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old order" had its origin in bolshe.
vistic propaganda.
Whence cones the unwholesome
Influence thai ~ transforming ideal
ism into cravings for strange new
freedOm?" she asked. well may
w, stand appalled, at the march of
The new order. and well may we
wonder whittier it is bound and how
1t will end. Z
The startling number of suicides
among the college students today.
the speaker continued, bears testi-
mony to the fact that some sinister
force is eating into the vitals of
young life.
What tremendous power 1t
must be that can destroy hope in.
those who are just on the tfresh-
hold-those who have nothing to
fear and whose outlook upon life
should never be marked by menac-
Ing shadows
Pleads for Americanism
A wholesome love and regard for
the early builders OF America. she
declared. should be inculcAted in the
hearts of every school child In the
United States.
She recommended that instead Of
American children being exposed to
lessons in foreign languages they
should7be taught a thorough knowl-
edge OF American history.
For the youth Of today" she de-
clared, there can ne no medium OF
development outside OF the good
home than military training, both
in school. Reserve Officers Training
Camp units, in the Citizens Military
Training Camps, and also in that fine
organization known as the Boy
Scouts"
For the girl student the Girl
Scouts affiiiation was suggested. ],
and the speaker declared that this
prescription applied 10 boys and girls
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a respectfully married woman, thir-
teen years younger than her 46-
year-old husband, who loved to
dance, play cards, indulge in an
occasional cocktail and have a good
time. Her friends called her "a
good fellow"
But she was married to a home.
loving husband who had settled
down" and who bored her. She
wearied of watching him putter
around the house. tinker with the
automobile, tend the harden and
wind the clock. So she began to
run around" and stay out nights,
leavinge her 9-yearold daughter,
Lorraine, at home with her mother.
Love Affair With Salesman
Thus she met Gray, a young
corset salesman, married to an
estimable woman living in East
Orange, N. j.. a church worker and
the father of giri of 10. They
finally became secret lovers and for
three years carried on their affair.
They took motor trips together and
even enjoyed passionate adventures
in the Snyder home.
On Saturday night, March 10,
Mrs. Snyder. her husband and their
daughter went to a party at q
neighbours in Queens Village.
She urged her husband to have
plenty of drinks. He did and when
they came home he sprawled across
the bed in semi .stupor. Gray.
meanwhile. had somehow got into
the house and, in the wee hours of
Sunday morning, the goth. he went
into Snyder's room, accompanied by
Mrs. Snyder. according to the
police, and struck the sleeping hus.
band with an iron window weight.
Accuses Mrs. Snyder
Gray told the police that after
he hit the man once he dropped
the bludgeon and that Mrs. SNYDER
picked 1t up and dealt the victim a
last deft blow.
Then they strangled him with
picture wire and, as il that weren't
enough. tied chloroform soaked
pieces OF cotton over his face.
They were soon arrested and to.
day-less than a month after. the
crime was committed they 60 on
trial for their lives.
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Mrs. Snyder, looking very pale
and with eyes downcast, came into
the courtroom wearing black
broadcloth dress and tight fitting
helmet style hat.
she did not look at Gray. who
sat 10 feet away, Ileryously witch
ing his hands and looking straight
ahead through horn-rimmed glasses.
The Jury box was filled with
prospective talesmen. and Attorney
Edgar f. Hazleton, Mrs. Snyder's
lawyer asked that it be put into the
record that a separate trial had
been asked for Mrs. Snyder and
denied.
interested in Jury Box
Mrs. Snyder regarded the pros
pective jurynen with interest. She
folded her hands on the table. lean
ing forward eagerly.
Five talesmep were quickly ex-
cnsed by District Attorney Richard
s. Newcombe because of their an.
nounced disapproval of capital pun
isl1ment.
The district attorney asked the
prospective jurors il they had read
Of the case. They all had. They
were also asked If they had formed
any prejudice, and If they believed
in alleged murder of this type that
d woman should he punished as
dra stically as a man.
An hour before the trial was to
have been formally started this
morning. the advance guard of 100
newspaper men. special writer's. sob
sisters. psychologists. playwrights,
preachers and criminologists who
are to cover" the case took their
assigned seats in the spacious. high
ceilinged courtroom.
The stage was all set and the
curtain about to rise. Even David
Belasco. the noted theatrical impress
sario. had been assigned one OF the
comparatively few seats left for the
public. i
The Whole Starry to BE Told
In this courtroom will be un.
folded the true story of what the
district attorney declares to be a
homicide as coolly planned and cold.
bloodedly. carried out as any muir,
der in this country within many
score years.
Mrs. Snyder has been pictured as
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church has any power to make any
decree Of any force in the law OF
the land, other than to establish the
status of its own commandments
within its own church.
Il believe in the support Of the
public school as one OF the corner
stones of American liberty.
believe in the right Of every
parent to choose whether his child
shall be educated in the public school
or in religious school supported by
those Of his own faith.
Believes in NOn-Interference
II believe in the non.interference
by this country in the internal af-
fairs of other nations. and that we
should stand steadfastly against such
interference by whatsoever ii Ii
urged.
u believe in the common brother.
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GRAY NERVOUS, WIDOW
! SHOWS MARKED CALM
BY JAMES Z. KILGALLEN
international News Service

