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Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-06
Jury Trials For
Three Accused

Three Jury trials arc scheduled to
he held IN city court tomorrow, two
defendants facing charges of un-
lawful possession of Intoxicating
LIQUOR while the third faces charge
of petty larceny.
John Cckota is charged with a
liquor violation as IS +. II. Cross.
Both were arrested following raids
by city police and county officials.
Albert Wheeler is charged with
the petty larceny crime. According
70 the defendant he took some caps
belonging to a salesman, lust for
= Joke, but the police contcnded
that the Joke is on him.
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National league
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How The League
Leaders Stand
By United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, Sept 6.-Thc New
York Yankees and the Washington
Senators divided "A double-hcader
Wednesday while the Philadelphia
Athletics were idle The margin be
tween the Yankees and the Ath-
letics remaining at two games.
The New York Giants advanced
to within four games of the st.
Louis Cardinals by defeating the
Philadelphia Philhcs,
The contenders:
American league:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
PROBE STARTED
IN BANK CRASH
Secrecy Wells Actions Of
Kokomo Grand Jury.
BY CHARLES c. CARLL
By Times Stan Corresp ,ndent

KOKOMO. Ind, Feb. 27.-Koko-
mo expected to entertain" D. G.
Stephenson, life termer from In
diana State prison, late today or
Tuseday.
The grand jury was impanelled
and although the deepest secrecy
was thrown around it's plans it was
reported that the big business would
be granting to Stephenson of an
opportunity to make good state
ment he broadcast that he might be
able to tell something about the
crash Of the American Trust Com
pany last fall.
A dozen persons have been in
dicted for phases of the bank crash
including State Bank Commissioner
Luther Symons, his assistant,
Thomas D. Barr, and former State
Treasurer Ora Davies.
Kokomo's courthouse has been
torn down to make way for a new
structure so the grand jury met at
city hall.
Circuit Judge John Marshall, in
order: IF anyone tries to find out
from any of you who the witnesses
are or what they are teStifying
about, my order is that you find out
who that person is and report it to
me-"
The jury includes the first
woman ever to serve on a Howard
County Grand Jury. The jurors are:
j. M. Hatfield, foreman; Alexander
Kingseed, Sherman Armstrong
Mrs. Lulu Ehrman, Frank Rogers
and Elyey Powell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
SHOWDOWN
DEMANDED BY
DRY LEADERS
Prohibition Chiefs of U. S.
Meet, Call on Parties to
Frame PIanks.
WANT DEFINITE STAND
Clear, Aggressive Action to
Be Request at Capital
ParIey.
Bu Vuifed Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 81. - Dry
leaders assembled here today pre-
paratory to renewing their demands
for inclusion Of enforcement plarks
in party platforms.
More than 500 prohibition enthu-
Siasts were expected. They will attend
a conference tomorrow on "Prohibi-
ton Enforcement PlankS in Party
Platforms. Resolutions urging strict
enforcement of the Volstead act and
State dry laws will devoted on.
Many congressman are among
guests who have accepted invita-
tions, it was announced.
Although gratified by declarations
drawn from Republican candidates
by the Borah QUESTIONABLE, dry
leaders are planning to fight for
even more explicit statements in the
party platforms.
The conference will seek "clear,
unmistakable, aggressive expressions
by political conventions upon pro-
hibition enforcement and dry presi-
Dental candidates.
Want Further Hoover Views
Viewing Herbert Hoover's response
to Borah's letter, in which the COM
merce secretary opposed repeal OF
the Eighteenth Amendment, as sat
isfactory so far as it went, DR.. F.
Scott Mcbride, general super-in-
tendent Of the Anti-Saloon league,
said he hoped for further clariflca-
ton Of Hoover's views during the
campaign.
The call for tomorrow's conference
was signed by numerous prominent
individuals in all parts of the
country. Influential drys throughout
the nation, the call said, are pre-
pared to join with prohibition or
ganizations in national offensive"
movement during the campaign
year.
Many Sign Call
Among those signing the call we're
DR.. S. Parkes Cadman, DR.. Ray
Lyman Wilbur, DR.. Mary E. Wooley,
Cannon Gilbert, John A. Lapp,
Chicago; Bishop Manning, Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait. Irving Fisher
and Mrs. John D. Sherman.
Speakers will include Bishop Will
liam F. Anderson, Boston; Bishop
James E. Freeman, Washington; DR..
Cadman and Bishop James Cannon,
Jr., Washington.
Bishop William F. Mcdowell Of
Washington will preside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
NEW YORK HAS
COOLEST DAY
Mercury Drops Near Zero;
Much Suffering Reported.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-The week.
end cold wave-which saw tempera-
lures drop to s above zero for the
coldest day Of the season-was re-
laxing its hold on the East today.
Weather forecasters predicted
rain and rising temperature to-
day.
The bitterly cold temperatures
came after period of spring-lik
weather.
1t was the coldest Feb. &c in the
history of the weather bureau.
Suffering was acute throughout
the city. Welfare organizations re-
ported many calls for help Sunday
and there was steady line at Mr..
zero's welfare place.
Ships were coated with ice when
they put into port, but no damages
were reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
SEEK TRACE OF
TORCH SLAYER
Confessed Killer Continues
to EIude Police.
By United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 27. - The
slayer of Miss Margaret Brown,
after describing by mail how he had
murdered her by fire, continued to
elude police today.
The search centered in Newark
where the confession letter was
mailed, with $500 in securities
taken from the dead woman.
Police would not admit that they
were unable to find him, but had
discontinued their previous opti-
mistic predictions that an arrest
was expected momentarily."
A second confession letter has
been received from him, it was re-
liably reported, although police
denied it. The second letter was
said to contain the statement that
the writer intended to commit sui
eide Ito protect others"
The letters formed the only real
clew to the slayer discovered since
Miss Brown was found by a road
side hot dog stand near Morristown,
N. j., her clothing ablaze with
gasoline.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
TEACHER ON STAND
TO TELL OF BLAST


