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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-22

Idleness is OF two kinds; ~ harm
full, ca helpful. OF course. there
are many who win take the position
that idleness cannot be in any way
helpful to a fighter. But have
contrary views.
If fighter loafs for a full
year and INDUCES in physical ex-
cesses during that time, il he pays
no heed ct all to his physical self
and there is q general let-down all
along the way, then, of necessity,
he slips.
But feel that man can re-
main out of the ring for year and
then go back and show all his old
speed and ability, If he lives sanely
during that wear,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-22
KID BALL Title
IS At STAKE

The Monroe and Gales schools
will fight it out today on the Plaza
in the deciding game of the play
ground championship baseball series
Monroe deadlOcked the play.
off by winning. q to 0. Previ.
ously the finaIists of a tOurna-
ment that started with more
than so school teams, battIed IL
innings before Gales won. Then
they played an thinning tie,
to ]. MOnrOe's 9-tO-O victory
hence was something of a sur
prise.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-22

Wild Bill MehIhOrn, unat.
tached. finished third with 800
strokes, beating out Bobby
Cruiclxshank Of the Progress
Club by q single stroke.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-22

Formal signing Of the ron.
tract will follow, either later In
the afternoon or some time TO-
morrow. By that time, the
need OF secrecy will be no more;
In fact, secrecy win be most
undesirable and 50 nlegaphones
will be passed about among the
guests in order that all unde-
sirable conditions may be
thWarted.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-22

AhyHVWI Inc BuaFantee VIII be
made because It isn't difficult to
offer even critical money for
something that may not happen.
Dempsey's end for the sharkey
match. July Fl. will be at least
$3.50 900. For Tunney, 1t will be
$500, 900 or no hundred thousand
whatsoever, depending upon Johns
great desirability or none after
July 81.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-22

Business men go ON vacations
50 that they can rest and gen.
crate new energy. They usually
HE themselves away to the sea-
shore and the mountains. IL
they do little else but walk
around, they 90 back on the
Job refreshed and reiuvenated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-22

Others who figured in the money
were Jack Forester, Baltusrol, ant
Joe Turnesa. of Elmsford.
Washington golfers failed to d.
any impressive scoring. Tomm,
Armour, new open golf champion
was too tired to play golf. Al
the result he finished way dowl
the line with 312 strokes for tn,
two days play.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
LIFE Term FOR
REVENGE KILLER
BOotIegger's Slayer Conv
viCted at Crown Point.

BD Times Special
GROWN POINT, Ind. Dec. 49,
Erasino Romeo, former gardener for
Cardinal Mundelein at Chicago, is
under life sentence today in the In
diana State Prison for the murder
Of Sam Bianco, bootlegger king" of
Gary, as the result of a jury verdict
in Lake Criminal Court here.
+ Conviction of Romeo adds proba-
bly, the last chapter to one of the
most dramatic Sayings in the his
tory Of the Calumet region. He
declared he shot Bianco to death
because the bootlegger wronged his
aged brother, a cripple. Romeo de-
clared Bianco borrowed $1,000 from
his brother, promising to pay it
back within a short time, but never
paid, reducing his brother to pow
erty.
After Romeo had been arrested
in the Staying, son of Bianco got
himself into jail by purposely violat-
ing a number of traffic ordinances
and while a prisoner attempted to
avenge his father by choking
Romeo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
RAID SOVIET OFFICES
Seek Communist Propa-
ganda in Canton.
R.u Enited presa

RN United Press
SHANGHAI. Dec. 19.-Chinese
police today raided the Russian con-
sulate, the Russian Mercantile Fleet
Agency and various Russian COM
mercial agencies in search Of COM
munist propaganda.
No arrests were made, police said.
The Russian bank was closed and
a police guard placed there and at
the consulate.
A demand by the American con-
sui that American depositors in
the bank be paid in full was agreed
to by officials.
The steamer Sishman was held to
take the Russian consular and other
officials away Following the order
CT the Nationalist government that
they must leave China, some of the
Russians were expected to leave
tomorrow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
HOSPITAL Gets
z AMBULANCES
New Emergency Cars for
City Painted Red.
.. 8 Head-see Puzzle-

