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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
HIGHWAY BOARD
VICTOR IN SUIT
FOR RECORDS

PHOENIX, Oct. II tP-In decision
handed down today by the supreme
court on the alternate writ of man
danaus sued out by the state highway
commission against Secretary State
Kerby, the secretary of state was or
dered to turn over all highway records
of whatsoever character to the high
way department Kerby was also
denied the $25OO extra salary voted
him by the seventh Arizona legislature
for the registration of automobiles:
The decision served to clear the legal
status of the highway commission, in
sofar as it's acts relate to automobile
registration certificates.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
Chamber Of Commerce Campaigns forAnMaiI
3 Brazilian AUiotors
Killed In Welcoming
French Ouersea FIiers

y RIO JANEIRO, Oct. II P-
y A tragedy marked the arrival at
*: Rio Janeiro today of the French
* aviators, Dieudonne Coster and
y. Joseph lie Brix on their trans
X Atlantic flight, which started
:* from Paris a week ago.
* Three Brazilian aviatorS, Capt.
* Attila Olveira, Lieut. Salustican
y Silva and Lieut.. Thomas Barreto,
y attached to the welcoming squad
y ron, we're killed. The Brazilians
* were flying at height of about
X 300 feet when their plane crashed
X and burst into flames.
y The Costes plane 'Nungesser-
y. Coli' flew over the city, attend
* ed by numerous army and navy
y machines, and landed at 1890 at
y the. military flying field at Campo
* Dos Affonsos 1t was here the
y tragedy occurred, and it greatly
* affected the French fliers, who
y. asked that all festivities be aban-
y doned. Nevertheless they were
:* greeted enthusiastically
* Costes and LIE BriX plan to re-
y sumo their flight to Buenos Aires
% Wednesday.
*
* * * * - # y * * x * * * y
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18

CHICAGO, Oct. II tP-WiIfred J.
Winters, 21, a boy they had known
all their lives, early today shot
and killed Margaret Martin, Is,
and Catherine Stabler, 10, and
then killed himself.
What mOtivated the childhood
friend to murder the girls who
had grown up with him probably
never will be known, the police
said, but this much they pierced
together.
Winters recently returned from
California, whence he had gone in
an effort to defeat tuberculosis.
Miss Martin has spurnaA his
love, though liking him in the
friendly way she always had as
next door neighbOr boy.
Saturday night Winters was ar
rested after he had tried to choke
a boy companion to death and was
released on Bond Sunday morn
ing.
Both Saturday and Sunday
nights Winters had been drinking,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18

Copper steady; electrolytic
spot and futures, 1SAc;
lead dull; spot, 6.25c.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18

Tuesday and Wednesday
fair. Little change in tenn
perature.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
GENERAL GOMEZ HAS
ESCAPED CAPTURE

MEXICO CITY, Oct. II (E)-General
Arnulfo Gomez, revolutionary leader,
has thus far escaped capture by the
federal forces. General Alvarez, chief
of the presidential staff, informed the
correspondents today that the where
aboutS of Gomez is unknown, and that
Gomez may succeed in escaping to the
SeacoaSt.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
CONGRESSMAN AND MRS.
DOUGLAS ARE in CITY

Congressman and Mrs Louis
Douglas are in the city for short
visit with Mrs. James S. Dauglas,
mother of the congressman. They ex-
pect to leave today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
Speed

Major Seagrave is not satisfied
with the record of 166 miles an hour
which he made at Daytona Beach
the other day, but will try to make
it 200.
You sometimes wonder whether
there is any rate of speed that will
satisfy human ambition.
Probably not, and probably this is
a good thing.
Speed in itself may not amount to
so much, but the knowledge and de-
velopment it leads to are very i'm
portant.
Time and distance have been the
two greatest handicaps to human
progress. The more ground men can
cover, the more they can learn and
the farther they can see and hear
the farther they can project their
minds in every direction.
While Major Seagrave was out in
specting the beach last Thursday
morning, he was summoned to
answer a telephone call from Lon
don. He said it was like talking
across the street.
Here you glimpse the combination
of two essential factors Of progress
as they can be employed by one
man.
One moment this British driver is
setting up a new mark in his racer,
the Mystery S, and the next he is
telling a British editor the good news
across 5000 miles of sea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26

