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The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13

of the great elephants generally
supposed to have disappeared
from this country long before
man appeared on this side of the
world.
Careful study Of the geologic
features of the region has con-
vinced DR.. Gridley that both the
arrow head and the prehistoric
elephant were deposited there in
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13

the Pleistocene period, in the age
when northern America was in
the icy grip of great glaciers.
There is no possibility, he said,
that the arrow could have found
its way into this layer of sand,
at a later time, without leaving
traces in the layers of swampy
soil lying above the Pleistocene
layer.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
state PLANS
BIG Hotel At
dunes PARK
5OO-Room HoSteIry to Rise
at Famous Northern
Summer Resort.
FORMAL OPENING MAY /
Six Recreation CenterS Are
Being Prepared for
Visiting ThrongS.

Construction Of a 5O0-room mod
ern hotel at Dunes Park on Lake
Michigan is planned by the Indiana
conservation department, it was
learned today.
Financial backing for the hotel,
which ultimately will belong to the
State, probably will be given by
Chicago individuals interested in
development of the beauty spot as
an Indiana, hio and Illinois pleas
ure resort, it was learned.
Arrangements are being made by
the conservation department to
erect bath houses on Waverly beach
for the thousands who frequent the
dunes during the summer.
During the three summer months
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
SKYROCKET DEVICE
RUNS GERMAN CAR

manned aerial vehicle this year
would be able to penetrate beyond
the atmospheric envelope of this
planet
The representative said tests, Sc
cretly conducted this year, indicated
that vehicles driven by the new
skyrocket device would be able to
better all existing speed records. He
said test of the device soon would
be made on a train in an attempt
to better the train speed record held
by the British.
The new device was constructed
according to plans of the German
engineer. Max Waller.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13

DR.. Gridley states that his
chief achievement in the expedi-
ton was the geologic study of
the area which proves conclu-
sively that the human skull
which he found at Melbourne in
1925 was deposited there in Pleis-
tocene times and could not have
been intruded into the ancient
layer at a later date.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
REVENGE
THEORY IN MURDER

the wreckage Of an automobile
which had plunged over an en-
bankment near Donaldson cave.
His body bore a wound which at
that time was declared to have
been inflicted with a blunt instru-
ment.
Peter Wire was not indicted in
the Hart case. The son was charged
with first degree murder, but on
trial, a jury disagreed. Later the
charge was dismissed on the States
motion.
The Wires were said to have been
seen with the Negro shortly before
his body was found.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
By Times Special

By Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, April 10.
Authorities are following a new
clew in the mystery Staying near
here early Sunday of Orville Wires,
20, called to the door of his IA
theirs home and shot down.
Young Wire and his father, Peter
Wire, were arrested nearly four
years ago in Lawrence County, fol-
lowing the death of Virgil Hart,
Negro, and this clew has given
basis for a theory that the Staying
Sunday may be traced to vengeful
friends or relatives of Hart.
The Negroes body was found in
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
WILLIAM SWAIN SET
Pioneer Motion Picture Man VIII
Be Buried Saturday.

Pioneer Motion Picture Man. VIII
Be Buried Saturday.
Funeral services for William M.
Swain, 10, pioneer motion picture
man here, will be held at $3.50 p.
m. Saturday at the home, 2537 E.
Riverside Dr., where he died Thurs
day, after a short illness. Burial
will be at Crown Hill cemetery.
A native of Cincinnati, Mr.. Swain
came to this city hirty-eight years
ago and had been active in business
until his retirement four years ago.
He was one of the first to operate
neighborhood moving picture houses
and to take moving pictures of the
speedway race.
He founded and operated the old
Indianapolis Calcium Light Com
pany and was also a pioneer in the
box lunch business.
Surviving him are the widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Swain; two daughters,
Mrs. Helen Weesner and Mrs. Ruth
Roberts, and son, George A.
Swain, all of Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
Spring and the Great Outdoors Call En1

The call of the "great
open Spaces" be they but q
vaccnt lot, the back steps,
or a t1Oemty-b -by-t1Oenty back
yGrd garden, grips Indian
GpoliS once more. Thus
We haze (top) State En-
tomologiSt Frank N. Wal
lace, 1910 N. Capitol Ave.,
tinkerimg 1Oith fo10ers that
"eUery one says 1UiU not
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groa0 IN MdiGmG;" (center)
Mrs. John G. SarOm, 1916
N. Talbot St., IN a fur coat,
gathering damdeIioa green's
at Thirty-Fourth and Penn
SyIvGnia Sts., and mot car
ing aOho knows it," Mayor
L. Ert Slack (beIoaO) tuning
up his fishing rod a0hile has
dog, "GlGd Queen Alice" "
looks on.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
BU Iynited Presa