COURTHOUSE LONG ISLAND CITY, n Y April is
Dressed ii widows black Mrs Ruth Brown Snyder and her
Iover Henry Judd Gray before Justice Town
Scudder at 1908 clock this morning charges Of the
murder month Of Albert Snyder the womans husband
art editor of the magazine 8 Motor Boating
Gray, married corset gaesIans entered te courtro0n
pronounced BY aliensts He
numbering bludgeoned death with iron
window weight he slept in the Snyder home Gray blamed
his act On bad liquor and Influence of Mrs Snyder.
Mrs Snyder Looks Pale
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PARDON DENIED
EARL CARROLL

There will be no executive clemency
for Earl Carroll. New York theatrical
producer, who suffered a nervous
collapse while en- route to Atlanta
prison to start sentence for per.
jury. It was indicated today after
Attorney General Sargent had visited
the White House.
Carroll had his day In court I"
Sargent said, and received d fair
trial. There is nothing in any sub.
sequent events that in any way
changes the situation
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d. A. K. Head Demands
u. S. Preparedness

The time has when every American citizen must com
NIT himself either to policy of preparedness and defense for
his country leaving the United States defenseess and
unprotected Mrs Alfred Brosseau president Of the
Daughters of the American Revolution told than 5000
delegates attending the opening session today of Thirty
Continental Congress Of the organization.
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Smith Calls Church
And State Separate
HENRY JUDD GRAY
u InternationaI Newa servIce

NEW YORK, April l8.A complete and ringing disavowa
that there anything in his Catholicism that would initiate
against his faithful adherence to the Constitution placed
before the American public today by Gov. Alfred Smith,
adme lily the leading candidate for the Democratic presi
dental nomination, and the first American Catholic ever
enjoy the particular status
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HEADS TAX BOARD

Benjamin III. Littleton of Tennes-
see today was elected chairman of
the Board of Tax Appeals. He IL
one Of the original members Of the
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Ruth VIII Not Break :
Declares Mother
JUDGE SCUDDER
~ MARGERY REX

LONG ISLAND CITY, n. X, April 1s-Even before Il
began had come to be known ssthe Snyder trail
Not as the SnyderGray Gray-Snyder trial but the
Snyder trial. after its dominating Defendant Ruth
Brown Snyder.
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Reliable business services are aan,Iv
secured from the who's Wh0ss direefnpw
N today'e Times and Herald Clarified
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Many employment difficulties are
solved with ease through the use az
the Help Wanted Columns Of The Times
and Herald Classified Ads.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-15
LAND DEED PLAN
DEFENDED

