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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-05-07
VIRGINIA:

VIRGINIA:
In the Circuit Court Of the City
Of Richmond, Tuesday, April IL,
1927.
DAISY WILLIAMS. -. Plaintiff
against order Of Publication
CHARLIE WILLIAMS Defendant
I
The object Of this suit is to obtain
divorce from the bond Of matri-
mony by the plaintiff from the de-
PENDANT on the ground Of desertion.
And an affidavit having been
made and filed that the said Charlie
Williams, the defendant, is not q
resident Of the State Of Virginia. and
whose last known post-office address
was Lackawana. N. 2; It Is there.
fore ordered that Charlie Williams
do appear here with ten days after
the due publication Of this order
and do whatever may be necessary
to protect bis interest In this suit.
A Copy-Teste:
GARLAND B. TAYLOR. D. G.
WILLIAM F.. DENNY, pa.
119 East Leigh Street.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-05-07

We are proud of our national
prosperity and high wages. Boot
J ...5 are even prouder Of their
J r,ty and high wages. This
''wn by Norman Klein, an in
Y 1Ior. One rum-running syn
( could afford to invest
: '.''E 600 and to pay men on their
!, -"HRning crews $50 night for
( I'D deal less than eight hours
y One man tells how he used
I only $50 to $50 a week, "aut
J ,2.0bitious." says he, $50 they
7 ~ a runner, and I got $50
: %
v- ( an the Converted
- l~.a- 5 ~" Uncle Sam
t@us supplying the rum-running
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-05-07

The Mechanics Bank Roof Garden
is being prepared for early service.
1t can be rented or leased By
responsible parties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
POLICE LOOK FOR
DEATH CAR PILOT
Greenfield Authorities Ask
Local Men to Help.

Police were asked te, aid Hancock
County authorities today in a search
for the driver Of death car" that
fatally injured Alonzo A. Watts, %,
of 500 Lynn St., two miles west OF
Greenfield at $50 a. IN. Saturday.
According to word from Green
field, where the body was taken,
Watts. with Basil Bennett, Edward
Kavanaugh and Karl Kountz. all
said to live in Indianapolis, were en-
route to the city after a visit with
friends there. They drove off the
road to avoid being struck by an
auto headed the opposite direction.
None of the four were injured, but
the auto was disabled. While wait
ing for a garage man, Watts started
to walk to keep warm, when the
Buick roadsted sped by, they say.
at about fifty miles an hour. The
noise Of the motor was such that
the otohers did nto know Watts was
struck until later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
POISON ALCOHOL
REMAINS IN ISSUE
BEFORE CONGRESS
Some Members Feel Death
Too Severe for Violating
Unpopular Law.
Times Washinqtor Rureeu.


WASHINGTON. Jan. Con
gress continues disturbed by deaths
throughout the country due to pois-
onous alcohol. The anger aroused
by Wayne B. Wheeler's remark at
the White House that persons deter
mined to violate the constitution
should be permitted to commit sui
eide in their own way" was some
what appeased by Secretary Mel
Ions announcement that his depart
ment Is endeavoring to find a meth
cd Of denaturing industrial alcohol
without rendering it poisonous.
Wheeler, counsel for the Anti
Saloon League, after a talk with
MellOn-and after one or two dry
Senators had talked quite plainly to
him-modified his callous observa-
tons and expressed himself salts
fed with Secretary Melons efforts.
But the feeling continues among
members of Congress that death IS
a severe penalty for violation of an
unpopular law"
Deaths Tell Story
An indication Of the damage be-
ing done by the use of poisonous
denaturants is given by, statistics
gathered from a number of cities.
These figures, received from health
officers in some cases represent only
cases Of death by poison and in other
cases include deaths from alcohol
ism, without specifying that the
alcohol was poisoned: all are for the
single year 1926:
New York eleven months). 531;
Boston, 1876; Chicago, 32S; st. Louis,
So; Columbus, 7; Pittsburgh, 1877; Bal
timore, II; Cleveland, 1873; El Paso,
6; oklahoma City, 2; Indianapolis, Z;
Evansville, 2; Knoxville g. San Fran
cisco, 20; San Antonio, 8; Omaha, 10;
Harrisburg, 6; Detroit, 121; Los An
geles, 80; Minneapolis, 2S, and
Seattle, %.
That these figures do not represent
the total number of poison alcohol
victims in the scattered cities listed
is the view of many of the health
officers. The health registrar in
Columbus, Ohio, says that instead of
the seven deaths listed, he would not
be surprised If there were fifty
deaths, directly or indirectly due to
bad liquor IN that city.
Real Cause Not Listed
| In Baltimore 1t is explained that
many deaths listed as due to acute
Indigestion are in reality due to al
coholism. Baltimore's official records
show only four such deaths in 1920
as contrasted 18th II in 1926.
| Oklahoma City health officials say
that some deaths due to alcoholism
are recorded as due to heart diseases
San Francisco reports that some
such deaths are listed as due to
natural causes"
In collecting the above statistics
the following interesting telegram
was received from Knoxville, Ten:
| There were only three deaths
from alcoholic poisoning in 1926
! This low figure is explained by the
high grade of corn liquor made in
the mountains. This is the honest
opinion of experts, who point out
that mountaineers were proficient
distillers long before prohibition
Although the standard is somewhat
lower than in former years, because
of heavy demands, it is nevertheless
a far better grade than that made in
| northern cities"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03