By United Press
BERLIN, April 13.-A new auto
mobile receiving motive power from
a device based Oh the repercussion
principle similar to Goddard's sky
rocket attained a speed Of sixty-two
and one-half miles an hour within
eight seconds in tests at the Opel
works today.
A representative Of the company
said the device was the first sue
cessful step toward construction Of
skyrocket airplanes upon which the
Opel concern is working He ex-
pressed the conviction that an un-
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13

IMMEDIATELY upon making
l. the discovery, DR.. Gridley
telegraphed to the Smithsonian
Institution; and DR.. Frank H. H.
Roberts Jr., of the Bureau of
American Ethnology, hurried
down to Melbourne to see the ar
row before it was removed from
the layer of sand.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
Second Section
On Tick
PaWnShop Is End of Trail
for Watch Sought Five
Years by Police.

ID EADERS of thrillers have
N heard of detectives trailing
their man years and years. This
is q story Of how indianapolis
detectives trailed a stolen watch
for five years and ten months,
finally recovered it and restored
1t to it's owner.
When The Times was located
in it's old building at Meridian
and Pearl Sts., five years and ten
months ago, someone stole Elmer
Van Horns watch from The
Times mailing room. Van Horn,
a Times mailer, lives at 6l74
Crittenden Ave.
Now it was a good watch and
Van Horn missed It's cheerful
tick-tock, but many months ago
he gave up hopes Of ever getting
it back. He reckoned without
the Indianapolis police force,
however, which gets its watch,
sometimes, even though 1t does
take five years.
A full description Of the watch
was listed in the stolen goods
record at detective headquarters
when it was purloined.
4 FEW days ago detectives,
IA checking over a pawnshop
reports, discovered that Van
Horns watch just had been
pawned. The pawnshop proprie-
tor was ordered to call police
when the person who had
pawned came to redeem it.
In the meantime, the pawner
of the watch one evening had
imbibed too much Of the forbid
den beverage and ventured forth
in a public place to wind up in
city prison on an intoxication
charge. A professional bondsman
demanded security when he
sought bond and he promised the
bondsrnan the watch.
When the bondsman and the
man went to the pawnshop to
get the watch, Detectives Harley
Reed and George Stewart were
sent to the scene.
Reed and Stewart turned the
watch over to Van Horn and re-
turned the man who had pawned
it to Jail on the intoxication
charge, while they investigated
his story that he bought the
timepiece three years ago from a
cousin, who found it.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
LAUDS G. O. P. RECORD

People Of Indiana Sound, Fair In
Judgement Says Schortemeier.
By Times Special
INDIANA HARBOR, Ind, April
13,-"The Republican party is ready
to go to the people in both State
and Nation on the official record
as made" declared Frederick E.
Schortemeier, secretary of State,
and candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor, in an ad-
dress here Thursday night.
1.-THE people Of Indiana are sound
and fair in their judgement" he
saids "They do their own thinking
and reach their own conclusions,
and this is at it should be-"
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
PLANS FOR DELAWARE
APARTMENT PUSHED
ZOning Board Grants Permit Over
Protests Of Residents.

GOAAAAA 0ONA0 OA AGSAOS CAAALAJ OtCT
Protests Of Residents.
Erection OF a five-story, forty
eight family apartment, is planned
at 1434 N. Delaware ST., by the
Foster Engineering Company.
City Board of Zoning Appeal
granted permission to erect the
apartment on second hearing. It
was denied because of objections of
property owners at the first hear
ing. Owners of several fine homes
along Delaware ST., protested the
erection Of apartments in the dis
trict. Works Board President Oren
S. Hack and City Engineer A. H.
Moore voted against the project.
j. Friedman, who planned q
theater at 2525 Shelby ST., was
denied a rehearing by the board.
George Rinier was attorney for
property owners protesting the
project.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
GIRLS DEATH CHARGED
TO TWO ELDERLY MEN
Dwarf and Companion on Trial at
English for Murder.

