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New Britain herald., 1927-04-29

even voies. but did not look at her daughter.
 What happened after the third time Gray oalled7"
 T told Ruth Don't let him come any more.'"
 You were away from the Snyder home the night of the killins?" T was"
 "After your daughter was arrest ed did you ask to see her7"
 T did. but they would>S': let me" Who"
 "The district attorney"
 (By William Willard for Gray.) When Gray called at the Snyder home did you tell him about your daughters troubles with her hus- band?"
 They were not mentioned"
 Snyder Never Knew.
 Was Albert Snyder ever present when Gray was there?"
 No"
 {By the district attorney.)
 Didn't you call up your daueh- ter March 19 and tell her you could return that night?"
 T told her I was not needed where l was If she needed me. but I would be late and if she didn't mind I'd stay where l was"
 But you could have returned 2" "Yes, about ten o'clock at night" Mrs. Brown at this point was straining to withhold her tears, "Why did you tell Mrs. Snyder not to let Gray come any more?" 1T didn't think It looked right" Did you ever tell Albert Snyder, Gray had been therc?'
 No"
 Court was then recessed for lunch.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-29
Ford-Sapiro Case Is
 Further Complicated

Detroit, Apr. 20 UP)-Intricacies of the million-doll Henry Ford Aaron Sapiro libel suit were increas- ed today when it was announced that Judge Fred M. Raymond of Grand Rapids would not attend confer ence of attorneys in the case here tomorrow.
 The judge was to have been here to attempt to set a date for retrial of the case. adjourned because of disqualification of a. woman juror.
 Elmer w. Noorheis. clerk of the federal court. said another district judge would be appointed to attend the conference.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-29
AUSTRALIANS AT HARTFORD

Hartford. Conn.,. April 2s (UP) Thirteen representatives of Aus- trala, who are touring the United States have arrived in Hartford for an inspection tour Of three days. They include representatives of the railroads, government and the press The trip is financed by the Aus tralian government 10 allow the men to assimiliate American indus. trial ideas.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-29

Every active young ster needs one or two sweaters like these - checks and Jacquards with trimming of con- trasting color. Sizes 28 to 3S.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-29
MRS SNYDER TAKES
 THE STAND TODAY
(Continued from Page TOY
the stand.

the stand.
 He remembered Mrs. Snyder calling on him about cancellation of her husbands insurance. The de- fense failed in an attempt to have him read from the policies that Snyder had the right to change the beneficiary.
 The court sustained state obtec- ton. ruling that as the policies were in evidence, the jury would see all parts of them.
 Sylvester S. May newspaper man from Brooklyn. who said he had known Gray Is years, took the stand.
 He told Of getting a telegram from Gray two days before the killing. He obeyed it's instructions by calling Mrs. Snyder and telling her to watch for letter. That was the letter Hazelton mentioned in his opening. which set the night Of March 1a for the killing. Mother Takes stand
 Mrs. Josephine Brown. mother of Mrs. Snyder. then took the stand. Questioned by Hazelton she said she had lived. with her daughter for the seven years preceding Sny- der's death.
 Do you know Henry Judd Grayo"
 Yes"
 Saw Him at House.
 "He came to the house?"
 About three times, on business only"
 50 you were told ?"
 ''So I was told. I bought a corse. from him.
 Mrs. Brown spoke in clear
New Britain herald., 1927-04-29
TEAMS TO CLASH.

The West End A. C. ana Cardinal \. c. baseball teams will clash to- morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at Walnut Hill park. The management Of the Cardinal club wishes all players to be on hand zt 1880 o'clock. Uniforms will not be yorn
New Britain herald., 1927-04-29
APPEALS FOR CONDEMNED.

