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with the mercury thirty degrees
below zero.
There is ancient ice on the
continent varying from 100 to 1000
feet in thickness. The glaciers
that reach the sea produce ice
bergs big enough to bear New
York City on their backs. I have
seen bergs twenty-three miles
long.
Instruments show that the
mean temperature Of the ant
arctic is IL degrees colder than the
north pole regions, and "A degrees
colder in winter"
So that is what Commander
Byrd will face when he makes the
attempt late in 1928. To clear the
mountains he will have to fly at
an altitude of more than 10000
feet. He may run into gales in
which no man nor flying machine
could possibly live.
If he is forced to land, il, prob
ably will be on jagged ice that will
wreck his plane.
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at Weddell Sea, on the other side
Of the pole.
every condition in the antarc-
TIC is most forbidding," continued
F Pointing. "At the approach to Ross
Island is a great ice barrier which
averages seventy feet in height
and extends for more than 400
miles. Beyond that, to the Beard
more Glacier, is 400 miles of ice
covered plateau which ascends to
5000 feet above sea level. This
vast plateau alone is as large as
all France.
From the glacier to the pole is
another 500 miles. It is a land
where it never rains. 1t is land
where human beings never have
lived. And once the open sea is
left behind there is not a vestige
of any sort of animal life.
u
DROBABLY it is the windiest
l. place on earth. I have been
in billiards there when the wind
ragged at seventy miles an hour.
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ILL MAKE BYRD GREATEST OF FLERs, SAYS EXPLORER

is one of the classics on the sub
ject. His film record of the ex-
petition has been shown all over
Europe and soon will be brought
to America.
1.-THE difficulties encountered in
a hop across the south pole would,
by comparison, make every other
flying achievement seem simple"
Pointing said.
Commander Byrd already has
two wonderful accomplishments to
his credit.
Like Lindbergh and Chamber
lin he has flown the Atlantic
ocean in one hop. Unlike anyone
else, he has flown an airplane over
the north pole.
In crossing the Atlantic, one
takes of under known weather
conditions and encounters only
reasonably high temperatures. If
forced down. there is a chance of
being picked up by a steamship,
as was Miss Ruth Elder.
Even in a fight across the
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ORDER PROBE OF
OPERATIONS THAT
COST GIRLS LEGS
Physician Who Used Knife
Says He'll File Suit for
$25O,0OO.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-Two groups
of investigators today inquired into
the circumstances surrounding OPP
erations on Miss Sadie Holland,
who first underwent an operation
designed to straighten her bowed
legs, and later suffered amputation
of both legs.
Miss Holland was believed today
to have passed the crisis. Her ply
sicianS said she would recover.
The States attorneys office and
the State department of registration
both conducted Investigations of the
operations.
DR.. Henry J. Schreson, plastic
surgeon, and DIR. S. D. Zaph,
orthopedic surgeon, performed the
leg Strengthening operation. Later,
DR.. William Van Doren, Holland
family physician. examined the girl
and decided to move her to another
hospital.
This was done over DIR. Schireson's
protests, and after Miss Holland
had signed statements releasing
Schireson from responsibility for
what might happen thereafter.
DR.. Van Doren called a surgeon
into consultation and it was found
that gangrene made anputation of
both legs necessary to save Miss
Hollands life.
DR.. Schireson, in New York, today
sent word here that he considered
the entire affair was "a case of
professional abduction"
He said the girl was improving
rapidly and the operation was a
complete success" until she was
moved from the original hospital.
II shall institute suit for $3.50, 900
against the two physicians who took
away my patient" he said.
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north pole, danger is leSsened by
the presence of animal life that
will provide both food and fuel in
case of accident. The country is
comparatively fiat, and tempera-
lures are higher than in the ant
arctic regions.
"VXTHILE the north polar region
W is mainly open sea frozen
into an icy waste, the antarctic is
a vast continent whose average
height is the greatest on earth.
There are mountains towering
$4,000 feet into the sky. Mount
Erbus, 1880 feet high, is an active
volcano. Ross Island, from which
Scott and Amundsen made their
successful daShes to the pole, is
1900 miles from the nearest land
New Zealand. And Ross Island
in 900 miles from the pole"
Here the actual flight will start.
Luck, flying skill and the elements
permitting, it will end at q base
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
HILL EVIDENCE
CENTERS ON Gun
Seek to Show Youth Had
Revolver of Same CaIiber.

