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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-09
BUS FARE TOO
HIGH, COUNSEL
| HAAS ASSERTS
Official Declares Huge
Profit and Sale Values
! Proves Point.

Something should be done about
Indianapolis bus fares-in the flu
ture, declared Corporation Counsel
Schuyler A. Haas today.
Reiterating his statement OF last
Saturday before the public service
commission that the enormous in
crease in value of the Peoples Motor
Coach Company property in three
years and the substantial profit
shown last year raises a question
as to whether the ten-cent fare
and three-cent transfer rate is not
too high, Haas said he did not in
tend to do anything about it just
now.
Under The law the corporation
counsel may petition on behalf of
the city, for lower rates when he
believes those of any utility are too
high.
when a concern can spend
spend $4,000 and in about three
years build up bus lines to a point
where they are worth $500,000, the
fare is too high" Haas said.
The Peoples asks 100000 from
the Street Railway Company, which
seeks to buy it's common stock.
Haas argues that this price is too
high.
"a utility is making just too much
money when, with a total invest
ment of $4,000, including $4,000 at
torneys fees, it can acquire $250,000
worth of physical property and
make an annual profit of $4,000, as
the coach firm did last year," said
Haas.
"a. Smith Bowman, coach COM
pany president, is a good manager,
and I probably would do the same
thing were I in his shoes. But I
don't think the commission should
allow such profits" he said.
Haas cited the fact that Bowman
had been paid $4,000 annually I'M
til Jan. /, when his salary was
boosted to $4,000.
In the future people will ride on
rubber instead of rails and there
will be little more track laid by city
and interurban electric lines with
the increased hard surfaced high
ways, Haas predicted.
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Brain TeaSer
AnSzOerS

Below are the answers to the
Nov You Ask One" questions
printed on page 4:
1. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote
"The Autocrat at the Breakfast
Table"
2. Will Durant wrote 1.-THE Story
of Philosophy"
3. Ichabod Crane is character In
Washington Irving's Legend Of
Sleepy Hollow"
4. James Fennimore Cooper wrote
THE Misunderstanding Tales"
5. "Nevermore" Is the refrain to
Edgar Allan Poe's 1.-THE Raven"
6. In writing to the President. the
correct form of salutation is Dear
Mr.. President:
Z. The Tai Mahal is a famous
mausoleum in India.
8. Eiffel tower is 1000 feet In
height.
8. Russia on one side, and Tur-
key, England, France and Sardinia
on the other fought in the Cri-
mean War of 1886.
10. Mt. Pelee is in Martinique, an
Island of the West Indies.
IL. SITS.
-. From six to fifty-four feet.
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WHAT HAS HAPPENED:

DIANA BROOKS, beautiful daughter
of ROGER BROOKS, owner and publish
er of the Catawba City Times and a
chain of nine other newspapers, had
been kidnapped and then released. Her
father is engaged in persistent fight
against the corrupt administration of
Catawba City and through the medium
of the Times, redoubles. his scathing at
tacks on politicians of the Ring and de-
flies the Underworld.
. Later Brooks himself disappears and in
attempting to locate him. DONALD
KEENE, literary editor of the Times,
and TEDDY FARRELL, Don's ward and
Sob Sister. meet with disaster in which
Teddy saves her guardians life. Out of
gratitude he asks her to marry him.
Although she is deeply in love with him
Teddy refuses. Don believes himself in
love with LOLA MANTELL, Dianas
cousin.
Brooks reappears and finds that his
newspaper stock is being manipulated:
He suspects JOHN w. WALDEN, and
plans to- fight
Diana's motor launch. squat comes
up and the boat is tipped over. Don
does not swim, but Diana saves him from
drowning They wait for aid in an I'M
inhabited shack on a small island. AS
time passes, they find themselves drawn
dangerously toward each other.
NOW READ ON.
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REED PROBE HELD Up
---~-T----=-=-a---
High Court Adjournment Is
Bar to Summer Quiz.
BY DEXTER M. KEEZER