w. H. Riddle, so, Of 9O9 w.
New York ST., is one of the
few remaining horseShoeing
blacksmiths in the city. He
shoes horses in a shop in the
rear of his home. Today he
was engaged ia the trade
which he has followed for
more than forty years and
watched go into decline.
A big roam stallion was get
ting new shoes. He reared and
plunged and his hoofs struck
Riddle, throwing him to the
ground and breaking three
ribs.
iii not go to the hospital"
Riddle told police who arrived
with an ambulance. Those
things just happen in this
business. I'll be all right"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
LOSE IN BRIBE PLEA
CounCiImen Denied Abate-
ment; Arraigned Tuesday.

Indianapolis councilmen charged
with bribery will be arraigned at 9
a. m. Tuesday. This date was set
by Criminal Judge James A. Collins
this morning when he sustained the
States demurrer and overruled
pleas in abatement filed by attor-
neys for the councilmen.
Those who face arraignment are
Councilmen Millard w. Ferguson,
Boynton J. Moore, Claude e. Neg
ley and Otis E. Bartholomew. Fer
guson's plea in abatement was over
ruled by Collins Saturday. Martin
Frankfort, a real estate dealer will
also be arraigned with the coun-
cilmen.
Councilman Austin H. Todd, in
cluded in the original indictments
which were quashed and new ones
substituted, has not been included
in the new list.
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Hourly Temperatures

corner stone for thirty-one years.
Then they doubted that he had
been in there for ten years. or
even one year, or at all, for that
matter.
Then the crushing blow came
when doubt was openly voiced
that there is such a thing as
horned toad.
The aspersion is foul beyond
belief. There are horned toads.
Men are living right here in New
York who have seen them.
The editor of the Encyclopedia
Brittanica has seen them. So has.
the late Mr.. Webster. His die
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
This Looks Like Another
Fish Story but It's True


