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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
SLACK TARGET FOR
COUNCILMEN'S QUIZ

of the gambling raids. He Is a
Republican.
Moore, finance chairman, asked to
be excused from considering the city
hospital building program bond is
sue ordinance because "the courts
have not decided who Is mayor" 4"
The health board had introduced
an ordinance for $1,750000 for an
emergency building program.
Bartholomew explained the ordi-
nance was "in council now and it
does not matter who is mayor"
Bartholomew pointed out hospital
needs and urged Moore to serve on
the committee.
An ordinance appropriating $25,-
900 of the gasoline tax fund for
equipment and repairs at the city
asphalt plant was introduced.
Action on the $4,000 bond issue
to repair Thirtieth st. bridge over
Fall Greek was delayed despite
efforts of Councilman Edward B.
Raub to pass the measure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
Once i'm SLun1S
BY CHARLES c. STONE
State Editor. The Times

SULLIVAN, Ind, March 6.-TSai-
rivich, "the fresh air kid" who
came to this wealthy farming and
coal mining center from the slums
OF New York, has sadly shaken the
faith Of this community In human
ity.
The former slum boy, known here
during most Of his life as James
M Lang, is missing. So is $4,000.
And the Citizens Trust Company
Bank, Of which Lang was president,
is closed. 1t remained open few
days after he disappeared Feb. 2.
Then came bit by bit the story of
double dealing that Sullivan's resi-
dents are finding 1t hard to believe.
$4,000 in Bonds Missing
Lang. 70, was only taking a rest
from his duties at the bank, friends
and associates here kept telling each
other. Then the Indiana banking
department took a hand. Deputy
Examiner Thomas d. Barr found
the banks accounts $4,000 short.
He closed the bank. Next William
Abbott. Ell PaSo, Texas. oil man.
wanted to know what became of
100000 in Liberty bonds which he
had intrusted to Lang. Nobody
knew.
Today Sullivan is filled with tales
about Lang. There is one about a
girl whose husband went to the Fed
eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan,
following a 100000 stock fake.
Afterward she came and went as she
pleased at the Citizens Trust Bank.
Lang said he was buying diamonds
from her, paying her in installments.
The old banker remarked about
the diamond deal:
II bought some diamonds from
her and pay her in installments
because she is so extravagant."
Girl Linked in Case
Another girl whose name IS
linked with that of Lang was a
student nurse at the Mary Sherman
hospital here. Detectives are in
terested in this girl. Mayor Richard
L. Bailey Of Sullivan, vice president
Of the closed bank, thinks the de-
tectives may learn something.
At last those who know Lang
realize that his regular attendance
at I. o. o. F. grand encampments,
the facts that he was a thirty second
degree Mason and attended serv-
ices at the Christian Church, were
no guarantees of his honesty. He
was treasurer of Odd Fellows Grand
Lodge.
Hinkle c. Hays, brother of Will
H. Hays, counsel for the nations
motion picture producers, is one of
those cleft holding the bag" by
Lang. He is indorser of some paper
held by the closed bank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06

Republican city councilmen we're
expected to continue their attack on
Mayor L. Ert Slack, Democrat, this
afternoon at a meeting of the COM
mittee to consider charges against
Slack, Police Chief Claude M. Wor-
ley and board of safety members.
1t was intimated that forty affi-
davitS from persons arrested on
vagrancy charges during the police
war on gamblers would be intro
duced to support charges of Charles
Koehring, 882 Virginia Ave, who
asked impeachment of Slack, Wor-
ley and the safety board.
The committee headed by Millard
w. Ferguson, Democrat, will in
vestigate Koehring's charges and if
the majority report finds the
charges sufficient" a date will be
set for an impeachment trial.
Koehring's affidavit alleged inno-
cent citizens were arrested without
cause and embarrassed" because
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
SOUTHERN DRYS MOVE
TO DEFEAT AL SMITH
Declare Democrats Ready TO Back