BIZ United Press
OTTAWA, ILL.,, Feb. First EVIL
dence designed to connect Harry
Hill directly with the murder of his
mother was to be introduced by the
prosecution in Hills trial today.
Evidence was to center around
the gun which the State commended
was used to kill Mrs. Eliza A. Hill.
The gun has never been found, but
the prosecution planned to present
a chain of circumstances intended
to show that Hill once possessed a
gun of the same caliber as that used
in the murder.
r. E. Sparks, owner of the Strea-
tor Motor Company, the proSecu-
ton said, will testify that he once
missed gun and later found it in
Hills car.
The gun was again found missing
in August, at about the time when
the State alleges the murder was
committed.
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WHITE HOUSE BUGGY PASSES
Final Trace of Old Era Goes: Coachn1am MOurnS

About every other day Mrs.
Mckinley would drive out to Gar
field Hospital, where she had two
nephews recovering from the war.
She used to like to to drive around
through the soldiers home and
through the agriculture grounds.
But she'd never allow me to go
fast. She used to say her car
riage was the slowest in WASH
ington.
"Often I'd driven the President,
Mrs. Mckinley, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mark Hanna and Miss Mabel Nc
Kinley to the theater or a concert.
ID OOSEvELT seldom used the
IN carriages, Reeder continued
with his Renaissance. "He either
rode horseback or walked. Except
on state occasions he liked to drive
himself.
miss Alice, she wasn't mar
ried then, she was the one to use
the carriages. Sometimes we'd
start out at / o'clock in the after
noon. drive to the Benning race
track, come back to the White
House for dinner, and then start
out again, and she's go to parties
until early in the morning. I've
known her to attend seven parties
in one night
when the Tafts came into the
White House they started using
automobiles. Except for one time,
on Inauguration day, Mrs. Taft
never used the carriages"
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Even if he made a safe landing,
he would be in a vast waste with
very limited supplies on his own
machine and with no possibility
of killing anything for food or
fuel.
y y n
"TF Byrd succeeds" said Pont-
i Ling, "he not only will have been
the first to fly across that barren
continent, but the first to cross it
in any way. 1t would be a flight
Of vast scientific Importance. He
can chart his route and note the
comparative heights Of land. He
may discover mountain ranges
higher than any of those we al
ready know.
''It is the hardest goal an avia-
tor ever set for himself"
Next: Captain E. E. M. Joyce,
veteran Of three antarctic expedi-
tiOnS, tells more about the periIs Of
the southland.
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MONOX|DE GAS
KILLS WOMAN
IN HER GARAGE
Dancing Instructor Found
SIumped Over Steering
Wheel of Auto.
DEAD 3 HoURS\ LATER
Miss Frances Avery, Vic
tim, Well Known in City's
Musical Circles.

Carbon monoxide gas from the
motor of her automobile was given
as the cause Of death of Miss Fran
ces Avery, 80, dancing teacher and
musician of 1920 Central Ave, Apt.
2, by Coroner C. H. Keever today.
Her PROSTATE form was found
huddled over the steering wheel of
her car in the garage at her home
at 1890 a. m. by her uncle, Harry
w. Avery, of the same address. All
doors of the garage were locked and
the garage lights were turned OH.
according to the report made by Of
ticers Clark and Baily, who investi-
gated. The motor of the car was
still running when the uncle en-
tered
She was given first aid by DR.. Ma
than Stern and rushed to Methodist
Hospital, where she died at 8 a. m.
without regaining consciousness,
Pulmotors were used in the effort
to save her life.
Death Due to Gas
Coroner Keever was called and
after investigation announced that
death was caused by the mon
oxide poisoning. The theory adj
vanced was that the woman drove
the machine in the garage, locked
the rear doors and climbed back In
the seat to race the motor" before
shutting it off, when she was over
come by fumes, just as she reached
to shut off the switch.
Door Forced Open
Her uncle learned today that the
machine had not been functioning
properly and was Of the opinion that
she had experimental with the
motor after closing the garage doors,
1t was necessary for Avery and
Russell MCGEE, custodian Of the
apartment, to force the doors in
order to gain entrance. He said
that Miss Avery, well known in mu-
steal circles of the city, had been
rehearsing with an orchestra at the
home of Burt E. Kimmel, 2117 Tai
bot St. Leaving there at IL p. M,
Miss Avery could not get her car
started until friends had pushed it
some distance. Noting the lateness
of the hour, the uncle expected her
return. Looking out the window he
saw the light in the garage and in
vestigated.
Long Resident of City
Miss Avery was born at Frank
lin, Ind. Her mother died while
Miss Avery was child and her
father, Albert E. Avery, died Dec.
10, 1927.
She attended May Wright Sewall
school here and Nazareth College at
Nazareth, KY. She was an accom-
plished piano accompanist. She stud
led voice at the Indiana College of
Music and Fine Arts and dancing
with the Mile. Theo Hewes College
of Fine Arts in 1925.
Since that time she studied dane
ing at the Elite School Of Dancing
and was about to establish dane
ing school of her own, friends say.
She had given dancing instructions
at her home.
Surviving her are her uncle; her
aunt, Miss Daisy Avery, at the Cen
trail Ave. address, and another aunt,
Mrs. Ella Reed, 1871 Park Ave.
Miss Avery was member Of All
Saints Cathedral parish. Funeral
arrangements have not been COM
pleted.
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BY ALFRED p. RECK,
United Press staff Correspondent
(COnvriobt 1929 nv limited PresS)

