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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25


rs THE young man you like
4 best, shorter than you are?
This may seem a trifling ques.
ton to worry over, even though
you literally look down on the
man or woman you wish to look
up.
What difference in terms Of
happiness, can a few inches of
height maker" would seem to be
the sensible view Of the situation.
Yet you. may be surprised TO
learn that many a girl at this
very moment. is wretchedly puz-
zled over the 'long and short" of
her love problem.
The other day received a let
ter from a correspondent whom
1 shall call Alice. 1t seems Alice
is ''crazy about" Jack, whom she
has known since they were chill.
dren.
They have always been fond Of
each other and Jack wants to
marry Alice.
II would be thrilled at the
thought Of marrying jack" wrote
Alice, except for one dreadful
obstacle that stands between us
and happiness"
At this point Of the letter. I
began to feel very sorry for Alice.
What tragedy was threatening
her romance? Was there really a
menace over.shadowing her love?
! read on breathlessly.
II love Jack. Alice's letter read.
"But l cannot marry him, be.
cause he is two inches shorter
than / am. Everyone will smile
when they see US together. AS
it is, / seldom go anywhere with
him For fnaV nf haipc launched
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25

men and choose husbands accord
ing to height.
No wonder marriages arranged
according to such standards prove
a gamble with only slight hope of
success. Little wonder girls are
unhappy over love affairs.
I have a young friend who is
1nconsolable because she Is tall.
She feels convinced that her live
feet eight inches of healthy, ath.
letic physique will prevent her
from ever marrying.
Men like small girls because
they are easier to pet" walls nv
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25
HELPFUL TO
CHILDREN


ADVANTAGE of preliminary
"A tests as a requirement for
admission to advanced work in
summer school, instead Of taking
pupils on Recommendation of
teachers, has been demonstrated
In two years experience in Balti.
more, Md.
OF 1928 pupils attempting ad.
vance work during the past sum.
mer, 1878 per cent were success.
full; and of 4.023 attempting re-
view work, 1919 per cent were.
successful. In spite of heat and
humidity, attendance of pupils
reached 9S.9 per cent. IT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25

scattered about; the old doll house,
the queer assortment of dolls, all
losing their beauty from damp
and age. It gave her a strange
pang, that looked backward.
Sometimes / think I'm too
happy" she reflected. Then she
would resolve to be energetic-to
look ahead more-not sink too
deeply in the soft, glowing pres
ent.
Faded Memories
At home she spent hours over
a faded picture. She had found
it in STAINS trunk-the likeness
of a baby. Across the back was
written in q dim, old-fashioned
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25

At this moment a young girl /
Know we'll and like we'll came into
my office.
would you marry man
shorter than yourself if you loved
: him?" / asked her.
"Oh. nor exclaimed Peggy, look
ing Mortified. II would not dream
OF marrying anyone shorter than
am. I'm sure could never love
a short man."
But how can a mans height
affect his character and personal.
ity, his suitability as a friend,
fiance or husband?" / exclaimed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS

To make clothes line water
proof first place 1t in a warm
soapy lather and allow to steep
for an hour or so. Remove the
line and add a generous quantity
of powdered alum: stir well and
immense the line again. Leave to
soak for several hours, then dry,
To ascertain il bed is damp
place a watch or hand-mirror be-
tween the sheets. If the glass is
blurred there is dampness in the
bed.
To rid a chest of drawers of a
Tusty smell wash it thoroughly
with warm soapy water, then
brush over with turpentine. Wipe
tho wood quite dry afterwards.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25
Easy to 'Look Up to a Short Man of Riqht Sor

at, but always entertain him at
home.
Although he is very wonderful
----good-looking, dependable and
charming--I have decided to give
him up because Of this difference
in height"
"Well, of all idiotic ideasT'
EXCLAIMED when l reached this
point Of Alice's letter and realized
that she Is actually planning to
throw away her happiness, to re-
fuse love. with its possibilities OF
peace and joy and success, because
the man she loves is short.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25

"She had allowed my older sis.
ter to go to the Aliens house to
spend the afternoon. and for some
reason / was left at home. When
! realized that was doomed to
lonely hours l went to my mother
to see why.
Where is sister, / asked and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25
Tell Inquiring Children the Truth

ing your own child the truth on
all occasions. Little children can't
distinguish between ''little white
lies" and large black ones.
Il still remember the first false.
hood that l ever heard my mother
tell" said a middle-aged woman
recently.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25
Fog Guide for AUiatOrs.

