Time OF crime
Los Angeles Police Cease
Search for Murderer
Named by Youth.
PROMISE SPEEDY TRIAL
Great Precautions Taken to
Avert Mob Violence
on Return.

DnlJeu fFeSS SJaH Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.-The
movement of justice was speeded up
here today as police abandoned their
search for Andrew Kramer and pre-
pared to bring william Edward
Hickman to quick trial on charges
of kidnapping and numbering Marion
Parker, II.
After thorough investigation, po-
lice announced they practically had
discarded the theory that Kramer"
ever lived in reality and were con-
centrating their efforts on complet-
ing the case against Hickman.
Police said their theory that
Marion was murdered and her body
dismembered in Hickman's Belle
vue Arms apartment materially was
strengthened by discrepancies found
in Hickman's confession.
Damaging Evidence Found
They listed the following as tend
ing to bear out the theory:
Portions of Brazil nuts found in
the coat wrapped around the girls
body matched parts later discovered
in Hickman'S rooms.
Thread used to sew open the
girls eyelids matched thread found
in a dresser drawer in the apart
ment.
Though Hickman stated he had no
knowledge of the disposition of the
girls body, pages used to wrap parts
OF her anatomy were from news
papers discovered in his Bellevue
Arms rooms, police said.
A towel stuffed in the torso of tho
body bore the name Of the Bellevue
Arms
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THRILL BANDITS
SHOT BY BAKER.
FOUR ARRESTED
Two Youths Seriously Wounded by Bullets
Fired by Pie Company Owner; Con-
fess Long Series of Hold-Ups.

Bullets from the revolver of Walter Slate A. of 290
Central Ave. of the Butter Crust Pie Company 351O
Madison Ave. today temporarily had ended the hr crime
career Of five youthful bandits
Two of the bandit gang which, according to confessions
held and robbed six filling stations since Dec seriously
wounded in city hospital They Charles Mengus J 18 of
AS Sanders ST. and George Adams 81 of 2 E. Minnesota St
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Speed Trial Plans

DE~Ne' AttAAS
Every possible arrangement 70.
speedy justice is being completed.
Supreme Court Judge Carlos
will set the date of Hickman's trial
when the latter pleads before him
as soon as he is returned here.
If he is convicted, which is re-
garded as a certainty, he will die
inside the 90-day limit set by law.
Every precaution will be taken to
protect Hickman from mob rule
from the time he enters the State
boundaries until he has paid the ex-
trene penalty, authorities said.
o. Andrew Kramer, who, police
believe, Hickman attempted to
blame for the killing of the Los
Angeles school girl, has been in the
city jail here since last August and
could not have participated in the
kidnapping and Staying.
Prisoner Is Bitter
Kramer was a former cellmate of
Hickman when the latter was in Jail
here on charges Of check forging. He
resembles, somewhat, the mythical
character whom Hickman charges
with the killing and dismembering.
Kramer, questioned in his cell,
bitterly scored the youth for at
tempting to lay the crime on him.
"This Hickman" Kramer said, 'is
just one of these good little boys
gone wrong. He's a Sunday School
crook with a lot Of tough notions
he picked up from reading story
books.
mo brains, that's his trouble. He
thinks he's hard, but he hasn't any
more gumption than a guinea pig.
HE shows what kind of a guy he
is when he tried to hand a rap like
this on a fellow that was in jail all
the time. wouldn't have gone in
on a job with him for ten times
the $1,5OO he grabbed"
Brothers Have AIibi
Two brothers of Kramer, AIber
and Frank, also were said to have
perfect alibis, police said.
June Dunning, mentioned by
Hickman as the woman in the case,
still was being sought today. Police
said this woman may know some
details of the case.
She may have helped Hickman
plan the kidnapping, police said, al
though they did not believe she look
an active part in the killing.
Hickman was said to have been
seen in the company of a woman
before the kidnapping and it was be-
lieved this woman was "June Dun
ming" whom he named as an ac-
complice.
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LIVESTOCK NEARLY
STEADY AT YARDS

