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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
ARE YOU WILLING?

Shall the future Of Indianapolis be sacrificed that few
former county treasurers powerful in State politics.
tain the interest they have drawn Barrett law fndsa
That is the simple proposonas written into the
its way toward passage the State Senate and likely
to pass.
The Barrett funds raised from for spe
ca The county have pocketed the interest
them In this county it worth than the salary of
President Coolidge.
There suits brought by Alvah Rucker force the
warn of this interest.
While the treasurers have pockeed the interest," the fund
itself has created deficit In this county anywhere from
half million to million Of dollars is asserted No
to know exactly.
The politicians hoping retain the interest they have
already permitted the reasurers to collect not to get
the future propose that may pay for improvements
in cash after asking for time They believe that many
will want to do They propose them for this priv
ege the form Of interest for the full enyar period under
which the Barrett law operates
They naive enough to suggest that this additional tax
on the people who want to pay will wipe the deficit.
That would of course, mperl the growth and develop
men Of this city It would be hindranc improvements
1t would imperil the growth Of the city.
Are you willing take this method of feeding the political
machine and covering the past? If your Senator
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
ALLEGED LIQUOR
PLACES RA|DED
Weekend Cleanup Nets
1853 Arrests in City.

With gambling houses deserted,
police conferred their attack over the
weekend in raids on alleged bootleg
places. Arrests totaled 13S men and
twenty-five women, Of which sixty
seven were on liquor charges. Many
Of the thirty-nine held on vagrancy
charges were persons found in the
places raided.
Public intoxication was charged
to Twenty-Five men and two women.
while charges of operating blind
tigers were placed against twenty
men and ten women. Six men were
charged with driving motor vehicles
while intoxicated. At one alleged
gambling house the keeper and eight
alleged participants in a poker game
were charged, while in another raid
on an alleged dice game six "toss-
ers" fell into the net.
Three men were charged with as.
sault and battery and seven men
and one woman with felonies. Mis-
cellaneous charges were preferred
against eleven men and one woman.
Ten alleged speeders, including
one woman. and two traffic sign
violators were held.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
PIECES
Up MEMORY FOR
AMNES|A VICTIM
Wife's First Name and Home
Phone Number Only
CIeWS.

BIZ United Press
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Feb.
2S.-Minus his automobile, wallet
and watch and still suffering from
amnesia, Rea Henry Dwyer, phar-
macist, was to day sent back to his
home at Huntington, w. Va, by a
physician, who learned the name
and address of the amnesia victim
by piecing together a number,
first name and the address on suit
of clothes worn by the stranger.
Dwyer walked into the office OF
DIR. w. Edgar Sherman, his mind
total blank. He repeated the num-
Der PABLO over and over. DR.. Sher-
man asked if he could remember
anything else.
II can remember the number
24,130 and the name Holly, but
nothing more" he said.
The physician called the Hunting
ton telephone exchange and asked If
they had any dial telephones there.
They had, so he called the number
"24 100"
us there any one there by the
name of Holly?" the physician asked.
YES" said the person at the
phone, that's the name of Mrs.
Dwyer"
"Is your name Dwyer?" asked DR..
Sherman.
Eyes. that's me-" seid the
stranger in his office.
At st. Peters hospital here, where
he was taken by DR.. Sherman,
Dwyer gradually recovered more of
his memory, and today the physician
ordered that he be placed with an
escort and taken back to Hunting
ton.
II think he was the victom Of foul
play" DIR. Sherman told the United
Press. HE was apparently on the
Lincoln highway just outside of
New Brunswick, when his automo-
bile and his personal possessions
were taken from him"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
LOANS
BOY So FOR
DOG HOUSE
Lad of II Plans to Work
After School Is Out in
Financing Kennel.

