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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
CHANGE
VO|DS CONTRACT
City Agreement With Box
Company Altered.

In an opinion to the board of
works today City Attorney John X.
Ruckelshaus declared that any
change in the contract between the
board and the Sanitary Waste Paper
Box Company. after it's ratification
by the council, was illegal.
According to the minutes of the
board and the council. the contract
passed by both bodies in 1925 reads
that the company was to pay the
city ST. per month for each box
placed in the downtown district
In the original contract the word
month" has been scratched out and
the word year" substituted. The
company has not paid a penny on
the contract so far, according to
Roy c. Shaneberger, board presi-
dent.
Thomas Hatfield, company. presi-
dent, will appear before the board
this afternoon to discuss the matter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30

down what we now call the Hay Doc
trine of the open Door," or an in
dependent China with equal oppor-
tunities for all.
Nevertheless about this time
occurred the first handwriting on
the wall-the Boxer uprising the
object of which was to drive all
foreigners out of the country.
OF fanatical origin and carried out
by misguided people, there was more
than a grain of justice in the idea
they attempted to carry out. They.
the Chinese, saw themselves being
mistreated and their. country
despoiled by self-centered outsiders,
and they resented it.
Unfortunately in their backward
ness they set about it the wrong
way and a mighty international re-
lief expedition cut and shot its wsy
through Pekin and put stop to
the movement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
HOURLY TEMPERATURES

TIT should have been clear,
right now, to the western
- powers that the day was not
far off when China would demand,
and take. her place as an equal
among the nations of the earth. But,
with the possible exception of one
or two diplomates like our own John
Hay. nobody seems to have done so.
From 1900 to 1911 the new idea
was fermenting, in China and out.
A young Chinese doctor, Sun Yat-sen
by name, was particularly busy,
living mostly in America and in
Britain, but eXerting a powerful in
tiuence on thought in his native land
through his connection with secret
societies there. He was struggling
to overthrow the medieval Manchu
dynasty, to substitute a republic like
the United States with political
liberty for all and equality amongst
the powers for China,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30

ASSUMED
BY SCOUTS
will We Be 0uSted?' City
Hall Employees Ask
Temporary Mayor

Boy Scouts who took over the Of
fees of State and city officials today
from II a. m. until noon inherited
the problems and tangles Of the real
officials.
about twenty-five persons have
asked me that question:" said
Douglas Brown, assistant Scout
master OF Troop 65. who took over
the Governors duties, when asked
by a reporter what he was going to
do about the State budget tangle.
Governor Jackson's youthful sub
stitute said that he was taking the
question of calling a special Legis-
lature session under advisement."
"NIost of the persons in the city
hall want to know whether they are
going to be ousted or not" Mayor
Robert Miller Troop 13, said. Il
can promise that there will be no
ousting or graft during my term of
office"
Theodore Sedan, Troop 81,
took over the duties of po-
lice chief: Robert Russell Of
Troop 20, fire chief; Frank Stein.
metz. Troop %, head of the Game
well system, and Robert Watkins,
Troop 73, city controller
John Moore, Troop 5, shared the
juvenile court bench with Judge
Frank j. Lahr.
While the scouts were running
the State and city, thirty other
scouts relieved downtown traffic po-
licemen. About 175 scouts received
fire fighting instruction at head
quarters this morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Reports Progress
on Street Repairs

Since Feb. Z, when street repair
work began, 1928 square yards Of
asphalt, 2,341 square yards of brick
and 1853 square yards of concrete
have been laid in repairing chuck
holes.
This was the answer made today
by Frank Milholland chief city en-
gineer clerk, to complaints that the
city had been negligent in spring
street repairs.
Milholland said progress indicated
by these figures was far ahead Of
former years and that the cost Of
repairs has been reduced from the
1925 level of $2.49 per square yard
to a present figure of $1.57.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Dearth Under Heavy Cross-Exan1in alton Fire "
Feared ESQ of Number
Within Area of Terrific
Blast in Ehrenfeld
(Pa.) Pit.
8 DIE IN ILLINOIS, FEAR
Gas Pocket Lets Go in Shaft
Near HarriSburg-TWo
Badly Hurt.