New York, April 29 (P)-The Fas- cist League Of North America. al- though uncompromisingly opposed to the political beliefs of the prison- CTS, today announced that 1t has made an appeal to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts in behalf or Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanze,ti.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-29

4 700-yard test pavement Of rub Der is giving satisfactory results on one Of the heaviest traffic streets of London. The surface Hithstands wear and dampncss without appre- ciable deterioration. PLIERS
New Britain herald., 1927-04-29

Some scientists think petroleum is the result of purely chemical ac- ton on inorganic substances, others that 1t results from animal remains, and some think it originally was vegetable matter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
Laze, and Justice
BY Dexter M. Keezer

A man owned stock in coal mining corporation.
He sold it to the directors of the corporation for
Later he came to the conclusion that it had been
worth $4,000 when he sold it. He sought a court
order setting aside the sale on the ground that the
directors had failed to disclose information to him
that would have enabled him to know his stock was
worth than $4,000. He said the directors were
under obligation to give him such information.
The directors lin opposing setting aside of the SALE
said that they under no obligation to volunteer
information about the condition of the company to
sockholder, and that they within their rights
in buying stock of the corporation at price set by
the stockhoider.
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The actual decision The Court of Appeals of Ken.
lucky decided that the not entitled to have
the sale set aside The court said that the directors
Of the corporation not required to volunteer in
formation about the condition of the concern to a
stockholder. and that they had right to buy his
stock without telling him that he might not be getting
all it was worth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18

that exist in the voters minds, Senator Watson
promises.
Although the Democrats are campaigning now in
the manner in which they usually campaign" said
Governor Jackson looking over the heads of all the
Republicans who have been doing the campaigning
we Will be able when we start out campaigning to
show record of accomplishments unexcelled in the
State"
And there you have it. The senior Senator of In
diana is unwilling to restore the badly shaken morale
OF the czenry of Indiana at the present time though
cltlzens of the State are sorey in need of having
their confidence in their State government bolstered
up. Governor jackson offers not word in denial
or explanation of the charge that he sought to bride
Ex-Governor McCray by guaranteeing his escape from
conviction If he would appoint prosecuting attorney
whom the Marion county political boss wanted, but
cravenly promises sop in the shape of record of
"economy,"-as though economy talk could walk in
paths apart from honesty-and apparently hopes that
this mercenary appeal to selfish pocketbook will be
satisfactory in lieu of manliness which answers
charges and OF rugged honesty of office in which
all Hoosiers once took pride.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
A Prison ISNot Heaven EUen for a Great Mind Like
the Late Gene Debs in a NezC Book of Thought

Maybe the chosen few go to
prison.
That thought has never worried
me any more than trying to get an
ice cream soda.
I am talking about the chosen
few. In life, when he was here, /
knew Gene Debs. I did not wCr-
ship him. respected him for that
fine and big great brain box which
took men into the sunshine Of a
great purpose"
He carried men often into the
sunshine and at times even into the
shadows.
But in prison" and death may be
just that or even the sunshine Of
release, as he talks about cam
paign speeches.
Let us look at the words: There
was no attempt made at any time
either by the prison officials or the
department at Washington to re-
strict my little campaign of mess
ages. AS the weeks heightened into
months ]. became more than ever a
curiosity to casual visitors to the
prison, and they employed every
ruse and subterfuge with the at
taches to get a glimpse of the man
who had converted a federal peni-
tertiary into his campaign head
quarters"
And his dress: Notwithstanding
that I was clothed in the faded and
frayed garb of a felon, I felt aware
of a certain dignity that my pecu-
liar position as a candidate i'm
posed, expressive as it was of a
confidence that remained mistaken
in the face of all the denial it had
encountered"
These words under the chapter:
my 1920 Campaign for President"
And when he failed to be elected
as usual, the words: 1.-THE sin
cere regret expressed the following
day by my prison mates that I had
not been transferred from Atlanta
to Washington by the American
people would have compensated me
for any disappointment 1 might
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
License to Loot

