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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
HOURLY TEMPERATURES

This is the Of the BOYS and girls of
the four higher grades Of the public grammar schools.
1t invitation for fathers and mothers to tenn
porariy least the role of teacher 1t will bring perma
reward for the children and also bring cash award
and trip to Washington, the national capital
And while it will greatly benefit the children of the fifth
sixth seventh and eighth grades may also grind away the
that has accumulated the parents
young and studying the pages of the speler.
this week that brings into reality the Spelling Bee that
you have read about The Times in editions. -Four
grades in seventy public schools in indianapolis and vicinity
will begin the battle with words
On Thursday the thousands of youngsters enrolled in the
upper grades of the schools will begin their fight
toward goal that the ambition of every child eligible under
the rules of the National Spelling Bee which being sponsored
Indiana by The Times On that day the pupils will compete
in the written spelling contest
The spelling book from which the contest words will be
chosen is the very complete Mccall Speer which being used
in the city schools
So it is that the parents invited to lay aside the paper
tonight, take up the Mccall Speler and preside
little spelling bee in the home 1t is stunt in which all
ber of the family engage will stimulate the interest of
the child and reshen in his mind hers the proper spelling
of words which may be considered difficult, easy.
An hour or two each night until Thursday may the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
A Message to Parents

for that daughter of yours emerge victor in the
grade contests Thursday 1t the way for vic
tory in the Building Spelling Bee April o. That
additional honor.
The Times has set May the date for the Zone Spelling
Bee which the winners of the various building will
meet in oral spelling competition.
This viii be followed with the State Spelling Bee,
which the winners in the various Indiana counties
side Of Marion will to Indianapolis fight out for the
trip Washington where the National Spelling Bee with the
champions of than twenty States will compete in June
What boy girl in Indianapolis wouldn't like to be the
champion Of all spoilers?
There is cash award of ST. 900 for the national champion
That's something worth thinking about, too
Then make interesting for the winner of the Indiana
competition, the champion and the chaperon will be
tour that will take them through all the historical places
and around the national capital
There will be the thrill of shaking hands with President
Coolidge thrill that every youngser would enjoy.
There will be visit to Mount Vernon the old home of
George Washington.
Trips will be arranged through the famous public build
ngshrough every place of interest It will be vacation
never to be forgotten.
Ye parents invited to coach their children In spelling
There is a reward for ALL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04

factories, six proposed theaters,
eight new filling stations, and five
new tailor shops for the city. Four
new apartment buildings are ready
for occupancy and four new
restaurants were opened.
The city also houses four new
drug, confection and tobacco stores,
four additional coal, building ma
teriaI and feed concerns, four cleo
trical appliance shops. four CO.
operative associations.
Three doctors opened offices here.
Also three new oil companies.
In the list Of two each appear
beauty and barber shops. bakeries,
jewelry stores, hardware stores.
shoe repair shops, furniture stores,
contractors. lawyers and architects.
One bank, a hospital. a public
utility, an undertaken, a newspaper,
a locksmith and a leather dyer COM
plete the list OF new Indianapolis
businesses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04

but were unable to penetrate far
enough. The time lock was dam
aged and bank officials were unable
to open the vault. Experts had to
be summoned.
Loss Not Known
Value of the contents OF the safety
boxes will mot be known until
check is. made with the owners
Many farmers are believed to have
had Liberty bonds and other val
liable paper stored in them.
The robbery was discovered when
Cashier Edgar Pitts opened the bank
this morning.
The yeggs had cut the telephone
cables, isolating part of the business
district.
Sheriff Called
Sheriff Thomas w. Rice Of Craw.
fordsville was summoned. e.
There was only one clew. Forest
Michels, local youth, told hice he
saw a Hudson coach parked near
the bank about a. m. He did not
get the license number and did not,
see any Of the occupants.
Entrance to the bank was gainedk
by cutting a hole through the front'
door.
Pitts said the loss was completely
covered by insurance.
John Foster is president Of the
bank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
COUPLE FACES CHARGE
OF CRUELTY TO CHILD
Man and Wife Accused After Little Girl Is Taken From
Room in Luxurious New York Hotel.

