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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-23
STOCK CHATTER

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.5R1-Prices
were firm at the opening Of the stock
market today. Christie Brown had
an over the weekend rise Of more
than 3 points TO a new high record
and Brooklyn Edison opened up i ID.
Firmness attended the opening OF
some Of the leading industrials, in
GLIDING General Motors. General
Railway Signals was neavy at the
outset.
Reports Of high earnings in 1927
in the retail field resulted IN brisk
buying OF Woolworth, Abraham and
Straus and other like issues IN the
first half hour. Public Utilities dis
played early buoyancy, especially
Montana Power which rose more than
a point TO a new high. Commercial
solvents quickly gained 4 points, and
there was good demand for some OF
the independent steel stocks. Rails
were rather quiet in the early hour,
| aside from a 2 point advance by
Nickel Plate" and half as much in
Norfolk 4 Western. American to-
bacco was the only conspicuous weak
spot in the early transactions.
Spanish pesetas opened off y points
AROUND 1.-Two GENTS, DuL Obuck AVA1i6A
exchanges we're virtually unchanged,
sterling cables ruling close to S4.s7
So.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.--PJ-The
cotton market opened easy at a de-
cline OF 10 to 20 points. Active
months soon sold 20 to Il points
down, due to easier spot situation,
relatively easy Liverpool cables and
rather larger ginning figures than
expected.
The decline carried March off to
1928 and May to 1887 but there APP
peared to be some old trade orders
in the market for foreign account
at these figures. Active covering
checked the decline and caused rail-
lies Of Z or 8 points from the low
est by the end Of the first hour.
The volume Of business tapered
off on rallies Of about 10 points
from the early low prices and the
market sagged back again, active
months at midday showing net de-
clines Of about 80 to 70 points.
Some local statist.cians interpreted
the ginning figures as pointir to a
crop about 100000 bales above the
government estimate Of last Deem
Der, which, Of course, would be a
very small difference.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-23
COUNTY COURT At LAW

T. NJ. Carter. ct al. VS.. L. II. May
Judgment for plaintiffs. Suit on
contract.
II. S. Herren, et al, vs.. James II.
Barnes-Dismissed on motion of
plnrfffFFr
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
TEXT OF KELLOGG
ANTI-WAR TREATY
Here is the text Of the Kellogg treaty to outlaw

Here is the text OF the kellogg treaty TO OuLaW war:
United
America his majesty the king of the Begans the pres
dent of the French republic his majesty the king Of Great Britain
British domnonS beyond the Of india
the king of Italy his majesty the of Japan the
of the republic of Poland the president of Czehosovak
republic:
mankind;
Persuaded that the time has when frank remuneration
policy should be made to the
end that the peaceful and friendly relations now existing between
their peoples be perpetuated
Convinced that all changes relations with another
should be sought only by pacific means and be the result OF
peaceful and orderly process ana tnat any Sgnato power winch
shall hereafter seek to promote its national interests by resort to
war should be denied the dement's iurneo ny TINS treaty
Hopeful their example all the other nations
join and by adering to
pies within the of its benecent provisions thus uniting the
civilized nations of the world in remuneration OF war as
instrument of their national policy;
decided conclude treaty and for that purpose have
appointed as their respective plenpoteniares
the officials who negotiated the pac
Who having communicated to another their full powers
found and due form, have agreed the following
articles:
ARTICLE
high contracting parties soemny the of
respective peoples that they for the
solution of international controversies and renonce nstr
men of national policy in their relations with another
ARTICLE
high contracting parties agree settlement
they may which arise them, shall be
sought except by pacific means
ARTICLE I'LL
The present treaty by high contracting
parties named in the preamble in accordance with their respective
constitutional and shall take effect between them
all their several instruments OF ratification shall have
been deposited at Washington.
treaty shall. it into prescribed in
the preceding paragraph remain open as long as may necessary
for adherence by all the other of the world Every nst
Washington and the treaty shall Immediately such deposit
become effective between the thus adheg and the other
parties hereto.
Then a paragraph putting upon
duty of furnishing copies of the treaty to the governments involved
and of notifying such government of each ratification; and the
treaty closes with the customary as to signatures
seals and datesJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
DaShbOardS
No StickerS on Them, Foe
of Bedford Parking
Ban Recalls.
By Times Special

