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The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03
KING BATTLES
FOR life; Use
OXYGEN PUMP
Monarch Rallies a Little
After Night Crisis;
Heart WeakenS.
QUEEN STAYS AWAKE
Keeps Courage as Four
Physicians Fight to
Save Sovereign.
BY KEITH JONES


LONDON, Dec. 3.-The King of
England lay gravely i'll today.
His heart weakened under the
strain of his lung infection and
oxygen was administered to bolster
his strength.
The queen bravely faced anxious
hours during the night with her
daughter, Princess Mary, devotedly
at her side.
The Prince of Wales, heir to the
throne, raced home from Africa on
the fastest cruiser in the British
navy.
Four of the most expert medical
men in Britain waited on the king,
staying with him most of the night.
Crowd Is Relieved
At IL a. m. an attendant hurried
across the courtyard of Bucking-
ham palace towards the gate, bear
ing an official bulletin.
The news he bore was encourag-
ing, and the formality that sur
rounds the throne was broken. lie
could not wait to post his news and
as he neared the gates he called to
the waiting throng:
"There is Slight improvement in
the kings condition"
A mighty sigh escaped from the
packed hundreds at the gates.
THANK God, thank God" several
cried.
The scene was impressive. The
customary decorum observed at the
palace gates was absent and the tall,
helmeted police could not keep the
people in line.
Instead of posting the bulletin, at
tendants held it high in the air, SO
that all could see.
Queen Keeps Courage
Inside the palace the tension was
somewhat relaxed after a night Of
strain.
Her majesty had not gone to bed,
but waited in an ante-room while
the doctors worked over the king.
Occasionally she was permitted
to visit her husband, who remained
cheerful and greeted her with a
smile.
She retained a cheerful face, de-
spite the strain, as she rejoined her
daughter and the duchess of York,
wife of her second son, who stayed
until after midnight to comfort
her.
Those at the palace said the king
rallied remarkably since the crit
ical hours of midnight and that the
queen was overjoyed at the i'm
proved tone of the doctors an
nouncement.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03

of the original New York-Washing-
ton airmail route.
He had left the Belmont Park,
N. Y, terminal headed for Wash
ington, with bad weather ahead,
planning to follow the Long Island
shore, hop the bay to the Jersey
coast and then strike inland to
Washington.
When he had been on his way
thirty minutes, he looked below
hoping to sight bay. There was
nothing below but fog.
Then houSetopS and church spires
began to flash by, too close below
for comfort or safety He was Off
his course, flying over the housetopS
of Brooklyn.
"THERE was nothing to do but
Il plunge on, lodging the high
buildings if I could" Smith says.
Luck was with me. I found my
self over the river and headed down
the bay.
MY goal was the statue of Lib
erty. If would find that, I could
point my way down the bay and to
the Jersey coast"
Suddenly, saw the long up
raised hand of Liberty ahead"
Smith says. Il swung to the north,
got my bearings and swept past to-
ward the open sea and the Jersey
coast, waving farewell to the god
dess as I passed. 1 was on my course
again and the rest of the journey
passed without incident"
Next: Eight thousand feet up in
a flaming DIane.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03

Do you notice those police
standards with mo parking" signs
that they've used to rope off the
judging arena. Well, a heap lot
of good those sign1l do, and, any
way, they haven't got enough
of 'em.
("Bow-wow-bow-wow.")
= q
XXTELL, it's may turn in the
W ring. Do I expect to win? I
should say not. My mistress
chalked my white nose, to pretty
it up bit, but good hamburger
steak under my belt would make
me feel filter. They say starva-
ton peps up show dogs-might
Some-not me.
Give minutes later; did you
win, Bimbo?")
"Woof! 1 knew those no park
ing signs would jinx me. Bow
VOW
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03
Pair of Real
Features

The Times today presents
Dick Miller's annual all-state
football team for the 1923 sea-
son, in story and pictures, on
the sport page. Miller's selec-
ton is the official choice, the
only one recognized and print
ed in Spalding's football guide,
First Indiana paper to con-
duct an aviation department,
The Times today gives COM
prehensive coverage of the in
ternational air show in Chi
cago, written by Lowell Nuss-
baum, Times aviation editor,
who flew to Chicago Saturday
and returned here Sunday,
after a days survey of the ex-
position. Read his stories on
Page IA Of this edition.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03