BU United Press
JOHNSTOWN, Pa, March
30.-With $50 men still en-
tombed at ! 80 o clock today in
mine No. 3 of the Pennsylvania
Coal and Coke Company at En-
renfeld, fifteen miles east of
here, fears were entertained
that at least 250 were in the
area Of an explosion that
wrecked the drift mine at
1890 o'clock today. No one
had come out Of the mine at
1:30 p. m, and officials could
not tell the extent Of the ex-
plosion.
The explosion blew up the mine
Office and wrecked the mouth of the
opening, leaving little hope for the
men inside. Calls for help Of doc
tors and first aid men We're sent to
all surrounding towns.
The explosion which wrecked the
mine was terrific, according to of.
ficials OF the mine, and they ex-
pressed a belief that it would be al
most impossible for any of the 300
men to have escaped with their
lives.
A rescue crew was despatched inn
mediately by the Bureau of Mines
from Derry, Pa, close to the scene
Of the disaster, and other crews
were being formed at Pittsburgh
and other nearby towns.
At the last word from Ehrenfeld
the fate of the men in the mine was
not known, but large forces Of will
ling workers went to the work Of
rescuing the entombed men.
The explosion was terrific, being
felt at Ehrenfeld and South Fork,
as well as surrounding country. It
was caused by gas and mine dust.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
HENRY FORD HURT WHILE
DRIVING FLIVVER COUPE
OWn Chauffeur in Car of Own Make, He Is Treated in Own
Hospital After Crash Ending AGAINST Tree.

roiied and slid some twenty feet un.
I'll 1t struck a tree. The other car
was driven away.
Ford was rendered dazed or I'm.
conscious doctors could not deter
mine which. He did not know how
long he remained in that condition.
put judging from the time elapsed
between his departure from his lab.
oratory and the time first word of
the accident reached his home. it
was but few moments.
Then Ford pulled himself together.
looked dazzedly around him, scram-
oled painfully up the embankment
and walked several hundred yards to
his residence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
AMERICANS.
ATTACKED BY
CHINESE MOB
British in Party of Forty
Seven Made Target of
Stoning.
u. S. GUNS QUELL FORT
Ship Answers Fire in Shore
Attack.
u. S. GUNS QUELL FORT
BB Tnited Press

BB United Press
PEKIN, March 30.-A Chinese
mob stoned forty-seven Americans
and British who were evacuating
Anking aboard the u. S. S. Hubert,
a dispatch said today.
Nationalist troops have occupied
the Standard Oil Building at Chin.
lliang without damaging it, The
American Baptist mission at Kwei-
lin, province Of Kwangsi, was loot
ed. 1t had already been evacuated.
Three United States warships-
the Marblehead, the Richmond and
the Cincinnati-are expected here
within a week. The first two are
hue Saturday and the Cincinnati
Monday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
JACKSON SUFFERS
SINUS AILMENT
Treated for Infection at
CIitty Falls Hotel.

Governor Jackson was treated to-
day Tor sinus infection at Clifty
Falls Inn, near Madison, Ind, &C.
cording to Mrs. Jackson.
The Governors wife declared over
long distance telephone that DR.. j..
c. Cook, Jackson's physician, sug
gested the Governor go to Madison
hospital. The executive preferred
to remain at the State park hotel,
The sinus ailment was believed
to be a result Of an influenza attack
suffered Aast weekend. Mrs. Jack
son said the Governor would not be
able to return here before Saturday
unless he improved more rapidly. His
condition was better at noon.
THE Governor is anxious to get
back to his desk and win return as
soon as he is able" she said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
LITTLE HOPE HELD
Rescuers Fear Eight Men in Blast
Wrecked Mine Are Dead,

Rescuers Fear Eight Men in Blast
Wrecked Mine Are Dead.
BIZ United Press
HARRISBURG, ILL.,, March 3d.
Little hope was held out by rescue
workers today for recovery of eight
miners entombed by a gas explosion
in the steel tipple mine Of the Saline
County Coal Corporation at Led
ford, five miles south Of here.
The victims are Joe 10th, William
Fiber, Claude Lynch, George AM
brock and Cecil Reynolds, Ledford;
and Lee Morris, Carrier Mills, all
leaders; Simon Simatis, Ledford
track layer and Peter Doris, Led.
ford, airman.
Audie Lynch and Roscoe Nebo,
shift workers who were more than
1,500 feet from the explosion, were
thrown fifty feet. They were severely
burned and otherwise injured.
The other eight men were closer to
the blast and probably were killed
instantly although there is hope that
some Of them survived the explosion
itself They are entrapped below
the spot where the explosion
occurred and rescue crews may not
be able to reach them before night.
The shaft is filed with fumes and
debris torn from it's walls.
The tragedy preceded only by two
days the closing of the mine with
expiration of the present wage con.
tract. The probability is that families
of the eight men will be left per-
manently without means Of support
at the same time that their neigh
bors are temporarily thrown out of
work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
BY William Philip Sinms

