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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-07
Nav Have Hidden

Without questioning any ones
veracity or rejecting on any ones
part in this curious episode 1 shall
insist on the corpus deficit before
believing this man is dead, and
that, too, even if he never reappears.
All things considered, it is just
as plausible to suppose that he con-
cea1ed himself in hiding place
prepared beforehand and left the
plane after it had landed as that
he fell out of it in mid-air unbe-
known to any of his companions.
Such a denouement would be as
consistent with his character as sui
eide, or such fit Of absent-minded-
ness as would enable him to push
a door open against 100-mile wind
without realizing that he was not
entering another compartment.
Such a denouement would be even
more consistent with his love of
the spectacular.
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The Charitable Utilities

The ruthless inquiry of the Federal trade
commission is disclosing the hitherto unsus-
pected charitable character of the public util-
ties of the State
They know much better than the people,
just how lonesome and hungry the members Of
the Legislature may become when they sacrifice
themselves to the public good.
They know, these utilities, that these brave
patriots who two years ago under the leader
ship of Harry Leslie made suppression of all
graft inquiry a party policy, would starve
unless they eat. And so they feed them.
Such at least is the testimony of one Mr.
Cuppey, an official of the Lafayette Telephone
Company, and during the Legislature lobbyist
for the utilities who want to protect the public
from their fool friends"
Mr. Cuppy is testifying before Federal
body which wants to know the extent to which
the utilities of the Nation have corrupted or
directed public sentiment.
It is not the first time that lobbyists have
been of interest to Federal officials. During
the 1925 session Of the Legislature, inquisitive
dry agents wondered where so many of the
members secured the necessary stimulus to
enable them to stagger into the Statehouse
and vote for bone dry laws, and poked their
noses into the rooms of lobbyists with some
degree of successful inquiry
Mr. Cuppey testified that he drew $4,000
as salary as lobbyist, an item that may inter
est the public service commission when it fixes,
if it ever does the rates for the particular COM
pany Of which Cuppey is an officer.
Mr.. Cuppey more significantly says that he
spent 81 200 for theater parties, luncheons
and dinners for members Of the Legislature"
The interest in the lawmakers was altru-
istic of course. Hungry boys should be fed.
And so they feed them.
No one would suspect, or even hint that at
these dinners and luncheons and theater par
ties, which may or may not be a poetical de
scription Of the entertainment, that the agent
for the utilities ever intimated that certain
bills were to be killed and others passed.
1t may be coincidence that the members
seen most often as guests Of these utility lobby
lists always vote as the utilities desire
But at least we know what makes so many
Of these lawmakers fat-and dumb. They eat
utility food
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Sanctuary
utility food

