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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-25
Sl,OOO,OOO ADVERTISING
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DETROIT, April 25.-Although
the close is but four days away, only
$500, 900 of the $1,0OO,OOO sought in
a drive by 1900 workers to adver-
tise the city with, had been raised
today, the seventh of the drive. The
workers expressed confluence the
goal would be reached.
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night, tWenty-fOur
hours after being
injured in a rail
road crossing acci.
dent, were held at
the First Friends
Church ut 2:30 p.
m. today with
the Re-. Eldon
Mills officiating.
Private burial
was in Crown
Hill cemetery.
The palibearers:
Robert Hoover of
the News, George
Mercer, Ben Davis
publisher; Dick
Miller OF The
Times. Paul len
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STRAWBERRIES
SUFFER HEAVY
FROST DAMAGE
Ruined, Say Truck Farmers
Further Danger Removed
by Warmer Weather.

The county strawberry crop was
considered ruined today after the
series of frosts Thursday and Friday
nights, closing with a serious one
Saturday night. Truck farmers and
nurserymen said there was no hope
for strawberries, and that it will take
two. days to estimate the damage to
the fruit crop.
Sunday mornings frost was about
as severe an on the two proceeding
days" Meteorological j. H. Aiming
ton said, " although the lowest tenn
perature here was just 80 degrees"
There was another light frost this
morning" he added, "but Monday
will be warmer and the danger of
further frosts is removed for the
time being"
Too Soon TO Tell
No definite knowledge Of the fruit
damage can be learned until the
center Of the blossoms are examined.
If frost-bitten, the centers will turn
black whiting forty-eight hours.
1t also was reported that the fruit
crops in Brown County were badly
damaged.
&C. Henry, county agricultural
agent, said he had not sufficient
facts on hand to estimate the dam
age. He said he believed the peach
crop was seriously damaged, the
strawberry crop gone and the apple
crop injured. He declared wheat and
oats went untouched and that most
vegetables in the ground this time Of
year are hardy enough to ward off
the frost.
Ice at Bridgeport
Bridgeport nurserymen declared
ice was a, quarter of an inch thick
there Sunday morning.
Edward Maschmeyer, nurseryman,
206 w. Troy Ave, in the heart of
the county's truck farming center,
said effects Of the frost could not be
determined fully yet, but that the
loss was large and the spring mar
ket probably would be short.
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DISASTER RELIEF
OPERATES UPON
WARTIME BASIS
Red Cross, Federal and
State Agencies United
at Memphis.
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WASHINGTON, April 25.-The
great campaign to raise $5,O00,000
for Mississippi flood sufferers was
launched formally throughout the
country today. the American Red
Cross announced. Indications were
that more than the requested total
would be achieved.
Following President Coolidge's
proclamation for relief funds, Gov
errors of most States and mayors
OF large cities have issued similar
pleas. Newspapers and various re-
lief agencies are helping.
With wartime Red Cross leaders
bacls>'in the saddle" to assist more
than 5000 chapters in the ,me.'.
gency, reports came that many
chapters towns would exceed their
quotas.
100000 in Three Hours
More than 100000 was con-
tributed within three hours after
Coolidge issued his proclamation, 1t
was revealed.
Richmond, Va, assigned to raise
$4,000. replied it would contribute
at least as much as it did for the
Florida hurricane sufferers, s42 900.
Jackson, Miss, has raised half of its
$4,000. Columbus, KY, inundated
in the flood area, gave $500 the first
day. The Chicago chapter increased
its $4,000 quota TO s750,O0O
voluntarily. st. Louis reported
having raised 500, 900. New Orleans,
with a $4,000 quota, set out to get
100000.
Florida Remembers
Florida apparently intends 10
show appreciation of Red Cross as
sistance last year by responding
quickly now. Bradentown, Fla, re-
ported that although it's schools
lacked funds it would give $1.500.
Many small Florida communities
asked to raise 500 replied they
would contribute $1,000 or omre.
Meantime, all governmental a.
gencies were active in the crisis.
The War Department. reporting that
the flood crest would not exhaust
itself into the gulf Of Mexico for at
least two more weeks, sent a War
Department plane with n pho
tographer aboard to Memphis with
orders to tour the flooded region.
Photographs of the territory will be
used at relief headquarters for the
information of relief directors.
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SNYDER MURDER
CASE OUTLINED
} CONTINUED From Page y