Two new emergency ambulances
will be put in service at city hos
pital Friday or Saturday, according
to DR.. William A. Doeppers, hospital
superintendent.
The Studebaker GLASSES are at
Knightstown, where the Knights
town Body Company is building a
special body. The body will be
painted red with "city hospital am
bulance" in gold on the sides. They
will have black tenders and red
wheels.
Latest first aid emergency equip
ment will be carried on the mack
which cost $4,250. Two Peerless
ambulances were traded in.
Red ambulances will be more dis
tinctive and enable the drivers to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
SE CLOSED
Y DRAMATIC
TALK TO JURY
nounCes Taft for Travel
ng Around the Coun-
4 try With Dry SIeuth.
HEARD BY DAUGHTER
RomOIa in Court as Father
Ends Fight to Escape
Death Charge.
HEARD BY DAUGHTER
BY PAUL w. WHITE
United Press STAFF Correspondent

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 49,
George Remus arose today to plead
for his life.
AS counsel for himself he was per-
mitted to conclude the closing de-
tense argument before the jury try
ing him on the charge of wife
murder.
Romola Remus, his 24-year-old
daughter by previous marriage
sat at the counsel table. She was
vivacious and commented, IT feel SC
happy I just know everything's GO
ing to be all right"
The largest crowd of the triai
jammed its way into the courtroom.
Remus had been left barely an
hour in which to sound his plea.
Three hours Of the time allowed the
defense were taken up by Charles
H. Elston, co-counsel, who argued
for verdict of not guilty.
Asks for Happy. Christmas
Elston called upon the jurors to
give Remus the happiest Christmas
he has had in more than two. years
and to send out the defendant in
the spirit of Peace on earth, good
will among men,"
Then Remus, his Stocky well mus
cled figure attired in a light tan
nish-gray suit, despite the GOODNESS
Of the day, came to the front of the
jury box.
Here before you stands Remus
the lawyer" he began. I'm that
chair sits Remus, the defendant
charged with murder"
He thanked the court and the jury
for their patience. Even the prose-
cutorS had done their duty, he said
He apologized to the jury for his
displays of emotion, but asked that
his imprisonment for bootlegging be
considered.
mOh, the desolations of fmpriS-
onmentl" he. cried. eft is a seri-
Gus proposition to be deprived of lib
erty, to be incarcerated year in and
year cut for the violation of an act
that is the greatest abortion OF
law ever inflicted upon civilized
community"
Remus pointed out that an alien
list had said there were many defini-
tions of insanity and he asked the
jury:
"Then how can you absorb more
knowledge than men trained in
medicine and science"
Attack on Dodge
It is a matter of common sense,
Remus said, and the jury must de-
eide on the law of insanity.
Here Charles P. Taft II, county
prosecutor, objected on the ground
that the court alone must give the
law of insanity. The objection was
overruled.
RemuS praised the sheriff and the
newspaper men and launched into a
Remuneration Of the StaJes enor6 tC
prove he had conspired with friends
to kill his wife.
Suddenly he attacked Franklin L.
Dodge Jr., the former 0epal .44-c4IC CT
justice operative he blameS for tbs
loss of his wifes love.
Dodge is a social leper," Remui
said.
He denounced Taft for travelling
around the country with Dodge.
'He was the ace among dry
agents and the deuce among his
fellow men," cried RemuS, yet here
we have the prosecutor travelling
Taft objected, claiming that Re-
mus was going outside the records
Judge Shook admonished the law
yer-defendant but Remus at other
times drew objections from the
State as he continued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
BUTLER NEEDS
HUGE FUND TO
FINISH PROJECT
Gift of 81, 100000 or More
Would Be Welcome
From Santa.

Butler officials, estimating the
lion dollar gift from Santa Claus
this Christmas.
Butler officials estimating the
needs for next year, said that sum
would fit in nicely-or two OF even
ten million dollars.
Construction of large parts Of the
university project at Fairview is I'M
der way, but several offer gifts would
be enthusiastically welcomed.
Buildings Are Needed
Among them are:
Library building.
Dormitory.
Chapel s
Administration building.
Miscellaneous structures.
Several millions for the endow-
mert fund.
The faculty would like larger
salaries.
This year Butler let a contract to
Hegeman-Harris Company of Chi
cago for the $1,100,0OO Arthur Jor-
dan Memorial Hall. The Indian
apolis capitalist and philanthrupist
for whom the first unit was named
played the role of Santa Claus and
gave the money for construction.
Building Football Field =
BY the time the oval "pigSkin" is
being punted and passed around In
the crisp air next fall, Butler will
have a stadium with seating ca
pacity Of $4,000. The new field
house and gymnasium are rapidly
taking form and w1ll be ready for
next falls occupancy.
Stone work on Memorial Hall is
complete to the third story, and
practically all the steel work has
been finished on the field house.
building with a $4,000 seating ca
pacity.
The field house and gymnasium
will be completed in time for the
annual State high school basketball
tournament to be held the latter
part of March.
More than 1000 students will have
room in the Memorial hall for class
rooms and laboratories. Admins
trative offices will be located there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
LOOT $500 IN HoLDUPS
Grocery Cash Register Is Riiled of
$50 by Two Men.