BIZ Times Special
bedford, Ind. Dec. ia
- proposal that parking of au-
tomobiles around the Lawrence
county courthouse square here be
limited to one hour, scheduled to
be considered at a meeting of the
city council Monday night, is op-
posed in an editorial in the
Mitchell Tribune.
The editorial says Bedford is
county seat and the square be-
longs to the people, and we may
decide that an hour or even two
of them is not long enough to per-
init us to transact necessary bust
ness az the courthouse.
Then follows a plea for the
courthouse square practice of
years ago, in these words:
Years ago we all drove into
the county seat early Saturday
morning and parked the team on
the square. The horses ate hay
from the wagon bed until 4 p. m,
and no one molested us, and no
stickers were pasted on the dash
boards either. Any such ordinance
as the one proposed is unconsti-
tutional and possible infringe
ment Of our rights"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
MARS MESSAGE
AGAIN is FIzzLE
Girl Friend of London Doc
tor Is CoIdIy Silent.

By United Press
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 17.-Dr.
Hugh Mansfield Robinsons Marian
girl friend, beautiful big-eared
Oomaruru. remained coldly silent
today after his latest message to
her.
Nothing happened when just be-
fore midnight the Companhia
Madiotelegraphica Brasiliera, a
radio corporation subsidy, broad
cast a message from DR.. Robinson
to Oomaruru from its Septiba sta
ton.
God is love-earth to Mars" the
message said.
DR.. Mansfield hoped that Coma
ruru, whom he met in a telepathic
Irritation, the first planetary
romance on record in real life,
would reply.
But while he waited in his Lon
don Office, his ears caressing the
earpieceS of a special apparatus
which he sadly confided cost him
$50, engineers at the Septiba sta
ton also waited in vain for a flash
through the ether that Oomaruru
had received the message.
1t was the physician pSycholo-
giSt's second attempt, on a scientific
basis, to communicate with Coma
ruru. The first was made in Eng
land several months ago, and like
wise was a flop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
SEAL SALE TO
BREAK RECORD
INMARION CO.
Head of Association Sees
Great Progress Made in
Health Fight.
DEATH RATE TO DROP
Civic Agency Committees
Cooperate in Drive
for Funds.
DEATH RATE TO DROP

The largest Christmas seal sale
in the history Of Marion county was
predicted today by Fred A. Sims,
president Of the Marion County Tu-
berculosis Association.
AS a result, the county tubercular
death rate of 900 for each 100000
population is expected to be reduced
materially. Total deaths throughout
the county during 1927 was 37S.
In 1926 the total was 433. accord.
ing to Sims, and 637 in 1914, when
the Christmas seal drive was started.
This made the 1914 rate 224.7 for
each 100000 population.
ut has been shown conclusively
by experience in various sections
OF the country that approximately
nine open cases of tuberculosis exist
in a given community for each
death recorded for the disease"
Sims says.
$500 Active Cases Here
AT this ration in indianapolis
and Marion county, there are $500
active cases among us. 1t Is these
cases which the Marion County
tuberculosis association and other
health agencies constantly are at
lacking with such modern prevent
i've and curative methods as the
child nutrition camp for sick chill.
dren at Bridgeport, adequate elm
les, more public health nursing ia
cllltles, discovery and isolation of
cases of tuberculosis and the gen.
eral campaign among children and
adults to educate them in methods
OF living which will control spread
OF the disease.
To keep up hesfight against the
plague here in 1929. the immediate
thing to be done is financing of the
next years work through sale OF
Christmas seals.
Committees from many civic
agencies are cooperating with the
Marion County Tuberculosis asso-
citation In its annual struggle to f.
nance next years work. The seal
sale program calls for only a few
dollars from each citizen.
Donations Help Fight
"These small contributions added
together, make it possible to con-
tinue the local. state and national
effort to eradicate tuberculosis from
the list of the foes of mankind.
THE sale here this year is q.
definite part of the countrywide
program aimed to keep the death
rate going down through coming
years.
In 1927 there were 5s5 deaths
from tuberculosis in twenty-eight
southern counties of the state
figures collected by the association
show. Death rate in these counties
is 89.2.
Meanwhile, the northern counties
had a rate of 53.8, the thirty-three
central counties a rate OF 65.7. and
the total number of deaths of $50.
Highest death rate was in Jeffer-
son county, forty-seven deaths CIV
ing that county a rate of 224.s for
each 100000 population.
White county, with but three
deaths in 1927, had the lowest rate,
173.
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MAKES TARGET
OF DRY LAW
Attorney Holds Name of
Buyer Should Be Used.
By Times Special

