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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
LIFE INSURANCE
CHIEFS GATHER
H. NJ. WooIIen to Preside at
Convention.
BY United Press

BIZ United Press
DALLAS, Oct. 24.-Insurance pol
icies approximating more than ST.
900 100000 were represented here TO-
day as agents Of $50 life insurance
companies gathered for the twenty
second annual meeting Of the Amer
lean Life convention.
The 1873 executives represented in
surance companies having admitted
assets Of more than two billion dol
lars. The annual premiums OF the
companies amounted to 1886, $685.
992,in 1925.
Governor Dan Moody will welcome
the convention Wednesday. Speak
ers for that day include Roger B.
Hull, general counsel Of the National
Association of Life Underwriters or
New York; John G. Mechem, vice
president of the First Trust and
Savings bank. Chicago. and Presi-
dent w. H. Leffingwell Of Letting
we'll Ream Co., New York.
President H. M. Woollen, Indian
apolis, announced today that one OF
the most important matters to come
before the convention will be the
formation of a financial section for
the purpose of standardizing invest
ment affairs Of American life insur
ance companies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
BANKERS START
annual Farley
Delegates Special Trains
Go South First Time.

BH Uaited Press
HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. 24.-Meet-
ing south of the Mason Dixon line
for the first time, the American
Bankers Association opened its
fifty-third annual convention here
today.
The opportunities offered for in
veStigation in the south and south
west attracted interest among the
5000 delegates arriving by special
trains today.
Nine special trains from New
York, Chicago, Kansas City, Cleve-
land and Atlanta arrived Sunday
after stopping at Dallas to view the
Texas State fair.
The convention sessions were
called to order at 10 a. M, by Mel
vim A Taylor, president of the First
National Bank of Chicago, ano
president of the association. In the
receiving will be Governor Oar
Moody.
Thursday the convention will bf
taken aboard an ocean liner for q
trip through the Houston channe
to the gulf. Thursday night q
special train bearing several hun
bred eastern bankers will leave
Houston for an inspection tour Of
the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
The convention is to end Thurs
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
SNAC| is STRUCK
ON FLOOD PLAN
Davis Fears Tri-State Fight
on U. S. Proposals.

HELENA, Ark, Oct. 24.-After a
partially successful effort to swing
the Mississippi Valley behind the
War Departments unannounced
plan for flood control, Secretary OF
War Davis today neared the end OF
his good will tour" of the flood re-
gion.
Davis received enthusiastic sup
port through Arkansas and Missis-
sippi on his journey southwark, but
ran into difficulties, in New Orleans
which may have a far-reaching ef-
fecton the outcome of flood control
legislation in Congress.
The Tri-State Flood Committee
declined Sunday at New Orleans to
back the War Department plan
against other plans of hcod control
which are springing up.
Although Governor Martineau OF
Arkansas, chairman, and other COM
missioners previously had announced
their intention of supporting the
commission, the board adjourned
after a three-hour session without
taking any action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
QUICK RELIEF FROM
CONSTIPATION

That is the joyful cry OF thousands
since DR.. Edwards produced Olive
Tablets, the substitute for calomel.
DIR. Edwards, a practicing physician
for 20 years and calomels old-time
enemy, discovered the formula for Olive
Tablets while treating patients for
chronic constipation and torpid livers.
Olive Tablets do not contain calomel,
just a healing, soothing vegetable laxa-
tive mixed with olive oil.
No gripping is the Keynote" Of these
little sugar-coated, ollve-colored tab
let's. They cause the bowels and liver
to act normally. They never force them
to unnatural action.
II you have dark brown mouth
bad breath--a dull, tired feeling-sick
hearache - torpid liver - constipation.
you'll find quick. sure and pleasant re-
suits from one or two Of DR., Edwards
Olive Tablets at bedtime.
Thousands take them every night
to keep right. Try them, 15c, soc, Coo.
Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
WILEY RITES ARE SET
Electrotype Foundry President VIII
Be Buried Tuesday.

