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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-15

OUGHT LUMBAGOI
RUB BACKACHE AWAY

Kidneys cause backache MOI
Your backache IL caused by lunl.
bago, rheumatism or q strain and
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Catholic Daughters
Seek New Members

The membership committee Of the
Catholic Daughters OF America viii
hold business meeting following
their weekly dinner at headquarters
Of the organization tonight In con.
nection with their drive for new
members, It was announced today
by Mary G. BoIand, grand regent.
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Famous Eliminates fran Heestory
MILTGROss

The creator Of Nize Baby, and the Charlie Chaplin Of
the printed page, publishes his first magazine story in
March Cosmopolitan. Itbegins uproariousy humor-
SERIES and it is appropriately about 'Heddem and
1--WE in de Golden from Iddin.''
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tuS Qu4ckeBf sfelleb
Is soothing. pene.
trating st. Jacobs
OIL Rub II right
on YOUR painful
back, and instantly
he soreness. stiff.
ness and iameness
disappear. Don
stay crippled! Get
a 35 cent bottle Of
st. Jacobs on from
your druggist. A
moment after Il Is
applied you'H won.
der what became OF
the backache, or
lumbago pain.
In use for IS
years for lumbago,
ca, neuralgia. rheu-
laass, f.. -.Za,.A.r :.
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n New Story ),
E ON
FERBER

BLUE BLOOD an
understanding love story
of Chicago's stock-yards
and their own aristocracy.
Pulsing through it is the
deep, vital romance Of
American business.
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backache. sciatica, neuralgia, rheu-
natism or sprains. Absolutely
harmless. Doesn't burn the skin.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
VERSES WRITTEN
WHILE YOU WAIT

PARIS R-"Poems" while you wait,
has been turned into regular busi-
ness by one versifier here, and she
has hung out her shingle.
This commercial poetess is Nine.
Alois Sauter- Gattelier, who works
with meter and rythme at her home
in suburban Neuiliy. Her sign de-
scribes her as Merchant of Verse y
In the provinces. this business is
a sideline with many literally inclined
persons who have not yet turned
the corner on the road to financial
success. In the smaller villages, there
is a demand for verse for marriages.
births, deaths and festive occasions.
Some of the rapid fire writer's have
regular scale of prices. Others
think it more dignified and also
more remunerative to let the client
go as far as he will with his
pocketbook.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
Season S Seed Corn
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PEELED to dry their seed corn over
kitchen stoves, in sheds, or by spe-
cial process. AS a precaution, they
say, every farmer should select the
amount of corn he will need for
seed and prepare to gather it for
artificial drying before the first Sc
we're frost. The loss of vigor that
comes from slight immaturity at the
time of picking is unimportant COM
pared to the loss that may result
from the forced use of seed corn Of
an unadapted variety obtained in the
spring from a distant source.
GAS a rule" Kyle explains, "corn
will be dried out sufficiently to ger
inmate within three weeks after pol
lination. Such seed, gathered and
artificially dried, cannot be expected
to produce as we'll as corn that
natures in the field. Vigor of germi-
nation increases rapidly with matur-
ity, and unless frost threatens, corn
should be left in the field at least
until the grains start to dent, which
usually occurs in from four to five
weeks after pollination, depending. on
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
Paris Concert Hall
Exemplifies New Ideas

PARIS tPl-Newest wrinkles in &C
coustics are built into a House
of Music" that is expected to give
Paris fine concert hall.
Scientifically curved walls and
varying slopes in the ceiling are said
to promise perfect addition in every
one OF the 5000 seats. Some of the
ideas were tried out in the league
of nations palace at Geneva with
good results.
The big hall is so arranged that
it can be reduced for small concerts
Scores of music studios, art ex-
position halls and small recital rooms
are planned.
MoGsrn architectural art is ex-
emphIIed in the facade of reinforced
concrete. square and massive looking
with the upper stories set back in
terraces.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
CHINESE SELL PEARLS
BY SILENT" METHODS

PARIS Pl-Chinese pearl peddlers
are the talk of Paris, because they
seem TO avoid talk themselves.
People become interested in the
small, quiet merchants who stand
silently out of the way of sidewalk
traffic with many strings Of false
pearls on their arms. Their eyes
alone are' in motion searching the
crowds for customers. AS soon as
they notice a slight hesitation they
smile and the smile seems TO bring
the prospective buyer to them.
hundred of these sidewalk sellers
have formed a colony in Paris. They
come from the province of Chekiang
attracted by the tales brought back
by the thousands of coolies who
worked here and at the front during
the war.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
STUTTGART INDIGNANT
AT STATUE REMOVAL

