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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
High YaIIer'
Pair of Shoes Germ of
Tragedy: Negro on
Trial for Life.

THE pawn value of a pair of
l. high yaller" shoes was be-
fore a Criminal Court jury today
in the first t-degree murder trial of
Thomas L. Thomas, "a, Negro, 946
Cotton st.
The State is attempting to prove
Thomas shot and killed Van Lee,
%, Negro, $50 w. walnut St, at
Locke and Cotton Sts., Oct. 30,
after an argument over the shoes
and their pawn value.
Lee is referred to III court by
the Negro witnesses as "Pick
Handle Slim" and passing by that
cognomen he was one of the Lead
ing lights Of poolroom socially
elite.
After a quiet morning of horse
shoe pitching and craps shooting.
in which Pick Handle" cleaned
out the other contestants, Thomas
wanted his revenge. but Pick
Handle" wasn't interested in re-
opening the matter.
But got ST. AS long as you
had money and I had of won, i'd
of played with you" witnesses say
he argued.
But 50 amt no money. Just
chicken feed. Nothing but a poul-
try sum-" and the argument got
under WaV
"TF 1 WAS broke" Pick Handle"
L is quoted as saying. Il could
raise $40 on these new tan, button
shoes.
Bet you 2 bucks you CANT"
was the retort.
The money was put up, and the
argument started right.
Finally the stakeholder, fearing
the. consequences. ordered the
Negroes to settle the matter by
visiting a pawnshop. They start
ed. Later one was shot, and
Thomas is on trial as the mur-
derer.
What did you do with the 81
stakes?" Deputy Prosecutor Jud-
son L. Stark asked the stake
holder.
We'll, sub, I never knowed
what to do with it, but it 'peared
like Pick Handle walnut gonna
get much funeral. 50 I put the
81 on the funeral 'spenses."
Special Judge Homer Elliott Is
hearing the case. Deputy Prose-
cutor John Niblack is associated
with Stark, and Lawrence Shaw
is defending Thomas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
GASOLINE PRICE
BOOSTED HERE
Rise of 3 Cents a Gallon Is
Ordered.

Major oil companies today boosted
gasoline prices cents a gallon here
and over Indiana.
The price increase brings the price
to where it was several months ago.
when price cutting of indianapolis
independent dealers led to a general
price slash, Standard Oil Company
officials said
All larger Oil companies followed
the lead of the Standard Oil Com
pany.
New filling station prices are 1872
cents a gallon for standard grade
and 222 cents for high test.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
CITY GETS $151,947
IN GASOLINE TAXES
In Rome
Photos by Hillary G.. Bailey.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times SDecidl
ATLANTIC CITY, March /.
Patrons in Angelo Volandis'
lunch wagon eat sandwiches
with their fingers. When Jerry
Palmer, banjo player. asked for
a fork with his. Angelo went
after him with a cleaver.
Palmer was awarded $4,000
damages in Circuit Court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
INSANITY PLEA AGAIN

Hickman Counsel Resorts to Alien
lists to Save Client.
By United Press
LOS ANGELES, March Am
other battle of alienists loomed to-
day as attorneys for William Ed
ward Hickman prepared insanity
argument to be introduced today in
Hickman's joint trial with Welby
Hunt for the murder of Ivy Toms,
Los Angeles druggist.
A ruling by Special Judge Craig
led to announcement by attorneys
Richard Cantillon and Jerome
Walsh that they would call several
alienistS to testify that Hickman
was insane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
FATHER is NEAR DEATH
City Police Are Asked to Locate
Miss Mary McGOWn.

