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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
MAKES A TEA
FOR HEADACHE
Virginia Lady Tells How She Gets
Most Beneficial Results in Treat
ment of Constipation and
Indigestion.

The home of Mrs. John L. Pence,
Broadway, Va, is one of the thou
sands of homes in which Black
Draught has been in successful use
for the relief of constipation and
similar ills requiring laxative or
cathartic.
occasionally" says Mrs. Pence,
81 am troubled with spells of con-
stipation. always use Black
Draught when feel a spell of this
kind coming on, for it saves me a
bad headache.
my color gets sallow at times. 1
get real yellow. have found
Black-Draught to be the finest kind
of remedy for this. I take Black
Draught and make tea out of it,
and take it along in small doses for
several days. I have never found
anything that served ME so well.
my husband also takes Black
Draught, and he thinks it is splen-'
did. have told many of my
friends about it and they agree with
me that it is a good remedy.
Since I have known about Black
Draught I have not suffered nearly
so much with headache caused from
indigestion. If I find my tongue is
coated and l wake up with a bad
taste in my mouth, know I have
been eating indiscreetly, and I inn
mediately resort to Black-Draught
to straignten me out"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
PLAN MANAGER I
( LEAGUE CHANGE
Seek Committee Merger and
Outline Program.

Merging of the Indianapolis City
Manager League policy and finance
committees with the executive COM
mittee will be recommended at the
next meeting of the league directors.
Meeting will be held soon, says
John W. Easterline, executive chair
man under the new plan.
When the policy committee held
it's last meeting before vacation, the
date had not been decided for elec-
ton of commissioners. Manager
leaders met Monday at the Chamber
of Commerce to reorganize their
program, looking to the election in
November, 1929.
Executive Secretary Claude H.
Anderson resigned to devote more
time to private law practice. Miss
Elizabeth S. Cooper will be in
charge of manager headquarters in
the Illinois Bldg.
Reorganization of the league pro-
gram is subject to approval of di-
rectors. Anderson reported strong
organization of volunteer workers in
all city wards and precincts.
Other members of the executive
committee under the plan are Hen
ry l.. Dithmer, Fred Hoke, Frank
E. Gates, Sol Schloss, William H.
Insley, Mrs. George G. Finfrock,
Mrs. o. L. league, Dwight S. Ritter.
Claude H. Anderson, John r. WEIGH.
Henry F. Kottkamp, John j. Mad
den, P. G. Reilly and Charles F.
Coffin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
Doran Will Do Talking for
Prohibition Unit, Says
Treasury Head.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-Pro-
hibition Commissioner Doran here
after will be official spokesman at
the treasury on prohibition news.
He has been requested to attend
all press conferences held by Sey-
mour Lowman, assistant secretary
of the treasury, and take the re-
sponsibility of answering questions
of newspaper men, it was learned
today.
Meantime, there will be no writ
ten press statements issued by the
prohibition bureau unless such are
approved by Secretary Mellon or
Undersecretary Mills.
Lid Comes Back
Official censorship on prohibition
news is now in effect. An old order
prohibiting issuance of press state
ments unless they are approved first
by the head of the treasury, has
been resurrected by Mellon.
Lowman was called ION the car
pet" by Mellon for his assertions
that the dry organization was corr
rupt and that bribery was ram
pant" Mellon today refused to dis
cuss his interview with Lowman,
saying it was q private discussion of
departmental matters"
Lowman Too Enthusiastic"
officials emphatical,y stated. how
ever, that Lowman had become too
enthusiastic" in his work. They
pointed out that the assistant sec
rotary was supposed to act as liaison
officer between the secretary of
treasury and the prohibition COM
missioner, rather than actively to
supervise Federal dry work.
Hereafter there will be no Sensa-
tional statements, it was said at the
treasury. Enforcement work will
continue actively, but efforts will be
made to keep the spotlight from
Government Cry activities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
Card Seergss Holds Boys
Death to Remain Mystery

