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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
His First Fight.

In Goldfield Richard put on his first
boxing match, the Cans Nelson fight,
in 1905. With George Graham Rice
and AL Mayer, he rounded up the $780,
600 guarantee dema nded by Bill No
Ian, Bat Nelson's manager. The fight
brought in S6o.175. OF this S33,500
went to the fighters and $4,000 to ex-
penses. Richard got $13,125. On his
next big promotion, the Johnson.Jef-
fries fight at Reno, he made 500, 900.
His activities from then ON are gen.
orally known.
Tex Richard has sluiced millions out
OF other peoples emotions, although
he himself never gets steamed UP very
much. He has always moved around
nigh blood pressures with perfectly
normal pulse. Is this just the tradi-
tional reserve of the old-time case
keeper who flips the fateful beads
with Buddhalike detachment? No
one seems to know. The only fact in
evidence is that Americas great i'm.
presario Of high romance is not a
romantic figure himself. He even wore
derby hat on the desert. The 70.
nance of his career is secondary to
his new millions and respectability-
and almost forgotten.
The Piutes call wise old-timers has
sa%ampas." meaning that they ac-
CURED saSacity by bathing in the
Hassayampa River before it started
running underground several hundred
years ago. The dust has all but
buried Goldfield and the years are pill
ing up on Richard. Maybe he will be
Hassayampa Tex" TO his old Piute
friends IL he ever goes back to the
desert.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
VETERAN IS TO OPPOSE
A CRAFTY RING GENERAL
Champion Will Sidestep and Jab Instead of Trad.
ing Punches With Mauer Who Needs More
Than Courage TO Regain Heavyweight Title.

when and if the two meet again? He
did not: at least in the opinion Of this
writer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
HOW RICHARD COT START
IS RECALLED BY WRITER

in Goldfeld, 81 years ago. His genial
PARTNER, Ole Elliott. did all the glad
handing. Whenever Richard engaged
the customers in pleasant converse
ton. he had a way If keeping one eye
on the casekeeper and the other on
the faro dealer
There was n Joshua tree growing
lust outside the window of Richard s
modest little Office In the Northern.
The Piute Indians used to say this
rheumatic and twisted desert tree was
n. link. It was-for any one who
hucked faro, keno. roulette or. policy
in Tex Richards place. Never whis-
per of brace boX-just sound bust
ness methods.
Recalls Old Days.
This writer was privileged to OBJ
serve some of the beginnings OF Tex
Richards fame. 1t seemed for a.
moment, Thursday night. that the
movie man, i'm his tower above the
ring. ran his machine backward for
a few turns. The mountainous shad.
ows of the far bleachers became a
Jagged rim of Malapai rock, there was
a straggle Of board shacks--the begin
nings OF Goldfield-a stretch OF chap
paral and sagebrush. and just a far
glimpse of the jumbled chaos of the
Panamint Mountains.
Tex Rickard and Ole Elliott were "a
couple of sourdoughs" down from
Alaska. 1t was known that Tex used
to valet longhorns in Texas and that
he used to stoke wood.burning boats
on the Yukon. No one seemed to
know much about Ole Elliott. They
established the Northern.
When Goldfield developed symp-
toms Of blowing up, Richard estab-
lished a sort of pinch-hitting saloon
and faro bank at Rawhide, last stand
Of the exiles of Thunder Mountain.
Cripple Creek and Leadville. following
the desert mirage out to the farthest
reach of the drifting sands.
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By SPARROW McGANN.

