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The Washington times., 1928-05-17

Power interests spend $l4,-
OOO annually in spreading
propaganda in the Carolinas,
Samuel E. Boney, of Raleigh,
director of the North and South
Carolina public utility informa-
ton bureau, told the Federal
Trade Commission today.
The bureau is supported by p
companies, of which one, the Tide
water Power Company, of Whining
ton. is an insult concern, and an
other, the Virginia Electric aIld
Power Company, is a Stone and
Webster interest.
Engineer Got $50
Boney said he authorized a $50
payment to Prof. Thorndyke Sa-
vile. an hydraulic engineer, for
power map and story published in
a Winston.Salem newspaper. The
article was suggested by the pub
licity director of the North Caro-
lima depart tent of conservation, he
declared.
The bureau publishes at a cost
of 1000 a monthly bulletin of
$500 circulation, 1t is not sent to
schools, Boney said.
Boney spends about 81. no a. year
in travelling over the two States
mostly to visit newspaper offices.
Correcting the Press
1--WE are bringing clearer to the
city editors attention the work we
are doing" he said. Some news
paper men thought ours was State
organization. OF course that has
been corrected"
But wasn't your visit to news
paper offices for the purpose OF OBJ
tanning favorable editorial COM
ment?" asked Robert E. Healy
commission counsel. ~. :,
,"I don't think I'd go that 1ar'
replied Boney.
The Trade Commission INTENDS 10
Investigate power trust propaganda
in Missouri as it has in other, states
If was announced today.
The Missouri end of the inquiry
will be taken up later.
Activities OF the Missouri power
interests came up incidentally, yes
terday during examination Of Thorne
Browne, of Lincoln. Neb., director
Continued on Pags 2. Column ~
The Washington times., 1928-05-17
Grocer Shoots Self
On County Jail Steps
international Newsreel Photo

TRENTON, Tenn, May 17.--An-
drew King, %, grocer, committed
suicide on the back steps of the
county Jail here today. firing a pistol
bullet through his head.
King, who was at liberty under
bond on a charge of Turing a young
girl from her home, went to the jail
shortly after midnight and asked for
a place to sleep.
lie was allowed to stay in the
jailer's office room. Early today he
AROSE. walked to the back steps and
fired a bullek into his brain.
The Washington times., 1928-05-17
Bureau of Standards
Aims to Standardize
Cheese Sizes

Cheese is to be standardized
all but the aroma of limberger.
Ouestionnaires have been sent
out by the National Cheese In
stitute, asking the members to
indicate the sizes of cheese heads
regarded as unnecessary. the Blu
reau of Standards announced
today.
A consolidated report of the re-
plies will be compiled and used
for working out a tentative SIM
plificaL ion program to be pre-
scented to the industry by the
Commerce Department.
The Washington times., 1928-05-17
BANK STATEMENTS

Washington Clearing House,
So 1926. 1888.
New York Clearing House bal
ance, $128,OOO, 900.
New York Clearing House ex'
changes. $1.546, 100000.
Treasury balance. SIZE 1863, l8l 50.
Customs receipts. $2O, 595, 862.O1.
The Washington times., 1928-05-17

Good used ears including all the best
makes and the most popular models
can be- located and purchased through
tOday's Times and Herald classified
used car columns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
JACKSON TO AID
KEEPING GHERE
Promises Help to Prevent
Prisoners Removal.

Governor Ed Jackson will do ev-
erything in his power to keep
Lawrence Ghere and Rupert Nc
Donald, charged with the murder oil
Wilkinson Haag, local drugstore
owner safely locked up in Marion
County jail. =
This announcement was made by
Criminal Judge James A. Collins,
who came from the Courthouse to
the Statehouse this morning to Sc
cure an executive order from the
Governor retaining Ghere here.
Earlier the judge had granted the
petition of Ghere for change OF
venue. sending the case to Shelby
Circuit Court.
Both Ghere and Mcdonald are
alleged members of a nationwide
Jewel theft ring and Marion County
authorities are loath to turn them
over to Shelby County Jail, from
which escapes have been effected
at various times.
Judge Collins recalled one such
case where a notorious criminal
made a key from spoon, unlocked
his cell and then escaped on a BIZ
cycle.
Ghere or Mcdonald were captured
in California, two years after Hsag
u-ae sIoot at the Green Mill barbecue
stand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
Got Away After Giving $40
to TruSty, Fugitive Held
Here Charges.

