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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
FARMER HURT BY BLAST
Investigates When Dynamite Under
Tree Is Slow Exploding.
BU Times Special

BU Times Special
LOGANSPORT. Ind, March 30
When a stick of dynamite he had
placed under tree stump failed to
explode at the expected time, Lewis
Searight, CT, farmer, went to investi-
gate. The dynamite went off as he
reached the stump. He was brought
to hospital here in a serious condi-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Knew Then True

Most of them J knew to be true
''And in the face of that you nolle
pressed the case?"
81 believe So
The witness then said that he had
a change Of heart in the matter
some time between July IS. the date
the impeachment was returned, and
Sept. II. when he wrote to Van
Ogle. then prosecutor and now of
his counsel. asking that the charges
be nolle pressed.
81 don't believe in persecution, "
said the judge. Il think that a
man should be given a chance espe-
cially after he had remedied the
matter"
The judge contended that the
sheriff had Cleaned up conditions.
More OH Hearsay
AIcKesson got the witness to testi-
fy that he had drawn his conclu-
sions from hearsay reports and then
turned on Dearth and said:
You took this hearsay evidence
and dismissed serious matter. but
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
PrecautiOn Taken

Although the first contingent of
marines is considered ample to ham
die the situation, an additional 1900
has been ordered to China as an adj
ditional precaution. They likely will
not be used.
Because the Chinese resented APP
pearance of American warships and
American marines. some shellinS
back and forth has taken place.
This is not considered warfare,
nor does America plan any differ
ent course because of what hap
pened.
The Chinese situation is looked
upon as a flareup that will soon be
smoothed out, according to both
the White House and the State De-
partment.
The State Department goes farther
and indicates much of the trouble
might have been averted had Amer
leans in China needed the warning
given them and moved to safety be-
fore being compelled to do so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30

you don't think Judiciary A Com
mittee should have listened to
'hearsay.' Do you think the Ranes
boy testified to hearsay?"
The judge replied with a very
weak, II do not
The Ranes boy testified early in
the trial that Judge Dearth con-
hscated his newspapers and threat
ened to place him on probation.
\ sharp turn in the questioning
brought out the fact that Wilbur
Ryman. former organizer for the
Iu-KluX Khan and personal attor-
ney for Dearth. had defended boot
leggers in Dearth's court. Clarence
Benadum, another of his personal
advisors and also formerly connected
with the Khan, has, the judge said,
defended more bootleggers lately
than Tom Miller and that makes
Miller mad"
The story of a petition which
friends of Dearth tried to get signed
in Muncie came to light. The petit
ton set out that the members of
the Muncie bar believed in Dearth's
honesty and integrity.
Dearth said he knew all about it,
but did not know that the petition
was not presented to judiciary A
committee as intended, because "at-
torneys would not sign it."
Denies Protest
The witness protested loudly that
he had not been asked by a group
Of twelve or fourteen lawyers who
met in Muncie to clean up his jury
system.
Copy of the Post-Democrat of
Nov. 9, 1928, was identified by the
witness and read. The paper con-
tanned an editorial of coincidence
written by George r. Dale, Offering
the good wishes of all the people of
the community to the bereaved fam
lily in the disappearance of Judge
Dearth's daughter Margaret.
did you have this article in mind
when you spoke Of the mean things
this paper has said about your" the
judge was asked.
mo" 1t was the witnesses short
est answer to date in the trial.
Recent appointment of Charles II.
Guthrie as n jury commissioner
came up. Dearth said that he didn't
know that Guthrie was on the coun-
~ pay roll as an assistant road SUI
pervisor which would make him in
eligible because one man cannot
hold two remunerative Offices
Guthrie, the recent appointee. is
the brother Of a Muncie newspaper
man whose paper has been friendly
to the judge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
|NOS ASPIRE
FOR NAT|ONAL|SM
AS CHINESE WIN
Islands Population Greatly
Encouraged by Canton
csc Victory.
BY Harry w. FrantZ.

CHttGd fFtSS sun COFFeSD0HdCRt
WASHINGTON. March 30
China nationalism is spreading to
the Philippines and stimulating an
intensified campaign for island indie
pendence.
Filipino leaders here today ex-
pressed conviction that the political
ascendancy Of the Cantonese Ma
tionalists will lead to a new balance
OF power IN the Orient, counterbal.
ancig Japan's previous superior DO.
litical position.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
SAP|RO ON-STAND
TO FACE REEDS
GATHERING QUIZ
Plaintiff in Libel Case and
Chief Defense Council
at Grips.
Ru Il,iten PrcSa