LONG BRANCH Feb. PA victim of death by drown
ing amphban of ancestry exhibited today
the radio shop operated by Frank Orio.
The creature has face like bulldog and shape somewhat
like ppers claimed said
Norwegian lion had followed school catfish
the from Norway
lion for a better caught
by Orio Henry Chrisanson Shrewsbury
the Oceanic drawbridge
founders lions
disappointed that the queer
fish before dying.
The lion is about four long weighs pounds
1t drowned because has for every
prevented because of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27

see a horned toad and remained to
scof when the keepers were un-
able to show one, will be con-
vinced.
Nettled by the incredulity ex-
pressed by the throng of visitors,
c. Emerson Brown, director of the
ZOO, has ordered two dozen nice,
fresh horned toads to be shipped
from Texas by airplane.
"Of course there are horned
toads," said Brown, "but the last
one we had died in November. We
have a hard time keeping them
and conditions must be Just right.
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By United Press
ATEW YORK, Feb. 27.-Yes,
1N Virginia, there is horned
toad.
In this age of skepticism, with
people so hardened that they
even scof at their interior deco
rator when he tells them the
stuff is just off the boat, a de-
plorable attitude of misbelief
has manifested itself about the
reptilian Rip Van Wrinkle of
Texas.
When word came from East
land, Texas, that a horned toad
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had been removed, alive and
kicking, from the corner stone of
the county courthouse, where he
had been entombed for thirty-one
years, there was at first an atti-
tude of polite interest. Then dead
ly cynicism set in.
From the atelierS Of Greenwich
Village came sounds of bitter ar
gument over the gin cups. Up
town, in the higher scientific cir
cles of the Bronx, the argument
waXed hot
EIRST, they doubted that the
l. horned. toad had been in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
FARE 0. K.
Commission to Rule Today
on 2-Cent Transfer Charge.

An order permitting the Indian
apolis Street Railway Company TO
continue it's transfer charge of two
cents is expected to be signed today
by the Public Service Commission.
The deadline for the transfer
charge is at midnight.
Extension of the order to charge
transfer fees was asked several
weeks ago in petition filed by the
street railway which set forth that
the conditions which caused the
commission to grant it's original con-
dition Dec. Is, 1925 have not been
changed and that in order to main
tain necessary service a transfer
charge is imperative.
Hearing was held before Com
missioner John McCardle, Feb. 25.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27

Even then their average life is
about six months. The longest I
have known one to live here is
two years"
He explained, however, that
their fragility here has nothing
to do with their supposed longev-
ity in their native habitat
Brown sent kilograms to several
Texas points pleading for horned
toads and received a message from
the snake king" of Brownsville,
offering twenty-four nice ones.
The deal was closed by wire and
the lizards will be sent north by
airplane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
SearcherS Have SCant Hope
of Finding Harry Brooks
Escaped Death.