YEW YORK. July %. - New
York still RACES with contro.
NJ Versy over the Dempsey
Y Sharkey fight The fans are
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r.-.irctl LlGhtvci@ht ChampIon ot tlc ""'FI'
n YEN YORK. July IS. Now that
N the smoke of battle has set
VI tied. lets take reckoninS
4 Dempsey now Rnds himself
b, i ...,nn.. nnsifinn a. " hat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-13

country's mind. We want nothing Britain possesses
neither her dominions, anything else. Her sea
routes are nowhere in peril from and neither is
her trade in the legitimate above board
game that travelling statesmen play and in which en-
terprise, coupled with good goods and fair price,,
wins.
And if anybody's merchant marine is in danger
it is ours not Britain's.
Then why all the fuss and hullabaloo at Geneva?
If anything British in danger it would be Can
ada, over which we hold superiority of Is to in
man power and material resources yet not gun or
ship exists. or is needed, to Canada from us.
No. the British do not regard the United States
as q menace British imperialists suspect are
merely using the present occasion to acquire a new
and vast war machine for use elsewhere in the world
in the Mediterranean the Indian and Pacific oceans
That is to say in the near, middle and far east
Behind the smoke screen purposely raised in their
apparent battle with the American delegation at
Geneva, the British are preparing for test of
strength in the Orient, with Russia possibly in the
background Hence their demand for countless
medium sized cruisers
This being the it is silly to try to fool the
world into thinking an armament limitation confer
is in progress whereas the conference is likely
to increase British tonnage anywhere from so to 100
per cent and similar American tonnage some three
to six times present proportions.
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Time 2:12 P. M.

Down in Arkansas City the big clock stands still
and the time is 2:12 p
For more than eight weeks that clock has marked
an unchanging hour, melancholy reminder of flood
at its worst.
Three times in the year muddy water has swept
over the unhappy town by the river
Out on the levee, where tents make two long
miles of dismal bvouac babes have shriiled their first
challenges to the world and the old have breathed
their last sghs there has been love and laughter and
despair, and relentless has turned moisture into
steam and kinder has turned desolation into
mirage of loneliness. But time has stood still.
1t is SYMBOL that big clock lifting its silent hands
above the yet swirling waters.
For time has stood still elsewhere also.
The demand that Congress be called to vote relief
funds is already only echo. The countrys picture
of trial and terror is already faded The Nations
worst catastrophe has lost its appeal
It's PIP p. m. in Washington as we'll as in Arkan-
sas City
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-13

To live again the glorious days Of
adventure of Ulysses even if not TO
enter Troy in a wooden horse-that
is what Richard Halliburton has
done.
Dick Halliburton is one individual
who is not afraid to go back to the
other ages and live the old days over
again just as the heroes did.
This he has done in THE Glorious
Adventure" his second book which
is sort of a beautiful companion to
his THE Royal Road to Romance"
First. want to tell you a little
more about this man who dares to
live again the good old days Of ad-
venture. like Halliburton the man
and I admire him as the modern
means of again living romance and
adventure.
Because / know him we'll enough
to call him Dick" and in less
guarded moments he may call me
"Hick," that does not prevent me
from handling his literary efforts as
If had never seen him.
AS write this, realize that there
is very little difference from Halli-
burton the adventurer and Hallibur-
ton the man. Both are the same in
dividual. two personalities wrapped
up in the same body.
1t is this honesty of purpose, this
natural longing for adventure which
makes one believe in him as he tells
you about charging up Mount Par
nassus; Of climbing Olympus. Aetna
and others; of covering the tracks of
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LazO and Justice
by Dexter NJ. Keezer

city lot was sold with provision in the deed that
mo building other than one residence should occIpv
it. The man who purchased the lot perfected plans
to build an eght-apartment house Property owners
in the neighborhood asked for court order pro-
hlbitng the erection of such building because it
would be contrary to the restriction of the use of
the lot to one residence. The planning the apart
ment house contended that it would be zone resi-
dence, eight families being housed under single
root He argued that the restriction should be strictly
construed to give him free use of his property.
How would you decide this CASE?
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The actual decision: The Texas Court of Civil
Appeals approved an order prohibiting the erection
OF an eight-apartment house on the lot. 1t agreed
that the restriction should be strictly construed but
held that according to reasonable Interpretation Of
the words, an eight-apartment house could not be
classified as lone residence"
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WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW.
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