XXTASHINGTON. Feb. 2-The
Wv last horse drawn vehicle of
the White House has given way to
progress.
1t was replaced today by a
bright, shiny, new model Ford
sedan.
Daniel Webster. an aged Negro,
who has driven the high stepperS
of the White House for fifteen
years, sorrowfully laid away the
high silk hat, his blue coat with
the brass buttons, and is being
fitted with chauffeur's uniform.
The old brougham, used in re-
cent years only by the White
House housekeeper to make her
rounds of Washington markets,
was wheeled to the second floor
of the quartermaster's stables,
where it will be Shrouded with a
white sheet and pass into history.
Next door, in the White House
garage, its successor awaits duty,
with sport wire wheels and trim
grey body.
II hate to sec the old carriage
co." Daniel Webster remarked as
he shook his black head. But
the streets now days amt no
place for horses. They're in the
way, with all these automobiles
and street cars.
But I'll tell you there amt
nothin' better than nice steppin'
horses pulling a slick carriage and
drove by a good driver like my
self, all fitted out in livery"
y Il y
ID ARELY since the Taft adj
N miniStration has the Presi-
dent or members of his immeGi-
ate family used the White House
m ,.,.fonae Me- OIOOJiJoo tYcod tho
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
REMUS' FIGHT FOR
LIBERTY is BEGUN

forth that two of the three alienists
who examined Remus did not sign
the order of the Cincinnati Probate
Court, sending him TO Lima.
State Attorney General Edward
G. Turner has appointed E. M. Bot
kin, prosecutor of Allen County, to
represent the State and has sug-
gested to Prosecutor Charles P. Taft
II Of Cincinnati, who sought to con-
vict RemuS for the killing of his
wife, that Taft either attend or be
represented at the hearing.
Botkin intimated that tomorrow's
proceedings will consist merely of
the setting of a future date for
hearing.
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old victoria twice during the early
part Of last summer.
I'D been driving the houSekeep-
err. when one day they phoned
from the White House and told me
to have the carriage down there in
a half hour" Daniel Webster con-
fided. Il knew the houSekeeper
was gone and didn't know what
they wanted with me.
well, I drove down and who'd
step out but Mrs. Coolidge and a
secret service man.
Use surprised, Mrs. Coolidge
I remarked.
"She kinda smiled and said, You
didn't expect me, did your
81 drove her around the parks
and she like it so well she had me
come back again the next day. But
they amt never used the carriages
since"
aver in the State Depart
~ ment, before the door of As
sistant Secretary Castle, sits a
darby whose hair fast is turning
gray. He is Charles A. Reeder,
coachman under Presidents Nc
Kinley, Roosevelt and Taft,
81 used to be a bellhop at the
old Everett Hotel, where McKin-
ley stopped when he was a Con-
gresham" Reed related. when
he was elected President he
brought me down to the White
House as coachInan.
Mrs. Mckinley used to go out
every morning, and in the eve
ming I'd drive her and the Presi-
dent around. Shed never ride
behind a bobbed-tailed horse. She
wSaldn't allow a horse in the
White House stables unless it had
a long tail.
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CITY MEN WILL VISIT
HOME SHOWS In EAST
Seek Ideas for Making Success Of
Local Exposition.