strange gift of divination had aided
many of her acquaintance in their
hours of trouble in times past.
Your son has been murdered"
Mrs. Roe told the elder Roe. His
body will be recovered from the
waters of the river and his MUIR
derer will confess if those waters
are left untroubled.
The next day, Monday, Roe and
neighbor, Press Morton, besought
Mrs. Booth for further information.
Go to the river down by the ball
park" she directed them. There
you will find Leander's clothing.
Leave it undisturbed and return to
me without telling any one of your
find.
GAS you go through town on your
way to the river you will see a
group of boys at the corner.
Prompted Remark
"You. Morton, approach them
and say: I surely would like to
know if Leander Roe is alive
"An overgrown boy, whose name
has not been revealed to me, will
step forward with an oath and
reply: Lee will never come back;
he's in the river
The two men fastened toward
the river They encountered the
group of boys and Morton put to
them the statement that the seeress
had directed.
A 12-year-old boy stepped for
ward with an oath and declared
in answer: Lee will never come
back; he's in the river"
Morton fastened on to the banks
of the Patoka. There lay Lean
der's clothing.
Excitement seized him and he
ran back to the village, shouting
of his find. Every available man
turned out to search the river
banks and drag the stream for
trace of the body. The 12-yesl-old
youngster was seized and threat
ened and cajoled to tell what he
knew Of Leanders disappearance.
His stories conflicted and he vas
ultimately dismissed from con-
sideration in the case by authorities.
Meanwhile Morton fastened back
to Mrs. Booth for further instruc-
tons.
Held Pledge Broken
"You have broken your pledge of
silence" the little farm wife greeted
him sadly. Had you obeyed me this
mystery would have been solved by
confession, within two hours. Now,
so far as / can see, the case is
doomed to remain mystery"
And a mystery the case has re-
NAMED. IL.
Only last week murder charges
were dismissed against the Cougar
old father of the murdered lad
charges preferred nearly year and
a half ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
FIVE HURT IN CRASH
Collision Late Monday Night Causes
Severe Injuries.

Five persons were injured severely
late Monday night in a collision of
cars driven by Robert Simpson, 25,
of 1921 Bellefontaine ST., and Frank
w. Miles of Wolcott, Ind, at EN-
erson Ave. and Thirty Eighth st.
Miss Harriet Cline, %, of 2141
N. Talbot ST., is in Methodist Hos
pital suffering with fractured
pelvis and probable internal in
juries. Others who suffered minor
injuries and were taken home are:
Miss frankie Sissidy. 20, of 2141 N.
Talbot St.; Francis Morris, 81, of
3014 Hovey St.; Mrs. Mildred Miles,
1889 Montcalm ST., and Simpson.
Miss Mildred Turner, II, of 1925
w. Twenty-Seventh ST., was treated
at city hospital early Tuesday for
decorations suffered in an auto acct
dent at Senate Ave. and North ST.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
Dismissal of Murder Charge
at Evansville Supports
Woman'S Words.

By Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Sept. 49,
"Leander's murderer will never con-
fess and so far as the Spirit informs
me now, his death will remain a
mystery"
Thus spoke Mrs. William Booth,
plump, plain little farm woman,
nearly a year and half ago as
she studied the faces of q pack
of playing cards in the dining room
of her little home north of Wins
low, Ind.
The date was April 80, 1926.
Peace and contentment reigned
there but wild excitement prevailed
in the village of Winslow, two miles
to the south, townspeople gathered
in excited knots on every corner,
business was at a standstill and a
growing throng flocked to a little
undertaking establishment where an
autopsy was going forward over the
body of Leander Roe, 8, retrieved
only that day from the muddy
Patoko River.
Missing Week
Little Leander had vanished on
saturday, April "a, just week be-
fore. Thomas Roe, father of the
youngster, his neighbors and friends
searched all that night in vain and
the next day, weary and worn,
sought out Mrs. Booth, whose
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
FOREST BLAZE
LOSSES LIGHT
this SUMMER
Fewer Fires Reported by
National Service Than
in Other Years.
By Time Special