BERLIN tP9-- -Indignation has been
caused in Stuttgart by the news that
the Italian authorities in South Tyrol
removed the statue of Karl Won Etzel,
the famous Wurtemberger who built
the railway across the Bremen pass.
This railway, the main road con-
Meeting the Tyrol with Italy, was
opened in 1867 and was then regarded
as triumph of engineering. A
Statue of the builder was erected on
the highest point of the pass. Since
the World war this has been Italian
territory. Now Premier Mussolini, it
is announced, intends to replace
the 'fCs'eign" statue by monument
commemorating the identification OF
the railway, which was carried out
later under Italian auspices.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
SCANTY CLOTHING
BLAMED FOR SLUMP

BERLIN H9-There is a slump in
the business of the European waste
material merchants, otherwise the rag
trade The reason given for it il
that women hardly wear any clothes
at all and that the men have no
money to spend en- new suits and
have TO make old ones do.
The replacing Of woolen and cotton
stockings by artificial silk is another
factor. 1t is also said that less shoddy
enters into the manufacture of cheap
cloth than before But the chief
complaint is that rag picking gives
too much trouble for what little
money there may be in it.
More than half of the total of
German rag exports formerly went
to the United States, but Americans
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
Rich Land
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one instance Of the opportunity that
awaits the progressive farmer here.
He can get the land cheap. The
water supply is easy Of access and is
sure. The land is cheap it is fertile.
He can grow crops all the time and
the market is for staple crops, things
that are easy to produce, that do
not depend on the caprice of the
public for their sale value and which
can be sold within a few miles Of
where they are raised and can be
delivered, in nNny instances by the
purchaser himself
What more can man ask?
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
CRANE In BERLIN zoo
HAS ALUMINIUM LEG

NBERLIN GA crane with an arti-
ficial leg is an oddity in the geological
gardens Of LeipSic.
One bitterly cold day last winter
the crane escaped. When picked
up after a long chase, it was found
that both its legs were frozen. Sool.
after, when the bird alighted from a
flight, one leg snapped clean off.
The crane was taken to the birds
hospital and the stump healed quick,
ly rs
Vhen someone got the notion to
try and fit the patient with an arti.
ficial leg, made Of aluminium This
was done, and the crane uses it's
new leg with perfect ease.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25

the variety"
KYLE warns that if artificial drying
becomes necessary, it must be re-
nembered that even corn starting to
dent may have as much as go per
cent moisture, which must be re-
duced to 13 or IA per cent before
it is safe from freezing.
In fair weather ears may be placed
in racks through which the air con-
stantly circulates, where they Will
dry sufficiently without the addition
of heat. If it is damp, foggy or
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25

freezing, the ears may be spiked on
pieces of wire, or tied together with
twine, and hung above any conve-
nient heater.
In any circumstance it will be
necessary to keep the air circulat-
ing A small heater below the ears
will cause a rapid upward movement
of air and promote drying without
danger of mold or sprouting, II VEN
tilation permits the moist, warm air
to pass out of the building at the
top.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
SUITS AND CAPES
FALL STYLE FEATURE

PARIS R) - Several suits with
matching capes are shown in inn
portant winter collections Made in
tweedS heavy jersey and mixtures,
the cape suits are designed for sport
and morning wear.
The capes are full length and only
slightly circular. Shoulders are
shaped and collars are military or
follow the shawl style.
One or two of the ensembles have
fur collars ON the suits and capes
finished without collars, to fit under
the suit collar
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25

are using their own rags more than
they used to do, and barely enc eighth
of the German rag exports now go 20
America, it is said.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25

triumphant American
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The Dead

LEE v. MERRIMAN, 1862 Good
Ave.
MISS OPAL MERRIMAN, sister
of Lee ", 1862 Good Ave.
CHARLES o. POISEL, 20O2
Mansfield Ave.
RALPH PARKER, 725 Bradley
Ave.
HAROLD wOLFORD, 472s Shell
by st.
WILLIAM M. HODGES, 5949
Beechwood Ave.
MRS. ROWLAND P. RHODES,
331 Temple Ave.
Won WEBER GLASCOCK, 1872 N
Bancroft st.
Ave.
MRS. MABEL MEREDITH, wife
of Frank, 1854 Lowell Ave.
CHARLESE VIRGIL WHEELER,
Edgewood.
CARL JONES, GIL Arch st.
MRS. ADA JONES, wife of Carl,
Gil Arch st.
JOHN G. WATSON, 21S S. Audu-
bon Rd.
ROBERT w. DALLAS, 742 N.
Garfield Ave.
MRS. ROBERT w. DALLAS, 742
N. Garfield Ave.
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Tragedy Worst Involving Motor Driven Vehicle in
State History Dozen Are Injured Four of
Them Critically in Night Collision.
Interurban Tears Through Trailer of Truck,
Loaded With Happy Group on Way to Barn
Dance at Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Pictures of Victims and Other Crash Stories On Page

