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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
ENTER 1927 WITH
HOPEFUL OUTLOOK
Department of Commerce Sees Good Prospects for Year
Just Opening.
Just Opening.

British coal strike, which left the
the progress of that country, but this
is now happily over. Russia shows
some economic Improvement, and
China, due to international trade re-
latiOns, still continues below normal.
Each year sees progress in European
political relations, with fear less and
less a dominating factor.
Combining all foreign and domes-
tic tendencies with which we enter
the new year, while some of them
are not so good as we could wish,
others are most hopeful. To those
who are interested in the movement
of the business cycle, it is worth re.
marking that we have had no infia.
ton in commodities, as prices have
decreased rather than increased dur.
ing the year. Moreover, the elias
ITCHY of credit through the Federal
reserve system, the absence of I'M
due stocks of commodities, the great
~ enlarged information services OF
the country and wider understanding
land thus better common judgment
and caution) are all projections
against violent movements such as
we experienced in former times.
Economic Progress
The Nation is making economic
progress. Some areas lag behind
others, and discomfort with the lag
is an assurance Of a lively sense Of
initiative and the best promise Of
remedy. Each individual tests the
question Of prosperity by his own
setting and naturally applies his
own test to his views Of the econom-
ic state Of the Nation. If we use the
more precise term, economic prog
ress," we find we have per capita as
the result Of the year 1926 more and
better homes, more electric lights
and power, more transportation,
more roads, more substantial build
ings, more radios and moro aItomo-
biles, more savings, more life insur-
ance and more of a lot Of things.
We also have more educational facil-
tiles and more per capita circulation
Of newspapers and magazines than
ever before.
Altogether We enter the New Year
with a job in prospect for most
everybody, with the whole Nation
better fed, better housed and better
clothed than any other nation. The
large disappearance Of poverty in
the chrdaic sense should make us
more sensible to the remedy Of mis-
fortune in the individual sense, and
the high recovery OF industry and
commerce form the losses Of the war
should make us more sensible OF the
needs of agriculture.
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Gone but Not Forgotte

Automobiles reported stolen q
lice belong to-:
Lillian Edwards, 1921 N. Della
ST., Chevrolet, from New York
Meridian SITS.
Floyd Gatewood, 1922 Cente
ST., Chevrolet, 5S3-091, from Mer
and New York SITS.
d. r. Nixon, SOL s. Illinois
Chrysler, from in front OF thai
dress.
John Kettwell, 51S N. Capitol
Ford, from Delaware and Henry
David Barksdale, 2439 CD
Ave-, Chevrolet, 6562, from Della
and Washington SITS.
Hertz Drive Yourself Syster
w. Vermont st., Hertz, 522-59S,
1921 N. Illinois st.
John Plummer, 422 Conf
Chevrolet, 150-545. from in fro
that address.
G. L. Hammond, 1909 N. ]
sylvania St.. Star, 5S6-497, fro
front of that address.
Hoosier Rent a Car, 127 b.
bash St., Ford, 574-261, from q
at that address.
Charles Ellis, 2108 Boulevard
Ford, 577-316, from Walnut st,
Senate Ave,
w. H. Yantes, q. Thirty.E
St., Chevrolet, 510-71S, from q
Twenty-Second ST.
e. S. Meyers, 4525 Park
Ford, from Michigan and illinoi
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01

