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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
Scientist Says ESkimoS
Catch Winged AukS
in Fish Nets.
By Science Service


OTTAWA, Canada, Oct. 3d.
Birds so stupid that they are
caught in fish nets, white whales
that are a menace to the salmon
industry and field mice that pene-
trate into the Arctic are among
the strange creatures of the North
described by DR.. r. M. Anderson,
Canadian Federal Government zoo
logist, on his return to Ottawa from
a six weeks voyage on the steamer
Beothic into the region near the
North Pole.
In it's trip the Beothic was with
In twenty miles of Bache, a lonely
outpost on EleSmere Island which
is within a few hundred miles OF
the pole. 1t is a mounted police
post and Canada's most northerly
postoffice, from which mail is
brought only once year.
Over 100000 little auks were OBJ
served on Hakluyt Island, DR.. An
derson states. The little aux is
described as a small web-footed
bird which stands upright and re-
Sembles a penguin. They present a
curious sight as they stand side by
side in straight lines in an almost
martial formation.
So stupid is the aux that it is
unable to distinguish the figure of
q quietly standing Eskimo from a
pile of stones. AS a result 1t Is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
GLADI (OH)LUS is RIGHT

By Science SerUice
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Never say
"die," say "OhI"
That's one good way to remem-
Der the official and authentic pro-
nunciation of gladiolus, a flower
which almost everybody likes, but
which hardly anybody calls by name
with any confidence of being right.
But, according to William Edwin
Clark, president of the New England
Gladiolus Society, the correct way,
agreed to by the leading group of
gladioluS fanciers in this country,
is to place the accent on Co." giving
the letter the long pronunciation.
The name is Latin for little sword"
in reference to the shape of its erect
sharp pointed leaves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
MERCHANTS FOR
COURTHOUSE IN
OFFICE BUILDING
Association Will Work for
Ambitious Plan to
Help County.

Construction of a new Marion
county courthouse in the form of
an Office building is the civic plan
for indianapolis of the East Wash
ington Street Merchants ASsocia-
ton.
"At the time of our annual har-
vest festival, which starts Satur-
day, this association dedicateS it
self to work for new courthouse"
E. M Ragland, president of the
association, said today.
"The present building is not
beautiful, is inadequate, and has en-
tailed great expense.
1.-THE association believes that
three-fourths of the courthouse
square should be sold and the funds
derived from this sale to be used
to erect an eleven-Story office build
ing and retire the $4,000 bonded
Indebtedness on the present struc-
ture.
Would Bring Revenue
1.-THE property sold would place
about five million dollars upon the
county tax duplicates and would
form a source of revenue instead
of loss" Raglan said.
In the forty-eight years elapsed
since construction of the courthouse
the county has paid two and one
half times the value of the building
in interest on the $950,000 bond is
sue which betrayed cost of con-
StructiOn.
No provisions were made by
county commissioners to mature
the bonds and the interest was paid
and none retired until 1915. Since
that time all but $4,000 of the
bonds have been retired.
Two years ago the county COM
misSioners were compelled to issue
$4,000 of lower interest bonds, so
that the same amount of high in
terest bonds on the courthouse
could be retired.
Called Drag on Community
1.-THE building is not beautiful
and is a drag upon the community"
Ragland said.
"a new structure would prove of
great value to the city and would
tend to improve appearance of the
street.
"The present courthouse had not
sufficient room to lodge all public
offices and courts, which could be
obtained in a strictly office build
ing.
I'm line with the associations
program of greater and better In
dianapoliS, as well as greater East
Washington street, we would favor
any logical plan which would tend
to aid the county in its present diff
ficultieS," he declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
TREES PAINTED WHITE
TO GUIDE MOTORISTS
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
Paris, Oct. 26.-Trees that turn
white overnight are the latest Won
der for villagers along the Route
National in France, the long, arrow
straight arteries that dissect the
countryside. It's no phenomenon of
nature, however, but simply the
latest move to bring down the num-
Der of auto accidents due to dark
ened roads.
The trees, mainly at corners and
cross roads, are being painted
white up to a height of about six
feet. Hundreds of thousands Of
trees will probably be eventually
treated IN this way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
Hoover FROSe Blooms
Crimson: If White-AI