BB L1ited Press
DETROIT. Mich, March 5O.-The
battle OF wits between Senator James
a. Reed. presidential possibility, and
Aaron Sapiro, organizer of farmers
and idol of Jewry, was resumed in
the Ford-Sapiro million.dollar libel
trial today.
sapiro, fresh and fit, and Reed,
grave and deliberate, faced each
other as court opened. Saprio in
the witness chair and Reed hover
ing in front of him, the cool ruth
Hess cross examiner defending Hen
~ Ford.
Sapiro surveyed Reed searchingly
as the white-haired Senator fumbled
through his immense brief case, pull
ing out sheet after sheet of notes
on yellow paper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
COOLIDGE SEES
NO WAR SIGNS IN
CHINA OR MEXICO
Presidents Views Regard
ing Two Troubled Situa-
tons Made Public.
Times star CoveSDondept

WASHINGTON, March 30.-No
war is threatening the United States
either in China or Mexico, in the
opinion of President Coolidge, it was
made clear by the official spokesman
yesterday when he said the situation
in neither country would interfere
with Coolidge taking vacation in
the west this summre.
The spokesman pointed out that
the American casualties in China
reported to date have been slight in
comparison with what might have
happened with Americans scattered
all through the inflamed areas there
Casualties So Far
So far, said the spokesman, one
American man has been killed, two
women hurt and another man broke
his ankle in a fall. The Chinese had
nothing to do with this last injury.
The Marines already in China and
those ordered there are for police
duty only. the spokesman said. There
is no thought of creating an eXpedi-
tionary force, unified control of the
foreign forces in China nor any other
act that might be construed as a
war-like measure or an invasion, he
added.
AS outlined at the White House
the situation in China so far as the
United States is concerned, is this
MANY Americans who were
warned through the State Depart
ment to leave the interior when the
tide of battle swept into their area
failed to heed this warning and made
it necessary for the United States to
send warships and Marines there to
help them set out safely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
I Strike April /
Soai and Wood


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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Predicts Campaign

Pedro Guevara, resident commits.
sloner OF the Philippines in the
United States Congress, told the
United Press the national aspira-
lions of the Filipino people have
been spurred by the Chinese sue
ceses," adding that a campaign for
independence from United States
supervision will consequently result.
lsauro Gabaldon, the other Phil
lppines resident commissioner in
Washington, is convinced complete
immediate independence is the only
solution for Filipino aspirations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Intensifes Effort

lie is intensifying the Filipino in
dependence campaign and thinks the
new situation in the Orient will I'm
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30

gwen under the auspices Indianapolis Christian
Markets
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SheriG's Case Up

The Sheriff McAuley Impeachment
case was then taken up. The sher-
if was indicted on fourteen counts.
and former testimony has brought
out that the judge ordered the grand
jury to return indictment.
did you order the jury foreman
to return indictments in the Nc
Auley case?'
Well, not exactly"
Did you appear before the grand
jury and testify against McAuley?"
Il did. ] told of what | had heard
about conditions at the county Jail.
THAT was hearsay evidence, was
it not?'
Well, not exactly"
Reference to hearsay evidence by
EIcKesson brought Il ripple OF
laughter for Tuesday the judge
charged the impeachment charges
were brought on mere hearsay."
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Senator Quiet

The Senator, in voice so low 1t
could hardly be heard, finally began
questioning Sapiro, using details of
his early law partnerships as the
entering wedge.
William Henry Gallagher Sapiro's
counsel, paid little attention, adopt
ing a "he can take care of himself"
attitude. F'ords counsel watched
intently. Reed carried Sapiro with
exceeding detail through a narrative
of the financial arrangements of his
law firm in San Francisco, bringing
out salaries paid, amounts of draw
ing accounts allowed various part
ners and percentage of profit each
partner received.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Stayed on Bench

The judge admitted that he re-
fused to leave the bench in the Me
Auley case and that a change of
venue had to be taken. He didn't
remember many of the circum-
stances.
Names of various prisoners whom
it was charged were permitted to
roam at large. although supposedly
in Jail. and some that got drunk were
recognized by the judge as being
those on which the McAuley indict-
ment charges were based. lie
admitted writing n letter to the
prosecutor later, asking the impeach-
ment proceedings be dropped.
Continuing his questioning regard
ing the truth or falsity Of the
charges brought against the sheriff
McKesson asked:
Were the charges all truce"
The grand jury had indicted and
learned that the witnesses had
testified to the truth. "
You believed that the charges
were all true as set out against Nc
Auley?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Automobiles Wanted

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Long Explanation

Dearth then launched into one of
his lengthy explanations which he
had been warned repeatedly to re-
frain from by Lieutenant Governor
F. Harold Van Orman. Tuesday. He
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Answers Clearly