''While we have every respect
for the rulings of those charged
with interpreting and administering
| the law, legal advice has convinced
us that the recent ruling of the
! State superintendent of insurance
regarding real estate purchase con-
tracts will not be upheld in the
courts"
This statement was made yester-
day by w. Burke Harmon concern
ing the new ruling of the State SUI
perintendent of insurance. enforce
ment of which would make it inn
possible for a real estate company
in New York to protest a customers
| family by issuing a deed for land
purchased without further payment,
in the event of his death.
1.-THE form of contract which was
originated by the Harmon organ
ization. and which it has used for
40 years, was given the approval of
the State Department of Insurance
under a previous administration"
said Mr.. Harmon. I'm addition,
there are legal precedents to sus-
tain it.
Form Proves Popular
ain the last few years we under
stand that many other real estate
companies have adopted almost
| identically the same form of con-
| tract for use in their own business.
In our opinion this is most dgslr-
able, since the purpose of this con-
| tract is to protect the purchaser of
real estate against such loss.
| Under our form of contract the
seller agrees to suspend demands for
/ payments from the purchs ser of real
| estate should the latter be stricken
with illness. Should the purchaser
! die, his family receives either a deed
! to the property without further pay
ments or a refund of the entire sum
which the purchaser paid to the real
estate company.
while this plan was originated
and developed by the Harmon or
ganization with a desire of stimulat.
| ing it's business, it need not be en-
phasized that a corporation can en-
joy permanent prosperity only by Of
fering economic advantages and
equitable treatment of its customers.
This purchase plan has assisted
many citizens in moderate circum-
stances to obtain home, to achieve
greater prosperity, anu W DSCoIHC
better citizens, incidentally leading
them to take a greater interest in
governmental affairs generally. Many
prospective home buyers OF limited
resources would not enter into such
an undertaking if they fet that their
entire life's savings would be lost in
the event of sudden illness or death.
Promotes Home Owning
'The object of the Harmon form
of contract Is TO promote home
ownership. Only purchasers who
are buying a prospective home
site of limited value can have the
benefits of the contract. 1t Is our
observation that this form of con.
tract has worked to the great ad.
vantage of all customers of our
| organization.
''The Harmon corporation is not
| selling insurance. We are selling
real estate-and the only semblance
| to insurance we have offered is the
assurance of a fair purchase con-
tract which gives the debtor every
protection possible. In common
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-15

The exchange. in the emergency
shortage of homes which the storm
created, took action to throw the
whole service of its membership
into the steadying of the shelter
situation.
The board took action as follows:
Branded as unethteal any attempt
by owners or agents to raise rents
during the emergency. BY form nj
resolution members of the board not
only are urged to refuse to act as
agent for any owner whe SHOULD in
sist on raise of EGut during the
emergency shortage bur also are asked
to report his case to the exchange.
Called for extension of time for
mortgage payments. either of princi-
pal or interest, for home owners in
the devastated region whose homes
were under mortgage.
Pledged the 400 real estate concerns
who are members of the exchange TO
offer this extension in all cases where
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Trinity Alumnae Opens
It's Winter Season

Opening the winter season, the
Holy Trinity Alumnae of Glasses
rs, '26 and '27 will give a benefit
dance on Saturday evening, Novem.
Der IL. it was decided at a meet
ing held last night in the Holy
Trinity Convent.
Several card parties are planned
during the fall, Miss Catherine du
Fief, president, announced.
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/ they themselves hold deeds to prop
owners who are their ciisnts 20 naSS
similar extension.
Is making estimates for persons
whose homes were wrecked on the
amount of damage and the probable
cost Of re-conditioning the structures.
1t Is cautioning property owners to
use care in the selection Of responsible
contractors and estimators in the work
of reconstruction. This work is being
done in cooperation with the Master
Builders Association.
Opened a bureau at board head
quarters to advise without charge ala
holders of insurance policies on prop
erty damaged by the tornado. The
bureau is giving detailed information
as to what mea sures the holders should
take to safeguard their interests.
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1000 VICTIMS IN
STORM HOUSED

Housing for more than 1000 fami.
lies made homeless by the st. Louis
tornado of October / has been pro.
vided through the st. Louis Real
Estate Exchange working in CO.
operation with the Red Cross. Mem
bers of the exchange took the in
itiative in offering 80 to so days
occupancy rent free in worthy cases.
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$4,000 with which to build a struc.
ture for its permanent headquarters.
The day was made a jubilee sales
day, earnings from which vert to
make the new board building pos
sible. Fifty members subscribed
81 900 each to insure the construc-
ton of the home.
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CITIZENS TO MEET