bU 4 Nittu ETGSS
MELBOURNE, Fla, Feb. a.
The "F1ivver" alrplane piloted by
Harry Brooks, Ford fiier, which
plunged into the sea Saturday, was
washed ashore sixteen miles south
Of here early today, according to
information reaching Melbourne
police.
Motorcycle Policeman FluSher,
patrolling the beach south Of here.
reported by telephone he found the
wrecked plane and that the body Of
Brooks was not in it.
A truck was sent to bring the
wreckage here.
Rescue boats converged in the vi
cinity and plans we're made to drag
the sea for Brooks body near where
the plane came ashore.
Flusher said he came upon the
wrecked plane at 2:30 a. m. The
breakers had flung it high and dry,
he reported.
The plane was sighted, tossing
about in a rough sea about two
miles from land Sunday, but boats
were unable to approach 1t owing
to the high breakers.
The tiny plane, which Brooks was
flying from Titusville tc southern
Florida, dropped into the sea late
Saturday.
Falls Into Sea
A few spectators saw 1t whirring
overhead, then turn and go into a
dive into the ocean. An alarm was
sounded Immediately.
For hours, however. no trace could
be found of the airplane or its dar-
ing pilot. Yesterday afternoon
George Rummel and Medos Gravelle,
in a Rogers Airline seaplane, saw
the wreckage being tossed about by
the high waves.
They we're unable to land and
after circling over the wreckage for
some time, returned to shore and
announced they had found the
plane
Coast guard stations at Ft.
Lauderdale and Ft. Pierce were
advised to send rescue boats, as the
only ones here had too great draft
to enter the inlet.
Thousands Keep Vigil
Throughout last night, and Satur-
day night, bonf1res were kept on the
shore. Yesterday thousands of per-
sons lined the shore to watch rescue
efforts.
The nose dive into the ocean cli-
NAKED series of misfortunes that
has befallen the fiivver plane.
Brooks attempted recently to fly
from Detroit to Miami, but had to
land in North Carolina owing to
adverse weather.
A few days ago he again tried to
make a nonstop flight from Detroit
to Miami, but was forced down at
Titusville, Fla, on Feb. 21. A pro-
peller was broken in the landing.
Saturday afternoon he took off
from Titusville and planned to fly to
Ft. Myers, where Henry Ford was
awaiting for conference.
Suddenly Nose Dives
The flight had been going easily
when the plane appeared sr Mel
bourne and suddenly went into its
ill-fated nose dive.
Brooks was one Of the best known
aviators in the country. He had an
enviable record and was chief pilot
for the airplane division Of the Ford
Motor Company.
Recently Brooks piloted the air
plane which carried Mrs. Evangeline
Lodge Lindbergh to Mexico City and
return.
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tionary even has picture Of one.
The Britannica insists there are
horned toadS.
Regarding the ability to live
thirty-one years without food or
water in corner stone, the book
unfortunately is silent, however.
1t accepts with reservation,
however, the fixed belief in some
parts Of the Southwest that, upon
provocation, the comical little
creature will spit blood from the
corner of his eye.
u
F. A ND, too, Philadelphia skeptics
IN who went to the zoo there to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
Girl to Bare Story of Her
Love Affair With Man
Who SCorned Her.
By United Press


OTTAWA, Ill, Feb. 27.-Before
the largest crowd of the trial, lola
Bradford, pretty Mount Pleasant
school teacher, today told of her love
affair with Hira mReed, "a. charged
with attempt to kill her when she
demanded that he marry her.
The State was expected to rest its
case today.
Miss Bradford, disfigured by the
explosion which almost caused her
death, was to be the States last
witness.
Nearly score of her pupils have
testified for the State, describing
in detail how the school stove ex-
ploded as the teacher kindled fire
early on the morning of Dec. l, 1927.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
BOOST VALUATIONS
Increase on North Side Is
Seen by Assessor.

Boost in ground values, to be made
when the new assessment is levied
in March. was announced today by
Frank Brattain, Center Township
assessor. He predicted increase on
Capitol Ave. property, from North
st. to Twenty First, and on Merid-
ian ST., from North to Thirtieth.
This raise will be due to "busi-
ness moving north" he said.
Increase will also be made on
property between Tenth and Six
teenth Sts., and Sherman DR.. and
Emerson Ave-, he said. The prop
erty between Sherman DR.. and En-
erson Ave, he expects to increase
$4,000, due to the new development
there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
Brooks Known Here

Harry Brooks landed at the In
dianapolis airport at least three
times, flierS at the local field who
knew the Ford pilot said today.
The last time was on Dec. 19,
1927, on his trip to Mexico City with
the mother Of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh and other members Of
the party were guests at luncheon
at the Chamber of Commerce while
their plane was refueled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
THREAT 70 COOLIDGE
Death or $4,000, UIti-
matum of HOoSier.

By Times Special
PLYMOUTH, Ind, Feb. a.
Threatening President Coolidge
and United States Supreme Court
justices with death. Albert Ander-
son, so, farmer near here. de-
manded $4,000 in a 133-page letter
addressed to the president.
Anderson in now in custody at
South Bend, where he was removed
by Charles Macy, United States
secret service operative, and c..
Hufsmith, Marshall County prose-
cutting attorney. He was arrested
Saturday by the two at his home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
HURT IN TRUCK SPILL
Web Ashley Is in Hospital With
Internal Injuries.