ScCh LUCAS LOr NdAlLS SuCCCS9 %
Local Exposition.
Members of the Home Show COM
mittee Of the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board will visit two similar
expositions in the east next week
to seek ideas for making the local
show better than ever. The Home
show this year will be at the fair
grounds, April Z to IL.
Shows to be visited by the COM
mittee are the seventh annual build
ing exposition at Philadelphia, Pa,
and the architects show at New
York City, Those making the trip
will be j. F. Cantwell, director OF
the show; r. E. Grinslads, William
Lowe Rice and Walter E-.anS, OH
mittee members, and Donald E.
Rider, executive secretary of the, In
dianapolis Real Estate Board.
Rules for the mystery house"
contest. being conducted by the
board in connection with the show,
may be obtained at 800 Lemcke Bldg.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
POSTAL RECEIPTS DROP
January Decline Due to Decrease
in Permit Mail.

Receipts at the Indianapolis
postoftlce for January showed 10
per cent decrease in comparison
with January, 1927. according to
Postmaster Robert H. Bryson.
The decrease was occaSioned
principally by lessened permit mail,
a heavy mail advertising campaign
having been waged January, last
year, by an Indianapolis manufac-
turing company.
Receipts for last month were
$356,948.57, as compared with $780,
295.27 January. 1927.
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By United Press

By united Press
LIMA, Ohio, Feb. 1.-The long
delayed fight of George Remus,
former millionaire Cincinnati rum
runner, to obtain his release from
the State Hospital for the Criminal
Insane here, has been launched.
Attorneys for the former bootleg
king who was committed to the asy-
lum after his acquittal for murder
of his wife, Imogene. have filed a
petition for a writ of habeas corpus
returnable 1T p. m. Tomorrow. 9"
The petition will be heard by APP
pellate Judges Phil M. Crow, Kent
w. Hughes and Charles L. Justice. 1t
contends Remus has never been
found insane. The petition also sets
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
|. U. HEAD HEARD AT
PITTENGER'S INAUGURAL
DIR. William L. Bryan Speaks as New
Norv,naI proS;5o,,k T. T-LAI

DIR. William L. Bryan Speaks as New
Normal President Is Indicted.
By Times Spec<S1
MUNCIE, End, Feb. 2.-LTribute
was paid here today to William
Alfred Jones, first president of the
Indiana State Normal School. by
DR.. William Lowe Bryan, Indiana
University president, delivering the
inaugural address for Lemuel A.
Pittenger, indicted as president of
the State Normal, eastern division.
DR.. Bryan praised Ball brothers,
local philanthropists, who made
possible Lucina hall, one of two new
buildings dedicated at the Eastern
normal following the inaugural.
The other building is a combined
library and assembly structure.
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BY MILTON BRONNER


T ONDON, Feb. 2.-If Com
IL mander Richard E. Byrd of
the United States navy succeeds
in flying over the south pole, he
will be acclaimed as the greatest
aviator explorer in history.
Yes, he. will be greater than
Americas Lindbergh!
The man who made that state
ment is one of the few living OK
plorers who fully realize the perils
of the south polar regions. He is
Herbert G. Pointing, member of
Captain Robert SCOTS British ex-
petition when it reached the bot
tom of the world" in 1912. His
book. 1.-THE Great White South"
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F0RTY-0NE TO FACE
JUDGE COLLINS MONDAY
Earl KIinck Of Evansville to Be
Among Persons Arraigned.

Forty-one persons will be ar
raigned before Criminal Judge
James A. Collins Monday.
Earl Klinck of Evansville. former
aid of D. c. Stephenson, will be one
Of those before the court. Klinck
was indicted on charge of being
accessory before the fact in falsely
atteSting an affidavit.
Six persons will be arraigned on
murder charges. They are Frederick
Matelic, 81, who shot j. L. Bern
hardt, 81, 1926 N. Holmes Ave, on
Dec. 20, when the youth was help
ing him across the street; Harry
PilZ, 923 S. Illinois ST., charged with
fatally wounding Sam Fosman in
Fosman'S barber shop at 805 S. Me-
ridian ST., when Fosman interfered
in a quarrel; and four Negroes in
the hold-up in which Charles Con-
rad, grocery manager, 2816 Clifton
ST., was killed.
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For The Indianapolis Times and NEA
Service, Milton Bronner has secured two
vivid world pictures, by international
Seemingly ' impossible i task Commander der
Richard E. Byrd has set for himself
to fly across the south pole during the
antarctic summer Of 192S-29; This is
third will he written hV Byrd him self
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
Gas Kills Indiana Couple

BIZ Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Feb. Mrs.
Josephine Eggleston, So, is dead as d
result of inhaling gas which leaked
from main at her home, where her
husband was found dead. She died
in a hospital to which she was re-
moved Monday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
CALL MAYORS FARLEY
State Seeks to Halt Lake Pollution
in Calumet Area.