candy, cigars and $3.50 in
amounting to $3.50.
Floyd Matthews, 1902 IIiattV
turned Sunday night to find q
and jewellery valued at 800 nj
The dry goods store operaI
d. r. Gillispie, 1905 z. MID
st. was burglarized and ~
valued at 800 taken.
While Gene Mehaffey, 1920 X
Vile Rd.. was reading a neN{
when he heard a noise in Il
of the house. Investigating Id
a burglar had pried open a
but ran when he approached. z
Two watches and two CHI
banks valued at $50 were takel
the home of Harry Krause,
Healing Ave.
The emergency police rush
the Indiana National Bank VIII
burglar alarm sounded. Inv
ton revealed a short circuit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
DRIVEN TO DEATH
BY LIFE IN FULL
Three on Threshold of Manhood Commit Suicide
Futile and Barren One Writes.

although each was yet on the
threshold of manhood, that life held
nothing more for them.
Rigby Vile, sophomore at the Uni.
versity of Rochester and son Of DR..
Ira S. Vile. noted specialist in men
tai diseases, was found shot to
death in his fathers home yester-
day. In a letter to his father he
said he had concluded life was "fu-
tile and barren after comparing
his ideas with those Of the great
philosophers.
The other youth. Alfred Kehoe
OF Brooklyn, had his twenty-flrst
birthday on New Years eve. Early
Sunday his body was found Under
the Washington bridge in Manhat-
tan. He had leaped' to the Speed
way from the lofty viaduct. Kehoe
had been slightly lame from birth.
In his pocket was a note to the
girl loved. He said he was too
queer" to marry her and hoped she
would marry another man and be
happy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03

and one car was thrown onto the
tracks. The drivers, Andrew Soltis,
Whiting, Ind, and Ray Swan, Chi
cago, Immediately began a fist fight,
each blaming the other.
While the fight was under way a
train rounded a curve. Two children
in the automobile on the tracks man.
aged to escape by leaping, but a
woman, Mrs. Helen Wachowiak, was
probably fatally injured when she
failed to get clear Of the train.
The two men stopped fighting long
enough to call the police. Then the
fight was renewed. Police found
them fighting and it was necessary
to separate them several times on
the way to headquarters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
POLICE LOOK FOR
DRIVERS FIGURING
IN QUEER M|SHAPS
Three Accidents Under In
veStigation-Three In
jured at Crossing.

Three mysterious automobile acct
dents, following which the partici-
pants fed, were being investigated by
police today.
Police sought two men injured in
an auto wreck at Oaklandon. Ind, on
a charge of auto theft Thomas
Hamilton, garage owner, at Oaklan-
don, told police the men were cut
and bruised, and he drove them to
New York and Douglass SITS, where
they told him to wait until they went
inside and got money to pay him.
When they failed to return, police
were called.
Police sought Charles Sandlin
2034 Upton St, whose auto was
found at ThirtyThird st. and Cap
itol Ave, with blood on the seat
Mrs. Sandlin said her husband left
home with another man several
hours before.
Hits and Runs
The driver of an auto that struck
one driven by William Brown, ne
gro, 1912 N. West ST., at New York
ST and Massachusetts Ave-, failed
to remain on the scene. Brown
said the other car hit a parked auto
and then his. The driver leaped
from the car and ran.
Believing that when switch en-
CINE passed, the track was clear and
also thinking that the Waterman
signaled favorably, Christy Metcalfe,
81. Of 1454 Lee ST., Sunday night
drove his auto on to the Big Four
Railroad crossing at Harding st. to
be struck by a passenger train.
Metcalfe and his son, Christy. Jr.,
2, were cut about the face and head
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
AN ERROR CORRECTED
Typographical Mishap Does In
justice to Man.