Two holdups Saturday night
Melted bandits 500, police records
disclosed today.
Two men, both carrying large
revolvers, entered the A. & p
grocery, Spruce and Minnesota SITS,
and rif1ed the cash register of $50
A third man remained outside at
the wheel of an auto.
A lone Negro watched Walter
Norris, SIG E. Ohio ST., leave an E.
Washington st. store, where he
cashed his pay check and then fol-
lowed him to New Jersey and Pearl
SITS. Norris said the bandit reached
in his pocket and took the money.
but never displayed a gun. He
escaped in a nearby railroad yard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
Newspaper Man Dies
BIZ Times SDeciGl

BIZ Times Special
CONNERSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 49,
Funeral services were held here to-
Gay for Earl w. Williams, AZ, news
paper editor and author, who died
Friday night from exposure follow
ing an attack of apoplexy while on
hunting trip. He had been en-
gagged lately in newspaper promotion
after working on newspapers here
and in Indianapolis and Cleveland,
Ohio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
Newcastle Child Killed

bU 1tmcS CDfCint
NEWCASTLE, Ind, Dec. 19.-Vir-
GINA CLANCY, 6, daughter of Oscar
CLANCY of this city, is dead of a
broken neck suffered when an auto
driven by her uncle, Thomas S.
Engle. Hamilton, Ohio, crashed
into a stone abutment on a high
way at Pennvale. Engle, the girls
mother and her two sisters escaped
ivNi,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
AUTO VICTIM BETTER
Charles Williams Recovering From
Injuries in Crash.

Charles Williams, 80, of 312 N.
California ST.. is recovering at his
home today Of severe head injuries
received when he, was struck by an
auto at New York and California
Sts., as he alighted from street
car.
Williams is the son of the Rev. A.
L. Williams, pastor of the Merritt
Place NJ E. Church.
1t was enormously stated in The
Times Saturday that he is Negro.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
Three Negroes Seize Woman

Three Negroes seized Mrs. Cecil
Rayerson. 80, of 500 Ogden ST., as
she stood in a safety zone at North
st. and Massachusetts, Ave-, Sunday
night, she told police. She fought
them until street car came and
the trio fed. They made no at
tempts to rob her, she told officers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
Rob Filling Station

BIZ Times SDeciaL
SHELBYVILLEs Ind, Dec. 49,
Between 5000 and $500 was obtained
by two unmasked bandits, each
about 20, who held up Peter Loo
mis-, attendant at a downtown fill
ing station, Sunday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
Found It.!

BIZ Times Special
BICKNELL, Ind, Dec. 49,
o. L. Barr, city councilman
here, went out to find the end
of a sewer line here after a
street became flooded. He
found it by falling into water
up to his waist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
TROLLEY-BUS
MERCER TO BE
AIRED TUESDAY
Two-Day UnificatiOn Hear
ing Open to Public; Civic
Clubs Protesting.