David G. Wiley, IS, president Of
the indianapolis Electrotype Foun-
dry, who died Saturday afternoon at
the home of his son, Frank H. Wiley,
3431 Winthrop Ave-, after brief
illness, will be buried Tuesday In
Grown Hill Cemetery.
Funeral services will be held at
the sons home Tuesday 2 80 p. m.
ard will be in charge OF the Scot
fish Rite. The Rev. j. Ambrose
Dunkle, pastor of Tabernacle Pres
byterian Church, will officiate.
Mr.. Wiley served actively with his
company until few weeks ago. He
was member of Indianapolis Board
of Trade.
Three children survive: Mrs.
Lucien King, Mrs. j. R. Wood of
Cincinnati and Frank Wiley.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
LOCAL men ON
SPEAKING LIST
AT CONFERENCE
Management Program to
Open at Purdue
Tuesday,.
By Times Spei Iui

By Times Spet jui
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. pa
two-day conferlace on management
and personnel, especially for plant
managers, personnel directors, en-
ployment managers and other fac
tory executives, to be held at Pur-
due University Tuesday and
Wednesday, will call forth some of
the new ideas In industrial develop
ment of IndiSna. The conference
has been arranged by the engineer
ing EXTENSION division of Purdue,
in cooperation. with the State COM
mittee in charge of management
week program, of which Prof.
George H. Shepard of the Purdue
mechanical engineering staff is
chairman.
Tuesday morning will be devoted
to registration and inspection OF the
campus and buildings. The pro-
gram will get under way that after
noon, with an address of welcome
by Dean A. A. Potter, explanation
of the why of management week by
Professor Shepard, and discussion
of production problems by E. M.
CARRIER, foundry superintendent.
Social Session Tuesday
E. B. Vancil, chief of the stand
ards division of the Cincinnati Mill,
ing Machine Company, will deliver
an illustrated lecture on up-to-date
machine tools and their eff
feet on production. Following
an evening of social gather
ing, DR.. Thomas F. Moran, head OF
the history and economics depart
nent, who spent the past summer
touring Europe by automobile, will
speak on the economic and political
recovery of Europe.
G. M. Williams, president Of the
Marmon Motor Car Company, In
dianapolis, will be the first speaker
Wednesday morning on Hand to
Mouth Buying" L. D. Edie of the
school of commerce and admins
tration, University of Chicago, will
speak on business forecastings, and
F. F.. Chandler, vice president OF the
Ross Gear and Tool Company, Lac
fayette, will speak on engineering
and sales.
Local Man to Speak
Wednesday afternoon the subjects
md their speakers will be: G. A.
Lippincott, manager, cooperative de-.
partment, Studebaker Corporation,
South Bend; welfare and Safety"
Earl Beck, personnel director Eli
Lilly & Co., indianapolis; Person
mel and Employment Methods" and
w. j. Hockett of the General Elec-
trio Company, Ft. Wayne, indus
trial Training and Education and
j. E. Walters, personnel director,
Purdue engineering schools, On the
Purdue personal system.
The conference will close Wednes-
day evening with an informal BAN
quet in which Lafayette business
men will join. L. w. Wallace, ex-
ecutive secretary of the American
Engineering Council, Washington,
D. c., will be the principal speaker
on Arrangements Part in Stabiliz-
ing Prosperity"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
r. ONWARD E. STAFFORD ar
III rived in Indianapolis Sun

EDWARD E. STAFFORD ar
r rived in indianapolis Sun
LII day, to assume his duties
as national commander at head
quarters in this city.
The Legion is one of Spafford's
great pets" but he has another,
of which the world in general
knows little. That is the youth OF
America, for one of the hobbies
of this man is investing in youth,
helping them over the rough
places and giving them good
starts in life.
And now, going over his books,
Edward E. Spafford can show fig
ures proving how sound these in
vestments have been.
Spafford is an eminently sue
cessful Wall Street attorney with
many business interests. But no
undertaking, he says, has given
him more personal satisfaction or
paid better dividends than this
unique philanthropy, though he
would be the last person to con-
cede that it is a philanthropy.
ri o date he has made a dozen
such investments. They
IL covers a range of activity as
wide as the aspirations, dreams
and hopes of youth.
But they have all been practical.
They have covered several infant
industries and businesses and sew
eral professions. They have backed
a manufacturing enterprise and a
college student.
There came to his attention, for
instance, the case young fellow
in a New York University who was
selling his blood to make his way
through school. Commander
Spafford happened to read about
this in a newspaper and decided
that person of this type deserved
assistance. So he put up the
money to help the student
through college.
"And strangely enough" he re-
lates, "this came close to being my
only mistake. I had neglected to
consider the psychology of this
young man. His blood selling was
not merely a means of getting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
z BRIDGES, ONE
SITE, DILEMMA
AT Evansville
War Department Authorizes
Permits for Both State
and Private Spans.