Reed tossed out complex arrange
ments of dates as bait to see if Sapiro
would not become confused, but to
no avail. Sapiro. holding memos in
his hand, to which he frequently re-
ferred. answered each question
with great pains to insure clarity.
His manner was patient, with just
a sign of tolerance in his attitude.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-04-05

write consider 1t adylike a
her mouth They lovely
they admire do if
permissible They possible
their did all right No
appearing polite you
bathroom when them
think brushing public, would you?
walk
them
lessly INDUCED
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-04-05
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
THE WORLD?
Questions

/. On what principle is the
Administrations foreign debt
policy based?
.. What alternatives do the
Chinese Nationalists offer the
foreign missionaries?
3. On what subject did Harry F.
Sinclair refuse TO give information
TO the Senate?
4. What book about an evange-
list is causing much controversy?
5. Why did the name Buston
Gwinnet figure recently in the
news?
6. What information has come
from the State Department about
the recent secret note to Mexico?
Answers.
l. Capacity of the Debtor nation
to pay.
9. To close their colleges and
missions or to hand over control
to the Chinese.
8. On contracts for naval oil
lands and on lease made by Mr..
Fall and Mr. DENLY to the oil
company of which Sinclair is
president.
A. Elmer Gantry.
5. Letter signed by him and five
Other signers Of the Declaration of
independence brought $4,000 in a
New York sale.
g. That it was not an ultimatum,
as reported in the press.
Copyright, 1927, Cosmos News.
=. paper Syndicate. Inc)
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-04-05
IHfyfHS7(fr3 2: 7;,(gV!Es!:S:5'tl.FsE
THE ETERNAL FEMININE
BY MRS. VIRGINIA LEE.


Why do torment the they love and who love them?
They all do perfectly awful life
before she finally admitted hisn I'm fted with
all the nothing Adam dis
tracted that he didn't know whether Ever
since her led until
matrony fairly tables
Max another suffering and bliss of
the premalmona state. Following is his letter
Dear Mrs Lee: to the most wonderful girl
and the of happiness
Part of the time though the other For
there times when together that nothing
please her She s with others makes perfectly miser
able How tell that she really when she
changeable? MAXI"
How, indeed Max. that time in the
seventh heaven when of her mans
only humans
this but brdand animals II wOman chance
she
usually off with largely depend
her husband this her
al she That $
Interested Reader writes Gloria letter which has
discussed thinks Gloria
this experiencing which she
pure fearless,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-04-05
FIN POINTERS

II the marines weren't SO busy
relieving other Americans here
and there. maybe they could be
sent to give the farmers some
help. too.
80
One vegetable daily is needed
to preserve health. says an east
ern physician. The prescription
doesn't go for actors.
Well. the prohibition law must
be working after all. A town in
New Hampshire reports no deaths
~ . year. Z ~.
The short session of Congress
passed 523 new laws. Ask some
of your friends TO name them.
Babe Ruth wanted 100000
year. He took $40. 900. Hail the
ohilanthropisti
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-04-05
BUREAU GIVES
1927 ESTIMATES
Agriculture Dept. Predicts
Less Tomatoes, CantalOupes
and WatermelOns

AS another indication Of spring
come the estimates on the intend
ed acreages to be planted to
truck crops in New Jersey. The
estimates are based on the pres
ent intentions of farmers and will
be checked by later figures made
after the crops are in the ground
A falling off of per cent
from last years acreage is pre-
house tomatoes. Cantaloupe plant
ings will decrease per cent,
while watermelons, according to
these early compilations, will
suffer stiff greater cut of Is
per cent Sweet corn acreage
will be per cent short of last
years market, if the farmers
plant as they have indicated.
Onion and string bean planting
will show a slight set back of 8
per cent. The lima bean acreage
will drop IL per cent
Strawberries promise to be
plentiful tits summer with the
20 per cent increase in acreage
that the farmers contemplate. A
government report warns that
prices will probably be Hover
than last year, because of the
large acreage planted to this
table delicacy in the South and
Midwest Green peas will be
more plentiful by 10 per cent
than they were last season.
Other crops which show in
creases are as follows: Cucum
bers, 8 per cent; asparaguj Z
per cent; peppers, q per cent;
3pinach (spring) 3 per cent; and
lettuce (spring) 2 per cent. No
change is indicated in the acre
age of cabbage, celery and egg
plant
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-04-05
She Didn't Want to
Go Back
By DUFoRD JENNIE