Do not worry if you are at all alarmed by
the thought that the police are ruthlessly IN
terefering with constitutional liberty when
they raid the makers and vendors of baseball
pools.
Be reassure6l- that none of these purveyors
of tickets and pools are in Jail, or likely to be
in jail
Our minor judges appointed or special, are
meticulous in their regard for constitutional
rights
Take this case, for instance. A policeman
saw citizen receive the pool tickets. He saw
the proprietor of the selling station hand them
out He saw the citizen deposit dollar on tie
counter-and grabbed it as evidence That
might suggest that the man was buying these
gambling tickets and that the proprietor was
selling them But the transaction was purely
suggestive, in the opinion of this judge. There
was lacking one element. The proprietor had
not put the bill into his cash register. Just
what would have been the reason for freeing
this proprietor, who always votes right and
stands well with the machine, if he had not
owned cash register, offers wide fields for
Imagination.
The truth is that the baseball pool is the
successor othe old policy game, the meanest
form of gambling, and very definite menace
to thezcommunity.
It's daily business runs into thousands of
dollars Young men are taught to idle and to
steal 1t flches from the tables of the needy
It grabs the shoes from the feet of children. 1t
is responsible for lot of plain hell in many
homes.
It is also common sense and certain that
these baseball tickets can be used for no other
purpose than that of gambling. The men who
print them know this and are guilty. The men
who sell them know that they can be used for
nothing else.
The police make the raids Some very few
are given small fines. The small courts find
excuses and technicalities.
The big fellows who are reaping sizeable
fortunes every week daugh. They know the
place when they find sanctuary.
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His valet, secretary and the two
stenographers who we're riding IN
the cabin with him, admit that he
was subject to fits of absent
mindedness, yet none of them both
cred to watch his movements. in
ouire how he felt or, observe where
he went when he laid the book he
had been reading on the table and
started back toward the retiring
room.
Knowing that they claim to know
about his peculiar mental condition
of his susceptibility to nausea, it is
surprising that they should have
waited fifteen minutes before doing
anything.
1t is also surprising that the out
side door could have been opened,
if it were, without any of them no.
ticing the fact. One would suppose
that they might have felt breath
of cool air, at least.
You Just can not reconcile the
idea that one of half dozen peo-
pie confined to the restricted space
in an airplane cabin walking out
into eternity without some of the
others sensing it. There must have
been other victims of absent-mind-
edness than Captain Loewenstein
present for such a thing to happen.
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A CCIDENT, suicide, foul play
4 or fake, this disappearance of
Capt. Alfred Loewenstein is just
such a story as the majority of
people like to read. More than that,
it is just such story as the man
himself would like to father.
Man of mystery" they called
him, and he was as proud Of it as
of that more resounding title, The
Belgium Croesus."
Whether as promoter of an in
ternational combine, or as host at
a dinner, he was first of all a poser.
His every action seems to have
been designed with an eye to its
effect on the public.
Few Americans had ever heard
of him when he stepped ashore at
New York last April, but within
twenty-four hours the whole Nation
knew what he looked like, as we'll
as many of the alleged details OF
his picturesque career.
Eight suites on the II De France,
a radio bill of $500 during the pas
sage, such an encourage of secre-
taries and stenographers as would
make j. P. Morgan gasp, and, above
all else, that carefully cultivated
atmosphere of mysticism did the
trick
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Wallets Statement

Think what you will, but here is
another riddle. to place beside that
of Charlie Ross, 1.-THE Man in the
Iron Mask" or Louis XVII.
The only fact that we can be sure
Of just now is his absence.
Beyond that, the case lends itself
to all kinds of deduction. He may
have left that airplane, bpt no one
saw him do so.
So far as direct evidence is con-
cerned we have nothing but the
bare statement that he laid down
the book he was reading, rose and
walked toward the retiring room,
and that when his valet decided to
look for him fifteen minutes after
wards he was not to be found.
There are just two ways to pre-
vent children yet unborn from
cudgeling their brains over what be-
came of Captain Alfred Lowenstein.
The first is to find his body, and the
second for hun to reappear.
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Times Readers Voice Vie10S