Police today were asked to locate
Miss Mary McGown, alias Miss
Mollie Garrison, believed to be liv-
ing in Indianapolis, as her father is
near death in a hospital at Spring
field, Ill.
In a letter to Police Chief Claude
M. Worley. Mrs. Stella Beard, sis
ter. stated that Miss McGown had
lived in Indianapolis for some time.
She said that it was the wish Of
her father to see her before he died.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
Advances Are General

By United Press
NEW YORK. March 1.-GaSoline
prices were advanced in many parts
Of the country this week. United
Press survey revealed today. The
following localities we're affected:
New England. up 2 cents to II
cents; Toledo. Ohio, up cents to II
cents; Buffalo. up cents to 18
cents; Denver, up 3 cents to 16
cents, including Scent tax; Dallas,
Texas, up 4 cents to 10 cents.
In Illinois the retail price of gaso-
line dropped 2 cents when the State
Supreme Court invalidated the State
tax. The price is now 16 cents in
Chicago and most of Illinois.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01

with the facts and he went away,
declaring he would drink him
self to death because of his
broken heart.
The Governor has one son, Ed
Jackson Jr., aged 6, who was
adopted several years ago and is
a very proper young pupils in
public school.
Besides. the imposter's age is
Al. Jackson is So.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
Fight by Radio
BIZ United Press

By United Press
NE WYORK, March 1.-The
heavyweight prize fight between
Jack Delaney and Tom Heeney
will be broadcast tonight by
Station WIZ, direct from
Madison Square Garden. Gra-
ham McNamee will give the
blow-by-bloW description.
Although the National Broad
casting Company's Blue Net
work is to be in operation be-
tween 0 and 10 o'clock, east
ern time, when the fight is ex-
pected to go on the air. only
WIZ will carry the description.
The rest of the network will
broadcast the Maxwell hour.
The New York Telegram, The
Indianapolis Times and other
Scripps-Howard newspapers are
sponsoring the fight broadcast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01

named Richard Tredennick
Jackson. She added: HE told
me that you sent him a check
for $4,000, but that you short
charged him $4,000 and that he
left the check at the Bancroft
Hotel.
The girl believed the man up
to the time she inquired at the
hotel and found neither man
nor check.
Later she confronted her suitor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
$4,000 for School Addition

bV THINGS BptCIuI
BURLINGTON, Ind, March IA
contract has been awarded by
Township Trustee Marion Thomas
for erection Of $4,000 addition to
the Burlington school building. The
addition will include gymnasium
stage and auditorium.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01

A MATCH salesman from st.
4 n Louis posed as the son of
Governor Ed Jackson and tried
to win the hand of a Worcester,
Mass, girl of good family with
a story that he Just had received
a check for $4,000 from the
chief executive, a letter made
public by Jackson's secretary,
Pliny Wolfard, disclosed today.
The girl wrote to the Cover
nor, asking him if he had a son
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
MARCH LION IS HERE
Temperature Below Normal, But
Snow Goes.

March came in like half fe-
rocious" lion today, with tempera-
lures 6 degrees below normal, but
with the snow and rainfall which
threatened Wednesday on its way
down the st. Lawrence valley.
Little change Of temperature is
likely today and tonight, and it will
be only slightly warmer Friday
Weatherman j. H. Arlington said
Lowest temperature tonight will be
about 26.
Wednesday z inch of snow fell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
HOOVER is ON BALLOT
Pennsylvania Delegate Candidate
Pledged for Candidate.

,BV UNtted Prc8S
HARRISBURG, Pa, March L.
The first nominating petition to be
put forward in Pennsylvania by an
avowed Hoover supporter we're filed
today in the State election bureau.
Franklin P. Booth, Pittsburgh,
who filed as a candidate for elec-
ton as Republican national dele
gate-at-large, pledges himself to
support Hoover at Kansas City for
Rthe presidential nomination.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
REMUS CASE NEAR END
Only Few Witnesses Remain in
Liberty Writ Case.
By United Press

By United Press
LIMA, Ohio, March 1.-The
habeas corpus hearing of George
Remus, former king of Cincinnati
bootleggers, who is fighting to be
released from the State asylum here.
neared an end today, although
several witnesses remained to be
called.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-07
HEREDITY AFFECTS
COLORING Of HAIR
Shade Of Parents Hilsute Adorn-
ment Important, Science Finds

