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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-19
RevengefuI Reds

What has the official executioner
of New York done that his house
should be bombed? What did
those who planted the bomb expect
to gain by it?
To answer these questions one
must 60 deep into the various
whims and peculiar slants Of the
human mind.
The State of New York writes
capital punishment into its laws
and offers good pay for throwing
the death switch. The man who
throws that switch assumes no re-
sponsibil1ty whatsoever, has no
more to do with bringing death to
a human being than the switch has!
Why should he be singled out for
punishment?
The prevailing theory is that a
desire to revenge the deaths of
Sacco and Vanzatti was back OF
the bomb.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-19
So Our Readers May Know

Mr.. Boyd Gurley, Editor,
The Indianapolis Times.
We wish to extend to you aud the staff of
The indianapolis Times our congratulations
for having been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
the most disinterested and mertorious public
service rendered by an American newspaper
during the year.
Those who dare take the initiative in chang
ing public sentiment, dispelling ignorance, and
encouraging voters to act on high plane that
is above partisanship deserve the support of all
those who understand the principles of dem
ocratic society.
Your service has been great, but the task
is not yet complete 1t takes time for the
truth to be comprehended and accepted by the
masses.
We have confidence to believe that the edi-
torial policy Of your paper will continue to be
the beacon light that is needed in our beloved
State Cordially,
RAY S. TRENT,
Chairman Executive Committee.
MRS. w s. LOCKHART,
Executive Secretary
Indiana Council on International Relations,
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with height and locality.

with height and locality.
Past observations Of the Carnegie in the field of at
mospherc electricity have thrown much light on the
effect of spots upon conditions on earth on the
connection between spots and the aurora boreals,
northern lights, and the connection between
spots and the so-called magnetic storms which
upset the compass needle and throw cables and tele
graph lines out of order.
The observations have also thrown light upon some
of the conditions which responsible for the fad
ing of radio signals Every radio fan is familiar with
the phenomenon known fading. radio program
will be coming in with considerable volume Suddenly
it fades away to whisper.
Atmospheric electrical conditions undoubtedly
at the bottom of this fading although the exact
mechanism is not yet known.
On the cruise of the Carnegie special study will
be made of the variations in atmospheric electricity.
just as the compass needle goes through a daily
variation, the atmospheric electricity does the
curious fact is that this f1uctuation- seems to &C.
at the same time all over the world.
Another task which the Carnegie has accomplished
in the past has been The exact plotting of the locar
ton of little-known islands wleD we're passed in
the course of the cruising.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-19

DRUNO speaks CT himself as
ID burning with such fires as not
all the SHOWS of Caucasus could
quench, he knows his own obstinacy
and pride, his own petulance and
irritability have shared in engender-
ing his misfortunes; it has been his
pleasure Ito take ship on the sea
of infinite endeavor," to be an adj
venturer in the realm of thought.
He suffers, but in some measure
he enjoys; he understands that in
this struggle Of part with part lies
the growing ferment fthe whole.
In the end he is destroyed, but only
to be taken up into the entire cur
rent and spirit of modern thought,
his effort not wasted in the least,
his soul, in the form of his work
and his influence, escaping the
flames that consume his flesh and
bones.
His wandering continued to the
end. Having offended the authori-
ties of oxford by his partially for
truth, he left England and returned
to Paris; gave there an audacious
lecture in which he declared it
sign of low mind to wish to think
with the majority; passed on into
Germany; was denied permission
to lecture at Marburg, but was well
coined by the students of Witten-
berg, where Luther had stirred the
roots around the plants of thought.
But again the Calvinists ferreted
out his heresies, harassed and de-
nounced him, and drove him to the
road once more. We find him in
Prague and Helmstadt, honored
and feted for a time, then bounded
by a Lutheran pastor who was not
content with Bruno's definition of
religion as the universal love of
man; then at Frankfort, teaching
and writing every hour of the day;
then suddenly in Italy. surrendered
to the Inquisition.
n
A YOUNG Venetian nobleman,
N noble in everything but reality,
had asked him to come ind be his
private instructor in philosophy ala1
letters, at a wage alluring to man
who had starved in many languages.
Bruno, impetuous as ever, crosses
the border from safety to peril,
taught his truth with uncalculating
love, and disturbed the soul of the
noble fool, who announced to the
Holy Office ii. e., the InquiSition)
that his teacher was a hereto.
Bruno discovered his betrayal, as
he thought, in time, and secretly
made plans to leave Venice the next
day; but alas, that very evening the
noble Mocenigo entered his room
with five, swarthy gondoliers. Bruno
was amazed at such disorder; he
protested and resisted: but they
ove1powered him, locked him in
garrett, and the next day handed
him over to the officers of the In
QUESTION.
Questioned in the ecclesiastical
court he refused to recant his here
sizes. insisted that there is in in
finite number of worlds, that the
earth is not the center of the uni
verse. which has no center at all,
that God is in every blade of grass,
in every grain of sand, and in every
atom that floats in the sunshine .
The inquisition condemned him,
and turned him over to Rome.
+ There he lay in prison for seven
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lack of Nerve for Truth

