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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
CHURCH COUNCIL REPORTS 80
LYNCHINGS In UNITED STATES
DURING YEAR; INCREASE OF 3

WASHINGTON, April P)-Thirty
lynchings in the United States during
the year 1926 shocked the churches
in their campaign for a lynchless
land, the Federal Council of Churches
said today in making public it's
annual honor roll of states free from
1ynchings during the 12 months.
The figures for the year showed
sharp increase over 1925 when
only II lynchings were reported, and
five states formerly on the honor
roll were removed because of mob
violence within their borders
"One of these states, New Mexico,
had a record of no lynchings for
a period of ten years preceding" !"
said the Rev. Peter Ainslie, of Balti-
more, chairman of the executive conf
mittee of the councils race relations
section.
"The four other states which were
free of the evil in 1925, but which
lost their places on the honor roll
because of lynchings during 1926 were
Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Texas.
1.-The list showing the states free
from lynchings in 1926 in classified
groups over periods of years, follows:
States that have never had a
record of lynching: Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island and
Vermont.
additional states that have no
record of a lyhching since 1886:
Connecticut, Maine and New Jersey.
additional states that have no
record of a lynching during the
past 20 years: Delaware, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Nevada.
additional states which have no
record of a lynching during the
past Is years Idaho, Indiana, iowa.
Maryland and South Dakota.
additional states which have no
record of lynching during the
past TO- years: New York, North
Dakota, Oregon and Pennsylvania.
Additional states which have no
five years Arizona, California, Colo
record of a lynching during the past
rado, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana,
ton, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Nebraska North Carolina, Washing
Additional states which have no
record of a lynching during the past
two years: Oklahoma and Illinois.
Additional states which have no
record of a lynching during 1925:
Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio
and Utah."
The statement did not go into
detail as to where lynchings had
occurred during the year, but said
that SO states were free of such
occurrences.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
ANOTHER PERFECT CRIME MISSES FIRE IN N \.
HUSBAND Staying BY WIFE AND
PARAMOUR WAS TOO CAREFULLY
CONSUMNIATED TO FOOL POLICE

NEW YORK, April 8 [P)-Another
perfect crime" that failed, the Staying
of Albert Snyder, art editor of Motor
Boating" while he slept in his Queens
Village home on the morning of
March 20; brought to trial his wife,
Mrs. Ruth Snyder, and her confessed
paramour, Henry Judd Gray, on first
degree murder charges.
Mrs. Snyder has been the center
of attention since her arrest the day
following the murder She assumed
the role of the misunderstood wife,
married to a man many years her
senior who had tastes totally diff
ferent from her own. Discord, she
said, forced her to look elsewhere
for happiness.
Gray, a corset salesman, with a
wife and ten year old daughter, was
man of society in his home in
East Orange, N. ]. So sterling was
his character believed to be that
members of his family and friends
refused to believe his guilt until they
heard it from his own lips.
On the eve of the murder Snyder
and his wife attended card party
at the home of friends. Tommy,
as Mrs. Snyder was known to her
intimates, saw that her husband
drank plenty of liquor, ito make
him feel good" as she later confessed
to the police.
When they got home Mrs. Snyder
put him to bed. He was partly
deaf and she took care that his good
ear Law on the inflow
Some hours later the couples nine
year old daughter, Lorraine, found
her father dead. He had been beaten,
to the bed with picture wire. In
an adjoining room, Mrs. Snyder also
had been bound. The house was
in great disorder from top to bottom.
Mrs. Snyder told the police a man
of giant stature had forced his way
into the home and had killed her
husband and had beaten her.
Detectives were suspicious from
the start. In their attempt to ac-
complish the perfect crime the slayers
had been too thorough. They had
ransacked the kitchen
There is something wrong here"
said the officers. Regular murder
ers don't work that way. They
wouldn't bother the kitchen"
There was no evidence of the head
injury which Mrs. Snyder claimed
the murderer had inflicted Soon the
jewels which she said had been stolen
We're found under mattress. Other
things were found to contradict her
story.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
PARIS SCRUBWOMAN
RATED MILLIONAIRE

