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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
NEGRO RUNS OFF
WITH DIAMONDS
SEXES Tray of Gems and
Rings in Store.

Two Negro boys employed a clever
ruse in a diamond theft at the
store of r. b. Goldsberry. 146 w.
Washington ST.. Thursday.
Goldsberry told police that one
boy asked to look at caps. While
he was trying on headwear. Colds
berry said, his companion loitered
about the case where the diamond
rings are kept. Suddenly he seized
a tray containing fourteen rings
with chip diamonds and a dozen
plain rings, and ran out the door,
followed by his pal. The rings We're
valued at $3.50 by Goldsberry.
Burglar9sentered the home Of
John Ashe, 617 N. Beville Ave, and
took jewelry valued at $3.50, Thurs
day night, police said.
J.. j. Hopkins, 4721 Winthrop
Ave, told police his home had been
looted Of clothing and jewelry worth
y165.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
STATE SPELLING
CONTEST MAY 70
AT CALEB MILLS
County and Zone Cham
pions to Compete at
Shortridge High Hall.

The spelling championship of
Indiana will be decided at Caleb
Mills auditorium, Shortridge High
School, on Friday evening, May 20.
Selection of the date and place
was announced today by the Edit
or of The Indianapolis Times,
which Is conducting the spelling
contest program in Indiana.
The winner will be sent to
Washington, d. c., during the
week of June 20, to compete in the
National Spelling Bee, which is be-
ing sponsored by the The Times,
the Louisville Courier-Journa and
a number of other leading news
papers interested in educational
work. Expenses of the Indiana
champion and chaperon will be
paid by The Times.
h Eight Indianapolis spelling cham
Dpions, the champion speller of
Marion county and the champions
of Johnson and Bartholomew and
the other central Indiana counties
completing the spelling bee pro-
gram, will compete for the State
honors.
Words for the State Spelling Bee
and officials to preside over it will
be chosen soon by the State bee
committee.
The State contest will be oral
and because the Mccall Speller is
a standard text book in the Indi-
ana schools, the contest words will
be chosen from it. An additional
list of words, chosen at random but
approved by standard dictionary,
will be held in reserve, for use in
event that the Mccall list becomes
exhausted, T.
Rules for the State bee will be
practically the same as those gov
erning the oral contests in the In
dianapolis schools.
The contest will be in direct
charge Of the promoters and the
judges.
Details Of the State meet, which
Will NC OPC4i W bllC IpdDAiOs VIII NC
announced soon.
The Indiana State Spelling cham
pion and chaperon will be housed
at the Hotel Hamilton, which will
be headquarters for the State
champions while in Washington
for the National Bee. All expenses
of the Indiana winner and chaper-
one, including railway and Pull
man fare, meals, hotel and the
scheduled sightseeing trips will be
:. paid by this newspaper.
"A A total of - in gold Is Of
Hered the winners In the National
Bee. The first prize is 81 900 cash.
A second prize of $500 is offered
and an additional $1,000 will be d.
vided among the other winners.
No one will receive less than $35.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
STATE SUPPORTS
1867 PERSONS
1879 Now Present in 20
Institutions.

Per capita cost Of $29519 was ex-
pended last year by Indiana in
supporting some $4,000 persons in
the twenty State institutions, ac-
cording to the quarterly bulletin
issued today by the State board of
charities.
The number of inmates enrolled Is
given as 1867, of which number
1879 were listed as actually
present, while the remainder were
on furlough, parole, suspended SEN
tence or temporarily absent. OF
the total 1902 are men and GIGS
women.
1t cost the State a grand total of
$5,210,S62.0S to support the in
stitutions during 1925. Officers and
employees total 2,247. Salaries and
Wages were the largest item of ex-
{$enditure, $1,S47,2SS, with sub
sistence next at $1,O29,193.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
EXPECT DUNCAN,
FOUND GUILTY,
TO FILE WRIT
TiIton, Also Convicted, May
Seek RetriaI; Two Other
Defendants Freed.