TINE story of their brushes with
Il death and the high degree of
courage with which they battle their
old time foe is almost an epic.
The story of Major Wesley L.
Smith, one of the original airmail
hiers and now superintendent of the
eastern division of National Air
Transport Company, is typical of
them all.
He is in charge of airmail opera
tionS on the New York Chicago di-
vision of the transcontinental air
mail route. His headquarters are
at Cleveland.
Smith is war-trained pilot, a
veteran of 5000 hours in the air,
during which he has flown the
equivalent of twenty times the dis
tance around the world.
For eight years he flew the air
mail, first on the original New
York Washington route and then
on the "hell stretch" over the
Pennsylvania mountain leg of the
transcontinental route, the worst
stretch of flying country in the
United States. Still flies it, in fact,
if the emergency arises and he is
needed.
LIE has crashed his plane on
i 4 mountain tops, fought through
the ice clouds to the clear air above
where the stars kept him company;
fought fire more than a mile high
and brought his ship down safely
and lives to tell the story.
Smiths first flight with the mail
might have been his last in the days
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03
Ezra Meeker, Last of Great
Oregon Trail Heroes,
Passes.
BY RICHARD C. BALDWIN.
United Press stan Correspondent


SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 3.-Ezra
Meeker. last of the vests great
pioneers, is dead.
The man known to the world as
the personif1cation of the type of
immigrant who braved the rigorS of
the old Oregon trail died at 4:05
a. m. today.
Age coupled with stomach illness
proved too much for the vitality OF
the 97-year-old westerner.
1t was a long trail that Ezra
Meeker followed. He was born on
Dec. %, 1890, near Huntville, Butler
county, Ohio.
When not yet 7, his family moved
to Covington, Ind, the boy Ezra
walking every step of the way be-
hind his fathers wagon.
Lived on Banks of Wabash
On the banks of the Wabash he
learned how to drive four yoke of
oxen to a drag plow. Dater, follow
ing the family fortunes near In
dianapolis, he worked at odd jobs
and at the end of three years found
himself possessed of SGT.
Then Meeker met Eliza Jane
Sumner and in 1851 they were mar
ried. They moved to Iowa and they
started west in the spring of 1852.
At the Missouri river they became
part of great immigrant train
numbering 1000 wagons and in
Guiding some forty thousand per-
sons.
Accident, disease and cholera
claimed many. The death list was
estimated at nearly five thousand
before the journey was done.
On Oct. l, 1852, the Meekers ar
rived at the village of Portland,
Ore, where they spent the. winter.
In January, 1858, they built their
first cabin where the city of Ka-
lama now stands.
April came and with it word of
new country that was to be set
tied and the Meekers, still dissatis-
fed, started their journey north
ward. They finally arrived at a set
tlement that now is the city of
Seattle.
Meeker made friends with the In
dians and remained at his ranch
house, only eighteen miles distant
from the scene of the White river
massacre, tending his cattle in
safety during the Indian outbreak
of 1856.
Marks Completed Trail
He built his last home at Puyal-
lup, Wash, and in 1906, at the age
of rs, fitted out a prarie schooner
and retraced his steps over the old
Oregon trail.
He travelled to Washington, visit
ed President Roosevelt and urged
the government to build concrete
road along the route he had fol-
lowed in his youth.
Later he marked the completed
road with monuments as a tribute
to those whose nameless graves
marked their journeys end.
Recently he again went over the
oregon trail-this time in the lat
est conveyance known, the airplane.
He is survived by three daugh-
ters, Mrs. Carrie Osborn, Seattle;
Mrs. Ella Templeton, Seattle, and
Mrs. Roderick Mcdonald, Penticon,
B. c., and a son, Marion Meeker of
Cajon, Cal
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03
KENTUCKY RIGHT TO
SUE INDIANA UPHELD

Validity of Bridge Contract at
Stake; High Court Acts.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The
United States supreme court today
granted Kentucky permission to file
an original suit against Indiana and
certain Indiana citizens to test va
lidtiy Of an agreement between the
two states for joint construction of
bridge over the Ohio river near
Evansville.
Returns to the bill of complaint
we're ordered filed by Feb. 18. The
suit is consented to by Indiana. and
is designed to prevent the citizens
from bringing state court suits at
tacking validity of the interstate
bridge agreement.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03
CAFE ROBBED;
Catch BANDIT,
RECOVER LOOT
Traffic Officer Captures
Thief With 1915 After
Chase.
COMPANION GETS AWAY
Second Outlaw Escapes
With $22; Fires on
Policeman.