court said that in view OF informa-
ton that Des Moines officers now are
EN- route here to get Roberta Jane,
he believed it should be granted as
the cas- may be taken from his juris-
ton with their arrival.
Desire Arrest
Attorneys for the children's So
ciety announced when the postpone
ment was granted, they would go
Immediately to District Attorney j.
B. Banton and ask a warrant for the
arrest of Pratt and his wife on
charges of cruelty.
Roberta was taken from her
foster parents on complaint of a
maid at a. fashionable New York
Hotel. where they were guests. The
little girl claimed she was sparingly
fed and was treated most cruelty.
Included in the court crowd was
one, fashionable dressed woman,
said she desired to adopt the little
girl.
Shows Interest
Roberta Jane, dressed in blue.
stockings wrinkling over her
scrawny legs and her thin hand
clutching that OF Mrs. ]. C. Cole
of the Childrens' Aid Society, gave
all her attention to what was going
on, excepting now and then when
she glanced down for minute to
view with pride a fairly new pair
Of Mary Jane slippers she was wear
ing.
E. K. Cody, representing the Chill
drens Society. announced to the
court that they were there "in re-
gard to the case of Roberta Pratt"
COrrects Name
Roberta Jane" piped up the
shrill voice of the black.haired g.
year-old.
Mrs. Cole whispered warning to
her that she mustn't talk out Of
turn, and thereafter her part in con-
Quoting her own case was confined
to frequent whispered conferences
with those around her.
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ESCAPES
TERM ON
b, PROMISES
Elmer Case Given Suspend
ed Sentence When He
Says He'll Be Good.

Elmer Case, 1915 Ruckle ST, al
legged north side bootlegger de luxe,
escaped a one to two year Indiana
State Prison sentence today by
paying a $100 fine and promising to
be good.
Criminal Court Judge James A.
Collins found Case guilty of trans
portation Of liquor and sentenced
him to the prison term, but sus-
pended the sentence on good be-
havior when Case promised to be
good and also not to appeal his con-
viction to the Supreme Court.
If he wanted to appeal Collins
said he would send him to prison
to begin his sentence at once.
Trial in November
Collins has had his verdict In the
case under advisement since trial in
November.
Remember, though, that the next
time you dabble with booze you're
going to take a long trip up north,
Collins warned.
I'm satisfied" said Case.
Case was arrested in October for
speeding while driving on E. Thirty
Eighth St, and liquor was found in
the car.
College Boys Witnesses
When tried on a liquor sale count,
college boys who told the court they
bought girS' from Elmer Case, were
unable to identify the defendant as
the seller, when a man said to be
his brother, and resembling him,
appeared at the defense table. They
could not tell which of the two was
Case.
Case said he ordinarily drives a
Ford, but was driving his wife s
Stutz when arrested.
Remy said he would petition for
confiscation of the Stutz.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
TWO MISSING ON
AIR MAIL LINE
Radio and Autos Used by
SearCherS in California.

BIZ United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, April A.. -
Search was renewed today for an
air mail plane missing since early
Sunday morning.
The plane, piloted by Eddie Neher
and with A. Smaller, an official of
the Pacific Air Transport Company
aboard, left Fresno at $3.50 a. m
Sunday on it's regular trip toward
San Francisco.
Nothing has been heard from the
plane since it passed over Modesto,
going north. Officials of the trans.
port company believe the plane
either has been forced down in a
desolate section Of the San Joaquin
valley or has fallen into San Fran
cisco Bay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
ROBINS DIE OF WORMS
That Is. From Eating Too Many of
Them, Says Golf Course Manager.

Pigs are not the only gluttons.
According to Chick Nelson, River
side golf course manager, robins are
just as bad.
MANY a robin has bob, bob,
bobbed along to his death in the last
few days." Nelson said. ''The recent
high water and the warm days have
brought the earth worms to the sur
face of the ground. During the last
two or three days we have picked
up several hundred robbins which
were killed by eating too many Of
these worms. All the dead robins
craws had burst"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04

BU United Press
NEW YORK, April 4.-Roberta
Jane Pratt, 6, appeared in Childrens s
Court today and was much the most
composed and interested person in
the courtroom as she heard discus
sion of her case and listened to the
judge order it continued for another
week. Roberta Jane, the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children alleges, was the victim Of
cruel branding with a hot curling
iron and Of other extreme treatment,
at the hands of her foster parents,
Everett S. Pratt and wife, Des
Moines, Iowa.
The Pratts were not in court. An
attorney, who said he came as their
friend, asked postponement and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
Stork and Death
OUertake Train