H. M, Blackmer belongs to the
same category as Big Bill" Hay
wood.
He, too, ran away, rather than
take his medicine. More than that,
he had less to run away from.
Blackmer had not even been sem
fenced by a court, and the chances
are that he would not have been
had he remained and done his duty
like a man.
big Bill" Haywood said that ha
chose exile because he felt that his
sentence of twenty-five years was
equal to death, that he could not
stand even as much as five years
behind the bars, that he was ac-
customed to a life in the open and
that he could not bear the thought
of confinement.
BlackmerS alibi is much thinner
than that. He chose exile, not to
escape confinement, not because ha
feared what seemed certain death,
but because he lacked the nerve to
stand up and tell the truth.
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With Other Editors

Judge Clarence Dearth by a. L.
Guthrie, former mayor of Muncie,
for'the Republican nomination for
Circuit Judge Of Delaware County.
It will be recalled that Dearth
barely escaped impeachment by
the Indiana Senate last year for
his treatment of George Dale,
editor of a Muncie weekly news
paper, and Dale's newsboys.
Dale was within his rights and
the people of Delaware County
have now voted in favor of a free
press. 1t will be a long time be-
fore an Indiana Judge again at
tempts to use the great powers
vested in him to preserve the dig
nifty and power Of his court in
order to vent his personal spleen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-19
Oppose Violence

Men like Big Bill Haywood
arouse popular fury in the United
States, not so much because of the
doctrines they preach as because
of the way they preached.
The American people are unalter-
ably opposed to the promotion Of
ideas by violence and rightly so.
There can be no place for such an
order of things in a democracy, the
basic principle of which is that
change and innovation should be
brought about through a peaceful,
orderly exchange of ideas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-19

TINE house of Robert G. Elliott.
official executioner of the State
of New York, is bombed; big Bill
Haywood dies in Moscow, wishing
it might have been in the United
States; Harry M. Blackmer, the oil
magnate, who ran away like Big
Bill" rather than take his medi-
cine. has moving pictures made OF
his home and grandchildren in
Denver, and Clarence Darrow, who
once defended Big Bill" for murder,
and who has just won a mistrlal
for a Missouri bootlegger, says, i
hope it's my last"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-19
No.. 81

CTUDY of the variations of the compass will be the
~ chief task Of the non-magnetic ship Carnegie
which sailed on three-year cruise May l. But as
on previous cruises, other important problems will
also be studied and line of study never before
attempted will be added to the program.
The new line will be oceanography the study Of
conditions in the ocean.
The studies made in the past, in addition to the
magnetic ones have been in the realm of atmospheric
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-19

Z l e & I I l c i W.
These consisted
Of regular obser-
vations of the
electrical condi-
ton of the at
mosphere over
the oceans. They
embraced OBJ
servations of the
electrical poten-
tial Of the at
mosphere, for it
is a fact that the
atmosphere is at
all times cleo
trically charged
and t h a t the
charge varies
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-19
Anderson Herald
(Repubiican)