By Times Special
ENGLISH, Ind, April 13. -
Charged with the second degree
murder of Miss Ruth j. Strother,
l9, as a result of her death fol-
lowing a criminal operation, two
elderly men are on trial in Craw-
ford Circuit Court here.
The accused Luther Sloan, 66, a
dwarf, and George Burlington, 60.
The girl was employed by Sloan as
a hoIsekeeper. Arrests were made
in February after Miss Sloan's
body had been exhumed and an ex-
animation made.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
Illness Held Suicide Cause

BIT United Press
WARSAW, IND, April 13.-
Thomas Hendrickson, 81, formerly
Of Delphi, Ind, committed suicide
here today, according to a police re-
port. Dependency over i'll health
was believed to have been the mo-
tive.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
SCHOOL PLAY ACTOR
DIES IN AUTO CRASH
Youth Killed at Centerville on Trip
for Consumes.

l.
for Consumes.
BIZ United Press
RICHMOND, Ind, April 13.-
Preparations for a play to be given
by pupils Of Centerville high school
ended In tragedy near here.
Three members of the cast of
pickles." which was to have been
given Thursday night, were driving
to obtain costumes for the play
when the automobile in which they
rode skidded, struck a culvert, and
overturned in a ditch.
Robert Lane, 18, who was to have
had the leading part in the show,
was killed; Robert O'Melia, 16, sus-
tanned a fractured skull, and Rus
sell Wambo escaped with minor
bruises.
All the boys were high school
Juniors.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
TO CRAWFORD
Withdrawal of Risk Strengthens
Milton Candidate.

By 11nIeS Special
LAFAYETTE, Ind, April 13.-
James Kirby Risks withdrawal
from the primary contest for the
Democratic nomination for Cover
nor today lent strength to the cam
didacy of Earl Crawford, of Milton,
former highway commissioner. Risk
is in a hospital here with an in
fected foot and may be confined to
bed for several weeks.
"Bryan Democrats, dry Demo-
Gratis, friends Of the primary,
advocates of Wilson-Bryan pro-
gresSiveness and those who seek
constitutional reform in Indiana" :"
Risk said in a statement, should
swing to Earl Crawford who is a
courageous, clean and outstanding
exponent Of those fundamentals"
Risks withdrawal leaves seven in
the Democratic guhernatorial race.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
FORD CHATS WITH KING

Spends Two Hours at Tea With
British Ruler.
By United Press
LONDON, April 13.-Henry Ford
took tea with King George and
Queen Mary at Lady Astor's house
last night.
The American-born member Of
parliament presented Ford to the
King and Queen at her home In
Cliveden, near Taplow, Bucking-
hamshlre.
Ford and the British royalty
talked two hours. The automobile
manufacturer Is spending the week
end at Cliveden.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
By Science Serpice

BIZ Science SerUice
XXTASHINGTON, April 49,
w Digging along the edge of a
country club golf course at Mel
bourne, Fla, DR.. j. w. Gidley,
paleonthologist of the United
States National Museum has dis
covered new and important evil
dence that men inhabited Amer
ica more than $4,000 years ago.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
STORE GREETS VISITORS
Hundreds See Spring Opening at
Banner Furniture.

sNIAAIOA VI AILOtACe
Banner Furniture Company, 81
S. Meridian ST., continued it's
Spring opening" today, entertain
ing hundreds Of visitors at the
store. Women inspecting the new
spring furniture displays were pre-
Sented with flowers. The event
opened Wednesday and will con-
tinue until 9 p. m. Saturday. A
special feature is planned for $3.50
p. m. Saturday.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
SEARCH ITALY FOR
TRACE OF BOMBERS

walls Of which were plastered today
with tri-colored placardsI 'Viva
Sovera."
The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
CRIMINAL AGE
found Lower
YEAR BY YEAR
Comparison of Figures for
1918 With 1928
Reveals Decline.
AVERAGE is BELOW Fl
LenienCy Usually Shown to
First Offenders In
Robbery Cases.