Achilles; of running around the
walls" Of Troy and other grand adj
ventures.
Knowing Halliburton's personal
love of the memory of Rupert
Brooke, it is natural that I recognize
in the chapter devoted to his visit
to the poets grave at Skyros the
best that is in Halliburton.
You seem to hear a call of the
heart and an answer from a dis
tance as Halliburton writes: "In the
starlight the gravestone Of Rupert
Brooke glimmered wraithlike. How
lonely it was-how desolate-how
far, far away.
st stood beside the grave alone.
The silence of the night EMBODIED land
and ocean in dim mystery. The
stars crept close to illuminate the
name carved on the marble tomb
a tomb that was to me a sacred
shrine and the goal Of another long
pilgrimage"
There are many places in the
brain boxes of men and women all
over the world that do have
"shrines" o. the great. And it is
through such a man as Halliburton
that many of these shrines are visit
ed and Dick keeps "holy ground" al
ways sacred.
Every page of his new adventure
is alive with new devotion and a
high purpose of adventure. I am
sure that one can not read THE
Glorious Adventure" or his first
book without realizing the human
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Behind the Smoke Screen at Geneva

War between Britain and the United States For
eign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain told the House
OF Commons Monday during speech dealing with
but not clarifying, Geneva, 'is already outawed in
the hearts and souls of every citizen of Britain and
ne added Il hope it is equally in the great republic
Of the United States of America"
Sir Austen gets his hope before it was expressed
Americans want to live in peace with all the world
OF course, but in their opinion with Britain would
be the crowning imbecility Of all time the unpardon
able sin against civilization.
Which is why they find it so hard to understand
the deadlock at Geneva where Britain seems deter
mined by devious and means, retain superior
ty over the United States on the high seas
The pre-war rivalry between Britain and Germany
was well understood. Germany was challenging Brit
ain as sea power at every turn. Her navy was be-
coming dangerous rival and her merchant marine
was capturing trade all around the world. 1t was
life or death struggle. For Britain it was case of
maintaining superiority Germany or ultimately
being wiped off the And that meant being
wiped off the map.
But no such situation now obtains Only one
country in the world today could possibly challenge
Britain on water and that country is the United
States And nothing could be farther from this
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Why the :!;! s::E'''
Weather? A S.ss:EYis. q
A CELEBRATED HAIsTORM

A CELEBRATED HAILSTORM
A hailstorm that lives in history
is the one that occurred in Europe
on July 10, 1888. Beginning in the
center Of France in the early morn
ing. it passed nortflward In two
parallel bands, about twelve miles
apart, crossed Belgium. and finally
died out in Holland in the after
noon. The western band was about
ten miles wide and 400 miles long:
the eastern, five miles wide and
nearly 500 miles long. Profound
darkness preceded the passage Of
the storm. The hail lasted only
seven or eight minutes at any one
place.
No less than 1909 communes in
France suffered from this visitation.
and the total loss was nearly S5,000,-
900. 1t is said that the distress
occasioned by the storm FASTENED
the outbreak of the French
revolution.
Concerning the immediate effects
of the hail Charles Tomlinson
writes: THE whole face Of nature
was so entirely changed that no per-
son who had slept through the
tempest could have believed himself
in the same part Of the world when
he awoke. Instead Of the smiling
bloom of summer and the rich
prospects of forward autumn,
which we're just before spread over
the face Of that fertile and beautiful
country, it now presented the dreary.
aspect Of an arctic winter. The sol
was changed into a norass; the
standing corn beaten into a
quagmire; the vines broken to
pieces, the fruit trees Of every kind
we're demolished; and the hail lay
unmelted in heaps like rocks OF
solid ice, Even the robust forest
trees were incapable Of withstanding
the fury Of the tempest, and a large
wood Of chestnut trees. In particular,
was so much damaged that 1t pre-
sented, after the storm. little more
than bare and naked trunks"
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Service, Inc0
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-13
Democratic Worries

