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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-16
LEGION TO BANQUET
State Commander Will Be Heard
This Evening.

Paul McNutt, dean of the Indiana
University law school and State
commander of the American Legion,
will be the speaker at the annual
banquet of the Hayward Barcus
Post, No. SIS, Of the American Le-
gion this evening at the Third Chris
tan Church, Broadway and Seven
teenth st.
National, State and district Off
GERS of the Legion and the auxiliary
will be special guests at the banquet.
A special entertainment has been ar
ranged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-16
SHORT TALKS BY THOUGHTFUL
MOTHERS

An Indiana mother tells this: 1--WE
find nothing to compare with Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound for
coughs and colds. My little lad had
trouble with his bronchial tubes from
his third year, but since we started
giving him Foley's Honey and Tar
we have been able to control it. We
know there is nothing to compare
with Foley's Honey and Tar Com.
pound" The very name tells story.
Good also for Group (spasmodic) and
troublesome night coughs. Ask for
it. Sold everywhere.--Adve
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-16

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Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
RUTH'S PLANE GOES UP IN FLAMES BEING
 HO|STED ONTO SHIP
ovERHEATED ENGINE, GASOLINE, TWO EXPLOSIONS, GOODBYE
 AMERICAN GIRL"

PARIS, Oct. IA. (P)-Forced down at sea after battling a storm of me- chanical trouble Ruth Elder and pilot Haldeman are safe and sound on the Dutch tanker Barendracht steaming for the Azores. The vessel is due to arrive tomorrow. The monoplane took fire after the rescue and lies beneath the waves a mass of charred wreckage. When forced to alight they had covered more than 2,6O0 miles from New York in the longest flight ever made entirely over water. They fell short of their goal by 1,2O0 miles.
 After being taken aboard the Baren- drecht the sailors attempted to hoist the plane on the ship and in some manner, probably thru fuel spilling on the overheated engine, the gasoline ignited and two explosions followed and the plane burst into flames.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
MILO ECCERS FOUND
 NOT GUILTY ASS|zE COURT IF 3. C. F|NDS
CHIEF IHDENTIFIcATION WIT.
 MISSES FAIL ITO PICK HIM OUT AS HlJACkER,

VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 14. (P)-The assize court jury found Milo Eggers, of Tacoma, not guilty of robbery with violence in the hijacking of liquor landed from the launch Hazel in Brit ish Columbia waters on March 4, 1924. Eggers, who was spirited from Tacoma to Canada after fighting extradition there for years, is alleged to have shot and seriously wounded Elmer Larum, Helmsmann of the craft during the piracy. The Hadsel- Crowns case col fapsed when Andrew Martin and Joe Edwards, who had been relied upon as chief Identification witnesses, failed to pick out Eggers as the one man who asserted had hijacked Hadsell.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
SON IF FAMOUS IRISH
 REBEL, MRS. MC' BRIDE,
 IS HELD BY POLICE

DUBLIN, Irish Free State. Oct IA. P)-sarorstat police are holding seon Mcbride, son of Mrs. Maud Come Me Bride, famous Irish rebel beauty, in connection with the murder of Keyin O'Higgins, late minister of justice,
 He is charged with conspiring to murder O'Higgins, who was assassin ated when several gunmen fired on him from an automobile while he was on his way to church.
 Mcbride is the son of parents who have been intimately connected with the Irish revolutionary movement. His father was executed for treason after the Bloody Easter" rebellion. Before that Major Mcbride had fought the British as second in command of the Irish contingent of the Boer army. Mrs. Mcbride is known as the Irish "Joan of Arc."
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
NEBRASKA FOSSIL
 BEDS EVIDENCE IF
 MAYS BIRTHPLACE
MANY TOKENS OF PREHISTORIC LIFE LIE IN AGATE SPRINGS
 FOSSIL BEDS