POrkerS Unchanged; Cattle Up,
Steady With Weeks Best.
Hogs closed an eventful week at
the indianapolis Union Stockyards
today with prices up with the weeks
best. The top was 50 and bulk
$3.50. Receipts were estimated at
$500 with 354 holdoverS.
There were few sales at the Chi
cago stockyards and the market was
steady. Most animals were going at
$685. to $8.65. Chicago receipts wereI
about 5000 with 1000 held over.
Cattle were strong at the loca
yards and up to the high point
the week. Other stock was stea
and nominal.
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HITS FORCED MORALS
Rabbi Urges 'HMake Him Happy"
Instead Of Good"

Decrying attempts of reformers
to make men moral by censorship
and attempts at legislating morals,
Rabbi Samuel Baron Of Unontown,
Pa, spoke at the Irldianap1lis He
brew Temple, Delaware and Tenth
Sts., Friday night. 10y duty 70 my
neighbor is much more nearly ex-
pressed by saying 1 have t. make
him happy, rather than good" he
said,
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DRUG CHAIN EXPANDING
GOIdsmith's to Open New Store at
Ohio and Meridian SITS.

The Kuhn drug store at Meridian
and Ohio Sts., will be opened Jan.
as store ten of the Goldsmith
Brothers Drug Company chain, Sol
Goldsmith has announced. The
firm also has taken fifteen-year
lease on the corner store room of
the new Fountain Square Theater
building at rental of $4,000 and
will open a drug store, soda foun-
tain and luncheonette about
March /.
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GRAYSON is
MISSING ON FLIGHT

landed somewhere along the route
and might be reported safe later in
the day.
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STOLEN CAR REPORTED
Boy Rents Garage, Steals Tags,
Invites Owner on Sale Trip.

InVIteS OWNER on Sale Trip.
Mrs. Emma Simpson, 1926 W. Nc
Carty ST., told police young man
who rented her garage from her ad-
mitted Friday night the automobile
he was driving was stolen and asked
her to go to Terre Haute with him
to sell it. She refused. Whe nshe
arrived home she found he had
taken license plates off of her auto
mobile.
Evening star., 1927-08-14
BY EDWARD j. JORDAN.

The automobile industry is just be-
ginning to emerge from swaddling
clothes. There are a great many ex-
travagances in the business; it is not
yet on an economic basis. The princi.
pal reason for that is. while we have
10000 900 automobiles in use in this
country, there are only about 5000, 900
in all the world beside. One of the
most important facts about the busi-
ness today is that last year the in
dustry shipped over 100000 automo-
biles to foreign countries.
That is not important merely be
cause it indicates an increase in the
output of the automobile industry and
an increase in export business. 1t
has always seemed to me that the
Evening star., 1927-08-14
AUTO INDUSTRY SEEN AS LONG
WAY FROM ECONOMIC BASIS
Manufacturers of Today Seen as Only in Infancy,
Imposing Great Burden of Responsibilities
and Hardships on Dealers.

solution for the European problem
does not lie in a group of men sitting
around the table figuring out what
somebody owes; it lies in the introduc
ton of 100000 Fords and 100000
, telephones to cut down the cost OF
Transportation, break down the bar
riers of language, religion, custom and
eiudice-transport and com
munication.
Merchandising I'm Lead.
That is the significance of this
tremendous shipment of automobiles to
foreign countries.
Meantime, merchandising has sue
ceeded production as the dominant
problem in the industry.
The evidence of that lies in the fact
that there is constantly increasing
effort on the part of the manufacturers
to change models to renew sales to
old owners, to make long trades with
customers, and to hold up their volume
of factory production so that they can
keep down their overhead and keep
down their prices. The rapid change
of models contributes TO increased
ldClOIy pIOuuCliOIl, DuI IL Ids pioSCd
a burden upon the dealers and dis
tributors, which they are finding it
very difficult to carry.
In this merchandising period Of the
industry we have very interesting
situation. Instead of employing sales
men to sell new automobiles. these
statesmen are simply serving as pur-
chasing agents, buying old automo-
biles.
Dealers Problem Is Great.
The chief problem of the automo.
bile industry is not to deliver new au-
tomobiles at all. The factories ship
ping, as they do, sight draft against
bill of lading to the dealers. and the
dealers, as proud as they are to hold
the lines which they represent, being
inclined to take all of the automobiles
that the factories will ship, create this
situation. But the dealer handles all
of the time paper and all of the old
cars. When he trades Packard and
a Hupmobie on a Studebaker. and a
Dodge on Hup, and Ford on a
Dodge, and a motor cycle on Ford
he has had lot of turns which are
not very profitable, with the result
that the mortality among dealers in
tie NSIy
So when you read about factories
making large sums of money, paying
large dividends. and getting a lot of
publicity about the great feats they
are accomplishing in the business, re-
member that one fundamental has not
yet been met. It has bean met In
every other industry. There Is no
other industry in the world that can
ship merchandise to dealers and make
them take 1t and make them pay cash
against bill OF lading. 1t is the only
industry that has been able to con-
tinue to do that. and when the fac
tories which are making so much
money now begin to assume the re-
sponsibility for handling the time
paper themselves and taking the
trades, there may be less production.
The industry will begin to grow into
boyhood. at least. and get down to
one fundamental which most business
men haye to observe.
Evening star., 1927-08-14

