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The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-16
veteran Plant Head Dies

BIZ Times NpecldL
ELWOOD, Ind, May 16.-S. Earl
Clark, 70, superintendent of the
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company's
local plant for thirty years, is dead
Of heart disease.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-16
Flies at 81

By Times Special
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, May 49,
Col. David N. Foster, 81, park
board president, took his first
ride into the clouds during the
visit here of the Stanolind,
giant three -motored plane
owned by the Standard Oil
Company Qndiana).
Landing after a flight over
the city, Col. Foster said the
trip was "very enjoyable"
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-16
POLICE JOIN SEARCH
FOR BOY RUNAWAY
Lad, Is, Sends Note to Teacher
Left Monday.

Police have been asked by parents
of Carson Combs, Is, to aid in fino-
ing him. He ran away from his
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-16
INDIANAPOLIS AIRPORT WEATHER
CONDITIONS AT $3.50 A. NJ.

Compiled for The Times by Government
Weather Observer j. H. Armington and
airport officials.l
South wind, IA miles an hour; baromet-
ric pressure. 3010 at sea level; tempera-
ture,- 81; ceiling, about 5000 feet; visibil-
ity, miles.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-16

companions in the plane were in
jured and taken to a hospital The
plane was wrecked.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
AXE ART LOSSES
SET AT S1,5]O,0DO
tCopies Made by Obscure
eItaIian Said to Occupy Hon.
ored Places in u. S.
ABy the Associated Press.

I eBy the Associated Press.
! NEW YORK. November 24.-The New
fYork Times today said it was estimated
in art circles that modern sculpture
lmasquersding as the work Of four
steenth and fifteenth century masters
Ahad cost American collectors and
4museums S1.500.000.
! The Times article followed revelations
lin Rome by an obscure Italian that his
hcopies of Renaissance sculpture had
fbeen sold to collectors as original.
/ Private owners. who thus far have
kept their identities secret, have
aalready demanded restitution from the
kItalian dealer who introduced the fakes
einto the country, the Times says.
y Artist Says He Was Duped.
The fakes were first discovered in
sthis country. according to the Times,
eby agents for Miss Helen Prick in their
Investigation of a piece of sculpture
! of which they were suspicious.
|, Alceo DoSSena, the Italian sculptor,
swhose copies of old masters allegedly
khave been sold as originals. disclaimed
Fin Rome any knowledge of the transac-
Etions, blaming his agents for any mis-
Representations that might have been
emade. 4:
L He said that he evidently had not
fonly been duped on that score but that
Ehe also had been tricked out Of some
fof the money that had been promised
him.
II Copies Held Remarkable.
He said he only discovered that his
kcopies were being sold as originals a
flew months ago when Venetian anti
iquary showed him a picture of an
lalleged Donatello masterpiece, which he
recognized as copy he had made. Two
\ or three of his statues were said to be
Occupying places of honor in museum
L in Berlin, where they were displayed
along with originals Of the Renaissance
period.
h The agents we're said to have sold
H his copies for sums totaling S2,500 900.
\ One expert in this country who has
Il seen some of the pieces called them
Remarkable copies, almost indistinguish-
liable from the originals.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
ROCKVILLE.

s ROCKVILLE. Md. November "a (Spe-
9ciaD William II. O'Brien. % years old,
Sof Washington, who recently pleaded
hguilty in the Circuit Court here to two
indictments charging hOuSebreaking and
larceny and two other indictments
5charging larceny only, was sentenced
kby Judge Robert B. Peter yesterday to
Sthree years in the Maryland House OF
Correction. Sentence was imposed IN
konly one of the houSebreaking cases,
sbut Judge Peter stated that he would
suspend sentence in the other case so
las to be in position to sentence him
lin that case too should he misbehavc
latter serving the three-year term. ThH
1.-TWO larceny cases were indefnitelI
postponed. O'Brien also was known a
McHenry.
A license has been issued by the cler.;
of the Circuit Court here for the mar
/ riage of George Franklin Ballenger. 81,
/ of Alexandria, Va, and Miss Beatric
| Airline Nelson, 10, of Washington.
/ The PooleSville Auction Pitch Club.
| known IS the Ground Hog Club. COM
posed of IL of the leading pitch players
of PooleSville and vicinity, visited Rock
vile last evening and in contests with
the Rockville or Pole Cat Club, wiped
out recent defeat at the hands of
the Rockville players by winning 81 out
of Ill games played. The games were
staged at the Montgomery Country Club
and were witnessed by large gallery.
At the last meeting of the Glenmont
Parent-Teacher Association, Dr. r. d.
Brown was made president in place of
Capt. Don E. Clark. who declined re-
election. and other officers were chosen
as follows: Vice president. Mrs. Adam
Walden; secretary. Miss Ocie Dodd, sEi
treasurer, Mrs. Arthur Smith.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
SHAW RAILS ABOUT BRITISH
FUTURE WHILE KING LIES ILL
Irish Playwright, in Iconoclastic Mood,
Envisages Laborites Running j,
Governments of World.

