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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-13

keep their bosses armor polished
but IIl betcha there va many q
knight who won or lost biz scraps
according to the tips he got from his
squire.
Sir Simmons squire's yclept Frank
A. HamRton-his secretary.
Bliere me, Frank Hampton's one
super-squire. Any time you walk
into Senator Simmons office to see
the senator-if you don't know 'em
apart alraady-ill guarantee you'll
make your bow to Hamp and turn
your back on Sir Simmons.
You won't he altogether wrong,
either.
Squire Hampton can tell you
what's on Sir simmons mind i'm
about onc-tanth the time you can
find Il out from Sir Simmons. How
th1y got started as Sir Simmons and
Squire Hampton, instead Of Sir
Hampton ana Squire Simmons. has
always puzzled me-but Of course
! don't know "a darned thing about
North Carolina chiyalry-I mean-ta-
say, politics.
The way ! get the yarn from
members NJ the North Carolina
chroniclers' union. the vital part OF
Hamp's ioh IVY ta keep sir Simmons
gang Of faithful retainers-orcan-
ilation-' as We say these times
right tight on Sir simmons heels
when NE rllnEes into a melee.
Obviously that's the correct STRAIT
cgy TN prevent Sir Simmons from
being q of. BY his lonesome. as de-
scrihcd in the first paragraph, and
chcWcd up separately.
lts doubtful. sd they tell me, III
HaMp has fuRCtiOned according 10
HoNle- in connection with the June
tournament AZ Houston.
Squire Hamp, TIE complaint IS,
committed Sir Simmons toe bloom
in' i%rreYUcahly IN a vow w emerae
from the Houston combat with Sir
Al Smiths coco a-stickin' On his
spear-point.
The question is
Can Sir Simmons get away with il
Will bis faithful retainers-that N
To say. his state OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
follow him?
Was Hamp "a little too previous ~
Hamp was an original William q.
McAdoo-ite-did IL misIead him IN
this instance?
It's agreed hy everybody
I'M Sir SimmuRs-who surely will
he the whole fields champion againAt
Sir Al at Houstoa-d0es carry off
Sir AIS bean on his spear-point,
what he'll subsequently be able w
do with that North Carolina retain
ership- otherwise organization" NJ
his viii he : plenty.
OtheFwise-th The average guess is
ne won't come back to the United
States senate two years hence.
Ramps nerve is all right.
The only query | hear raised. here
IN Washington, BY members IL the
North Carolina delegation, is
Is his judgment equal ts it?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-13
w Washington
Letter
WAS THIS SECRETARY A BIT
TOO PREVIOUS?
BY Charles y. Stewart


WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator
Furnifold McLendel Simmons or
North Carolina is somewhat in the
fix OF one Of those celebrated champs
of yore-the kind of warrior who
used 70 chop his way to irresistibly
into the very midst Of the foemen
that all at once he'd find himself
with nobody but feemen anywhere
round him-tuckered aut-and a
darn poor show of chopping himself
free again.
Occasionally our hero did IL, IN
spite Of everything.
More frequently the foemen final
~ croaked him. Even so, he invari-
ably made n glorious finish. Never
theless, that ended him.
IN those days every well-equipped
knight had his personal squire.
To read about 'em nov, you'd
thiHk that the knights we're the
whole ~cheese-that the squires we're
no consequence whatever, except to
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-13
ATTENDS FUNERAL

RAfMOADNILLE, June 1s.-Dr. r..
\. schlottmaH was called To Giddinas
wednesday. hi the death of his ia
Their there Dr. Schlattman made the
trip hy auto, and WAS accompanied by
his wife and children.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-13
A Daily Thouvhr

A Daily Thoughr
The great are only great because
We are on our knees. Let us riRe
up."-Prudhomme.
Answers 20 Foregoing Questions
~ Nyron T. Herrick; United states
ambassador 20 France; in the vel
coming of Charles Lindberrh upon
his arrival in France after a trans
atlantic flight.
2. Gustaf v.
y. AT Niagara Falls; n natural 49,
c~esslon below the American cataract.
4. Francis Bacon.
3. Proverbs, xviii, %.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-13

June IL, 1928
Who an ~ What position do I
hold? In the welcoming Of what IA
nous American did | officiate in Eu-
rope, In 1927?
Who is king of Sweden.
Where il the Cave Of the Winds 10
be found, and what Is IL?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-13
Teday's Horoscope