A writ of error is expected to be
filed by attorneys for Russell V.
Duncan, Marion County State Rep.
resentative, convicted Thursday be-
fore Federal Judge Robert c.
Baltzell of theft, forgery and con-
spiracy in connection with the dis
appearance Nov. 10. 1924 Of an in
come tax rebate check for S3,094
from the Internal Revenue collectors
office here.
Charles w. Tilton, formerly en-
ployed in the revenue office and by
Duncan, was also found guilty. Til
ton was charged with forging the
Endorsement Of John w. Smith"
payee, to the check. which Duncan
later Endorsed and deposited at the
J. +. Wild Bank. Evidence was
also introduced to prove that Tilton
had access to the check shortly be-
fore its disappearance.
Tilton's attorneys also are ex-
pected TO file dissenting action to
obtain new trial.
Under $4,000 Bond
Duncan and Tilton are at liberty
under $4,000 bond.
Howard F.. Hamilton, %, and his
wife, Suzanne Baker Hamilton, who
were in custody of the check in the
revenue Office and We're charged with
conspiracy in connection with its
disappearance, were freed by the
jury.
The jury's verdict came unexpect-
edly after four hours of elaboration.
Judge Baltzell ordered the jurymen
to be brought into the courtroom
shortly after 8 p. m. Wednesday to
tell them he was leaving for dinner.
1t was then the foreman announced
a verdict had been reached.
Duncan and Tilton will be sem
fenced May IA. Seven counts COM
prising the Governments indict-
ment carry maximum sentence of
twenty-seven years in the peniten-
tiary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
OCEAN filters MISSING
Saint Roman and Crew Not Heard
From Since Start Across Water.

BIZ United Press
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 6.-Capt
Saint Roman and his companions in
the land plane which left West
Africa yesterday morning to fly
across the south Atlantic ocean to
Erazil were seven hours overdue at
1880 a. M, today. the Brazilian Ma
tional Telegraph Company an
nounced.
Saint Roman was aboard a Goliath
plane originally equipped with pom.
toons which were removed at Casa
blanca, Morocco. despite forebodings
Of experienced airmen that an At
lantic flight without floats would be
almost suicidal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
POLITICIAN GETS
ASPHALT SUPPLY
CONTRACT AWARD
Mystery Surrounds Action
of Park Board on Re,
SurfaCing Job.

Todd Young, politician and rGgR9S
sentative Of the United Rock AspHa3
Company, Louisville, low bidder, IT,
day received a park board contrast
to furnish 1 400 tons. more or lesk
of rock asphalt at 81 a ton for re-
surfacing Thirty-Eighth st. betweoG
Northwestern Ave. and Boulevard PL
An air of mystery surrounded the
award by the park board on bids ad.
vertised for and opened by City PUP.
chasing Agent John J. Collins. Cor
Inns was authorized in a resolutions
in January to handle the bids. He
made no recommendation.
Foley Refuses to Vote
Park Commissioner Michael E
Foley refused to vote ON the contracI
motion made by Adolph G. Emhardt
President John e. Minor and Mrs
J. d. Hoss voted for the award t.
Young.
Young underbid the Natural RocF
Asphalt Company just cents. Rock
asphalt last year was bought for
S14.09, it was said.
S. f. Ferguson. Kentucky RocF
Asphalt sales engineer, competins
bidder engaged in heated tangk
with Young over the merits of thep
product and size Of their concernE
Ferguson Bid Sl2.O9
Ferguson bid S12.09 and promised
TO replace the street surface withiR
three years If not satisfactory.
THE specifications were very
loose. They specified that the rock
asphalt shall be equal to the best pro-
duced in Kentucky" said Ferguson.
Young pointed out the product must
be acceptable to the city chemical
department, which tests each car
load.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
Girls Nearly Step
on SkuIking Pair

Hearing burglars is one thing,
while almost treading on them is an
other, Florence and Fern Brooking,
daughters of Mrs. Muriel Brooking,
S54 E. Troy Ave, told members of
a police emergency squad late Thurs
day night.
The mother had left the daugh-
tiers in care of the house and two
small children while she went on an
errand. The girls visiting at next
door neighbours heard their dog bark
at their home. Investigating, the
two walked around the house and
almost stepped on two persons who
were lying on the ground beside the
house. The strangers sprang up
and ran, the girl said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
JetUish Home May Be
Near Ford Property
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
SOUTH SUDBURY, Mass, May 6.
Near Henry Ford's historic Way
side Inn, a new Hebrew home may
soon be erected.
This has been disclosed by j. w.
Weeder OF this village. who al
ready has conferred with a Jewish
committee regarding sale of the site,
which he owns. A delegation from
a Boston synagogue has inspected
the site, according to Weeder.
The owner said the Jews were fa-
vorable to purchase of the property,
which cons.stes of twenty-six acres.
Plans call for election OF a, home
and recreation headquarters for jew
ish q&tA4DasA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
Stills Has His Own Idea