Typographical Mishap Does In
justice to Man.
Through an inadvertent typo
graphical error in which one word
was dropped it was made to appear
in an article in The Times Saturday,
that Jim Robinson. former Indian
apolis cab driver had said he was
in the county in1rmary, because |
drank or squandered my money"
Subsequent sentences make it plain
in the story printed by The Times
that this was not the case, but, in
justice to Robinson, it should be I'm
derstood that Robinson does not
drink or use tobacco, and that the
quotation intended in the story as
printed by The Times was:
I'm not out here in this county
home because 1 drank or squandered
my money"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
ELLEN TERRY NEAR DEATH

BU united Press
LONDON, Jan. 3.-Ellen Terry,
79-year-old doyen of British actresses.
lay critically ill in her London
home today. interrupting stretches
Of restless silence with lines from
the parts which made her famous
to the parents and grandparents of
present day theatergoers. Dame
Ellen was able to eat and that
alone, according to her physicians
prolonged her life over the week
end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
|TILL LAUGHS AT LAW
farley Burger Remains at Liberty
Despite Murder Warrant.

United Press
HARRISBURG, ILL.,, Jan. 3.-Char-
u Birger, the machine gun gang
pr, continued to laugh at the law
he evaded arrest on charges of be-
B an accomplice in the murder of
Ryor Joe Adams Of West City.
'Eirges, at his home here, chuckled
Ser tafes'Warrant for his arrest and
|hich has not been served by Saline
s'unty' authorities. The warrant
IS sworn out in Franklin County.
'ithorities refused to discuss the
be.
Burger denied he had met Carl
ELTON, leader of an opposing gang,
bonn he claimed to have bet $500
would kill before New Years
~, According to reports, Burger
ID Shelton met on Marion streets
'thout hostilities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03

and were injured about the body.
Mrs. Candida Metcalf, 81, his wife,
thrown through the glass and out
Of the car, was cut and shaken up.
They were sent to the city hospital
by Lieut.. George l.. Winkler.
An auto driven by S. j. McCombs.
Niles, Mich. and a truck driven by
Walter Surface, Greenwood Ind,
collided at Madison Ave. and Ray
mond st. Mrs. Cecil McComb, "a.
and her son, Henry, 6. were injured.
All were treated at the city hospital
and taken to a downtown hotel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
FAVORS CHURCH DANCES

BU Jnifed PT38S
CHICAGO. Jan. 3. = DIR. John
Thompson, pastor Of the largest
Methodist church in Chicago, a de
nomination which for years forbade
dancing under penalty of expulsion.
believes that dances should be held
in churches. THE trouble is not
with dancing" he said in sermon.
but with the church. which pro-
hibits dancing"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
REGG FUNERAL HELD
|iends From Other States Attend
Rites for Cleaner.

Funeral services Sunday for w.
Gregg, n, head of Gregg & Son,
&C., dry cleaners, at Spiceland,
ere attended by many friends and
|lat!ves from over the State and a
mber from other States. Mr..
''egg died Friday at the Methodist
bspital.
'The body lay in state at Spice
nd from Saturday afternoon until
|rvices at 2 o'clock at the Spice
nd Friends Church. Employees Of
'e Gregg company were pallbearers.
|lrial was in Spiceland Cemetery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
2-CENT NEWSPAPER

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-The New
York World (morning). today re-
duced it's price in greater New York
from 3 to conts. Ralph Pulitzer,
publisher, in explaining the reduc-
tion; said: ITO the World station
airy circulation is a stagnant circu
lation and the half million dollars
a year which the extra cent brings
in cannot begin to pay for even the
risk of Stagnation,'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
ARLY MORNING
DRIVES 4
from RESIDENCE
300 Estimated Loss
Woman Dragged From \
Bed by Friend.