WEST ORANGE, N. J., Feb. IS.
Having applied the principles of
big. business to the task in hand,
Otto N. Szant, IL, today awaited ar
rival from mali order house of a
kennel for 1.-THE best dog in the
world
Otto's first "f1ier" was taken in
the West Orange Trust Company
He entered the bank with his saw
ings of several months and asked
the cashier to count it.
you have $685." said the cashier
The boys face clouded.
need SIS to buy kennel for the
best dog in the world" he said.
MY folks won't let me keep him if
don't get it. want loan of $500"
The cashier referred the matter to
President Walter D. Van Ripper.
Otto explained his project
Il want to give -whaddyacallit-
a promissory note for SO at interest
of per cent" he said.
what security?" asked Van
Ripper.
well, / intend to work after
school"
So the loan was made with ''initia-
tive, confidence and personality" as
security. cashiers check for SIS was
sent off to the mail order company
and the little financier went home to
tell his dog.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
Likes Dogs More;
They Don't Golf

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Mrs. Sid
mon Nellie always did like dogs
because, as she put it, II feel as If
the only thing in the world which
hasn't bitten me is a dog" Now
she has a new reason for being fond
Of them-they don't play golf.
She made will recently leaving
all her money to the society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for
memorial hospital with a marble
bust of herself to surmount an urn
holding her ashes and her husband s.
with the inscription: "The more
saw of humans, the more 1 thought
of dogs"
She admitted today she had made
new will, but the contents she
refused to reveal. It's all because
Nellie, broker, took UP golf. After
that, she saw him so seldom she de-
cided not to see him at all. She said
she planned to go to Asia and leave
him to his links. She denied she
would seek a divorce in Paris.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
Big Needles and
Pins Men Peeued

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Pro-
tests by husbands and fathers
against the Yankee maids devotion
10 shorn tresses and scanty garb are
being echoed by the "big needles
and pins men," a Commerce Depart
ment biennial report indicated today.
Hairpins, safety pins, snap fasten-
ers and clasps, once a necessary part
of feminine equipment, are not
reaping the rewards they did in 1928,
the report shows.
Even the lowly toilet pin, once
bought in huge lots by milady, is
falling in production, while hooks
and eyes and knitting machine
needles are slightly on the upgrade.
Taking all the above articles into
consideration the 1925 figure shows
a drop of 17.9 per cent from the
1923 total. The figure was $18,173,574
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
Man Prefers Death +
to Being a Father

BIZ United Press
NYACK, N. Y, Feb. 2s.-Aghast
at the responsibilities Of becoming al
father, Police Lieutenant Leroy
Waters, South Nyack, left note to
his wife and then shot himself
through the brain. The note,
scribbdled in three sections like
string Of afterthoughts. read:
81 guess I'm better Off dead as
do nothing but get into debt. Good
by, Roy.
"Am not 1T father for baby. I
do love you after all, but it is better
for me to go. Love and good luck,
Roy.
"Turn the car back and get my
check every two weeks"
Waters died late yesterday, four
hours after the shooting.
Waters, 25, and his wife, %, had.
been married six years. The eNo
pected baby is their first.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
5 ACCIDENTAL
DEATHS IN STATE
OVER WEEKEND
Three Fatally Injured in City
by Train, Auto COL
IiSionS.

Five persons were killed in train
and traffic accidents in the State
over the weekend Two of the fatal
accidents We're in Indianapolis.
Grady England, 81, of Ben Davis
was fatally injured when struck by
q T. H., I. & E. traction car at the
High School Rd. crossing near Ben
Davis Saturday night.
The auto in which he was riding
was hurled city block. England
was unmarried. The body will be
taken to Waverly, Tenn, his birth
place, for burial. Rites were held
this afternoon at the home of Ray
mond England, 144O N. Belleview
Pl., brother.
Struck by Train
Antley Thompson, 46, of 229 S.
Sheffield Ave-, was killed by a Big
Four train at Holmes Ave-, Saturday
night. when he lodged under a
safety crossing gate.
Thompson was married and had
seven children, Coroner Paul f.
Robinson said. The body was
hurled fifty feet. Funeral services
have not been made.
Funeral for William J. Robey, so.
of Clermont, will be held at 10 a. M.
Tuesday at the home of his brother,
Dudley Robey, west of Indianapolis,
YOn the Rockville Rd. Burial will
be in the Maple Hill cemetery at
Plainfeld. Robey was killed when
struck by train west of the city
Saturday.
Three Out State
Others killed in Indiana We're:
Homer Sell, SIS, and r. J. Samp-
son were fatally injured at La Porte
when a train struck their truck.
Mrs. Maude Edwards, SO, of Gary,
killed when an auto driven by James
Garbett, so, was struck by a train.
Garbett was critically injured
Two others may dies as a result of
an accident near Terre Haute. Ada
Campbell, "a, Terre Haute orchestra
leader, and Max Rukes, 25, her com
panion, We're seriously injured when
their car careened head-on into a
traction car.
Both have fractured skulls.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
FORMER SENATOR DEAD