to the daughter of Europe's
proudest court.
But what was the end OF it
all?
On a little rocky island he
fretted away the last years of his
life. Who was there to share
his exile?
Not his wife; she had gone
back to her father. Not 6erthier.
his lifelong comrade; 5erthier
had deserted without blush and
become captain Of Louis xViIl's
bodysuard. Two Of his trusted
marshals had insulted him.
Marmont, his petted favorite,
eonspicuousIy betrayed him.
Even the personal attendants
who had slept at his door turned
their backs on his failure. "What
ineratitude!" you exclaim. But
he himself had set the example.
"After all, ! care only for peo-
Pile who are useful to me and so
long as they are useful" he once
remarked. And again: ~ have
made courtiers; have never
pretended to make friends"
The fine tomb in Paris is q
monument to the dazzling as
poets Of his career, erected by
those who knew him only from
a distance. Those who knew
him best raised no monument to
him on the shores Of st. Helena.
His little garden there became a
crude potato patch, the billiard
room in which he had played and
talked a haymow, and the room
where he died a stable.
Over the ruins might we'll have
been written: n made eourtiers; ID
never pretended to make
friends"
Evening star., 1927-08-14
BY FREDERICK X. NEELY.

American enthusiasm over flying,
planted in the hearts of the people by
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and given
even deeper root by the succeeding
successful nonstop over-ocean flights,
is being nursed along cautiously and
carefully by the ''air people" against
an i'll wind in the form of freak, pub
licity-seekin9 adventures that may
chill the budding flower and delay its
immediate development.
Taking advantage of the aerial age
in which the country awoke one morn.
ing to find itself, a number of over
jealous airmen have rushed into print
with announcements of all sorts of
nonstop projects that fire the imagi-
nation TO the point of almost believing
that this aviation game has reached
the limit of it's possibilities and that
nothing is too big for the airplane to
accomplish now.
All the good work that has been
done by Col. Lindbergh, the other
over-ocean flyers and thousands Of con-
scientious airmen who fly day after
day for the advancement Of aeronau-
tics would be seriously impaired If
every ambitious pilot seeking personal
glory Is allowed to take a half-pre-
pared expedition over the seas with
the odds for his success overwhelm-
ingly against him.
Public Now Favorable.
We've got the public on our side
now" according to one prominent
military aviator here, who has the
l'interest OF flying close to heart, "and
we cannot afford 10 have it revert
back TO the period of skepticism i'll
which it remained so long.
We know that every spectacular
flight announcement never will be
carried out. Some Of them never are
intended to be, and others may fail on
the ground for want of resources and
orea niZation. But a few forced land
| ings out in the oceans. details of which
we may never learn about, will work
a great hardship on us. 1t will mean
that a large number Of converts to
avia ton will jump back over the fence
| to the other side and we'll have a hard
time bringing them around to our way
Of thinking again"
| Which leads up to the statement
that the next big long-dstance fight
| project must succeed 1t should be
| organized and equipped just a little
bit better than Lindbergh, Chamber
| lin. tland-Hagenherger, Byrd and
| his assistants and Smith and Bronte
were. These flights were carried out
amid a certain degree of hysteria on
the part of the public. Now that they
have succeeded. the ground-man has
come to regard other flights as being
entirely possible of accomplishment.
Attacks Foolish Gamblers.
There is no commission or board
of airmen and engineers in existence
to pass upon the feasibility of forth
coming flights in order to uphold the
good name of aviation and save the
! lives of aspiring pilots. Some airmen
here in Washington think there should
| be. They argue that the world is full
of people who care not the snap of
finger for their lives. but are willing
TO gamble them against tremendous
odds Just for publicity and a prize,
II they win. avia ton will not be bene
6tee tremendously because the prob.
Evening star., 1927-08-14
AVIATION PROMOTERS EAGER
TO HOLD PUBLIC'S CONFIDENCE
Experts Fear clay Wire'' Flyers Will Stage Some
Attempt Resulting in Serious Disaster and Lose
Support Won by Flights Across Oceans.