Harry Hedley. IS, of 526l2 w.
Washington ST., held at the county
Jail as a fugitive. today charged he
bought his escape from the Indiana
State Farm at Putnamville from
trusty employed in the office for
$50, Of which he only paid $40.
Hedley escaped after State Farm
and the charity board officials had
discovered more than dozen others
had gone free by alteration of pris-
on records and we're investigating to
correct conditions.
Alertness of Sergt. Thomas Bled-
soc and Charles Quack, led to He'd
ley's arrest here Wednesday.
They saw the man on the street
and knew he had been sentenced to
sixty days at the farm and fined $50
and costs on driving while drunk
charge and fined $40 on a drunk
enness charge at Greenfield, Ind,
following an accident Aug. 13.
A truSty approached him. told
him eighteen others had gotten out
and that he (the trusty) could wipe
things clean so Hedley could leave,
for $50, said Hedley.
Hedley says he paid $40 and prom
ised to pay $40 more when the
trusty obtained for him his suit of
clothes.
Warned not to leave the farm
during the day, Hedley said he
waited until night, and, still wear
ing the farm overall uniform, walked
along the road toward Indianapolis.
He slept in field all night, and
the next day caught truck ride
to VincenneS, where he left his pc
nal institution clothes at the home
of his wife's relatives.
The civilian suit in which he en-
tered the farm still is at the farm
and he never has paid the trusty
the additional $40, Hedley said.
Hedley is to be taken back to
the institution Friday to serve the
remainder of his term.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
1,2O0 Are MiSSinu

81 UHtteG Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Sept.
20-A complete survey of the hur-
ricane-stricken area around Okee-
chobee and Miami lock has revealed
that there are about 800 dead.
The trip through the section was
made by c. Howard Rowton, State
adjutant of the American Legion,
who was accompanied by a United
Press correspondent.
DR.. J. w. Buch, post commander
of the American Legion at Belle
glade, furnished the estimate of 300
dead and said the devastated area
covered about sixty-f1ve square
miles.
Twelve hundred persons we're res
ported missing
An unofficial estimate reported by
w. R. Stuckey, stationed at Pahokee,
placed casualties as follows: Paho-
kee, white, 35; Negro, IS; Creamer
Island, eight Negroes; TORY Island,
whites, 10; Negroes, 6; Miami Locks,
white, 40; Negroes, 60; Belleglade,
white, so; Negroes, $50.
j. L. Hutchison of sugar project
in the Everglades, after hurried
survey of the situation said he esti-
mated that at least 10 per cent of
those who remained at their various
homes before and during the storm,
with the exception of Pahokee,
were dead.
Today disease threatens those
who remain at Pahokee and women
and children we're to be removed
early this morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
TIME SKATE ENDS
Herman Marsh, Ruth Jay
Win After 634 Hours.

The Broad Ripple Park skating
marathon came to an abrupt close
at a. m. today when Kennard
Bennett, one of four remaining con-
testantS, refused to be awakened
following one of the f1fteen-minute
rest periods given each hour during
the contest.
Herman Marsh and Miss Ruth
Jay each receive SITS for remaining
in the long grind twenty-six days,
nine hours. Bennett and his part
ner, Miss Goldie Richey, each get
$50 for second place.
Contestants received a bonus of
IS daily during the competition.
A worlds record has been set by
these skaters, according to Roy By
ers, rink manager, who sets the Of
fetal number of hours rolled away
by the winners at 634. The second
place team went 633 hours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
NTERE you there, and tell me,
Wv did YOU notice

NTERE you there, and tell me,
w did you notice
They we're all out of step but
Jim.
That paragraph, taken from a
song popular in wartime training
camps, accurately describes the
first police drill sessions inaugu-
rated Wednesday at Pennsy Park.
1t is the painful duty of this
reporter to record that the cops
were terrible. Worse, they were
awful.
To be sure, the blue uniforms
and the Sam Browne belts were
snappy but inside them-wow!
There were two drill sessions
Wednesday at which 260 police
men demonstrated just how rookie
a rookie can be. The men in the
first section learned much more
about military drill and courtesy
than those in the second, for
after an hour and a half of shout
ing, demonstrating, coaxing and
pleading, the drillmaSters we're
worn completely out.
n
DARRETT BALL and Ed Ball.
- motorcycle officers in charge
Of the drills, were given two weeks
of in which to recuperate. but
both declined, declaring weakly.
albeit firmly, We'll make soldiers
OF these gumps if it takes forever" !"
Major Lewis johnson, almost
exhausted, paused in his hoarse
pleadings long enough to pose for
a Times photographer.
Wed like to take a close up of
a rookie squad Major, will you
help us arrange it," he was asked.
"$fbz-z&$-," he replied. "Just
line up any squad and tell em to
act natural"
But the cops are determined.
They are going to learn how to
salute properly and to keep step.
Hope cleaned brightly for almost
half minutes Wednesday when
one entire squad got the step and
rc.led proudly, looking disdain-
fully on their comrades.
The military drills are to be held
twice weekly in the future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20