Invitations to mayors Of Calumet
district cities and George j. Geyer,
president Of the Hammond Manu-
facturers' Association to attend
conference to decide on some.
method of hating pollution Of Lake
Michigan by Calumet industrial
plants were sent today by DR.. Will
liam King, secretary Of the State
Health Board.
The letters ask that the meeting
be held before Feb. 10.
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3O-Year Marriage Ends

OVF CdI IVAdL IeE5O LIIUS
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Feb. 2.--Grant-
ing of a divorce in Allen Superior
Court here to William Lock from
Lydia Lock ended a marriage of
thirty years. The husband charged
cruelty.
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ROBBERY PROBE PUSHED
Laundry Driver Held Up Of $50;
Escape in Car.

Police investigation Of the robbery
of Walter Ameter, 500 Eastern Ave,
driver for the Cr9yn Laundry, OF
1874 N. Summit A;'G., late Wedneo-
day, continued today. Ameter said
two men took $50 from his satchel
and escaped in an automobile with
a third man at the wheel.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-23

American automobiles now lead
foreign cars in number in Czecho-
SloYakia.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-23
BURGLAR IS BEHIND
BARS POLICE REPORT AS LOOT
FROM FIVE ROBBERIES IS FOUND

The officers were on a determined
hunt for thousands of dollars worth of
property had been taken and people
were becoming SO nervous that many
remained at home to guard their prop
erty during the early evening hours.
Numbers of electrical burglar snares
are said to have been set by private
citizens ot
Garlic, interviewed in his cell yes
terday would say but little He ridi-
culed the suggestion of the reporter
that he might be sent to prison for a
great many years, but would say moth
ing to show why he did not think the
law would exact heavy penalty. The
man is Of Mexican descent but i'm
migration officials had not been called
in yesterday to determine what his
status is III this country
While no statement was made or
the subject by those in authority, it
is the general opinion at police head
quarters that the acconplice, Favela,
who is in the Aqua Prieta Jail, may
be tried by Mexican law and not ex-
tradited for trial here
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-23
PRESIDENT TAKES
(Cont!nued From Page onel

time for the parade. There he watch
ed units Of the army and navy from
Washington, marines from Quantieo
and the state militia march by.
When the parade was nearly cver ne
returned 70 the Mayflower for the trip
back to Washington, less than ten
miles up the Potomac.
Accompanying Mr. Coolidge were
Senator Swanson, Represet ut i've
Moore and former Representative Car
lin, all Of Virginia, Mr.. Slemp and
Everett Sanders, the presidents secre-
tary. Sers tor Glass of Virginia was
unable to go because of a slight foot
injection and Mrs. Coolidge had de-.
cided to remain at the White, House
for fear her cold would be aggravated
by the trip. Attorney General Sar-
gent met the president at Alexandra
and returned to Washington with him
on the Mayflower
The celebration today was a fore
runner of the GIGANTIC countrywide
observance of Washington's 2OOth
birthday anniversary to be held in
1882 under government auspices,
A year ago the president openetj
plans for this celebration with a speech
before congress.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-23
PRAYER NECESSARY
I'M EVERY DAY LIFE,
EVANGELIST, CLAIMS

At the services which are being
held at the Assembly of God church,
Twenty-first street and avenue. good
interest is being shown. Last night
the congregation was favored by a
special song, "Up-to-Date Religion Is
the Old Time Kind" sung by Miss
Martha Lundberg of the evangelist's
party
Evangelist Robertson spoke on
Prayer" He said in part:
Il believe that you are all ready
to agree with me that prayer is a
most essential thing in life Prayer
is wonderful thing. You can come
into the presence of God all cast
down, and in all kinds of trouble put
them all on him and rise up COM
forted and ready for anything that
happens.
It's a wonderful thing to be able
to pray A life without prayer is
dead No man or woman who be-
lieves in God can get along without
prayer.
When Hezekiah received the let
ter from the hands of his enemies
he took it and laid it down before
God in prayer Nothing was ever
heard aSout that letter after that
There is difference between
talking and prayer.
IF you will go through your Bible
you will find several reasons why
you should have the Holy Ghost in
your life. When you get the Holy
Ghost and get some divine life you
Will not back slide every 80 days.