lem was not sound. If they lose. their
immediate families will mourn their
loss and history will record such
and.such a pilot failed" to do so-and-
So
In the absence of such a com.
mission or board. the National Aero
nautic Association. with what author
ity it possesses. is endeavoring to
regulate the flight projects. 1t cannot
tell an inexperienced aviator with a
hay wire" plane that he cannot
undertake a big fight, but the associa-
tion can refuse to have the flight
conducted under it's auspices, thereby
deprivng the pilot of any official
recognition that. may result from the
endeavor.
Must Meet Requirements.
The association. before supervising
such flights. insists that the pilot hold
a certificate from the Federation Aero
Continued on Third Page)
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II Never Pretended to Make Friends
BY BRUCE BARTON.

IN the matter Of money most
men make a conscious Of
fort to provide for their old
Il age. They save and invest
and figure that at go they will
have such and such an income.
In the matter OF friends too
few take such wise precaution.
Hence the cities are full of lonely
old folks who have outliVed their
generation; the friends Of their
middle years are gone and they
have made no new ones to fill
the vacant places.
A man whom very much re-
spect was speaking OF this the
other day.
Until was 20 years old |
sought deliberately to make my
friendships among men older
than myself" he said. "Sinee !
passed 40, ! have tried just as
deliberately to find friends
among younger men. am lay
ing up friendships TOR my olo
age
Wise old Sam Johnson fol-
lowed the same good rule.
az a man does not make new
acquaintance as he advances
through life, he will soon find
himself alone" he said to Bos-
we'll. "A man, sir, should keep
his friendships in constant re-
pair"
Viewed from this standpoint,
no other human career presents
a sadder spectacle than Ma
poleon's. Most readers of his
tory remember only his splendid
hours. We think Of him hold
ing court at Versailles or die
tating terms to ennperors on the
battlefield, or marrying himself
Evening star., 1927-08-14
Mining Meerschaum.

Extremely primitive means are said
to be used in the mining of meer.
schaum in Turkish Asia Minor. This
is done by sinking pits about 80 meters
deep, lining them with scaffolding and
then opening up transversal galleries.
The mineral is dislodged by hand and
with picks. 1t then is hoisted to the
surface by buckets drawn up by hand.
Lighting the mines is accomplished by
use OF petroleum or carbide lamps.
Meerschaum occurs in dry as well,
as moist or dripping deposits. The
latter are of the best quality. although
In pits of this type cave-ins are apt
to occur. The meerschaum Is polished
and dried and pieces of thu finest
quality are submitted to a final polish,
with felt and wax before being ex-
ported. The mineral Is used largely
in the manufacture of pipes and
cigarette holders, although that OF
poorer quality is used in making
beads. rosaries, girdles and other
products.
Evening star., 1927-08-14
Not Yet.

From the Providence Journal
Nobody has yet suggested Hughes
and Johnson as the Republican ticket,
with Let Bygones Be Bygones" as
the prineipa! plank is the platform.
Evening star., 1927-08-14
Political Phases Subtle.

The political phases of the Tacna'
africa situation are far more subtle
.nd far more heavily charged with
ovnamite. As mentioned above, the
Isssiter resolution. passed last Janu
airy by the votes Of the American and
Evening star., 1927-08-14

tCopyright. 1877
Evening star., 1927-08-14

Continued on Third Page.)
Evening star., 1927-08-14
ny WALLACE THOMPSON.

%HE Tacna-Arica situation is
quiet. This much is all that
one is likely to learn today.
i even in the most thoroughly
informed quarters. in response