WASHINGTON, June 9.--With
United States Supreme Court sum-
mer adjournment, the Reed slush
fund investigating committee went
into eclipse, marking at least a tenn
porary victory for those who sought
to talk the committee to death by
flibuster at the last Senate session.
Senator King, Utah, Democratic
committee member, said that
Supreme Court adjournment would
make it impossible to get con-
elusive ruling before fall on the
power of the committee to continue
its activities.
This power is being contested in
the United States District Court in
Philadelphia as a result of COM
mittee efforts to obtain ballot boxes
In Delaware County wanted in the
Wilson Ware election contest.
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He, fighting for self-control, tried
to answer honestly, fairly.
my God, I must be crazy! Il
oh, Diana, II don't know!" he
burst out finally.
A flush of shame stained his
cheek bones. His gaze drank in
again the exquisite lines of the girl
lying before him. Her gray eyes
were like twin pools seen in the
woods at midnight. She was sweet,
desirable. .....
Then reason flooded back to him.
1t pounded its soothing balm over
him and laved his hot, throbbing
pulses. He rose to his feet.
Forgive me, Dia," he cried con-
tritely. 1--WE been a fool, mad,
crazy! 1t must have been" He
smiled his old whimsical smile-"it
must have been the moon or-or
something" he concluded. Good
night"
Good night, Don," she echoed.
He gathered his blankets to-
gether and walked out of the room.
CTO BE CONTINUED
Will Diana accept Don's offer of
marriage? The next chapter will
show,
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CHAPTER XVII

A moment she stood there. Then
suddenly turning, Diana ran
straight toward and into the shack.
She greeted him cheerfully some
time later when he, too, came back
to the little house among the trees.
mo one here yet" she told him,
her voice singing in the cadence of
golden melody. Her eyes glowed
almost black. But she played her
part acting as if nothing unusual
had happened.
He stood before her like shame
faced school boy, hesitating as
though he wanted to say something.
They're likely to come any min
ute now" he finally said, picking
up the corncob pipe and carefully
filling it. For several minutes he
smoked in silence.
Diana was thumbing listlessly
through copy Of fishermans and
hunters journal. She glanced up
after awhile.
"Oh, yes, the fishermen, you
mean" she said casually and re-
sumed her reading although it
bored her fearfully.
He threw sidelong glance at her,
drew in lungful of smoke, expelled
it and took another look. She
looked as she always looked.
"You didn't see Teddy that night,
after she'd dug her way out of tn
cellar, did you?" he asked, apropos
of nothing under the sun. He had
to say something.
mo" replied Diana, tossing the
journal on the table as a token OF
her willingness to be sociable. "But
Dinny described her and the hole
she dug, to us afterward. TIL dar-
ling kid! Dinny said she didn't look
like a human being that night in
the drug store-all plastered over
with clay as she was. What a
glorious thing for girl to dol"
"Splendid" nodded Don, reminis-
cent CLINT in his eye. 9TH grandest
gesture ever hope TO know. Really
Dia, Teddy is almost too fine, self
sacrificing, I mean. And she's de-
veloped far beyond anything had
ever hoped for, too-mentally, physl-
cally and socially. You should have
seen her the day brought her
home and turned her over to my
mother. She was the typical gamin
of the street at that time. She GER
tainly has more than repaid me for
the little I did for her-if I ever
merited any repayment.
Funny" he continued mus1ngly,
"the way she turned me down after
I had asked her in the hospital TO
marry me. You KNOW told you
about that?"
Diana nodded, smiling, thinking
of what she had told Lola on a GER
tain occasion in relation to Teddy's
refusal of Don.
But I don't think it so remark
able" she said reflectively. 81 should
probably have done just about the
same thing. After all, Don," she
went on slowly as if choosing her
words in some very important de-
cision. "It would hardly have been
very satisfactory to Teddy. She
knows you have been making love
to Lola, you see."
He WINGED at the barb IT. her
plainly worded thrust, but Offered
no denial of it's truth to avoid al
fusion in any way to the incident
under the trees. At length silence
again fell over them. The chirp-
ing of crickets in the trees close
by penetrated the shack with their
sharp metallic clatter.
II don't know but what we might
as we'll turn in" He said it casual
ly, matter-of -factly, as if he were
| addressing Bill Garfield or Dinny
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RHEUMATISM
May be relieved by rational treatment
it not be rubbed away.

Are you one Of those unfortu-
mates who suffer with pains in
your muscles and joints, commonly
called rheumatism, making you mis-
cradle, less efficient, interfering with
your working hours, running your
sleep?
You may have tried many things
without relief. Why not try S.S.S.?
For more than 100 years it has been
giving relief in thousands of cases,
as testified to in unsolicited letters
of gratitude.
I suffered from rheumatism for a
good many years. AT times my
joints would swell so, couldn't
walk. tried almost everything.
Went to Hot Springs :. i. then fin
ely decided to try S.S.S. 7 took a
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PirllpIes and BIOtChes