Indiana and of the political machines of all Cities the
Indianapolis Star, has the termerity to charge
that the friends of the city manager form of govern
ment secured this change in the law.
That is perversion of truth in it's bodest form.
The friends of the city manager form of government
protested as loudly as they could They appealed
to the governor. They appealed to the Legislature
The plain truth is that the friends of change
in form of government from the present boss-con-
roled, hghhanded arbitrary and inefficient machine
government tried to prevent the very thing now
charged by the machine to be their work.
The more evident truth is that the citizens of
this city and of Evansville tired of boss rule tired
of ineicency, tired privilege. want to get rid of
partisan politics in city government.
The law ties them to this form Of government
for another two years unless good lawyers aside
this ruthless robbery of the people of their legal
rights.
The people are tired of the thing which Jack
son tied to them when he chose the company of
machine politicians to the advice OF stable consera
tive and decent citizens
Perhaps the best that can be done is to get
ready for a change from this government which
Duvall, afraid of the people and afraid of their
judgment, seeking legislative protection, has per-
petuated
Whenever and wherever the plain people get
NhdHCS W slSu d p6IllOn lot u city manager FORM
of government, they can be depended upon to sign
and sign quickly.
But for these henchmen and benefciaries of
machine rule to blame the friends Of the city
manager form of government for perpetuation of
machine rule and for legalizing machine politics for
two more years is great perversion Of truth as
to call for protest.
Partisan politics has no place in city government
Duvall proved the when he asked boss
controlled legislature to protect him for two years
from public wrath and indignation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
Pure Perversion

Let the record be kept clear and plain No one
should be deceived to the influences which forced
through the Legislature the law signed by the
Governor, which prevents the people of Indianapolis
and Evansville changing their form of government
until Mayors Duvall and Males have completed their
terms.
These men spent large of money to OBJ
tam the offices of mayor or other people spent huge
sums of money in their behalf
When they were elected the people Of Indian.
apolls and Evansville under the law, had the right
TO change to city manager form of government
Whenever they chose to exercise that power
These mayors, the political machines behind
them, changed that contract with the people,
They secured the passage of a law by the Legis.
ature and secured the signature of Governor Jack
son. under which the people are robbed of that
ight to change their form of government until these
mayors have completed their elective terms of Office
They, and no others, secured legislative an.
prova Of their terms of Office changed the contract
with the people, secured State approval of servi-
tude of these cities to the mayor then in power.
That was bad enough What follows is worse
* The official organ for the political machine OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
Smith Knows

Whether a mans religion units
him for public Office probably de-
ponds more on the man himself than
on the particular faith he follows.
Any man can become fanatical
over faith, no matter by what
name it is called or through what
kind of an organization it functions.
BY the same token. any man can
be truly religious. without being un-
fair or intolerant.
Better than any one else, Governor
Smith knows where he draws the
line between his duty as "A member
Of the Catholic church and his duty
as a citizen of the United States.
II is good that he has been asked
to make a statement on the subject
1t is better still that he has consent
ed TO do so.
Frankness, whether with regard to
slush funds. Nicaragua, rum or re-
ligion, has become the crying need
of American politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
Kissing the Rod

Russia offers 10 pay France SILL
10000 year for sixty-two years in
settlement of her debt. but only on
condition that she is guaranteed
loan of $4,000. 900 or $50,O0O.OOO.
The ironical part of it is that this
loan would be used to rehabilitate
French factories which were confis-
Gated by Russia when she estab-
lished the Soviet form of govern
ment and for which she refuses to
allow any indemnity. ~
France considers the offer feeble"
and would undoubtedly break off ne
gotiations We're it not for the vast oil
supply which Russia controls.
France feels that If she could
make arrangements to purchase a
considerable part of this supply. she
would have gone far toward break.
ing the American monopoly under
which she labors. With such an end
in view. she is in "a mood to COM
promise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
Frankenstein's Monster