Public hearings on the proposed
unification Of the Peoples Motor
Coach Company with the Indian
apolis Street Railway Company will
be held Tuesday and Wednesday in
the council chamber at the city hall
with F. T. Singleton, chairman of
the public service commission, pre-
siding.
kll preliminary steps were COM
pleJed with a signing by officials OF
the railway company of a 100000
note which will pay for the bus
company holdings. The note was
turned over to the Indiana Trust
Company which in turn will issue
8 per cent notes payable in ten
years.
The proposed merger was denied
twice by the public service commits
sion, but now has been ordered ap-
proved by Judge Harry o. Cham
berlin of the Marion Circuit Court.
Many Changes Proposed
The hearing Tuesday has to do
with the Peoples Motor Coach
Company petition to extend its Cen
trail Ave. lines and the Indiana
Street Railway Company to abandon
its Central Ave. and College Ave.
feeder bus lines; the petition of the
coach company tn extend its Thir-
tieth st. line, and the railway COM
pany to abandon the Thirty Eighth
st. and keystone Ave. feeder bus
lines; and the petition Of the coach
company to extend the E. New York
st. route; and of the railway COM
pany to abandon the Emerson Ave.
and Twenty-First ST. line, and the
E. Tenth st. feeder lines.
Hearings Wednesday will be on
the petition of the coach company
to etexnd the Brightwood line, and
Of the railway company TO abandon
extensions Of the routes between
Emerson Ave. and Twenty First st.
and between Shadeland Ave. and
Twenty-First st.
CIVIC CluDS ODJecC
At the same time hearings will be
held on the petition of citizens seek
ing retention of service to Ritter
Ave. on the Shadeland Ave. route;
another asking that the railway
company be ordered to furnish feed
err bus service to the Minnesota st.
car line, and additional bus service
on English Ave.
In all the petitions for unihcation
the petitioners seek authority to
charge 2 cents for all transfers is
sued from bus to bus and from bus
to street car and vice versa, and
that the passengers transferred
from street car to bus pay on the
bus the 80 cents token or cents
cash fare to equalize the difference
of street car and bus fare.
Petition asking that the petitions
be dismissed, as being advantageous
only to the street railway company,
was filed in the name of the Indian
apolis Federation. of Civic Clubs.
Their attorney, Edward o. Snethen,
will offer objections to the company
moves.
To ,counteract DIRECTORS, street
cars throughout the city carry
pamphlets for distribution to pas
sengers presenting their side of the
case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19

get through traffic better, Dr. Her.
man G. Morgan, city health board
secretary, said.
Leonard Cox, Glen Dunn, Guy
HipeS and Michael Davis will drive
the new ambulanceS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19

Smoke is so thick over English
industrial cities that experts esti-
mate that 100000 tons of SCOT fall
en- the soil every year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19
FIND STUDENTS
USING NARCOTIC
Gary Police Hold Three as
HaShiSh PeddIerS.

GARY, Ind, Dec. 19.-Use of
hashish, an oriental narcotic, by
some students of Gary high schools
has been revealed and three men
are under arrest accused as dope
peddlers while police continue an
investigation to determine how
widespread the use of drugs is
among students.
Those in custody are Victor Gar
cha, 81; Romeo Hernandez, So, and
Frank Alaclaio, 49,. Police say they
have confessed. In addition to the
arrests, nearly bushel Of hashish
was seized.
Attention was first directed to the
drug using when a party of young
students staged a revel at a hotel
last week. Some of them appeared
intoxicated, but investigation showed
they had been smoking cigarets
filled with the drug. They told
police they bought the drug in rs
cent quantities.
Hashish is from the hemp plant,
but is in several forms. The tops
and leaves are sometimes used, and
the drug is also obtainable in the
form of a wax secreted in the
growth of the plant. An extract is
made from the plant, too. 1t is
chewed or smoked, and in addition,
the Gary Students are said to have
made a tea from dried leaves of
the plant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-19

WE CAN SUPPLY MONEY NOW
for current needs. Confidential and
quick. CAPITOL LOAN CO., 1411s
E. Wash. St.-Advertisement.
Evening star., 1927-11-11
THE BLACK JOKER
BY ISABEL OSTRANDER.

himself when he was captured herer'
Janet's voice trembled. Il suppose it
| is just as well, but cannot help feel
| ing sorry for poor May Carlin, yet
| when I think of what they all did to
| Daddy and my old nurse Ruth here
l feel almost murderous myself! TO
think that they were both actually
| prisoners under this roof at the very
time / came home. and all the rest of
the household spirited away! 1t was
poor Ruth's cry I heard in the night
before I ran away and they told me
| 1t was Mrs. Madison having an attack
! Of nerves! Has she really lost her
mind now"
'Try not to think Of itr' Philip
urged soothingly. "She will be well
taken care of. and your old nurse is
rapidly recovering. II you like we'll
take her with us-home."
Dane returned, but presently he and
the rest strolled away, leaving Janet
and Philip together and the latter
drew from his pocket a wisp of gossa-
mer white with faint stains still show
ing upon it.
"Do you know what this is, dear
est? The little handkerchief you slip.
ped under by helmet to staunch the
wound from Mats blow while I was
unconscious! I kept it always. enemy
Of miner
"Philipw Janet blushed and hung
her head. ITO think was jealous of
Lady Kingsmere when saw you two
come out Of your house together! 1
thought you didn't love me and my
heart was brokenl had been through
so much, didn't know whom to
trust! So many people who seemed
nice proved to be really dreadful and
SO many good friends appeared sin.
lister, treacherous! Even that pleasant
old gentleman. Mr.. Protheroe. living
alone in the queer house built into the
side of the hill-Mrs. Kerr told me he
was manufacturer but I never
dreamed he was the maker of the in.
fernal machines and bombs such as
Nat used TO wreck Norman's special
when was running away with Mr..
Durant on his motor cycle! I don't
believe any girl in the world has lived
through as much excitement as have
in the past month";
Nor come through 1t with such un-
failing courage and strength Philip
bent adoringly over her. II am very
proud of you, dear, and proud that
my name Is to be borne by the daugh-
ter of the Black Joker!'
THE END.
Evening star., 1927-11-11
Continued from Yesterdays Starr