BIZ Times Special
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. IA
new attack on prohibition law in
dictments in federal court here has
delayed a ruling in the case of
Floyd Overmeyer, charged with
liquor selling
Q. A. Pursley, Hartford City at
torney, defending Overmeyer, raised
a new issue when he moved that
the indictment in the case be
quashed, asserting that congress
did not have authority to pass a
law to the effect that the name of
a person to whom liquor was alleged
to have been sold need not be used
in an indictment.
The attorney told the court that
leaving out the name places the &C
cused in jeopardy as preparation of
a defense can not be made due to
uncertainty of the offense charged.
So impressed was the court with
piTsley's view that the ruling in the
case was deferred until the April
term.
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TAKE CASH
SAVED TO BUY COAL
Man Who Only Recently
Obtained Work Is
Robber Victim.

Two bandits held up j. A. Turner,
1911 Polk street. in the alley back
of his home as he was on his way
to work at 6 a. m. today.
The bandits took $3.50 which he
had saved to buy coal, Turner,
who only recently has gotten work,
said.
They also stole from his pocket
the application of the Oldest of his
five children, a girl, IL, for entrance
into the State School for the Deaf.
A youthful bandit held up the
Sinclair Refining Company station
at Twenty-fourth and Meridian
streets Sunday night and took $25
from the attendant, Austin Wilson,
1854 Central avenue.
Bant its who threatened him with
a gun Saturday night and led him
up an alley near McCarty street
and Virginia avenue slapped him
when they got only So from his
pockets, Harry Kelso, 8l1 Virginia
avenue, told police.
Called a short time later on re-
port that three men one with a
gun, were in the alley. police found
three men and half pint of liquor.
AS all denied owning the liquor, the
three we're arrested on blind tiger
charges. They gave their names as
Tom Platt, Al South Oriental street;
John Means, 1924 Bates street, and
Albert johnson, 215 South Summit
street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
CITY AIR SITE UP
Council Expected to Act
Tonight.

City council is expected to act on
the proposal to buy a municipal air
port tonight.
Mayor L. Ert Slack turned over
option on Site 8, south Of Ben Davis.
He recommended purchase of the
1,000-acre tract which will cost
about 100000. A bond issue of
$675,000 is planned to buy the land
and make Improvements.
Several councilmen we're anxious
to speed the airport plans and we're
expected to urge action tonight
Councilmen and several other city
officials including the mayor, were
to be guests of Edward B. Rauh ST.,
council president, at the Indianapo-
lis Athletic Club tonight at dinner.
Tonight's council session will be
the last of the year and an effort to
clear the calendar will be made by
Raub.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17