Four persons were forced to leave
eir home in their night clothes
Fly Sunday when fire burned the
ic and second story of the w. T.
x home, 2175 N. Pennsylvania ST.,
b did $1,000 damage
Mrs. Essea Eikes. a roomer, was
akened by the flames bursting
Fough the ceiling. She awakened
Ii. roommate, Miss Edna Logsdon,
p Mr.. and Mrs. Cox.
Thought Alarm joke
Miss Logsdon jokingly told how
habit nearly caused her to en-
unter great danger. Daily Mrs.
NISes aroused her by telling her
ne one was on the phone, or that
u house was on fire. She said she
Ways got up to find herself. the vic
h Of joke. Sunday she laughed,
p said, when Mrs. Eikes yelled,
lire! Fire"
Sparks Cause
Suddenly she said she felt her
AZ being dragged out of bed by
rs. Fixes. Slipping on kimono
Ia. fled with the others. They
refuge next door. F'iremen
sparks on the roof caused the
Ize.
Al defective f1ue at the home of H.
hthews, living mile and a half
bm the city limits on Arlington
BE-, destroyed the house Sunday
ION. Firemen were helpless with,
Ht water. Loss was $1,500.
'rhe residence of II. B. Perryman,
B5 Byram ST., was destroyed by
b of unknown origin at 1890 a.
today. The building was a story
ID half frame dwelling. Delay in
hiding in the alarm made the fire
Bpartment's effort futile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
WOMAN GOVERNOR OUT

ar United J'fcss
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 8. -
Americas first woman Governor,
Nellie Taylor Ross, Wyoming 8
chief executive. shed her mantle Of
official power today. Defeated in the
Nevembes election, Mrs. Ross left
her offiee to Frank C. Emerson. the
successful. candidate. Elected two
years ago to the unexpired term of
her husband, Mrs. Ross received the
largest majority ever given guber-
Material candidate in this State.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
lid FASHIONED FAMILY REMEDY
FOR COLDS, GRIP
And PNEUMONIA
Father Johns Medicine Builds
New Strength During the Get
ing-Well Stage After Illness.
A Doctors Prescription. Free
from Alcohol and Harmful
Drugs-70 years in use.

The gettingwell stage of grip is the
most dangerous of all because the
weakened body is wide open to attacks of
other lurking disease germs.
That is why all the organs of the body
must be kept in their best working order
not only to drive out the poison left by
the grip germ, but that the patient shall
regain strength as soon as possible to
avoid further attacks resulting from the
poisons in the system.
Father Johns Medicine builds up the
body because it is all pure wholesome
nourishment and free from harmful
drugs or alcohol Father Johns Medicine
has had 70 years success for colds and
throat troubles coughs, and as tonic
and body NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
Cupid Keeps Pace
With the Age
The stop and go kiss.

The stop and go kiss"
It's the fashion here now.
No more does the youthful
driver swear when the stop sign
flashes. He just extends the
right arm and commences the
OSCILLATION.
Sunday night at Michigan
and Meridian SITS, the honks of
impatient motorists punctured
the atmosphere. when the sign
read green without response
from the lead car.
Number two car glided up
alongside.
A feminine shrek, disentangle-
ment and a hurried get away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
Fan" and Near

LONDON-American and French
tire manufacturers are engaged in a
prosecuting war designed to break
the British monopoly of the raw
rubber market. British manufac.
turers said they could not make fur.
Their cuts to compete with foreign
tires,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03

BIZ United Press
AURORA, ILL.,, Jan. 3.-Convinced
that he had experienced everything
that life had to offer. Joe N. Moore.
a 21-year-old University of Illinois
student, killed himself here Sunday.
Moore left a note in which he told
of his determination to die because
he had lived life in full"
The son of a wealthy doctor of
Guanajuato, Mexico, Moore was
visiting with his sister here. He
seemed in the best Of spirits.
Just before ending his life, he had
chatted with the family, listened
with interest to the radio, and then
whistled while he climbed the
stairs. A few minutes later those
in the house heard a shot and an
investigation revealed Moore dying
from a bullet through his head.
Bp United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 3-The New
Year brought death by. self-de-
Of r1Iction IN two hovS hera who falt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
IGHT SCHOOL POPULAR
|urse at School 8 Has Big Enroll.
ment.

Ann increase in the present enroll
Pnt Of eighty is expected at the
be- night school at Public School 8,
Ixingt6n and Virginia AYES, which
ems for its second semester to-
ght, declared Miss Alvina Siam
IL, principal, today. Interest in
Q school was evinced during the
st semester by the enrolment in
e various classes, twenty students
wing signed up in the IA class,
Ienty In the eighth grade, sewing
ass fifteen, and the foreign class
Eentv-eight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
Robbers Get Loot From Grocery al
Filling Station-Eight- Reported 4
Over Weekend. !