Pittsburgh. Ps.. Dec. ! Pt--An
element of heredity that may influ-
cnce the color of hair has been
found at the University Of Pitts
burgh.
The discovery tends to show that
some individuals are endowed. SEEM
insly AZ birth. with a definite ability
to retain their natural hair colors
under unusual conditions.
1t was revealed while experiment.
ing with the hair of mice, which
can be turned permanently white
under N-rays. that some mice ere
more resistant to turning white
than others.
The hair that chung TO its natural
shade longest was that inherited
from a father and mother which
both had the same color as the
Young mouse.
When the parents did not have
the same color, the resistance to
whitening was less, and this weak
ness was so definite that it was
possible to identify the hair ances-
try simply by applying the ~hiten-
ing test.
The experiments showed that the
tendency to resist turning white is
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-07
RADIO COMMISSION
May FUNCTION ON
Is Scheduled TO Go Out OF Existence
Marcel, 10 But That Is
Questioned.

Washington. Dec. P,-The fed
eral radio commission, scheduled to
pass out of existence on March 16.
may continue to function as usual
for time after that date.
Chairman White OF the house
merchant marine committee, CO.
author of the radio act is drafting
a resolution asking that the life Of
the commission be extended.
lie said he is opposed to making
the commission a fixture but he be-
lievcs in view of it's experience II
should be kept in power long
enough to complete some of the
most important tasks confronting It,.
Among other problems 10 be
worked out, in his opinion. are the
uses to which the short waves will
he put, some arrangement with
Canada to minimize interference
there and in the United States. and
steps to inn I'VE Americas position
in intcrnati al communication.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-07

about uniformly double in the crea-
tuaaD from parents both having the
same hair color.
DR.. Robert 7. Hance. head of the
department of zoology. who made
the experiments. says:
What we are really striving for
is more knowledge OF the chemistry
of living processes in order that We
may be able the better to control
them. The biologist is trying by
every possible means TO learn more
of these complicated phenomena,
and it is usually easier to under
stand the normal through obserNa-
tons of the abnormal. Hence h Is
continually trying to upset the usu-
al activities by throwing experiment.
al monkey wrenches in the guise OF
ultraviolet rays, Mays, chemicals
and variety of other things into
the living works to see what hap
pens.
THE effect of N-rays is attractin:
the most attention at present and
their value in demonstrating Very
difference. doubtless chemical. be
tween two characters Of different
hereditary constitution IS Obvious in
the cases of the mice.
This is the first instance where
an hereditary difference between two
animals has been shown by other
than natural breeding methods, and
it opens a very interesting field for
experimentation and speculation.
''N-ray therapy has some virtues
and many faults. Greater llnowl
edge Of the biological action Of
N-rays may enable us to control or
to duplicate in some simpler way
the valuable effects and largely, if
not completely, to eliminate the less
desirable"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-07
Florida Fisherman
Makes UNIQUE Catch

Naples, Fla. Dec. Ps-The fish
ing season is on in southern waters.
and with 1t fish story tiiAc.
Gus Maywold of Fort Myers has
made a bid for honors in both
classes by "iassoing" seven-pound
mackerel here.
After casting into school his
light rod was nearly torn from his
grasp. 1t was found that the lead
on his line had thrown a half hitch
around the head of his catch.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-07

village are named Brown. They are
all related.
The village lifeboat is manned by
volunteers from two branches of the
Brown family and whenever it is
launched all the Brown women turn
waves.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-07
They Are All Brown
In This Tiny Town

tresswell. England. Dec. Up
4 local census has disclosed that 80
per cent Of the inhabitants Of this
picturesque Northumberland fishing
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-07

Charming new designs in the
finest OF woods in walnut.
mahogany. etc. Wonderful
values:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-15
FILMS DIE WITH PLAYERS