EUI ASHINGTON, March 30.-The
.WI vision of one mana Chinese
~ and the lack of vision of
hundred others-Americans, British,
Japanese and French statesmen-lie
behind what is now happening in
China.
Had not the diplomats of Wash
ington, London, Toxic and Paris been
so blind that they could not see
what has been perfectly obvious for
at least a quarter of a century, the
present war and its attendant perils
might have been entirely averted.
The Chinese was DIR. Sun Yat-sen,
China's first president and her
George Washington, whose education
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
BB United Press

~ tHtttU IIfSS
DETROIT, March 30.-Henry
Ford, the richest man in the world.
is in his own hospital here. the vic.
tim of an automobile accident.
The accident occurred Sunday
night when Ford was chugging
along alone driving his own Ford
coupe, a machine that she retails at
his factory here for about $500.
Returning along Michigan boule4,
ward near the River Rouge bridge
and not far from his estate, an auto
mobile driven by some one whose
name II 1T is known, has thus far
peen withheld, crowded this billion
aire and his $500 car over an en-
bankment. The car toppled and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
ITALIAN AVIATOR RESTS
De Pinedo VIII Remain in New
Orleans for Few Days.

BIZ United Press
NEW ORLEANS, March 30.-Com-
mander Francesca DE Pinedo, dar-
ing Italian aviator, who arrived
here yesterday after crossing three
continents, will enjoy New Orleans
hospitality for a day or two before
continuing his voyage.
Minor repairs will be made on his
machine and a final inspection is
not expected until late tomorrow or
Friday.
De Pinedo will head for the Pa
cific coast and back to several cities
in the United States and Canada be-
fore returning home.
De Pinedo was feted by New Or
leans Italians today and tonight
will be the honor guest at banquet,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
BRIDE SLAYER
Alabama High School Principal on
Trial for Murder.
BIZ United Press

bW IWTIfW TTtNS
FLORENCE, Ala, March 30
Trial of J. Albert Woodward. high
school principal charged with killing
his bride of two weeks for her life
insurance opened today.
The body of Mrs. Woodward, former
school teacher, was found in the au-
tomobile in which sheo and her hus-
band were riding before the car
plunged to the bottom of a creek.
He claimed the machine swerved
from the road accidentally. The
State contends he drove the car
over the creek bank after he had
killed his wife.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
LOSES $2,750 WALLET
Joe Foppiano Thinks Pick-POcl1et
May Have Relieved Him of II.

Joe Foppiano, professional bonds
man and politician. is not sure to-
day whether or not the fee he re-
ceives as appraiser for the county
assessor this spring is going to
benefit him or not. Foppiano, an ex-
pert on building real estate values,
was working in the vicinity of Spann
Woodlawn, Hoyt and Lexington
Aves., when he missed a wallet he
carried in his~bip pocket. The purse
contained $3.50 in cashiers checks,
two diamond rings and a gold piece.
He says he might have been robbed
by pickpocket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
DESERT STOLEN CAR

When the automobile in which
they were riding collided with q
street car at Central Ave. and
Twenty-Fifth St., late Tuesday night
two youths and two girls, al
Negroes, rumped from the auto an
ran, according to Motorman Willai
Ramsey, of 1923 Z. Tenth st. Poli
learned the car had been stole,
earlier in the evening from Mi
Frieda Heider. a1a1 Kenwood Ave
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
FOREIGNERS UNHEEDINGs
Several Remain, Despite Warnings
Broadcast; Americans Included.

SHANGHAI, March 30.-The U.
S. S. Ford fought a brisk engage
ment with Chinese above Woo-Sung.
The Ford was fired on and returned
the fire with machine guns and four
inch guns, silencing the native force.
The U. S. S. Preston was sent to
Chefoo in response to reports from
the U. S. Consul there that the stu
alton was becoming worse.
With danger to foreigners in the
Yangtze valley regarded as grow
ing constantly greater, many for
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Unable to Remember Many
Points in Testimony of
Tuesday.
QUIZZED BY SENATORS
ForgetS Picture Taken of
Women Jury.