BIZ United Press
KENDALLVILLE, Ind. April 4.
The stork won race with an east.
bound New York Central passenger
train near Kendallville late today,
but death also overlook the limited.
Mrs. Marko Pekovich Of Orient,
ILL.,, who, with her husband, was en-
route to Serbia, gave birth to a
child unattended, in the lavatory of
one OF the coaches. The mother
was rushed to hospital and is re-
ported doing nicely, but the child
died a few hours later.
The Pekovich family was bound
for their native land, having re-.
ceived word that the father was
among heirs of a vast estate in
Serbia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
BUILDERS
DAY AT BIG
HOME SHOW
Those Expecting to Erect
New Houses Are Given
Special Invitation.
1920 ATTEND OPENING
Wednesday Set Aside for
HooSier Visitors.

Today is "Home Builders day"
at the Home Complete Exposition at
the Manufacturers building, State
Playground.
IA special invitation to Indian
apolis families contemplating the
building of a home was extended by
Everett j. Holloway, president of
the Indianapolis Home Builders
Association, under whose auspices
the French chateau centerpriece of
the show was erected.
1900 at Opening
The show formally opened Satur-
day with Realtors night" Attend
ance was estimated at $4,000 by
officials.
Sale OF a carload of 3S9 barrels
OF cement, an automobile and two
domestic refrigerating machines was
reported by exhibitors within an
hour after the opening. =
]. Frank Cantwell. exposition di-
rector. said the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board. sponsoring the show,
will be host to real estate men from
Louisville, Detroit and Milwaukee
next Saturday. the closing day.
Indiana Day Wednesday
Forty Anderson Qnd.) realtors will
attend Wednesday, which has been
designated Indiana day"
An interesting feature of the dis
play of the Indianapolis Real Estate
Board is huge chart which graph
ically portrays the growth of Indian
apolis the last hundred years.
In 1927 the city population was
$500, according to the chart. In
1889 the population was 1880 per-
sons; in 1910 was 24S, sos persons,
and in 1927 was 395,175.
Model Brick Home
George Anderson of the Victor
Talking Machine Company, Camden,
New Jersey, is in the charge of the
auditorium orthophonic victrola
which fills the huge building with
vocal and instrumental music.
The brick model home, built along
French architectural lines, is attract
ting unusual attention. This is the
first time a brick home has been
erected IN the auditorium. The
home is. of the type normally sold
at 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
SAPIRO'S MOTIVE
PLACED IN ISSUE
Ford Defense Seeks to Show
Profit Ruled.

3B United Press
DETROIT, Mich, April A de-
termined effort to prove that Aaron
Sapiro was organizing and conduct
ing the farmers cooperative associa-
tions primarily for money and not
for the benefit of the farmer, was
made in today's session of the mil.
lion dollar Ford-Sapiro libel suit.
The move came during Senator
Reeds sixth day Of cross-examining
Sapiro
Previously attorneys for Henry
Ford had Informed the United Press
that the manufacturer would either
appear personally when called as a
witness or would submit to a phys.
ical examination by a court physi.
clan. The intimation was that
Ford would appear by next Monday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
CARROLL TO CELL SOON
Theatrical Producer Ordered to
Surrender April IL for Sentence.

Theatrical Producer Ordered to
Surrender April IL for Sentence.
Rp United Press
NEW YORK, April 4.---Manacled
to another Federal prisoner. Earl
Carroll will leave April 10 for At
lanta with some twenty-five or
thirty other men to begin his SEN
tence Of a year and day for
perjury.
Federal Judge A. ". Hand today
refused to grant the theatrical
producer a further extension of
time and ordered him to surrender
on that date. Carroll was convicted
in connection with the famous
bath tub" party in which Joyce
Hawley, show girl, was alleged to
have bathed in a tub of champagne
on the stage of Carrolls theater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
VENGEANCE
DRIVE LAID
TO CHINESE
American, British and lap
anese Targets, Admiral
Williams Reports.
ULTIMATUM DISFAV0RED
U. S. Replies to Two Other
Powers.