There Is clean, healing liquid, easy
to use any time, that will shortly clear
away Pimples, Blackheads, Blotches,
Blemishes and similar Skin Irritations.
To keep your skin clear and healthy
always use Zemo, the clean, healing,
Liquid astringent for skin and scalp ir-
ritations. 60c and S1.O0 at all druggists.
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course. In short time the rheu-
matte pains entirely left me. am
now in perfect health, and want to
add that have tried all kinds of
medicines, but I think S.S.S. is the
best" Earl G. Campbell, lis West
Main Street, Johnson City, Tenn.
SIS. is purely vegetable. 1t is
extracted from the fresh roots of
medicinal plants and herbs and
gives to Nature what she needs in
building you up, SO that your sys-
tenn throws of the cause.
From youth to later years S.S.S.
is proven tonic-give it and take
1t where tonic is indicated.
S.S.S. is sold at all good drug
stores in two sizes. The larger size
us more economical.
,-Adyertisemeut u,
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-09
MYSTERY Wells
AUTO DEATHS
NEAR FRESNO

FRESNO, Cal, April 9.-Two per
sons are dead and two are in a
critical condition in local hospitals
as a result of automobile accidents
in this vicinity during the night.
Chester Rose, SO, of Clovis, and
an unidentified man were fatally
injured.
Rose was killed early today when
his automobile ran off the highway
near here and overturned.
The accident in which the uniden-
titled man was killed has mystificd
Police as has the identity OF man
who was injured by an automobile
50 feet from the place the man was
found dead. The injured man was
rushed here by the driver of the
automobile which struck him and
several hours later the other man
was found dead in a ditch beside
the road. An inquest to be held
Monday night may solve the puzzle.
Mrs. Ella McVickers, "A, was hurt
when she was struck by hit and
run driver. Her condition was re-
ported to be slightly improved this
morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-09
B0RAH WINNER
OF DRY DEBATE
WITH DIR. BUTLER
by United Press Leased Wire

BOSTON, April 9.-Two orators
high in the leadership of the Re
publican party have brought forth
anew the topic of prohibition for
critiral inspection and discussion
and the effects of Il spirited debate,
it was felt today, may show them
selves IA month hence when the
platform for the 1928 presidential
campaign is drawn up.
Senator William f. Borah of Ida
no, defending prohibition, won the
unofficial decision of six Judges
out of nine who heard him and
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia University, argue the
virtues and vices of the eighteenth
amendment.
The official' decision later will
be given by the Republican party
in convention.
Although the question for debate
was "should the Republican nation
al platform of 1923 advocate repeal
of the eighteenth amendment'''
both speakers confined themselves
largely to discussing the merits of
the amendment rather than inclu-
sion of the plank.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-09
WARTIME SCENES
ARE RENEWED AT
SAN FRANCISCO
Big Liner Taken Over
BY Government to
Transport Troops.
Hy United Press Leased Wire

san FRANCISCO, April .
Scenes reminiscent of America s
entry into the World War we're re-
enacted here today when workmen
boarded the big Dollar liner Presi.
dent Grant to rush the task of out
fitting the boat for T. transport.
The liner was rcquisitioned yes
terday by the government, to carry
II arines TO Chipa.
Troop compartments were being
equipped with six-high canvas
hunks, and additional galleys were
being built to provide food for the
troops.
Dollar line officials estimated the
ship would be re-fitted in time 20
sail for San Diego late next week.
Hundreds of tclcVrams were re-
cCived by the company today from
passengers booked TO sail OH tic
Clant April l6. Those near enough
to reach San Francisco today vii,
sail on the President Garfield at
/ p. m.
Other disappointed passengers
will be sent TO Seattle to sail on
the President Lurola April -,
while the balance viii leave on the
President Harrison, from san Fran
cisco April %.
The President Grant can bc made
t, accommodate morr than 200J
men without great discomfort 1t
is one of the fastest boats on the
Pacific coast. I'm oil burner, il can
Iaakc % knots.
Whether more Dollar line boats
viii be rcquisitioncd depends en-
tircly on the situation in China, Of
ticials of the company said. bat
they are making preliminary prepa-
rations for further governmental
order.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-09
HUGE MERGER OF
CALIFORNIA OIL
COMPANIES IS ON