| BIZ Times Special
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-The
War Department has granted two
permits for two big highway bridges
to be b.ilt across the Ohio river at
Evansville, Ind, on exactly the same
site.
Since it's impossible for two
bridges to occupy the same space
at the same time without using
the fourth dimension, the action is
expected to bring a showdown at
one point in the United States at
least, between the toll bridge COM
bination which has built approx
mately $50 of these private bridges
on public highways throughout the
country, and advocates Of a public
ly-owned bridge.
One application, approved by the
department Aug. 3, was made by the
Evansville Kentucky Bridge Com
pany. The other, just approved,
was by the State of Indiana through
the Indiana Highway Commission.
Since the plans were virtually the
same, the War Department granted
the States application without a
hearing.
Links Federal Roads
The bridge site is on the Dixie
Highway at the southern end of, In
diana's longest Federal-aid public
road, and connects with another
Federal aid public highway on the
Kentucky shore. Thousands of We
hicles monthly will pay the private
firms toll charges If 1t builds the
bridge.
An enabling act for the private
bridge had almost passed Congress,
one of fifty passed last winter
authorizing private toll bridges,
when the people of Evansville, led
by the Evansville Press, Scripps-
Howard newspaper, awoke to the
situation.
Difference In Tolls
The State Legislature and Con-
gress we're asked to pass bill author
izing the publicly-owned bridge, and
did so. Since then proponents OF
the public bridge have gone ahead
as fast as possible, without reference
to the private company's plans. The
public bridge would also assess tolls
but lower tolls, which would cease
as soon as the bridge was paid for
The American Association of State
Highway officials has announced
that bills drastically curbing the
building of toll bridges will be in
troduced in the next Congress. Many
of these bridges already built are
said to be gold mines of profit fol
their promoters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24

read of your wonderful medicine in
the paper, and my husband bought
me q bottle, and after the first
few doses / felt better, so kept
on taking it until l was well and
strong. / take it at times when I
feel tired and 1t helps me. I will
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medicine and tell anyone what good
it has done me. 1 recommended 1t
to my neighbor for her girl, who is
sixteen years old, and it was just
what she needed. She is feeling fine
now, and goes to school every day."
-MRs. E. F. BAssETT, 216 South
Hayford Avenue, Lansing, Michigan.
Do not continue to feel all run
down and half sick when Lydia e.
Pinkhan's Vegetable Compound is
sold by druggists everywhere.
-AdvertiSement
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
BANDITS GET $215L0OT
Filling Station, Street Car Motor
man, Garage Attendant Held Up.

Five bandits, working in three
groups, escaped with loot totaling
$215 late Sunday and early this
morning in three hold-ups.
Two bandits escaped in an auto
with SITS cash and gasoline coupons
valued at $50 at 5:45 a. m. today
when they robbed William Carver,
80, Pure Oil filling station attendant
at 1843 w. Washington st.
Rudolph Giesler, 2267 N. Dearborn
ST., motorman on a one-man Gar
field Park street car, was robbed OF
change and tokens valued at $40
Sunday night at the end of the car
line by bandit.
Two men held up and robbed
william o. Myers, attendant at a
garage at 215 N. Oriental ST., Sum
day night of about $50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
Aids Stork 1000 Times
BIZ Times Special

DU IIWtS SVeCIut
LAGRANGE, Ind, Oct. 24.-Dr.
A. j. Hostetler. who began the prac-
tice of medicine here thirty-four
years ago, has just acted as aid to
the stork for the 2,000th time. The
latest is a daughter born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Cecil M. Franklin near VOL
cOttyille.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24

ever I needed
it. When I fir :
u S e d 1t ]
was so bad I
could b ardl y
walk across the
room without
crying. l was
tired all the time.
I think my trou-
Bile was coming
on me for six
months before i
roc1i1od n 7
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
Lawyers to Hear Walsh
Bu Times Special