J(COntinued From Page y
briefly summarized the indictment,
charging that on March 20 the de-
PENDANTS did "wilfully" murder
Albert Snyder.
Together at Hotels
In 1916" said Newcombe, ruth
Brown and Albert Snyder were mar
ried. He was little bit old-fash-
toned, while his wife liked a little
bit more life. Then, two or three
years ago, this woman met the other
defendant, Henry Judd Gray. Their
friendship ripened into intimacy.
They went to hotels together, occu-
pied the same room and were known
as MIR. and Mrs. Gray in the I'M
perial and Waldorf-Astoria Hotels.
''We will show you that his wife
induced her husband to take out
policies which, in the event of 'ac-
cidental death, would bring the
beneficiary $4,000. I'VE will show
that Henry Judd Gray know Of that
insurance.
albert Snyder was slated for kill
ing on March Z. Before that Gray
had bought the sash weight and
chloroform with which that poor
devil, Albert Snyder, was done to
death.
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FRIENDS, POLICE
PAY TRIBUTE TO d
DEAD REPORTER
Funeral Rites Held for Vic
tim of Railway Crossing
Accident.

Funeral services for Orla y. Woody,
"a, police reporter for the Indiau-
apolis Star, who died Saturday
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the Mississippi bend any minute.
They'll be hungry, dirty and thirsty
for clean water, for they've been
stuck on piece of high ground, in
the flood, for three days. Flood wa
ter was all they had to drink. What
they had to eat we don't know as
yet. They must all pe inoculated
as soon as possible before they scat
ter out.
Ten Counties Inundated
Miss Pauline Marshall is the chief
Red Cross nurse here. She told me
this evening that she sees nothing
but twenty days and nights of work
ahead for her and her assistants. You
see the main part of the flood won't
be due here for a week. But the
great Red Cross Of the nation is
behind her, she'll get help and
plenty Of it, soon. She'll need it,
She and Maj. John c. II. Lee
United States Army engineer, in
charge Of this district, have been
told today by airplane fiiers that
there are perhaps $4,000 human be-
ings caught in houses or on high
ground IN the district north of us.
Ten solid counties, to the north of
us, are one vast lake, tonight, and
the crest Of the flood hasn't hit us.
This great district, as large as some
Of our smaller States, is emptying it.
self of human beings. Rowboats,
motor boats, steamboats, and planes,
are picking up the sufferers and
heading them toward Vicksburg.
Every Lodge Helps
Office buildings of Vicksburg are
lighted tonight. Women volunteers
are sweeping them out and scrub
bling Railways and empty rooms.
making them ready for the dazed,
sleepless. sufferers. Every lodge
room and fraternal house is being
made ready for them. We have
heard the news that President Cool
idge is sending Secretary Herbert
Hoover down South. Thank God.
Well need him and all the help he
can bring.
There's horror and death behind
tina scenes, everywhere There's
Nhn Descha, for instance. I talked
to him in the Masonic Temple only
an hour ago.
Saved Family
He got his wife and family out of
Greenville. 81 had to leave my car,
and the piano and the radio. Had
'em almost paid for, too. but no in
surance against a flood" he said.
How do know they're gone? Well,
there was a 30-foot tree out in the
yard by the house and that was
covered when we went over the farm
in a steamboat last evening. l
couldn't see sign of the old house.
1t was awful tough about my neigh
Dor, Ernest Clarke, too. got my
family out safe, but his wife and
four children were drowned. He
was away sick in a hospital; wasn't
there to help EN-"
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"ToOls OF Death"

"Gray met Mrs. Snyder in Henri's
restaurant and gave her the tools Of
death. And even as she took them
with her she had her 9-year-old
daughter, Lorraine, with her. Oh,
that woman She brought her
daughter to the man she plotted
with"
Newcombe's voice was raging now
His nasal tones rose and filled the
huge courtroom.
The defendants stared at the
prosecutor. Both remained unemo-
tional. They appeared as though
they were merely watching the dis
trict attorney tell a dramatic, al
most incredible story.
Newcombe finished his statement
at 11:40, after talking half an hour.
During that time neither defendant
displayed any emotion.
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Brother Testifes