Hollywood has discovered that the public will not
patronize motion picture when exhibited after the
death of the star of the film and is puzzled thereby
The movie producers unable to distinguish between
the film of dead star and the book of dead author
or the play of dead dramatst, the composition Of
deceased musician and they point out there are any
number OF cases where such works have only become
popular after the death Of their artist creator.
bit of applied psychology would solve this movie
land mystery The key to the solution rests in the
movement launched by certain producers years
ago to substitute "story appeal for "player appeal"
on the screen Fans will recall the catch-phrase of
that movement: "The play is the thing"
People are primarily interested in living beings, and
death soon divorces that interest. The average fan
goes to the movie theater see favorite actor
actress than with the expectation Of seeing good
story picturzed of seeing the latest work of some
scenario writer director And this public interest
in movie folk, being something akin to personal friend
ship must inevitably vanish with the death of the star
The question why interest in the moving picture does
not survive its star is equivalent to asking why nobody
would read Shakespeare's Hamlet" if the character
of Hamlet would be left of this immortal tragedy
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-15
LONGER LIFE

When told that the mortality rate is falling length
ening the average span of le many persons suppose
that better doctors, improved living conditions and the
natural course of evolution is responsible but few
sociate with it institution to which probably more
than anything else is indebted for the extra years
earth granted this generation. That institution is
plumbing.
Plumbing is not what could be called sanitary"
word, although it is the first word in sanitation Per-
haps it is denied its due credit because the word is
associated with grimy workmen and apoplectic bills.
But need only to compare this countrys death rate
with that Of those countries which have little or no
plumbing, to find the for the frightening
Of life.
So recent is it that many recall the time when the
small communities Of this country sewerless and
running hot water and bathtubs were a rarity The
adoption Of plumbing has been amazing in its rapdity
and not less rapid have been improvements in the
methods and fixtures Of plumbing.
Twenty years ago plumbing left to little better
than unsklled laborers. Today plumbing has been
raised to science. Plumbing is the ounce Of
preventative.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-15
READ NEWSPAPERS

The woman who knows her paper from the date line
to the want ads pick argument with her husband
about blondes becoming extinct, or a candidates
chances, and the result is that she gets all the
ment she wants without interfering in the least with
her domestic happiness.
Instead of pannng Of her husbands associates
wives she can lam the harpoon into some dame who is
dragging her husband through the divorce courts, or
she grill the dramatic critic who doesn't like a
certain show much as she does She can voice an
opinion about bit of news and throw more of scare
into her husband than if she tried to crown him with
the goldfish.
Women read the papers carefully than men do.
AT least this is the of opinion in newspaper
circles, where close tab is kept on the tastes of
people and the things that interest people,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-15
OVERHEATED ROOMS

Here's tip for parents Of small children who fear
that winter weather will bring their youngsters cold
and sickness.
DR.. Harvey Wiley, writing in Good Housekeeping
Magazine, says that the chief reason children have
more colds in winter than in is that in the
winter they prone to live in overheated living
and to sleep in overheated and unventlated bedrooms
sleeping room he says should always be ventilated
in the coolest weather. and is better far unheaed
in cold weather than overheated
Probably most of tend to overhead our homes.
Any doctor will corroborate what Dr. Wiley says; the
surest way to catch cold is to have too much heat
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-15

The Welfare Council Of New York. in a bulletin just
issued, makes very timely and sensible observation
the subject of Christmas charity. Referring to gifts
of food, clothing and toys that cities and individuals
make to poverty-stricken families, it says:
Help the needy to help themselves. The family in
need on Christmas day is nearly always in just as dire
need the following week month"; Christmas basket
or dinner will not take the place Of job, medical
ice or institutional Persons in distress should
therefore be brought to the attention of some one of
the many welfare societies. preferably the one best
equipped to render the particular service needed"
It's good advice. Christmas gifts for the needy are
splendid thngs but it is also important that kind
of permanent relief be given where it is needed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-15
FIGHTING LONELINESS

