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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-28
BY w. f. SULLIVAN

United Press GE1fE uGent
CHICAGO, Dec. 2S.-If you have
the face, personality and the where
with-all to put it over on the screen,
don't worry about the latest cinema
invention, since no matter how you
talk you can say it in the "talkies."
This encouragement for movie
celebrities who fear lisp or falter-
ing speech will keep them out of the
talking pictures and for those who
aspire to screen careers but are
doubtful of their larynxes, comes
from Prof. w. R. Mcdonald Of the
University of Southern California.
Just Matter of Exercise
"Those who lisp need have no fear
of the talkies.' the professor, who
is attending the national convention
of teachers of speech here, said.
Scientific or correct breathing
will correct practically all speech
defects. Speech is nothing more
than muscular exercise and the
voice box can be developed the same
as muscles of the body.
Regular training will correct the
defects and tend to bring the voice
toward perfection"
And the professor, incidentally,
knows what he is talking about in
discussing the subject. Aside from
teaching at the California institu-
ton, Professor Mcdonald is a coach
for "talkie" students.
Included in his class are Norma
Shearer and Anita Page, he said. He
exhibited charts to show that
Norma is high-rated student.
Norma Has Clear Voice
For instance, her cyclophonic is
pure; she has a smooth lissophonic,
medium high pitch to her MESA
chroSonic, and a clear arthotonic.
Outside of that she is all right for
the "talkies,' having very good
articulation and clear, vocal quail
ties in enunciation.
Anita'S chart didn't rate so good,
even though the professors descrip-
ton of her didn't sound quite as
bad as Normas. She has: Inflec-
ton, very good; tempo, bad; articu-
lation, fair, and audibility, double
plus good.
Professor Mcdonald excused
Anita'S bad tempo on the grounds
that she is too young to group her
thoughts as we'll as the older Norma.
Anita is only Is, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-28
BOARD
STUDIES new
Street idea
CroSStoWn Routes Will Be
Given Consideration by
Commission.
SEVERAL FAVOR CHANGE
Tourists May Be Taken
From CongeSted Area
Downtown.

Development of a system of cross
town thoroughfareS to defect tour
list traffic from the downtown sec
tons is being discussed by the city
plan commission.
Several members of the commits
sion favor special streets marked for
the convenience of inter state tour
lists who desire to see the scenic
sections of the city and miss con-
geSted areas.
The commission plans to give con-
siderable study to the street widen
ing and Strengthening program,
designed to provide ample thorough
fares in all sections, after compile
ton of the Sixteenth street widen
ing project between Delaware street
and Northwestern avenue.
Cost Of widening Sixteenth street
to eighty-SiX feet from property
line to property line is estimated at
$4,000 by Macklin Mack, city plan
commission engineer. The Jog" in
Illinois at Sixteenth also will be
removed under the same improve
ment resolution.
The board Of works has received
a map of the benefited area which
was prepared by the plan commits
sion offices and will fix the amount
of assessment against property with
in few days.
Under the thoroughfare law the
city can pay rs per cent and prop
erty owners Is per cent of costs
The assessed area is bounded by
Northwestern, Delaware, Fourteenth
to Eighteenth streets.
The old benefited area was from
Washington to Thirty eighth streets
md property owners we're to be as
seSsed go per cent of costs.
Councilman Herman P. Lieber,
eX-officio member of the commits
ion, urged citizens show civic pride
when the city undertakes such
projects for the benefit of the
project.
THE city will not progress as long
rs taxpayers demonstrate every
project and refuse to pay an as
seSsment when their own property
is benefited" Lieber said.
The commission is expected to
study the proposal to straighten
Michigan and widen it in narrow
sections, to provide a wide thor
oughfare for east and west traffic,
to relieve Washington and New
York streets. Widening and open
ing of Tenth street all the way
across town as another east and
west artery is being talked. 1t is
planned to develop west and east
streets to handle traffic which is
moving north and south, making
it unnecessary for motorists to
strike the congested downtown area.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-28
HOT CAR CONVICTS
TO FACE NEW QUIZ

Twelve defendants in the inter-
state motor car theft case, serving
federal prison terms, will be given
opportunity to tell what they know
about the case and aid the govern
ment in closing its investigation
into the ring.
A special agent of the department
OF justice, it was learned at the
Federal building. will go to Leav-
enworth penitentiary, probably next
week, to interview the twelve and
obtain, if possible, statements which
may help clean up tangled ends"
Albert Ward, United States dis
trict attorney, may accompany the
department of justice agent to the
prison.
Ward is preparing to ask for a
session of the federal grand jury
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Street Car Employees Form
Veteran Organization
at Meeting.

