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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01

I over control Of such vital new factors
as aviation and radio along with his
many other duties, has (done a good
job as an executive and has met with
less protest than most of the other
secretaries is one factor of his present
strength He is charged with "the
work of promoting the commerce of
the United States and its mining,
manufacturing, shipping fishery and
transportation interests" and he has
devoted himself to that job with con-
siderable success.
That he has never been a senator
OF a governor-or politician prob
ably will not milit72.te against him
with the voters The point is that
no other cabinet officer has been able
to make himself president, least of all
q secretary of commerce and that
Hoover may open up new era OF
things if he makes the grade. His
democratic opponent is likely to be a
governor or a senator.
Coolidge was a governor, owing his
first presidential job to Harding's
death. Harding was senator. Will
SUI WtS SONCA11O1 VI 4NCW OOAoSJ" AO~AS,
who was neither senator or governor.
stepped from his job as secretary OF
war to the White House only through
Roosevelt's influence Roosevelt was
a governor buried in the vice preSi-
dency only to be elevated by Nc
Kinley's assassination Mckinley was
governor of Ohio. Benjamin Harrison
was first soldier and later an Ohio
senator. Cleveland was governor of
New York Arthur wes given the vice
presidential nomination in a political
deal and would have been no more
had not Garfield, a soldier and a
senator, been shot. Hayes was COVER
ner of Ohio and Tilden, who beat
him in all but the final count, was
governor of New York Grant, OF
course, was soldier and Andrew
johnson had been governor of Ten
nessee. Lincoln was congressman.
Buchanan had been successfully min
ister to Russia, senator, secretary of
state and minister to England Pierce
was senator and soldier Fillmore
had been a congressman state Off
cial in New York and vice presi-
dent. Taylor was a soldier, Polk was
speaker of the house, Harrison a SOL
dier and senator, and so on back to
Washington.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01

Strictly Business
A young woman went into a bank
to have check caShed.
"But, miss" the clerk told her
''youll have to get someone TO intro
duce you before I can pay you the
money OH this check"
She stared at him disdainfully
"Sir," she said, haughtily, Il wish
you to understand that am here
strictly on business. 1 am not making
social call. do not care to know
you"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
BARBS

Governor jackson of Indiana,
has been acquitted and may run
for the senate, he says. Wonder
what George Remus is going to
do?
Six hundred pieces, of skin were
grated upon a young mans body
in Missouri the other day. Where
had he been-New York?
A general has gone down to
supervise the elections in Mica
ragua.' The army has done moth
ing however, about Pennsylvania
and Illinois.
A Kansas town is putting into
effect curfew law, which stipu-
lates that all persons of school
age be off the streets by 9 o'clock.
Looks like the pool rooms in that
town will do a thriving business.
Soldiers in San Francisco passed
in review to honor Arizona" an
army mule, decorated for valor in
the World war. All those who
can get laugh out of that prob
ably never saw second ieuten-
ant at his best.
Ninety-seven billions Of cigarets
were smoked in the United States
last year. Ladies, where are you
going to stop?
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc0
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
Too Near Home

The advertising club had varied its
weekly luncheon by offering a prize
to the person present who could tell
the best lie. Several members did
their best Then young reporter
rose and asked if the newspaper men
present had right to compete. The
gracious president joviaiiy replied,
Certainly" The young man said,
'Thank you for very good lunch
ecn," and sat down
He did not get the prize.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
More Truth Than Poetry
BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE
TO A TOO EARLY ROBIN

TO A TOO EARLY ROBIN
love to hear the lifting lay
You warble at the close OF Gay,
To me the joyful song you sing
Is like the first sweet breath OF
spring;
So consequently 1 rejoice
To hear once more your happy voice
But only, I make haste to say
What time you sing at close OF day
Bit, not content with singing then,
At dawn you're on the job again
And with your endless strident
Break in upon persons sleep
In vain my weary eyes I close
And seek a little more repose,
In vain projectiles do I fling
You only dodge and sing and sing
TIL VIDE awake your form Il view
Depouncing both the spring and you
Why little robin, can't you learn
What time to sing, when you return?
Why can't you sing at eve your fill
And when the morning comes, keep
still?
But both on earth and in the air
Good Judgment is extremely rare
Few birds CT people have the wit
To know when it is time to quit.
THE RASCAL!
A scientist says the tlapper is
passing. He must have been looking
out of the window.
NOW WE KNOW
We used to wonder what became
of all the unsuccessful singers. But
that was before the days of the radio
WARNING
Applejack doesn't become fully
matured till after February so that
the farmer has reason to beware the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
ABE MARTIN