Circuit Judge Clarence w. Dearth
of Muncie, withstood a heavy fire of
cross-examination this morning be-
fore the Indiana Senate by failing to
to remember the answers to many
Of the questions the prosecution
asked him.
He took the stand early Tuesday
to testify in his own defense against
the impeachment charges that he
illegally attempted to suppress an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
What Lies Back Of Trouble in China?

Editors Note: Here is the A. B. C.
Philip Simms, Scripps- Howard foreign
editor who spent year in China study
ing conditions preceding the present
upheaval
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Indianapolis Charter Was
Declared in Effect March
80, 1847.
BY EldOra Field
Eighty years old today.


This is Indianapolis birthday The
city's a full hedged octogenarian
now, because
On March 30, 1S47, indianapolis
drew her first breath of life as
city Her charter, previously APP
proved by the town .councjl, was on
that day proclaimed and certified by
Governor John Whitcomb. There
had been but little opposition. Sam
uel Henderson was the i1rst mayor.
There We're no paved streets, no
street cars, no sewers. But they had
few street lamps and were strong
on bitches. One of the first city
acts was to enforce a penalty up
on any one who "obstruted water in
a ditch"
Other interesting "acts" dealt
with such matters as closing cellar
doors at night, thereby protecting the
person struggling home in the late
hours of the night-perhaps as late
as S:S0--from falling into them
Stove pipes came in for attention,
and there was a penalty for any one
thoughtless enough to empty a stove
pipe on the street.
Light Fines
Hitching horses to growing shade
trees on the main street also was
taboo, and one admonition carried
stiff penalty (S5 was almost a maxi
mum sentence for anything short OF
murder) if one should fire guns or
fly kites" in the center of town.
Gunpowder, and not whisky, was
what the city fathers forbade your
carrying on your hip in those days,
and one act expressly mentioned
that if any one carried over twenty
five pounds of gunpowder in the
compact parts of town" he should
receive a penalty. The pioneers were
strict about the observance of Sun
day, and it was, against a city ordi-
nance to play cricket. handy, cat
town ball or cover ball or to pitch
quoits" on the Sabbath day.
Early Market
A person in the city of Indianapolis
in those days could go to market in
the fresh of the morning for market
opened at sunrise But on his way.
he had to be careful not to destroy
any footpaths" as that act of wan
dalism" was frowned upon.
Business was good Along about
this time, the first store advertise
ment appeared in the paper. 1t said
that a certain merchant had cook
ing stoves" in stOck-they We're just
coming in at that time. Another
early advertisement thoughtfully
mentioned that "Brandreth's Pills
are on sale at the book store of
A. B. Doner."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
And Four More

When subsequent testimony re-
vealed that Trueblood bought four
more drinks in other places during
the day, Wetter asked:
with the Governments money!"
with my own money" True
blood answered. but the court seemed
doubtful. and observed:
That's a mighty poor way to
spend Government money-buying
drinks. If your duties compel you
to take eight drinks of that kind of
stuff every day you're headed for
an early death or the asylum"
Prosecutor +. r. Royce contended
that such expenses were allowable.
Stanview's attorney made much
of the fact that no evidence was
brought into court because True
blood drank all of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30

Few Chinese had ever seen DIR.
Sun, but his name was known every
where in secret society circles, the
only place where such ideas as Sun
entertained could be preached with
out the loss Of ones head.
The revolution broke out in the
fall Of 1911. The Manchus fell. Sun
was made president Of the republic.
Then, because he felt Chinese unity
might have a better chance to sue
ceed with the widely known Yuan
Shih-kai as chief executive, Sun vol
UNFAIRLY accepted a lesser position
in the new government to make
room for Yuan at the top.
RESIDENT Yuan and Sun
III soon split Yuan, formerly
IL a Manchu viceroy, was
too reactionary. Sun retired to
Canton while Yuan became more
and more -reactionary until at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30

was obtained right here in the United
States. in Britain and in British
Hongkong. There are those who dis
pute the part he played in building
the New China, but it is indisputable
that in him was crystalized the
thought that is now making history
in the Celestial Republic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Friendly Tip

Trueblood told the court he be-
came a Federal officer Feb. 20 and
that on the following day he learned
from a friend that he could get
a drink at Stanviews place.
II bought four drinks there and
drank them" he told Judge Wetter.
"And you didn't get drunk?" quer-
led Cox.
NO" was the agents emphatic
answer.
Then it mustn't have been in
toxicating," interjected Stanview's
attorney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30

TN7 HORN of it's ten thousand
|Ol puzzling frills the main story
- of what underlies today's
troubles in the Far East is as simple
and clear as anything can be.
For century China, essentially o.
war-hating, family.loving people, has
been the prey of stronger powers.
Around the year 1900 these were
on the point of partitioning China
among themselves and were stopped
largely by America whose Secretary
of State. the brilliant John Hay, laid
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
GULPED 8
DRINKS AS
EVIDENCE
Federal Dry Officer Has
None Left for Court, but
Wins Case.