AGATE, Neb., Oct. IA. R-The queer terrain of the Agate Springs fos- sil Quarries, which nature has corru- gated in fanciful fashion, has yielded further evidence to support the con- tention of some scientists that it may have been the birthplace of man.
 Expeditions of the American Mus cum of Natural History and of the Colorado Museum of Natural History have completed a summer of delving. and the scientists said they uncovered much valuable proof of prehistoric life.
 Dr. Harold J. Cook, owner of the Cook ranch which contains. the quar- ries, and honorary curator of paleon- tology for the Colorado Museum, has dug into the quarries for years. He is convinced that evidence eventually will be obtained showing that man inhabited North America thousands of years earlier than had been previously accepted, and that the cradle of the human race was not in Asia or west ern Europe but in this part of the United States.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
MC' BRIDE STEPS INTO SHOES 0F LATE ANTI-
 SALOON HEAD, WHEELER

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. A. R- Francis Scott Mcbride, general SUD- erintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, ll1as stepped into the shoes of the late Wayne B. Wheeler, as legislative SUD- erintendent of the dry organization. An attorney will be chosen to do Wheeler's work as general counsel for the league.
 Mcbride is 5, a native of Ohio. From pastorates in the Presbyterian church he turned IS years ago to Anti Saloon league work serving as state superintendent of the league in Illinois before becoming general superintend- ent in 1924.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
TRAPPED COAL MINERS
 RESCUED; GOOD SHAPE

SCRANTON, Penn, Oct IA. (P)- Between 40 and 50 miners, trapped in the Peck mines of the GIandale Coal Co.,, at noon, were rescued last night. All were in good condition and appar- ently suffered but little from their imprisonment. A heavy steel cage, loaded with rock, wedged in the shaft trapping the miners.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
FLIGHT PROMOTERS GET STUNC ATTEMPTS
 SELL ELDER STORY
WANTED s15o,ooo FOR YARN; OF TERED $1,5oo; PROMOTER
 WILLING PUT UP $1

NEW YORK, Oct. fl. (P)-Cashing in on the maneuvers on Ruth Elders flight occupied promoters attention yesterday. We are going to keep this thing bottled up until We sell it." said T. H. McArdle one of the promoters, land I don't mind telling you that the fliers have been in- structed not to talk to anyone until they heard from us. Anyone would be dumb not to know there is money in this and we would be dumb If we didn't take 1t. Neither Miss Elder nor Haldeman will say word until they get sn okeh from us telling them who bought the story"
 H. E. Cornell, another promoter said, we deserve something out of this; look at what we have done for aviation. Why, we have put Ameri- ca on the map with this flight" Me- ardle said he would not consider any thing less than s15O,OOO for the flight story, but received only one bid of s1,5OO. He finally sold the story, after considerable flckering, for con- siderable less than s2o,oOO An un- identified man, who described him. self as an independent motion pie ture producer, told McArdle he was willing to pay the sum of s1 to seal an option on Ruth Elders services as a film actress.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
FRANK ALDR|cH OUT
 FOR COMMITTEEMAN

KETCHIKAN, Oct. 14. (P)-Frank Aldrich of Juneau announced his can- didacy as republican national commit teeman for Alaska. He is former Nome resident and one of the organ izers of the Alaska pioneers. He bas- es his candidacy on his record in the Territorial Legislature and long resi- dence. He is now in Ketchikan with the Federal court.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
GREEN REELECTED n RULE AMERICAN LABOR
 ATL. 4. CONVENTION
NEW ORLEANS SELECTED AS NEXT PLACE OF coNvEN.
 TON NOV. 21, 1928

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14. (P,-An- other term of conservative rule for the American Federation of Labor was voted by the convention with the reelection of President Green. The reelection was without any opposition as was also the other officers. The choise of New Orleans as the site for the next convention, which will be held on November 21, 1928, completed the annual election.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
ARTIST WILL WED

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 14. (P)-Rich- mond will have as one of its most inn portant weddings this year that of Miss Elsie Littleton Lindsey, noted artist, to John Akin Branch, son of John Kerr Branch, the millionaire banker.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
MOTHERS GET VACATION

STORRS, Conn.,, Oct. 14. [P)-Re- versing the usual order, group of Connecticut farm women went on a vacation this summer while their daughters stayed at home and did the housework.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
FRENCH PLIERS OFF
 ON LONGEST FLIGHT

PAKAR-sENEGAL, Oct. 14 R- Dieudonne Costes and Lieut.. Joseph 1ebrix, French aviators, hoped off on their transatlantic flight to Ma tai, Brazil, 2,OO0 miles away, on the second leg of their Paris to Buenos Aires flight.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
HE|NkEL PLANE |s AT
 AMSTERDAM ENROUTE