Funny how quickly the police and city officials
discovered that the slot machines which they had
tolerated for weeks were gambling devices.
The discovery made when The Times quite
nnocenty in the pursuit of unearthed the fact
that the city controller had issued permits for
than 500 of these so-called vending machines"
Any one who could mistake the machines which
enticed the nickels of the young and guileess is
himself too guieless and innocent to be in charge
Of city affairs.
AS a matter of fact these machines are the mean
est form of gambling and the most pernicious
They exhibited in respectable places of bust
ness They take all the money and give nothing back
There is every incentive to gambling They encour-
age the habit among the young.
These particular machines are of character which
would make the most hardened of old-time river
gamblers ashamed of his profession.
In most cities they are operated by company
which employs the right political lawyer on a per-
centage basis to protect them.
This same concern has operated in other Indiana
cities very successfully but only where the attorney
had the right influence
If city officials were mistaken as to the character
Of the machines, the men who manufacture them
and operate them have never been under an.
illusions
They know that they can only operate where Of
hcals compacent and newspapers are tongue-t
License to loot is becoming unpopular in Indian
apolis. The police know it. Witness the sudden dis
appearance of these machines which the city con-
troller licensed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18

were brothers indeed, and I only
wished it had been possible for those
who think of inmates of prison in
terms of crime and degeneracy to
have looked upon that gathering of
convicts and then have been asked
in what essential particular they
were inferior to or different from
any similar number of human
beings who were celebrating, in
stately edifices dedicated to his
name, the natal day of the Man who
was born in a stable"
And then the words of Debs: at
may be fancy, but I somehow felt
that Jesus Christ was in prison that
night"
And then my thought as tame as
1t might seem-Then He could have
not come to the world out of
prison"
Just a Few Thoughts
I have not as yet read I'VE" but
this last Debs' book does not ring
true to the Debs that I have known.
Debs to me was not the Pollyanna
character of fiction.
AS read the words of Debs, I am
sure that Debs I knew in other
days was not the Debs who was in
prison. But am I right or am I
wrong?
The world was only right when
Debs said it was right and the world
was wrong always when he said it
was wrong. Yes?
Can that be possible?
I believe that Gene Debs knew
right from wrong.
I do not believe that "Walls and
Bars" reflect the true spirit of the
real Eugene v. Dogs.
Indianapolis theaters today offer:
"The Wolf" at Keith's; polly
anna" at English's; Paid to Love-"
at the Circle; Revue D. Art at the
Lyric; Twelve Miles Out" at the
Apollo; 1.-The Covered Wagon" at
the Ohio; 1.-THE Galatians and the
Murphys," at the Indiana and
movies at the Isis. =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
Diversified Greatness

Cleveland is not one-man or
one-group town, and never has been.
it basks in the shadow of no out
standing family and depends on no
single industry.
You cannot think of Detroit with
out automobiles, or Los Angeles
without movies, but you can think
of Cleveland without lot Of
things.
The city's diversified character is
wildly revealed by the industrial
exposition now going on.
There are exhibits of paints,
chemicals, fences, automobiles, air.
planes, cosmetics, garments and one
hundred and one other products.
Each occupies an important place
in the community's life, but none
overshadows it.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Speaking of banks, I was "guid-
ed" through the $8,500,000 Federal
Reserve institution with its teak
wood Offices, on the eighth floor; its
tennis court and shooting gallery
on the roof, and its vault. sporting
a door which 7 was told weighed
347 tons, in the basement.
The door is round, being about
twelve feet in diameter on the OUT
side, nine or ten on the inside, and
six feet thick. Several cars, some
bridges and a whole lot Of pave
ment were smashed up getting it
from Pennsylvania to the bank. 1t
looks very imposing, but in my
humble Judgment, burglars would
choose some other method than to
drill through a door one-half the
size.
With such a formidable contriv-
ance as that door, with machine
guns planted at strategic points,
with guards stroiling about hidden
corridors, from which they can OBJ
serve everybody and everything
through peep-holes. and with only
one roundabout way to get in or
get out, the builders Of this bank
cahnot be accused of failing to take
adequate precautions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
Mems Triumphs