Declare Democrats Ready 10 Back
G. o. P. to Elect Drys.
By United Press
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla, March
6.-Southern dry forces today
planned active sid for dry office
seekers after the meeting OF the
Southeastern States prohibition con-
ference.
Prominent dry leaders, including
Ernest II. Cherrington of the World
League Against Alcohol, spoke. Cher
rington urged especially against
election of wet members Of Congress.
F. Scott Mcbride, superintendent
Of the Anti-SaCon League, told the
conference that if Governor Alfred
Smith of New York was nominated
by the Democrats as a presidential
candidate, the Democratic party
would be set back a quarter of a
century. G. M. Ledbetter, Georgia
prohibition leader, said Georgia
would go Republican by $4,000 ma
jority if Smith was nominated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06

That silenced the scoffers. But
it also created a scientific
mystery which never before in
sheer unusualness has been
equaled in this corner of the
United States.
EDWARDS personally is of the
IL opinion that the COWS spent
most of their lives grazing on a
plain virtually carpeted with gold
under the grass. Thus, in eating.
he believes, the COWS inadvertently
got the gold in their mouths from
time to time and the gold, in some
unexplained manner, stuck to their
teeth.
Another theory concerns a kind
hearted rancher who, on seeing his
eight cattle suffering with tooth
ache, had their teeth filled with
gold.
But that idea promptly was dis
PEELED when examination dis
closed the teeth all were in per-
feet condition. The gold simply
covered them in a thin glittering
layer.
THE scientific world had moth
Il ing to say. Several dentists
grinned and refused to be quoted
Edwards bought the cattle from
the stock firm of Kidwell & Cas-
well, which originally obtained
the animals from John Dechan-
breau of Star, Ohio.
So certain is he that he is right
and that the COWS got their teeth
plated by chewing gold along with
grass that Edwards plans to go
Immediately to Star to stake out
a gold claim.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06

Fifteen years ago when Daisy
then IL, and her little brother were
gathering walnuts near their home
at Hartford City, Ind, Daisy, in
tom-boy fashion. Skinned" up the
tree. Laughing and clamboring
from limb to limb, she showered
walnuts on her brothers head.
A rotten limb snapped! A startled
cry-and then a moan from the
pitiable little ginghammed figure on
the ground.
From that day to this, Daisy has
not walked step. Wracked re-
currently with pain and confined
to bed or wheelchair, she COM
pleted her education herself. She
continued to take an active inter
est in church affairs and has writ
ten poetry for newspapers. Four
years ago her father died. A year
ago her mother followed him. But
her smile persisterd to cover a bro
ken heart.
Believing her spinal column per-
manently injured, physicians de-
SPARED Of her ever walking again.
But despair was never a part Of
Daisy Brushwiller'S makeup.
Last November she was brought
to the Methodist hospital here.
After a thorough examination.
doctors decided an infected kidney
must be removed as the first step in
putting the girl, literally, back on
her feet"
The operation was performed
successfully. Her recovery was a
fighting one.
Something told me, You must
hold on Daisy" she said. Her re-
markable recovery has aStonished
her doctor, DR.. Charles D. Humes,
and nurses and friends at the hos
pital where she has become a
favorite.
''I'm not the same girl" she ex-
claims. Rounded pink cheeks bear
out the assertion. She in no way
resembles the wan young woman
who came to the hospital four
months ago.
Daisy aspires to literary work
when she RECEIVERS. Talking with
her, one gets the impression she
will achieve her goal-even If the
operation next month should not
fulfill her hopes.
The girl is a niece of Deputy
State Banking Commissioner Thom-
as D. Barr. Her mother and Mrs.
Daisy Douglas Barr, former evan
gelist, we're sisters. She has three
brothers and one sister.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
FLIES FROM
GOTHAM TOHAVANA

two months of waiting, at IL :36 p. m.
last night. They had been sighted
at Daytona Beach, Fla, at a. m.
today, and at Miami Beach, down
near the tip of Florida, at 11:10.
Their flying time from Mitchell
Field to Havana was 13 hours SO
minutes.
For Miss Boil the flight was the
elimination of nine months effort
to crash into the long distance flying
honors list. Last summer she tried
to get Levine and other trans
Atlantic fiiers to try to fly back to
the United States with her as
passenger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
Indiana Banker; Missing With
100000, Still El11deS La10
James M. Lang, Sullivan,
Last Seen at POnCa City,
Okla; Associates Shocked
by Fall of Fresh Air Kid
By United Press