Two bandits took 1897 in hold
up at the soft drink cafe at 109
Kentucky avenue, block from Illi-
nois and Washington streets, shortly
after 8 a. m. today, but traffic officer
John Madden chased and captured
one of the men and recovered 1915
of the loot.
Charles Diner, from whom the
money was taken, chased the other
bandit, but the man escaped with
500 in silver after shooting at Diner.
Diner at first said he owned the
restaurant, but Ed (Stormy) Hill,
48 South Belmont avenue, later said
he was the proprietor. Z
Denies Gambling Charge
The place formerly was owned by
Abe and Isadore Silverman and
several times was raided by police as
an alleged gambling house
The captured bandit, John L.
Smith, 36, Cleveland said he had
lost money in a dice game there,
but Diner declared the Silvermans
have not been connected with the
place for two years and denied there
has been any gambling there.
Hill said Diner is a travelling
salesman friend of his who visits
the place every morning. Diner said
he formerly was a salesman but is
lin" with Hill now.
The holdup occurred, Diner said,
just after he had returned from the
Merchants National bank with some
change Hill and a customer also
were there.
The bandits asked for Mig"
former employe, Diner said. Told
mig" no longer worked there, they
both drew revolvers and ordered
stick 'em up"
Find Secret Pocket
The bandits then searched Diner.
taking with other money $500 he
carried in a secret pocket. They
did not search the other men.
Locking the three men in a wash
room and tying the door with string
the bandits fed.
AS soon as they had left Diner
broke the washroom door open and
gave chase. Traffic Officer Madden.
stationed at Kentucky avenue and
Maryland street, joined in.
The two men ran east on Mary
land street and separated at the
alley between Capitol avenue and
Illinois street.
The man captured ran south fol-
lowed by Madden. He threw the
gun he was carrying over the wall
into the yard of st. Johns academy
and surrendered when Madden
threatened to shoot.
Diner chased the other bandit
a taller man, north, but was forced
to stop when the man turned and
fired one shot at him.
Has Prison Record
The captured bandit, Smith, was
picked up by a police squad on a
vagrancy charge early in November,
when officers obtained a tip that
he was member of the Egan Rats
gang of st. Louis, police said.
Unable to obtain any evidence to
prove any other charge against him.
he was slated Nov. Is on a charge
of attempting to beat hotel bill.
That charge was continued indefi-
nitely in municipal court Nov. 80.
After sending Smiths Bertillon
record over the country, detectives
learned that he was sentenced at
Cleveland in 1922 to the federal
prison at Atlanta for four years on
narcotic charge. In 1926 he was
fined $500 on a narcotic charge at
Cleveland.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03
Bury Mrs. Beck Tuesday

D JWttJU ITJ6S
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.-Private fu-
neral services will be held Tuesday
for Mrs. Grace Redfield Beck, wife
of Edward S. Beck, managing editor
Of the Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Beck
died Sunday after an illness of eight
months.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03
HOST TO ROYAL PAIR

Coolidge EntertainS HeireSS and Her
Husband, Swedish Count.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Count
Folke Bernadotte and his bride, the
former Estelle Manville, heiress,
we're invited to be luncheon guests
of President Coolidge today.
Prince Gustavus Adolphus, heir
presumptive to the Swedish throne,
and his brother, Sigvard, who came
to America to attend the Berna-
dotte- -Manville wedding, also were
invited to attend the luncheon.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03
DIGNITY POOL PARLoRS

Seek to Amend Ordinance Clarity
ing Name and Adding One.
The city council will be asked to-
night to amend the ordinance pro-
viding for pool room licenses and to
substitute bowling alley and billiard
parlor for the words pool room"
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03
AL WON'T BE MAYOR

Friends Spike RumOrs Smith Might
Take Walkers Job.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Governor
Alfred E. Smith would refuse to run
for mayor of New York even If he
were drafted by Tammany, close
friends said today, in reply to ru-
mors.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03
FIGURES ELECTION COST
Governor Elect Complies Report at
G. o. P. Headquarters.