Two daylight hod-ups this morning brought the hol
weekend robbery total in Indianapolis to eight
Shortly after M. white bandit about %, va
patched and coat held up the Kroger Grocery ~
E. Vermont st. and obtained $35. Mr
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03
FIGHT; TRAIN HITS AUTO

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-Two automo-
biles collided near an electric line
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03

A species of rat found in New
Guinea bangles its tail in the sea as
bait for fish.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03

TEKIN-This former Manchu can.
ltal is in danger of eclipse by the
upstart city of Wuhan, which has
been proclaimed the nationalist seat
of government by the Cantonese in
vaders from south China. Wuhan
is new municipal entity composed
Of three adjacent .cities-Hankow
Wuchang and Hanyang.
BAGDAD-Sir Samuel Hoare,
British air minister, and Lady
Hoare, have arrived here EN- route
by air from London to Delhi, Bri-
fish, India.
BUENOS AIRES-F'our hundred
BRAZILIAN rebels encroached upon
Uruguayan territory, according to a
dispatch from Montevideo, and were
informed. Another group Of rebels
was reported to be retreating before
federal troops in the state Of Rio
Grande Do Sui.
NEW YORK - Known holi-
day liquor fatalities here have
mounted to more than forty. The
number of patients received in al
cOhoiic wards reached 222.
GARFIELD-A leaky gas main led
to an explosion which destroyed
one-story frame house here. Twelve
persons were hurt, three seriously
Damage was estimated at 100000
OSSINING, N. Y.-Sing Sing
Prison is prosperous. Inmates de-
posits in the prison bank total
$4,000, one-third more than at the
beginning of 1926.
MT. VERNON, n. Y.-Richard
Kefter's automobile was loaded
with hay and apples as it left
White Plains The load attracted
a deer. Kefter said he was chased
five miles by the deer before he
had presence of mind to pitch out
some Of the apples, the animal
then stopping for lunch.
DETROIT-For the next ten days
F.. L. Tyson, chief announcer for
Station WWJ, Detroit, is going to
keep his mouth shut, literally. Two
months ago, in attempting to eat
tea biscuit in toto, Tyson strained
ligament in his jaw For twenty
four hours he was unable to close
his mouth. A dentist eventually
tripped the "key-log" and restored
Tyson to a fairly disable degree of
his former mouth action. but not
wholly. On advice Of his dental sur
econ, the announcer is submitting to
wiring Of his upper and lower jaws
together for a ten-day rest period
from all jaw action. He will sip
his food meantime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03

BAGDAD-Sir Samuel Hoare,
British air minister, and Lady
Hoare, have arrived here en- route
by air from London to Delhi, Bri-
fish, India.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-03

NEW YORK - Known holi-
day liquor fatalities here have
mounted to more than forty. The
number of patients received in al
cOlloiic wards reached 222.
The Ely miner., 1927-06-17

ANOTHER of George Marsh's splendid
L \ tales of the Hudson Bay country
where a handful of white men guard
thousands of miles of beaches. Rival out
fits battle for the fur trade. Inhospitable
nature erects its barriers. Indian super
stitions are interviewer with the general
mystery OF the frozen country. A romance
of the SHOWS in which dogs play almost as
important parts as the human participants.
The Ely miner., 1927-06-17

fed. The average butterfat pro-
duction of all cows in the Northwest
is estimated to be in the neighbor-
hood of 160 pounds per COW per
year. This is said on the average
to pay just barely for the cost of
the feed. If the boarder cows were
eliminated and the remaining cows
fed sufficient quantity of cor
rectly balanced ration all dairy
herds could be put on satisfactory
profit basis.
T h e Farmer, an agricultural
weekly paper published in St. Paul,
is undertaking campaign to elimi-
nate the boarder cow and to en-
courage better feeding. This publ
cation is offering $4,000 in cash
prizes in milk production contest,
which will feature better feeding
and the use of the milk scales and
the Babcock test in detecting the
bOarders.
Dan A. Wallace, editor of The
Farmer, says that this is a profit
campaign rather than a production
campaign. According to Mr.. Wal
lace, it would not be safe or desir-
able unduly and suddenly to expand
the production of dairy products
in this territory, but that the prin-
ciple underlying the contest is eff
ficiency and economy in production; |;
that it is more profitable for the
dairy farmer to produce $500
pounds of butterfat a year from
ten cows than the same quantity
from Is cows. The difference Of
five cows in labor and feed consumed
is many times the difference be-
tween a profit and a loss for the
herd owner.
The contest will open October /,
1927, and run for a period of one
year. The first prize is $500. Four
teen other prizes ranging from 5000
down to $25 are offered. ..