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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-15
Living and]. Loving
GIRL DISCUSSES DRINK PROBLEM

The letter signed "Saddened Brown Eyes" has touched a respon'
sie chord in the breast of another Brown Eyes" She writes .o
depIore the drink habit, and raises the question: as to why wheh d
young fellow is trying to break off a bad habit, his friends ~ Jeer
at him until he again yields to temptation.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-15
Surf fishermen have been maxim.

Surf fishermen have been making
good catches of weak and blue
fish. In the bays and fnlets the
founders have been biting and
around the bridge pilings at the
various resorts the sea bass are
taking the hook. When every other
kind of fish are scarce the sea bass
usually can be found and for eat
ing there is nothing much better.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-15

Cape May county boasts that
every COW within its borders has
been tuberculin tested and found
free from disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25

Engine ExpIodes Following
Setting New Altitude
Mark, 10000 Feet.
HOLES RIPPED IN WINGS
Aviator Guides His Blazing,
Hurting Machine Into
Tiny Corn Patch.
By United Press

BV United Press
WASHINGTON, July 25.-Ideut'
G G. Champion, Navy air ace, today
unoficially broke the worlds alti-
tude record and then, his engine
exploding, fought flames with his
hands during a seven-mile plunge
to safety in a two-acre, weed-grown
corntield.
He rose in tiny Wright Apache
biplane from the field jointly shared
by the Boiling Field army and Ana
costa navy air forces, at 6:4O a. m.
Within ten minutes he was out Oh
sight.
Within an hour his altimeter
registered between 10000 and $4,000
feet, he said, whereas the previous
record was 40,810 feet, set by Calico
of France.
Cylinders Blow Out
He started to descend, but al
about $4,000 feet up seven OF his
nine cylinders blew out, their heads
ripping holes in his planes wings
and knocking the oxygen tube from
his mouth.
All nine piston rods flew back
through the plane, further shatter-
ing the wings and endangering his
life.
Then began the forced plunge
that beat all records for similar
descents. Three more times as
Champion volplaned crazily toward
earth, peering with difficulty
goggles clouded with frost,
he was forced to fight out flames.
Parts of the broken engine fell
in scattered places. One was re-
ported to have gone through a
building at Hoover Field.
II fell like a bat out of he'll"
described his descent.
The plane was powerless, and all
I could do was volplane.
'I spied what looked to be gar
den near the Eleventh street bridge.
81 didn't care much where I
landed, but luck was with me and
1 brought her down safely"
Lands on Rough Ground
The patch where Champion land
ed was less than two acres in ex-
tent. So skillfully did he manage
the plane that it travelled less. than
thirty feet on the rough, stubbly
ground before it stopped.
An ambulance sent from Boiling
field when officers saw his plane
hurtling to earth found him strug-
Cling to get out Of his heavy flying
clothes, which he said were smother
ing him.
He was taken to Anacostia Sta
ton, but Immediately returned to
moving the plane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
HOLD BOY IN CRASH
Youth, IA, Revealed as
Death Car Driver.

Following ten-day investigation
of fatal accident July 13 at the
Pennsylvania railroad crossing and
Arlington Ave-, in which three per-
sons were killed, Coroner c.. A.
Keever today ordered Lester Will
lison Harden, IA, of 5151 N. Arsenal
Ave-, charged with manslaughter
today.
At the time of the auto-tra
crash, Mrs. Kathryn Keller, 81, of
4720 Caroline ST., told police she
was the driver. Since then the Of
ficials say they have learned that
the boy was driving.
Besides those two, Mrs. Emma
Harden, mother of the youth, and
a sister, Serena, Is, escaped death.
Those fatally injured were Mrs.
Goldie Roth, %, of 5127 N. Arsenal
Ave, and her son, Junior, 8, and
Eugene Keller, 6, son of Mrs. Keller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
24RI0TERS
WHITING HURT
Kentuckians, Poles Clash in
Indiana Town.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WHITING, Ind, July 25.-A feud
between colony of Kentuckians
and the Polish element here cul-
minated in series of riots over the
weekend which required the police
of Hammond, Whiting, Robertsdale
and East Chicago to quell.
Everett Wilson, "a, Kentuckian,
is in Hammond hospital with a
fracture6 skull received when struck
on the head with hammer.
Mike Delinsky, 30; Anthony Misch,
33; Albert Dudzik, 20, and Thomas
Bonoszyk, II, also are in hospitals
suffering from razor slashes. Twenty
others received first aid for minor
cuts and other injuries during the
weekend.
The first riot began Saturday
night at medicine show when Ken
tuckians are alleged to have struck
several Poles. The ensuing fighting
was stopped by riot squads, but
broke out anew Sunday morning.
1t was not until 8 last night that
police succeeded entirely in quell-
ing the fighting. At least 200 joined
in a pitched battle with knives, clubs,
hammers and iron pipes.
The settlement was then placed
under guard Of shotgun squads
throughout the night.
Twelve Poles and seven Kentuck-
tans are under arrest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
VILLAGE TO SEE
BUDS WEDDING
French Canadian Town Is
Ready for Its Big Event.
BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY
limited Press staff Cnrresnondent

BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY
United, Press staff Correspondent
LA TUQUE, Quebec, July 25.--
This French Canadian village was
all excited today in expectation of
the ceremony tomorrow that will
transform one of it's humber resi-
dents into modern Cinderella,
connected by marriage with New
York's highest society.
Fashionable guests from New
York will mingle with the country
folk and villagers of central Quebec
during the two-day wedding cele-
bration to follow the ceremony to-
morrow, when James bud" Still
man marries Lena Wilson, former
maid in the Grande Anse camp Of
his mother, Mrs. James A. Stillman.
The Highlanders' band from
Montreal will play the bagpipes at
the especially erected pavilion at
Grand Anse, large enough to &C
commodate 500 dancers at time.
The band has been engaged for
two days.
Several last-minute changes have
been made in the wedding plans,
but all the differences between She
wilson's and the Stillmans have been
Strengthened out, and everything
and everybody was ready for the
Catholic cure. Father D'Ami of La
Tuque, to perform the ceremony.
The wedding will take place in
the morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
MUST PURIFY BEACH
Mcclure Resort Told to In
stall Chlorine System.

Mcclure Beach will remain off,
cially closed the remainder of the
season unless a chlorine gas puri-
.fication system is put in.
The cost of such a system, DR..
Herman G. Morgan, city health
officer, estimated would be about
$4,000.
The 10-incll pump which was put
in recently to clear the water at the
beach has been found inadequate
and City Engineer Paul r. Brown
declared this morning that it would
be impractical to put in more
pumps. The present pipe lines
would not be able to handle the
output from another pump.
''The situation will be the same
next year unless plans are made
now to remedy it," DR.. Morgan said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
JURORS INDICT 12
Charge Seven With Murder;
Four With ManSIaughter.

Twelve persons were indicted to-
day in the first report of Marion
County's new grand jury before
Criminal Judge James A. Collins.
One person was discharged,
Seven murder indictments. four
charging manslaughter and one
charging grand larceny were re-
turned. Much accumulated "rou-
tine business" remains to be acted
on by the grand jury.
: Sayde L. Brakeman, %, Negro;
James Crite, Tilford Roberts, Min
ME Tuan and one whose name is
being withheld pending arrest, were
indicted for first degree murder
Theodore Yates and John D. Smith
are charged with second degree.
Manslaugnter indictments were re-
turned against Joseph Brown. Loui'
H. Daley, Anna Barrett and Tode
McQuaid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
BLACK Boxes
IN HANDS OF
PROSECUTORS
Hundreds of Stephenson's
Letters Are Examined
by Remy Staff.
ARE VERY INTERESTING
Deputy Comes Back From
Washington, Ind, With
Documents.