By Times Special
MARION, Ind, Oct. 24.-United
States Senator Thomas j. Walsh,
Montana, will be the speaker at the
banquet of the Eleventh District Bar
Association here Tuesday night.
Counties in the district are Miami,
Grant, Blackford, Pulaski, Hunting
ton, Wabash and Case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
Merchants Sponsor Festival

Merchants of Fifty-Second st.
and College Ave. district will spon-
sor street festival Friday night.
Committees will be named at 3
meeting in the Knue Bldg. Wednes-
day evening.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
FREE WEDDING OFFER
Plymouth Unites Couple for Hal
Ioween Celebration.

BIZ Times SDecinl
PLYMOUTH. Ind, Oct. pa
public wedding on Halloween night
Oct. g., will be one of the features
Of q celebration to be held here.
Free license and free ceremony
with rendition of Mendelssohn' S
wedding March," by the Plymouth
High School band are inducements
Presents will be given by a number
Of merchants.
A husband calling contest and
novelty musical acts are other num-
bers on the program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
BANDIT SLASHES YOUTH
Louis Harrod Painfully Injured
When Attacked In Car.

When Attacked In Car.
Louis Harrod, 10, son of DR..
Charles L. Harrod of 2432 Park
Ave, was painfully slashed on the
right arm and shoulder shortly
after midnight Saturday in a fight
with a bandit in the 200 block on
Kentucky Ave, he reported to police
Harrod said he got in his car and
paused to light cigarette when the
bandit jumped on the running
board, fourished a knife and de-
manded his money. After scuffle
the bandit fled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
Plan Special Train to Harvard Game

Plans for special train for the
arvard-Indiana game next Satur-
day were discussed at noon meet
ing today of the Indiana University
Club at the Lincoln.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
Nezg Legion Commander Invests in Youth OF america;
Finds HIS Money Wei SPENT Helping Them TO Climb

crowds. And I saw my investment
about to go under.
HOWEVER, I called him in
I'LL and pointed out that I
had money invested in
him. When this had been paid
back, I pointed out, he could do
what he pleased.
"He went out to the coast and
began to practice law. He is doing
very we'll and is turning into a
good investment. What is more,
he is being of greater religious
value to the world than he ever
would have been in the street.
For now he can get a rational
slant on public religious needs and
can put them into sound applica-
tion.. My argument was never
against his religious inclinationS,
but against the manner of getting
them over"
Commander Spafford has been
most tinid in talking about his
youth investment" idea, not the
least reason being that he fore
sees a deluge of mail from every
section of the earth.
However, such method of ap-
proach is not likely to get the ap-
plicant to first base.
FIOUTH is the greatest as
IY set of any nation, just
Ill as it is of any business,
says the Legion commander. ANY
war will show you that. I GER
tainly saw it in the last war.
"Of course the general sits down
and marks out the plans, but the
courage and fire and daring that
goes into war or business has be-
hind it the plunge and the fear
lessness of youth.
you'll find it, too, in any big
Office or business organization.
Back of 1t all you will find the
brains and experience Of the Old
Man-of- the-Tribe. But those who
carry out the orders and fight and
labor and sweat are the millions
of anonymous young men.
tits no fools errand, nor gam
BILE. 1 actually invest in these
young men. They get their chance
and do what I can to help them.
And that's all there Is to it."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
PROBE MYSTERY ATTACK
Unknown Man Steps From Behind
Tree to Hurl Brick at Victim.