The good old days when Illinois
street had just quit being a prairie
and street cars we're drawn by
Maud, Mollie and other mules were
discussed with many a chuckle by
more than one hundred fifty en-
ployes and officials of the Indianap-
oils Street Railway Company at the
Athenaeum last night, when the
twenty-five Club, men in service
of the company for at least a score
of years, was formed. a..
Guests of honor were Ed Noone,
forty-nine years with the company
and still in active service; Ed Ayres,
twenty-five years with the company
and one of the promoters of the
club; Joe Arnold, forty-year man,
and George Miller, the oldest mem
Der, rs years of age, but not in
active service.
Addresses we're made by James
P. Tretton, general superintendent,
as POSTMASTER; Joseph A. Nc
Gowan, secretary and treasurer Of
the company; Henry Thomson, vice
president, and Michael Foley of the
legal department of the company.
Brief talks also we're made by a
score of older employees.
Seven directors we're elected and
will in turn name a president, vice
president and secretary = treasurer
of the club at meeting to be held
soon. R. S. Ludlow was made
chairman of the board. Other di-
rectors are Miss Frances eastman,
H G. Blune, Edward L. Draws,
Edward Healing, Edward Ayres and
Allan S. Anderson
The club is Tor social purposes
only.
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CHARGES EXTORTION
BY SUFFERING VAMP
Photographed in Underwear az
Point of Gun, Says Man, s..

Photographed in Underwear az
Point of Gun, Says Man, s..
BW United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. ga stutter-
ing siren was accused by 68-ysar-
old L. Frauenreder today of nav
ing him photographed in his UNDER
garments as plot to depict his
bank account.
Frauenreder said Mrs. Aldea
Vaulman invited him to her home
TO talk business. They talked for
a while and then she went to a.
window and drew the shade. At
that signal her husband came In.
pointed a gun at F'rauenreder and
told him to undreSs and get in bed.
Then, with Mrs, Vaulman sitting
close beside the prone Frauenreder,
the husband photographed them
and took Frauenreder's diamond.
The victim of the plot had thd
Vaulmans arrested.
"G-G-G-eo-rge c-c-caught us
was all Mrs. Vaulman would say.
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probably late in January or early in
February, when several more in
dictments will be sought.
1t is understood the Indianapolis
bureau of investigation, department.
of justice, is continuing it's inquiry,
particularly in Chicago, where sew
eral stolen cars have been traced
since return of the last federal
grand jury report here.
The motor theft case inquiry was
started following the mysterious
blast Aug. Is which wrecked the
Edward Traugott & Co. store on
West Washington street.
Twenty-one persons were indict-
ed by a federal grand jury, and
sixteen sentenced. Several others
are fugitives. and one, who sur
rendered recently, remains to be
tried.
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CONGRESS TO ACT
ON GEM SMUGGLING