An Ohio youth recently invented new kind of
radio receiving device. He installed it in the cellar
OF his home and called in his friends to see it work
The friends formed interested circle The
young inventor proudly explained everything Then
with little flourish, he stepped up seized the
switch, and threw on the current
There was sharp snap, a cracking sound and
the inventor dropped to the floor, dead Something
had gone wrong. His pet invention had electrocuted
him.
Like Frankenstein, the young man was DESTROYED
by device of his creation
This dea-of man DESTROYED bv an invention
that he can not control-always has exercised
fascination for the human mind 1t seems almost
as If men realized, vaguely that in the process of
building up civilization they had harnessed forces
that are more easily started than stopped as if thew
Sensed dimy that in rising from the jungles of saw
agery they had taken up burden which might well
crush them if they not wary
Ihs may sound a bit ponderous and far.fetcbed
out 1t isn't No doubt you can recall the recent
world war; did you ever realize that that war very
nearly wrecked civilization? Had the strain IL
imposed been just little bit more severe the whole
world would have slid back ten centuries mo semi
barbarism.
But the World War only natural logical
ou'growth of the kind of civilization we had erected
Mankind literally. was nearly destroyed by a
monster Of its own creation
Nor is that all If there ever is another world
war II VIII be worse than the last one-more costly
by lar in men, materials and money. Could the
world survive it?
1t Is entirely within the bounds of possibility
tor white civilization to come to climax and then
collapse in great armed conflict
Frankenstein created monster that he could
not control and it destroyed him. The young Ohio
inventor invented machine that did not act as be
expected 1t would and he too was destroyed.
We-all OF us-have built up a civilization that
contains within it the seeds of worldrending violence
ana destruction Let us walk very carefully. and
pursue our national and individual paths with ex-
IRENE care, lest we too be DESTROYED
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
What is a telescope fish,"

1t is charged that this breed was
artificially produced through the
skill of the Chinese. The body of
the fish is spherical and apparently
dwarfed, having a double tail, which
is sometimes almost disconnected
from the body. The eyes are alb
normally large and bullying like
those Of a frog and have the APP
pearance of small telescopes adj
justed to the eye, which give the
fish their name. Some of them
look forward. while others have the
eyes so arranged that they appear
to look upward and for that reason
they are called celestial telescope
fish. They have all the marking of
other varieties of goldfish, and ow-
ing to the peculiar shape of the
body. they move slowly through the
water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
Common Sense and Justice

The question of what the newspapers print is
coming up to bother Judge Raymond, presiding
over the Sapiro-Ford case, it does the judge in
most every important trial nowadays.
In the present instance the court has not in
structed the members Of the jury not to read the
newspapers Manfestly such a prohibition would be
hardship, since the trial may last two months
1t wolld not only deprive the six and
jurors of of the pleasures of life but might very
well deprive of them of information essential
20 them in some manner other.
Dispatches from Detroit indicate that the judge
is seeking to divide the responsibility in this mat
ter between the jurors and the newspapers. The
newspapers are asked to avoid reporting COM
menting the trial in any manner that might be
prejudicial to the interests of either party to the
suit No bar against publication of the evidence has
been set up was done by that misguided judge
down in Bay st. Louis, La, year ago.
For their part the jurors have been admonished
to be careful what they read and to disregard any
thing which might influence the movement. The
court seems to be following common sense course
and it is greatly to his credit when it is considered
that common sense is sadly lacking in our Ameri-
jury system.
An ideal jury would be that could read every
sort Of prejudiced newspaper story concerning the
case it was considering. that could listen out of
to whisper the subject and could still bring in
a fair and just verdict That would be a jury of
the community's most enlightened citizens, a jury
of education and experience and of proved fair
mndedness An ideal jury one we can not hope
to in our time
What we do see, every day almost, is jury
Solemnly sitting in case after having proved be-
yond possible doubt its unness to decide the ques
tions placed before it.
Having excluded from the jury all persons who
admit having read newspapers concerning a given
crime, or having heard that the said crime had
pccurred-a crime with which the whole community
may be ringing-the lawyers are free to turn any
simple problem into highly technical tangle and
leave it to this concentrated ignorance of the
community to solve.
That isn't common sense.
1t hasn't any immediate bearing on the Sapiro-
Ford trial. but every time we see judge struggling
with the problem of the press during trial that re-
ceves newspaper attention, can't help regretting
this manifest weakness of the American jury system
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
~19I'-~f
Tracy
Much Equal Rights Talk,
But Woman Still
Favored.
BY NJ. -. Tracy