1adays Horoscope
Persons born under this sign have
strong psychic power, and intuitional
nature. They are musical, poetical
and Of a happy makeup. They are
sensitive and demonEtrative in their
affections, but are sometimes given
TO deep depressions.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-13
Today i'm the Past

Today i'm the Past
On this date. IN 1916, the first IL
vision Of the United States army de-
parted for France following the
United States declaration of war.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-13
The Grab Bag

1t is often assumed that Shake
speare did not write biz plays. Who
is sometimes credited with being the
real author or them?
Whose findeth q wife findeth q
good thing, and obtaineth favour OF
the Lord" Where does this passage
appear in the Bible?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
PLEAFILED ON
TROLLEY FARE
Extension of 2-Cent Trans.
fer Period Asked.

Extension OF the permit to charge
2 cents for street car transfers from
March !. when the present privilege
expires, was asked of the Public
Service Commission today by
Robert I. Todd, president. for the
indianapolis Street Railway Com
pany.
Todd declared that the same
financial emergency which neces-
STATED the increased revenue from
transfers when first granted Sept.
18, 1925, still exists
The petition sets out that even
after the increase from to 2 cents
for transfers in September, 1925. the
gross receipts for 1926 decreased
$17,575 under 1925. The petition
says receipts for 1927 dropped
$104,123 under 1926.
In 1925 there was surplus of
SALTS, as compared with deficits
of $203,514 in 1926 and $155,344 in
1927, the petition says.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

Mrs. Vande's suit, filed in Sep
tember, 1926, alleges the son, Rus
sell Edward Day, was buried on
the lot of Mrs. Calrinda Wolf, his
grandmother on his fathers side,
with the understanding that the
body could be removed when the
mother purchased her own lot.
It was the sons request, the suit
alleges, that he be buried beside
his mother.
Due to the death CT Mrs. Wolf,
the father of the boy fell heir to
the lot, and he is contesting the
right of the mother to move the
body. He is represented by Maur-
ice Menoenhall, while the mother
is represented by E. c. Snethen.
Contract Of the cemetery COM
pany with its lot purchasers also
enters the case, due to a provi-
sion that body cannot be disin-
tered without permission of the
company, of the nearest kin, and
the owner of the lot in which the
body was first buried.
Judge Leathers indicated the
right of the mother to claim the
body of her son, in view of his re-
quest to be buried on lot beside
her, probably will take precedence
over the refusal of the father to
relinquish the body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
JOHN D., JR.,
WILL TESTIFY
IN OIL PROBE
Accepts Subpoena for His
Appearance Saturday
Before Committee.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The
Senate Teapot Dome committee is
sued subpoena today for John D
Rockefeller, Jr, to testify at its
hearing Saturday.
Rockefeller accepted service by
telegram at New York and notified
the committee he would be present
Saturday.
Senator Walsh of Montana, con-
Quoting the investigation, thought
at first he would not call Rookie
feller in view of the fact that his
testimony had been received by
correspondence.
Rockefeller had written Walsh
that he had urged appearance of
Robert w. Stewart, chairman OF
the Standard Oil Of Indiana be-
fore the committee, and that Stew
art had told him several years ago
the Standard had no unworthy
part in the mysterious 1921 deal OF
oil men.
Rockefeller wrote he had coun-
selled Stewart to tell all he knew
of the deal.
Committee members, however, sug-
geSted that Rockefeller should sub
NIT his testimony under oath as
every other witness has done, so the
subpoena was issued.
Stewart was arrested under SEN
ate warrant when he declined tc
answer all questions of the Teapot
Dome committee. Decision or
habeas corpus proceedings subse-
quently brought by Stewart is nov
pending.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-John D
Rockefeller Jr. will accept the
subpoena of the Senate Teapo
Dome committee alohtugh he ha.
no information which he has no
already submitted he said in a state.
ment issued here today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
RESCUED IN BLAZE
Woman, IS, Taken Uncon'
SciouS Out of Home.

Mrs. Mary Dame, rs, of 858 Par
ker Ave, unconscious from smoke,
was rescued by neighbors when the
Story-and-a-haf frame bungalow in
which she lived alone caught fire
this morning.
Mrs. F. r. Fortune, 1871 N. Jeffer-
son ST., had started a fire in the
stove for the aged woman at 7:30.
She returned at $3.50 to find tho
house filled with smoke and found
Mrs. Dame unconscious on the floor.
She called Rome Houser, 854
Parker Ave, who carried the aged
women from the house. F1remen
revived her and she was taken to
city hospital, in serious condition
from effects Of the fumes.
The flames, believed started by
the stove, did only slight damage to
the house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
WATSON PUT IN
PRESIDENT RING
Indiana congressman Give
Endorsement to Him.