The voters of Delaware County
have voted Overwhelmingly to re-
tire Clarence w. Dearth of the
Circuit Court. One vote saved
Dearth in an impeachment trial
before the Indiana State Senate
one year ago. The Muncie jurist,
aspiring for another term, ran. far
behind Leonidas A. Guthrie, the
nominee, and less than 500 votes
ahead of a third candidate, who
was supposed to have been placed
in the race in the hope that he
would split the vote in favor of
Dearth
The result in Delaware County
proved again that the voters, if
given time enough, will eventually
right the wrong of having elected
incompetent and inferior men to
public office. Dearth was swept
into Office on a wave of prejudice
which grasped the voters few
years ago. He has been swept out
of office by an enlightened cit
izenry.
Charges were brought against
Dearth one year ago, and an effort
was made in the Senate, sitting as
court of impeachment, to con-
vict him on counts charging that
unfair trials had been conducted
in the Delaware Circuit Court;
that hand picked juries had been
selected and that Dearth had 9TH
erwise conducted himself in : a
manner unbecoming a jurist The
scant margin of one vote saved
Dearth On this occasion. The
Delaware County voters found
against Dearth by the convincing
margin Of 4,5O6 votes.
The record Of the Delaware Cir
cult Court has been anything but
satisfying. 1t is claimed that there
have been thirty-three Supreme
Court reversals on decisions rem
dered in Dearth's court. Many
more cases in the Muncie court
are now pending in the Supreme
Court on appeal. He began the
case which resulted in the now
famous State Supreme Court de-
cisions, "The truth is no defense"
The Delaware CIRCUIT Court will
command greater respect when
the bench is occupied by as able
a lawyer as Leonidas A. Guthrie.
What portion of metal in an
penny is copper?
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Daily Thought

Get thee behind me, Satan
Matt. 1928.
U EEP away from the fire!-
N Ster5s.
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Questions and
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-19

What portion of metal in an
American penny is copper?
Approximately 95 percent is cop
per and 5 percent tin and zinc, the
proportion being about four parts
Of tin to one Of zinc.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-19

How does the weight of a pound
of feathers differ from that Of a
pound Of gold or lead?
Lead and feathers are weighed by
avoirdupois scale with 1000 grains
to pound. All precious metals are
weighed by troy scale in which a
pound contains $3.50 grains. A
pound of gold, there fore, is lighter
than a pound of feathers or lead.
How many Chinese students ara
there in the United States?>
In 1898 there were GAS Chinese
students receiving support from the
Peki government out of funds re-
leases by the United States from the
Boxer Indemnify and about 1000
other Chinese students in the United
States
What is the address Of Madame
Ernestine Schumann Heink?
800 Orange Ave-. Coronado. Cal.
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David Dietz on Scienc.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-08
T0RAL'S TRIAL
TO END TODAY
ESQ Guards Keep Crowds fror,
Courtroom; M0bs Are
Inccnscd

San Angel, Mexico, Nov. 2.-(AP)
-Reinforccments of $50 guards in
front of the city hall today kept the
crowds from the courtroom where
the trial Of Jose de Leon is being
held. charged with the assassination
Of President-elect Obrcgon.
This is expected to be the last
day. Il is believed the case will go
to the jury tonight.
Excited people jeercd Senior Sodi,
when the attorney for the defense
arrived under heavy escort, shout
ing "Viva Oregon! Death to Obrc-
CONS assassin
The guards began loading their
rifles, but the attorney entered the
building without further dcmonstra-
tions.
Some forty police with loaded
rifles surround Toral and Mother
Conception, charged with completely,
in readiness to resist any attempt
at disturbances.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-08
3 MAY IDENTIFY
KILLER OF GIRL
Harry Gran, Suspected as Muir
derer of Pearl Osten, Held
in MOorhead

Minneapolis, Nov. 8.-(P)-Three
persons who saw Miss Pearl Osten
in the company OF young man on
a Minneapolis street car a short
time before she was slain here Oct.
2. 1927, left for Moorhead, Mimi,
today to decide whether Harry
Gran, under arrest there, was the
man. Upon their Identification will
depend whether the police reopen
their investigation into the Staying.
Two Of the witnesses, Robert F.
Roffler, st. Paul, conductor of the
street car, and Mrs. A. w. Kempf,
Minneapolis, a passenger. started
from Minneapolis. The third wit
ness, Mrs. Elite Anderson, Kathryn,
N. d., left for Moorhead from there.
Gran, according to police, lived
near the tea shop in Minneapolis,
where Miss Osten worked while at
tending school and he was also said
to have known her in GAINESVILLE,
MINI.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-08
Reno Charged With
Broken Light Bulbs