Gray stands slim chance COM
pared to Mrs. Snyder. In spite of all
the talk about equal rights and even
handed justice, it is hard to con-
Wet a woman.
Very few women have been
hanged or electrocuted in this
country, a fact that can not be &C
counted for on the ground that
women are vastly less given to muir
der than men.
The law always has been indulgent
toward women, and still is.
This was never more grimly IL
Illustrated than in the famous Lucre-
tia Chapman case, where a woman
was acquitted and a man hanged on
practically the same evidence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
nov YOU
A(K QD

Almost everybody is familiar
enough with the Bible to answer
todays questions without much
trouble. In case any of them stump
you, the answers are printed on page
IA:
/. How long did it take Solomon
to build his house?
?. Who was Eleazar?
3. Who asked Balaam to curse
the children Of Isreal?
4. How many cities of refuge did
the Lord tell Moses to build?
5. After Saul defeated the Amale-
kites, what was the fate of Agag,
their king?
6. Who was David's oldest
brother?
z. Who was Adonijah?
8. How long did David reign over
Israel?
9. With what powerful nation did
Solomon form an alliance, marrying
the daughter Of the king of that
nation?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
Staining Our Hands With Blood

There is something dnspeakaby tragic about
whatsis going in Nicaragua.
We have put President Adolfo Diaz in power and
we intend that he shall remain in power no matter
how much Nicaraguan blood it takes to keep him
there.
We could stop the any time we see fit for
the Liberal president, Juan B. Sacasa admitted to
the foreign editor of the Scrpps Howard newspapers
that under no circumstances would he fight the
United States.
So all Secretary of State Kellogg has to do is to
order the American forces in occupation Of both
coasts and most of the important interior points to
extend the occupation to include the rest of the coun
try and order the Liberal forces to lay down their
arms
But that would be intervention" we can hear
Secretary Kellogg Directing. "And we have no in
tenton of intervening. Did not the President him
self say in his message to Congress on JAM TO- that
he was sure that it is not the desire of the United
States to intervene in the internal affairs of Mic
aragua,' and did he not say before that, that the
American Government is not taking sides in the
present trouble, one way another"
He did that Mr.. Secretary But the brutal fact
remains that we have interviewed with armed forces
in Nicaragua, call it by whatever name you will
And it is equally true that we are daily taking sides
in the present trouble" to uphold Daz and defeat
SIacasa
dozen warships are blockadng both coasts of
Nicaragua to kill any possible chance the Liberals
might have to get arms. We allow neither food nor
raiment to reach the Liberals if we can prevent it,
We even refuse to allow them to get medicines to
cure the sick and treat the wounded
Ii this is not taking Sides" then what is it, If
this is not intervention, what is it? And if this is
being neutral" then the world has labored a long
Time under misapprehension as to what neutrality
means
We are not only taking sides in Nicaragua but
we are doing something infinitely worse We are
pinioning the arms of one side and encouraging the
other to step in and beat it up
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
Tonic for the Week
Topic for the Week
SPIRITUAL DISAGREEMENT"
Saturday
I'VE Should Live by the Light We
Ua,ap