CHOSEN, according to the owner, the
roses are a deep crimson, and when
a Democrat is to be elected, they
are a stainless white, it is said.
Not once in the forty years it has
been blooming has it failed, Wood
bine claims.
But maybe here's the catch:
In recent years no one outside
Woodbine's Immediately family has
know its coloring. He explains this
by saying that many who have been
told the secret have gambled on
elections.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
WOMAN JUDGE
HITS WEDDING
BY SHOTGUN
Not Fair to Force Couple to
Marry, Asserts Head of
Juvenile Court.
BU United Press

BN OntIc0 BTfSS
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. &c. -
Forced weddings to protect moral
situation are a greater OffenSe
against society than the error used
as an excuse for those unfortunate
marriages" Judge Camille Kelley,
noted woman juvenile judge, be-
heves.
1T is not fair to any one con-
cerned to force a wedding to pro-
tect moral situation, unless there
is a great love that serves to sane
tify the marriage" Judge Kelley
said in an interview here
Marriage is more than a con-
tract. 1t is a sacrament, and where
there is not real love and respect,
there is not complete marriage"
the first woman juvenile judge in
Dixie said.
Marriage by Agreement
when a man has criminally as
Saulted a girl, it is a Sacrilege to
give that girl to him in marriage.
The only marriage would approve
to protect an emotional or moral
mistake would be a marriage by
agreement to protect an unborn
child and give it name, the
parties to be separated Immediate
ly after the marriage and not to
live together. And even this is a
bad remedy for worse condition.
Advanced social works and refuge
homes can take much better care
of the situation than to sacrifice
girls to men they do not love. The
man should be prosecuted where he
is the aggreSsor or there is a dis
parity in ages.
Not Always Harmonious
'I have handled a number Of
cases where young and einexperi-
enced boys have made unfortunate
mistakes in which financial care of
expenditures has been taken and
matters have been worked out to
protect all parties concerned.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
MRS. COOLDCsE'S
MOTHER GROWS
WORSE, REPORT


NORTHAMPTON, Mass, March 29
H9-WIth untayorable reports from
Dickinson hospital regarding the con-
dition of her aged mother, Mrs
Lenira Goodhue, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge
made only one visit to the institution
today. Previously the presidents wife
han made morning and afternoon
visits, but today, fearing to tax the
strength of the patient, she waited
until shortly after o'clock in the
afternoon before making her CALL
Earlier in the day. Dr. Justin E.,
Hayes, Mrs. Goodhue's personal
physician, issued bulletin saying
that his patient did not spend as
comfortable a night as the !.
before and was greatly fatigued
John Coolidge was seen driving
about the streets today in an auto
mobile bearing Connecticut reg1stra-
ton plates He was accompanied by
a young woman He has not yet
visited his grandmother because OF
her weakened condition
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
ST. FRANCIS DAM
NOT DYNAMITED
CORONER FINDS
Technical Evidence of Fault
mess of Foundation Is
Received

LOS ANGELES, March 30 R-
Theories that a dynamite blast
wrecked The st. Francis dam today
virtually were thrown out of the
picture being painted before cor
onerS jury in its inquest held over
the $50 odd lives taken by the
flood disaster On the other hand
two geologists added technical evi-
dence they had found OF the faulti-
ness of the dams foundations in San
Francisquito canyon.
The inability OF finding any evi-
dence which any intelligent mind
could consider as significant OF
dynamiting was reported to the jury
by Harry Wright, deputy sheriff in
charge of the criminal intelligence
division. He described a piece OF
paper, bearing a crude chart and
writing. as having been turned over
to his office as evidence Of dyna-
mite plot. The chart was a crude
map that might be called a dam, "
Continued OIL Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
LINDY
PLANS TOKYO HOP
IS DISBELIEVED
COlOneI's Backer Says Lone
Eagle Had Expressed
No Such Intention

ST. LOUIS, March 90 lP,-R Reports
that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh,
who landed here today on flight
from Lexington, KY, would fly to
Tokyo, were given no credence by his
friends here tonight. Lindbergh, who
has repeatedly expressed his deter
mination to get out of the public
eye, refused all interviews and could
not be reached.
Major William B. Robertson, preSi-
dent of the Curtiss- Robertson Aircraft
corporation, and one of Lindbergh's s
hackers, said tonight that the flying
colonel had expressed no intention
of flying to Tokyo and had not Cs-en
said he contemplated the Pacific hop.
Lindkergh arrived at Lambert-S st.
Louis field and Immediately got into
an automobile bound for ST. Louis.
Major Thomas c. Lanphier, of Self
ridge field, Mich, and Captain Emory
Land, assistant chief of the navy
bureau Of aeronautics and Lindbergh's
uncle. were passengers on the flight
from Lexington
The purpose of their visit was not
announced but it is believed they
viii not accompany the flier to San
Diego, Cal, where newly built
monoplane awaits his inspection
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
IS DELEGATES
PLEDGE VOTES
TO SECR[ TARI
Although Uninstructed, En-
tire Delegation Declare
For Hoover
WIRE SUPPORT
President of Hoover For
President Club" Named
Vice Chairman