because of the ease in smuggling
diamonds.
Recent raids by customs officials
who have seized hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of diamonds
off ship in Norfolk merely have
nicked the surface of the illegal
business, they claim.
The diamonds are brought in
from Belgium and Holland, where
most of the worlds diamonds are
cut. The value is so great that the
20 per cent duty is a sizeable item,
and the jewelers. who purchase le-
ultimately imported stones are faced
with ruinous competition.
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beings so in their representation
of nature in art they naturally
and logically visualized divine
forms which throng the external
world.
Professor Edward A. Lincoln of
Harvard University ST. gested that
children of less than usual school
age might be admitted to classes
if they showed in an intelligence
examination that they we're likely
to be successful in their school
work.
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BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-The
$loO,OOOOOO a year diamond snug
Cling racket will be taken up by
congress in the next few weeks.
American jewelers. are expected to
renew, before the ways and means
committee hearings on the new tar
if bill, their demand for reduction
or elimination of the 20 per cent
import duty on these precious gems
The high protective tariff On gems
has been almost the ruin of legiti-
mate jewellers, according to COM
plants previously made by them,
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20 to 70 is $500. On this basis
the annual loss from deaths due
to tuberculosis amounts to at least
SITE, 100000" Larsen said. DR.. E.
G. Misner of Cornell reported on
research into income from crop
and pasture land. He found that
when all costs per acre are de-
Quoted income for pasture land ex-
ceeds the return from crop land.
He urged dairy farmers par
ticularly to improve their pasture
lands.
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reported on studies which have
revised estimates of the vital and
monetary losses from tuberculosis
in the United States. He found
that every year 10000 deaths in
the United States are caused by
tuberculosis.
Lives destroyed annually by
tuberculosis represent a tremer-
dous economic loss to the United
States. Conservative estimates
show that the wealth producing
capacity of males from the ages of
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CREEK art as an expression of
~ love of nature received the
attention of some of the 5000
scientists attending the eighty
fifth session of the association.
Professor K. H. Rushton Fair
clough of Stanford University de-
MED the common assumption that
in the sphere of art the Greeks
we're not interested in external
nature. He maintained that as
the imagination of the Greeks
peopled all nature with spiritual
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the Advancement of Science by
DR.. William G.. Vinal of Western
Reserve university.
DR.. Vinal emphasized his belief
that children cut off from the
country are deprived of much of
their educational heritage. He
declared that educators are con-
fronted with the task of giving
= back to the city child "the things
the city has taken from him."
=
NR. HAROLD D. LARSEN OF
~ the University OF Wisconsin
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MFRS. MAR YHOFF at the Chi
1V1 cago Humane Education So
ciety joined the chorus of protests
by declaring that she had travelled
from coast to coast and that never
had she seen anything to COM
pare with the way Chicago treats
its poor, helpless dogs"
"One poor beast was dying in
the pound the day I was there"
said Mrs. Hoff, "but no attendant
would lift it aside so that it would
not be trampled on by other dogs.
Some puppies were being born in
a stall so crowded that they hard
ly could turn around"
u
WnLIAM S. STUART, who
w has been superintendent of
the Chicago dog pound for twen-
ty-seven years, said conditions
were bad but not as bad as paint
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ed by Mrs. Mclaughlin and Mrs.
Hoff.
THE city collects about $780,
900 year in dog license fees, said
Stuart. but the joker in the deal
is that the dogs get only small
part of the money. Our whole
budget for dogs is only $4,000 a
year. OF that we spend $10,50O
on food and the rest of 1t goes for
equipment and salaries"
Stuart said unclaimed dogs are
kept only twenty-four hours be-
fore being put to death with char
coal fumes.
I'VE can kill about 200 dogs
that way for rs cents" the super
intendent said.
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Fail Fatal to Boy

MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. 28.-John
Brumback, u, is dead of injuries
suffered Christmas day when he fell
from a grape arbor at his home.
His head struck as he landed on the
ground and a cerebral hemorrhage
is believed to have resulted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-28
JOHNSON IS NAMED
Takes Riddles Place on City Board
of Works.

Appointment of EmSley w. John
son, Republican attorney, as a works
board member, was formerly an
nounced today by Mayor L. Ert
Slack.
johnson, formerly special prose-
cutor during the corruption probe,
will succeed Charles L. Riddle, Re-
publican, who was ousted by Slack.
Slack gave no reason for asking
Riddles resignation.
After next Tuesday the board will
be composed of Theodore Dammey-
err, president, John G. McCloskey
and Johnson. Oren S. Hack. presi-
dent, will resign to become corpora
ton counsel.
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Three Killed in Plane Crash

BIZ JNitcd Press
LONDON, Dec. 27-Arnold Kicks
flying officer pilot; James Doyle
captain inspector, and Sergeant
Charles Long were killed Wednesday
when a royal air force bombing
plane crashed southwest of Khar-
tum. Egypt.
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TEAMS TO FORTUNE

Retires at SO With $4,000 After Pr
lOting Horses Fifty-six Years.
BY United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. Fitzpatrick Con-
ley, who has been a teamster for the
Joseph Stockton Transfer Company
for fifty-six years, retired at the age
Of SO with a wife, six children and
savings account of $4,000. The
company gave him farewell din
ner,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-28
BY II. r. EKINS.