PARIS, April 9 (P-A millionaire
scrubwoman, who rummages in garb-
age cans and begs on the side, has
been found by the police. Privatlons,
they say, are killing her
Keeping secret her name, the au-
thorities nevertheless vouch for her
ownership of the apartment building
where she lives in an unheated attic
ROOM
Her income exceeds that of Premier
Poincare. Besides the Paris build
ing, she owns two houses in Arras,
three farms and some securities, all
valued at more than 100000 francs.
When her days work is done she
begs at church ceremonies. She fishes
food, clothing and saleable articles
out of garbage cans that line Paris
sidewalks at dark or dawn.
She was arrested when she followed
wedding party to the brides home
to beg, but was quickly released.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
Radiator Cap Light
Devised For Autos

BERLIN, April 8 P9-A radiator
cap light to warn pedestrians when
an automobile is speeding has been
patented by Samuel Sborowitz, noted
German engineer.
Sborowitz declares it is folly to
have red light on the rear of an
automobile without a similar con-
trivance on the radiator cap.
His device for meeting the situa-
tion consists of a dozen standard
vari-colored electric lights arranged
as a radiator ornament, different
light flashing for each increase OF
ten miles in the speed of the car
from Is to so miles when a red
light glows as warning signal
Some have suggested that the red
light ought to register the legal
speed limit. SO far the police have
not taken action to make installations
of the device obligatory on auto
mobiles.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
FEMINISTS In RAP
AT FRENCH GOURMETS

PARIS, April (P)-French gourmets
have run afoul of the feminist move
ment.
The suffragists are down on the
old household law that sets man in
a comfortable chair at the dining
table to wait woman's masterpieces
from the kitchen.
Andre Lamande, speaking for the
"good forks" as his cOuntrymen
describe those who sit long at table,
has voiced protest against quick
lunches, apartment house common
kitchens and a proposal to develop
catering services that would do most
of the cooking for families.
Good cooking" he declares, 'is
the honor of our country"
"Since when,' reply the feminists,
''is the national honor in our stom-
-achs? If the gentlemen wish to
eat in their particular manner, let
them also learn to cook"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
ALBERT NO LONGER
is POPULAR NAME

LONDON, April (P-Albert is not
as popular a name in England as
it was prior to the war
The Order of Victoria and Albert
(Albert having been the German
prince consort of Queen Victoria)
is to be allowed to dwindle and
in time will disappear entirely
Originally instituted by Queen Vic
toria in 1882 in memory of the
prince consort, it is now confined
to a slowly decreasing number of
distinguished women. 1t is the one
order of chivalry in the 800 pages
of Debrett's Peerage to which addi-
tions are no longer made.
Apart from the queen and other
royal ladies, there are but II members
of the order living, Lady LansdoWne
being the most prominent of these.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
Street Peddlers
Selling Dog Meat

BERLIN, April (R-New occupa-
tional stunts" are continually being
sprung in Berlin because of the
many unemployed seeking remuner-
ative activity.
The latest is the vendor of dog
meat-not the flesh of the canine,
but meat for the family dog. Such
peddler has been wheeling his
cart through the streets of thickly
populated Berlin sections, with a
big sign proclaiming the character
of his business and the merits of
his goods for the purpose intended.
Naturally the cuts are not of prime
quality, but critical buyers with
fastidious pets are not numerous in
the districts traversed, and the
rather lively business done by this
pioneer seems likely to produce
competition.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
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ShouD This Clipping
In Aqua Prieta When
You Buy Next Beer

PARIS, April 8 up The
. nickel schooner of "gOOd" beer
is gone forever in Paris. 1T
costs six cents now.
. Ordinary beer, at the zinc
. counter of the small, SaWdust
fIOOred cafe, is still Obtainable
ar four cents for the half liter
glass, but there. is always the
. tip to be recIxOned with, even
. at the counter.
Hops, say the brewers, are
. high because most of the crop
. is exported. Labor and other
!. costs also have gone UP. The
. government Iightened the tax
. ON beer recently. but the
. brewers say that didn't help
. much. Beer has grown in favor
. in France as the price of wine
, went up.
: Foreign visitors who go to
. more pretentiOuS cafes, natur-
. ally face 81 higher range OF
: prices, up to ten cents plus
: tip for this large glass. The
: small glass, called n shock"
. goes for six cents and a cent
: tip.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
Temple Church Roof
Ruined By Beetles