Management of the local city au.
ditorium will not have to pay for
any broken electric light bulbs after
Reno, the magician, visits here, it is
indicated by letter from the magi.
clan himself.
The magician, it appears, is rath-
err fond of special trick he often
performs, but which he found rather
expensive when he was appearing in
a Kansas city.
In this trick a handkerchief is
borrowed and placed in a pistol,
which in turn is fired at an electric
light globe. The audience can see
the handkerchief in the globe, which
is then broken so that the hand
kerchief may be returned. The
globe is not damaged in the least.
At the Kansas city, however, the
city fathers were taking no chances,
they sent the magician bill for six
electric globes, which he paid rather
than tell the commissioners how the
trick was performed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-08
POincare Favored to
Set New Government

Paris, Nov. 8.-R)- Raymond
polncare today continued to resist
the pressure of friends and support
ers that he form a new government.
In the meantime President Dou-
mergue consulted members of par
Lament, and great majority Of
them persisted in the opinion that
the retiring premier was the only
man who could bring order out Of
the parliamentary chaos.
The president consulted both cx.
tremes of the chambers Of deputies
the Socialists and members Of the
National Union party. The Social
lists, who have remained aloof from
the conflict, reserved their opinion
as to the formation of a government.
All others declared that NJ. Poincare
Should be called to power again.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-08
LIONS CHARTER
CLUB AT LINTON
DR.. L. C.. Wolverton Named
President of 23-Member Unit
In EmmOns County
Linton has a Lions club.

Linton has a Lions club.
Twenty-three charter members o,
the new group, which is being spon.
scred by the Bismarck Lions club
met yesterday with Larry Slater
field secretary, to consider organ.
ration and elect temporary officers.
Charter night has not vet been
chosen for the group, but members
OF the Bismarck and Mandan clubs
will attend the charter night cere-
monies, Slater said.
Several members of the Bismarck
Lions club will attend the charter
night celebration Of the Glen Ullin
Lions club tonight and another
group will journey to Hebron next
Wednesday to join the charter night
celebration of the Hebron Lions
club.
Temporary officers elected by the
Linton club at the meeting yesterday
follow: DR.. w. c. Wolverton, presi-
dent; George Schmidt, secretary,
and j. D. Meier, treasurer.
Members of the charter night COM
mittee are: DR.. Wolverton, chair
man; George Schmidt, J. D. Meier,
Dr.. F. NJ. Gilbreath and James Nc
Cormick.
Charter members of the club fol-
low: DR.. w. C. Wolverton, James
Mccormick, c. C. Lowe, DR.. F. NJ.
c. B. Larson, H. M. Har-
ris, Peter DeBoor, George Schmidt,
Il. L. Petrie, H. Pietz, E. D. Fogle,
2. G.. Kruger, E. r. Schultz, J. v.
Kramer, William Heyerman, F. j.
Pietz, August Vinroth, A. L. Portz,
L. D. Berg, E. H. Smith, E..A. An
derson and C. B. Jenkins.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-08
ARIZONA FALLS
TO REPUBLICAN,
Second Time Since Statehood
That Republican Governor
Has Been Elected

Phoenix, Ariz.. Nov. 8.-(P)-The
tidal wave of Republican votes which
swept Arizona's three electoral votes
into Herbert Hoover's column with a
plurality of more than $4,000 votes
carried John c. Phillips to the gov
ernorship, the second time since
statehood that q Republican guber-
material candidate has won a major
ity of votes over G.. w. p. Hunt, who
has headed the Democratic state
ticket since 1912.
While Hoover was piling up 49,7O3
votes to 1924 for Governor Smith,
Phillips won an admission of defeat
from Hunt when his total reached
45.O68 to the incumbent's 41,243,
with but scattered precincts yet un-
Tailed.
The colorful Governor Hunt, Ari-
zona's first chief executive in 1912.
has been defeated but once before.
That defeat was administered by
Thomas E. Campbell, Republican, in
1916. Hunt has run for office at
the head of his state ticket eight
times: By popular vote in 1914
Campbell defeated Hunt, but an cleo
ton contest carried to the Arizona
supreme court resulted in Hunt be-
ing declared the winner. Campbell
had held the office for year and
few days as de facto governor
when the decision was given.
Coming back in 1916, Campbell de-
feated Hunt decisively and served
two years, but Hunt again took the
lead in 1913, and had been successful
in each successive election.
United States Senator Henry F.
Ashurst and Representative L. w.
Douglas, Democratic incumbents. de-
fled the Republican tide to win over
former Senator Ralph r. Cameron
and Guy Axline, their respective Re-
publican opponents, by more than
votes,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-08
Oil Case Prosecutor
Hands in Resignation