Whether they were instructed
not to point" their tiny brushes
with their lips never has been set
tied satisfactorily. But the fact
is that they did touch the brushes,
bearing a radium composition, to
their lips frequently during the
day.
1t was in 1925 that the death of
the French chemist, Demenitroux,
aide of Nine. Curie, discoverer of
radium, was traced to his labora-
tory experiments, and sciences at
tention was directed to all who
had been in contact with the
substance.
n
Z EXAMINATION convinced sci
IL entistS that the five New Jer-
sey women were doomed. Suits
followed, which we're settled in
June, 1928, for $4,000 cash to
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his job to enjoy the sudden afflu-
ence. When she protested, there
were quarrels, finally a separa-
ton. Her one concern now Is for
her two small children, and for
their education the bulk of her
money has gone into trust fund
But the fifth and last fights
back at fate. No acceptance OF
sciences word for Grace Fryer.
She holds her job with a Newark
trust company, her money in
vested as though she were pro-
viding against ripe old age. Her
outlook is unchanged. If any
thing she is more interested in
life, and in rallying her four
friends. She is the irreconcilable
one, intelligently following every
effort of the experts who are
striving frantically to stave off
fate.
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each, with an additional monthly
remittance during their lives.
To them $4,000 was a fortune.
What would they do before the
year of grace reached its tragic
end? How would they face that
year of ENTHUSIASTICALLY, reck-
lessly, hopefully, dispassionately?
Katherine Schaub, youngest Of
the quintet, is realizing an am
bition, repressed during the years
of necessary factory work, to read,
to write poetry. The Cosmopoli-
tan writer found her hidden away
in a farmhouse in the Catskills,
surrounded by new, but care
fully selected, library, drinking in
the rustic beauty she never had
known before, making herself
loved among her farm neighbors.
But first she had taken up a
mortgage on her fathers little
home in Newark.
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Mrs. Edna Hussman had wanted
all her life two things-leisure
and music. She has her leisure,
tragically limited, and all the mu-
sic she can crowd into it with
fine player-piano in one corner of
the modest HuSman living room,
an expensive cabinet radio in the
other.
4 Il
MRS. LARICE, through her
WI girlhood had longed for and
dreamed of distant horizons and
far places. But always there has
been the necessity of work and
never the money to travel Her
first expenditure from the $4,000
was for a comfortable car and a
long, gypSy-like tour of Canada.
But to her sister, Mrs. McDon-
aid. the money only meant in
creased tragedy. Immediately the
check arrived, her husband quit
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given a fortune and a year to
live?"
u 4 Il
TINE story of their poisoning
Il has been told. But the man
ner in which they have chosen to
spend their precious interim-an
unmatched study in the variety
of human character and ideals
is reported for the first time in
an article appearing in the Janu-
airy issue of Cosmopolitan.
The five are Mrs. Quinta Nc
Donald and Mrs. Albina Larice,
sisters; Miss Katherine Schaub,
Mrs. Edna Hussman and Miss
Grace Fryer. AS girls in their
teens, they worked during the war
in New Jersey factory. Their
job was to paint radiant dialS on
wrist watches for the doughboys
in France.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Just
IN across the Hudson river, in
Orange, N. j., five young women,
free, life-loving, apparently
healthy, are doomed to die.
They are guilty of nothing. but
their fate is morei rrevocably fixed
than if the nations highest court
had sentenced them.
Apparently healthy? Yes. But
in each of them courses a minute
bit of that most valuable, most
mysterious, most deadly substance
in the world-radium
"a year to live" the doctors
said. And that was six months
ago. They we're given $4,000 each
by the company in whose service
they had invited death. And now
the world is watching the enacted
answer to that hitherto academic
question:
What would you do if you were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
More Than AuntS

DUT there was no concea1ing the
ID fact from the medium that
my aunts were something less than
a sensation, and so he looked again
along the line of wraiths and led
forth a public character.
It was the actress, Clara Blood
good, who had killed herself some
ten years before. She was not
known to any in the room, the two
of us had seen her play.
Indeed, as things developed, we
knew more about her career than
she did. One of the guests, dra-
matte critic, undertook to question
Miss Bloodgood on his own account.
But his queries were not so very
difficult. He merely asked, miss
Bloodgood, can you tell us the name
of the play in which you were 50
pearing at the time of your death,
and the name of the dramatist?"
Since the play in question was
'"The Truth" and the author Clyde
Fitch, she should have known the
answer. The ghost of Miss Blood
good could not remember.
My friend, the dramatic critic,
was angry and bitter about the
whole affair. To him Mr.. T.
seemed but a sorry sWindler.
That was an opinion which l
could not share. After all, we had
paid nothing for the evenings en-
tertainment and had shared in an
excellent dinner at no expense.
For the ouija board have no re-
spect at all. / have watched those
who could make it dance and sing,
but under my fingers it is wholly in
articulate unless 1 push it.
Some day may see a ghost or
hear the voice of one who is dead or
run against unmistakable evidence
of telepathy or second sight. When
that day comes I'll eat this column.
More than that I'll eat it gladly.
Copyright, 1928, for The Times.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
DEATH TAKES WRITER
OF 'ORPHAN ANGEL
EIinOr Wylie Dies at Home; Para
Iytic Stroke Is Cause,