LONDON, April 8 R-Depredations
of the death watch beetle, damp
and decay have about ruined the
700 year old roof of Temple Church.
The old church, familiar to all
American visitors to London, is to
be practically reroofed, as the ancient
oak roof of the early English addi-
ton to the round church is now
deemed unsafe.
The timbers affected are old oak
and some yellow deal supports that
were worked into the roof 200 years
ago when there was failing on
one side. The church, consecrated
in 1888, was originally monastery
of the knights Templars.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
FRENCH DESIGNERS
AVENGE SILK TARIFF

LONDON, April (P)-French fash
ion designers are credited here with
saving French silk manufacturers
from possible disaster due to British
protective tariff.
Sir Samuel Courtauld, head of
corporation manufacturing artificial
silk, gives this as the explanation
for adverse conditions in the industry:
When the high tariff went into
effect to protect British manufac-
turers of artificial silk, he says,
many French manufacturers of silk
were badly hit. Bush fashion design
ers came to their rescue by sponsoring
fashions which will not permit the
use of materials with marked luster.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
StUiSs Composer Says
Hungarian Music Is
Death KrleH Of Jazz

. London, April 8 (P9-TziGane
music is about to shove plain
. old American jazz into the dis
card, i'm the opinion of Arthur
HOnegger, Swiss composer.
. MIR. HOnegger, an admirer of
;, jazz, says it was admirable in
!. it's first effects, but has become
. wearisOme i'm it's most eXtrava-
. giant manifestations and must
, make way for something; new.
. He finds little to charm him
!; in the bOisterOuS bands OF
!, LcndOn which initiate the Paul
, Whiteman school.
. The gypsy music, of which
. the Hungarians and Russians
. have long been fond, is what
, the Swiss composer expects to
!. sweep over the world. 1t lends
|. itself well to rOIIicI<ing dances
. and can be played to advantage
|. on many unusual musical in
. StrumentS.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
Only Boys Born In
Apartment In Paris

PARIS, April R-There is a
House of Boys" in Paris, an apart
ment building where only families
with children are admitted and where
the only births so far are of boys.
A widow, with nine grandchildren,
Nine. Abel Barre, built the place in
an airy quarter to make life easier
for large families. on one of the
six floors there are ten boys.
Nine. Barre has a standing offer
to pay for champagne for the party
to celebrate the birth of girl, but
81 haven't opened bottle" she
says. flftts5
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
Stray Dogs To Be
Guides For Blind

BERLIN, April 9 hg--More than
500 stray hounds in the dog pounds
of various large cities of Germany
will escape execution by gas in the
next few months if they behave
themselves, but they will be dedicated
to the service of blind veterans
of the war
The Society for the Care of the
Blind, which annually trains thousands
of police dogs to lead blind persons
safely through city traffic, has agreed
to cooperate with the Society for
the protection of Dogs and save a
certain number of CANNES who would
otherwise be asphyxiated. Dog pounds
will be combed for large dogs with
adequate intelligence, to be sent to
training school near Frankfort.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-10
| russian Cops Hold
Chess Tournaments

BERLIN, April R-Chess has
become the most popular indoor sport
of Prussian police, who are for the
most part unmarried men quartered
in barracks like members Of the
regular army.
Chess tournaments are being played
between the police forces of the
various cities and with civilian clubs
The Berlin Police Sport club opened
it's new clubhouse with chess tour
nament in which 40 persons played.
outdoor sports are the chief recreation
in summer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12
ENAMEL SERVICE
FOR AUTOMOBILES

Special metal enamel service given
by the Guarantee Metal Enameling
Company, 325 E. st. Joe St, is of,
fered owners Of automobiles who
want to get their cars in tip-top
shape for spring use.
The company maintains thirty
six hour service for re-enameling
work. Trained workmen are placed
in charge of improved equipment and
machinery for turning out only high
grade work.
BY means Of a patented process,
the old enamel is removed and the
new enamel is carefully baked on the
raw surface of the parts to be re-
finished.
The CRIME and grit of hard winter
driving results in cutting into eX-
posed surfaces and loosens up var
ious parts of automobiles which
should be protected against winter.
Recommending closed up against
weather reactions these places and
lengthens the life OF any automobile.
I'VE do only quality enameling
and we live up to our business name
of guaranteeing our work" said
Thomas S. Marley, proprietor of the
company.
The firm also does all types of
fender and body repair work. A COM
petent corps of workmen is main
tanned to give satisfactory service
on all Jobs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12
ICE CREAM FIRM
GAINS BUSINESS