Governor-e elect Harry G. Leslie of
Lafayette was at Republican state
headquarters in the Severin today
compiling a report of his campaign
receipts and expenditures and con-
ferring with local Republicans.
Bert c. Fuller, Leslie's campaign
manager, was at the Governor
elects elbow admitting visitors.
Leslie's campaign report must be
filed by Dec. 6.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03

U. S. Supreme Court to Recess
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The
United States supreme court an
nounced today it would recess from
next Monday, Dec. 10, to Jan. 2.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03

Be neighborIy by telephone. Ba-
sic rate to DETROIT and return
only $1.35-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03

Indiana 6-inch fOrked lump, fifth
vein, only $4.75. Harvey Coal Co.
DRexel 5770.-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-03

A chronology of an entrant in the
show of the Boston Terrier Club of
indianapolis in the Denison Saturday
For the benefit. of camel-lovers, giraffe
growers and breeders. of Hungarian
'"woozle'' beasts the following glossary
I should say So" Wool means,
dog -matically speaking. mo"
BY BIMBO
MY ancestors came from Bos-
1V1 ton-home of the baked
beans despite other claimants.
am like the tabloid newspaper,
roller towels, 'beer" mamas and
safety razors-a strictly American
product.
My ancestral grandfathers and
Srandmothers were crossbreeds of
English bulls and bull terriers.
Which was which and whom was
whom never was solved by the
Boston tea party or the Battle of
Bull Run
I'm as necessary in a Kitchen
cite as a bottle opener. I thrive
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22
WansN caMMlssloNER

sleATTlN Wash Miss fgu fia9a ls x Shaficr of Seatile has been appeinted the first woman commissioner to Alaska by the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22
MONOCLEE WRITER OF SOHO WINS
 TWO LITERARY PRIZES IN YEAR
Thinks Women Dress
 To Please Themselves

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Men labor under a, misapnrehension in tn belief modern women dress to please them, says Dorothy Sabis- ton, business girls secretary of the Birmingham Y. w. c. A. Wo- mans adornment. she declares, is selected to gratify her own van ity. .a
 Masculine vanity has been fed for centuries on the belief thai every time woman buys a frilly frock, enhances her beauty with cosmetics, or wears a strand of bought beads, her sole aim is to attract the admiration of the op- posite sex," says Miss Sabiston, who daily comes in direct con tact with hundreds of girls.
 This theory, born of man. is false. Vanity is the urge that causes girls to spend unlimited time and effort to enhance their appearance Pride is the trait that makes her want to wear mo dish frocks. When girl spends her whole pay check on, a new dress, the chances are ten to one there is no man in the case. Even though girl never saw a man she would still worship at the shrine of style."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22

ALBANY, N. Y.Since Mrs Alfred E. Smith has been mistress of the rambling red brick resi- dence provided by the state oi New York for it's governor. the term home" has been more ap- plicable than the official designa- tion executive mansion."
 Mrs. Smith is manager of the mansion. She is conversant with every detail of its .upkeep and care, and she personally directs the large staff of servants as an efficient and capable housewife.
 There is a saying in Albany that Al runs the state, but Mrs. Smith runs the household" Her interest in her children, three sons and two daughters, is in tense.
 Such entertaining as is done at the mansion is often in honor of old-tine friends of the governor and his wife. Many of the chairs occupied by the guests show, in the upholstery. evidence of Mrs. Smiths skill with the needle and as worked in tapestries.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22
STEVE RusIcH RETURNS

Steve Rusich, fox rancher of Security Bay, who has been on a vacation in the States, returned yesterday on the Alameda. While in the south he spent one week in Vancouver. B. O., and motored as far south as Tia Juana, Mexi- co, where he witnessed . bull fight among other things.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22
|OUCH,BACkACHE!|
 uB'LuMBAcO '0R STIFFNESS nWAY

St. Jacob 2 UIl. stopE any pain, So whAns your bact iss s6fe and fame, of 1umbago,, stiatica or Rheumatism has stifKened up, don't suffer! Get . small trial bottle of old, honest St. Jacobs fOil at any drug store, pour a little in your hand, and rub 1t right on your aching back: and by the time you count fifty the soreness and lameness is gone. Don't stay crippled! This soothing. penetrating oil neede
 to be used only once. It takes the pain right out and ends the
 mfsery. It is magical. yet ab- solutely harmless. and doesn't burn the skin.
 Nothing else stops lumbago. Isciatica. bsckache or rheumetlem 50 promptly. It never disap- points. 4dy1
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22
HELP GIRLS HELP THEMSELVES,
 POLICY OF WOMENpS FEDERATION

arate organization, formulate their. own programs and elect tffoir own officers. Their only connection with the senior fedora ton club with which they are af- filiated is through the offices of a junior adviser whose duty it is to make such contacts as the girls themselves wish.
 Each junior adviser" said Mrs. Robina, "is instructed not to die. tate, but merely to attend the girls meetings to find out if they wish any help or advice. She makes her report Of the ssnios activities to the girls and of ju- nior activities to the older wo- men"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22