Three governmental branches today seeking to determine
whether criminal charges should be filed for the death of sixteen
injury of twelve four critically nterurban-
crash Emerson Ave- Twenty Third St. at 825 Friday
night
The Public Service Commission the police and Coroner H.
investigated the crash of inbound Union ac
on train with truck trailer loaded with members of
Sahara Blue Devil and their the way
barn dance Pendleton Pike F Benjamin Harrison
Police held the motoman W. w. Merrill 81 of 6295 College
who seriously injured in city hospital the conductor Hal
Titus 38 of 2525 Tenth St. and the truck driver Harry Stewart
38, of S. West ST., under So, 800 bonds.
The ranmen provided bond but the truck driver still was
jail. All are charged with mansaughter
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jured was a grewsome task. Bodies
parts of bodies, and the injured
were found strewn all along the
1.080 feet course which the coast
ing interurban took before 1t
stopped.
Five Bodies On Interurban
Five bodies, according to police,
were found fastened to the front of
the interurban. Parts of the body of
one man were found in five different
places.
One body was found alongside the
track 800 feet from the point of i'm
pact.
Ambulances were rushed from all
parts of the city, the injured taken
to hospitals and the dead removed
to homes or funeral parlors.
Jumps, Escapes Injury
@. j. Leppert, %, of 2743 Marker
ST., was one of the few persons on
the ill-fated trailer who jumped and
escaped injury.
Il was standing about three feet
from the edge of the trailer when
the car crashed. jumped clear of
the wreckage and was unhurt. AS
I jumped saw Michael Scully,
Rowland, Rhodes, Henry Berling
and a man named Marshall Jump
to the ground. 1t seems that all the
others were thrown before they
could move" said Leppert.
E. F. Enigholz, 3712 Ruckle st.,
musician, who was to play at the
barn dance for Grotto members, was
IN the second auto behind the truck
trailer when the fatal crash oc-
Cured.
Enigholz said he was certain the
motorman sounded signal several
times.
Hes going on in spite of That
signal" Enigholz said he tcid a COM
panion in his auto.
He said he could give no details of
the accident. Witnesses said a
member of the party sighted the
traction and screamed ''be careful
Others cried, "go on" to the driver,
it was said.
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Others Injured