The regular meeting of the Ana
costa Citizens Association will be
held in the Masonic Temple. Four
teenth and U Streets Southeast, this
evening, at 8 o'clock.
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with other reputable concerns which
have followed this policy, we be.
lieve that the time is past when
business can be successfully con.
Quoted on the basis of letting the
buyer beware"
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Los Angeles Board to
Built It's Own Home

The Los Angeles Realty Board is
to have home of its own, and will
own it free of incumbrance. The
board in one-day campaign raised
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-15

Watch for The Lovelorn,
which starts Monday. October
II, in The Washington Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-24

abandon and drollery that aroused
peals of laughter.
After two reels had been made,
and which her husband shot, she
insisted on making third one her.
self, that he might appear in 1t.
With the intensity which she shows
in all things, the great singer turned
the crank. The finale came. In 1t,
very tall man appeared as a
leopard wearing the diva's coat Of
leopard skin, his hands in a pair
of storm boots, and walking on all
fours. His part was to chase an
unsuspecting infant, a part played
by a little man dressed in her rain
coat and a pink negligee cap. Mr..
Samuels was the heroic hunter, who
saved the baby in distress.
All went smoothly until towards
the end, when things became so
funny that Madame Cali Curci,
forgetting her important part in it,
sat fiat on the grass and laughed.
The picture, however, was carried to
a successful finish. Now, when 1t
is shown at Sui Monte, those view
ing it will know why the prina
donna sat down and forgot to crank.
Miss Ida Belle Sweenie, Of the
voice department of the Metro
politan School of Music, will go to
Chicago next week to attend the
grand opera.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-24
POLICE BADGES HERE
Few to Be Distributed to
individuals in 1923.

Safety board members will be ex-
tremely cautious in issuing special
police powers in 1928, President
Fred w. Connell announced today.
Only a limited number of badges
will be issued.
New shields, smaller than the reg
ular police shields, have been re-
ceived for distribution Jan. 1. They
bear the figure 1923 on the face to
protect the public from persons who
have badges of former years.
The board orderes persons having
old police stars and badges returned
to the office. Any person found
wearing such badges will be arrested
for impersonating an officer. Rec
ord of badges issued several years
back have been lost and the board
ordered strict record of the new
numbers.
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Jacques Thibaud, violinst; Ignace
Jan Padereski, pianist, and JaScha
Heifetz, violinist.
Great opera singers are fire.
quently devoted movie fans. After
hard study and public appearances,
viewing pictures on the silver screen
makes restful relaxation. The peer
less Madame Galli-Curci, who will
be heard at the Murat Sunday
afternoon, Feb. 49,, has gone step
further and made films herself.
The divas husband, Homer
Samuels, whose delightful &C
compartments and songs make part
of her fascinating programs, has
moving picture camera. With it
she often makes records on her long
concert tours in different quarters
of the California, Hawaii,
Florida, Australia, Canada. the
British Isles and other sections.
At Sui Monte Galli-Curci's
splendid summer home insthe Cat
skills not far from New York, she
has built a dance hall on the estate
and equipped it with moving
picture screen. There these views
are shown as part of an evening
entertainment when a few friends
are visitors.
Exactly as Madame Galli-Curci
appears on the concert stage she is
when away from it; genial, friendly,
full of vim and energetic spirit. In
opera, as those who have seen her
will well know, her talent for acting
would give her high place in the
spoken drama. There, all dignity
and grace, she portrays the range of
human emotions, dis she does
through her voice in lovely concert
songs.
One sunny morning last summer
and to make the time pass happily
for some visitors, she improvised a
play in Which all took part with her.
AS a comedian she proved the gay
life of the party, acting with
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