AMSTERDAM, Holland, Oct. fl. LP, The Heinkel hydro airplane D 1920. enroute to the United States by way of the Azores, arrived from Wilhem- shaven, completing the first lap then Flew to Azores.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
RICHEST CHILD IN WORLD

LONDON, Oct. IA. (R-Next to Princess Elizabeth, the one year old daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, three-year-old Lady Patrica Mountbatten holds attention more than any other child in the British public eye. She is the richest baby in England, if not the world.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
BANDIT LEADER KILLED

WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct IA. (P)- American marines killed the Nicara- guam bandit leader Santos Lobos and captured seven of his men, according to report received by the Navy De- partment.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
JAP GIRLS SMOKING

TOKYO, Oct. fl. (P-Cigarette smoking among young Japanese girls is said to be growing and the authori- ties are thereby much perturbed.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-14
WITHDRAWS TROOPS

PEKIN, Oct. 14. (P)-The possibili- ty of the withdrawal of Manchurian troops from Picking is indicated today by the departure of aviation and heavy artillery units from Picking for Tientsin to the Southeast.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-10
URGE $500,000 FOR
 NORMAL D0RMI7ORY
Meredith, White and Rack
 life Explain Need of Building
(Speclal to the He-aI6A

Hartford, Feb. 10.-A. B. Mere dith, state commissioner on educa- tion, appeared before the legislative committee on education this after noon and urged favorable action on recommends: Aon that the sum of s500,o00 be sought for a dormitory for the State Normal school in New Britain
 Commissioner Meredith told the committee the state board of educa- tion is very much in favor of the building, which was a part of the original plan for the Normal school plan, eliminated because of the amount of money involved
 Principal Marcus White of the Normal school laid stress upon the importance of dormitory accommo- dations to bring the school to it's highest point of efficiency. He asked the committeeman if they could conceive of the United States gov- ernment establishing an institution such as West Point and failing to afford housing accommodations for the students. Mir White told the committee the dormitory is wanted not only by the city of New Britain but by residents of other Connecti- cut cities from which students come to the school.
 Representative Fred o. Rackliffe of New Britain was present and went on record as very much in favor of the idea. His colleague, William H. cause of another meeting. but he had asked Representative Rackliffe to express his sentiment as being heart lily in favor.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-10
GIRL TAKES STAND AS WITNESS Tells of Daugherty's Talk With
 John I. King NO DIRECT TESTIMONY
Government in Proving Conspiracy Charges, Is Relying On Inference Jury Will Draw From Reported Conversations.

Federal Court, New York, Feb. 10 Pl-Two new witnesses were called in the Daugherty- Miller trial today
 Elizabeth Miller. telephone opera tor in the department of justice building when Harry M. Daugherly was attorney-general. took the stand and told of frequent telephone calls between Daugherty and John T.. King, one-time national republican committeeman from Connecticut.
 Daugherty is charged with re- ceiving s14o,0Oo of s44ln00 "bribe" paid King for obtaining pas sage of a claim for $7,oo0,00o of the assets of the American Metal Company.
 Pressed for a definition of fire quent," Miss Miller said the calls were almost daily. Sometimes, she said, Daugherty would call King in New York or Bridgeport. Conn, and sometimes King would call Daugh- erty.
 The witness did not know the purport of conversations over the phone.
 CorrOborated Testimony
 Gladys Weeks, another telephone 1 operator, corroborated testimony given by Miss Miller. Neither testi- fled at the first trial. Their testi- mony was adduced to show the friendliness of King and Daugherty. The government, for proof of al- legged conspiracy, depends upon in- ferences the jury may draw from testimony showing that Daugherty, Miller. Smith and King were friend ly. that they met and conversed fre- quently during the spring and sum mer Of 1921. and that some Of the Merton bonds were traced to Daugherty's and Miller's banking and brokerage accounts.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-10
THOMAS EDISON WILL
 BE 80 THIS FRIDAY
Visit From Ford and Meet. ing of Edison Pioneers"
 to Feature Day