you know the thing has happensed,'
said Shaw.
The future Of Britain really would
lie in such monarchs hands, he said
for any time the King could not l,ring
the Labor government and the capital
stic industrialists to terms he could
threaten to abdicate his throne and run
for Parliament, and in two years Ch sc
become prime minister and really run
the country. Long before this era
Shaw asserted, the age of titles would
have passed.
Friends of mine like Oswald Moshy.'
he said, would drop theirs because they
are expensive Injuries, and also be-
cause they will realize that the tdling
that will count is ability and mot
idolatry. Titles will not produce power
They are supposed to, but they will be
like titles in France at the present time
where to call man duke indi Gates
that he is a rather suhnormal in
dividual"
Shaw said that when the Labprites
run the future governments the Henry
Fords and Lord Melchetts probably
would take over all industry on. the
basis of being able to give better! pay
and more comfort to workers. This
sort of socialism, in his opinion. Karl
Marx never dreamed of, although; it is
the present tendency.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
BY the Associated Press.


EDGEWATER GULF HOTEL Miss,
November 24.-Alfred E. Smith came
out of his vacation seclusion yesterday
when he entertained 1000 people on the
lawn of his gulf coast hotel at public
reception.
After it was through the New York
Governor needed rest all over again as
his right hand was white and his arm
lame from shaking hands.
1t was a noisy, enthusiastic, Democra-
tic gathering of the high and the low,
business men. cotton farmers, creoles,
cajuns. boatmen, laborers, children and
women with babies in their arms.
Police Stop ThrOngs.
At the sight of the defeated Demo-
cratic standard bearer, they surged for
ward whooping and yelling to the band
tunes of Sidewalks of New York" Po-
licenaen and county officers rescued the
Governor by surrounding him with
linked hands until they could restore
order.
He was introduced by Senator Pat
Harrison, who conducted the vacation
party to the coast Gov. Smith replied
with few words Accompanied by the
Senator and John j. Raskob, chairman
Of the Democratic national committee.
he then started through the crowd
shaking hands. On enthusiastic woman
kissed the governor and he laughed
heartily.
In his talk, he explained that his va
cation place had been picked with some
care. because since the election people
had sought to reach him and tell him
just what happened and why. He came
to the gulf coast he said. at the invita-
ton of Senator Harrison and he thanked
the people of the community for per-
mitting him to rest.
Leaving for Home Tonight.
Il am now feeling fine,' he added
II promise to come again as often as !
can, consistent with the necessity of my
going to work after January L."
Later it was reported that he and his
party planned to leave the coast tonight
on the return trip to New York.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 24.-While King
George lay i'll at Buckingham Palace
Thursday night. George Bernard Shaw.
in particularly iconoclasic mood specu-
lated as to kings and kingly possibilities
in his annual address before the Fabian
Society.
Shaw touched upon the future of
western civilization. the future of the
British throne, the future of Parlia-
ment. the future of science. of religion,
and of everything else that popped into
his active mind
Outside Kingsway Hall police were
called to control crowds who could not
gain entrance: inside the Irish play
wright pictured the future of Great
Britain. when, he said, cabinets would
consist largely Of men like Jim Thomas
minister of colonies in the Macdonald
Labor government), who would slap
the King on the back and call him
George"
Future governments. then, he said,
would become more and more laborite,
and the tendency would be to make
the King more of a puppet than ever "
"A crisis might come when a really
King came to the throne
Evening star., 1928-11-24
ALBANY PRINTERS
GO OUT ON STRIKE
One Newspaper Published on Type
writers When Composing
Room Forces Quit.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, November 24.-Al-
bany received its news in high con-
densed form this morning from type
written, SiX-sheet newspaper.
Across the regulation size front page
of the Morning Knickerbocker-Pre the
streamer, Printers Strike on Four AL
bany Newspapers" told the story.
Last night all members of the COM
posing room forces of the four local
newspapers walked out. Artists. photo
engravers, stereotypers and pressmen
got cut the Knickerbocker-PresS
The Evening News, the Evening Times
Union, and the Sunday Telegram
planned to follow the Knickerbocker'
methods of publication.
Copy for the Knickerbocker first edi-
ton was typewriter in two-columr
widths and pasted on cardboard Of
newspaper page size, photo engraver'
made a one-page plate of each of foul
pages and it was stereotyped.
The three-year-old contract between
Albany Typographical Union No. anc
the publishers of all papers in the city
expired on May 81. Since that time
negotiations have been under way.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
BILLF0LD WITH $3.50
IS REPORTED LOST
Disappearance From Pocket On or
Near Street Car Reported to
Police by James W. Kicker.