Washington inspires you to read
of national affairs when you pick
up the paper and ignore the MUIR
der which you thought so fascinat-
ing yesterday.
Who will the Democrats nominate
anyway, and will it make much
difference? You had not been giving
the matter much thought, but now
that you are at the center of the
nations business you remember
that it is ar essential part of the
show.
The more popular candidates
Smith, Reed and Richie are wet,
while it is a foregone conclusion
that a majority of delegates will be
dry.
Some little problem for the Dem
ocrats to work out and keep their
faces straight and the worst Of it is
they may have their trouble for
their pains, no matter how much
time they spend on it.
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By United Press
WASHINGTON. July 13.-This is
the most beautiful city In America,
if not the world, but very few peo-
pie call it home. The reason is
that those who live in 1t did not
conceive it, did not plan it. did not
build it and do not run 1t.
Here one does not feel the pride
and aspirations Of a community, but
the strength Of a nation.
The public buildings are all out
of proportion to the size Of the
town. So are the streets, parks and
monuments.
Washington is not only the seat
Of the richest government on earth,
but is rapidly becoming an artistic
expression Of the richest people.
1t is distinctly a political creation.
Politics played a part in the selec-
ton Of its site. Politics is its big
gest industry and politics dom
mates its social order.
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High or low regardless of who NAV be involved
an END should be put to the Stephenson charges that
are giving Indiana more undesirable publicity Prose-
Justice few days ago on the announcement enc :
tn that d. G. Stephenson. former grand
dragon OF the Khan. was ready TO tell
indiana all" He came back apparently salts
ned with the Importance of some thing
stephenson told him. The public is awaiting expacted
developments in the prosecutors office
1hen stephenson repeats to the papers the story
ABOUT giving money to Governor Jackson for Use in
the campaignu. That had been published before anc
the Governor at that time asserted that he had re-
ceived no campaign contributions from the former
grand dragon. Now Stephenson produces a check for
SzoOO that was made to ED Jackson" is indorsed
by Ed Jackson" and went through the banks Ste
phenson says 1t is part Of $4,000
The Governor should clear the air. The peope
expect IN justice to the fair of the State that
the facts be made known for and for all II is
true That the charge Is made by man serving life
sentence in the State penientiary but he backs It
WIN wnat purports to be check in standardization
OF What ne says The statute Of limitations may have
run so far as acts relating to campaign funds are
concerned, but that is immaterial so far as public
opinion goes
Some who are acting as agents for Stephenson let
it be known they have other documents in that BLACK
box that are to be made public from time to time
They, seemingly, are interested in creating furore
and keeping Indiana before the rest of the world in
an undesirable light The people want an end to the
whole thing. They want Prosecutor Reny to act as
speedily as possible If anything has been presented
to him on which to base criminal action Get all the
facts out In the open without delay. II there is
nothing to some Of the charges let the public know
tnat TOO. Do not shield or protect any one high or
low, but clean up the whole unsavory mess Let us
have all there is to Stephensonism uncovered in1me-
diatey and then give the State chance to live down
the injury 1t has sustained from the source.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-13
Reed Speaking Out

Down in Georgia. Senator Reed
tells an all too credulous Legislature
that the Republican claim of fathef-
ing our present prosperity is bunk,
that the Democrats guaranteed it
when they established the reserve
system and that about all the
present administration has con-
tributed is to fill the atmosphere
with scandal and make this Gov
eminent of money though it was
designed to be a government of men.
How that man can talk when he
gets started, and what a vast
amount of disagreeable truth he can
squeeze into few short sentence!
There has been a deal of scandal
since the Republicans took office
seven years ago-quite enough to
wreck two or three Administrations
under ordinary circumstances, but
we seem to have been too busy, too
well off, or too Indifferent to mind.
You find it hard to explain why
the people have not become more
excited or at least interested, when
you think the thing over in cold,
impersonal retrospect.
Three Cabinet members forced to
resign, two Of them charged with
fraud; three State primaries de-
bauched in such brazen, whole
sale way as was never before
known; two millionaires under in
dictment for trying to cheat the
Government; hundreds of dry
agents dismissed or convicted for
helping to violate the prohibition
law; 100000 people drinking boot
leg hooch under an Administration
that claims to be honestly devoted
to law enforcement-and still it is
commonly thought that nothing has
occurred to warrant a change.
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GueSSeS and GOSSIP