When Newcombe resumed his seat,
Warren Schneider, brother of the
slain man, was called as the first
witness. He testified he last saw
his brother alive in January, 1926,
and he had been called after the
murder to identify his brothers
body and had done so.
DR.. Howard w. Neail Of Jamaica,
assistant county medical examiner,
was the next witness. He said that
about 9 a. m. on March 20 he went
to the Snyder home and found
picture wire making a deep furrow in
Snyder's neck. He told Of grewsome
details with no variation in accent.
Mrs. Snyder's glance never wavered
from the witness. She was leaning
forward in her chair, intent upon
every word. Gray, his eyes partly
closed, sat looking at the floor
beneath a chair directly in front Of
him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-25
The Withdrawal Of Blaine
Mallan's Nomination

The withdrawal Of the nomination of Blaine Maan as
peoples counsel for the Public Utilities Commission. fol
lowing the editorial in The Times suggesting that this step
would be wise one will somewhat clear the situation to
these utilities nominations
Mr. Maan is young with many loyal friends, who
willing make hard fight for confirmation Of his
nomination but Mr. Maan himself realized that he entered
the duties Of peoples counsel he would possess full
public confidence and good will The President also realized
the situation and acted for the best in withdrawing the
nomination.
The Senate committee must continue its Investigations
the fitness of the two nominees for the Utilities Commission
The position Of these two will not differ in the slightest
from that of Mr. Maan they should upon their duties
without public faith and approval The Investigations must
establish beyond doubt that these are free from all bias
in public utilities questions and that they are free from
sonal connections influences that might bias them
Charges still freely made that Of the nominees whose
name yet before the Senate is closely allied in business
and personal way with officially and financially in
terested in Washington street railways the electric light
ing company
will be extremely unfortunate if this sort of connection
is established far the value the future service Of the
nominee is concerned.
The confidence Of the public is essential valuable public
service by any the public feels that man holding
high position preudced in favor any particular interest
It will be impossible for that continue in office with
satisfaction to himself and to the community.
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The Utterly Inadequate Pay of
D. c. Prison Guards

The guards in the District JAIL the worhouse at
and the reformaoy LOrton Va District prisons are
paid minimum of $1SO per year, few of them above that
salary.
The District Jail guards asking be recassied Under
the Redistribution act they placed the custoda service
Of them in Glass The other prison guards are mainly
in the same class.
# these unable to obtain a classification which
will pay them better salaries Congress should consider the
matter and pass legislation which will give deserved pay
increases.
The weakest spot the recasscation system is the ease
with which the Reconsideration Commission is able make
cassicaons that increase the pay Of hgherups through
out the Government service but unable find
give underpad employees chance to living wages
These prison guards compelled to buy their uniforms
and allowed day off each week forget sordd
tasks
There difference in the work of custodians of
buildings and these Custodians Of bad and
The lives Of prison guards in constant jeopardy and
they must also be Of integrity able resist the base op
portunities placed in their way.
During the past year less than five District Jail breaks
frustrated by these guards and guard severely
beaten. The plans Of the imprisoned to kill the
guard.
Prison bars do not prison make The District Jail
obsolete and prison deliveries prevented largely through
the eternal vigilance Of the placed there to safeguard the
interests Of the law and the public
The guards compelled to keep constant checkup on
the inmates They be able to discriminate between
must be tactfu yet firm They have kindly hearts and
houghfune for relatives Of prisoners who bear the
brunt Of punishment in the end.
The prison guards in District institutions deserve better
pay They should be given their uniforms and they should
like District policemen have day off each week.
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DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
"MOn," and "Pop"
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