It's got so you kin be a pail
bearer in Chicago about as often as
you kin in Bloom Center. I'D so
t. Detroit an drive my new car home
if thought could control my
appetite" says Pony MOpps.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
Any Patient

Smith pays, while he is really sick
His doctors fees without a kick,
When he complains about the bill
You know that he's no longer i'll.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
Ministering Angel

You hover DER my bedside drear,
My every asking word you hear;
You're mine for better OF for worse
You know my every care and ILL.,
You press upon my lips-a pill:
My nurse
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
Negative AnneaI

Burke: Are you learning to play
bridge?
Roth: NO, my wife is teaching me-!
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
PZucked From the Plains
Wasted Talent

E. F. Albee, head OF the famous
Keith vaudeville circuit, was deploring
the trend OF the drama Il was
sitting back OF the home plate at the
Polo Grounds" he said, when the
catcher, watching perfect throw
muffed at second base, broke into a
string OF vehement and heartfelt
cusSeS.
Listen, youse!' admonished a stern
umpire. "Youse cut out that cussin
right nowl Them people up in the
stands didn't come here to hear
lot of parroom talk. Ii they'd a
wanted to hear that line Of stuff
they'd gone to the theater!'p
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
The HumOrist Has Nightmare

The HumOr1St Has Nightmare
1t seems there we're two Irishmen,
and Able said to Jake:
VINO was that lady saw you with
last night?"
"So's your old man." was the
Scotchmans quick response.
ooh, it must have been two other
fellows!" answered the crestfallen
prohibition officer.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
Girls. Girls!

"I wish 1 could"
"Why don't you? 1 would
But if I didn't, would you?Y
Il couldn't-but if did you
wouldn't unless I did"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
But to Return

MY wife's forever on the co.
"So's mine, but, darn the luck she
always comes back"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
Wise and Otherwise

Even the wise old owl sometimes
hoots at the wrong time.
People who have sharp voices
should not live in flats
Nothing discourages a pessimist like
the refusal OF things to go wrong.
It takes a divorce lawyer to see
the silver lining in a domestic cloud.
Other peoples admiration
proves that there is no accounting
for tastes.
Gossip can take an inch Of fact
and stretch it into yard of scandal.
It takes a born diplomat to pick
quarrel and dodge the consequences.
Some men are so conceited they
think that even their mistakes have
never been made before.
The man who keeps himself in the
pink OF condition seldom has the
blues.
There's a divinity that shapes our
ends" but we have to make them
meet ourselves.
A successful moncpolist is man
who gets an elbow on each arm of
his theater chair.
New Wives for Old
''Who is that brupette over there?"
That's Rays wife. Don't you recog-
nize her?"
"Why, I thought he married a
blonde!"
"Oh, yes, he did-but she dyed"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
WARNING

Applejack doesn't become fully
matured till after February, so that
the farmer has reason to beware the
ides OF March.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01

urday night at the ranch of Jim
Kinney, 16 miles north OF Douglas.
Mr. Kinney and Luther Graham
are the promoters OF the affair.
j. B. Murchison, Rufe Scott, Ed
Pike and Chick Scarborough were
on the Tigre trail to the Murchi-
son ranch in Mexico a few days
ago, when guards around the
ranch sized them up for outlaws
and the whole party were looking
down the boreS OF rifles. Hands
went up quickly, but when Mr..
Murchison was recognized the
party was allowed to proceed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01

NOW WE KNOW
We used to wonder what became
of all the unsuccessful singers. But
that was before the days of the radio
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01

THE RASCAL!
A scientist says the tlapper is
passing. He must have been looking
out of the window
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01

A successful moncpolist is a. man
who gets an elbow on each arm Of
his theater chair
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-08
BANDIT FAILS
IN CAR STICKUp
Nerve Fails as Conductor
ReSiStS on Busy Street.