Washington, Nov. S.-(P-Prcsi-
dent Coolidge accepted today the
resignation of Owen j. Roberts, spe-
cial counsel for the United States in
the oil cases, effective immediately.
In his letter accepting the resigna-
ton President Coolidge expressed
gratitude on behalf Of the govern
ment for the fidelity and energy
with which you have prosecuted
these cases, which have returned to
the United Sattes all the property
in question and many millions of dol
lars in money"
Roberts rendered his resignation
because under the senate joint reso-
luton calling for his appointment he
was prevented from taking I'm any
cases Of his own which had any con-
nection with the government. Alice
Pomerenc, with whom Owen Roberts
was associated in the prosecution Of
the cases, will continue in his pres
ent position and conclude the remain
ing work.
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with me to look at his three lovely
daughters, stalwart son anil loyal
wife and think what the worlds
listening to the rawlings Of q de.
mented girl means to them.
Raymond, his son, is II, and I
soloist in the town band. His daugh-
tiers, Helen, Is, Charline, 20, and
Alloa, IL, are in school. Mrs. Hitch.
cock is quiet and bit resentful, re.
fusing to talk about the case at all.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-08
LAIR OFFERING
SA ME SERVICE
Office and Sales Department
Moved to Give Montgomery
Ward & Co. Room

Announcement that condensed
sales and service arrangements will
allow the Lair Motor Sales company
to operate on approximately the
same basis as it did before part Of
the building was turned over to the
new Montgomerdy Ward e. Co.
branch was made here today by ".
+. Lair, president Of the concern.
The office and sales department of
the motor company have been COM
pletely rearranged SO as to give a
maximum Of service with minimum
of space--a new arrangement where
by the repair service remains the
same and the sales and business de-
partmcnts are grouped.
Our operation has been changed
only in location, and in the fact that
we do not operate a storage depart
ment,' Mr.. Lair said. "Our whole
idea is to eliminate unnecessary
overhead in carrying an Improbable
department and. as a result, concen-
tratc our efforts on the sales and
service Of Whippets and WHY'S
knights at retail and wholesale, as
Department Decorated
The Encouragement, recently COM
plcted, places the business depart
ment in balcony of the sales de-
partment and leaves the remainder
of the space free for displays. The
departments have been decorated to
lend color to the display scheme.
The entrance to the building has
been changed to the Thayer avenue
side from the former entrance on
the Fourth street side. The gasoline
filling pumps have also been changed |
to the Thayer avenue side of the
building.
Due to the new arrangement, the
repair department is to be used ex-
clusively for repair work, eliminat-
ing storage service. No changes will
be made in the nature Of mechanical
service.
Contracts for new machines this
year call for approximately 400 more
than III the last year, Mr.. Lahr said
The new contracts bring the total
to $500 new cars.
Is Pioneer Firm
The company, which was started
in 1909 in a frame building about
20 by so feet in size, is the pioneer
firm in the city. and pos
sibly the oldest in the state. 1t con-
trolls the sale of WHY'S Overland
motor cars in two-thirds Of the state
and IA counties in Montana, operat-
ing branch at Minot.
In the first eight months of 1923
he automobile industry as a whole
produced 2,S63,932 cars and trucks,
against 2,333,991 cars and trucks in
the first eight months Of 1927, or an
Increase Of % per cent.
In the same period the WHY'S
Overland company produced 254, 76S
cars and trucks, against 151, 56l cars
and trucks in the first eight months
Of 1927, or an increase Of 6S per cent,
lettering the record of the industry
as whole by As per cent.