March showed a decided increase
in business over March last year for
the Jessup & Antrim Ice Cream
Company, 713 n. Illinois St, accord
ing to A. w. Antrim.
The weather this Spring, he ex.
planned, had been a favorable factor
in boosting the business Of the com.
pany.
we find that weather conditions
are a deciding factor in our bust
ness, although & steady demand for
ice cream has been noted over a
number of years.
I'm all probability, we will have a
better year than last, for there has
been an increase during the past
decade of the consumption of ice
cream"
The company supplies large
number of hotels, restauranes and
drug stores each day. The equip
ment of the company is complete.
Competent workmen are employed to
assure maintaining the highest quail
ity of ice cream. Facilities for ex.
cellent delivery service are main
tanned.
The company both retails and
WHOLESALERS ice cream. Its annual
output has been steadily developed
during the past ten years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12
DIST RICT
OFFICERS
e ECT Ed
Local Golf Association Holds
Annual Banquet at Co.
Iumbia Club.

Golf was given its season send-off
Monday night, when the member
ship of the Indianapolis District Golf
Association gathered for its annual
banquet at the Columbia Club ball
room.
The members viewed with keen
interest the new gold equipment dis
played by six downtown merchants.
The association voted to lend
every aid possible to the Riverside
Coffin club in conducting the Ma
tional Amateur invitational tourna-
ment, to be held in June. The tour
nament viii bring to the city some
of the Nations best amateur play
ers. This will be the fourth tourna-
ment held here.
The report Of Neal Order,
treasurer, revealed the district as
ISOLATION has a foundation fund to
start the year. 1t will be spent in
the promotion of golf. The Staging
of the city tournament was agreed
upon as one event.
r. Walter Jarvis, city park super
intendent spoke. Several of the pro-
fessionals at local clubs were guests.
The officers of last year were re-
elected. They are Bernie Lehman,
Broadmoor, president; Louis White,
Indianapolis Country Club, vice.
president; Neal Order, Avalon, treas
urer, and Clifford Wagner, River
side-Coffin, secretary. The board of
directors will remain unchanged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12
SR|RLEYS BUILD
BURIAL BUSINESS

Special study of modern demands
to meet the fullest requirements for
efficient and economical service in
hadling funerals has enabled Shirley
Bros, Inc, GAG n. Illinois ST., to at.
tain an enviable reputation as one
of the foremost Of the local funeral
directors.
The company has developed an or.
ganization which enables it to take
care of funeral requirements from
the making of caskets and other
supplies to the final interment, at
low costs. The company has adopted
the standards of the ranking funeral
directors of the country, both in mat
ters of equipment and ethics.
The story of the development of
the Shirley Bros. Co, Inc, is inter.
estinS. From a small beginning, the
company has steadily grown until il
ranks as one of the most complete
and progressive in the city.
We have gone into the business
as funeral directors on the basis
that we must give the highest type
of service to all classes of patrons. -
explained Luther Shirley, Of the
firm.
Not only are we funeral directors,
but We are manufacturers of caskets
and supplies used in our business.
Such an arrangement enables us to
save patrons the middleman's pro.
fits. 1t also enables us to give more
consideration to the personal wishes
Of our patrons, who can come to
our establishment, pick out the cloth
wanted in making up a casket or
clothing, and we are ready to carry
out such wishes efficiently and
promptly.
TO meet the need all the way
along the line of those into whose
midst sorrow comes in death is our
basic desire. We are prepared to
give financial aid to patrons and we
place our entire staff at their ser.
vice. If there are direct church re.
lations, we provide a minister or
music for services. To serve our
patrons is our foremost ambition at
all times"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12
PROMPT SERVICE
BY STORAGE FIRM