The VanderbiltS just had re-
turned from Newport and were
leaving to take train his ranch
an Nevada.
Vanderbilt seemed happy that
the estrangement from his father
and mother, resulting from his in
sistence no being a tabloid news
paper owner, was ended.
"I wish that I had ''r0e to talk
to you more fully" he said. But
you can say that I'm happier now
than I've been in years. That the
reconciliation with my parents is
complete. And you can also add
that they no longer oppose my
career as a journalist"
Vanderbilt and his stockholders
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
G. A. R. SET TO VOTE
Two Veterans in Race for
National Post.
Rn United Press

BIZ United Press
DENVER, Colo, Sept. 2o-Turn-
ing to business after five days Of
play, the Grand Army of the Re-
public prepared today 10 elect ma
tional officers and sound the retreat
call.
John Rees, Broken Bow, Neb.,
and Samuel P. Young, Philadelphia,
will test their voting strength in j
central assembly of the encamp-
ment. Town appeared early today
to be virtually assured by election
as commander-in- -chief, although
Rees was gathering additional fol-
lowing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

lost heavily in his tabloid PUBLISH
ing ventures in Los Angeles, Mi
ami and San Francisco. The Nil
ami and San Francisco papers
now are defunct, being forced into
bankruptcy, but Vanderbilt an
nounced in July of this year that
he expected to pay off the claims
of the 5000 stockholders by exc
cutting a trust fund from his in
heritance. The Los Angeles paper
was taken over by stockholders.
When asked today if he had re-
cevied his $3OOO,O0O inheritance,
he replied, Really I cannot go
into details at present. wish you
would excuse me"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

gine weighed approximately the
same as a gasoline type engine de-
yeloping the same horse power.
If subsequent tests prove as sue
cessful as the first flight, pro-
ponents of lighter than air crafts,
hope to use the new engine in
dirigibleS.
Woolson said that production of
the new engine would begin i'm
mediately after further testing air
and ground have been completed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
PLANE FLIES WITH oIL-BURNING MOTOR

intensive research, is of the radial
air-cooled type and said to de-
velop 200 horsepower. 1t uses oil
for fuel and does ava with gaso-
line. ignition systems, spark plugs
and carburetors, which cause
much trouble with present type of
gasoline motors.
M. L. Woolson aeronautical and
research engineer who with
Waite Lees. Packard pilot, made
the 1t Wednesday. said the en-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

And the hard days came, as
everybody knows, and the son
squandered his gold upon gaudy
linotype operators and perfuned
rolls of paper and dazzling Hoe
presses.
And the son was reduced to-
writing husks for the syndicates,
and he was visited by III health,
unhappy affairs of the heart, de-
ceitful friends and every sort Of
affliction. And he bore it all
bravely, but his father hardened
his heart against him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
NABBED FOR GAMING

Policeman's Visit to Club Turns
Into Business Call"
Police Sergeant Frank Reilly in
tended to pay the Douglass Park
Pleasure Club. 1105 E. Twenty Fifth
ST.. a little visit Wednesday night,
but made it a business call when
he found stud poker game in
progress. Fred Franklin, Negro, %,
1140 E. Nineteenth ST., the alleged
president" of the club, was
charged with keeping gambling
house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
RASKOB
Ex-Auditor Arrested for
Attempted BIackmaiI.