Milton Stills reverses the usual Or
der of crime. conviction and punish
ment in his current starring vehicle
for First National Pictures, "Dia-
monds in the Rough" First he
served time" in a tropical penal
colony, then exiled by working in
Brazilian diamond mines. Now,
weeks later. he's filming, scenes of
the French military court. whose de-
cision started him on his Odyssey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
Hoouer Davis Enter Flood Area for Relief Surue,
Today's Flood Facts

Crews of workers strive to save
levees at twenty points In
Louisiana.
"NO work, no food is slogan
in flood menaced areas.
Capitalists and Negroes toll side
by side.
No additional deaths reported
from latest inundated sections.
Homeless estimated at from
$4,000 to 1000.
Secretary Hoover and Secretary
Davis return to flood district TO fur
Their relief work.
Red Cross relief fund reaches
7,S13,908.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
Shocked, Fell From Tree

BIZ UUlten PT6S8
MARION, Ind, May 6.-Suffering
with body injuries and severe burns.
Chauncey Parrett and Oras Par
rett, of Wabash, were in the Marion
hospital today The two brothers
fell twenty feet from a tree at the
Marion national sanitarium when
the pruning hook they were using
touched a high tension electric wire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
BUTLER HAS HONOR DAY
Awards Are Presented Students Dur
ing Exercises.

Honor day exercises were held at
Butler University Thursday after
noon when all persons who won
various prizes during the school year
received awards.
Special services were held for the
senior class and new members of
the Phi Kappa Phi, national scho-
lastic honorary fraternity. DR.. II.
A. Olmstead, University of Illinois.
was the principal speaker and Presi-
dent Robert J. Alley was in charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06

Shingling among women may re-
suit in a race of bearded women,
says a DOCTOR who points out that
men who let the hair grow on their
heads have practically none on their
faces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
Writ OF Error

Duncan's writ of error, which II
filed will have the same effect as a
motion for a new trial, will be based
on Judge Baltzell's instruction to
the jury, which his attorneys claim
shifted the burden of proof upon the
defense
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06

A mysterious power for
evil, a Ring leader who yields
power over constituted off
cials, is battling a newspaper
editors efforts to save city
from becoming the plaything
of the Underworld. He is
revealed in a story you have
always wanted to read. See
next Tuesdays issue of The
Indianapolis Times.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-12

MAINTAINING THE SCHEDULE
When winter ONE in Norway it brings
with it billiards and railroad communi-
cation Is maintained with great difficulty.
Lines are kept open by huge rotary
plows which travel over the roads, al
most continuously from December to
March Above. q plow at work on a
mountainous stretch Of track.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-12

RUSSIAS PLEADING FEAHNISTS-Ths is an unusual snapshot Of I'm KoupAayaw dow p
LmL hht and LIME Kdhnty The former Is an active political propagnHAM the Soviet among
the women of her ountya Ind tn huers head othe welfare bureau Of the government and Is re
sponsbe more than anyone else for the SISTER Of Soviet rules as applies to women md children
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-21
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT

The first lecture in the Interior
Decorating course offered by Mrs.
M. C. Nelson, will be given Tuesday
at 2.
Mrs. Leo K. Fesler is offering a
Saturday morning class in Self Elk
preston for teachers.
Mrs. w. B. Parker will open a
Millinery Glass, Wednesday from 200
to 400. An evening class will also
meet Wednesdays.
The evening Sewing Glass has
changed it's meeting time from Tues
day to Wednesday at z. Alteration
Service is offered from $50 to 700.
Student Council recently elected:
President, Margaret Bennett; secre-
tary, Mrs. Aulta White; treasurer,
Bernice White.
The meetings of the grade school
advisors follow: Monday at 8 p. m,
school IA, Margaret Toys; school Is,
Olga Bonks; school 16, Ruby Wolf;
Southport grade school, Marie Rob
erts. Tuesday: school rs, Fay Smith;
Thursday, school II, Dale Water
bury; school 81, Minnie Hadde;
school 33, Mrs. w p. Morton; school
IS, Kathrine Tacoma; school SO,
Thelma Tacoma; school %, Mary
Hastings; school SO, Kathryn Her
rod; school, 60, Adrienne Schmedel;
school 70, Arma Pursell; school rs,
Mrs, A. Ward. Friday: School As,
Fay Smith and Elizabeth Johnson;
school IL. Clara While.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-21
MENUS
. For the
FAMILY
BY SISTER MARY.