NEW gyroscop indicator enable apane pilots to fly in
in fog and night has been adopted by the Air
Ministry has been under rigid test for three years
reliable to impressive degree
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25
This Day in Our History

ON January 25 1887 States Springfield
" Mass attacked by the "rebels" in Shays Rebellion
This rebellion sequel the Revolution, and brought
with unstable economic conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
union CUSTER ASKED
Engineer Brotherhood Says
Officials Are Lax.

BIZ United Press
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July g.
Moves to GUST the four ranking off,
GERS of the Brotherhood Of Locomo-
tive Engineers on charges of ''laxity'
carelessness and indifference" in
conduct of the orders financial af-
fairs were under way in the Broth
erhood convention here today.
The officers slated to go are w.
B. Premier. president, whose powers
we're abrogated a week ago when
the convention voted Alvanley
Johnston, grand chief engineer, as
executive head of the order; L. G..
Grifing. first vice president; Harry
P. Daugherty, second vice president,
and C. E. Lindquist. secretary.
Lindquist was the first to face
the battery of charges and a vote
on a resolution to GUST him from
his Office was in progress when the
convention recessed at noon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06

films, varnish, composition leather
and a multitude Of other things.
The Midas Touch
If the du Points made lot OF
money on munitions, they made
much more on peacetime products
after the war ended.
At the beginning Of the present
decade, looking about for some place
to invest the family surplus, Pierre
S. du Pont happened upon General
Motors stock. This bit of vision on
his part has almost overshadowed
everything else in filling the du Pont
Golfers to overflowing.
AS corporation, E. I. du Pont de
Nemours and Company control 81
per cent of the stock of General Mo-
tors. Individual du Points have large
additional General Motors holdings.
Profits Are Enormous
1T the end of 1921, the du Pont
investment in General Motors repre-
scented about $80,000,o00. Later a big
block of this stock was sold to the
Managers Securities corporation,
which is owned by key executives OF
the du Pont concern. But the first
Of 1927 saw some 1895 ,005,0 900 worth
still in du Pont hands.
Six months afterward, the value OF
the General Motors investment had
mounted to figures that the average
person scarcely can comprehend.
Stock dividends and increase in the
price of General Motors stock on the
New York Stock Exchange are esti-
mated by some experts to have
added to the du Pont fortune not
less than half billion dollars.
NEXT: Coleman du Pont, United
States Senator, and some other du
Point personalities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
CARRIERS ARE
! READY FOR BIG
times PICNIC
NeWSboyS and Families viii
i Be Guests al Riverside
/ Park Thursday.
Tomorrow's the big fun day.

| TomorroW'S the big fun day.
Early tomorrow morning, Times
carriers, boys and girls, with their
sisters and mothers, will be hitting
the trail for Riverside Park out at
Thirtieth st. and White River,
where this paper is going to stand
treat.
Each carrier and street salesman
is being supplied with big strips OF
tickets which will entitle him to
free trips on the many thrilling
and daring. rides in the park. 1t
won't cost cent to get in, or to
ride on the concessions, or to get
out, either.
Just line up and take seat in
one of the long trains at the thriller
depot, hand the conductor a cou-
pom, and away you go up the in
cline to the top of the first hump"
where you are away above the trees
and buildings.
Then You're Off
Then the thriller train takes a
big breath and plunges headlong
down the first dip, seventy feet deep,
and you let out whoop OF pure
Joy at the sensation as you again
climb the heights for another dive,
and then another and another
sailing round curves and sweeping
in and out through the immense
steel and timber structure, until you
think you are going to fly on for
ever.
4 And finally you round a sudden
Eurn and pull into the station from
which you started-it seems an hour
before.
Well, you still have whole bunch
of tickets left, and you get your
gang together again and decide
which one of the joy rides you'll
tackle next. And every ride IS
better than the last one. Sister Will
get a big kick out of the merry-go-
round and maybe she'll trade you
her thriller ticket for your merry
go-round coupon.
It will be all right with The Times
and the Riverside park people, be-
cause they want you to have good
time the way you want to have it.
You are the boss tomorrow morning.
You May Get Pony
Yesterday The Times story OF the
big picnic, in telling you about the
pony, "Nehi," said that maybe The
Times will give one Of you pony IN
a little while. The article said,
Sometime YOU may be give none OF
these ponies" 1t should have said:
sometime you may be given one OF
these ponies" Just printers mis-
take.
So all you carriers and street
statesmen would better chit the hay
early tonight, for the fun will start
early tomorrow morning at River
side and you won't want to miss a
bit of it. = ~ ges :.
forget that basket of eats, so you
can have your lunch at the park be-
fore you come downtown at O'CLOCK
for your papers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
BY HORTENSE SAUNDERS
NEA Service Writer