Special attention to promptness in
making deliveries and to care in
handling goods have won for the
Central Transfer and Storage Com.
pany, 1912 s. Alabama St. =
splendid reputation among shippers
The company, established forty
years ago, has made steady progress
IN. the transfer and storage busi.
ness. From the old days of horse.
drawn vehicles when light and heavy
transfer work was carried on bv
faithful draft horses, the companv
mas Kept pace with changing condi
tions and powerful motor trucks now
do the work.
The demands upon the connanv
for various types Of transfer service
range from deliveries of small pack.
ages to the heaviest type Of CONNER.
clal trucking. The company special.
ICES in commercial freight and stor.
age.
-Four large warehouse floors and
a basement are being used by the
concern to handle its warehouse
storage business. A large corps Of
Workmen are employed to handle
the trucking and warehouse bust.
ness. Each shipment Of goods is
carefully checked over to prevent
errors in delivery. Competent EN-.
ployes keep the records of the com.
pany.
Through the streets of the city
are seen truck-loads of heavy news
print paper being hauled by the COM
pany to the indianapolis Times and
The Indianapolis Star plants to feed
the NAV of the presses" which
grind out their inky messages for
the masses. Each year hundreds of
tons Of paper are hauled by the com.
DqpV- for tbaea ,,opove
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12
Manual Plays Beech Grove
Today-Tech at South
port Friday.

Manual prepared itself today for
it's initial baseball clash of the
season at Garfield park against
Beech Grove while Technicals nine
stood on deck waiting to open it's
season Friday at Southport.
The successors to the once famous
Fighting Skinnermen" of Manual,
confident they have winning
aggregation, were ready for the
tangle. Carl Reariclk or Gilmore
Rice was to take the mound for the
Red and White, while Capt. George
Harlan was to do the receiving for
the south siders.
Others who weer to start were:
Britton, 1b Elrod, Oh; Beplay, SIS;
Becker, 3b; Harrison, If; Henselmeier,
CT, and Mccain, IF.
Coach John Mueller has been
working his arsenal squad hard in
preparation for the season opener
and is satisfied he has a good look
ing crew. Pahud has been showing
up we'll in the box and probably will
hurl in Fridays contest.
The infield probably will consist of
Adams, 1b; Collier, 2b; Jordan, SIS;
Miller, SD.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12

able to some to the company's place
Of business and secure it without
delay.
Promptness of service in dealing
with customers has won for the COM
pany a splendid reputation. Parts
are supplied for practically all types
Of motor cars, trucks and motor
cycles. Owners of orphan" cars,
which are no longer manufactured,
have been able to get parts of the
firm.
The company also buys up cars
and parts. The sale of used cars
has been strong during the last
month, and with the Spring season
opening, it is expected that business
will improve.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12
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"A. a. TILTS
Pennant Race in Association
Circuit Expected to Be
Close.
BIZ United Press

D. KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April r.
Thirty thousand and more fans to-
day crowded baseball parks of four
American Association cities, while
other thousands back in the other
four towns watched the bulletin
boards as the circuit opens its 1927
season.
At least 10000 spectators were eX-
pected at Columbus, Ohio, where the
Kansas City Blues play; at Toledo
where the Milwaukee Brewers meet
the Mudhens: at Indianapolis, where
the Saints from st. Paul will lead
off. and at Louisville, where the
championship Colonies start their
season against Minneapolis.
The remnant race in the A. A. this
season will be close, in the opinion
of followers of the league, and TINS
factor, brought nearly sold-out
hleachers for the preliminary SERIES
despite adverse weather reports.
o Fans have been watching the
spring training camps more closely
than before and record breaking
crowds are expected in all parks for
the season.
The Colonels-for two years the
remnant bearers-are again favorite
to win this year. A strong defense
and a smuggling offense-are contribu-
tors to this, but there are seveal
more clubs who will push the
Colonies hard before the season ends
Pennant hopes in the Association,
however, for today are subordlnated
as the fans gather at the parks
around newspaper offices, bulletin
boards and radios to gather the IN
ming by inning accounts. 1t is open
ing day, the big day of baseballdom,
and the far.off end Of the pennant
race is for the time being subordl-
mated to the all-powerful thrill OF
waiting for the first cry Of play
ball" for the 1927 season.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12
ANNOUNCE CLUB SHOOT
Local Body to Hold All-Day Affair
Wednesday, April 20.

George r. Waite, chairman of the
Indianapolis Gun Club tournament
committee, today announced an all
day shoot for Wednesday, April 20.
Other members. Of the tournament
committee are Seth Klein and Il. j.
Kemper.
The traps will open for practice
at $50, and the first event will start
at $50. There will be a trophy for
the high gun in the 15Otarget event,
trophy for high gun in 25-target
handicap event, trophy for high gun
in doubles event, and a trophy for
the high over all.