James w. Kicker. 1911 @ street. lost
g billfold containing $780, which dis
appeared from his pocket yesterday
AFTERNOON while he was boarding a
sire ct car at Ninth and F. streets or
whi le he was on the car between that
paiI't and Seventeenth and H streets,
he reported to police.
Report of the loss Of g. handbag con-
tain ing gold ring and watch valued
at $120 and $12 in cash was made by
Mrs, M M Fitzgerald. 723 Eleventh
streHt northeast. The handbag was left
In g. theater last night and Mrs. Fitz-
gers thinks it was picked up by boys.
B !ssie Randall. apartment As, l415
Cha pin street, told of an intruder hav-
ing been in her apartment yesterday.
Two coats valued at $125 were stolen.
S;muel Tyler, 223 N street. reported
the taking of gold watch. two suits
of clothes and a quantity of bedding.
The property was taken from his home
yesterday. during his absence.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
FOUR KILLED, z HURT
WHEN PLANE CRASHES
Pilot Loses Bearings in Fog Over
Spokane After Trip to
Air Circus.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPOKANE, Wash, November "a
When the pilot apparently lost his
bearings in heavy fog giant tri-
motored Ford passenger airplane crash
ed near the Palouse Highway Just out
side of Spokane yesterday, killing four
persons and seriously injuring two oth-
ers. The dead:
Lieut.. William r. Williams, Spokane.
pilot and an officer of the Washington
National Guard flying unit stationed
here.
Lieut.. Louis Dee Burger, co-pilot and
mechanic, former mechanic for the Ford
Airplane Factories, Detroit, residence
Indianapolis.
Kenneth / Dunlop. Spokane bank
employe and sergeant in the 116th OBJ
servation Squadron, Washington Ma
tional Guard
Arthur G. Enorson. Office manager for
the Manner Flying Service in Spokane
The injured:
Rex Heath, business manager of Spo-
kane AirWays, Inc.
David r. Mitchell, Standard Oil en-
ploye, Spokane.
The big monopIane was returning ttl
Spokane from an air carnival at Col
fax, Wash, when it encountered fog.
Details of the accident were told by
Heath. who is business manager for the
Spokane Airways, Inc. who gave his
broken account from hospital cot
Nearing Spokane, the fog loomed up
We circled for long time. hoping that
hole would open up in the fog. ~
Pilot Jack Rose of the Manner Flying
Service, Spokane, had left Colfax in q
Stearman plane.
Heath continued
"All at once the Stearman passed lis
and dove through hole. Bill said that
he could get through and we started
down. just as we started through the
hole 1t closed up In front of us. Our
left wing struck tree and was entirely
torn aWay"
Evening star., 1928-11-24
BARRYMORE PLANS
PRIVATE WEDDING
Prospective Quiet Marriage
With Dolores Costello To-
day Stirs Hollywood.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, November 24.-De-
spite uncertainty regarding the status
of the reported divorce of John Barry
more and his second wife. mysterious
preparations in Screenland we're be-
lieved to indicate that wedding bells
would ring quietly for the actor and
Dolores Costello at a private ceremony
IN Hollywood today.
Mystery surrounding the proposed
nuptials of the stage and screen star
and his fllm-actress f1ancee was height
ened last night when huge wedding
cake. said by downtown catering es-
tablishment to have been ordered by
Barrymore, was delivered to an unre-
vealed address. The destination of the
wedding cake had not been disclosed
this morning.
Reporters and cameramen hoped to
pick up Barrymore's trail at the mar
riage license bureau when he calls for
the license which he applied for three
days ago.
The actor declined again yesterday
to state when and where his second
wife, Blanch Oelrich, who Is known un-
der the pen name of Michael Strange,
obtained divorce from him.
Woman Advises Caution.
After it was reported he had applied
for the license to wed, an unknown
woman telephoned the marriage bureau
and voiced caution in issuing Barry
more license He is not yet divorced
from his second wife" said the wom-
an, who refused to give her name, and
who abruptly terminated the CONVEX
sation at that point.
Both Barrymore and Miss Costello
have taken precautions to keep the
time and place OF their marriage a COM
plete mystery even to friends and
studio executives. Neither has ampli-
red Barrymore's brief written state
ment that he and the 22-year-old screen
star were to wed, and that his second
wife had obtained divorce.
Brides Father Agitated.
Maurice Costello, film actor and
producer and father of the prospec-
tive bride. was reported to be still
agitated over the question of Barry
mores last divorce and his daughters
plan to marry under the circumstances.
His first statement after the an
nouncement was: Il think he ought to
clear up the situation. AS long as 1t
ended up in wedding it was all right
with me, but l certainly don't like the
looks of things now"
When he applied for the license Bar
rymore gave his age as Al. Who's
Who" records the date of his birth rs
February, 1882, and Barrymore bio
graphy at the United Artists Studio
uses that date as basis, fixing his
age at 46
Evening star., 1928-11-24
RHEUMATISM BAROMETER
SUPPORTED BY DOCTORS
Cld-Time Belief That Pains Fore
cast Weather Conditions Is
Given Credence.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 24-Three
physicians of Rochester, MINI. lent
credence yesterday to the age-old be-
lief that rheumatism is a barometer
capable of forecasting weather several
hours in advance.
Drs. E. B. Rentschler, Frances VAN
zant and L. G. Rowntree told the Gen.
tral Society for Clinical Research that
they had observed a correlation be-
tween pain in rheumatism and the
presence of a storm in go per cent of
their cases over period of years They
also said they found the sunshine af-
fects rheumatic pains and that sur
prising accuracy Of weather prediction
was recorded.
DR.. c. A. Mills of Cincinnati re-
ported that patients suffering from
adrenal malfunctioning also we're af-
fected by weather.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
.HATCHET SLAYER
SUSPECT IS HELD
Doubt Expressed, However,
That Ex-ConviCt Is Man
Wanted.
BY the Associated Press.