WILMINGTON, Del, July g.
Though the du Pont name most
commonly is associated with dyna-
mite and gun powder, it also should
usggest the bapy's teething ring,
your near-silk stockings, the paint
on the auto and the new living room
suite upholstery that can't be toio
from leather.
Besides explosives, the du Pont
Company manufactures some. l,2Ou
articles. If they wanted to, the du
Points could be, practically independ-
ent of the rest of the world.
They seldom would have to puy
for their personal use anything
manufactured by anybody else.
Chemistry Did 1t
They have carried chemical proc
esses into industry to an extent nc
other great intrepreneurs have ap-
nroached. Most du Pont products
are fashinoed from cotton fibre ano
acids.
Back in 1902 the first du Pont
powder factory was built in VII.
mington at the suggestion OF
Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson loVeo
to hunt, and he found American
ammunition abominable.
He suggested to his friend Flu.
there Irenee du Pont, who hac
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
RETURN TWO TO ILLINOIS

Paul Beckley, 81, Of 1880 Mont
calm ST., and Harry Lloyd Shelf
81, Hoosier hotel, we're returned to
Charleston, ILL.,, today by city de-
tectives and Charleston authorities
Claude M. Worley, detective chief
said the men we're accused of pro-
noting a homecoming celebration
and fair in which an advertised
auto race and auto rattle failed to
materialize because there were no
drivers for the race and no auto
mobiles for the rattle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06

BIZ United Press
BUDAPEST, Hungary, July g.
Solomon, dean Of the monkey
house at the Budapest zoo, has been
rejuvenated-the first chimpanzee
to be on the winning end OF DR..
Serge Voronoff's famous gland
transportation treatment.
A youthful chimpanzee, who until
the operation had bullied Solomon
numerically and who had taken his
wives away, was selected as a mar
tyr to science, and furnished the
glands.
Solomon is thirty, aged for a
chimpanzee, and had lost all in
terest in life. He spent his days
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06

studied chemistry and learned the
manufacture of gunpowder from
Layoisier, in France, that he help
out an honest sportsman.
The Beginning
Du Pont brought machinery over
from France and installed it on the
banks of the Brandywine. This was
the beginning of the great du Pont
enterprises which now supply COM
modities to every country on earth.
Today only the general Offices and
an experimental station are in Will
mington. The thirty other du Pont
plants are scattered to the four
winds.
Dynamite and "rayon" lingerie are
at least first cousins, it seems from
chapters in the du Pont industrial
romance. Born along with them in
du Pont factories, from the same
stock, are such offspring as pyralin
toilet sets, motion picture film,. dyes,
dice, handbags, and perfume bottles
AIter the war
Until the World War, explosives
remained the principal du Pont
manufacturing interest. Wartime
demand for munitions material
brought great expansion of the du
Pont facilities. Then after the war,
some other use of these facilities had
to be sound.
The du Points had been carefully
figuring all the time just how the
raw products and chemicals used in
big quantities for war purposes could
30 treated little differently and
made into household necessities.
1t was sismple. They treated cot
ton fibre with coal tar derivatives,
glycerines, solvents, and the like.
Presto! On the world market went
rayon fabric, cellephane, dyestuffs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
TRAIN CRASH FATAL
Collision Kills Baby, Frac-
lures Mothers Skull.