Observation-Disclosures, cereal, thin
cream, ham omelet, crisp graham
toast. orange marmalade, milk, cof-
fee.
LUNCHEON-Corn souff1e, tomato
jelly salad, nut bread ard butter
sandwiches, prune pudding, milk,
tea.
DINNER-Pot roast of beef,
brown gravy, mashed potatoes, but
tered parsnips, horseradish and ap-
pie salad, graham rolls, cherry pud-
ding, milk, coffee.
The marmalade is suggested in the
breakfast menu to furnish the need
ed touch of piquancy. If you make
your own marmalade it can be as
bitter or as mild as you prefer it.
Keep in mind that carrots scraped
and put through the food chopper
and simmered in just enough water
to prevent. burning make a satisfac-
tory "stretcher" as we'll as a neu.
tralizing agent for the oranges.
Corn Souffie.
Two cups canned corn, eggs, 1
teaspoon salt, teaspoons sugar, Is
teaspoon pepper, tablespoons but
ter, 2 tablespoons flour, cups milk.
Chop corn. Mix and sift sugar,
flour, salt and pepper and stir into
corn. Beat yolks of eggs until thick
and lemon colored. Add to corn mix
ture. Rinse out bowl in which eggs
were beaten with milk and add with
softened butter to first mixture. Mix
thoroughly and fold in whites of
eggs beaten until stiff and dry. Turn
into a well-buttered baking dish and
bake twenty-five minutes in moder-
ate oven. Serve at once from bak-
ing dish.
Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-21

middle-aged, tight-lipped woman
scrubbed the basin which Faith had
used, wiping it with hard, vicious
swipes of a blue-striped towel, as If
Faith had contaminated it.
That's Faith Lane-you know,
the sister of that girl, Cherry, who
murdered"
Faith. returning to the dressing
room for a forgotten toothbrush,
shrank back between the folds Of the
heavy green curtains. her cheeks
scarlet, blood pounding in her ears.
0, she couldn't bear it, she told her
self passionately, as she huddled in
her seat, waiting for o'clock and
Bob.
When Bob came forward to meet
her, she caught a glimpse of the
morning paper he held in his hand:
"CHERRY'S SISTER SELLS"
The sheet was folded on the rest Of
it, but she had 10 need to see the
actual words in which her shame had
been blazoned.
20, Bob!' she cried, involuntarily
holding out her arms TO him.
NEXT: Bob reports progress.
Copyright. 1927, NEA Service, Inc)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-21
Loves Him Though Parted

helped Others and if you could give me
some light would be grateful. l just
don't see how to do but I know. there
must be some way to make things right if
I am patient. Two years ago l was
parted from my husband. We had been
married seven years.
a short while before we parted. he be-
came infatuated with a woman, WHO
moved into our town and started beauty
shop; found it out and was so angry
had sufficient grounds and got divorce,
bman again and he has told many others.
he has always loved me. However, he is
for turning so hard against him.
Miss Lee, although some folks dis
courage me, | believe he truly does love
me as l love him. Do you think real love
ever dies and do you think l may get
him back? He does not go with other
women. A SORROWFUL WIFE.
Your husbands later actions
would indicate that he really cared
for you. You made the mistake fire.
quently made by persons bitterly
angry-you acted hastily. Possibly his
relations with the woman you were
jealous of, were never what your
imagination pictured. Anyway, I
think the chances are quite good for
a reconciliation between you, and as
you love him dearly, don't lose hope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-21
THE WOMAN'S DAY
BY Allene Sumner

gether to extol child. bearing as the
one and only job and to look askance
at the sisterhood which works as
well and as hard at something else,
equally necessary.
Having and rearing children is an
art, a worthwhile job, a necessary
job, a satisfying job. and all the rest
1t deserves special praise as the onls
Job which only women can do. Blu,
this world needs more. tolerance foi
other women's jobs and pursuits. We
need more bouquets and more respect
for the woman brave enough to adj
NIT that she Is devoid of the mater
nal instinct, but has an equally
worthwhile job TO do, as she has.
THE COMEBACK
But what will become OF the
world IL all women refuse 10 have
babies?" is the eternal comeback OF
the afraid.to.thinker. one can only
answer, Rubbish! Nature looks out
for that. For every woman born
without the maternal instinct, 100
are born with II, and nature who
provides the 100 provides the one
other just as carefully. knowing she
needs her, too
FOR MY BOY"
Il did il for my boy" says Mrs.
Myrtle Huddleston who, chewed and
stabbed by barracuda, swan from
Catalina Island to mainland. Which
sums up the ambitious, aggressive
woman of today very well. Mothers
who swan channels for their chill
dren would have been much more OF
q rarity in the "mauve decades" and
even later when society casually as.
sumed that fathers did the ambitious,
aggressive stuff for their children,
and IL they didn't, well, II was too
bad, but nothing could be done about
it, and mother just waited for better
times. Even when there were no
fathers, it was about the same thing.
Women got along somehow. Bas-
kets from the neighbors, 're-
spectacle work with the needle" but
nothing that would make people
talk"
A song and basket Of fruit for
| these changing times!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-21