A CORRESPONDENT wants something done about
n pop and ''mom.'
He writes: ga dignity and sacredness seem to at
tend the very words mother and father coming from the
lips of the child taught Them and unfe and UNI
known where nane expressions such pop and NOM
used
Some sort Of law organization crusade ought to
be started he Thinks and l ought to start it.
But won't. / gently but firmly decline.
read the newspaper story of the girl swimmer who con-
quered the wind and rain and shifting of the Eng
lish Channel
is story of pluck and determination triumphant but
it is than that
is the story of the influence of girls admiration and
love for her mother.
On the side Of the boat which accompanied her she had
the words written Think of Mother' and when she had
rumphed she said to reporters, ''She really did it,
When her trainer advised her to give up attempt as
storm broke and the the English coast she
is quoted in cabegram saying:
"No no; / am doing this for mom."
That sort Of knocked the props out of crusade against
the word "mom.''
1t was, there, anything but an nane expression.
Few examples of greater respect and affection have been
in recent years.
So don't up greatly the proffered role of being
forth faring Occur de Lion in this crusade.
For after ALL the important thing about word is its con-
notation.
The important what is signified by it.
Nom with connoation of affection wins hands down
over Mother with accompaniment Of cold estrange-
ment.
The attitude is always significant rather than the express
sion
Copyright 1927. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
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even more visionary. Two of the
great scientific bodies of the day
the Weather Bureau and the
Smithsonian Institute 49, are in
disaccord over so relatively simple
a question as that of the possible
connection between special states
of activity in the sun and the
climatic conditions of the earth.
Yet the Moscow professor does
not hesitate to assert that the
varying physical state OF the sun
so affects the minds and emotions
Of men that they rush into great
wars and begin to massacre one
another when the solar god puts
on his war spots! So, placed on
high, like old Timotheus, with
his breathing flute and sounding
Tyre" the sun with mis- spots can
swell the soul to rage or kindle
soft desire!
This Is as much like astrology
as one star is like another, and
as much unlike science as a puff
ball Is unlike a potato. The de-
tenders Of Prof. Tchijovsky's ex-
traordinary prognostic- there
will surely be defenders-will
plant themselves on the we'll
known ground that the sun is
'the father of life'' for the earth
and that is true enough.
A Far Call
But it is an infinitely far call
from the general physical, cleo
trical and chemical, influences
which the solar radiation exer-
cises upon the growth and de-
velopmeent of living organisms,
both plant and animal, to an inn
aginary influence over mems
thoughts and conduct.
There is no objection whatever
to a critical study of the influ-
ences of solar radiation in all
possible directions. and it is not
at all unlikely that we have
many unexpected things to learn
about it: but. in the meantime
the influence Of science upon
mankind at large is not advanced
by putting the cart before the
horse, and making startling as
sertions based not only on care
fully established facts, but upon
pure speculation.
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By ELSIE ROBINSON