By United Press
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2O.-Gov-
ernor Alfred E. Smith will need a
new campaign manager soon; there
will be a funeral, declared Frank
Mooney, former Pennsylvania rail-
road auditor, when held in $4,000
bail today on charges of attempt
ing extortion and blackmail from
Mrs. John j. Raskob, wife of the
Democratic campaign manager.
Mooney was arresed in the North
Philadelphia postoff1ce after post
ing a letter demanding 100000 in
$50 bills to spare the life of Raskob.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
RIOT|NG BREAKS OUT AMONG
FLORIDA STORM REFUGEES
AS DEATH LIST MOUNTS
KiCkLeSS
R.y Times Special

B,y Times Special
VALPARAISO, Ind. Sept. 20.
j. Lorch, seeking to collect
$50 for ten gallons of alcohol
sold to Mrs. Freida Schussler
lost in Porter Circuit Court
here when her testimony that
the alcohol was unfit for bev-
erage purposes was borne out
by an analysis which showed
it so kickless that it did not
violate even the bone dry law
of Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
SCHOOLS GET 100000
SHORT TIME LOAN
Amount Borrowed Annually Pend
ing Tax Collection.

Amount Borrowed Annually Pend
ing Tax Collection.
Board of sNhool commissioners to-
day borrowed 100000 from the In
diana Trust Company and the
Merchants National Bank on bid
of 5.5 per cent interest on the loan
which will run approximately sixty
days.
The loan is required annually to
tide the board over until November
taxes are collected. 1t was for the
relief of the boards special, library
and tuition funds.
The bid, setting 5.85 per cent as
the interest charge, was the only
one submitted. Commissioners re-
marked that this rate was higher
than usually paid, but not out of
line with current rates on short
loans. On money borrowed by the
school board last January, 1865 per
cent was paid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
Life Toll Is Estimated Near
800 After Survey
of Region.
EPIDEMICS ARE FEARED
Military Aid Is Asked to
Keep Victims of Gale
in Order.
BIZ Times Special

~ ltMcS special
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20
AS relief workers hurried
bodies underground to prevent
an epidemic and while rioting
by Negroes was reported to
Red Cross officials here as hav-
ing occurred in Pahokee, Fla,
death lists heightened today in
Porto Rico and parts of Florida
lashed by the West Indian
hurricane.
Death estimates in Florida ranged
as high as 800.
Police reports from forty-six of
the seventy-seven towns of Porto
Rico today raised the number of
dead to 174 with expectation that
other bodies would be found.
From the village of Pahokee on
the southern shore of Lake Okee-
chobee, Fla, Red Cross worker
reported a riot among Negroes and
a request for military aid, presum-
ably to the Florida National Guard.
Pahokee is listed as a mere hamlet
but its population may have been
increased by refugees from adjacent
areas.
Health Conditions Bad
Sanitary conditions in the in
terror Of Porto Rico, in Palm Beach
and Okeechobee counties, Florida.
were reported serious and it was
necessary in some instances to bury
bodies without identification. Chlor-
Inc with which to treat water in
Porto Rico was supplied by the
United States public health service.
Relief workers believed they would
be able to prevent pestilence.
Meantime, the United States
weather bureau ordered coastal
storm warnings down except for
small craft warnings in New Eng
land, as the remnants Of the storm
centered over western Pennsylvania
with every sign of further abate-
ment. ~
DR.. A. T. Eide, of the Haines City
Red Cross, after survey of the
east side of Lake Okeechobee, said
$50 persons we're dead in the
vicinity he visited and they had dis
covered forty-seyen bodies in one
place on a road.
Town Is Devastated
The area between Okechobee City
and Canal Point was in good shape
but the town Pahokee was de-
vaStated.
out of a population of $1,000"
Eide said, twenty five hundred are
homeless. Six hundred are being
sheltered in a school house. The
area south to Miami locks, includ-
ing Kramers Island, was devastated
and the loss Of life was consider
able but cannot be estimated all
though it probably will mount to
several hundred"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

BIZ United Press
,DETROIT, Sept. 2O.-More
- than satisfied with the first
test flight of a new Diesel type
oil-burning aircraft engine, en-
gineers of the Packard Motor Car
Company, announced today that
extensive plans for manufactur-
ing the engine were ready and
only awaiting completion of the
tests.
The engine, result Of two years
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
BUTLER NEAR 1000

Final Enrolment Figures Will Be
Ready at End of Week.
Butler University enrolment is
expected to reach 1000 by the end
of this week when an official check
is completed. Sarah E. Cotton,
registrar, declared today that a new
attendance record will be set if the
number exceeds 1,675, the total en-
rolled at the close of last semester.
Registration continues today and
Friday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
OCOn1e Now!