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.--Bar-
ring unexpected disasters in the
next few weeks, American forests
this year will escape with smaller
fire losses than for many year.
I'm the national forests this years
losses have been lower than any
time since 1923 or possibly even
since 1916, and if present condi-
tions continue the losses are likely
to be the lowest since the service
was organized in 1906" Col. w. B.
Greeley, chief of the United States
Forest Service, said today.
Col. Greeley says similar condi-
tons have prevailed in forest areas
outside the Government reserves.
He attributes the low losses to
combination of late spring weather;
more than the usual amount of sum-
mer rainfall; increased forces of
federal ard State fire rangers, and
greater caution by campers and
tourists.
Lightning Not Halted
Most of the damage this year has
been caused by midsummer light
ming. In California, where some of
the largest fire losses occurred last
year, few fires broke out this year
before the middle of July, but on
July 20 more than 100 fires were set
by lightning in the klamath, Shasta.
Trinity and Lassen forests. Most of
them were soon eXtinguished.
In California we have required
every party obtaining permits to
visit national forests to take fire
fighting tools with them. This has
had a good psychological effect, we
think, in causing campers to exercise
more caution" Greeley said.
Reduction Is Great
In Montana and Idaho, where the
fire losses usually are greater than
in any other Government reserve,
the acreage burned up to August 20
this year was less than one per cent
Of the area destroyed last year.
The largest losses in the West
have occurred in the Columbia For
ests in Southern Washington. In
the South bad spring drouth
caused several fires in Florida, Ala
bama, Georgia and South Carolina
and one of the largest fires took
place in Nebraska where $4,000 acres
were destroyed.
In 1926 the total acreage of ma
tional forests destroyed by fire was
722,000. This years losses will not
exceed one-third this amount, Gree
ley believes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to po-
lice belong to:
H. w. Taylor, 81 S. Senate Ave,
Hudson, 1893, from 81 S. Senate
Ave.
Walter Steder, 1922 Wade St.
Chevrolet, 572-649, from Tenth St
and Capitol Ave.
Asa B. Moore, 651 E. Twenty-Fifth
ST., Chevrolet, $4,000, from in front
of that address.
E. v. Johnston, 1928 Roosevelt
Ave-, Ford, from New York and ILL
nois SITS.
BACK HOME AGAIN
Automobiles reported found by po-
lice belong to:
Nash Sedan, license 1863 1899, found
at Roosevelt and Ingram SITS.
De Luxe Pastry Shop, A Monu-
ment Pl., Dodge truck found at 315
w. Ohio st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
WAR ON PARKED CARS
StickerS Greet Motorists in
Woodruff Place.

Automobile owners of Woodruff
Place awoke this morning to find
windshields decorated with stickers,
in a delicate shade of pink, warn
ing them against parking on the
streets overnight.
Elmer Luscher, town marshal,
decorated every autoynobile~ parked
on the streets.
Motorists we're notified they were
violating Section 2 of an ordinance
passed by the Woodruff Place board
of trustees Feb. l, 1925. prohibiting
parking in alleys or on streets be-
tween 7 p. m. and 8 a. m, or for
any continuous period of more than
six hours.
Pens lty is maximum fine OF $40
j. M. Oils town. clerk and treas
urer, explained today Marshal lIus-
cher had been instructed by the
board of trustees. of which H. T.
Graham is president. to take steps
to curb parking violations.
Further violations may result in
fines. it was stated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
Lived in Goshen 81 Years

GOSHEN, Ind, Sept. 13.-Funeral
services were held Monday after
non for Mrs. Anna Eliza Kidder, 81,
who had lived her entire life in this
city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
LONE RAIDER
HAS RUM men
ON RUN FAST
Harvey Parry's Name Sends
Shivers Through Flor
ida Booze HauIerS.

This is the third of four stories in
which Rodney butcher describes the
men and rum runners along the Florida
coasts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13

This one solves a kitchen problera
by changing the cook into a maid.
Be careful, in climbing down, to
change just one letter in each new
word-step and do not disturb the
order of the remaining letters. Try
to beat this solution by reducing the
number of rungs and watch for the
answer, which will be printed tomor-
row. In the meantime study the
way in which Wild was turned to
Tame: 1, Wild; 2, Vile; 3, Tile; 4,
Tale; S, Tame.
Copyright by Public Ledger
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
Held in $4,000 Bond

BU Tunes NpecidI
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Sept. 49,
Steve Evon, charged with shooting
and seriously wounding his divorced
wife, Mrs. Julia Evon, is prisoner
in Vigo County Jail here, unable tt
provide bond of $4,000. The wom-
ans condition is fair, hospital at
taches say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
VIEW CANNING PLANTS

ELWOOD, Ind, Sept. 13.-Can-
ming plants here will be inspected
today and Wednesday by twenty
quartermaSter officers of the United
States army, on an annual tour.
Capt. Robert Wilkie, son of H. F..
Wilkie, Elwooo city attorney, and
Mrs. Wilkie, is in command of the
detail.
The officers will be dinner guests
of the local Kiwanis Club this eve
ming.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
Alleged SLAYER ON Trial

BU Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 49,
Guy Stark is on trial in Vigo Cir
cult Court here charged with the
fatal shooting of his wife, Daisy,
June Is last. The tragedy followed
quarrel when Mrs. Stark returned
home late at night from a dance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
FIRST DROP sPURNED
Obey Koran's Injunction by Splitting
Liquor on Ground.