hero-worship directed toward big
brains" Beef and Drawn rather
than brains dominates the campus
life Of today and makes" the
most desirable fraternitieS. Often
the professors themselves join in
this adulation.
How can boys have any re.
spect for substantial things" asks
Roger Babson, when football
coaches get more salary than col
lege presidents; when to make the
football team, the baseball team,
the college paper, is the only open
sesame to eliteness, fraternity,
a chance to associate with the
boys who count and whose friend.
ship is counted upon as the first
step toward success because Of
these boys wealth and influence,
a chance to drag a girl to a big
prom and have the boys whisper
there goes 'Goofus. He is end
on the football team, president
of the Bow Vows, past master
of the 'Oofs.' He has a Marmon
roadster, he's a fine fellow and
a BIG man."
we IdU UCLlSF 10 plOPUACu ~
call off the Big Thanksgiving
Game If Mr.. Babson ever becomes
a college president, for this IS
what he'd do to us
He'd absolutely get rid Of "big
business athletics" and restore
college athletics to their past time
basis. No more big games with
tickets at $5-including a mort
gage on the old homestead and
the family flivver. Football con.
tests-yes-but UNLESS YOU
HAVE ACTUALLY TAKEN
PART IN COLLEGE ATHLETIC
AT SOME TIME IN YOUR LIFE
YOU COULDN'T ATTEND.
Which would certainly be hard
on some of US who love to talk
about 'our Alma Mater but who
didn't get any higher, than the
Sophomore year in the Green.
field HI.
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to enter the till-death.do-us.pa
pact-and yet perfectly willing to
pay her alimony and send her to
Paris at his own expense, when
domestic life begins to bore her.
That he work like a stoker in
the office all day to supply her
! with fur coats, limousines and
square-cut diamonds-and yet
have plenty of time and pep left
to go around to theaters, card.
parties and dancing clubs with
her.
That he look on calmly and
serenely. while she rouges her
lips, darkens her lashes and
powders her nose-and still think
of her as Natures Masterpiece,
Gods Perfect Work.
That he think of her as a crea.
ture of finer clay and more deli
cate, sensibilities than himself
and still admit her to all his clubs.
give her his turn in the BARRIERS
chair and let her ride beside him
in the smoking car.
That he give her equal say in
making the laws and running the
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country-and yet, not expect her
, to obey the traffic regulations or
punish her for little thing like
shooting up her husband.
That he admit her on an equal
footing in the professions and the
ranks of business-and yet never
fail to fall for her sex-appeal, or
to give her a job on the strength
of the twinkle in her eyes or the
dimple in her knees.
That he permit her to go around
almost as barely clothed as a saw
age and as gaudily decked out as a
Northumberland at the same time
reverently keep on his coat and
take off his hat in her presence,
as though she were a civilized
woman.
That he allow her to make his
social rules, choose his friends and
censor his clothes--and at the same
time think Of her as a cute, lovable
little thing to be taken care off,
Gods greatest Gift to Mani
That's positively ALL! And vet,
men are becoming so woman shy,
that it is getting harder to lure a
man into marriage than it is to get
a golfer into church!
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our coilegeS are colossal failures.
Much Of this failure he blames
on college athletics. "Big bust.
ness athletics are menace" he
declares, ''both because of the
false ideals they create and be-
cause. they tend to limit participa-
ton in sport to a few"
That Thanksgiving game you
enjoyed so much last year-Roger
Babson thinks the whole nation
Is paying a tragic price for that
game. Listen
Il approve college sport" he
says, ''but am opposed to MAX
ing god of sport or in making
sport only for a. few. The only
legitimate excuse for sport is to
encourage sport. A generation
back. the whole college played
sports. Then we began 10
specialize in sport. We began to
concentrate on winning, on max
ing games huge spectacles. From
that moment the spirit Of play
went glimmering. Today only S
per cent Of the student body play
on college teams and only about
10 per cent are interested in any
way with actual playing Of sports.
We must raise that 5 per cent TO
80 per cent, and the way to do 1t
is to get rid Of big business
athletics in our colleges. Stop
training teams to be spectacles il
a big hippodrome.
That wise.crack about hippo
dromes ought to come home to
you. friend. How much did you
pay for your football ticket last
Thanksgiving? Yes, know the
PRICE ON THE TICKET was
$5-but how much did you really
pay? Ten dollars? Twenty?
Pretty nearly anything they asked
if you decided to go at the last
minute, didn't you? You didn't
mind then but now that the
seasons excitement has cooled, 1t
DOES seem rather a different
version Of a "kid game" doesn Z
~ And what effect does all this
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SUNSPOT WARS = = By Garrett P. servss

CT 1927 and 1929. when the
i eleven-year period Of sun.
spots attains its maximum, and
when this maximum will coincide
with the maximum Of two other
periods Of sixty years and thirty.
five years, there will be a great
human activity of the highest his
torical Importance, which may
again change the political chart
Of the world!''
This prediction with an astrolog
tcai tang, regarded as an omen Of
another world war right on our
heels. was received from Moscow
by the American Association for
the Advancement Of Science, and
was read before that August body
at its annual meeting in Philadel-
phia. Its author is Professor A.
Tchijovsky, Of the University Of
Moscow.
Professor Tchijovsky's central
theme is that all great wars have
followed periods or intense sun.
spot activity, This is another of
those omnium gatherum chases
after condolences that are char.
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NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
Why Men Don't Marry

Why Men Don't Marry
All that the modern girl asks
OF .nan is that he treat her with
tenderness and chivalry-and at
the same time permit her to drive
the car, run the house. swim the
Channel and beat him at golf and
tennis.
That he acknowledge her as
his economic equal-and then
marry her and, pay all her bills
for the rest Of her life.
That he join her in petting par.
ties and take her to night-club
orgies--and. at the same time,
respect her. love her truly, and
regard her kisses as a romantic
adventure or a sacred privilege.
That he look up to her as his
guiding star and his beautiful
influence"-and at the same time
admire her backless evening
gowns. her above.the-knee frocks
and her ability to mix a wicked
cocktail.
That he. be anxious and eager