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Senator
James Watsons candidacy for Pres
ident was launched here today. al
though without a statement from
him.
Nine of the ten Republican Con-
gressmen from Indiana met and
unanimously adopted a statement
heartily endorsing" Watson for the
Republican nomination for Presi-
dent.
The sole absentee was Represen-
tative Andrew j. Hickey of the
Thirteenth District, who is in In
diana. 1t is understood that he is
for Watson, however, Representative
johnson of Terre Haute; Represen-
tative Updike, Indianapolis, and
Representative Rowbottom, Evans
vile, concuTed in the action.
The statement follows some
weeks of planning by Watson and
his advisers, including Burt Thur
man, collector Of international rev.
enue, who was here for some days
comforting with Watson. 1t is un-
derstood an active campaign, to OBJ
tain Watson for President" petit
tions, will begin soon.
1t is also understood Watson han
an agreement with former Cover
nor Lowden of Illinois that the lat
ter will stay out of Indiana, and a
tentative understanding with sup
porters of Herbert Hoover that the
latter will not contest the Indiana
primary with Watson.
The resolutions adopted today
"call public attention" to the bril-
liant and useful public services oi
Mr.. Watson during a period OF
thirtv.th-ee vearSn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
HOPE OF filling JACKSON
JURY BOX TODAY FADES AS
SEVERAL ARE THROWN OUT
New Line Of Questioning Thins Out Ranks
of Talesmen at Rapid Rate in
Governors Trial
STATUTE IS RELIANCE OF DEFENSE
Offense Charged Against Executive Has
Been Outlawed, Contention of His
Staff of Attorneys.
Staff of Attorneys.

Possibility Of obtaining jury today for the trial of Gov
Ed Jackson in Criminal Court recded when defense at
torneys opened a line of questioning.
The questions resulted in which made it
that regarded almost definitely picked for the
jury would off, either for through per-
emptory challenges
time Wednesday afternoon it appeared that
nine men might definitely have been approved both defense
and struck off rapidly this morning that by noon
only who passed by both State and defense
and each of these subject peremptoy challenge by either
r;Jo tina
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
HICKMAN CASE
TO REACH Jury
BEFORE NIGHT.
Final Arguments Started to
Decide GaIIoWS or
Asylum Fate.

~ United Press
COURTROOM, LOS ANGELES,
Feb. 9.-Richard Cantillon, youth
full Los Angeles attorney, made a
final plea for the life of william
Edward Hickman in Superior Court
here todaq.
Cantillon urged the jury hearing
Hickman's trial for the murder of
Marion Parker to return a verdict
holding him insane at the time he
killed the little girl and dismem-
bered her body.
Asa KeyeS, veteran district attor-
ney CT Los Angeles. was to follow
Cantillon with a demand that the
jury vote a verdict of sanity and
prepare the way for Hickman to be
sentenced to the galloWs.
After KeyeS finishes his closing
argument, Judge ]. J. Trabucct will
follow with his instructions to the
jury and the case will be placed in
the hands of the eight men and
four women late today
Jury Then TO Act
The jury then will be called on to
decide whether Hickman was sane
or insane when he kidnapped Mar
ion, dismembered her body. and
threw the remnants to her father,
who had paid him $500 ransom.
If the jury finds him sane, Hick-
man will be brought before Judge
j. j. Trabucco within five days for
sentence to the gallows or to life
Imprisonment.
If the jury decides Hickman did
not know the difference between
right and wrong when he committed
the crime, Judge Trabucco must Or
der him confined i'll an asylum.
Alienists Confuse
It was predicted the jury might
disagree, in view of the detailed
technical testimony of alieniSts, who
in the last few days of the trial have
done much to create confusion in
the minds of those connected with
the trial.
Assistant District Attorney Forrest
Murray opened the prosecutions
arguments yesterday. He centered
his talk around the fact that Charles
Edwards, former police chief, of
Kansas City. was one of close
friends of the Hickman family, yet
had refused to brand Hickman in
sane.
Murray contended that Edwards
probably knew Hickman as well as
anyone and that Edwards refusal
to term the slayer insane was con-
elusive proof of FIickman's sanity.
Murray was followed by Jerome
Walsh, chief defense counsel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

But when Lindbergh climbed
out of the cockpit at Havana yes
terday, completing his 8,235-nile
tour, he had flown a total of more
than forty thousand miles in the
Spirit of st. Louis without the
slightest accident.
Figures obtained by the United
Press today from statistics of the
air information division of the
Department of Commerce reveal
that Lindbergh stood only a
6-to-1 chance Of finishing the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
MATRON STILL LIVES
MaIIet WieIder May Face
Murder Charge.