mere beginning which takes on its
significance and glory from all
that the later life reveals. In a
mothers heart there may be the
hope and expectancy that filled the
heart of Mary.
There may be in her thought of
her babe and in her prayer for her
babe things that others could not
comprehend. According as she may
be herself a woman of soul and
spirit responsive to the great truths
and inspirations of life, she will
have in her thought Of her babe the
dream Of some possible path Of glory
and achievement for her unborn
child; but to the eyes Of the world
the babe will be very much like any
other babe.
Mothers Prayer
Should we not pray for something
of the mothers spirit and the
mothers prayer in our attitude to-
ward children and in all our rela-
tionship to our fellow men-an at
titude of that faith and hope and
expectancy thot ever looks for
the best and helps to bring it into
actuality?
Would that we had the vision of
wise men to understand that even
babe wrapped in swaddling
clothes lying in a manger may have
in him the inherent power and
strength of kings and prophets!
Would that we might have reSpon-
sive souls like the shepherds of
Bethlehenl's plains to hear in the
humdrum duties of life the angelic
voices that speak if we will but lis
tenl
A Christian Christmas
There is no other thought that
is worth emphasizing-the glory of
Christmas does not always come to
us; it is something that we have to
seek. The wise men and the shep-
herds journeyed to Bethlehem.
Many revelations of truth and
beauty are denied to men because
they will not follow the reckoning
star or the voices of inspiration.
If we would have Christian
Christmas, it must be through a
willingness to follow the CLEAN. A
religion that leads nowhere Is not
Christian either in spirit or fact.
There are places as lowly as an
cient Bethlehem where we shall fino
a glory akin to that which filled
the manger stall if we shall go forth
in the Christmas spirit to find these
places Of revelation even as the
wise men journeyed Of old.
1t may be that like them we shall
have to take our gifts with us, meet
ing the need of others in the spirit
of Christian love and brotherhood.
But if our hearts are quickened
with the impulse, 'let us now go
even unto Bethlehem" we shall f1nd
Bethlehem, even in a modern day
and so far across the sea from the
Bethlehem of our story.
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BY WILLIAM E. GILROY, d. d.
NNE would despair of making
~ any new or interesting COM
ment upon a Christmas lesson
were it not that the Christmas
story is itself one that is ever, new.
The inherent simplicity and charm
of the story give it amending in
tereSt.
We read It again and again and
never grow weary of its human
atmosphere, its contrast in the low
illness of the birth of the supreme
figure Of all history and its fidelity
to the deepest springs of all that
the heart can feel. The amending
reality and interest of motherhood
in each succeeding age and in every
life imparts to the story a symbolic
glory.
But even were the story old and
worn threadbare by repetition every
sincere and devout soul would find
in it new meanings and ever
awakening and enriching interests
in the thought of its application to
the changing scenes and experiences
of life both of the individual and of
the world.
Book Doesn't Tell All
DR.. j. D. Jones of~Bournemouth,
England. some years ago, published
a sermon which he called 1.-THE In
complete Biography" Taking the
verses in the conclusion of the
Gospel Of John, which suggest that
if all the things that Jesus did were
written down the world could not
contain the books. DR.. Jones de-
veloped the thought that we have
in the gospel narratives with all
their beauty of the story of the
earthly life of Jesus only an in
complete biography.
The full story of that life is told
only in the persistence of that life
in the thoughts and actions of
men. If Christ lives in the souls
of believers, their expressions of
character and their works of grace
are all a part Of that great life
When the Christ spirit moves men
to larger deeds of mercy and kind
ness, new chapter is written in
the biography of our Lord.
1t is in connection with this
thought that we may survey the
first Christmas and the coming of
Jesus into the world. A birth is a
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Nezg Title

Louisiana" is now 1.-THE
Love Mart" the later title hav-
ing been chosen for the George
Fitzmaurice production in
which Billie Dove, Gilbert Ro-
land and Noah Berry appear.
The filrl is acknowledged to be
one of the most dramatic and
romantic in which the beautiful
Miss Dove has appeared.
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JACKSON RENAMES FOUR
Trustees of State Institutions Are
Reappointed.

-Four trustees of State institutions
were reappointed by Governor Ed
Jackson today.
Charles A. Greenhouse, Indian
apolis, and Miss Helen G. Benbridge,
Terre Haute, we're reappointed
trustees of the State Normal School
Mrs. William A. Hough, Green
field, was reappointed a member of
the board of trustees of the State
school for the blind.
James K. Risk, Lebanon, was re-
appointed a member of the board
of the State school for the deaf.