EIinOr Wylie Dies at Home; Para
lytic Stroke Is Cause.
BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Elinor
Wylie, AZ, poet and novelist, died at
her home here Sunday night after
a paralytic stroke.
Miss Wylie was the wife of VIII
liam Rose Benet, prominent critic
and author.
She was born in Richmond, Va,
the daughter Of Henry M. Hoyt of
Washington, who was solicitor gen.
eral under President Taft. Miss
Wylie had been married three times.
- Critics said her greatest prose
success was the novel, Orphan
Angel" other novels written by her
are: THE Venetian Glass Nephew"
"Jennifer Lorn" and Mr.. Hodge
and Mr.. Hazard" Her best known
books of verse are: Nets to Catch
the Wind" and BLACK Armour"
She was working on a book of verse,
Angel and Earthly Creatures" for
publication in the spring.
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BUILDS CASKET; USES 1T
BIZ United Press

BIZ JHted PreSs
PARK LANE, Va, Dec. IT,
Twenty-Five years ago James T.
Natter. rs, made his casket from an
oak tree cut down on his homestead
at Colvin Run. 1t was opened aft
er his death, Saturday night, and a
note was found therein, giving in
structions that he was to be buried
in the wooden casket and describing
the color of shroud he preferred.
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Will to Believe

r WOULD like to believe in spiritu-
l. ism, the ollija board, palnlistry,
thought transference and tea leaves,
but no convincing specimens ever
have come before my attention.
That isn't evidence enough to dis
card all possibility of psychic phe-
nomena.
Reliable people have told me of
extraordinary experiences, but most
faith depends upon purely person
assurance. l wouldn't much enjoy
seeing a ghost, but I'd like to have
a sign of some sort.
My inability to detect things
strange and mysterious may depend
upon a lack of Sensitivity. Still I'm
no cynic. Once attended seance
and so much had been said about
The proves of the medium that I
was inclined before the event to be-
lieve that the dead both walked and
talked.
My mind was open and my heart
was soft. That medium was a
bungler and let me down into the
cold realms of rationalism. In his
favor it should be said that he did
his stuff without flummery. After
a pleasant dinner we sat down in
a cheerful and well-lit room. The
medium was a stout gentleman, we'll
spoken and of pleasing exterior.
He chatted for while and then
slumped into his chair like one
somewhat Surfeited with meat and
port. Every now, and again he
passed his hand before his eyes.
Presently in matter of fact voice
he remarked that the room was
crowded with the spirits of the de-
parted. I was properly impressed.
This seemed a better way than tam
bourines and holding hands.
Seemingly these ghosts stood like
pupils in a class room, each one
waving a hand to attract the at
tention of the teacher. They were
not visible to me nor was any such
spectacle intended. I had under
stood from the beginning that they
could speak and become manifest
only through the kind Offices of
genial Mr.. T.
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Granny Talks

LIE looked over all the appli-
Il l. cants carefully, and finally
chose to relay the words of an old
lady whom he called Granny Camp
bell. In his own voice he delivered
the message which was intended
for me.
And at this point he set my awe
to cooling. I felt that there must
be some mistake, for of all my
grandmothers, not one was called
Campbell. That happens to be my
middle name, but it is derived only
from the given name of an uncle.
BY now I have forgotten just
what Granny Campbell said. 1t is
my impression that she passed on
to me some words of comfort from
two aunts whom I never had.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
DUCHESS VISITS U. S.
SC0FFS AT 'ANASTASIA'
Cousin Of Late Car Here to Visit
in California.

III OdAuOTUlds
BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE Grand
Duchess Marie Pavlovna, daughter
OF the Grand Duke Paul of Russia,
who was killed by bolShevists, and
first cousin of the late Gar Nicholas
II, arrived here Sunday on he
French liner Paris.
The grand duchess, who is SO, was
asked if she believed the story of
the young lady who came here some
months ago, claiming to be Grand
Duchess Anastasia, daughter Of the
late car.
"Of course I do not believe it," she
said.
II have come to America - she said,
ito crafty long felt desire, and am
looking forward to my Journey
across this great country to Cali
fornia, where 1 am to be the guest
of Mrs. William n. Hearst at her
ranch"