By United Press
SULLIVAN, Ind, March 6.-De i.
spite his years, James M. Lang, 73,
missing president of the Citizens
Trust Company of Sullivan, has
succeeded in eluding police and es-
Gaping with 100000 of the banks
funds, it was believed today.
Chief of Police Dozier has re-
turned to Sullivan from Ponca City,
Okla, with word that Lang had
stayed there for two weeks after his
disappearance from Sullivan, but
had left without a clew to his des-
tination.
At Ponca City, Dozier said, Lang
lived at hotel operated by Mrs.
Peak Cozart, formerly Of Sullivan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
Ru United Press

By United Press
COLUMBIA FLYING FIELD,
HAVANA, March 6.-CharleS A. Le-
vines Bellanca monoplane Colum-
bia, arrived here at :35 p. M, today
after a 1,600-nlile flight from
Mitchell Field, L. I.
With Levine in the famous plane
the one that Clarence Chamberlin
and he flew to Germany-were Will
mer Stultz, pilot, and Miss Mabel
Boil of Rochester, N. Y.-and Paris,
France, called the Queen of Dia-
monds," because of her jewel col
lection.
They had left Mitchell Field, after
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
GATHER JoBLESS' DATA
Labor Department Is Making Sur
vey Of Unemployment.
By United Press

By CntteG Press
WASHINGTON, March 6.-Figures
on unemployment in the United
States are being gathered by the la
Dor department in cooperation witlN
municipal and State statistical
agencies.
Passage by the Senate Monday Of
the Wagner resolution for an un-
employment survey, is not expected
to cause any enlargement of the
present inquiry unless Congress pro-
vides additional funds, department
officials said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
L0WDEN TALKS POLITICS
Catching Up" on Situation Follow
ing Vacation in State
BIZ United press

By United Press
CHICAGO, March 6. - Former
Governor Frank o. Lowden con-
ferred informally today with polit-
ical associates. Catching up" on the
political situation he lost touch with
while on months vacation in Ari-
zona, but he insisted he was making
no definite plans for an active presi-
Dental campaign.
He planned to go to his country
estate at Oregon, ILL.,, tonight or
Wednesday, and it was indicated he
might have definite plans to an
nounce after further conferences
there, he said, however, that he
planned no active speaking cam
paign.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
3 INDIANA FURNITURE
MANUFACTURER FINED

Among 213 Companies Punished for
Antitrust Law Violation
By United Press
CHICAGO, March 6. - Cases
against 140 members of the National
Alliance of Furniture Manufacturers,
charged two years ago with conSpir-
acy to violate the Sherman anti
trust act, were disposed of today
when Federal Judge Adam G. Cliffe
assessed fines aggregating $100,40O.
Charges against officials of the
accused companies involved were
nOlle pressed.
The companies involved in today's
cases and the fines assessed against
them included the following in Indi-
ana: Showers Brothers Company.
Bloomington, $500; Western Furni-
ture Company, Batesville, $500, and
Brookville Furniture Company,
Brookville, $500.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06

0UNfBLING years invadism Miss
l.
Hospital confident pluck
again.
Stalking that hope against the risks Of the sape she will
operation for the spinal
in the hope restoring her
operation will significant surgical annals
said nobut Daisy won't permit that thought lnger
her blonde head
fighting now" with hmness that reveals
character II would ungaeu didn't have the faith
all the
for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
TROUBLE IN BUNCHES
Winkler's Dog Dies After He FIunks
Dry Agents Quiz.