FRANKLIN, Ind, July Ga col
lision between a Pennsylvania Rail-
road train and an automobile near
Amity was fatal today to the Is
months-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Alvah Means, Jacksonville. Fla,
and Mrs. Means suffered injuries
from which she is expected to die.
Means, en- route to Chicago to
visit relatives. said he approached
the crossing without hearing the
train and tried too late to stop. He
was injured slightly.
The baby. Donald Ralph Means
suffered a broken neck and Mrs
Means was believed to have received
a fractured skull.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
Sol Gets Nez0 Glands
and Reclain1S Throne

/ moping in a corner of his cage.
A few weeks after DR.. Emil
Raitsis, professor at the Royal Vet
Urinary college, performed the oper-
alton Solomon showed signs of i'm
provement.
His jaded appetite became raven
GUS. Long, youthful hair began to
grow all over his body again. Solo,
mon, apparently aware that some
thing was happening, began to beat
his newly hairy chest in virile
fashion.
Now he has won back all the
wives who had deserted to his
youthful rival. The rival, moping in
a corner, does not seem to care.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
PUT IN NEW FIRE BOXES

Installation of four new fire alarm
boxes on downtown corners was an
nounced today by City Electrician
William Grifis.
Alarms have been painted and
placed at intersections so as to be
more eesily available, Grifns said.
New boxes are at Georgia and
Pennsylvania SITS, Missouri and Me
ridian Sts.. Georgia and Meridian
SITS. and Pennsylvania ard Meridian
SITS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
SHEFFIELD TO
SEE COOLIDGE,
TV!E:N RESIGN
Ambassador Is Expected to
Quit Mexico City Post;
Health Failing.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press staff Correspondent


RAPID CITY, S. D., July 6.-The
"ticklish" though not critical state
of Mexican affairs, and problems
which may follow the expected
resignation of James F. Sheffield,
ambassador to Mexico, were pre-
sented to President Coolidge today
by news that Sheffield would arrive
here tonight for a conference.
A year ago Sheffield came to Paul
Smiths, N. Y, where the President
was on his vacation, and urged upon
the chief executive more stringent
policy toward Mexico.
Since that time relations have
been disturbed by refusal of Mexico
to follow the wishes of the United
States in her land law situation
Likewise, expulsion of certain
Catholic clergy from the country
has resulted in protests from the
knights of Columbus and other
Catholic organizations in this coun-
try.
Expected to Resign
Those close to the President here
make no secret of their belief th"t
Sheffield will resign and that Mr..
Coolidge will accept his resignation.
His health has not proflted by the
climate of Mexico City. He wanted
to resign last year, but was urged
to stay, so that policies then con-
templated could be developed.
She11eld's health is unimproved
and while Mr.. Coolidge is portrayed
as being entirely sympathetic with
all the work the ambassador has
been doing there, the chief execu-
tive has indicated that he believes
the present situation will permit
Sheffield's retirement.
The Mexican situation was thrust
before the President following his
trip yesterday to the Belle Fourche
roundup, big show of the west, where
cowboys and cowgirls We'd in the
arena with wild horses, steers, COWS,
calves and bucking bronchos.
One steer and one calf had to be
shot because of unruliness or dis
ablement, but the shooting was done
quietly and few in the crowd knew
about it.
Presidents Entry Wins
Wild horse riding was the big
spectacle of the day and the Presi-
dents own entry, dakota Clyde"
Jones, keeper Of horses at the sum-
mer White House. was victor. The
horses were sufficiently wild to
break through the fence surround
ing the race track twice.
Several accidents narrowly were
averted by skill of the cowboys and
the whole race struck fear into the
hearts of the President, Mrs. Cool
idge and other Fasteners seated in
low-built wooden boxes at the
starting point.
The idea of the race was to saddle
wild horse and run him around
the track once. The first to pass
under the wire was the winner. 1t
required half an hour to bring
twenty wild horses int" the track
and some were so unruly that they
never were saddled. They never
had been ridden before.
The $1,000 persons from Western
States, who crowded the arena were
enthusiastic in praise of President
Coolidge. Songs were sung pledging
that South Dakota will vote for
YOU next fall"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
GRAND JURY GETS CASE
Body to Investigate Alleged Auto
Theft.