We are talking too much of
geographical and economic ad-
vantages.
AS a matter of common sense,
men Of sand and foresight have
made most everything in this world.
The city of Cleveland is an ex-
ample in point.
So far as geographical and
economic advantages go, Cleveland
could have been at Ashtabula or
Lorain, just as well az where it is.
Toledo at the western end of
Lake Erie and Buffalo at the east
ern end both have better harbors.
! The only explanation of how
Cleveland could come in between
and outstrip them is to be found in
the men who established and de-
veloped 1.-THE Hannas, Chiskolms,
Otis, Mathers, Wades and others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
by WALTER d. HICKMAN,

have felt over the conduct OF the
campaign and its final results"
Beautiful Pictures
AS I stood in Terre Haute TIE
night that Debs went to prison, as
a newspaper man, 1 remember many
things. I saw no guard. saw even
men in uniform throw their arms
around the neck Of Debs. I heard
him say that there was better
fight and better day for ALL. 1
saw him get on that train leaving
Terre Haute for indianapolis as a
prisoner of his word.
And yet we find at times in his
book the human things of life which
made him individual. Debs could
always see the story" like a news
paper man. I have covered" him
when he was running for Congress
and he often pointed his finger at
me and called Inc "a representative
Of the yellow press" And then he
included all Of newspaper men but
the chosen few" of the chosen
leadership as he saw it. But the
chosen few" we're no different from
myself as we were both pointed
"out."
And yet he forgets the pointing
out" when he becomes big in the
life he has given up when he writes:
There are certain occasions in my
prison experience that are wildly
preserved as beautiful pictures"
OF course he pictures in his book
Christmas Eve, 1920" 1t happened
'in the basement of the prison
hospital"
In his words the prisoners con-
tributed their gifts as tokens of love
for him. But these gifts went to
"the common lot" And Debs was
the guest of honor at this strange
prison banquet.
He then draws picture of the
Christmas trees and cheer at
home" And his home was in the
world as well as Terre Haute. And
he finds brothers" even in prison
as he wrote these lines: Seated
around that hospitable board we
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
The Morbid Souvenir Hunters

Psychologists have never explained and perhaps
never will explain the peculiar twist Of human nature
which sends myrads Of morbidy curious to the scenes
Of great disasters to scenes Of suffering.
News from Bath Mich, calls attention to The latest
manifestation of this nexplicable complex. The resi-
dents Of that little community are all too eager to
forget the May time tragedy in which maniac placed
bombs in the public school and caused the deaths OF
forty children but swarms of sightseers insati-
ably hungry for emotonalsm, sweep into the city on
all occasions and will not let the mourning forget
whiting fragments from timbers of the wrecked
school building carrying Off loose bricks pryng even
into the houses of those families whose children were
killed or injured in the explosion the fy-minded
curious give the poor people of Bath no peace no
chance to recover from the deep hurts Of grief.
What type of mentality is it that thus glories in
the misery Of others and goats over horror with
avidity?
1t is not type of mentality which is peculiar
to any section of the country. Even the New
England tomb OF President Coodge's young son. John,
was all but Clipped away by the souvenir-mad tour
lists There are many homes which no doubt boast
Of fragments from the San Francisco earthquake.
Relics soaked in blood held more precious than
riches.
TO read that there are, in this advanced age peo-
pie who still delight in such barbarity is enough to
make even the most hopeful of prophets despair for
humanity.
Believers in the literal truth of the Bible grant
the world age of some 5000 years In 5000 years.
it at times appears that humanity has gone back
wards Certainly the demonstrations Of the sghtseers
in Bath is evidence of savagery as inhuman as any
rite practiced by ancient babarans.
The child today who delights in torturing cats
and dogs is considered sub-normai yet his abnormal
ties lower than those displayed by the pilgrims
to Bath who torture the survivors Of Andrew Kehoes
insanity.
z We are q cruel, cruel people
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
Just a Story

Generally speaking, you can find
out what man or group runs a city
by getting a line on its banks.
The Union Trust Company is the
biggest bank in Cleveland. 1t has
resources of more than $345, 900, 900.
I have asked at least a dozen
business men who controls 1t, and
the unanimous reply has been NO
body in particular"
The board of directors reads like
the roster of the leading country
club.
-fhe story goes that two Cleve-
landites met on a train one day,
and after getting acquainted found
they we're neighbors.
what do you do?" asked one.
1T am a vice president of the
Union Trust Company" replied the
other.
Shake said the first, $50 am l."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
H/LA. +h1 BY Charles
NV LHE Fitzhugh
Talnhan
A/41+h on19 Authority on
w K(kLHET Meteorology
WHAT is WEATHER.