Pennsylvania as a conduetorM
thirty-eight years of servfGN
Charles o. Fulmer, masteW
maker of the Pennsylvania
fifty-six years and eight moiN
Rogers started railroadinl
1876, as a painter foreman
has been fireman and engineei
was promoted to fireman in
and to engineer in 1888.
For six years he has been O
Indianapolis Cincinnati run, III
the TranscontinentaI Limited
here at 3 p. m. daily and retu
on the White City Flyer, ar
here at 2:05 a.. M.
He has never had a wreck.
was born July 81, 1861, at
Haven, Conn.
Ricketts,, who is 76, left al
p. m. on his last run on the
lean, when he conducts" it
lumbus, Ohio. In the obser,
car will be a bouquet Of tv
three roses, with the fofluwir
scription. Honor Sylvester
etts, conductor of this train,
today completes more than tv
three years of service as a p;
ger conductor. and having re
the age OF 70 today, is placed o
Pennsylvania Railroads rol
honor"
Fulmer started service 80
Pennsylvania in 1S6SAXhe3 \
Eighty-four veterans o. mo
sylvania, over the entire col
are retiring today.
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gracious. OF the prominent foreign
ers I have driven, there is such a
long list, scarcely know where to
begin. l got most we'll acquainted
with Prince Boris of Budapest. He
was very chatty and friendly and
one morning drove him to Univers.
ity Park where he made a minute
examination Of Benjamin Harrison's
monument. He intended putting up
such q monument in Budapest in
memory Of his father, it seemed.
Prince Lung from China was an.
other foreign visitor that stands
readily out in memory, Personality,
you know"
"Governors--my, but I've driven a
lot Of 'em and simply hundreds Of
members of the best old Indianapo-
lis families. So many of them are
gone now. always say I've at
least ten thousand friends out in
Crown Hill, for they were friends,
you KNOW knew my place, and
they knew that / did, and they
liked me-"
This brought the old fellow back
to his present fortunes. I'm out
here in this country home because
L drank or squandered my money"
he explained. You see, my wife
is paralyzed and after 1 got rheu-
matism some years ago l couldn't
work any more and so We just grad
ually went down hill, and few
weeks ago we were sent here. A
lot Of my old patrons would be
sorry to know this, know. Maybe
if autos hadn't of come in and
horses would have stayed on, and
could have kept to my cab driv-
ing, this wouldn't have come about.
Who knows?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
GOTHAM STREET JAM
Humanity Blocks Traffic-One Shot
-HOOtch Kills Six.


BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-Rain fell on
the damned mid Manhattan streets at
the stroke Of II o'clock, but the
city's uproarious New Years cele-
bration already was dripping wet.
Soaked without from a persistent
drizzle and insured against dryness
within by plentifully stocked hip
TASKS, New Workers packed the side
walks along Broadway so solidly at
midnight that progress was tedious
if not impossible.
Night clubs, theaters, restaurants,
hotels and cabarets were massed to
the doors. A trail of yellow backs
was left by the ratios spenders.
Probably never before was so much
money expended in one night along
the famed White Way.
A little before IL o'clock, Just as
the theate-s were opening their
doors, the frolickers began to gather.
Broadway was deluged. Extra
patrolmen and 1000 additional traffic
police, had been assigned to the dis
trlct surrounding FortyNSecond ST.,
but they only served to add to the
men and women moved by inches
through the maelstrom Of humanity.
No one was going anywhere. Taxi
cabs attempting to cross Broadway,
but were held up for ten or fifteen
minutes.
Harry Smith, 3S. was shot and
killed by Patrolman Walter Edgett.
The restaurant was crowded with
guests. When Edgett appeared
Smiths hand strayed to his hip
pocket. The patrolman drew his own
gun and fired. The bullet pierced
Smiths heart.
Other deaths came less spectacular
ly. To a. M, today six persons had
lost their lives from poison liquor
The death toll from alcoholism in
New York for the year that passed
out at midnight reached 764. The
total for 1925 was 6S2.
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I've taken out to clubs or fine coun-
try homes, with bells jingling and
everybody happy"
A City Directory
More than thirty years ago old
Jim, known for years as the City
Directory" because of his vide
knowledge Of the streets and people
Of Indianapolis, drove a cab daily,
and then
Autos came in and horses went
out-that was the beginning of the
end for me-" and old Jim bowed his
head. then his face frightened ANY
way, certainly drove lot of promi-
nent folks in my day-Presidents
Governors, world-famous actresses.
I'd got reputation for carefulness,
and L didn't let anybody look any
nicer or have SIMMER span of
horses. When there was to be big
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01

New Years day in 1927!
How differently it dawned today
for old Jim Robinson, former cab
driver. Back in the sos the pale
light of New Years morning meant
escorting folks home from good old
fashioned parties and getting them
safely home before the sun came up.
Parties, laughing folks, activity and
life!
But today, out at the county in
Urinary, where Jim and his faithful
wife went to live a few weeks ago,
nothing but the light of pleasant
memories can bring smiles to the
old cab drivers face.
cts so hard to realize all this"
he says. Glad there's snow, though.
You see, a New Years day always
makes me think of sleighbells. Then
there was a big demand for sleighs,
and many's the jolly winter party
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Left, the