New York, Feb. 10 P>-Thomas Ava Edison, today stands on the threshold of the realm of the octo- genarians. Tomorrow is his eight eth birthday.
 A reception in his home, Llewelyn Park, East Orange, N. J., at which Henry Ford. close friend, is ex- pected, and the annual meeting in Newark of the Edison pioneers, a group of men associated with the wizard of Menlo Park for many years, will be special features of the day.
 The tiny red brick laboratory in West Orange, where Edison as been blazing scientific trails for forty years, has been prepared to receive cable and wireless greetings from all parts of the world which already have started to pour in,
 From Edward Branly noted phys icist in Paris comes a message: T thought Edison was an old man. He is a mere youngster." Prof. Branly is S2.
 Edison still thinks about life as he did when he was newsboy on the Grand Trunk railroad. At that time he rigged up a laboratory in a baggage car to save his spare time Killing time is said to be a crime with him, for it is the only real capital man has," to his way of thinking.
 The daily routine of the noted in ventor was described by William H. Meadowcroft, laboratory assistant.
 He gets up about 6:30 in the morning." said Mir. Meadowcroft and comes down to the laboratory about or 10. Then he's at his ex- periments all day. quitting about 6 CT ' p. m. He goes home and has dinner and the rest of the evening, say until II or 12 o'clock is spent in reading. He reads prodigiously.'
 Callers at the West Orange labor atory will not be told what new in vcntions Edison is working on. First catch your fish, is his motto, then talk about it.
 It was explained he is generally working on twenty or more different lines of experimentation.
 It is pointed out his predictions have way Of coming true. Long before Count Zeppelin launched his dirigihles. Edison in an interview, had expressed the opinion that men would navigate the air in cigar shaped" bags.
 His sense of practicality. it is said, has l;cpt him out of spiritua lisms, about (which he will not talk.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-10
FIRE DEPT. SHAKE.UP
 CONFIRMED BY DEEM
Board Chairman Says Chief Noble Will Make
 Assignments

Verifcation of the story In the Herald yesterday. of the shake-up in the fire department effective Monday. February 14. was made to- day by Chairman Cornelius J. Dehm of the board of fire commissioners. The extent to which Chief Noble will go in reassigning officers and men is entirely in the hands of the chief, Chairman Dehm said.
 "The chief is in close touch with conditions in the department and we do not interfere with him in the slightest degree" Chairman Dehm said. He will make the new assign ments as he sees fit. They will go into effect Monday, when the new No. 2 station will open"
 Meanwhile the fire department members are anxiously awaiting re- ceipt of formal notification of the new assignments. It is reported that some of the men will welcome the change, while others. being well sat- isfied with the companies to which they are attached, are apprehensive of the list to be made known to- morrow.
 The officers detail at present is as follows: Central station Captains George Hoffman and Victor T. Davis, Lieutenants Hugh Clark and Stanley Rozanski (captain elecD; No. 2 house, Captains Fred Smith and VII Ham H. Porter. Lieutenants Fred Linn and John Stanton; Co. No. 3, Captain Michael w. Butler and Lieu tenant John Souney; Co. No. 1, Cap tain James Grove and Lieutenant Thomas Hinchey; Co. No. 5, Captain Edward J. Woods and Lieutenant William J. Hartnett: Co. No. 6, Captain John c. Connolly and Lieu tenant Frank Gilligan. Effective next Monday, the roll of officers will be increased by the addition of Cap tain Rozanski and Lieutenants George Mycroft and Edward J. Conlin.
 A mans physical condition and his ability to carry on his duties as a member of the fire department will be the test of whether he will be continued in the service, rather than the establishment of an arbitrary rule of maximum age. the commis- sioners have decided.
 This policy has been reached in connection with the new pension plan which is 10 be submitted to the general assembly for enactment into law. Men who have reached the age
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New Britain herald., 1927-02-10
STRUGGLED ALIENS IN
 BRIDGEPORT ROUNDUP
Four Men Already Taken Into Custody by Federal
 Agents