Charles Creekmur, SIC Madison
Ave-, was unable to assign a motive
for mysterious attack made on him
late Saturday night. Creekmur said
he was going up the walk to his
home when a man hiding behind a
tree stepped out and hurled a brick.
1t struck him on the head. He was
treated at city hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24
MRS. BASSE1T
ALWAYS Tired
Now in Good Health by Using
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound

"I have taken Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound when
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-04-07
MORE SIGNALS
IN OPERATION
2 More intersections
Are Equipped With
Lights, Bells

Operation of Brownsville's auto
matte electric traffic signals was
extended two blocks at 2 o'clock
this afternoon by police order fol-
lowing the completion Of additional
units.
The first unit al the intersection
Of Elizabeth with Twelfth Street
has been in operation for some time
but the units at the corners of
Elizabeth and Eleventh and Eliza
beth and Tenth have been completed.
They were tested last night and were
put into regular operation this af-
ternoon.
The same traffic rules will amply
at these two intersections as at the
original unit. Traffic can pass as
long as the green light is on. Traf-
fic must stop in the face of a red
signal The amber light signals a
change from one color to the other.
A bell rings while the amber light
Is on New and larger bells than the
ones originally installed az Twelfth
Street have been received and
installed.
Pedestrians as we'll as drivers of
vehicles musta follow the same pro-
cedure.
The traffic regulations will be
strickly enforced, notice from the
police department says.
The unit at Elizabeth and Thir-
teenth viii be ready and in opera
tion soon. Il is stated.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-04-07
Assassination Plot
Uncovered, Police I'm
City Assert

MEXICO CITY, April T.-P)-A
group of men. described as striking
railway workers, are under arrest
charged with plotting TO assassinate
Luis Morones, Mexican minister of
Industry, commerce and labor. De-
lay in reaching his office yesterday
morning Is credited with saving
Senior Morones from death.
While the police are secretive re-
garding the case it is learned that
the plotters, who came here from
Guananjuato, stationed themselves
near the entrance to the ministry
armed with revolvers. One Of them
made an exclamation Of fmpatieDce
over the minister's tardiness. He was
overheard, the police were notified,
and the arrests followed.
The plotters are said 10 have been
seeking revenge for the ministers
recent ruling making the strike of
railway men illegal. Mariana Cabre-
ra, director Of the National Railway
Lines, j. also reported to have been
marked for death.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-04-07
ALLEY PAVING
WORK STARTS
Elizabeth h-Washington
Alley Is First To
Be Surfaced

Brownsville's alley paving program
is under way. Construction gangs for
the Southwestern Bitulithic Company
of San Antonio, the contractors. are
at work on the alley between Wash
ington and Elizabeth Streets.
Excavation work j. being done by
the contractors. The paving work Is
beginning az the Tenth Street end Of
the alley, and will be completed to
Fourteenth Street.
Three other alleys are to be paved
in the same manner They include
the alleys between Elizabeth and
Levee Streets and between Washing
ton and Adams Streets, making to-
tai Of twelve blocks.
Contract for the alley paving was
let some time ago but the work has
been held up by the failure of some
property owners to pay the necessary
assessments.
Improvement Of the downtown
business district by paving the al
leys. making them more usable dur
ing bad weather and easier 70 keep
clean was the object sought BY the
city commission in letting contract
for this work.
Dirt from excavation work is be-
ing hauled 70 the rear Of the Cham
ber Of Commerce where the city is
building park.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-04-07
ROME CLAIMS
anti FASCISTS
BURNED PLANE
u. s. Government In
vestigating Disaster
Which Befell Com
mander Pinedo

ROME. April 7.-(PD-Some OF the
leading Rome newspapers today ex-
pressed the opinion that destruction
Of Commander de Pinedo's seapiane
at the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona
yesterday was caused by anti-fascist
agents.
The principal comment is printed
by the Popolo di Roma under the
heading:
"Odious gesture Of anti-fascism
abroad against the wings Of Pinedo.H 2
While Italian aeronautical circles
were panied and shocked at the
news of the planes destruction, the
papers are not surprised, because
"official circles are fully informed
of the uncomfortable anti-national
activities being carried on in Ameri-
ca by a few eXpatriates."
This infinitely vile act or sabot-
age, which tried to crush the great.
est enterprise human daring ever
undertook" il continued, "was 50
clearly to be foreseen that its delay
until this moment is remarkable"
The diplomatic corps expressed re.
gret to the Italian government fol
the destruction OF the Santa Maria
The American ambassador, Henry r
Fletcher, was the first 10 send
message to Mussolini.
"The president. government and
people of the United States" the
message read. shave followed with
growing interest and admiration tht
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