MANILA, Sept. 10. = Moham-
medan Moros arrested for drunken
ness have explained how they
escape the Koran's injunction: Let
not the first drop of wine touch thy
lip" They carefully spill some wine
on the ground, then go ahead and
drink the remaining drops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
EIkhart Fair Opens

BIZ I1Wc8 SDCOtdE
GOSHEN, Ind, Sept. 13.-Elkhart
County's fifty-third annual fair will
open here tonight to continue the
remainder of the week. BY tonight
it is expected the sale Of season tick
cts will have reached 5000.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-28
CORN PRICES
MUCH HIGHER
Every Grain Future Delivery
on List Scars to New
High Prices Today

Chicago, May 28.-(R-Evcry grain
future delivery on the entire list
scared here today to new high prices
offered for the season. Corn outdid
all other cereals with fresh ad-
vance of five cents, showing gain
Of about Is cents bushel in the
last few weeks.
More rains and cold weather, about
the worst possible conditions for corn
planting, was an outstanding feature
today and September delivery Of
corn went as high as $l.O5 a bushel
compared to $l.OO to $1.OO 1-8 at
yesterdays finish.
In some quarters today's fresh
advance was regarded as discounting
the bullish aspect of the corn situa-
tion from . commercial view point
and immense trade. 1t was gen.
orally conceded, however, that wealth
er conditions will be the controlling
influence in the immediate future.
Today's grain markets fluctuated
with extreme rapidity with an im-
mense trade going but we'll divided
on both sides, between buyers and
sellers Aggressive buying on breaks
and quick profit taking bulges was
apparently the main general en-
deavor.
The finish today in the grain mar
kets was ragged one, with. corr
showing 2 rs to 4 3-8 cents = bushel
net advance, whereas wheat was al
Ia cent to 3-4 cent net decline, and
oats, 81 to Id cents up.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-28
WOMAN'S BODY
DISCOVERED IN
CHICAGO HOTEL
Believed to BE Girl Referred
to in Note Left BY Man
Who Took Own Life

Chicago, May 28.-lH1-The body
of.a young woman who had been shot
through the head and who is believed
by the police to have been the devil
with baby face" mentioned in a
note left by Werner c. Martin, who
committed suicide in Milwaukee
hotel, was found today in an apart
ment hotel.
The young woman and man had
given the names of Martin and
WIFE when they took a furnished
apartment some time ago, and detec-
tives declared their belief that she
was the paramour Of Martin who had
gone to Milwaukee and killed him
self with poison.
A note was found with the body
but it's contents were withheld by
the police for time.
Martin in the note left in the Mil
waukee hotel blamed the woman as
faithless, confcssing that he had left
his young wife for the other woman.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-28
MILL AUDITS
TO CONTINUE
SAYS S0RLIE
State Board Of Auditors to Do
Work Despite Efforts TO
Hold Up Pay
OTHER FUNDS TO BE HAD
Governor Says He Has No In
tcrest in and Knows Moth
ing About Petitions

Audits Of the affairs Of the state
mill and elevator at Grand Forks
will continue to be made by the
state board of auditors, regardless Of
any efforts to hold up the appropria-
tion for that body, Governor A. G..
Sorlie said here today.
The governors statement was made
in response to reports that his name
was being connected with the pro-
posal to submit the sec, 900 appropria-
tion for the board of auditors to a
referendum vote.
If the petition is filed and permit
ted to stand it will mean that the
appropriation will be held up until
the people can vote on the question
at general election, and the next
general election is almost year
away.
Funds to make the mill audits
by the state emergency commission,
under Sorlie's tentative plan. The
emergency commission has fund
Of $4,000 to meet expenses for
which the legislature failed 0ap-
propriate.
Squahble Between Accounts
Commenting on the question now
being circulated to refer the approp-
ration to a vote of the people, the
executive said he has no interest in
it and knows nothing about it. His
view, he said, is that it represents
a squabblc between accountants.
Meanwhile the petitions are said
to still be in circulation. Opponents
of the plan are contemplating CAM
paign to raise funds for the board of
auditors by popular subscription.
They then would present bill at
the next legislative session to make
refunds to contributors to that fund.
Their contention is that the move
to refer the appropriation is designed
to hamstring the board Of auditors
and keep the public in the dark as
to the affairs of the various state
boards. industries and organizations
audited by it.
A recent statement by Attorney
General George Shafer, Secretary of
State Robert Byrne and State
Auditor John Steen, members of the
board, condemned the move as con-
trary to the best interests of the
public.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-28
UTAH GIRL Is
OR T0RICAL
TITL'EH0LDER
Dorothy Carlson of Salt Lake
City Wins Contest Over
Six Boy Orators