A 15-year-old boy bandit at
tempted to hold up a street car
early this morning but lost his nerve
at the las moment and fled.
Robert Whobery, Is, of 1929
Sturm avenue, is in the city prison
charged with attempting to rob
with a gun. According to police,
the boy boarded a Broad Ripple
owl car at Tenth street and Col
lege avenue and rode to the end of
the line and back downtown around
the loop.
At Ohio and Pennsylvania streets
lie drew a gun on James G.. Smith,
962 Stillwell street, conductor, and
demanded his money. Smith shout
ed, and the boy jumped from the
car and ran south on Pennsylvania
street.
Clyde Mitchell, GA Highland ave-
nue, motorman, pursued the boy
who escaped. The lad later was
found in doorway at 544 East
Washington street by Motorpolice
Harry Schley and Otto Mas.
A 32-calibre automatic pistol
and a 32-calibre revolver of cheap
make were taken from him. He
was sent to the detention home and
later TO the city prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-08
NEW TRIAL SOUGHT
Defendants in Check Kiting
Case to Ask Rehearing.

Motions for q new trial we're to be
fled in federal court today by at
torneys for three defendants in the
Steinbrenner Rubber Company
check-kiting conspiracy, convicted
of using the mail to defraud, when
they appear before Federal Judge
Robert G. Baltzel today for SEN
tenceS.
Defendants are S. Homer FEEDER
man, rubber company treasurer; e.
Porter Ayres, Huntington county
state bank cashier, and Newton w.
Cowgirl, First National bank of No
olesville cashier
Two other defendants, Edwin B.
Ayres, president of the Huntington
bank, and Walter w. Bray, Nobles-
vile bank assistant cashier, we're ac-
quilted by jury.
The penalty on the charge is five
to ten Years in federal penitentiary.
and fine not to exceed $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-08
KING GEORGE TOO WEAK
FOR OPERATION; PASSES
BAD NIGHT, FEVER HIGH
HoW the Market
Opened
BY ELMER c. WALLER,
United Press Financial Editor

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-Bears and
bulls renewed their fight for control
of the stock market today after
losses of more than 100000, 900 had
been recorded in trading the past
two days.
The first few stocks to appear on
the tape today were highly irregular
an dthe stock market appeared
nervous. Radio declined to new
low nthe movement with a loss of
seven points at 361. That brought
It's market valuation down some So
100000, making a total reduction in
valuation of more than $4,000, 900
in last three days.
United States Steel rose q to 153
on a sale of 1900 shares. General
Motors opened 5000 shares at 1874
up IL; Chrysler $500 shares 125
UP 2a4; Sinclair 5000 shares at 1914
up Il; Victor 1000 shares at 100 up
Az; 5000 Sears Roebuck at 162 off
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-08

holes in the double front door, and
two in the floor near the door.
One bullet from a bandit gun
passed through a glass show case
and narrowly missed Hohlt and
Whitson as they crouched behind
counter. The bullet passed be-
tween them and lodged in the shelv-
ing on the west wall.
Another bullet shattered glass
chewing gum veding machine on
the wall between the bandits and
Fletcher and Pope. Other bullets
we're found in shelving on the walls.
Lieutenant Pope's life probably
was saved by the bullet-proof vest
he wore.
Saved by Vest
The lead struck him On the breast
and bounced to the floor.
Chief Worley's first question when
he entered the store was: Are
any of our men hit?"
Il don't know, but we got two of
them and both are going to die"
Motor Policeman. BQli answered.
I'm sure I shot this ore. He shot
at me and l returned the fire." he
said pointing to Kittrell
Fletcher was found to be the most
seriously wounded of the two po-
licemen.
A bullet passed between the fing-
ers with which he held the stock OF
his gun. 1t splintered the wooden
grip, grazed the palm of his hand
and buried itself in his wrist.
Splinters from the grip pierced both
fingers.
Assures Wife He's Safe
Before the smoke had cleared
away, Fletcher went to the phone
in the store and called his wife, who
had been anMously waiting at home
for word of The outcome of the
battle.
Don't worry, dear. We got these
fellows all right" he told her. II got
slight scratch on the hand, but
don't worry. 1t doesn't amount to
anything. I'm just going out to the
hospital to have it cleaned up"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-08
SKIP-STOP ON
{. WASHINGTON
IS APPROVED
State Orders Citizens to
Prepare Own Plan for.
Street Car Service.
IN EFFECT NEXT YEAR
Trial of From 80 to so Days
Will Be Given Proposal
Chosen.