Concern over his failure to quail
ify for reappointment as Indiana
deputy prohibition administrator,
announced Monday, today was
overshadowed in the mind of George
L. Winkler by the untimely death
of his dog, Lady.
Lady, pedigreed German police
dog, was fatally injured early today
by hit and run" driver.
Her back was broken by the car,
it was learned at the veterinary hos
pital, where she was taken, and it
was necessary to destroy her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
COWS TEETH GOLD
Buyers Looking for Pasture
BY G.. d. CRISSEY,
United Press STAFF Correspondent

OORTLAND, March NEUROLOGICAL
golden fleece Fairyland
cdc Northwest have golden
If don't believe it,
prominent Salem cattle buyer today while pulled
gold-pated bovine molars from his
Edwards
When they slaughtered
the cows had teeth covered with a gilt
Edwards rushed the teeth a jeweer
pure gold" he quoted as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
DELAY JUDGE CHOICE

Selection IN COunciImanlc Bribe
Hearing Saturday.
Choice Of special judges for the
trials on bribery charges of Coun-
cilmen Boynton j. Moore and Wal
ter r. Dorsett was postponed until
Saturday, today in Criminal Court
because of the death of Mrs. Samuel
D. Symmes, mother of Frank
Symmes, one of the defense attor-
neys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
WAIT BANK JURY WORD
Partial Report in Trust Company
Quiz Expected Soon.
By Times Special


By Times Special
KOKOMO, Ind, March 6.-The
Howard County grand jury which
last week adjourned after an in
vestigation said to be relative to the
failure of the American Trust Com
pany here is expected to reconvene
this week. Prosecutor Homer R.
Miller will not comment when he
plans to call the jury from recess,
but it was indicated the body will
meet Thursday.
If the group reconvenes the latter
part Of this week a partial report is
expected within a few days. The
jury's final report will be made
prior to March "a.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
JEWETT TAKES STUMP
Candidate for Governor Speaks Here
Thursday.
BIZ Times SpeciqE

By Times Special
FRANKLIN, Ind, March g.
Charles w. Jewett, candidate for the
Republican nomination as Governor
and former Indianapolis mayor, will
open his speaking campaign here
Thursday night at the courthouse.
This is his birthplace.
Newton Brown, local banker and
Raymond Sellers, editor of the
Franklin Star, are in charge Of ar
rangements for the meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06

Following the custom of issuing a
State bank call at the same time
the national bank call is made,
State Banking Commissioner Luther
Symons today ordered all banks I'M
der his jurisdiction to submit re-
ports as of Feb. 30.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06

Twenty Die in Fireworks Blast
By United Press
AMSTERDAM, March 6.-Twen-
ty persons were killed, fifty we're in
jured and 100 houses were destroyed
when a fireworks factory exploded
at Koedoes, Java. dispatch from
Demarang reported today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
REPORT AGAINST ESCH
Senate Committee Votes Not to Con-
firm Appointment.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 6.-The
Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee today voted 10 to against
confirming the nomination of John
Esch for reappointment to the In
terstate Commerce Commission. An
unfavorable report on the nomina-
ton will be sent to the Senate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
ASKS U. S. BANK SURVEY
Comptroller Of Currency Calls for
National Reports.
BIZ United Press

. IWITtU FTf88
WASHINGTON, March 6.-The
comptroller of currency today issued
a call for the condition of all ma
tional banks as of Feb. %.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
SMITH, HOOVER IN LEAD
Called Leading Candidates by For
mer Mexican President.

By United Press
MEXICO CITY, March 6.-Her-
bert Hoover, Secretary Of Commerce,
and Governor Alfred E. Smith of
New York, are the outstanding can
didateS for the presidential nomina-
tions in the United States, General
Alvaro Obregon. former president
of Mexico, told newspaper men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
RAIN FORECAST HERE
City May Get Taste of March Show
ers Tonight or Wednesday.