Extreme fexibility in the engine
and beauty in design and finish
make the car an ideal companion to
the large Marmon. according to COM
pany officials.
To provide sufficient manufact-
uring for the new car Marmon is
using its Plant 3, on w. Norris ST.,
and expects soon to begin using
Plant 1. formerly occupied by the
milling machinery business recently
sold to the Allis-Chalmers Company
Of Milwaukee, Plant . will con-
tinue to be used for the Marmon
Series 20. the output Of which is
steadily increasing.
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evening a banquet will be given at
the Claypool. Irving OIay, humor-
list, will speak.
The first public display of the
1927 Marmon cars will be made by
the indianapolis sales branch. be-
ginning Wednesday. The Little
Marmon" is a small, quality car
with a wheelbase of 116 inches and
an eight cylinder engine capable OF
developing sixtyfive horsepower at
$500 revolutions per minute.
Ideal Companion
Each of operation, ease of riding,
and superior reliability are claimed
by the company for it's new product.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
Roosevelt His Choice

Charles w. Fairbanks, I've driven
many an hour, but of all the presi-
Dental folks 1 ever come in contact
with, Roosevelt was my choice-not
cause I'm Republican either.
Roosevelt was so alive-it was
almost like shakin' hands just to
watch him talk-if you know what
mean. He saw everything-even
the cab driver and I've several
pleasant personal memories of T. r.
Never will forget an experience
with the great French actress, Sarah
Bernhard 1 worked for Horace M.
Woods in those days and he had out
fitted me brand new-new cab, new
harness and a sorrel cab team that
looked like it'd come out Of a picture
book. Bernhard never stayed at
hotels, you know. So near her
private car on a siding on the
Vandalia, I drove and after while,
her interpreter, loaded with several
heavy and rich lap robes appeared,
and presently, the great Sarah, with
a maid and three dogs came out. She
wanted to be driven out, where she
could take a little walk, and drove
out to the other side of Fall Creek
TALL built up nowadays, but almost
woods them. She got out and
exercised little and later, when we
were driving again, and were near
Crown Hill. she wanted to drive
through To the interpreter, I made
known that the presence Of the dogs
would make that impossible Non
sense" Bernhard answered. "Cover
the dogs with the robes"
Carried $4,000 Jewels
1--WE did so, but just as we got in
the gates and as the gate officer
came forward, those dogs set to
barking furiously. Robinson, you
know dogs are not allowed in here"
the officer said. ! meekly admitted
that 1 knew and drove out and
Bernhard fairly made the air blue
with a string of French words. I've
my private opinion of their meaning.
BY the way, with us was all her jew
elry-valued it was said at $4,000.
1t was in a suit case under her seat.
She never went any place without
her jewelry, you know.
Msrlowe Was Beautiful
"Julis Marlowe was an actress
whom I drove and shall never for.
lget. She was 30 beautiful ana 80
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01

Between 700 and 500 automobile
business men will attend the Mar
mon Motor Car Company, 1927 con-
vention Monday and Tuesday at the
Murat Theater. when twenty-five
new models Will be unveiled.
The stage has been decorated for
the show. Miss Shirley Williams,
daughter Of G. NJ. Williams,
president, will christen the Little
Marmon,' the company's newest
product.
Dinner at Night
Business sessions will be at the
Murat Monday afternoon and at the
Columbia Club. Tuesday. Monday
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
RAILROAD
VETERAN
END RU
Three Retire on Pei
Today-Long RecorI
of Service.

Three veteran Indianapolis
road employees retired from 4
service today. Two Of thu
were employees of the PennsS y
and the other of the Big Fl Y
They are: 7. II. RogersP
Fletcher Ave. who has been \
-Four engineer fifty years and \
months: Sylvester M, RiclettsI
is making his last run onh
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
'NO'-HARRIS, WINKLER

A report that A. r. Harris, deputy
prohibition administrator, would BE-
transferred to Chicago and replaced
here by Lieut.. George Winkler Of the
Indianapolis police department. was
denied by Harris today.
Il have received no word of the
proposed change" he declared.
There has been some rumor of
such transfer, but other than ru-
NOR. have heard nothing from
either Washington or Chicago"
Lieutenant Winkler also said he
sac received mo word.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
CHURCH PARTY TONIGHT

