The Indianapolis times., 1927-01-18
Far and Near

| Far and Near
NEW YORK--At a house warming
party in Gotham's latest apartment
hotel on exclusive Park Ave-, hot
dogs and champagne were served.
The frankfurters were carried into
the spacious living room in tub of
boiling water and served by buffers,
who also provided rolls and mustard.
CHICAGO - Fifty policemen,
armed with rifles, tear bombs, and
other riot arms, were required to
force Arthur McVey, said to be
demented, from II room i'm which
he barricaded himself after an
nouncing publicly that, "Tm going
to kill me a ScOtchman." No one
was seriously hurt i'm the battle
waged between McVey and the Of
ficers which lasted several hours.
TRENTON-Transi in Trenton
was slightly disrupted by the COM
bination of twins and a skunk. Har-
rison F. and Frederick M. English,
sons of the city engineer, captured
skunk and took it to the center of
town to sell. The furier declined to
buy when they opened the box. Co
ing home via trolley the boys had
one car all to themselves.
BRADFORD, EngIand-Because
of the danger from motor cars,
mounted policemen here have
been furnished with tail lights for
their horses. Small electric lights
have been fitted to the cruppers of
the traffic steeds.
NEW YORK.-When fined So in
traffic court, Emil Tschudin found
his pocket had been picked Of
wallet containing S92. Magistrate
McAndrews rescinded the fine and
suspended sentence. Six weeks ago
Rudolph Gelb, a sugar merchant,
complained he had been robbed of
$500 in traffic court.
TRENTON, n. J.-"Liquor was
one of the causes of the World
War" said Brig. Gen. l.. S. UPTON
i'm addressing the State Anti-Sa-
loon League. General Upton eX-
planned that "the Kaiser was
drunk when he ordered the mobiIi-
zation of the German army in
1914"
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-George
Kovaliak, 41-year-old cook, gave his
life for his deg, Pal. The dog was
in the path of a Pennsylvania Rail-
road electric train. Kovaliak flung
the pet from the tracks, tripped over
a rail and was killed.
NEW YORK.-Chilblains practi-
cally have disappeared from New
York, according to a hospital sur
vey made here. At one Of the larger
hospitals only sixteen cases of chill
blains were treated from 1921 to
1926.
ALBANY, n. Y.-Tammany Hall
received only one appointment in
group of twelve nominations for
State officers sent to the Senate
by Governor Alfred E. Smith. Five
of the appointees were Republicans.
ROME-Let the inferior Arab
Berber stock in Africa die out like
the American Indians, while Ital-
ians intermarry with the pure
Arab stock to create powerful
ItalO-Arab race in northern Africa,
Senator Leonardo Bianchi urged
in lecture before high military
and civil authorities.
LONDON - Lord Bearsted oil
magnate and founder of the Shell
Transport and Trading Company,
died without knowing that Lady
Bearsted had died Sunday night.
Bearsted was too i'll to be told of his
wife's death. He was 73.
RUNE - important OlplOIndllc
changes in accordance with Premier
Mussolini's intention of substituting
! fascists for non-fascists in the diplo-
matte service are believed to be i'm
minent.
BERLIN-Dispatches from War
saw say cholera in epidemic pro-
portions exists I'm the Peczlyinznek
district of upper GaIicia, and that
deaths had numbered as high as
twenty day.
PARIS-The world champion
aviator will be selected and his name
made public Jan. %. by the Interna-
tional League of Aviators. National
awards already announced included a
first prize to Shirley j. Short. United
States air mail pilot, and a second to
Commander Richard E. Byrd, who
| flew to the North Pole.
TRUCE IN OIL LAW ROW
Dispute at Halt Pending Ruling by
Mexican Supreme Court.
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