BANGOR, Maine, March % R,-
UninStructed, but later pledging in a
telegram to Herbert Hoover their
loyal and answering support in his
candidacy for the republican nofnina-
ton for president of the United States,
is delegates to the national conven-
ton in June were chosen by the re-
puhIicans of Maine today. Delega-
tions from this state have been ua-
instructed for many years.
The biennial state convention also
named Is alternates and elected six
presidential electors, whose names will
appear on the ballots at the presi-
dental election in November, and
adopted a platform of principles on
which candidates to be nominated at
the state primaries in June will go
into the campaign preceding the state
election in September.
Immediately after adjournment of
the convention this afternoon, the
national convention delegates organ
lied, choosing Colonel Fred N. Dow
as chairman, and former Governor
Percival p Baxter, head of the Maine
Hoover for President club, as vice
chairman. Both are Portland resi-
dents.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
WORLDS ENDURANCE AIR RECORD
MAY BE BROKEN AT | P. M TODAY

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla,
March 20 CPl CIeaving the air
steadily over a SO-mile course,
Eddie Stinson and Captain George
HaIdeman drove their StinsOn-
DetrGiter mOnopIane droning into
its second dusk in their effort to
set a new record for sustained
flying.
With more than, half the grind
of their 55-hOur minimum goal
behind them, the aviatOrS were
confident of success, provided the
weather continued favorable, and
Signified their intention late today
to stay aIoft until the last drop of
fuel is exhausted, even if they
should hang up a new mark before
that time.
To break the present record of
So hours and % minutes. StinSOn
and Haldeman must continue fly
ing until l p. IN. tomorrow, a mar
gin of at least one hour over the
existing standard being necessary
for official recognition.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
Under Secretary Of
Treasury Analyses
Possible Tax Cut

CHICAGO, March 90 tH1-E Estimating
surplus of approximately $215,00O,-
900 for the fiscal year 1929, Under
Secretary Mills, of the treasury, adj
vocated today before the Chicago and
Cook county bankers association a
Substantial" tax reduction but de-
clared the original recommendation OF
the treasury for a $225, 900, 900 cut
should be shaded.
While declaring the treasury esti-
mates of receipts were "extraordi-
nerily accurate" the undersecretary
said modification of the figures was
made necessary because the treasury
had made no allowance for increased
appropriations due to new legislation
From a treasury standpoint, he said
it is g wise course to proceed for
tax purposes on the assumption that
the prosperity of 1923 will about
equal that Of 1926 and 1927.
The new surplus estimate is $37,-
100000 under the $212,000, 900 estimate
submitted by the treasury to the ways
and means committee at the opening
OF congress and does not even now
allow for probable additional expendi-
lures from flood end farm relief
measures
Assuming that current tax revenue
in the next fiscal year equals that
of this year and that there are no
further large appropriations to bring
the total of expenditures above the
1928 level, where does it leave us2,"
asked Mr. Mills.
'It is possible even without detailed
figures to make rough estimate he
continued. TN this years surplus
of $400000,000 there are approximately
$150000.000 more receipts from the
realization of capital assets than will
be available next year In addition
collections from back taxes may well
fall off about sixty million dollars.
"Deducting these items from this
years estimated surplus and assuming
that expenditures may be $25 900 900
lower, gives lis surplus of approx
mately 215,000,000 in 1929. This esti-
mate may be modified by our final
analysis, but in my judgment it is
substantially accurate, always remem-
bering that in estimating receipts ag-
ereeatipg almost $4OOO0oO,00o to be
collected over period of year, a
one per cent margin OF error would
not seem to be excessive.
"It should be noted. however, that
these figures while they include all
additional expenditures resulting from
legislation enacted prior to this date.
do not take into consideration bills
that may become law between now
and adjournment. such as flood and
farm relief measures.
"All of which means" he added,
that the treasury department is in
position to recommend to the senate
finance committee, subject to some
notifications, the tax reduction and
revision program presented last fall
to the house of representatives:
"a reduction of corporation in
come tax some additional measure
of relief to the smaller corporations,
a modified revision of the income
tax rates applicable to the middle
brackets and the repeal of the fed
eral estate tax"
The house bill providing for a tax
reduction of $289 100000. an increase
of $64,000,00O over the treasury's
original recommendation, is now pend
ing before the senate finance COM
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
TWO KILLED In
STORM SWEEPING
OVER ALABAMA
Many Towns and Villages
Reported Isolated; Com
municatiOns Broken