United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-Within
IN a generation the United
States has ceased to be a nation
primarily interested in agriculture.
Children now are born in hos
pitfalls rather than homes, and
they spend their lives in cities,
rather than among pastures and
brambles.
Problems arising from this swift
change we're discussed today be-
fore the American Association for
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The dog pound authorities, on the other hand, are
just as determined nothing be done
Back in 1903 the city built dog pound twelve
feet square.
The ound was adequate in those days. perhaps
but today with thirty-seVen dog catchers and nine
wagons picking up stray dogs at a rate of 100000
year dog pound only twelve feet square represents
pretty cramped quarters
Mrs. Mclaughlin organizer of the orphans of
the storm" colony for stray dogs on the North
Shore says Chicago is back in the middle ages the
way it treats its dogs"
Il have received scores of letters telling of scenes
at the Chicago pound" Mrs Mclaughlin said today
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NAME COLLEGE HEAD
Dean Robert Williams Made Presi-
dent of Ohio Northern.
,H United Press

BIZ United Press
COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 2S.-Bishop
Theodore S. Henderson of the Gin
cinnati area of the Methodist Epis-
copal church has announced the APP
pointn:ent of Dean Robert Williams
of Albion college, Albion, Mich, as
acting president of Ohio Northern
university, Ada.
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ARMS MEETING SET
League Commission I,
Gather on April Is.

BIZ United Press
GENEVA, Dec. 28.-President J.
Loudon of the League of Nations
preparatory disarmament commits
sion announced today that the COM
mission would meet April Is.
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SHOOTS PLAYMATE, 10

Police Take christmas" Air Rifle
After Child Shoots Chum.
BIZ United Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 28.-
Santa used poor judgment when he
gave George Frazier, 10. an air
rifle. The gun was confiscated by
police today after George accidental
ly shot his chum, George Reynolds,
10.
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MARIE TO VISIT ENGLAND
Queen to Spend New Year Opening
With Royalty in London.

BIZ VHfTFN PTs'VN
BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. %.
Queen Marie is planning new
years visit to the royal family in
London, after which she will go to a
health resort, it was learned today.
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POOR OLD DOGGIES!
Chicag0S TrambS Need Friend
BIZ United Press


CHICAGO, 28-The often
~ getting shabby deal in Chicago.
Several agencies including the Humane Education Society and Mrs
Frederick w McLaughin the
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from the
Chicagos bouevards divine buildings
dopn is a black
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Calls Indiana Crowded"

MUNCIE, Ind. Dec. 28.-William
Martin. Altus. Okla. a native of
Delaware county, back for a visit
after forty-four years, says Indiana
is "too crowded"
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CROWDED HOME
BARS FURNISHING
OF NEGRO BOYS
Congestion at PIainfieId
Works Handicap on
Local Courts.

Congestion in the Negro boys
department Of Indiana Boys School
at Plainfleld has become so acute
that often juvenile courts cannot
commit boys who by their records
should be committed, it was learned
today.
The situation gradually became
more acute in the last eighteen
months, Marion County juvenile
workers pointed out, until two boys
guilty of a statutory offense with a
11-year-old girl could not be COM
mitted.
The lads were placed on proba-
ton by Juvenile Judge Frank j.
Lair, because there was no insti-
tuition to which he could send them
The congested condition was re-
vealed in Criminal Court by John
Coleman, Negro probation officer.
He told Judge James A. Collins of
the instance of the two lads, when
similar trial of a boy over 16
came under the Criminal Court
jurisdiction.
sit seems a deplorable condition"
said Prosecutor William H. Remy,
when boys are guilty of such Of
lenses, and should be punished, and
we have no place to send them"
Judge Lair and Juvenile Court
Referee Isohel Sommerville agreed
that the remedy is an institution in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-06
INDIANA NEGRO
WOMEN'S CLUBS
RECEIVE HOME
Federation Takes Over New
Site Here; Concludes
Farley Today.