Mrs. Helen Kirk, matron of the
State Boys School, remained un-
conscious and in critical condition
at Methodist Hospital today, where
she was taken Tuesday night.
She was beaten on the head with
a mallet by Anson Hafer, 16, pris-
oner, who escaped.
Hafer, captured at Brazil, Ind,
after forcing a taxi driver to take
him from Plainfield at the point
OF a gun, is in solitary confinement
in the Hendricks County Jail at
Danville on a temporary charge of
assault and battery with intent to
kill. If Mrs. Kirk dies he will be
reslated on a first degree murder
charge, authorities said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

BV United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-ChanceS
~ were roughly to 6 that Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh would crash
before he completed his goodwill
tour of Latin America.
For days and weeks, while the
2e-year-old flier hoped from
capital to capital in the Central
American republics, flying over
unfamiliar and sometimes unex-
plored territory. millions of per-
sons back home watched his
steady progress with anxiety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
TRAVEL BY AIR mail
Launch Passenger Service
on City Route.

Passenger service has been
opened on the Cincinnati to Chicago
by way Of indianapolis air mail
route, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson
announced today.
Two passengers have been carried
on the route. Rates announced are:
Chicago to Cincinnati, $35; Chicago
to indianapolis, $22; Indianapolis
to Cincinnati, SIT
Thursday the pilot carried a pack
age sent by the Marmon Motor
Company to Los Angeles. the post
age on which was $l70, Bryson said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
Ike VIII Pick Winner

He who laughs last laughs best" you and
chance to get that last laugh-maybe
Blackboard" by Norman Isaacs assistant
sports editor of The Times will his selection
high school basketball championship Friday.
correspondent always can
get the "last crack" in a verbal tilt.
But here chance for readers of Blackboard"
last the laugh.
Isaacs will his choice for
and white in Fridays Times. will be alibis
If he losesyou get the laugh i PROVES
he's good
miss selection Friday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

tour without wrecking his famous
plane and possibly injuring or
killing himself.
GURVEYS conducted by the
~ commerce department in the
last year show that there is one
fatality in the ranks of licensed
pilots for each 1,026,363 miles of
flying. But only one crash in four
is fatal to the pilot.
Out of l65 crashes in one period
covered by the Government sur
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

If something had gone wrong
with his plane, in two cases out of
three it would have been trouble
with the motor. Weaknesses in
planes structure, which result in
the crumpling of a wing or the
swapping of a control wire or
brace, are only half as frequent as
stalled engines.
Those computations, hold not
only for Lindbergh, but for any
experienced, licensed pilot who has
flown a plane more than 10000
miles without a mishap.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
HnnrIv Tennneratnres .

veys, forty-two pilots we're killed,
thirteen were injured seriously,
thirty eight suffered minor injur-
les. and sixty-two escaped injury
entirely.
The causes of the 165 accidents
we're, in twenty-three cases, weak
nesses in the planes structure; in
forty-one cases it was motor trou-
BILE, and in the remaining one the
blame was distributed among the
pilots, unsafe landing fields and
unknown factors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

The figures revealed further
that II by chance the fiier had
crashed, the odds would have been
l to 4 that he never would have
escaped alive.
=
LIE would have stood less than
H a 1-to-3 chance of escaping
with injuries from which he could
recover.
But on the other hand, Lind
bergh would have had more than
a l-to-3 chance of emerging from
the crash unScathed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

to swell the total
Of 2,500,000 bar
rels t ha t t h i S
country is taking
from it's soil every
t W e n t y-f GU r
hours.
But in q few
years this derrick,
and many thou
sands like it. will
be S t a n d i ng in
barren fields. The
oil wealth of the
n alton will be
n G arly S p e n t.
F oreig II COM
panies that now
buy our oil will be
selling theirs back
to us-at prices
that will make
the S m all car
owner gasp. Gas
may be selling as
high as 95 cents
a gallon.
Rodney Dutch
er's arti cles on
the oil crisis will
start Friday in
The Times. They
tell the true story
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