NEW YORK, April O.. $50.
10000 consolidation Of Is far
western oil companies is under way
in California, it was learned in
Wall Street today. When complet-
ed the new organization will rank
among the largest of the independ-
ent companies on the Pacific coast,
it was said.
The consolidation is being spon.
sored by a number of leading Cali
fornia oil men and will be financed
by California and eastern capital.
Embraced in the new COMPANY,
it is expected, will be the proper
ties of the present Julian Petrole.
nm corporation, Marine corporation,
Marine Refining corporation, Sca-
board PetroleIn corporation, A. G..
Scott Refining Co., Jett Oil Co.,
Southern California Pipe Line Co ,
Rosenberg Oil Co., Sierra Refining
Co., all operating in Southern Cali,
fornia oil fields; Apache Oil and
Refining Co., operating refinery
i'll Phoenix, Ariz.; Rio Oil Co., and
Fulton Oil Co., operating in the
Kelvin -Sunburst field in Montana,
and Canyon Oil Co., and South
western Land Development Co., OPP
Grating in Amarillo, Texas.
The enlarged company will rep
resent a complete unit in the pro-
duction, refining and transportation
CT crude oil and in the wholesale
and retail marketing of gasoline,
lubricating oils and petroleum prod,
ucts.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-09
Fourteen Die In
Swollen Rivers
by United Press Leased Wire

OKLAHOMA CITY, April o.
Oklahoma's death toll was swelled
by IA when overflow waters of the
Washita river swept through seve-
raj Mexican homes near Rocky Ford
last night.
Six persons were drowned in the
same community Wednesday night
and six others are missing. Two
other persons have been drowned
as the result of floods in various
parts of the state in the last 4S
hours, a total of % deaths in the
state.
In several parts of o klahoma
swollen streams have overflowed'
farm lands and paralyzed railroad
traffic.
Yesterdays toll of death and
damage was followed by water
spouts again last night. The Grand
river was raging torrent early
today and is expected to rise at
least 80 feet and overflow. Flood
warnings have been put out to
farmers to evacuate.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-09

RELEASE
YANKEES
Consul Demands and Gets
Freedom For Newspaper
Workers.
SITUATION IS CALM
Peking Awaiting Reply to
Russian Protest Against
Raid on Embassy.
BY RANDALL GOULD
United Press Staff Correspondent

PEkING, April 9.-Mrs. Mildred
Mitchell of San Francisco and Hon
olulu and Wilbur Burton of Colum-
bus, Ohio, Americans arrested Tues.
day by Chinese police on charges
Of engaging in Nationalist propa-
ganda, were released today, The
United States legation compelled
the release of the Americans fol-
lowing the failure of the Chinese po-.
lice to take legal action to obtain
warrants for them.
The United States consul came
from Tien Tsin, but stead TASTY re-
fused 10 issue the warrants (Pre-
sumablv because the Chinese had
not complied with the legal formal,
:tics.) The couple, meanwhile. re-
manned in the hotel where they
had been since $3.50 p. IN. Tuesday
in custody of the Chinese police.
Attorney R. T. Evans said that
Mrs. Mitchell and Burton's deten-
ton was outrageous and illegal. He
demanded that the legation act in
their behalf. After two hour con-
ference in which United States
Minister John V. A. MacMurray
and Councillor Mayer participated.
representatives of the legation went
to the hotel and removed the couple
from the custody of the police.
Koo Resignation Denied
The international situation sur
rounding the raiding of the Soviet
embassy by Chinese police seemed
calm as replies were awaited to the
embassy's protest to Chang Tso Lin
against the raid and the Chinese
protest to Moscow against an al.
legged Soviet plot to overthrow tha
Peking government, which Premie,
Wellington Koo charged was proved
by documents found in the embassy
raid. Reports that Koo had re-
signed were officially denied.
Nothing of value was seized by
Chinese police in raids on Soviet
business houses at Tientsin and no
important documents were found, it
was understood here.
LONDON, April 9.-Reparations.
an apology and the punishment of
the perpetrators of anti-forcign out
RACES at Marking will be demanded
of the Chinese Nationalists, British
authorities intimated today, by the
United States, Britain, Italy, France
and Japan.
The question of sanctions would
would not be dealt with in the
powers demand, it was intimated,
but would be kept entirely separ-
ate from the identical notes which
it was believed here the represent
atives of the powers would present.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-09
HUSk|ES
DEFEATED
BY BEARS
California Takes Two
Out of Three Races
From Washington.
V ARSITY w I n S
First Victory Of Golden
Bear Crew Over Rivals
In Six Years.
BY United Press Leased Wire