"The rights of citizenship best can
be served when we measure up to
the duties of citizenship" declared
F. B. Ransom, attorney and general
manager Of the Nine. G. j. Walker
Manufacturing Company, in well
coming the delegates of the Indi-
ana Federation of Colored Women's
Clubs, in session here this week.
1.-THE time has come when Negroes
of Indiana must meet the RESPONSE
bility of citizenship as other groups.
We must not expect other groups to
stand alone in the fight for good
government. The Indianapolis
Times has won its place as champion
for clean government in this State;
there deyolves a duty upon every
citizen, regardless of race, to help
in this noble cause" said Ransom.
Mrs. Carrie G. Crump, president
of the Federation, has held the Office
since 1926. Three months after her
election, $500 had been raised to
make first payment on the State
club home at 2034 N. Capitol Ave.
She reported more than $4,000 paid
on the home since 1926.
Presentation of the club home to
delegates Tuesday night was made
by Mrs. Grace Evans, Terre Haute,
chairman of the trustee board.
The junior department held its
session Wednesday afternoon, the
following officers being elected:
Miss Marie Pruitt. president; Miss
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cial secretary; Mrs. Blanche Patter-
son, Charlottesville, chairman of ex-
executive board; Mrs. Cordelia Wal
den, Kokomo, organizer; Mrs.
Maude Herring, Charlottesville,
treasurer; Mrs. Edna Isom, Wash
ington, auditor; Mrs. Mary Brown,
Terre Haute, statistician; Mrs. Es-
telle Carter, Richmond, parliament
tartan; Mrs. Mary Stokes, Gary,
chaplain.
Final sessions of the federation
will be held today, following re-
ports from various departments and
the election of delegates to the ma
tional convention to be held in
Washington, D. c., July 20 to Aug. 8
"A visit to the Polk milk plant was
arranged for all delegates at 1870
this afternoon.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Wilma Goodall, vice president; Miss
Elizabeth Lampkin, Muncie. record
ing secretary; Miss Evelyn Johnson,
Richmond, financial secretary; Miss
Ardella Cathy, Gary, treasurer.
Mrs. Julia jefferson, Indianapolis,
was elected superintendent.
Thursdays program consisted OF
demonstrations by the social service,
business, religious, publicity, health
and hygiene, interracial, literature
and home economics departments.
During the afternoon short talks
were made by the Rev. w. D. Shan
non, DR.. Mary G. Evans and J. F.
Johnson.
Election closed the afternoon ses-
sion, resulting as follows:
Mrs. Carrie c. Crump, president;
Mrs. Julia Reed, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Mabel Mckay, Corners
vile, second vice president; Mrs.
Elizabeth Herod, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. Alice Mckinney, f1nan-
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This also applies to younger white
boys, the Plainf1eld school being
crowded with this class most of the
time.
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bert has built midget auto for use
of his small son. The car is pow
cred with motor which derives
current from a storage battery. 1t
is about five feet long.
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Marion County, between the Colored
Orphans Home and the Boys
School, for boys who need correc-
ton.
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Builds Little Auto for Son
BIZ Times Special
BRAZIL, Ind, July &C. A. Gill
Evening star., 1928-12-21
MI1TH Christmas dinner :. on Christmas
. afternoon =. serve this joyous beverage

as a rare old wine :. "dryness" and zest to
it, too, like sleigh-ride through the snow
-. that is the thrill to drinking this fine
ginger ale at Christmas time.
Like an ariStocrat, it makes its
quality quietly felt
Canada Dry is an aristocrat. 1t is the
champagne of ginger ales. 1t has won the
approving nod of connoisseurs the wide
world over 4. London I. Paris :. New
York. Why? Because it is real ginger
ale, expertly made, like good wine.
Absolutely pure ingredients give it basic
excellence. The highest quality of Jamaica
ginger is used. Its blending and balancing
are in exact proportions. Hourly, those
proportions are checked to see to it that
no variation occurs. The carbonation is
achieved by secret process and Canada
Evening star., 1928-12-21

Dry" consequently retains its delicious
sparkle long after the bottle is opened.
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we'll expressed in the good spirits of this
fine old ginger ale! Forget dull care! For