What to do with D. G. Stephens
sons "black boxes" now that they
have them2
Marion County prosecutors were
to discuss this problem this after
noon in conference at the home Of
Prosecutor William H. Remy, a E.
Fifty-Fourth st.
Remy has been I'LL. He arose
from his sick bed to view the Ste
phenson document.
Special Prosecutor Emsley w.
Johnson reached the city with the
boxes and a large quantity of Ste
phenson's papers this morning. He,
Remy and Special Prosecutor john
w. Hoffman planned to look them
over.
Delivers Letters.
BY arrangement made earlier last
week, l.. H. Julian, Evansville, for
mer partner of Stephenson, drove to
the barn Of Thomas Singleton.
eight miles south of Washington,
Ind, last Thursday afternoon.
There he met Special Prosecutor
Johnson and turned over to him
the two boxes and enough letters re-
ceived by Stephenson and carbons of
letters he wrote, to fill the back end
of an automobile. Singleton is
Johnson's uncle.
johnson sorted out some of the
papers and permitted Julian to take
them away.
Johnson said the boxes, twelve by
eight by eight inches contained
some very interesting" informa-
ton.
johnson called John L. Niblack,
deputy prosecutor, from Vincennes
and together they spent about nine
hours Friday afternoon and evening
poring over the papers.
Many of the letters to Stephen
son, according to Niblack, were
from persons seeking loans.
Not I'm Loan Business
One was from a New York City
woman, who described herself as OF
IAN old southern family" She
wound up with request for loan.
On the back of the letter was q
note by Stephenson. mot in loan
business" and attached was car
bon copy of letter by Stephenson's
secretary celebrating upon the note.
Many of the papers were nodded
at the bottom. Niblack said they
appeared to have been buried some-
where since last October, when
prosecutors first started searching
for them.
In one of the black boxes we're
several shirt studs, rings. cuff links
and other trinkets. Stlnes had been
removed from all. One shirt stud
appeared to have held a jewel the
size of o pea.
Stones Are Missing
Niblack said Julian was asked
how the stones came to be missing.
He said Julian replied that he did
not know, that that's the way they
were when they reached me-"
The place where Johnson received
the boxes is near the family home Of
Miss Mildred Meade, former con-
fidante of Stephenson. She was be-
fore the prosecutors several hours a
week ago and 1t is thought had
something to do with appearance OF
the boxes.
Hundreds Of persons motored to
the Singleton farm Sunday and we're
permitted to glance at the black
boxes by Johnson.
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hot dog, Stephen Roach, Joe's at
torney, told newspapermen today.
Darrow and Untermeyer long have
been the friends Of the lowly and
the oppressed, but heretofore have
betrayed little public interest in hot
dogs.
Hughes, former Supreme Court
justice, secretary of state and candi-
date for president, usually has de-
voted his legal talents to cases in
volving millions and settlings ques-
tions Of grave constitutional i'm
portance,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25

tary of state, the man who eventu-
ally was elected to the Office which
he knew that he soon was to lose
and declared that nothing could
tempt him to descend to such
depths of political and official
degradation.
When jackson went back to the
conference, he reported that he hac
failed. He said that McCray had
choked and had been in tears. He
said that the Governor was shaken
by the prophetic shadows, but that
he would not consider the offer OF
assistance.
His report indicated that he con-
sidered McCray very foolish man.
but an obstinate one on this point
He did not report the moment OF
stupendous courage which it must
have required, instantly and auto
matically, to flash back an indig-
nant mo" to an offer to sell an office
in return for freedom.
Turn to Stephenson
But McCray's point-blank refusal
of the offer made by jackson did
not check the plan.
D. G. Stephenson was yet to be
used and to Stephenson they turned.
The same offer was made to
James P. Noel, then attorney for
McCray, by Stephenson.
There was the same offer of
$4,000 in cash, the same offer to
control juries, the same offer of
immunity, in return for the place
which it had been announced pub
licly would go to Remy, but for
which no official appointment had
been issued.
AS attorney for the indicted Gov
ernor, Noel was urged by the former
dragon of the Klan to place before
the Governor the same offer which
Jackson had placed before him and
failed.
Stephenson went into consider
able detail as to what the Office of
PAOoSN0OOA AAOoAAS W q POAAOANoA AA1-
chine. He knew its value in election
cases-especially In election cases
that involved charges of fraud.
Mcdonald Not In Deal
AS far as is known, Mcdonald
knew nothing Of the offer in his
behalf. 1t is not probable that he
knew that he had been selected by
Coffin as the man he could con-
troll and there is no suggestion that
he would have been controlled for
any improper purposes.
But there is no question Of what
Jackson and Coffin, sitting in the
Office of the former under the dome
of the Statehouse, wanted.
They did not want Remy.
They wanted a man they named.
And they talked of votes that would
be possible in the coming primary.
That was what Stephenson, des-
tined to be sent to prison for hla
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talked about. He was not talking
then about his own freedom, nor was
there any possibility in his mind
that the prosecutor of this county
would play an important part in his
life.
1t was votes and control Of which
he talked when he asked Noel, Nc
Cray's attorney, to permit him to
furnish $4,000 for legal feees and
defense and the pledge of Jurors so
fixed that no verdict of guilty"
would ever be returned.
Against this temptation McCray
stood. 1t was indeed no tempta-
ton for him, as the evidence in
possession of The Times shows.
He never considered it for even
minute.
Instead, perhaps 1t was an nouI
Of pride in the midst of darken-
ing skies that he looked up from
his desk, a desk he soon was to
leave, and to an embarrassed mes
senger declared that rather would
live in eternal disgrace than thus
to betray his State and his oath of
Office.
McCray went TO prison. jackson
did not need his extra 10000 votes.
He became Governor and is Gov
ernor.
Remy received his commission
from McCray Dec. 10, 1923, Sun
day having intervened between the
day of Evans resignation.
McCray was indicted in Marion
Criminal Court Dec. /, 1923, for
forgery and obtaining money under
false pretenses and issuing a frau
dulent check. Evans resigned Dec.
8 and Remy officially was commits
stoned Dec. 10.
The jury in Marion County Court
failed to agree.
McCray then was tried in United
States District Court on a charge
of using the mails to defraud. He
was found guilty and given a sem
tence Of ten years at Atlanta by
Judge A. B. Anderson. April 80, 1924.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
WOMEN LEAD
TO arrest OF
Two BANDITS
Hostetter Brothers Captured
In Buffalo; Girls Held
in Pittsburgh.
WANTED IN BANK JOB
Money Orders Sent Friends
in Lavish Apartment
Serve as CIeWs.
WANTED IN BANK JOB