Bridgeport, Feb. 10-A round up of aliens alleged to have illegally gained entrance into the United States Is in progress in this city, four men already having taken into cus- tody.
 James Metcalfe, 33, an English mill worker, was arrested today and is being held in bonds of $500 pend ing his arraignment at Ellis Island on charge of illegally entering the country at New York on August 5, 1923. It Is charged that he gained entrance by deserting from the crew of the White Star line steamship Celtic.
 Murray Leslie Boyd, 2s a Cana dian was arrested last night by bu- reau of investigation police on a warrant charging him with illegal entrance to the United States.
 Two brothers from Greece, whose names could not be learned, who 1t is alleged entered the United States by leaving the ship on which they were employed were sent to Ellis Island yesterday from this city to await deportation. Immigration authorities have traced a number of alleged aliens working in Bridgeport by means Of income tax returns made by the factories in which they are em- ployes here.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-10
.LEAWTT REJECTS
 ELECTRICAL EXAM Declares Andrews, Candidate for Inspector, Gave No Notice INSISTS TEST IS VOID
Chairman of Building Commission Points Out that Subject Was Clearly Explained at Meeting Of Board on Monday Night.

Chairman A. P. Leavitt of the building commission today declared void the examination given Mason r. Andrews, outstanding candidate for appointment as electrical inspector to succeed Cyril J. Curtin, who leaves the office this week.
 Andrews, Leavitt learned today, took the examination without giving 10 days written notice of his intent to appear before committee. Such notice is required by law.
 Subject Discussed by Board
 A feature of the incident that oc- casioned some comment in city hall today was the fact that the commits sioners at their meeting Monday night went into the question Of al- lowing Andrews to take the test and found definitely that he could not. Commissioner Thomas w. Hinch- life was present at Mondays meet ing during the discussion. He IS & member of the examining commit tee and was present last night when Andrews came before the board and submitted to an examination. Other members of the committee are A. J. MacFarlane and Joseph P. Barry, neither of whom is on the building commission and who therefore heard none of the discussion of Monday night.
 Andrews, although not a licensed electrician, has acted as inspector during vacation periods and In the absence of Curtin in the past four years. The board planned to make him acting inspector when Curtin re- tires this week and he has consider able backing for permanent ap- pointment to the post. Monday night the objection that he is not licensed was raised. Chairman Leavltt in auired whether Andrews could prop erly be heard by the examiners at the monthly meeting this week and after some discussion of the or dinances 1t was definitely settled that a 10 days written notice was required.
 Passes Test With High Mark Andrews. according to Mir. Barry, declared last night that he had given notice and he was allowed to take the test with the understanding that lit & contrary condition was found to be true ro-iicense would issue. He passed the test with high mark. Discussing the case today. Mir. Leavitt declared emphatically that Andrews would be required to give the same notice as anyone else. He could not account for the fact that the electrician was allowed to take last nights tests, excepting that it might have been an oversight on the examiners part.
 Curtin will leave office Saturday. The commission will meet Monday and select an acting inspector.
 An electrician who carried a grievance to Mayor Weld last month to the effect that he had given notice of intent to take the examin- alton and was not notified when the day for the tests arrived, was pres ent last night. He had previously criticized the system and the ex- aminations and declared: If I do not pass with 100 per cent. I don't want the license" A check-up of his paper today showed he had an- swered two Of the 20 questions cor rectly. giving him a mark of 10 points.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-10
Newport News Officers Take Prisoner Through Territory Where Civil Seizure Was Anticipated

Contrary to the plans of Chief w. c. Hart and Detective Sergeant w. P. McCue of the local police depart ment to have Arthur Aaronson. bank swindler. returned to Newport News, Va. by way of Binghamton, N. Y, and Philadelphia, Pa, in or der to preclude a suspected attempt to detain him by civil process in New York city, Detectives Collins and Williams of the Newport News police made the return trip with Aaronson via New York city and did not even take the precaution of handcuffing him. according to a letter received from Aaronson by Attorney Thomas F. McDonough, who represented him in this city and Hartford during the fight against extradition.
 Attorney McDonough resented the intimation by the police that Aaron sons wife or others might take him out of the custody of the Newport News police. Had Aaronson wished to remain at Hartford county jail, he could have done so, the attorney said but he resolved to return to Newport News, where he swindled the First National bank out of s5,- 900, according to the authorities. Aaronson's letter proves that there was no necessity for attempting to keep him away from New York city, Attorney McDonough pointed out to- day.
 The letter, In Aaronson's hand writing, is as follows:
 Monday, : a. m., Feb. ', 1927.
 Newport News Va. My Dear MT. McDonough:
 T arrived here last Friday morn