1--WE Should Live by the Light We
Have
SCRIPTURE: Read - Matthew
2514-3O.
IF We know these things, blessed
are ye if We do them" Dn. 1910.
But be We doors of the word, and
not hearers only. deluding your own
selves" JAS. 1929. blessed are
they that hear the word of God and
keep it" ok. 1929.
See-John 2O:29; II Timothy 1;
10.
MEDITATION: Consider the
spiritual truths of which we are sure.
Love is better than hate; unselfish-
ness than selfishness; friendship than
treachery; goodness than meanness;
self-control than license, etc, etc. Our
conscience insists on the love of the
better. To live by the light we have
is to obey that spiritual voice. How
far reaching this is! 1t calls for the
actual application OF known truths
to personal life, TO business, to
politics. to social questions, to inter
national relations-a large order!
For it power is available through
prayer.
Inspire me with that love of
love- which implies the scorn of
scorn and the hate of hate
HYMN:
o Master, let me walk with thee
In lowly paths of service free,
Tell me thy secret, help me bear
The strain of toll, the fret of care.
Teach me thy patience; still with
thee
In closer, dearer company,
In work that keeps faith sweet
and strong,
In trust that triumphs over wrong,
In hope that sends a shining ray,
Far down the futures broadening
way
In peace that only thou canst
give
With thee. o Master, let me live.
Washington GLADDEN., 1879.
PRAYER: Pray for-power to
weigh things spiritually; personal
safety; seamen; the hayward.
Collect-Heavenly Father, whose
tender mercies compel our love, we
thank Thee for the gift of Christ
our Savior. In Him our shortcom-
ings are filled up; our sicknesses of
soul are healed; our rebellions of
spirit are quelled. For salvation full
and free we bless Thee. In the pres
ence of Thy outpouring of love our
selfishness stands revealed. Breathe
into us of Thy spirit that we may be
strong to forsake sin, to overcome
temptation and to live i'm the light
which Christ supplies. o our Father,
grant us to know something of Thy
passion of love. Help us to proclaim
the gospel to all mankind. Record
our pledge before Thee that we will
exalt the things of the spirit. Amen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
Yellow Tabloids Have Blues

Inc future looks dark for the New York tabloid
newspapers 1t seems almost certain that in a few
years they VIII cease to be the greatest educational
influence in their city. An nsidous power is creen.
ing In, destroying their monopoly on the minds If
the five million.
Inc New York public library announces that its
udny attendance OF readers is $4,000; that it gives
out 1l,OOO reference books every day: that in %
days it issued $4,000 volumes for home reading
The library has delivered a powerful blow 70
o"i convection that the tabloids supplying every
'hing that New Workers want to read. It is dis
e0faeihs 10 our notion Of popular education that
tne citizenry wants to know about something besds
hodups' divorce cases. movie actresses and oveneet
murders.
- II $ dltflcuit to say what can be done about if
oe BOARD Of censors could be appointed to ban
aii DOCKS on history, biography science and all
."insS' or perhaps the library can be sensational
Hed 10 the standard of the tabloid.
>. 0ne 'nlig is certain The tabloid will never lose
Its grip upon the minds of those who can NOT 49,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
Indianapolis Will Have Memorial
Concert for Late Edward Mcdowell

m DWARD MACDOWELL. at
| +. the time Of his death, nearly
- twenty years ago, was the
greatest American composer. He
wrote many beautiful pieces for chill
dren and his greater compositions
for the piano are well known to
every piano student
During his later life. he lived on
a farm in Petcrboro. New Hamp-
shire. in the midst OF the beautiful
in nature and did much Of his best
work Wishing to afford the same
advantages to other creative artists,
he established there a colony for
that purpose and was gradually de-
veloping il. Since his death Mrs.
MacDowell has devoted her life To
this end and has toured the country
over and over. giving lecture-recitals
for the benefit Of the colony.
Artists of all classes are benefting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
Settle III

Governor Smiths religion has be-
come an issue and possibly the most
important issue. in his struggle for
the Democratic presidential nominal
ton.
Efforts TO soft pedal it only make
the situation worse. There has been
too much whispering and insinuating
already.
II any reason exists why Roman
Catholic should not be President of
the United States, we might just
as we'll face il.
II no reason exists the chatter
ought to be stopped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
New Sleep

German doctors have discovered a
now anaesthetic which they claim
may soon supplant ether and chloro-
form.
1t is a bromide preparation and
is administered by injection. 1t acts
on the intestines, not on the heart.
lungs or nerves, which permits of
operations that are impractical with
ether or chloroform.
Aged people can take this new
anaesthetic, it is said, without fear
of heart failure and it makes posi-
BILE the use of surgery in the treat
ment of pneumonia and tubercu.
losis.