Women proved the latest undoine
of Howard and Robert Hostetter,
Indianapolis bank bandits, captured
at Buffalo, N. Y, Sunday, according
to a Times dispatch from Pittsburgh
today.
The Hostetter brothers are wanted
here for the robbery of the South
port Citizens State Bank, Ind the
wounding of Deputy Sheriff Charles
Bell few nights later. Feb. g, 1873,
they got $1,000.
Dennis Hostetter, third brother,
and Kenneth Reeves are serving
time in Indiana State Reformatory
for completely in the robbery.
Money Orders Are Clews
Pittsburgh detectives learned that
Betty johnson and Virginia Will
liams, attractive, well-dressed girls,
living in luxurious apartment
were receiving money orders from
Buffalo. These money orders led to
the arrest of the Hostetters, accord
ing to the dispatch.
The men gave the names of Wal
lace johnson and Ralph Williams.
Police here are sending finger
prin8 and other Bertillon records to
make Identification positive.
Girls Are Arrested
After the men had been cap
tured, Pittsburgh detectives caught
the Williams girl in the apartment
and the johnson girl at the Pitts
burgh Union Station, where she had
checked her handbag preparatory to
fight.
The girls admitted they we're from
Indianapolis. Pittsburgh detectives
believe they gave assumed names.
A woman once before messed
things up for the HostetterS.
A few nights after the Southport
robbery Sheriff Omer Hawkins re-
ceived tip that the robber gang
had established headquarters at
Roberts home, 621 N. Bradley Ave.
Two Wounded in Battle
Deputy Sheriff Bell, Robert Nc
Flroy, private detective; Lawrence
Bradley, citizen of 1920 N. Kitley
ST., and police rushed to the house.
After a brief struggle the party
in the house, including the three
Hostetters, Reeves and several won-
en-, was subdued.
While the party was prepared for
transportation to Jail, Rose Marie
Kaiser, girl friend of one of the
Hostetters, asked permission to go
to bedroom to get a handker-
chief.
While in the bedroom the woman
secreted a pistol in her clothing
walked into the living room and
passed the gun to Robert Hostetter
Hostetter began firing.
Bell and Bradley were wounded
Howard and Robert Hostetter ano
the women escaped
Captured in Texas
The officers caught the woman
here later. She confessed that she
had kept an automobile severa
miles from Southport and that the
bandits had transferred to it
abandoning the hold-up car. Sht
turned states evidence and was re.
leased.
A nation wide search resulted II
arrest of Robert and Howard Hos.
letter and Reeves at Laredo, Texas
in March, 1926. A few days latel
Robert and Howard sawed their way
out of Jail. Reeves was detained
and returned to Indianapolis, wheri
with Dennis Hostetter he received {
two to foIx teen-year sentence.
Richard Hostetter, father of tn,
bandits, was acquitted on a charg'
of receiving stolen goods.
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"Hod dog guys and army men like
me-" said Joe. Say give reform
guys hell. My lawyer, he say open
business July 26. So, on Tuesday,
I go open business same any other
day."
So on the shoulders of an alien
falls the task of standing against
what many persons regarded as in
vasion of American rights.
Clarence Darrow, Samuel Inter
meyer and Charles Evans Hughes
may enter the battle to protect the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
H00SlER, 86, RECALLS
THOSE SLOWER DAYS

First Wells County Mail Carrier
Cites Mile in Two Hours
By Times Special
BLUFFTON, Ind, July 25.-J. B.
Brown, 86, living near Petroleum, re-
calls the slow methods of transpor-
tation in the days when he was tie
first star route mail carrier in Wells
County, as he reads of flights in a
few hours across the Atlantic ocean.
Brown remembers instances when
two horses hitched to a buggy COZ !
cover only a mile in two hours, due
to muddy roads, and even at that,
he had to keep mud poked from
spokes of the buggy wheels. Tha
was more than half a century ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
SO, HE PLoWS FIELD
John Hicks Celebrates Birthday;
Voted for Abe Lincoln.