Municipal Judge Paul c. Wes,er
today bound Joe Snyder, Is, of "a
w. Nineteenth St., over to the
grand jury on vehicle theft charges.
On April /, Snyder is alleged to
have stolen the Ford coupe of Keith
Yake, l943 N. Pennsylvania st. A
week later. he is alleged to have
traded the Ford to Ester Buick
Sales Company. Peru, Ind, with
promise 70 send by mail 500 and
the bill of sale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
JoYRIDE ENDS IN JAIL

Two Boys Must Serve Six Days for
Taking Autos.
Two 16-year-old boys who stole
three autos and three trucks for
brief joy rides we're sentenced to
serve six days in Jail and fined S25
each by Criminal Court Judge
James A. Collins today.
The boys said that all but one
of the cars. Buick coupe which
they drove to Greenfield and left
were abandoned within a half hour
Collins stayed the fine and costs on
plea of Charles Merz, Juvenile Court
attache.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
RIFLE SHOT KILLS BABY
Child Lying in Carriage Accidentally
Slain by Brother.

BIZ Tinted Press
SENECA FALLS, N Y, July g.
Accidentally shot as he lay in his
baby carriage, 1-year-old Charles
Rotunda, one of thirteen children,
died in a hospital here today. The
child was removed to the hospital
after a rifle, in the hands Of an
elder brother, was discharged.
The accident occurred last night
while the child's mother, Mrs. Jo-
seph Rotunda of Tyre, was at ply
sician's Office with a daughter,
Jennie, 3, who had swallowed poison
pills.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
Death Under Probe

RU Tftr~s Snc"i1I
SUMMITVILLE, Ind, July g.
Death of Cliff M. Wolfe, 81. local
business man, is being investigated
by Coroner Sells. Wolfe died sud-
denly. His widow believes that an
overdose of a sleeping potion was
fatal. She told the coroner her hus-
band had been suffering from in
sn,nnfnin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
BURY NEW YORKER HERE
Rites for Thomas III. Walker to Be
at DAUGHTERS Home.

Thomas H. Walker, II, of New
York, died Tuesday at the home OF
his daughter, Mrs. Harry l.. WEIGH,
BAIT Carrollton Ave-, following a
long illness.
He was born in Washington. He
was Chicago superintendent for
many years of the B. g. o. Express
Company. For the last fifteen years
he had lived in New York where he
was associated with the American
Bridge Company.
Surviving him are the widow, a
son, S. T. Walker of Chicago, and
two daughters, Mrs. Yelch and Mrs
E. D. Fouts of this city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
FRIENDSHIP COST $40
Attends Mackaye Trial, Recognized
by Officers

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, July 6-Being
the friend of Dorothy Mackaye,
actress under prison sentence, cost
Helen Wilkinson $40.
Recognized by officers as she at
tended her friends trial, she was
hailed into court on an old speeding
charge. Previously, she had given
fictitious name.
She was fined $40 for speeding
and. $40 for failing to appear in
court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
OIL ACTIVITY Renewed
Leases Being Taken on Land IN
Perry County.

o. AiiNS.NEITON, Ind, July O.
Leases now being taken near here
lead to prediction among residents
that there is to be revival OF oil
drilling operations in Perry county
New York capitalists are said to
be back of the movement. The new
field apparently will be around ST.
IBERIA, Uniontown and Sifler Greek.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
Grant Trust Company Charter

State charter board today granted
charters to the Mishawaka Loan
and Trust Company, Mishawaka
Ind, capitalization, 100000; Farm
ers and Merchants State Bank
Elizabethtown, formerly private
bank, and a renewal to the Bloom
field State Bank, Bloomfield.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
NEW VERSION GIVEN ON
TEN COMMANDMENTS

Promulgated From Edom Mountains,
Says Danish Scientist.
BIZ United Press
COPENHAGEN, July 6.-Moses
promulgated the Ten Command
ments from the Edom mountains,
south of the Dead Sea, ard not from
the Sinai peninsula, DR.. Ditlef Mel
sen, scientist, announced today he
had discovered in Holy Land ex-
plorations. HE said the Biblical Mt.
Sinai really was in the Edom
mountains.