DR. George c. Woods, rs, formerly
Senator from Upton County about
twelve years ago. died at $3.50 a. m.
today at his home in Windfall, Ind.
DR.. Woods was practctng physi-
clan for several years.. but he re-
Gently retired and devoted his time
to work on his farm in Upton Coun-
ty. He was formerly superintendent
of Upton County schools and county
auditor. The high school at Wind
fall is built on ground given by DR..
Woods and is named in his honor.
He is survived by the widow and
two daughters, Mrs. Howard Tate,
Los Angeles, CAL, and Mrs. w. A..
Barrett, S1s e. Forty Ninth st. He
was a member of the Masonic
Lodge at 'windfall and the Baptist
Church.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
BANK BANDITS HELD

j. H. Downs, so, and Daniel Full
Ter, so, are being held in the Nor
gan County Jail at Martinsville to-
day. charged with holding up the
Peoples Deposit Bank at Brooklyn
Friday, when approximately $1,000
was taken.
Downs was arrested at the Deni-
son Hotel Saturday, and Fuller was
arrested at Worthington, Ind, sew
eral hours laer. Both arrests were
made by operatives of the Webster
Detective Agency.
Downs readily admitted the hold
up, saying that he was broke at the
time and needed money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
CoIIett Changes Reason for
Resigning as Head of
Probe Body.
ILL HEALTH BLAMED
Action Follows Conference
of Collins, Remy.

Charles Clark, 2514 Station ST., a
former railroad engineer, was named
grand jury foreman by Criminal
Court Judge James A. Collins this
morning and j. T.. Chamberlain, 1886
w. Thirtieth St., was appointed a
juror.
Chamberlain takes the place on
the jury of John d. Collett, retired
attorney, rs E. Thirty-Third ST., who
resigned last week giving as his rea-
son that he was forced to devote his
entire time to personal matters. Col
lett was jury foreman.
Today, however, Collett changed
his resignation to read that he re-
signed on account of ill health,
Judge Collins said.
Collins, Remy Confer
This followed a conference earlier
in the morning between Collins and
Prosecutor William II. Remy and
Deputy Prosecutor w. II. Sheaffer.
Remy and Sheaffer pointed out to
Collins that the reason Collett
gave for resigning was not legal
one as the statutes provide only
that firemen, ministers, persons in
i'll health or who have members of
their family dead or in i'll health, or
persons over 60 who have personal
reasons, can be excused from jury
service.
With Collects "business reasons"
resignation on the record any in
dictments returned by the jury
would be illegal.
II had Mr.. Collett come in this
morning and amend his resignation
to read because of i'll health. / did
that to prevent any trouble" Collins
said later.
Delay i'm Inquiry
Delay in resumption of the in
vestigation of Indiana political COR
ruption. involving d. C. Stephenson,
begun by the last jury, which recon-
mended it be continued, was seen in
the remark of Judge Collins to
Deputy Prosecutor Sheaffer that he
understood sixty-three persons were
in the county Jail waiting for the
grand jury to act on their cases.
Sheaffer said he had thirty or forty
indictments ready to be returned.
Collett admitted that he resigned
because Of dissension in the Jury,
but refused to say whether the dis
sension was on resumption Of the
corruption probe.
1t is known, however, that Sheaf-
fer has been urging the jury to start
on the graft probe. Several weeks
ago Collett informed the judge the
jury was ready to begin, but no
further action was taken.
Chamberlain was chosen to serve
en- the jury from a venire of eight
who appeared in court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
AGED STOMACHS
GET YOUTHFUL.
A Little DiaPepsin Puts Life
Into Worn Out Stomach