By United Press
NEW YORK, July 25.-John
Hicks, who lives at Jericho, Long
Island, but comes from the Hicks
vile Hickses, celebrated his 93rd
birthday yesterday by hitching up
his team and blowing q field. Hicks
voted for Abraham Lincoln for
President and was a member Of the
old New York City volunteer fire
department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
S21 STOLEN IN CHURCH
Money Missed From Purse When
NeighbOrs In Pew Leave.

Miss Nellie Carr. 1885 spann Ave,
today reported to police she had
been robbed Of S2l while attending
downtown church Sunday after
noon.
Miss Carr said she missed the
money after three women. who had
been sitting in the same pew. left
before the end of the services.
A friend told Miss Carr she had
seen one take the money. She also
gave the license number Of the car
N which the women drove awaR
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
Deep Silence

BY Times stan Correspondent
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich,
July 25.-When asked by a staff
correspondent if he had any
comment to make upon the
story printed today in the
Times, Governor EG jackson,
who is attending a Inference
of governors here, said.
"I have nothing to w."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
WIN RACE WITH DEATH
Coffee Bean Removed From Lung OF
Minnesota Child.

Ss scFRsosoksToN, sFs5sSGk ihrsS Mimi, July rs
The parents of 3-year -old Gladys
Lund, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Lund, won
a seventy mile race with death
when the child recovered from an
operation to remove a coffee bean
from her lung. The girl was rushed
to o Crookston hospital from Trail,
Minn., through a rain-spattered
night over a dark and treacherous
road
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
FATHER AND SON BOTH
DIVORCE DEFENDANTS
Suits on File at DanvilIe-Abandon
ment Alleged in Each

By Times Special
DANVILLE, Ind, July 25.-Fath-
er and son are defendants in two
divorce cases on file in the Hend-
ricks Circuit court.
Charles A. Ragan, the father, is
accused Of abandonment by Mary
E. Ragan. They were married thirty
one years ago.
Ethel E. Ragan alleges the SAME
ground as her mother-in-law
against the son, Earl A Ragan.
Married in 1919, the younger couple
separated in 1922, and the wife al
leges she has not seen or heard Of
her husband since the latter yeaf
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
NINE DIE, IN CAR CRASHES
Three Gary, Ind, Brothers Crushed
in Crossing Accident.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, July 25.-Nine persons
lost their lives in the Chicago met
ropolitan area over the week end
as the result Of automobile acci-
dents.
Three of the deaths were in Gary,
Ind, where brothers aged 16, 13
and 6, were crushed to death when
a New York Central train struck
their motor car at crossing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
Wanted in Bank Holdup

By Times Special
PORTLAND, Ind, July 25.-Merlt.
Yocum and Dick Morningstar, con-
victed of forgery in tn Jay Circuit
court here, are being sought in con-
nection with the $4,000 holdup Of
the Rockford lOhio), National Bank
last week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
HEY! LET A GUY SLEEP

Negro Believed Dead Because He
Maps on Fall Creek Bank.
William Green, Negro, 80, of 232
w. Michigan ST., supplied himself
with sign, Sleeping, do not dis
turb," to prevent experiences such
as occurred Sunday.
Green, chose the bank of Fall
Creek for nap and passing fish
erman thought he was dead. An
emergency squad in charge of Sergt.
Ralp Dean arrived and awakened
him from his heavy slumber.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-25
RS-1 ACROSS MOUNTAIN
Big Army Dirigible Passes Over
AlIeghenies at Night,

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON. July 25. = The
RS-1, the Army's largest dirigible,
successfully crossed the Allegheny
mountains during the night and
landed at Langley Field, Va, at
$3.50 a. m. today, the war depart
ment announced. 1t left Scott Field,
Ill, yesterday.
The great semi-rigid airship and
its crew of eight is to come to
Washington and tour several other
sections Of the East.