propaganda mile after mile for a
few pennies.
The lady goes farthe' and states
that the average man goes to the
waste basket with anything with a
frank on it. That is the whole
story why the politician and propa-
gandist always trim the voter and
taxpayer.
The majority of them are too neg
lectful to read and study and ed
ucate themselves. Thousands of
people will read the editorial Of the
lady and swallow bait, line and pole,
but there are others, like myself,
who will head her editorial to the
vast basket instead of Sena Or Hef-
Inns or the other gentlem ems, if
we should be lucky enough to have
one mailed to us by the Govern
menb.
AS I see this election business,
the people who are dry and who
believe in Heflin and the prohibition
law, have everything to gain and
nothing to lose. They already have
lost.
But as to Mrs. Ferguson's side,
they have everything to lose. I sure
ly would like to know the address
of Mrs. Ferguson, as would like to
point out to her some of the fine
points of her editorial-which are
none. JAMES j. CULLINGS.
819 Nineteenth st.
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wheel around the north star all the consultations
appear to do, until it is turned around like an IN"
instead of 'W."
In addition to the FIVE stars Of the wv" there are
four other fairly bright stars in the constellation
One is above the "W,@ one quite close to it. and two
below it,
The constellation is supposed to represent Queen
Cassopeia sitting upon her throne No stretch of the
imagination will make the constellation resemble that
although the five stars do look something like the
throne They really look more like the outline of
modern steamer chair.
The accompanying illustration shows the figure of
the queen as the ancient Greeks imagined it to be in
the sky and the places where the stars fit into the pic
The smaller diagram shows the wv" and the
names of the stars. The wv" has been tipped up on
one side to conform the position of the drawing
of the queen.
At first you may have a little difficulty in find
ing the constellation of Cassiopea in the heavens
But after Bit the "W" will stand out just as
clearly as does the Great Dipper and we hope by
now does also the Little Dipper
You will find it real satisfaction when you are
able to recognize these three consultations and you
can feel that you have made a real beginning in
getting acquainted with of mans most wonderful
heritages, the universe of stars.
Something about the stars in Cassiopea and the
legend Of the queen for whom it was named will be
told next.
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Stocks Retaining

Stocks of half a dozen interna-
tional companies went crashing
when it was learned that Captain
Lcewenstein had disappeared, but
not for long. Though still down,
the shares are climbing upward.
Sman-fry spectators. who hitched
their wagon to this financial COM
ct, suffered considerable loss, but
the big boys claim they will put
through all right.
Meanwhile, millions Of people
argue over what really happened.
Did the great captain walk out
of the wrong door by accident, did
he deliberately jump 1900 feet to
certain death, was he the victim
of foul play or has he perpetrated
the greatest hoax of all time?
There is room for debate on ali
four hypothesis. He was known TO
be absent-minded, and he might
have pushed that door open care
lessly, even though it would have
taken a strong man to do so. He
was also known to be in more or
less financial trouble and he might
have decided to close out all &C
counts irrevocably.[
Though no evidence OF 1t has
thus far developed, he might have
had an enemy, because enemies arc
not uncommon for men of his type
and character. Finally, he might
have done a vanishing trick, either
in spite of the employees by whom
he was surrounded, or through
their connivance.
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Bridge Play
Made Easy
BY W. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A.-ace; K-kinE;, q
queen: Jack; X-any card lower
than 100
VKTHEN your partner bids a nc
w trump it is most important to
Visualize his hand. The initial no
trumper only guarantees the hold
ing of the minimum Requirements
for a no-trump.
You also have the right to assume
that the declarer is not blank IN
suit and does not hold a worthless
singleton.
There is no guarantee, however.
that the no-trumper is without
worthless doubleton.
You may also mirror the de-
clarer's hand as not holding a
sound major suit bid, as preference
in bidding is given to a sound major
rather than to a no trump.
There is no ruffing when the
hand is played at no-trump, The
highest cards take the tricks.
If you hold high cards, evenly dis
tributed, as four three three three,
it is usually unnecessary to make
any declaration.
When your hand fits in with your
partners no trump and your cards
will help your partner make game,
you should cooperate with him and
pass.
If, however, your hand contains
a blank suit or singleton or
worthless doubleton there is always
present the danger that opponents
may he so strong in the missing
suit that they will run that suit be-
fore your partner can obtain the
lead.
It is often found that the declarer
is weak in the very suit in which
you are short.
Some experts under certain con-
ditions and when holding certain
high cards declare a four-card suit,
to take out a no-trump.
Occasions may arise when it is
advisable to take out in a four-card
suit, but these occasions are so rare
that they may be relegated to the
experts.
AS a general rule the average
player ought not to be concerned
with taking out no-trump unless
holding a suit of five or more cards
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-07
A Highway Investment