Indianapolis probably will get it's
first 1928 taste of March showers
tonight and Wednesday. according
to United States weather bureau
head, j. H. Arlington.
1t will be unsettled and warmer
with possible occasional rains, he
predicted. Lowest temperature to-
ngiht will be about freezing and
Wednesday the mercury should rise
four or five degrees higher, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06

1885 Ring Stolen From House
o. L. Sifford, 1925 N. Illinois ST.,
to police today that some
one entered his home Monday night
and stole a ring valued at $685..
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-29
HEADS OF AIR
TRAFFIC URGE
ACTION HERE

Fred d. Hubbell, in his capacity as
vice president Of the Douglas chapter
of the National Aeronautical aSSo-
citation has received two letters both
of which bring home to the local N.
A. A. officials the probable disastrous
results which will follow if the matter
of the international air port is not
acted upon now.
These letters are from W. Jack
Frye, president of the Aero Corpora
ton of California and j. L. Maddux
of Maddux Incorporated. Both these
heads of nationally prominent COM
mercial flying organizations, express
impatience for the building of the in
ternational air port here.
Frye, in his letter relates that he
has just returned from 'Npgales where
he assisted in the dedication of what
they named an International Air Port.
Frye says that it is a fine little port
but that it is ten miles from Nogales
and several miles from the border.
Frye goes on to state that the
government has now lifted the only
ban there was on flying, information
ally so that the international port
could function here with the $40 acres
north of the border adjoining $40 acres
south of the border without any
serious official membranes outside
the regular customs and immigration
inspections that are undergone by all
traffic.
He also calls attention to the fact
that the continuing of his trans
continental air service from Tucson
to Ell Paso through Douglas will have
to depend very much on, whether or
not this port is built. He states that
it is his intention to continue this
traffic east ia the near future and
hopes that Douglas will not neglect
the splendid opportunity both for ma
tional and international prominence.
j. L. Maddux, in his letter stresses
the need for the port as a vital thing
and a duty that Douglas owes not
only to herself but to the rest of the
country as the one best fitted city on
the border for the international port
The head of the corporation which
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-29
GETTING READY
FOR SELECTING
CITY OFFICIALS

One of those privileges that comes
with American citizenship is not far
in the distance to the voters of Doug
las. It will not be long, now, until
the voters will be called upon to Sc
lect those VINO will occupy the posts
of honor and responsibility in the
city government The annual cleo
ton will be held on the fourth Mon
day lin May which this year falls on
May 49, rs
The primary must be held at least
80 days prior to the election and it is
the usual custom to make it approx
mately an even 80 days, so it is fairly
safe forecast that the primary cleo
ton in Douglas will be held sometime
during the. week of April %, as it
will have to be held in that week in
order to make the entire 80 days prior
to the date of the election.
Political gossips already are making
up their forecasts and feeling out the
sentiment. for prospective candidates
among their friends but it is still in
what might be termed a political
whisper" and may not attain any real
vocalization for some. days yet.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-29

flies the great Ford Stout planes
points out that a big field must be
built and that one large enough to
hold all the possible aviation for the
next SO years is advisable. He cites
the thousands of instances in which
cities have built and rebuilt railroad
terminals and union stations and the
vast sums that are expended in re-
building to attain size that would
cost but little in the first building.
Maddux offers the services of his
staff of trained men in laying out the
air field and properly lighting it. He
says that there is no doubt that the
flying conditions between Douglas and
Mexico City are the very best and
throughout his letter urges that ac-
ton be not delayed as he says, ian
air traffic that is at present undream-
ed OF will spring up between this ma
ton and Mexico within the next de-
.cade.''
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-29
GOLD ORE STRIKE
MADE AT KINGMAN
RUNS $1O9 A TON

KINGNAN.- Discovery of a four
foot ledge of gold ore assaying $1O9 to
the ton in the Sunnyside mine of the
Sunnyside Consolidated Mines conf
pany, 48 miles flpnl Kinglnan,2 was
made Sunday according to word re-
ceived from the mine here bv j. L. Nc
liver, vice president Of the mining COM
pany.
j. d. Parsons, mine manager, in a
report to McIver, said the ledge was
uncovered in a winze II feet down
from the 535-foot level The streak
widened from 30 inches at the point
of discovery to four feet in a short
distance, Parsons said.