Will Coolidge run for a third term,
will AL Smith be nominated by the
Democrats, will the farmers vote
the Republican ticket, why is Reed
talking in the South, how is 1ndi-
ana reacting to the Stephenson ex-
pose. have Ford and Hearst made
hook-up-these and other similar
questions interest Washington.
Then you run into a raft Of less
consequential, but not less intrigu-
ing. queries and tales. You hear of
another book that has been written
about Harding, or some spicy ru-
mors from Oklahoma, or bit Of
speculation as to how Tumulty
makes a living.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-13
Big Issues to Front

Things that interest you in other
cities seem Of small consequence in
Washington.
There may be local Chamber of
Commerce, but If so, 1t Is too COM
pletely overshadowed by the Cham
Der Of Commerce of the United
States to be remembered. There
may be organizations devoted to To-
cal improvement, but one seldom
hears of them because Congress is
expected TO look after 1t.
There is plenty of political gossip,
scandal and speculation. but it has
to do with the big outside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-13


Check eral months ago there was published
photograph of this checker a similar
one-which brought denial from the Governor that
he had ever received a check from Stephenson for
this or any other sum of money for any purpose.
Now he declines to make any statement There
is not now, has there ever BEEN any charge that
the check forged, though that the inference
from the Governors first denial In addition to the
check we have now the statement of Stephenson for
whatever it is WORTH that the check given to the
was any other Ed Jackson sustaining such relation
to Stephenson to make the latter willing to give
him $2500 Also ED" is rather unusual signature.
OF course, 1t was no crime merely for Stephenson
to give the Governor money or for the Governor to
receive it, But If the money received by the Gov
ernor for campaign purposes and not reported among
his campaign contributions there might be question
arising under the corrupt practices act which should
interest the prosecuting attorney If, on his return
from his evangelisc trip Governor Jackson has any
statement to make the public will be glad to have it.
1t is known that for time his relations with Ste
phenson close and exceedingly friendly and also
that Stephenson was keen and Shrewd investor
In politics.
The Stephenson disclosures relating to Claude M.
Worley, now inspector of the detective department
include letter alleged to have been written by Wor
ley to Stephenson acknowledging Stephensons influ-
in making Worley chief of police. promising to
appoint Foster Strader police captain, permitting
Stephenson to name detective lieutenant and prom
ising to consult him about other appointments Wor-
ley says that the letter is forgery There seems to
have been season of forgery at the time, Gov
ernor Jackson has implied that his on the back
Of Stephenson check is forgery, and Mayor Duvall
has said that his name was forged to contract al
last municipal election Worley says the charge is
silly because he not made chief Of police. All
the signatures that have been exhibited may be
forgeries, but there is nothing unusual in the ex-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-13

Who composed Babe Ruth's 1926
Star baseball team?
Burns, first bass, Cleveland Ameri-
cans; Hornsby. second base, st.
Louis Nationals; Traynor, third
base, Pittsburgh Nationals; joe
Sewell, shortstop, Cleveland Ameri-
cans; Goslin. left field, Washington
Americans; Cuyler, right field, Pitts
burgh Nationals; Mostil, center field,
Chicago Americans; Hargrave,
catcher, Cincinnati Nationals; Pen
mock, pitcher, New York Americans;
Uhle. pitcher, Cleveland Americans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-13
Pretty Gestures

President Coolidge has not only
gone to the Black Hills, proved him
self passable fisherman and posed
in a cowboy rig, but is said to be
drafting a farm relief bill.
Pretty gestures to the hard hit.
but still susceptible midwest, and
Washington inspires you to speculate
as to how they will work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-13
Who directed the motion picture
"The Ten Commandments?
Cecil B. DeMille.

How should jewelry be cleansed?
Common jewelry may be cleansed
effectually by washing with soap
and warm water. rinsing in cold
water, dipping in spirits of any kind,
and drying in warm lockwood or
jewelers. sawdust. Good jewelry
only needs washing with soap and
water and polishing with rouge ard
a chamois leather.
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With Other Indiana Editors

actions that Stephenson is said to have made He
had been ruling the State. and particularly Marion
County and there was no reason why he should have
been modest in his demands for power That is what
he was after.