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March % R)
Two persons are known to have
been killed and four others injured
IN a series OF high winds that swept
northern Alabama tonight.
Many towns and villages throughout
the northeast and northwestern sec
tiorlS of the state were reported hit
and isolated. All telephone and tele-
graph wires between Birmingham
and Fayette, Talladega, Argo. CLAY
City and springville were reported
down.
The dead:
r. E. Nelson, So, farmer, Clay City.
Mrs. G. E. Mann, 40, Clay City.
The injured:
G. E. Mann, Clay City.
Miss Eva Mann, Clay City.
Mrs. M T. Payne, Admission.
M. T. Payne, Jr, Admission.
Unconfirmed reports from Argo said
q number OF persons had been in
jured there. Attempts were being
made to learn the tate of so convicts
in a road construction camp reported
destroyed near Trussyille, few miles
northeast of Birmingham.
The territory around Muscle Shoals
also was isolated.
MT. VERNON, Ills, March 20 tP)--
A heavy windstorm struck thin section
today, blowing down barns and other
buildings and uprooting trees
The Winfield rural school was
blown down. Cole Shelton, teacher
saw the storm approaching and
marched his IL pupils out just before
the building collapsed Three of the
children were blown several yards
but were not injured.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
Maine G. 0. P! Announces for Herbert Hoouer
Prince OF Wales Takes
Another Fall But Wins
Cross Country GalIOp

y FRESNAHANd, SURREY; Eng,
+ March 90 tF) The Prince of
* Wales, maintaining his high aver
X ages of triumphs and miShaps,
* emerged from the highland brig
* ade country race here today
4 plastered with mud and crowned
* with glory.
+ The princely sportsman got his
y damp smear of earth three jumps
X from home when his brown mare,
X Miss Muffett II. missed her foot
* ing and fell. Wales tumbled
= wholeheartedly onto the rain
* soaked ground, but scrambled UP
= and was quickly in the saddle
4 again
* So far had he distanced the
x field that. despite the accident,
* he galloped in nearly quarter
* of a mile ahead of his closest
* pursuers. VastE pleased over his
* decisive victory the prince
4 grinned through his mud like
* happy schoolboy when he return
X ed to the paddock to be scraped
X off
X X Y x x * * * X 4 X x *
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30


Today, they messaged watchers
below that their gasoline and oil
supply was sufficient to last that
long or longer.
Everything running ok but the
air today is very light and rough,
causing us tn use more gasoline
than we should" said their note
dropped in an empty fuel tin on
the beach here where they took off
yesterday morning at 1887 a. m.
According to the official timer,
how long must we remain In air to
break record? Exact time? OF
course we intend to remain up
here until all gas is gone. RevOlu-
tions, motor speed per minute:
1,500. How is the weather tonight?
That's about all we want to know
unless you can tell us how to
stretch gasoline. According tu our
guageS we have sufficient gaSO-
line and oil to break the record
Have had plenty of sleep and
pleEty to eat. All we are hoping
for is good weather."
(Signedl Stinson and Haldeman.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
Attorney General Asked to
Authorize Federal
Intervention
VOTERS TENSE
Prominent Citizens Request
u. S. Aid for Honest
Election