OMAHA. Nebr., November 24-While
Jake Bird, colored. ex-convict from
Utah, was held at the State Penitentiary
at Lincoln as hatchet slayer suspect
police maintained another all-night
patrol over the city. After conference
with Sheriff Charles Mcdonald, who
took Bird to Lincoln. Police Inspector
B. F. Danbaum said. There is nothing
new"
According to Deputy Sheriff John
Dunn. Mrs. Harold Stribling, latest
victim of the maniac. screamed, That's
the mani" when Bird was taken before
her yesterday. Nurses and Mrs. E. c..
Henry, wife of Stribling's physician, say
that what Mrs. Stribling said was,
Take him away" and that she re-
fused to say whether he was the man.
Bird stoutly denied any connection
with the hatchet killings and attacks
and maintained he was being rail
roaded."
Inspector Danbaum said he must have
more evidence to convince him that
Bird Is the man wanted.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
ARLINGTON C. c. DRIVE
PLANS ARE FURTHERED
Directors and Business Men of
County Confer With Booster
Campaign Expert.
Special Dispatch to The star.

special Dlspstch TO Inc star.
CLARENDON. Va, November pa
Plans for the Arlington County Cham
ber Of Commerce membership drive and
county booster campaign, to be held one
week beginning December 2. were fur
thered when directors of the organiza-
ton and leading business men con-
ferred Thursday evening with Samuel
Johns, representative of Daniel Weigle,
expert organizer of Philadelphia, who
has been engaged to direct the cam
paign.
1t was decided to open the drive with
mass meeting the evening of Decem-
ber q to be followed the next night
with a banquet at Washington-Lee High
School A committee consisting of
Keith A. Brumback (chairman), Ashton
C. Jones and Frank L. Ball was named
by President G. r. Ahalt to confer with
ministers of the county on arrange
ments for the mass meeting. William
s. Hoge, jr.; A. K. Stratton and A. N.
Dawson will constitute the dinner COM
mittee.
A resolution offered by Mr. Brumback
| increasing the membership of the board
of directors from Is to 25 was indorsed
by the meeting and will be submitted
| to the annual meeting Of the chamber
1or ratification.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
Specs 80 Years
In Use by Virginia
Assessment Man
Special Dispatcn to The star.