What a disappointment to eat
Hight lunch and vet suffer for hours
with indigestion. No wonder so many
people are frightened at the thought
of gastric ulcer or catarrh of the
stomach, when all they needed was
little Diapepsin to neutralize acids
and aid in the digestion of meats,
eggs, cream, seasoned dishes, cheese.
baked beans and all such foods that
so often cause acid DYSPEPSIA.
Diapepsin makes the sourest stom-
ach sweet almost in a twinlxling, 1t
reduces the feeling of bloat or full
ness right away, stops belching on
the instant, your meals digest on
time, your stomach is empty and
ready for the next meal.
Get 60.cent package today of
Pape's Diapepsin at any drug store.
advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
MURDER COMMON
AS CUBA FIGHTS
ORGANIZED LABOR
American Federation Official
Depicts Bloody Methods
of Machad0.

Editors Note: For more than two
months protests fro mCubans have been
lodged with representatives of the Amer
Jean labor movement and the Pan-Amer-
lean labor movement
They have come from workers and
from men holding high position in Cuba.
Intimati9ns of serious situation have
appeared over period of several
months. in leading Spanish language
newspapers outside of Cuba.
FINELY. Chester NJ. Wright. English
language secretary of the Pan-American
Federation of Labor. formerly on the
personal staff of Samuel Gompers snd a
labor writer of long standing. went to
with an amazing. story of terrorism. as
sassination. Imprisonment and exile, His
findings. following report to President
ton of Labor are presented in a series
of articles. of which this is the first.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
Far and Near

SANTIAGO-The Government has
rounded up 2S4 communists outside
Of Santiago, Of whom the most
dangerous will be deported.
LONDON-Earl Beatty, First
Lord of the Admiralty, is expected
to retire shortly. Admiral Sir
Rogers Reyes, who commanded
the Zeebrugge-Ostend operations
onI April %, 1918, was mentioned
at Beatty's successor.
NICE-Fresh landslides almost
have completed the destruction of
the village of Roquebilliere, half of
which was wiped out byaa slide sew
eral months ago. No one was killed.
GENEVA-The forthcoming eco
nomic conference is considered in
League of Nations circles the most
important meeting ever assembled
under the Leagues auspices, eclips-
ing even the preparatory disarma-
ment conference. Great Britain will
send delegation of more than sixty.
LONDON-The foreign ministers
of Great Britain, Germany and
France, Chamberlain, Stresemann
and BRAND respectively, planned to
meet at Geneva next Sunday to pre-
side at the proceedings Of the league
council. They are expected 40 agree
to the appointment Of another Brit
ish chairman for the Saare Valley
governing body.
BROOKLYN, N. "a 65-year-old
spinster who lived as a recluse left
her home month ago and has not
been heard from since, it was learned
today. -Four bank books were found
in the house where she lived and
the money has not been drawn. The
woman is Miss Alnyga Belts. A
nephew, DR.. Lawrence Hackness, OF
Sea View, asked police to search fol
Miss Belts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
Rheumatism Recipe

While serving with the American
Army in France was given a pre-
scription for Rheumatism and Neu-
ritis that has produced most graft
flying results in thousands of cases.
The prescription cost me nothing, so
/ ask nothing for it, but will send 1t
free. to any one, who writes me. Elk
Sergeant Paul Case, Room ESQ Grace
Bldg, Brockton, Massachusetts,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28

or may not think of Charlie, the
husband, uses no soft-pedal when
singing the prowess of Charlie, the
actor.
II don't care what he has done
or what people say, the screen has
never known a better actor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
BY Dan Thomas