This is the second Of several articles
upon the youthful crime" situation in
Indianapolis as disclosed in survey made
by Morris Moore of The indianapolis
staff,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-06
DEATH VALLEY
FARM ATTRACTS
TOURIST TRADE
Furnace Greek Ranch, 200
Feet Below Sea Grows
Date Trees.
By NEA Service

ByNEA Service
BARSTOW, Calf, July 6.-Prob-
ably the most lonely and isolated
farm" in America is Furnace
Creek Ranch. lat miles north Of
here. This small acreage sits ike
green egg in the heart of Death
Valley, the lowest, dryest and hot
test part Of the continent.
At this oasis, alfalfa was once
grown for mules engaged in haul
ing borax from the mountains to
civilization. Some of the old freight
wagons still may be seen at the
ranch, with other reminders of old
times.
Now there are many date trees
under cultivation. Tamarack trees
are numerous. The ranch serves &
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-06

useful purpose as stopping place
for tourists who are invading Death
Valley since trails officially have
been marked through the sand and
salt.
The driving to the ranch from
here, one man at Cave Springs and
the men engaged in borax mining at
Ryan are the only human beings
one will meet Travellers known to
be en- route and failing to show up
on time have relief cars sent after
them, for people might die of thirst
in case of engine trouble. Water is
almost as scarce on the mountain
trail to Ryan as in Death Valley it
self.
Furnace Greek ranch is nearly
200 feet below sea level and the Their
mometer in summer registers from
100 up in the shade, but the men
on the place manage to keep guineas
and chickens there. They say that
the temperature in the summer In
the cellar ranges as high as 80 in the
shade, so that eggs will almost
hatch without the aid of incubator
or hen.
In the winter, the cold winds and
snow often blow down the noun
tains and it becomes extremely
cold. Death Valley is over 100 miles
long and about twenty-five miles
wide In its whole extent, Furnace
Greek ranch is the only inhabitable
spot.
But Victor Ceballos, the ranch
manager, says the lure of the desert
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-06

strong gets
doesn't couldn't happy anywhere
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-06

The Triangle Tire
and Rubber Com
pany has appointed
our Company as its
exclusive representa-
tive for Triangle In
sured Tires.
The Certificate
shown explains how
for the first time you
can be assured Of
your exact tire cost
per year. And don't
forget, that in order
to give you this in
surance, much more
than that amount of
service had to be
built into these tires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

Boulogne, France, observes
its traditional day of religious
thanksgiving for the seas
bounteous yield of fish. The
queen of the festival marches
in the procession under an arch
of fishing nets. oP&A Photos.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

Student S of the Mariana Mo-
reno National College of Ar
gentina taking part in the Ma
tional Oratorical Contest spon-
sored by the newspaper La Ma
cion of Buenos Aires. Jose de
Tomaso, student of the high
school division of the college,
won the honor of competing
in the International Oratorical
Contest here next month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

A strikingly original American
Broadtail creation of Super Skins
the novel collars and cuffs are
of Siberian Squirrel Note the
semi-ftting and pleated side panels
to give decided straight line. See
it in the Capitol Fur Shop window
at 1908 G. St. NV.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-06-07
(By DIR. J. A. DuBois)

In this three-ScOre anniversary
number of The Herald, | have been
asked to give the impressions re.
ceived from a residence of nearly
half-a-ceutury in a little Minneso-
ia community, upon which it's first
settlers with no rhyme and less
reason bestowed the name Sank
Centre, and which of late ''best-
seller fiction has given the in
spring title of Gopher Prairie and
has placed perm anently on the map
its famed Main Street.
Now it would seem that such a
request ought easily to be com,
piled with. And yet l find myself
hesitating. For, though in the
building up of any of our munich
palities, little or big, any Individual
is only a minor factor, all these
years of close acquaintance with
the virtues and vices of Main
Street, you will notice that l en-
roll under both headings-have
made me an integral part of this
much mentioned thoroughfare. ]
have entered into Main Street and
Main Street has entered into me
Consequently you can see how
easily one in assuming the task
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-06-07

Leland Gray, Viola Gummert,
Verdella Harder, Myrtle Hillerud,
Doris Jardine, Genevieve johann
mes, Beatrice Johnson, Vincent
Kenna, Pauline Klonne, Donald
Lewis, Edwin Lewis, Arthur Nc
Dermond, Edmund Myott, Anna
Orth, Mable Orth, Faye Parker,
Dorothy Penrose, Thomas Penrose,
Minnie Peterson, Velma Randall,
Lillian Reed, Maude Robinson,
Lillian Rosenberger, Paul Staebler,
Bernard Schoenhoff, T h ell m a
Staebler, Harriet Sweetman, Alice
Thornton, Dorothea Volkmann.
Class of 1924
Donald Austin, Della Bailey,
Newell Barnard, Paul Besser, Min
ME Boyer, Rita Bergman, Ayl-
mer Crickmer, Isabelle Conkey,
Carol Coons, jeanette Dahlem,
Irene Emmeck, Alma Forsberg,
Nolan Gray, Esther Guishard, Ivy
Hilde'brand, Raymond Hillerui,
Doris Johnson, George Kinsella,
Evelyn Kusba, Herbert Lembke,
Mae Upton, Boyd Lien, Eula Lee,
Beatrice Martyr, Norbert Marx,
Marie Pangburn, Orlando Paske,
Clarice Parkinson, Ruth Reese,
Edwin Sieben, Dorothy Steines.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-06-07
Both Sides of Main Street