OAKLAND, April 9. Cali
fornia s varsity crew defeated
Washington today for the first
time in six years.
The Bear Oarsmen went across
the finish in the varsity race at !
SO stroke sprint, pulling three
lengths ahead of the husky natioa-
II champions.
The California crew took the lea1
nj the start and maintained 1t
throughout.
The. unofficial time was l6 min,
utes 20 seconds.
Preceding the varsity event,
which was witnessed by 5000 spec
tators, the California Junior Var.
sity won over the Washington Jay
Gees by 4 scant half length in l.
minutes 43 seconds.
The freshmen race was taken by
ashington, their only victory of
the day, the husky babes covering
the two mile distance in II minutes
ID seconds. The Washington fresh,
man tiSh "oh out DN Hall Il ltHStll.
In the varsity race, the Bears
maintained steady stroke of 80
until the last hundred yards.
Although the race was einched a:
that mark by two and half lengths
margin, California speeded up and
went across the finish pulling a 39
stroke and three lengths ahead.
l.. =
the start of the last mile, but the
huskies were too late for California
was length ahead by then and GO
ing strong.
The huskies rowed the last three
quarter mile at SO stroke, but it
did not seem to have the pulling
power of the 80 stroke which the
Bears were maintaining.
California S crew finished full Of
pep but the huskies were tired as
they crossed the line.
The ceremony of exchanging
shirts was gone through after the
race ended, and the Bears wore the
Huskies shirts for the first time
since 1921.
This marks the fourth year of
Coach Ky Ebright s regime at Cali
fornia. He was brought from Wash
ington in 1924 to lead the Bears
back to victory, and today he com
pleted his work.
Coach "Rusty" Callow and
Ebright shook hands at the finish
line and then turned to watch the
shirt changing ceremony, which was
cheered by thousands of enthusias,
tie California supporters on the side
lines.
Immediately following the race
the Washington crew was taken to
the county hospital where the en-
tire group was to be vaccinated.
Jim Hart, member of the Husky
crew, was stricken with small po \
shortly after his arrival here, and
- now at the hospital. Vaccination
OF his team mates was delayed un-
til after the race, as their chances
would have been nil had they pos
sessed sore arms.
The coach, trainer and cOxswain
of the Husky crew were vaccinated
several days ago, but health author
tiles permitted the crew to wait un.
til after the race for their innocula.
tion.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-09
III &r EG ZE4Dx uWus
6LAYERS
LOSE OUT
] IN court
SaccO and Vanzetti Are
Sentenced to Death For
Murder.
LOSE LONG FIGHT
Crime Committed Six
Years Ago During Mill
Strike.
By United Press Leased Wire

"a DEDHAM, Mass, April Som
Mbre and stolid, Nicholai Sacco and
81 Bart tolomeo Nanzetti returned today
Ito the drab county courthouse where
thcv were convicted of murder in
1921, and heard the death senten"-
rs which they had cvaded through
an amazing six year legal fight.
With sympathizcrs of the two
1 barred from the courtroom standing
Z III silent. protest outside, the former
mlll workers were sentenced by
Judge Webster Thaver to pay the
extreme penalty in the electric
chair at Charleston State prison
during the week Of July 10.
{ Dramatic appeals by the defen-
dants themselves preceded imposi-
ption of the sentence. Sacco's speech
70 the court was confined TO only n
few words, but in its brevity, it
was nearly as eloquent as the cru
dite plea of the radically intellec.
tual Vanzetti.
Sacco said he was not an orator
and could not make speech so
well as Vanzetti. He was not
guilty, never was guilty of any
crime, he declared, and said it was
nothing short of murder to send him
to the electric chair.
1 Addressing the judge in his turn,
fVanzetti charged that his fate had
been pre- edetermined; that the Judge
formed an opinion in the case when
the Jury returned the verdict of
GUILTY" about six years ago and
Ehad showed no evidence of an open
Fmind in reconsidering the case.
With rapid and eloquent flow
Of English, unmarried by an foreign
accent, Vanzetti scored the Judge
for the delays in decisions that had
carried the sensational case into its
sixth year.
lie was arrested, he said, at n
time when the nation was in state
Of hvsteria over radicals.
"I was arrested because I was n
RADICAL he declared. in a strong,
resonant voice unweakened hv self
enforced prison silence, "and I am
RADICAL he went on. ''I was ar.
rested because I was an Italian. And
] am an Italian
= Nanzetti said he wa' only too
|Rlad "to be put on the doomed
|seaffold for my cause"
Though he must have realized
THAT, within a matter Of minutes. i"
was to hear himself CONDEMNED TO
death, Nanzetti was defiant 20 the
last, His concluding remark was:
81 feel that if you could execute
me two times I would again do what
l. have already done to this day.
WASHINGTON, April "a spe-
cial police guard, it developed to.
day, is being maintained at the State
Department as protection against
possible demonstrations in ronn"c-
zion with developments in the Sacco-
Nanzetti case. This precaution was
begun Tuesday night, though Secrc'
|tary Of State Kellogg's office 20
day denied Kellogg had personall.' :
requested the extra guards.