BH CHtted Press
WASHINGTON, April 4.-Chi-
nese are attempting to take revenge
on Americans, British and japanese
at Chungking, Admiral c. S. Will
} liams, commander-in-ch of the Ash
attic fleet, reported to the Navy De-
partment today.
The United States Government
today sent ito delayed instructions
to Minister MacMurray in Pekin re-
garding joint American-British-Jap-
anese demands to the nationalist
Chinese government, the United
Press learned today.
Guarantees Asked
The instructions are understood to
modify the joint draft demands Mac
Murray submitted to the State De-
partment last week after his confer
ences with the British and japanese
ministers. His new orders permit
joint demands for indemnity for the
Nanking and other outrages, and re-
quest guarantees for future protec-
ton of foreign lives and property,
but they do not authorize an Ameri-
can or joint ultimatum, according to
informed persons here.
1t is considered probable MacMur-
ray and the British and Japanese
ministers at Pekin will be able to
agree on joint action along American
lines. The ministers in Pekin are
said to be undecided weather to send
the prospective demands to National
ist Foreign Minister Chen or to Gen.
Chang Kai-Shek in view of unofficial
reports of split, within the nation
alist regime.
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Upholds Sapiro

BV United Press
MADISON, Wis, April 4.-The
northern Wisconsin cooperative to-
bacco pool has come forward to
champion Aaron Sapiro, the coopera-
tive organizer, who is suing Henry
Ford for S1,00O,OO0, alleging the mo-
tor magnate libeled him.
According to correspondence pro-
duced by the pool here. Sapiro volun-
tarily cut his retainer fee in half
because the pool was operating sue
cessfully without much help or adj
vice from him in 1923.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
COED TO LEAVE CELL
Marian Meyers Completes Term fol
Attempted Bank Robbery.

BIZ United Press
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., April A.
Freedom beckoned today to Miss
Marian Meyers, University of South
Dakota COED, who attempted bank
robbery in order to obtain an edu-
cation.
She recently was sentenced to
thirty days in the State penitentiary
after attempting to rob a bank at
Vermillion. She pleaded guilty. say
ing she attempted the robbery to
obtain funds to complete her educa-
ton, but had lost her nerve"
The girls term expired yesterday,
but she preferred to remain an ad-
ditional day in order to have better
train connections.
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Stop Dumping
PROBE FRANCISCO BLAST

Grand Jury to Start Investigation
Tuesday.
BH Times Special
PRINCETON, Ind, April 4.-For-
NAL investigation of the Francisco
mine explosion last December, in
which thirty-seven miners were
killed, was to be opened by the Glib
son County grand jury Tuesday.
Mine officials have been summoned,
it is said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
YEGGS LOOT
STATE BANK,
BURN VAULT
Robbers Escape With Fifty
Deposit Boxes at Browns
Valley.
UNABLE TO OPEN SAFE
Cut Telephone Cables, ISo-
Iatine Business Section.

BU Times SpeciGt
BROWNS VALLEY, Ind, April
4.-Yeggs early today escaped with
more than fifty deposit boxes from
the Browns Valley State Bank here
after attempting 10 blow the banks
vault.
The bandits, however, were unable
to open the freproof vault, contain
ing the banks money. The robbers
attempted to burn hole in the
vault door with an acetylene torch,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
CHOSEN ENVOY TO U. S.

BIZ United Press
LONDON, April 4.--Kiamil Bey,
deputy for Constantinople and for
mer undersecretary for foreign af-
fairs, has been appointed Turkish
ambassador to the United States, an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Constantinople reported. 49,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
ANOTHER GOLD RUSH

TONOPAH, New. April A new
gold rush was on today toward
Belle Helen, sixty miles east OF here
The stampede started yesterday
with the appearance here of Gus
Peterson. rancher and miner, bring
ing with him about 500 pounds of
gold rock. One sample assayed
S1176 a. ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
Bandits Work
Nights Nou