have set before me, could fall in
to the line of photographed
"reminiscences. And that I wish
wholly to abjure. 1t is too much
Of tax on veracity. For there
have been written probably but
three honest autobiographies- the
pathetically honest photographic
al sketch Of Charles Darwin, and
the scurrilously honest ones of
Rousseau and Bentvenuto Cellini.
| might mention also the one of
Benjamin Franklin, but that, of
course, is 100 per cent American.
That makes it sacro-sanct. It goes
on the Sacred Shelf, immune to
cavil and criticism, and woe be-
tide any person who dares to in
dulge in a questionable reflection
upon it, he will be black-listed by
the D. A. R. and the Key Men Of
America.
So l purpose to occupy a safer
territory while | cast backward
glance at the Main Street of the
old days. l shall not dwell upon
it's crudities. They have been suf-
fciently paraded before a sensa-
tion-loving public who have greed
lily swallowed them, hook, bob and
Continued on Page Five)
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Markson, Evelyn B. Mortenson,
Margaret E. Moynii1an, Edwin J.
Nathe, Oscar Norgarden, G. Ell
vina Orth, Olga Peterson, Anna E.
Pflipsen, H. Irene Prasch, May
belle L. Ruehman, Evelyn E. Rueh-
man, Julia Mae Schaub, Robert ].
Schoenhoff, Verona M. Smith, Leo
Michael Stadtherr, Alkaline Eve
Ign Stark, Marie A. Steidl, Orpha
E. Strong, Myra A. Taylor, Alice
0. Upton, Ruth Rockwell Working.
Class ce 1928
Ruth I. Benson, Georgia E.
Brown, Almina A. Cheney, Julia
E. Cleveland Vivian J. Coons,
June M. Curley, Wanda F. belong,
Helen M. Egan, Leroy T. Engle,
Vera May Engle, Vera E. Fett-
gather, Evelyn R. Gray, Jeanette
B. Hamilton, Isabel C. Hansen,
Annie J. Hanauer, Nellie C. Hide
brand, Aloysius w. lilies, Ruth C.
Iverson, Esther L. Larson, Vivian
M. Lux, Elvera l.. Mahigan, Paul
L. Mayors, John William McCrack-
en-, Vivian A. Mcnamara, Ray F.
Minette, Irene M. Moynihan, Mar
gle K. Ortiz, Edward C. Peterson,
Mary E. Poppe, Bernard J. Rob-
ischon, Philip F. Schaub, Clara E.
Schommer, Stella A. Sorenson,
Frank J, Steffes, Richard H. Sweet
man, Marie A. Veeder, Thor N.
! Walden.
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Helen Kinsella, Howard Lien, John
MacDermond, Alvira Mathies, Eve
Ign Moen, Robert Mossman, Harold
Nelson, Donald Opheim, Ruby
Pacey, Fern Pescheck, Loren Pier
son, Lucille Rasmussen, Anna
Robischon, Esther tSchaub, Valer-
ian Schoenhoff, Philip Steiner, vi
one Steege, Harvey Veeder, Nellie
Wakefield, Alice Wruck.
Class of 1927
President Laurence G. Hall.
Secretary-Elsie l. Boyer.
Vice-President - Donald H.
Arneson.
Treasurer-Edwin J. Nathe.
Donald H. Arneson, Darrell Aus
tin, Hazel l. Beck, Elsie 1. Boyer,
Arthur H. Bergman, Helen H.
Butler, Leta Mae Butler, Reonelda
A. Claseman, Mildred Marie Davis,
Ronald C. Degree, William A. Det-
erman, Reva Marie Drinker, Julia
A. Dunn, iMyron E. Erickson, Dor
othy Gartner, Harold E. Gray,
Winnifred L. Gray, Charlotte M.
Green, Laurence George Hall, Clar-
ence E. Harder, Rose B. Kane, Car
lyle E. Key, Genevieve C. Lux,
Alpha Genevieve Lying, Paul A.