Miss Margaret Pauley, 345 S.
Audubon Rd., fractured pelvis. City
hospital.
Emil Hadley, 1442 Blaine Ave-,
lacerated scalp and bruises.
Mrs. G. o. Bucksot, Edgewood;
taken home.
Miss Virginia Hurt, 25, of 1928
Broadway, cuts and bruises; taken
home.
John H. Berling, 5214 Maple Lane,
cuts and bruises. City hospital.
w. w. Merrill, 81, motorman, 6285
College Ave-, fractured jaw, broken
leg, crushed hand, cuts and bruises.
City hospital.
Hal Titus, 38, conductor, 2525 E.
Tenth ST.. burns on hands; treated
at Indiana Christian hospital and
taken home.
Robert Reinhar t. 1888 N. Gale
ST., bad cuts anu bruises. Metho-
dist hospital.
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Ambassador Apt. Hotel. Ri. 1871.
Comfortable. beautiful, reasonable.
ADV.
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The crash was the worst II
which a motor-driven vehicle
figured in the history OF In
diana.
The only recent traction
tragedy to compare with 1t was
the Fortville wreck OF the
Union Traction, in which a
score lost their lives when two
cars crashed head on and
caught fire.
The Fortville wreck occurred Feb
2, 1924.
A party of Sixty-f1ve members
wives and relatives of the Sahara
Grotto Blue Devil zouaves gathered
at Washington st. and Emerson
Ave. Friday evening, parked their
cars and boarded a two-ton motor
truck and large trailer to go TO tne
barn dance. ~,
Half a dozen cars, loaded with
persons who could not get on these
vehicles trailed along.
Approaches Crossing Slowly
Northward the happy party RODE
along Emerson Ave.
The truck approached the Union
Traction Newcastle division cross
ing slowly. The driver, Stewart
saws that he did not hear a
whistle and did not see the head
light of the car. The view is un-
obstructed for blocks in each
direction. and the car tracks are
graded higher than the street In
both directions.
Up on the tracks the truck
numbered. On across the truck
passed, pulling the trailer directly
in front of the onrushing inter-
urban.
The car struck the trailer
scattering the passengers in every
direction and carrying at least five
bodies with it to a point 1,o8O feet
west. where the interurban finally
coasted to a stop.
Motorman Badly Hurt
The motorman was injured
seriously and his controls all torn
away by the crash. The front vest
ibule was smashed back into the
smoker.
The tailoer was torn loose from
the truck, all those on the front
vehicle escaping. The truck driver
saws he did not know what happened
until the screams informed him
something was wrong. The truck
was stopped about 100 feet from the
tracks.
The public service commission
was investigating the accident, as
it does all tragedies in which COM
mon carriers are involved. Investi-
gator ]. K. Smith was at the scene
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peared more like the lights of an
automobile.
Statements as to whether the mo-
torman whistled for the crossing
varied.
Coroner Keever proceeded me-
thodically. He expected to spend
all day completing accurate records
OF the dead and injured and planned
70 summon witnesses for the inquest
Monday.
Conductor Is Burned
Representatives of the Union
traction Company we're on the lob
as quickly as possible after the
cresh. Police could not locate Con-
ductor Titus at the scene. Chief
Worley ordered a search for him
and officers found him at his home
2o25 E. Tenth ST., with severe burns
on both hands, suffered when the
car stove was hurled against him
as ne walked from the smoker into
The baggage compartment.
Titus had refused Transportation
IN an ambulance and had STAYED az
the scene for quite a while.
Titus was taken to Indiana Chris
tlan Hospital and his wounds
dressed. Then he was taken to no.
lice headquarters. With him were
Joseph r. Morgan, attorney for the
traction company. and j. X. Smith.
a public service commission inves-
tigaotor. Detectives slated Titus on
a manslaughter charge and uues-
toned him.
Car Not Going Fast
Titus said the car was due at the
crossing at 8:25 p. M, was on time
and was not travelling fast. Morgan
declared that the car was travelling
slowly that the headlight was
good and the car under perfect con-
troll.
The truck driver, Stewart. was
taken to police headquarters and
Immediately slated on a rnanglaueh-
ter charge. He said that he did NOT
see the interurban appoarchinr. did
not hear a whistle and did not real
ize there was danger until he hears
the crash and screams.
Detectives questioned Motorman
Merrill at city hospital after he re-
gained consciousness. Talking with
extreme difficulty. because OF his
broken jaw, the motorman said he
plainly saw the truck, SLOWLY an
preaching the crossing, when he was
some distance from Emerson Ave
but had no idea that it would NOT
be stopped.
When he saw that the truck wa.
not being stopped. he said, accord
ing to detectives, he set the brake.
and blew the whistle in short blast.
The crash tore away all the con-
trols and the car coasted to a ston
the motorman said. Merrill was
charged with manslaughteE.
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MUSIC AND LAUGHTER END
IN SCREAMS AND MOANS AS
CAR TEARS THROUGH TRUCK
Gpotto Celebrants Singing to Accompaniment
of Accordian as Interurban Looms in
Darkness and Hurls Them to Death.
MOMENT TO PRAY, THEN TRAGEDY
Survivors Tell Graphic Stories of Collision
That Took Sixteen Lives and
Injured Many Others.

The nmbe fingers of Won Weber Glascock drew forth the
strains of Back Home Again in Indiana from his accor
dion.
Sxtyfve voices swed in happy chorus as sivery moon
bathed the scene in soft glory.
Happy careree folks ALL bent an evening OF odfash
oned fun a barn dance.
And then ominous threatsudden realization by those
who happened be looking eastward that the light they had
thought only automobile road inter
car only about 200 feet and certain to strike them
Screams-perhaps swiftly uttered prayer-a horrible,
grinding cash echong into the distance wood and steel
ed dandd
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DIES IN TRAIN CRASH
New York Central Engines
Collide; Fireman Killed.