Meteorologists and photographers
are very much at sea in regard to
the meaning of the word weather"
as they are, unfortunately, to the
meanings of a great many words
connected with weather. Some
would have us use it in a broad
sense to embrace all the activities
of the atmosphere at a particular
time. Others would limit its appli-
cation to those atmospheric phe-
nomena that are perceptible to the
senses. The latter is decidedly the
more common use of the term.
Mans conception Of weather was
formed and crystallized at a period
when no instrumental means of in
vestigating the atmosphere we're
available, and when, therefore,
many of its activities were still I'M
known. Thus it happens that the
warmth of the air, the state of the
sky, the winds, and certain other
things that we recognize through
sight or feeling are universally
classified as weather, while the
pressure of the air, of which Moth
ing was known before the invention
of the barometer, is not usually SO
classified. Other distinctions of the
same kind are commonly made,
both in and out of scientific circles.
Everybody considers the electrical
display Of thunderstorm an epi-
sode of weather, but even the scien-.
tif1c specialist who measures the
normal identification of the atmos-
phere from day to day with the.
electrometer hardly thinks of THU
invisible phenomenon as weather.
(All rights reserved. Science Service, Inc.Y
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
Brain T'eQSers

With a flight from Seattle toS
Toxic now under consideration, you
may want to brush up your knowl-
edge Of Japan. The first six of to-
days questions give you a Japanese
quiz. Answers are on page IA:
l. If the Japanese islands were
placed along the Eastern coast of
the. United States, how far north
and south would they extend?
Q. What is the capital of Japan?
3. How does Toxic rank in size
with other cities of the old world?
4. How does the area of the Jap
anese islands compare with the area
of the British Isles?
5. Which has the greater popula-
ton. the japanese islands or the
British Isles?
Who is the present emperor Of
Japan?
z. What metal now used extern
sively for kitchenware was unknown
to the ancients?
8. What is the study of ETY.
mology?
8. Who was Hymen?
10. Do common house flies bite2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
Mr.. Fixit
Weed Complaints Must Be
Signed, Say Officials.

All complaints on weeds must be
signed by the person sending in
the report. The street commits
sioner's Office will take no action
unless this is done.
Mr.. Fixit:- The lot west of $40
E. Walnut st. would be a good
place to hide an enemy army. The
weeds are so high that they make
fine place for our enemy, the
mosquito. Can you get us some
help?
E. WALNUT STREETERS.
II you will send Fixit another
complaint with your name at
tached to it, the street commits
sioner's department can be in
duced to help you.
MIR. Fixit: I live at 1858 Central
Ave. The lot next door south and
several in the rear are five feet high
IN weeds. Do something before the
seed begins to blow in the yards.
Thanks.
A TIMES READER.
The city weed-cutting force will
be sent to take care of this situa-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
Pioneer Sacrifices

Fatality always has logged the
trail Of pioneers.
A century and a half ago, it was
quite as dangerous to walk from
Pittsburgh to Cleveland as 1t. is to
fly from New York to Paris now.
The first year the pilgrim fathers
spent at Plymouth they lost more
than one-half their number.
Of the first $4,000 people who
came to America, two-thirds had
persisted within decade.
The gold rush to California
wrecked more men than it ever
made rich.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
Dead Mems Gifts

Most Of the great highways over
which we travel with such ease and
comfort were spotted by men who
took their lives in their hands.
Most Of our great cities were once
little settlements where women and
children lived behind stockades.
Most Of our mechanical achieve
ments have left CHASTITY train of
corpses and cripples in their wake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
w. E..
TRACY
SAYS:
Fctality Always Has
Dogged the Trail of Pho
meers.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. Aug. 49,
Eight start, four get away, two arrive
and one wins.
Stated in that way the Hawaiian
fight appears stark and forbidding,
yet it represents the average of real
adventure.
Worthwhile triumphs never have,
and never will come easy or with
out risk. 1t is curious fact that
practically as many aviators have
found death as have succeeded since
the idea Of crossing oceans became
popular.