Washington. May 28.lP-A slip
of a girl from Utah, who hopcs some
day to be an actress, is the inter
scholastic oratorical champion Of the
United States.
She is Dorothy Carlson, 17-years-
old senior at Salt Lake City's East
Side high school, and in the finals
here last night she triumphed over
six boy orators from widely scat
tered sections.
The five associate justices of the
supreme court, who acted as judges
gave her the highest rating. See
ond honors went to- James w. Tun-
nell, Jr., of Georgetown. Delaware
and third to Jefferson Meagher Of
Binghamton, N. Y.
BY winning the championship-the
first girl to do so in the four years
of contests-Miss Carlson won the
right to represent the United States
in an international contest to be
held October IA. England, France
Canada, Mexico, Argentina and
Hawaii will be represented.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-28
DIVER FIGHTS
!. HUGE OCTOPUS
UNDER WATER
Forces Devil Fish to- Release
Body Of Man Clasped in
/ Its Tentacles
FOUR OTHERS MISSING
Crew. of Tug Lost in Sound
Tuesday When Craft
Dropped From Sight
FOUR OTHERS MISSING

Port Townsend, Wash, May 2S.--
P,-A hughc octopus, bearing in its
tcntacles the body Of one of five
men who went down on the tug War
rem early Tuesday, gave up it's
human prize after an hours battle
so feet under water with A. Il. Hook,
diver. Hook related his story
here last night upon arriving with
the body.
The diver was repairing fish net,
he said, when he sighted the devil
fish making his way along the bot
tom Of the sound with the body in
his tentacles.
Selling a pike pole, Hook attacked
the sea monster.
Minutes wore on as the diver
thrust and lunged at the octopus,
which gave savage battle, but grimly
held to the body. Time after time
the devil fish warded off the spear
with the power of it's flinging arms.
Cuts Octopus to Ribbons
The water was becoming cloudy.
,Centering his thrusts on the middle
section of the spidcrlike demon, Hook
literally cut his tcntaclcd adversary
to ribbons before the death struggle
was ended.
The octopus sank back, apparently
mortally wounded, and lay on the
muddy bottom of the sound while
Hook pried loose the tentacles from
around the body.
In Port Townsend the body was
tentatively identified as that of H.
Healey, cook on the i'll fated tug.
Attempts were being made to get
into communication with his rela-
tives. who are thought to live near
Atlanta, Ga.
None Of the bodies of the other
four men aboard the tug has been
recovered. The craft dropped out Of
sight early Tuesday morning while
en- route from Seattle to Victoria.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-28
ARE
FORCED FROM
THEIR HOMES
Residents Prepare For What
Is Believed Will BE Last
Battle of Flood Area
WATERS RISE RAPIDLY
Crest of Flood in Atchafalaya
Basin, Above Morgan City
and Lafayette

New Orleans, May ,23.-tA1 Man
what was believed to be the last
great battle Of the flood area as the
waters Of the Atchafalaya and the
Tensas basin moved down on the
New Iberia, and Morgan City. Al
ready these cities Of 5000 and 5000
population. respectively, partially
have been inundated, and with the
water rising an inch an hour. it was
believed that both would be totally
under water by tonight or tomorrow.
Morgan City. about 100 miles west
of New Orleans, is at the mouth Of
the Atchafalaya where the mass of
water sweeping down the narrow
Atchafalaya basin must empty into
the Gulf of Mexico. A few miles
above Morgan City the Atchafalaya
empties into Grand Lake, and resi-
dents of the lake region have been
forced to flee their homes.
The river then flows out of the
lake again to run for about Is miles
through fertile courkry before it
pours its muddy flood into the "ulf.
The crest of the flood in the
Atchafalaya basin was believed to
be in the Breaux Bridge section,
many miles up the river from Nor
gan City and still above Lafayette,
where the largest refugee camp of
the section is located. The flood
probably will last several weeks
more before the crest passes into the