Jackson is being tried on an
Indictment charging he con-
spired to bribe former Gov
ernor Warren 7. McCray with
$4,000 and promise of i'm
munity from conviction for his
financial troubles in 1923 if he
would appoint James E. Nc
Donald prosecutor of Marion
County. Special Judge Charles
NJ. McCabc is presiding. The
trial began Wednesday.
Governor Impassive
The Governor was inpassive
through the morning session, in con-
trast with lively interest. colored
with smiling appreciation OF sallieS
of lawyers and talesmen shown
Wednesday.
Jackson sat motionless most OF the
time today. solemnly and intently
watching the talesmen. He rarely
Joined the whispered conferences OF
his attorneys. He did not heartily
greet the men at the press table, as
he did Wednesday.
JackSon's attorneys indicated In
the new line of questioning that his
chief weapon of defense will be the
contention that the statute of limi-
tations on the alleged offense had
expired before the indictment was
returned last September.
The attorneys indicated that they
also would attempt to prove that
there was no positive act of conceal
ment of the alleged bribe offer,
which would have operated to ex-
tend the time of the alleged con-
spiracy so that it would have come
within the statute of limitations,
First addressing Talesman Ivan
Fowler. Defense Attorney Silas C..
Kivett outlined that the alleged
bribe offer was made. according to
the indictment, on or about Dec.
IS, 1923, whereas the indictment
was not returned until Sept. 80, 1927.
Quizzed on COnceaIment
will you accept as a matter of
law that it will be necessary for the
State to prove that there were
specific, positive acts Of concealment
by which Governor McCray kept the
alleged offer 'secret?" asked Kivett.
The statute of limitations provides
that If an indictment is not re-
turned within two years after the
date of the alleged crime the de-
fendant is exempt from prosecution.
The State attempted to get around
this in drawing the indictment by
charging that part of the alleged
conspiracy was the concealment OF
the bribe offer by McCray, through
fear of the power of the defendants,
until The Indianapolis Times dis
closed the alleged offer last July.
The talesman replied to Kivetts
question that he would accept that
theory.
Draws Out Jurors
Kivett then went around the jury,
attempting to draw from each the
opinion that proof of concealment is
an essential element of the crime
in this case.
BY agreement with the State and
court, peremptory challenges may be
used at any time, even up to the
time when both sides temporarily
have accepted all men in the box.
THE big thing to do is to get a
fair jury" said Judge McCabe.
The six men who had been passed
by both sides and who can be chal-
lenged now only peremptorily were:
H. o. Hoffman, farmer, Bridge
port; Elmer Geiger. farmer, Green
wood; Orville E. Baker, iron worker,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
FIGHT OVER BURIAL
Parents Wage 2-YeaY Legal War

TWO-YEAROLD legal battle a
old between his parents
ried drawing a close Superior
The mother brought
with removal of the years ago to
lot o her
The mother is Mrs Carrie brought
the husband
Final disposition the
Judge James M. Leathers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
POLITICAL BOSS DEAD
J. S. (Frank) Kelly Passes Suddenly
at Baltimore Home.

BALTIMORE, Feb. 9.-John S.
(Frank) Kelly died suddenly today
in his West Saratoga street home
The political leaders death came
twenty-nine days after the evening,
when sitting in the dining room of
the Rennert Hotel, surrounded by
400-odd Democrats, he heard him
self proclaimed "the leader of the
Democratic party of Baltimore" &"
John J. Mahon, his senior in years
and leadership. was i'll in room
above him at the time and is still
i'll
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
"Lot Of BoIognaD Stolen

EN HttCd Press
NEW YORK. Feb. o.--It was a lot
of bologna that had been stolen
mySteriously from the window of
Mrs. Annie Hewer's delicateSsen. Po-
licemen watched closely and arrested
two men using a hook and line to
pull it over the transom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
VOICE ONION MEN PLEA
Higher Protective Tariff for Prod
ucts Are Demanded.

ucts Are Demanded.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Ameri-
cas- big onion and garlic men are
on the warpath.
They came to Washington today
to demand a higher protective tariff
for the products they grow.
They were to appear before the
tariff commission and plead that
unless duties are raised an old
popular song will be changed to
Eyes, We Have No Onions"