Timrs StGff ftnrresD0HdcHt
Copyright. 1927. NEA Service Incl
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. 2S.-To
fill some of the long, lonely hours
she spends in the Chaplin mansion
on Beverly Hills, Mrs. Charlie Chap
lin is writing a novel.
The hours are busy enough during
the day when sons Charlie Jr. and
Sydney are awake and must be
bathed and dressed and fed and
amused. But with lamplight come
long, empty hours.
1t is then that Mrs. Chaplin gets
to her desk and her novel.
1T is thrilling crook story based
on, a notorious criminal case in this
country" she explained to me.
Mrs. Chaplin says she has already
written $4,000 words.
Its a lot of fun" the 19-year-old
wife said, land if it's successful I'm
going to try another book"
Being an author may be Lita Grey
Chaplin's substitute job for that of
being the wife of the worlds greatest
comedy artist.
II would just love to be an au-
thor" says she. II have written sew
eral short stories just for my own
amusement, and it never occurred
to me to write for money until things
happened and I needed more money
Writing Life Story
Mrs. Chaplin is writing something
else. TOO. 1.-THE Story of Lita Grey
Chaplin's Life" 1t begins back in
1915 when, just little girl of Z, she
first met Charlie Chaplin. And it
goes on, chapter after chapter, to tell
the story Of a girlhood colored by a
girls dreams of romance and end
ing with her marriage to the art
worlds greatest CATCH" Charlie
Chaplin.
But the very suggestion of selling
these pages from her heart brings
terror to her eyes.
mot for any amount OF money
not for all the money in the world
would / sell this book" she says.
''That is for just myself. 1 am writ
ing it for later years when 1 want
a record of the perpleXing years ]
spent as Mrs. Charlie Chaplin. /
work on it every day. Sometimes
smile over it. and sometimes 1 can
not"
Mrs. Charlie Chaplin loves to talk
of her writing and her language
study. Still rankles her husband
summary of "a beautiful but dumb
wife.
Paints and Draws
Her story of her novels is capped
by a childishly naive display of her
drawings and water color paintings
many of them upon the tapestried
walls of the mansion side by side
with great masterpieces.
Charlie liked my paintings" she
confided to me. HE would often
say, 'Lita, you do remarkable work
Where do you get your ideas fol
such originality? And there is not
trace of the amateur in them!
II have always drawn; even be
fore could write 1 drew little
pictures and don't know where
get my ideas. I generally sit by
the west window of my room and
thoughts just seem to come to me
out of the air."
The mother of Charlie Chaplin's
babies hopes her sons will have "the
artistic temperament" She makes
it very plain that this temperament
could he bequeathed from her, the
mother as well as from their illus
trious father.
II would love to have one paint
and draw, and / hope that one viii
be a great actor like his father
Mrs. Chaplin, whatever she may
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
FIRE AT NEW ALBANY

BU Times Special
NEW ALBANY. Ind, Feb. 2S.-
Two firemen. Clarence Dudley and
Thomas Daniels, were, recovering to-
day from being overcome by smoke
while fighting a. fire that damaged
the Haskell department store Sat-
urday. Loss was estimated at
$50 600.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
But She Is Also Working on
Novel Planned for Pub
lication.

Editors Note: Lita Grey Chaplin
pretty actress and wife of the worlds
famous comedian-thats the Lita the
world has known heretofore. In this
third article of all exclusive series. Dan
Thomas reveals her as a very interest
ing young woman OF varied talents and
ambitions. He already has pictured her
as a remarkable mother. The series will
conclude with a fourth article by
Thomas tomorrow
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28

Killed Suuueuly Sat
urday when a ditch
he was digging
in the rear of his
home, 419 w.
Forty-Ninth St..
caved in, burying
him alive. Follow
ing funeral services
at Flanner & Buch-
anan mortuary, the
body was taken to
Waveland, Ind,
for burial.
School sessions
were held part of
the morning, but
the institution was
closed after IL n.
m. in honor OF the
former faaoba,.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28

The teachers went to the funeral
in autos, leaving from the school.
Many accompanied the body to the
burial.
Mr.. Crockett is survived by the
widow, seven sons and baby daugh-
fer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-28
FUNERAL IS HELD
FOR H. S. TEACHER
Shortridge Pays Last Trib-
ute to William Crockett.

Shortridge High School teachers
today paid last tribute to William p.
Crockett, physics teacher. who was