0VOU poor, miserable little
L thing" Beth said with smil-
ing eyes, Il have Il gorgeous plan
for you. Now you shut up your
little Puritan self in a handy closet
and listen TO me -
Alice smiled family at her room
mate, but it surely was faint
smile. A long month at a great
city hospital that leaves one weary
Of life, without a position and with
savings gone does not make happy
smiles; and Alice had reached a
point, in spite Of her CHEEKY room
mate, who never let life get the
best of her, where she was letting
go.
"Ted's folks invited me to their
place-after lie died. He was a
black sheep, you know, and when
he married me, an ornery city girl
with wild habits, that finished the
both of us for them. SO | never
visited them. They never saw
me and they never will. and I'm go
ing 10 send you TO them-under my
name. In other words, you are TO
be for two precious weeks-Mrs.
Edward b. Hale"
oh! | never-it would be"
Alice objected
Listen! They never did thing
for Ted and me. They seemed to
be sorry afterwards, hut l don't
forgive them. Then, you can't get
me out among the cows and the
crossroads. It's just right for you.
You should never have come to the
city anyway" Beth ratified on. "Pn
never go to see them. And you're
Just plain going to die, little one.
You've got no choice!"
Too weak to argue, too weary to
care much about the deception,
dominated by the gay girl who took
every challenge that life offered
at the end of the week Alice found
herself speeding on the southern
train to the home of the people to
whom she was to be Mrs. Hale
the girl they had refused to ac-
cept, to whom now they would
make redress.
More than once, Alice was in
panic of shame and doubt as she
thought of the deception. The
keenest moment of anguish came
when, as she stepped from the
train at the village station, a tall,
smiling man of about her own age
stepped up.
Mrs. Hale? I am Alfred-Ted's
brother. I'm to drive you home
and to tell you that we are mighty
glad to have you come" he said.
His smiling, friendly face stilled
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-04-05
HOUSING NUMBERING
ENFORCEMENT

Once more that true fact
that houses in the city are
not properly numbered is
called to the attention of the
public through a letter
written to The Editor of this
paper. Postmaster Whitman
called the fact to the atten-
ton of the people through
this paper last week.
An abundance of news
paper copy and newspaper
publicity may be written urg-
ing the houses in the city be
properly numbered. And
after it is all done a small
minority of the ciiy's most
public spirited citizens will
take city pride enough 10
place their numbers, the cor
rect ones, where they may be
seen.
The rest, as they have done
the past three years, will let
the matter drift. Procras-
lination is an art which all
of lis suffer to a more or less
greater degree.
Sometime ago. in the city
of Auburn, n. Y, noted for
its State Prison, among other
things a dog census was taken.
Every house in the city was
visited, and the CANNES we're
numbered.
If Auburn can number
dogs, Pleasantville, through
the use of its police depart
ment, can properly have its
houses numbered. A warning
and then the imposement of
The penalty carried by the
house numbering ordinance,
given the proper publicity,
will do more good than any
strenuous newspaper cam
paign could do.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-04-05

ncr Iears, ana De1ure she knew it
she was In his car, sweeping away
into the country. She was silent,
but he chatted along in his cheer
full way, explaining gently how
sorry his father had been for his
sternness toward her and Ted. and
added:
Mother has been strong for YOU
all the time. but dad rules the roost
and he's one of the old-fashioned,
stiff-backed kind-up on his uppers
one moment, then the next sorry
clean through. He'll try to make
it up to you-so win the rest of
us
They did, without question, and
Alice had reason to grieve over the
deception many tines thereafter as
she lay in the cosy upstairs hest
room with the wide peace Of the
country night before her.
One day Alfred looked at her
oddly;
Beth, you were a little white
ghost when you came, nut you be-
gin to look-well, you look mighty
good to me-" he suggested, his eyes
merry.
Then lie began TO take her to
happy times in the village and at
different farms-dances, suppers,
pfcnfcs-and after each came the
long drives home through the fra
grant southern night; and a little
slow ache began to form in her
heart-she did not want TO go back
to the great city.
Then one night, as he went to the
house with her after a joyous eve
ming, he paused in the kitchen and
pointed to calendar.
'Beth, you see those little
checks? l have been marking off
the days you have left-and II
wish L could get you to stay here
always l shall miss you." he said
simply.
She trembled at the deep under
tone Of emotion in his voice, and
her lips parted to form the words:
"0h, l wish / could''-then she re-
membered, and fled to her room.
The next morning as she came
downstairs Alfred caught her arm.
and his eyes were so tender and
gentle. the tears almost came, but
she said firmly: Alfred, l want TO
tell you sOmething-and your
mother and father-I-wasn't Teds
wife,
He slipped his arm around her
and, somehow, the touch of the firm
arm was comforting.
little one, we have known it all
along, for the real Beth wrote just
after you came, the whole story.
We didn't want to tell you we
knew, and Beth didn't want to tell
you she had written-and then
mother and dad fell in love with
you; then seeing that / did at the
start; it seemed as if" words
eluded him and he paused for u
moment. "All l know or care is
I love You. and If you think you
could be happy with me. l don't
want sou to go back-ever !"
A sweet sense of happiness
closed about her, and out of 1t she
spoke in a whisper: and don't
want to go back, ever-f0r l love
your