fore [ cannot tolerate the silly line that
the average fellow of today thinks is clever.
| want to fall in love with someone who
Ny idea of an ideal fellow is DR..
Don saltwater the outstanding character
in Sonia" Are there any men like that
here who are not married? ] want some
one who is reserved. educated, ambitious
and is really doing something worth while
for his felloWmen ! am afraid that will
never meet anyone that J. can truly love.
Please tell me. do you think mine is a
hopeless case! F. II.
Well, it is indeed a large order that
you have given to life, my dear, but
1 wouldn't say your desire is an alb
solQte hopeless one. Such men as
you describe exist, and if they are
few and far between, that doesn't
mean you may not meet them.
It's good to have an ideal-to hope,
reach and strive for it. "Hitching
your wagon to q star" ennobles and
develops one. Use a little modern
psychology on this and don't admit,
even to yourself that your quest is
hopeless" Indeed, declare other
wise It's likely to help
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-21

That would seem to answer with
Tinalty, the age-old and frequent
~ asked question, Can a dead love
be revived?" Maybe not. Love
doesn't need to be revived, for
Love-real love, never dies.
Romance may falter, mere pas
sion may cool, circumstances may
put time and distance and broken
hopes between, but there, in the
ground of human hearts, where
ever real love has once blossomed,
the dormant roots still lie.
It's like the honeysuckle vine
in the garden. You may bruise
it, strange it, freeze it, lop it off
ard raze it down to earth but
you cannot uproot it and with
even a little encoura cement, it will
spring up again, fresh and tender
and true.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-21
Recipes By
Readers

NOTE-The Times will give 81 for
each recipe submitted by a reader
adjudged of sufficient merit to be
printed in this column. One recipe
is printed daily, except Friday, when
twenty are given. Address Recipe
Editor of The Times. Prizes will
be mailed to winners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-21
INDUSTRIAL NEWS

Boy Scouts will entertain the In
dustrial Department Wednesday eve
ming with patriotic program. Miss
! Opal Boston, the new president, will
preside. Following dinner Miss Vio-
let Van Note will have charge of
| recreation and roller skating
Charter members of the Wool
worth Club will initiate new mem
bers Wednesday evening after the
dinner program.
AT the Interracial Committee meet
ing Friday et SIS, States will be dis
cussed. Miss Lillian Burkhart will
be in charge.
The New Old Council of the In.
dustrial Department will have
weekend party and conference at
the Central Building on next Satur.
day and Sunday. The committee in
charge is: Eleanor Hardy, Dorothy
Bennett and Beulah Tanner. Pro-
gram committee, Evelyn Van Hook,
Mildred Burgess and Jennie Jenkins.
Miss Opal Boston will preside. Miss
Violet Van Note will have charge of
recreation.
Miss Elizabeth Mckenzie, execu-
tive secretary of the South Side
| branch, made AN Old Fashioned
Grip her theme for the program pc
riod of the weekly staff meeting
Wednesday.
SOUTH SIDE "Y"
The following officers have re-
Gently been elected by the South Side
committee of management: Magda-
lene Eberhart, chairman; Mrs. Fred
Maggie, vice-chairman; Mrs. Hugh
Copsey, recording secretary. The
new committee chairmen are: Mrs.
Lawrence Rudbeck, membership;
| Mrs. Geo. Gutzwiller, finances; Mrs.
II. S. Beckman, houses; Mrs. I. L.
Frye, industrial; Mrs. Harold HinkIe,
girl reserve; Mrs. Walter Schmel-
feldt, hospitality; Mrs. Richard Mil
Ter, food service.
The Allegro Business Girls Club
has issued invitations to a Bunco
party for young men and young
women Tuesday night at 8. Proceeds
will go to the Summer conference
fund.
Wednesday evening at South
Side Girls Industrial will meet for
club supper. At they will go to
Central "Y'' for skating party.
The Parent-Teacher Association of
school Is will have a Bunco party at
| the South Side "Y' Friday from, .
to 5.
Mrs. Fred Naegel will entertain
the A Point Club at a l o'clock
luncheon Wednesday.
Miss Magdelene Eberhardt's Sun
day school class from the Second
Reformed Church will meet at South
Side ''Y'' Wednesday evening.