There are investments and investments Some
things that hardly look like investments turn out on
examination to be excellent money propositions.
Just now great super highway connecting Canada
and the United States with all the countries of South
America is being proposed 1t would enable motorists
to travel the entire length of the two continents At
first glance it looks like good idea but expensive
something that would cost more than it would be
worth.
But maybe it would be mighty good investment.
At present there are only 100000 autos in all South
America With such highway in existence can it be
doubted that that number would double, treble, al
most overnight? And where would the new cars come
from not from the United States, puveyor of autos
to all the world?
1t might be that American business men would be
very wise to get behind that proposed highway and
make it a reality.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-07
BabyS Summer Clothing Must Be Light

satisfactorily, and cotton least salts
factorily.
A great deal of foolishness hsa
been written relative to the effects
Of various colors in relation to heat
and IN relation to the passing Of the
ukra- violet rays of the sun.
There is apparently not the slight
est reason to believe that one color
is any different than another, either
in attracting or repellling the suns
says.
1t has been urged that white alb
serbs the least heat and that dark
colors assist in lending warmth. The
evidence for such a belief is some
what doubtful.
On the other hand, the mesh Of
the material concerned has much
TO do with the manner in which the
heat or light rays pass through the
clothing, and with the way in which
the heat of the body is permitted
to radiate away.
Modern manufacturers of infants
garments are building garments for
infants to wear during the summer
so that sun baths may be taken in
the city
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This garment consists simply Of
a covering for the lower portions
of the body with two straps to go
over the shoulders. Between these
straps open mesh material is in
serted which permits ready passage
of the suns rays.
For the average infant in hot
weather all that is necessary is a
cotton, sleeveless shirt, a diaper and
socks. In extremely hot weather
the shirt and socks may also be
left of.
The young infants do not have
a we'll developed heat regulating
center in the brain. For this rea-
son. the matter Of clothing is es-
pecially important.
Too much clothing makes an in
FAINT irritable and uncomfortable,
hence it cannot sleep and frequent
ly refuses to eat. AS a result, it is
likely to become i'll.
The question Of the infants cloth
ing, as pointed out recently by Drs.
S. A. Cohen and L. w. Sauer, is
one worthy of the most serious at
tention by the physician, the nurse
and the mother.
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Michigan an even greater annual revenue than the
lumber business ever did in its paln1iest days
He warns citizens that if they do not kill the goose
that lays the golden egg-if, in other words summer
visitors are treated courteousy given good accommo
dations and are not Observation-Disclosures will
speedily find her lakes her sunshine and her beaches
far more valuable than her old-tne pine forests.
Probably he is right. 1t is amazing that Michi-
CANS development a vacation center has not been
even more rapid. Climate and scenery are superb
Nature has provided a magnificent vacation ground
there.
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lNrarion paIIv Chroniclel

The Democrats have adopted a
platform and nominated their
candidate for the presidency of
the United States-but the can
didate will be the platform. There
is no other way to figure it out.
AL Smith will be the issue. No
other political conception is pos
sible, since for eight years he has
been propagandized into the
power that made it possible to
thrust him upon the Democratic
party as its only available" can
didate for the presidency.
He has served his State with
distinction as Governor of New
York. He is man of ability and
his integrity is unquestioned. He
makes a popular appeal, at least
in his own section of the coun-
try. But to say that he is the
choice of the rank and file Of his
party is far-fetched.
He is the product Of propa-
ganda and political manipulation.
A wet candidate on a dry plat
form he was foisted on the great
dry sections of the South and
Middle West by leaders who ac-
cepted him because they saw in
the candidacy, as it has been pro-
NOTED, the only possible chance
to cut in on the political patron
age that goes with an admins
tration in power.
The victory of Tammany Hall
in Texas which has been hailed
as a party love feast" is We
neered with surface harmony.
The victorious element went to
astonishing extremes of conde-
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on request will not be published Let
tiers not exceeding 200 words Will receive
preference.
Editor Times-I read in The
Times Of June 90 the editorial OF
Mrs. Walter Ferguson. and Of all
the hundreds of editorials 1 have
read she wins the propaganda
championship. She states that
Senator Hefin and two more peo-
pie have distributed more than g.
100000 copies of speeches at the
Governments cost.
The lady picks out Senator
Hefin. but forgets to tell us who
the other two are. They evidently
are on her side. The lady surely
is for Smith or the Catholic polit-
ical machine, but she has nothing
To worry about-they already nave
won the election, as I see it.
read in The Times where
Hoover received part of his educa-
ton in Catholic institutions. I
read in The Times where Senator
Curtis was born and sprinkled i'll
the Catholic church I also read
about Smith in The Times. Why
should the lady jump on Hefin?
Her views cannot lose.
The lady feels so sorry for the
poor mailman, who draws a larger
salary than the average worker,
but she does not mention the poor
little Times carrier, who packs her
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David Dietz on science--
A Queen in the Sky
NO. 90