Skip-stop street car service on
East Washington street will prob
ably be inaugurated shortly after
the first of the year as result
of an order prepared by ,Commis-
sioner Howell Ellis and approved
today by the public service COM
mission.
The order denies the petition for
Skip-Stop service as proposed by
Grant Karns, 338 North Audubon
road, and signed by 700 residents
of Irvington. But it orders the In
dianapoliS Street Railway Company
to present plan of their own for
Skip-stop service on the East Wash
ington street line within the next
thirty days.
This plan then will be reviewed
by the commission and accepted or
modified and the skip-stop plan
given a fair trial of from thirty to
sixty days, Ellis said.
Marks Cars by COlOrs
The Karns proposal was turned
down because of its impracticabil-
ity, according to Ellis. At the
hearing on the petition Karns out
lined a plan of designating cars by
colors in three series, each car to
stop outside the downtown district
at different corners. He proposed
that lights and colored markings
be used to designate the corners.
The commissioners believed the
program too complicated.
I'VE, feel, however, that citizens
of Irvington and other residents of
the East Washington street district
are entitled to better street car
service in the matter of time saw
ing" Ellis stated
81 believe that the street rail-
way officials can work out some
practical plan for skip-stop service"
Under the ordinary skip-stop plan
the cars stop only at every other
corner, outbound cars stopping at
corners alternate 10 those of in
bound cars.
Plan Used In War
The skip-stop service was in use
here on all lines during the war
years.
James P. Tretton, superintendent
of the street car company, pointed
out in the testimony at the hearing
on the present petition that by
various means citizens secured spe-
cial orders from the board getting
the cars to stop at their particular
corners.
When the skip-stop system finally
is abolished there we're but three
skips on Illinois street all the way
from Thirty street to the
Union depot he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-08
Doctors to Decide on Action
Today to Save
Rulers Life.
BY KEITH JONES
United Press staff Correspondent

LONDON, Dec. 8.-King George
passed restless night and his con-
dition today was described as being
"as well as might be expected under
the circumstances.
Sir Stanley Hewett, apothecary-
surgeon to the king, spent the night
in constant attendance in or near
the kings bed chamber and on ac-
count of the kings enfeebled con-
dition telephoned frequently to the
other physicians.
An official bulletin issued by the
kings physicians this morning said +:
THE king has had some hours of
sleep. His Temperature is still
raised on account of the local COR
dftion in the lung. His general
condition is the same"
Wales Reaches Cairo
The Prince of Wales, heir to the
throne, arrived at Cairo, Egypt, at
$3.50 a. m. today, in his race to his
fathers bedside from an interrupted
hunting tour in Africa.
His brother, the Duke of Glou-
cester, third son of the King, has
sailed for London on board the fast
London mail boat, the Balmoral
Castle, from Capetown, South
Africa.
The official bulletin issued at
Buckingham palace at 8:15 q. m.
Friday said:
"His majesty has not had rest
full days. A Pathological examina-
ton was carried out this afternoon.
Neither this, nor exploration by
needle previously carried out, has
disclosed any appreciable amount of
pleural effusion.
Operation Is Proposed
Reliable information from the
palace today said the physicians at
their conference Friday night dis
cussed the possibility of operating
on the king, but the physicians de-
cided that the royal patient was far
too weak to stand the strain of such
an ordeal.
In an effort to give the kings
weak heart a rest, the doctors ad-
ministered a sedative during the
night and a definite decision on the
future line of treatment was post
poned until today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-08

The bandit killed Immediately was Carl Kittrell
35 who lived across the alley from 835 EastGeorgia
street., his companion said.
Bandit Dies In City Hospital
The bandit who died at city hospital was Otto
Price, 30, of 835 East Georgia street.
The alleged driver of the bandit car gave his
name as Lloyd Amos, AZ, Of 6171a North Illinois
street. He has been employed at the Marmon Motor
Car Company as painter.
The officers shot Lieutenant Roy Pope and Detective
Herbert Fletcher Fletcher wounded in the right wrist and
Pope in the left hand
The bandits walked into trap laid by Police Chief Claude
NJ Worey who had advance information that the hodup
to be attempted at a.
Police Hidden Inside of Store
Six policemen wearing bueproof vests hidden in
side the William F. HOht 1241 Kentucky pro
preor and his brothernaw, James D. Whitson 6l9 East
Morris street. also the when the bandits entered
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-08
DEMOCRATS TO MEET
State Legislators to Map Program
at Peters Luncheon.