Believe it or not, this really
happened:
John Mills. 1881 Central Ave-,
a plumber, told police he was
in a hurry when arrested
Wednesday for speeding.
More, he convinced John S.
Smith. judge pro tenn. of the
municipal court he was speed
ing to repair leaky water pipes
and was given suspended judg-
ment on a $5 fine.
The suspended judgment was
the result of shock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

Four years passed, and then
Brigadier General Vanderbilt on
a morning as sofetly fair as only
a September morning can be at
Newport, R. L, stepped out on the
marble stoop of his palace.
What could that be approach
ing afar Off A taxicab? And
turning into the Vanderbilt drive
way2 Indeed, yes, And from it
emerged not only the prodigal
son, to be held close to the stern
old fathers breast, but a COM
panion, in fact, a bride.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
HOOVER CLUB TO OPEN
Headquarters to Be Established in
English Hotel Friday.

Marion County Hoover for -Presi-
dent Club will open headquarters
Friday in Rooms 169-172, mezzanine
floor, English Hotel, Judge Mahlon
E. Bash, president, announced to-
day.
Arthur c. Renick will be organ
ization secretary in charge of the
Office, assisted by Donald M. REIN.
Claude A. Anderson is secretary of
the Marion County club which will
amplify work of Hoover State head
quarters. concentrating organiza-
ton efforts in this county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
BARBER KILLS SELF

Commits Suicide Rather Than APP
pear in Court.
Confronted with a summons to
appear in juvenile court to answer
to a charge of an attempted attack
on a 6-year-old girl, Grant Roberts,
"a, 1914 E. New York ST., committed
suicide this morning in his barber
shop at 1921 Michigan Ave-, by
shooting himself in the mouth with
a pistol.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
ESCAPED BY BRIBE,'
SAYS FARM CONVICT
STORM LOSS $1,20o,oO0
Survey Made of Tornado Damage
in Rockford, III.

BIZ UnUed PTCsS
ROCKFORD, Ill, Sept. 20.-Prop-
erty damage caused by last Fridays
tornado in Rockford will approx
mate $4,000, it was stated today
after a detailed survey. Much of
the loss was covered by tornado in
Surance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

ESE details be said purely imaginary Seen today at
SxyFfth St. Cornelius reticen
essential the fatted
rejoicing feasng that extended
and night.
young Vanderbilt at Mayfair house his bride the
whom he married July half hour
from Waldo Hancock Logan Chicago
months after Vanderbt divorce from Mrs Rachel
-LakMt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
Hourly Temperatures
'PRODIGAL'RETURNS
Father Vanderbilt SIayS Calf
BY SAM LOVE

20Corneius Vanderbilt
IN motives of delicacy writing his greatest
story and must leave it to other hands
nothing than the reception back to the parental bosom
Vanderbilt brgadier general and father of
podigal who share of his inheri
forth into the world of journalism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
DEMOCRATS TALK FUNDS
Meetings Held Today in All Dis
trictS of State.

tricts of State.
Seventh district Democratic lead
ers met with William j. Mooney,
Indiana director of the National
Democratic campaign fund commit
tee, at the Indiana Democratic Club
/. today.
Similar meetings were held
Throughout Indiana's thirteen con-
gressional districts today, attended
by representatives of all counties,
; for reports and discussion of CAM
paign fund solicitations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
BY FRANK GETTY
limited Press Snnrfs Edifnr

POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK,
Sept. 20.-The New York Giants
and the st. Louis Cardinals opened
the series which may determine the
outcome of the National League
pennant race before $4,000 excited
fans under a bright September sun
this afternoon.
Separated by a margin of two
games, with the Red Birds out in
front, the two contenders were en-
gagged in double-header, with the
Giants bent upon winning two
games and tying up the pennant
race before nightfaIl.
With this in mind, John Nc
Graw sent Larry Benton to the
mound for the first game, while Bill
McKechnie called upon Bill Sher~
dell to try his southpaw slants
against the New York club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
Goat Goes
Cash Comes

Goat Goes
Cash Comes
Mrs. Laura Mccoy, $40 E. Ohio
St., ran the following ad in The
Times only three days and had
eighteen calls from people want
ing to buy a goat;
NANNY GOAT-Gentle, black and
white; 2 years old; cheap. Ii. 5Il9.
You can sell everything from
bulbs to buildings if you write a
good ad and place it before more
than 25O,OOO daily Times readers.
Call Riley 555l.