Ben c. Delzelle. travelling man with headquarters in June4u, 1eff on the Alameda enroute to eev- ard on business.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22

WASHINGTON-I.et young peo- pie do what they want to do and thcy will c6n1e@afound to doing the right thing.
 That is the theory applied by Mrs. H. M. Robins, of Detroit, Mich. to the junior club organi- zation of the General Federation of Women's clubs.
 "The young girls" said Mrs. Robins, secretary of the junior club committee of the federation, "who are members of our junior organization are typical of the modern generation Some of them are wild. of course, and have ideas that many women in the senior organization cannot under stand
 But they are not fundamen- tally wrong. They are all right. Our policy has been to give the girls a helping hand if they need it, but not to insist that they dc certain things and not do certain others.
 Instead we have just let them go along as they wished. and in the long run we have found, af ter five years of sponsoring the organizations, that they will dc the right thing and the thing thai is best for them
 Mrs. Robins explained that shs does not pursue the policy O telling the girls not to smoke oi not to drink She says that shs finds they will naturally not dt such things, after they go througl the unfortunate experiences at tendant upon the experiments.
 The junior club msmbcrs'li has grown from sirngglini group of 100 in netros i1 1922 an organized group 75.0V0 girl today. They have their own sei
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22
Club Procedure Made Profession by Woman

k 4sa : CfiIcAG0-Mrs. Joseph Mayer is in demand by. Chicago women's clubs when a fine point of parlia- mentary procedure is up for de- cision. She has made parliamen- tary law profession.
 Mrs. Mayer, who has two sons in college, has just completed a course at the University of Chi cago. Fourteen years ago, she decided she could do more than keep house and take care of her children, so she decided to study parliamentary law. She is con- sidered an authority and the unique profession keeps her rela- lively busy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22

LONDC-y-The unusual honor of winning two coveted literary prizes in one year has fallen to Miss Radclyffe Hall Her novel Adams Breed" which was awarded the Femina prize last spring, has just been voted the James Tait Black Memorial Lit erary Prize"
 The James Tait Black" prize is worth approximately $1,250. It is awarded annually for the best novel or book of that nature for each year, judged from a literary standpoint. taking the word in it's fullest and widest meaning"
 Miss Hall is known wherever she goes for her golden Eton crop and her monocle. She is of ten called the "monocled author ess," but as fact, though she wears the monocle regularly, she seldom uses it. She is pioneer in the style of women wearing dinner Jackets for evening wear.
 "I take my writing very seri- ously and I am very gratified at this double token of apprecia- tion," she said.
 Miss Hall pointed out that she is not temperamental.
 q can write anywhere l hap pen to be-" she said. ''In fact. some of my best work has been done in hotel bedrooms. be- lieve I could write sitting op T trunk.
 q am writing a new novel. If it had been of ordinary length, it would have been finished now. But. it is very long, though may say the end is in sight" Miss Hall has great admira- tion for American fiction. She thinks the novel was never at a more important or hopeful stage" than it is today.
 "The reason is simple" she said. flor the modern novel is candid, fearless and genuine. Writers today are not afraid to tackle any subject that they think requires tackling, either because they think it makes . very fine subject or for reasons of propa ganda.
 "I consider women writers not only are, but always have been, equal of men writers. Ever since women took up their pens to write novels, they have been ths equal of men,"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22
CAROLINA CiHL BEATS TWO WALKING RECCRD5

ASHENILLE, N. C.-Eiklsg e5r new records has become 9 opa- lar sport among Ner.h Carolina women. Miss May B.owr of Weaveryille has just shatterel the records of Mrs. Charles Hutehins of Burnsyille and Of Mics Elen- nora Sears of Boston in . 45-mile hike from Burnlville to ArE vile
 Mrs. Hutchins made thc 40 miles in hours and 4s T.nutcs but Miss Brewer covered tae dc tance in 10 minutes less tiipa aal continued into Asheville for 2. distance of 43.57 miles in s hours and D minutes, or an hour and 1S minutes better than Miss Seafs Iina.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-22
0E3E,Xhh5 nTyTNTI0N

The Perseverance Rebekai Lodge will hold their regular meeting this evening at 8 o'clock. Degree practice will be held after l9dge session.
 MRS. CHAS W. CARTER, adv. Secretary.