His Excellency does US too much
honor. Our motives may occasionally
have been in question but the diplo-
matte game has many aspects and
various rules. Perhaps some time /
should like to sit in again, but this
time I shall play the cards as they
| lie."
+, Farewells were said and Dane
walked away across the lawn with
his distinguished guest from Wash
ington while Janet turned to Lord
Kingsmere.p
mo wonder when I met you here
about your appearance! I did not
place you at first as the kind Amer.
lean tourist who, with his wife. picked
me up outside the convent and took
me to Marseilies! And to think that
the Hon. Lucille Ravenshaw should
have been Lucy, my maid! I'd like to
know how she acquired that accentv'
The other girl blushed and laughed.
"You slipped away from me very
neatly at the station!, she remarked.
ITO think that you carried on a flirta.
ton with the red-headed young man
under my very nose on the train:
Philip will have to be CAREFUL"
IT intend to be!' Philip asserted
stoutly. However, we should none
Of us have gotten out Of Norman's
clutches on the island If 1t had not
been for Sayrev' !,
Major Ethelbert Sayre MontfOrd
cleared his throat, but before he could
utter a disclaimer Janet exclaimed:
"No! We owe everything to him.
Major, thought they had shot you
when you dove out of the lifeboat and
disappeared in the fog!'
II reached shore and got the federal
service out after that pirate cutter,
but they didn't capture her till after
she had landed you on the island.
traced her movements by sheer luck,
rowed there from the yacht and ar.
ranged the details Of the rescue with
Philip. That was ALL"
1T was-everythingv' Janet cried.
''Tell me what happened after Lucille
and ] were taken away?"
II stood of Norman till tho sailors
went into action and one shot from
that gun brought them all to terms,
but Norman escaped. He says he
swan to another island where he had
| associates waiting, but think he had
| a small rowboat hidden somewhere
that we did not discover; that, we
shall never know now"
Daddy told me that Norman killed
Evening star., 1927-11-11
THE EVENING. STORY

It came to her that she had no ap.
petite for supper. that she could not
touch the mince pie. She would give
| it away, but who was there in the
neighborhood who served q heavy
meal at night? Nobody but Della
Burman as far as she knew.
She wrapped up the pie and. carry
ing 1t carefully. again set forth. She
| had to cross through the snow and
go down the other side to Della Bur
mans. She went round to the kitchen
door and knocked.
Della came to the door. She was a
tall, vigorous woman. with clear. dark
eyes.
Come in. What you got there?"
"Ive brought you a mince pie" Nal
vina said. tremulously. setting her Of.
fering upon the kitchen table.
"Why, that's nice of you, Malvina. +"
in Delia's Acceptance of the gift. my
family are crazy over pie OF any Kind
and I didn't get round to make one
today. / had company come unex.
pected. Now, Malvina, you take Off
that shawl and stay to supper. Don't
say you can't. I won't hear It. II
you attempt to go away I'll lock the
door and hide the key"
She took the shawl away from NAL
vina and hung 1t in the closet.
You always do look so neat, NAL
vina." she said. Now come and see
who's In the sitting room."
She led Malvina into the cozy room,
where a tall man sat chatting with
John Burman.
Here's Malvina Beach, Sy1vanus,"
DVlia said. "And think you'll agree
with me, she hasn't changed q par
ticle."
Sylvanus Gardner shook Malvina by
both hands.
II made Della promise to take mo
over to see you right after supper" he
said. ut does seem good to see you
and all the folks I used to know"
The supper was delightful. Della
was a good cook and she had supple
mented the meal with ice cream and