"Open House" was held this after
noon and evening for the members
and friends of the First Evangelical
Church, at the parsonage, 233 n.
East ST., by the pastor. Rev. Edmond
Kerlin and Mrs. Kerlin, assisted by
Miss Edna Cole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
MINISTER TAKES NEW PULPIT

The Rev. Aubrey Harrell Moore,
former pastor of the First Christian
Church at Noblesville, will preach
his initial sermon as pastor of the
Seventh Christian Church here Sum
day morning. A reception for the
new minister will be held at the
church Jan. IL.
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he fell in snow ball battle.
Muncie police were stumped when
Virgil Mansfield charged with issuing
bad checks, told them he had no
trade. So they wrote on the slate:
Occupation, shiek.
Conn Music Center at Elkhart is
celebrating the eighthieth ami
versary of the birth of the saxa-
! phone.
o. s. Saint OF Greenfield had
high turkey today for dinner. Id
was sent to him from the Rocky
Mountains.
Alva Clark, Washington, made a
New Years resolution today not to
crank any more autos in gear. He
was injured when his auto crashed
into another after dragging him
several feet.
J. Edwards Higgs, building IN
spector and Jonn Holden city hall
janitor at Richmond are recalling
days when North A street there was
sleigh race course.
More than $4,000 has been paid out
to trappers around Frankfort by
David Siegfried, fur buyer at Null
berry. One man sold him 40 musk
rat skins, mink, skunk and coon
skins.
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do1n'S in town l was always engaged
a way ahead. Any of the old citi-
zens Of Indianapolis can tell you So"
Celebrities Human
Robinson wakes most enthusiastic
when he talks of celebrities who in
the past come to town and were
pleasant like common folks"
you'd always find it that way
that the biggest people would be the
incest and the pleasantest. 1t takes
little folks that are just trying to be
something and don't know how to act
snobbish. Now take Mrs. Mckinley.
When she and President Mckinley
were here on one occasion-I remem-
Der l drove wonderful pair of blue
roam horses that day. handed her
a bouquet that somebody had put
into my hands. Did she ignore it
comm from a mere cab driver, or
act as If it was nothing? I'll say
not. She bowed and smiled, just like
the wonderful little lady that she
was"
The first great man I drove was
President Grover Cleveland. I wasn't
much impressed with him at the
time. He was uneasy and showed it
and it was because some man had
broken through the crowd with a big
rush and furry. Seemed he only
wanted to say, How are you, Mister
President but there was something
startling in the way he did it. Of
ficers hustled him off in a hurry, but
Cleveland didn't smile after that.
This was in October. 81. His
wife was along and my, but she was
handsome! Cleveland took up one
whole seattle was an enormous
man you know and Mrs. Cleveland
and John p. F'renzel rode in the op-
posite seat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01

Redecorating of the courthouse at
Wabash was delayed. j. w. Keim,
who held the contract, had six teeth
pulled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
by Herbert &. Hoover,
Secretary of Commerce

BIZ Times Special
WASHINGTON, Jan. IA reply
to requests for opinion on the New
Years economic prospects can only
be based on the economic currents
already born OF TIE old year. New
and unknown currents will enter
in the new GEAR, so there is 10 such
thing as assured economic prophecy
No one will deny that 1926 has
shown the highest total production
and consumption of industrial COM
mOdities of any year in the history
of the United States. Except in the
textile industry and parts OF tie coal
industry, it has been a year of high
degree of employment, which has
been accompanied by the highest
peak in real wages. because wage in
come for the country as whole has
slightly increased and cost Of living
slightly decreased during the year
Manufacturing the service indus
tries and commerce generally have
continued to improve their methods,
to reduce costs and 10 improve serv.
ices. In aggregate each industry APP
pears to show substantial profits eX=
cept the textile and some parts Of
the coal industry. While there has
been q slackening in production and
demand for several staple lines dur
ing the past few weeks, we enter
the new year with no consequential
Over-stock Of manufactured goods.
With the largest volume of con-
struction during the past year ever
known there may prove to be some
construction in advance of immedi-
ate needs, but slackening in this di-
rection may be partially compen-
stated by the assurance of a larger
amount of pubic construction dur
ing the next year. Savings of the
country have shown a steady in
crease and there is ample cheap cap
ital available.
Some Crop Failures
The lag of agricultural recovery
has continued and has been accentu-
ated by distressing crop failures in
some localities. Cotton and some
fruit crops beyond world demand
have brought about prices below the
cost Of production of large areas of
those commodities. There is a con-
sequent lowered buying power in
some agricultural sections.
Taking the foreign field az q
whole, it shows continued progress
toward balance of budgets, reduction
Of floating debt, greater stability in
currency and somewhat diminished
unemployment. The most important
exception has been the results of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
HOOSier
Briefs