Municipal Judge Paul c. Wetter
was told the high cost Of prohibition
enforcement today when Ray True
blood, a Federal dry officer, testified
he swallowed four drinks of "cut"
alcohol" the day after he joined
the force, in getting evidence against
an alleged -viOlator.
The officers baptism bore fruit.
however, securing the conviction of
Nicholas Stanview on a charge of
operating a blind tiger at 40 S. West
st. Stanview was fined 500 and
costs and sentenced to the State
Farm for thirty days. When de-
fense attorney Earl Cox declared
appeal would be taken to Criminal
Court, Stanview's appeal bond was
fixed at $500.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30

Unsettled, probably showers
tonight or Thursday. Not
much change in temperature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
Home Edition

Grover Cleveland Alexander,
World Series Hero, starts a
series of articles on The Times
Sport Page today.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-20

1:05-Mohawk Hour
 4:30-Lido Venice orchestra
 5:30-News of the day | 5:45-Sport talk 5:55-Police alarms 9:50-Dance music 10:30-Studio program 1O1O-WGCP, Newark-2SO 9-Dr. Sterrett's Joy Hour
 9:05-Songe service
 9:20-Joe and the Preacher 9.3o-Talk 9:45-Questions answered
 9;5O-Song service
 1o-Studio program 11-Herbert Baudistels orchestra | 12 mid.-Time
 12:O-WAAT, Jersey City-2l6
 6-Market reports 6:o5-Dinner music
 6:40-Weather forecast
 6;45-Sports resume
 7-Ukulele Pomu Evans, songs 7:l5-Eugene Bove. violinist
 7:30-Randolph Conroy. song S
 7:45-W. Newgold's Literary Lobby
 S-The Piano Masters
 S:30-Edith Won der Leith, songs
 s:45-Jack Foley, tenor
 9-New Venice orchestra ! 10-Mae shannon. contralto 10:15-Louis Steibner songs | 10:3o-Concert Echoes
 11OO-WHAR, Atlantic City-273
 o:l5-Seaside Trio
 7:45-Lecture period l S-Evening concert
 590-WIP, Philadelphia-50S 1-Organ. Geibel Falconer
 1-Weather forecast 6-Weather forecast
 6:05-Baseball scores
 6:10-Dinner music ! 6:45-Market reports
 7-Bedtime story
 S-Arthur L. Neatock. basso
 s:So-Piano solos by Elsie Tucker
 Emil Fritz, flutist | 9:S0-Ruth Rifle, contralto
 l0-Ave Maria, string ensemble 11:05-Organ, Geibel Falconer 790-WGY, Schenectady-3S0 i 7:2s-Bas aseball scores; race resulte i 7:30-Dinner music l S:30-Musical program 9:30-Goldman band
 1o:15-Dance program 11-Dance program 10SO-WHAM, Rochester-27S 6.10-News; stocks: baseball scores 7;S0-Dinner music s;3o-Musical program 11-Dance program 143O-WOkT, Rochester-210 12-Correct time 5-Twilight hour 6-Correct time 6 6:40-Baseba scores 6:45-Rustic Gardens 10-Correct time
New Britain herald., 1927-08-20
M0LLA MALLORY A POWERFUL PLAYER
Has Great Strength in Powerful Physique and Stamina
By MARY K. BROWNE


 (United Press staff Correspondent.) Westchester Biltmore Club, Rye, x. Y, Aug. 20-(Copyright, 1927. by United Press)-Mrs. Mallory, seven times national champion, or marvellous Molla, a superb title for the spunlliest, gamiest and one of the sportingest players who ever trod the turf, has her greatest strength in her powerful physique, self confidence, competitive spirit and reliable ground strokes.
 Molla can outlast any two players on the court. She rarely tires and if she does she can come back very quickly after the rest in a match which goes three sets. Mola takes q little tea with lot of sugar. four humps. The tea is stimulating and the sugar produces energy that is Molla's recuperation in the court.
 Molla's methods of winning are absurdly simple, but none the less effective. She is a two-strokc player with about the same strength on