TINE constellation of Cassicpea will be easily
L found if you have kept pace with this series and
learned to know the Little Dipper well as the Big
Dipper.
To find it go out doors tonight and face north.
Trace line from the two stars in the Great Dipper
known as the pointers to Polaris the north star,
which is in the Little Dipper. Now continue this
line for about equal distance the other side Of
Polaris
The line will end very five fairly bright
stars which form sort of letter "W" The "W is not
quite regular in shape but looks though someone
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Did You KnO1U?
Sinking Ships

Sinking Ships
A ship which sinks below the sur
face of the ocean continues to 90
down until it strikes the bottom. 1t
will settle almost directly below the
place where it began to sink, as
Stunning that it does not encounter
subterranean currents.
Only a steel or iron vessel thus
will sink, and this because the spe-
cific gravity of the material from
which it is made is greater than
that of water.
At depth of two miles, the den
sity Of ordinary sea water is only
1.011 times the surface density.
Steel and iron are roughly seven
times heavier than water.
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~ DR. MORRIS FTsHBETN

- IN AAOAN+N4D AAA4-~A@-%f
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine-
THE chief purpose OF clothing is
i to protect the body from heat,
cold, sunlight rain, dirt and insects.
Much modern clothing is bought
primarily with the idea OF orna-
mentation or sex attraction.
This does not concern the infant.
It is primarily concerned with the
matter of heat loss. since mainte-
nance of body temperature is, OF
course. of greatest significance in
promoting warmth and resistance to
disease.
Investigations made by various
observers indicate that wool is the
best non-conductor Of heat. Wool
affords the greatest warmth and
linen the least.
The warmth Of clothing is de-
termined not so much by the ma
terial, but by the ability of the ma
terial to hold air within its meshas.
Pure wool irritates the skin, and
for infants it is now customary to
mix cotton or silk with the wool and
frequently to wear cotton and linen
next to the skin with wool over it.
Wool absorbs perspiration most
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Michipan's New Income

A generation ago Michigan was great 1un-
Der State Mighty pine forests covered her hills and
river valleys and the cutting of them poured great
streams of wealth into the pockets of Mchigans cit
liens
Now most of the lumber is gone, although the upper
peninsula still does good bit of cutting each year
But Governor Green believes that the summer tour
lists aSd vacation business WILL in the near future give
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.
o f i t a n d
stretched it a
Bit
It h o S e five
S t ars are the
principal ones in
the constellation
of G ssiop eia
% r onoun need
k a S i o-pe-ya
with the accent
on the next to
the last syllable)
If you watch
the constellation
throughout the
evening you will
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This Date in
y. S. History

July
1640-Providence, R. .I.shad a gov
eminent formed BY forty
citizens.
1S65-Four of the lincoln plotters
were hanged g
l004-Greeley Arctic expedition
survivors reached Newfound-2
land
1898-Hawan annexed
l9l2-Call issued for Progressive
convention at Chicago, Aug. 5.
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In conformance with our regular practice OF print
ing some dry facts during the hot weather. it is hereby
announced that prohibition agents occasionally go on
a still hunt.