Special Dspatcn to The Star.
LURAY, Va, November PA
pair of spectacles, purchased at a
country store 30 years ago for 25
cents, still serves w. Stage Modesitt.
83-year -old citizen of this city, first
public school teacher in this county
and for 40 years maker Of property
assessment books in the county
commissioner of revenues ofhce.
Mr.. MODESTO, an expert account
ant, father-in-law of County Clerk
Grover C. Miller, takes pride II be-
ing the owner of the glasses. The
work he has been doing throughout
the years has been of a most in
tricate kind. where accuracy was the
prime demand.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
Potomac Woman Buried.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dlspatch TO The star.
POTOMAC, Va, November 24.-Fil
neral services for Mrs. Grace d. Doug
las, wife of A. S. Douglas. sr.. who dice
Thursday in the Alexandria Hospital
were held this afternoon from the resi-
dence on West BellefOnte avenue. In
terment was in Bethel Cemetery. Alex
andria Besides her husband the de-
ceased is survived by three sons, Emerle
Maxwell and Howell Douglas. Services
over the body were held last night bl
Jessica Callahan Chapter. No. 81, Order
Eastern Star.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
INDIAN BUREAU
HELD INEFFICIENT
Witnesses Tell Senatorial
Committee Methods Are rs
Years Behind Time.
~ the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press.
RIVERSIDE, Calf. November "a
witnesses before the senatorial COM
nltttee investigating Indian affairs yes
Lerday branded the United States Indian
Bureau as inefficient and quarter of a
century behind the times
Mrs. H. A. Atwood of Riverside. for
many years chairman of Indian welfare
for the General Federation of Women s
Clubs, testified to alleged instances of
criminal misappropriation Of Indian
funds and unauthorized sale of Indian
property. She also charged a complete
lack of cooperation from the Indian
Bureau in efforts to right asserted mis-
management and obtain the discharge
of employees described as cruel and dis
honest. She cited many alleged cases
of Indians arrested without warrant
and held in Jail without trial
DR.. George P. Clements. Los Angeles,
declared that conditions in the Indian
Bureau are impossible adding that
the only hope for the Indians is to
make them full fiedged citizens of the
United States"
Thomas L. Sloane a member of the
Omaha tribe of Nebraska and a prac-
ticing attorney. testified to alleged
cruelties practiced on children in the
Genoa School in Nebraska He charged
that boys and girls are whipped with
blscksnake whips, cat O. nine tails and
harness tugs.
DR.. Allen F. Gillihan of San Luis
Obispo. Calf. told the committee that
housing conditions among the Indians
are terrible" The red men. he said,
ARE given as much care against
epidemics as wild rabbits"
The committee. which is headed by
United States Senators Frazier of North
Dakota and Pine of Oklahoma, went to
Palm Springs to continue the hearing
today.
Evening star., 1928-11-24
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, November "a
(SpeciaD Edward F. Fowler of the
civic development department of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
will make an address Monday at pm.
before the civic bureau of the Alex
andria Chamber of Commerce in the
local organizations headquarters, in
George Mason Hotel.
l.. E. Remington, chairman; H. E.
Arnold, N. r. Davis. j. A. Gore, w. C.
Cunningham, j. H. Hudson, A. j.
named members Of committee to ar
range plans for the annual banquet Of
Potomac Lodge. No. 38. Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, January IL, in
Odd Fellows Temple. At meeting of
the lodge last night the first degree of
the order was conferred upon class of
candidates.
Present progress in construction of
the new public school building in Rose
mont indicates that the structure will
be ready for occupancy by February l.,
as planned. The building is a one
story brick and concrete structure with
six classrooms and room for the prin-
cipal, library and auditorium.
George W. Smott, city employe, ex-
pired Thursday night at his residence
at 52l North Alfred street. Funeral
services will be held Monday at pm
at the Cunningham, Kennedy &
Watkins funeral parlors, at 500 Cam
eron street. He is survived by three
daughters and three sons.
Dr. Gilbert T. Pearson of New York
City and Mrs. J. w. Bodine of Balti
more will give Illustrated lectures and
addresses before the Alexandria Audu-
bon Association in January. No definite
date for the event has been settled
upon Mrs. Robert M. Reese. chair
man: Mrs. Albert D. Brockett and Mrs.
Clarence G. Leadbeater comprise the
planning committee.
Troop "a, Boy Scouts, celebrated the
second anniversary of its organization
last night with a special program in
the Christ Episcopal Church Parish
Hail.
Frank r. Cockrell fire inspector of
the Alexandria Fire Department, Is
rapidly progressing with his work Of