CHICAGO, March 20 CR-Special
deputy United States inarshaIs were
requested today to aid the Chicago
police and other authorities in as
surfing an honest and orderly election
in Chicago at the April 10 primaries.
Declaring he had found indications
OF conspiracy to prevent an honest
election Of federal officials and that
there is danger that the electorate
will be unable to express their flee
suffrage at the primaries Palmer
Anderson, United States marshal. to-
day sent message to Attorney CEN
eral Sargent asking for authority to
swear in special deputies on primary
day.
MI. Anderson did not request any
specific number Of deputies, but was
reported to have declared the situa-
ton promised to be serious. Marshal
Anderson said he had been requested
by prominent citizens to take the
action.
Chicago voters therefore had pros
poets tonight of going to the polls in
two weeks under the armed guard of
5000 policemen, several hundred coun-
ty officers and as many federal off
GERS as were deemed necessary.
While the preparations to prevent
possible disorder or dishonesty were
being made, the candidates Of both
parties continued their speechmaking
in the Chicago area.
The local situation was complicated
by the bombing two days ago Of the
homes of United States Senator De-
neen. and John A. Swanson, opposing
Robert E. Grove, incumbent, for the
republican nomination for states at
torney.
Charges of the Deneen organization
that the bombs were the result of
political enmitieS were countered again
today by charges of Grove that the
bombs were set by Deneen men to
excite sympathy for their cause,
Prohibition also became an active
issue in the campaign with the in
dictment of Titus Haffa, city alder
man, and ten others on charges OF
conspiracy to violate the dry laws in
with an alleged $5.000,0O0
liquor ring Haffa, a Mayor Thomp-
son supporter, charged that the in
dictments were the result Of politics.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
U. S. WILL TEST
TITLE TO BED
OF COLO. RIVER

WASHINGTON, March % t49-The
United States asked the supreme
court today for permission to file a
suit against Utah to determine
whether the federal government or
the state owns the beds of the Green,
Colorado and San Juan rivers.
Indications of oil deposits have been
found in certain parts OF the rivers
which lend Importance to the con-
troversy.
The federal government takes the
view that tie question OF title de-
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
WOMAN, BIG. GAME HUNTER ADDS
HUSBAND TO BAG IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, March 20 Up -
Mrs. Esther Wilson, big game
hunter and sportswoman, today
shot and seriously wounded her
husband, DaIlett Wilson, an at
tOrney, in the Fifth avenue offices
Gf corporation with which he
was associated.
Mrs. Wilson told police she had
come from Washington, where
she had lived for some time, to
seek a reconciliation with her hus-
band. She said she insisted, how
ever, that he stop running around
with other women"
Wilson, SON of John S. Wilson,
a vice president of the PennsyI-
vania railroad, was taken to
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30

hospital where it was said one
bullet had lodged in his back and
another in his upper left arm.
Mrs. Wilson told police her hus-
band had used up all my money;
he has taken all / had" She was
charged with feIonious assault.
Mrs. Wilson returned to New
York about two years ago after
hunting trips which took her to
within ten and half degrees of
the north pole and then into the
interior of South Africa where,
hunting alone except for native
guides and helpers, she shot four
lions.
Wilson is a former owner of the
Bethlehem, Pa, Times.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
DELAY ATLANTIC HOP

Baldonnel, irish Free State, March
2o (P-Unfavcrable weather tonight
caused further poStponement of the
contemplated east to west Atlantic
crossing OF the German plane Bremen
This decision was announced at mid
night
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
SON HELD AS PATRICTDE

SPOKANE. WASH March 20 OR--
Walter Dewey, 81, whose father bled
to death in an automobile as the
yiung man drive home after an
accident, was formally charged with
manslaughter late today Eugene
Dewey SO, the father had his throat
cut by flying glass when the sou
hit truck. Officers believe both
men had been drinking.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-30
INDIAN LEASES SOLn

PAWHUSKA, Okla, March 90 CR-
Proceeds from the auction sale OF
Usage Indian oil leases which closed
today totaled $2,437, 300
Total sales for today were S1,184, 200
with two leases representing $3.50 900
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-07

Henry R. Rathbone or Richard Yates.
 Of next importance to the bal. loting on national issues is the candidacy of Governor Len Small for a third term. Small and Thompson aligned forces. thus ce. menting the strict cleavage in Illinois Republican ranks. with one faction under the co-leadcr. ship of Small and Thompson and the other captured by United States Senator Charles $. Deneen
 Louis l.. Emerson, Illinois sec retary of state, opposes Small for the gubernatorial nomination and the campaign has been bitterly fought.
 With colorful personalities add. ing interest to the election. m ad- ditional picturesque touch has been afforded in Chicago and ex- tended to the state day of prayer on which men and women gather in the churches to ask di- vine guidance to help voters SC. feet upright officials at the polls.