Harry Cash, 16, Of Petersburg
broke his leg in two places when
he fell in a snow ball battle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01

doin's in town 1 was always engaged
a way ahead. Any of the old citi-
zens Of Indianapolis can tell you So"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
Undesirables

Unpleasant people fill me with a
pain, and If at times I meet them In
the lane, do not pause to talk about
the crops, the base ball news, the
price of lollipops. I do not like the
rude and vulgar skates, who tell
punk tales no decent man relates; the
low-brow toughs whose talk is all of
gin, who mention Volstead with a
sneering grin-but why provide a
catalogue Of those who make me tired,
from shoulder blades to toes? The
countrys free, do not have to train
And if in life such folks 1 cannot
brook, why should I meet such tin
horns in book? I read and read
the novels as they come from pub
fishers whose mighty presses hum,
and 1t is seldom that I run across a
character who's not total loss. Such
people as appear in modern tales
might have good standing in some
county jails; the girls all smoke and
many of them think that it is smart
to take long spiked drink; the
things they say, the way they mis-
behave, would make Queen Vic roll
over in her grave. The boys are
cynics ere their boards are grown,
they scott at all the faiths their elders
own; and crooks and toughs and cheap
men throng the page that turn over
in my dotard age. I start to read a
new book every day, reach chapter
three, then throw the thing away;
the country's free, I do not have to
train with freaks in books or in the
country lane. AS In old days, I'd sit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
RENSSELAER, TIES
ORDERED ANNULLED
Justice Bailey Takes Action
on Marriage to Gustavo
De Medina.

Following a hearing before Justice
Bailey in Equity Division 2 OF the
District Supreme Court yesterday
afternoon Miss Katrina Van Rens'
selaer of this city was granted an
interlocutory decree annulling her
marriage to Gustavo de Medina, who
was formerly employed at the Span
ish embassy here.
De Medina did not appear In court
to contest the petition. Counsel for
Miss Van Rensselaer, based their plea
on the ground that De Medina was
already married when he and Miss
Van Rensselaer, went through a cere'
mony at Chestertown. Md. on March
5 of this year.
Miss Van Rensselaer, took the stand
and told the court that she returned
to her own home Immediately after
the marriage and that her informa-
ton is that De Medina has returned
to Europe.
Col. John M. Dunn, U. s. A., Miss
Van Rensselaer's stepfather, of 2701
Connecticut avenue, testified that he
learned from a newspaper clipping
that De Medina also had been mar
ried to Miss Dorothy Brumback.
X. A. Brumback Of Falls Church,
Va, brother Of Miss Dorothy
Brumback. testified that De Medina
married his sister in December. 1926,
and that that marriage also was an
nulled in May of this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
Marriage Licenses.

Samuel Bulman. this city. and Lena Gold
berg, Onley. Va.
Ellsworth Fl. Leamon. Dayton. Ohio, and
Ada +. Melton. this city
Halsey w. Smith. Marshalltown. Idaho,
and Frances L. Wells. this city.
Clark Briscow and Etru1a Adams.
David J. Powell and May r. Bridman
John F: Payne and Emma Childs.
Oscar W. Allen. Silver Hill. Md and
Margaret c. Wines, this city
n RICHARD da Taylori NXirginia Beach. Va.
Ray l.. Wright Chicago. H.. and Joy
Sayre. Pawnee. Okla.
M K2y G. Af Means and s GdrS MaI Miller
both of Richmond Va
Robert T. Dir and Olive NJ Blair
5. Fine. Plymouth. Pa and Elizabeth
L. Willie. CarbOndale Pa
Yale Kramer and Jean Shamson. both of
Leroy Hall and Louise Frazier
walter j. jackson and Minnie D. Brown