Bank bandits are robbing
banks by night instead of by
day because of vigilante organ
izations against them, Miss For
ha Mcdaniel, secretary of the
Indiana Bankers Association,
said today, in connection with
the looting of the Browns Val
ley State Bank.
Miss Mcdaniel said Mont
gomery County was organized
against daylight hold-ups, but
not against night attacks. She
said the Browns Valley Bank
did not have a burglar alarm,
and for that reason the robbery
was not discovered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
EXPLORER DIES

u Y WUGU PFFNN
FALL RIVER, Mass, April A.
Funeral services will be held here
tomorrow for Louis P. Noros, be-
iieved the last survivor of the dis.
astrous De Long Arctic expedition
Of 1879, who died Sunday while WIS.,
iting in Providence, r. I.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
ILL KING WEAKENS

BIZ JHlfoU PfeSS
BUCHAREST, April 3.-Delayed
by censor)-King Ferdinand of Rou-
mania was extremely weak this aft
ernoon, Sunday reports from the
palace said. The King is i'll with in
f1uenZa.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
PROHIBITION ENDS

BU United Press
OSLO, Norway, April 4.--Prohibi.
tion was formally abolished by the
Storthing today when a bill to re-
move the ban on spirits was adopted.
A plebiscite recently showed a ma
jority for the measure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
Bursting Bottle Showers
Booze DestroyerS With
Glass.

Three policemen were cut by fly
ing glass. one possibly seriously,
when a bottle of home brew beer
exploded at police station this morn
ing while officers were dumping $50
gallons of contraband liquor into
the sewer.
Patrolman John Fields, citation
property man, was taken to city
hospital with a cut on his left eye
which penetrated the eyeball.
Patrolman James league was cut
below the left eye and Lieut.. George
Cox, custodian, was cut on the left
cheek.
Hospital attaches said Fields left
eye ball was badly lacerated. but had
not collapsed and that sight might
be saved if infection does not set in.
Opener Not Hurt
Trafficman Frank Gallagher, who
was welding the opener when the
bottle exploded, showering the room
in the basement with glass splinters
and beer suds, was not scratched.
| The beer bottle blast rudely In
terrupted the obsequies of the evil
dence in 173 liquor cases. Kegs,
cans, bottles and TASKS held the
stock of confscated booze that CUR
gled into tube for final disposition
down the yawning mouth of a sewer
pipe.
The "executioners" were working
behind locked doors when the bomb
bottle burst. Reporters permitted
to watch the rites had beer informed
by Lieutenant Cox they must keep
their hands in their pockets and
whistle"
Stop Dumping
When the injured were removed.
dumping operations were suspended,
while Lieutenant Cox accompanied
Fields to the hospital.
That's one bottle we can't
salvage" one policeman remarked
after the explosion, mindful that the
police pension fund benefits from the
sale of all empty bottles, cans and
copper stills confiscated by the po.
lice and sold after the liquor is dis.
posed by order Of municipal court
More than 500 has been added to
| the fund from this source this year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
DEARTH RESUMES BENCH

Muneie Judge Returns From Week.
End Rest in Ohio.
BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, April 4.-Circuit
Judge Clarence w. Dearth, who es-
capped conviction in the State Sen
ate on impeachment charges by the
margin of two votes, resumed his
bench today
He spent the weekend in Ohio
visiting relatives and resting from
the ordeal of his trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
MARCH TO PEKIN BEGINS
Cantonese Advancing on Three
Fronts; Hardly Resisted.

Fronts; Hardly Resisted.
BV United Press
LONDON, April 4-The Canton
ese drive for Pekin is under way to-
day, dispatches from special CORE
spondents to London newspapers
reported. The nationalists already
have captured Pengpu, 100 miles
north of Nanking, the Daily Express
correspondent said.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail said
the northerners were not offering the
slightest resistance to the advancing
armies. The southerners were push
ing forward on three fronts. one
from Chingkiang, one from Pukow
and one from Nanking, it said, add
ing that northern troops from the
interior were fleeing to the coastal
province of Shangtung, while natives
of Shantung were leaving for Man
churia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
British Shoot

An Exchange telegraph dispatch
said guerillas were active in Shang-
hal and had been fired on by British
sailors. The Sunday Observer said
communism was rampant in Shang-
hal and Marshal Chang Tso-Lin,
northern commander, had appealed
to foreign ministers for support in
his anti-Red campaign.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
Forecast

Probably local thunder
storms tonight; fair Tuesday;
warmer tonight.