Web Ashley. 35, of 765 N. Belmont
Ave, is at the city hospital with q
broken right arm and internal in
juries, as the result of his truck
tipping over at E. Washington and
Rural Sts., shortly before noon to-
day.
Ashley, according to police, who
investigated. had tried to pass a
street car and his truck hit another
machine parked at the curb.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27

AANeA - eAAANA " ~
reported severely
injured t o d a y,
when his horse
fell at an awk-
ward hedge while
he was hunting
with the Quorn
fox hounds.
Prince Henry
was removed to
RagGale H a ! l ,
near by, and short
ly afterward was
taken to Craven
Lodge Club, which
he and the Prince
Of Wa1ac p1ako
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
WIFE HAS MATE HELD
Charges Him With Larceny in
Cashing Her Check.

Charging that her husband, Ros-
coe Rhodes, 35, Of 1887 Central
Ave, got her to sign a blank check
and then drew $565 from her &C
count and deposited it to his own,
Mrs. Argella Rhodes had him ar
rested today on charges OF grand
larceny. She told police that he
said the check was to be "just a
dollar or two" which he needed to
pay debt. Rhodes is in city prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
Death Takes Literary Critic

81 United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-James
Lauren Ford, author and literary
critic died at his Long Island home
Sunday in his 73d year. For the
last ten years he had been an in
valid, losing his sight and submitting
to amputation of both legs. Ford
was a native of st. Louis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
BOARD TO HEAR PROTEST
Proposed School Bond Issue VIII Be
Discussed.

Objection to a 100000 school
bond issue for construction of four
new school buildings and additions
will be heard at 10 a. m. Tuesday
by the State board Of tax commits
sioners.
Formal protest was filed with the
board by the Indiana Taxpayers
Association, but school officials ex-
planned it was thought the associa-
ton merely would ask for detailed
plans for the new buildings.
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their hunting headquarters during
the Easter season.
Prince Henry is 27. He is the best
horseman Of the royal family, and
is a captain on regular duty in the
crack tenth HusSars. He is the
tallest Of the kings four sons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
Prince Hurt
Badly When
Horse Falls

BIZ United Press
MELTON MOWBRAY, England,
Feb. 27.-Prince Henry, King
Georges third son. was thrown
I,nnrriIrr
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
SMITH ABLE, HOOVER
GENIUS, DEBATERS SAY
Norman Hapgood and Will Irwin
Laud Candidates.

1duA
By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 27-The pres
idential merits of Governor Smith
and Secretary Hoover were debated,
respectively, by Norman Hapgood
and Will Irwin before the Fornightly
forum here.
There has been too much talk OF
Smiths charm and gifts" Hapgood
said. "The basis Of his strength is
his study of government as a SER
ious business profession"
Irwin termed Hoover "a genius, a
great thinking machine" and added:
"He Is under it all the saneSt and
warmest and most lovable and
humorous being I have ever met"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
HOMECOMING OBSERVED
IrvingtOn M. E. Church Holds Spe-
cial Services.

Homecoming day was observed at
the Irvington M. E. Church Sunday.
Bishop Frederick D. Leete preached
at the morning service and a mu-
sical program was given at night.
A vested choir, under direction of
Prof. Franklin N. Taylor, sang. The
Rev. J. B. Rosemurgy, pastor, re-
ported large attendance at all
services.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
German Prince STRICKEN

German Prince Stricken
By United Press
BRESLAU, Feb. 27-Prince Lich-
nowski, former German ambassador
to Great Britain, died of apoplexy
today at his castle at Kuchelna.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
HOLD Staying SUSPECTS
Men Believed Killers of Sheriffs
Taken in Iowa.

The State Bureau of Criminal
Identification today received a tele-
gram from the Sioux City, Neb.,
chief of police stating that two
men believed to be John Burns and
Samuel Baxter, missing alleged
murderers of the Lafayette deputy
sheriffs, were being held; and that
finger print descriptions were
needed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
REEVES is NOMINATED

Coolidge Names City Man As VOca-
tionaI Education Board Member.
WASHINGTON, Feb 2.-Presi-
dent Coolidge sent to the Senate
today the nomination of Perry w.
Reeves, Indianapolis, to be a mem
ber Of the Federal Board for Voca-
tional Education,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27

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