A 2S-inch midget appearing in circus in San Fran
cisco, found drowned in bathtub in his hotel the
other day. Acquaintance believe said the dispatch
that told of the tragedy, chat it suicide caused
by loneliness
Midgets must be lonely people, at that They are
compelled to be public entertainers what else they
do to support themselves? But normal relationships
with normal people must be very hard for them to find
1t must be easy for them to feel cut off from the
rest of the race walled up in restricted world which
they cannot leave and others cannot enter.
That feeling, heaven knows, comes to all Of us
and then. Oddly enough it is apt to to
who lives in city among crowds than to the
who lives in the open country. For crowds do not dis
play the best side of human nature. One them
in vain for traces of unsefishness, courage and wis
dom. One may be of ones own integrity, but
very dubious about the integrity of the world at large
To be in crowd but not of it is hard fate. But it
is not confined to who like this poor midget,
shut off by physical limitations. Every feels it.,
at times. Some go through their whole lives
with it. AS civilization continues to grow more
and complex it will be the lot of an increas-
ing number Of people.
Yet this kind of loneliness isn't an nsurmountabe
thing after ALL The crowd that brings it can dispel
it, too, if you watch it closely enough You will see
much greed, much needless rivalry, much haste and
much cowardice and stupidity; but you will also see
other traits, if your eyes keen-a bit of courage
here and there hidden act of sefsacrfice and devo-
ton, an unobtrusive quest for truth and decency.
And these things make up for the loneliness. They
bring conviction that the world is better than seems
When you find, in the routine course of your daily
life, glimpse of courage and beauty and love, you
know that somewhere there exist infinite courage in
finite beauty and infinite love- There is divine har-
mony, after ALL and every human being shares in it,
The loneliness of isolation is a terrible thing But
it can be conquered. Humanity can be Needless cold
and hard, but it is also noble and inspiring 1t all
depends what your eyes can see.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-15
WOOD FOR FOOD

(CnrlStlan Science Monltor)
proposals that wood may be used as food do not
mean that one may stop along the highway and lunch
on few pine boughs attempt appease his hunger
by taking bite out Of handy hickory tree. The Ger
man chemist who has announced that wood nourshment
possibility of the future makes it clear that some
chemical processes necessary before may be
served up IN salads, sautes stews sandwiches. For
the present. therefore, boy need be disturbed
any prospect Of being sent to the shed to cut up
portion Of wood for dinner.
The possibilities of wood food lie only in the
fact that there vegetable matter in wood This how
ever is reclaimed only after technical processes which
make such reclamation rather expensive proposition
from commercial standpoint It is said that when
common little wood pulp molecue is left alonepre-
sumably not annoyed by extraneous actvitiesit be-
comes sugar Of starch Stir in we-seected little
molecue OF water and the result is edible carbohy
drate There is nothing else to do-no half > cup Of
milk, the white Of an egg, bake to deep brown
just two little molecules, water and wood and in
jiffy it is DONE
But all this is not simple it seems. It is
pick laboratory undertaking which cannot be trans
1erred to the field Of industrial activity until many diff
1icultles have been overcome In the meanwhile it is
to be hoped that the practice Of misguided farmer
who is said to have coaxed his horse into sawdust diet
by pacing green glasses its eyes will not be gen
orally adopted.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-15

THE MONEY MOTIVE
(Des Moines Tribune-C apitaD

Des Mones Tribune-CaptaD
The key sentence in a half-coumn Associated Press
dispatch from New York about the prospects in the
prize fight realm is the next to the last one in this
paragraphor perhaps it should be that plus the
one that follows it:
Both the maestro Richard, and Dempsey, the
greatest ring attraction of all times, believe that
the present lul in this heavyweight situation is
temporary and awaits only the appearance Of an
iron-fisted youngster to again make possible mil
lion dollar gates and purses Richard believes that
Jack still has the power to lure immense numbers Of
fight fans to the turnstes. Dempsey smiles at
that but was ready to demand at least $75OOOO for
his services once the promoter opened negoti-
ations.
All the talk about Dempsey's nervous eagerness to
see action again. and this utter inability restraint
to man OF his temperament may be shrewdy forgotten
and the real predictions may all be based on the money
prospect. And while Dempsey is years past his best,
and cannot possibly be better than second rater
the chances that Richard is wholly right in his
guess that the public will pay and pay heavily at least
once more to him perform.
Neither Rckard nor Dempsey be imagined in the
role of sternly refusing to let the public do it.