The Democratic party's legisla-
tive program will be formulated
Thursday, Jan. 3, when the twelve
Democratic senators and twenty
m1ority party members of the
house of representatives will be
guests of r. Earl Peters, state chair
man, at luncheon at the Indiana
Democratic Club.
I'VE have a legislative program
and feel sure that our duty as a
minority party in the legislature is
just as great as though we were the
majority party" Peters said, an
nouncing the meeting. 1--WE shall
endeavor to be progressive and con-
structive and shall not attempt to
act on purely partisan motives"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-08
SERVICE BODY APPROVES
BIG POWER RATE CUTS
Commission Ruling Means 80 Per
Cent Slash in Northern Indiana
Power Cost.

Power rate reductions, which will
mean cut of as much as 80 per
cent to large consumers in Sou$i
Bend and Elkhart, we're approved
by the public service commission
Friday in an order governing rates
of the Indiana and Michigan Flee
trio Company.
Commissioner Calvin Mcintosh
stated that the company will also
set a schedule putting rural con-
sumers on the same rate basis as
those in the cities and which will
effect Indiana and Michigan farm
erS.
Petition of Leonard G. Mcdaniel,
Charlottesville, to operate a freight
line between Indianapolis and Will
Transport was denied.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-08

from the driveway of the Marmon
plant, in which the police emergency
squad was hidden.
Amos was at the wheel. AS the
police machine drove in front of
the car he attempted to back his
car.
He obeyed, however, when the po-
lice raised their guns and Sergeant
Hodges shouted, stop, stick 'em
up"
Whats the matter? I amt done
nothing" Amos said.
In the emergency car with Sergt.
Hodges were policemen John Moor
man, Charles Reardon and Glenn
Macy, detectives George Hubbard
and Emmett Englebright
Amos Believed Brains"
Amos, believed to be the brains"
of the bandit gang, was hurried to
police headquarters and Immediate
ly questioned by detectives.
In the Graham-P Paige coupe po-
lice found two license plates, T39-
551 and 659-509, which detectives
said we're the plates on the cars of
bandits in several recent filling sta
ton holdups.
The license on the car was 248-336
and corresponded with the certifi-
cate of title issued to Amos at the
North Illinois street addres, which
is the Habor hotel.
Hohlt identified Amos as the man
who had visited his store numer-
Gus times recently.
WOrley Had Tip
Chief Worley said he had been
informed that the gang planned a
series of holdups, two of which we're
to have been at the West Indian
apolis branc hof the Union Trust
company and a dry goods store on
Morris street, which cashes pay
checks.
Kittrell's body was searched at
the scene of the shooting by Coroner
Charles H. Keever and taken to
city morgue.
Price was taken to city hospital
at once.
He admitted to DR.. William A.
Doeppers, city hospital superintend-
ent, that he was convicted of
burglary here about ten years ago
and sent to Indiana State Prison.
:. -. Denies Part in Holdups =. :.
He said he had been back in In
dianapolis about a month, coming
here from Somerset, KY.
Questioned in regard to other
recent holdups here, he only groaned
and begged attending physicians for
another injection Of morphine. He
finally denied taking part in any
other holdups except petty larceny
stuff"
mo, we didn't do that" he an
Swered, when asked if he and his
pals were the bandits who killed
Paul Pulliam, Bair theater manager,
three weeks ago, as he was driving
down Ft. Wayne avenue near st.
Clair street.
by God, they'll never hook me
in another one of these" he told
DR.. Doeppers a few seconds before
his death.
mo, they won't, old man. This
is your last one," DR.. Doeppers told
him.
Scores of Shots Fired
Police fired thirty-six shots and
the bandits nine in the battle in
the store.
The inside of the store was rid
died with bullets. There were ten