BB United Press
GALLIPOLIS, Ohio, Oct. 15.-A
New York Central passenger train
and a freight engine crashed head
on near here today, killing the fire.
man of the passenger and seriously
scalding Perry Thomas, engineer.
None of the passengers was in
jured in the collision, which occurrc
on the north approach of the Ohio
River bridge near Kanaugh station.
The dead fireman was named CAL
lahan. The engineer, Thomas, was
brought here.
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Last Kiss

Tucked in their beds, lIri-
mindful of tragedy, Jack
Glascock, II, and his sister,
Jeanne, 6, slept undisturbed at
the family home, 332 N. Ban
croft ST., while their mother
at the side of their dead
father, Won Weber Glascock,
at city hospital.
"It was the first time Jack
ever had failed to kiss the
daddy good night" said Doro-
thy Smith, 419. Bancroft ST.,
who was taking care of the
children while their mother
and father went to the Grotto
party.
Jack had gone to a show
before Mr.. Glascock left, and
when he came back his father
had gone"
"We didn't awaken the chill
dren. We dread to see the
moment come when some one
must tell them their daddy is
dead"
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CLIFFORD RITES ARE SET
Funeral of Accident Shooting Vic
tim to Be Held Monday.

Funeral services for James Gif-
ford, 28, of 2714 N. Pennsylvania
ST., will be held at 10 a. m. Mon
day at the home. The body then
will be taken to. Kokomo for burial
in Crown Point cemetery.
Clifford shot himself Friday morn
ing while cleaning a revolver. Death
was almost instantaneous, the bull
let piercing his chest. Coroner c.
H. Keever pronounced death acci-
dental.
Surviving him are his mother and
a brother, DR.. Fred E. Clifford, with
whom he had been making his
home.
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Hourly Temperatures
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were CEuSucO duOl I'll az SCo dIOL
Then a moment Of silence at
the scene and the pail of physl-
cal and mental anguish settled
down.
This is the picture as described by
witnesses of the collision OF the
Union Traction linterurban WIN a
truck trailer bearing members OF the
Sahara Grotto Blue Devil zouaves,
their wives, and other relatives, at
Emerson Ave-, near Twenty-Thlrd
ST., friday night.
Musicians Were Waiting
For weeks the Blue Devils, whose
dashing appearance and precision
has won them a national reputa-
ton as a drill team, had been pre-
paring for the party. The barn.
an old place near Ft. Harrison, on
Pendleton pike, was decorated ana
some of the musicians were waiting.
In ten minutes more the party
would have been under way.
Saws Headlight Was Dim
A. R. Carney, 337 N. Webster Ave-,
secretary of the Blue Devils, was
riding on the truck. Only Jew
moments before the crash he had
been back on the trailer, talking to
Won Weber Glasscock, who was
killed.
Carney said he saw the interur-
ban coming as the truck pulled on
to the tracks. He declared that the
headlight was dim, resembling more
an automobile light than the glar-
ing beam usually thrown ahead OF
a traction car.
The car was about 180 feet, away
then, he said, and the car whistle
was sounded at that moment. The
truck rolled slowly on. pulling the
trailer directly in front Of the in
terurban, just as it struck.
Every one seemed to scream at
once, Carney said. With a slcken-
ing sound of wood and steel meet
ing and being ripped into shreds,
the car struck the trailer, tore it
loose from the truck and hurled
bodies and debris in every direction.
Driver Halts Truck
The truck rolled on, with the oc-
cupantS screaming to the driver to
stop. The driver applied his brakes.
It was not until he felt a thud and
heard the screams that he knew an
interurban had been coming, Stew
art, the driver, said.
The interurban, the front smashed
in around the motorman, and the
controller and air brakes rendered
useless, rolled on for 1880 feet to
the west, according to police, where
it finally coasted to a stop. The
five passengers disappeared in the
crowd. None of them was reported
injured.
The persons on the undamaged
truck stood Mortified a moment and
then leaped to the ground and be-
gan running up the track to search
for dead and injured.
Survivors Are Dazed
DR.. Austin H. Todd city council
man, one of the first doctors to
reach the scene, said that there was
an unusual lack of confusion, the
survivors appearing to have been
too dazed to raise an outcry immed-
lately after the tragedy.
For the most part the survivors
went about the work of finding and
identifying the mangled remains
and helping care for the injured
with blanched faces and twitching
lips. Here and there a wife or a
husband, finding a dead or injured
mate, gave vent to grief.
The salvaging Of the dead and In
Ambassador Apt. Hotel. Ri. 1871.
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