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BY CHARLES JOHNSON POST

Copyright, 1928, by the New York
Telegram Company
What story this sinking of the
Vestris isl 1t is the greatest scandal
of the sea-and the most pitiful.
If you do not think so, just recall
for only an instant, those two life
boats of women and children-and
not a single child saved; the life
boats hanging on the davits, tied to
a sinking ship and then dragged
down with the ship.
This was no normal disaster OF
sea peril This was a disaster
caused by ship that could not stay
afioat under a moderate gale" tc
quote one of the ships own officers
as he decided the Vestris' own Of
fetal radio report on the weather
to the United States weather
bureau.
Third Officer Welland, on the
Vestris, in charge of the lifeboatS
testified that the lifeboats naturally
would leak a little at first, until the
seams Swelled up"
1t is not third officers who buy
lifeboats; it is ship owners. And ii
is the tradition of the sea to be
loyal to what owners supply.
And if the ship owners buy and
equip their sinkable ships with life
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

boats that have to leak a little and
swell up first, it is the business of
the third officer-and all other
ships officers to state that
naturally" they will leak at first
and that it is entirely normal to
trust to their swelling up tight
enough.
The fact is that there have been
for years lifeboats made of metal
that do not warp and crack and
open up in the sun and that are not
sufferers from dry rot, as wood is.
The Vestris was and has been for
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years on a run to the lower section
of South America.
On every trip she passes through
the tropics and crosses the equator.
Do you know what the sun of the
tropics is? 1.-THE pitch in the deck
seams softens under it's soaring
blasts; it is like a breath from a kiln.
Day after day the upper decks
catch the suns full strength.
There is no more excuse for Ieaky
lifeboatS, in these days of metal,
than there is for a sinkable ship like
the Vestris, that foundered in its
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own officially reported moderate
gale" that she herself officially
radioed to the United States weather
bureau.
Provided, of course, that ship
owners will buy properly built and
designed floatable ships and life
boats that d onot naturally leak as
part of their accepted funetioning.
But as long as this archaic fie-
ton of these artificially encouraged
perils of the sea can be preserved
to hugger-mugger the public, the
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less it will cost to build either ships
or their Ifeboats.
In this day of engineering science
we find, by an experience like the
Vestris, that we must look for the
perils of the sea that have their
roots ashore.
We must have laws that will con-
denim obsolete and dangerous ships,
lust as we condemn and prohibit
the use of dangerous buildings. Or
compel them to be rebuilt to mod
ern laws and requirements.
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FIVE ACES, ONE DEAD
Two High Cards of Spades Leads
to Fatal Shot.

CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-It's a bad
practice to play cards with a deck
having more than four aces.
Llemont Coppage and william Por-
ter did, however, and when both eX-
posed the ace Of spades. Coppage
was killed and Porter arrested.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
HoOsier Wins Corn Prizes

Ry Times Special
BRIDGEPORT, Ind, Nov. 49,
John Lux of Bridgeport today holds
tn egrand prize and ten-ear reserve
championship on his exhibits in the
national corn show at Hannibal,
Mo.
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cidents is being made for San Fran
cisco motorists. Los Angeles reports
an increase of 80 per cent in the
movement of street traffic after re-
vising its regulations"
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A Substitute for
Dieting
ARTICULAR people

ARTICULAR people
do frown on thooe
who "pick and
choose" at the
table. A "diet" is
often embarrassing
and always a hard
ship. And min e
times out of ten it
is unnecessarily
Try this simple
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SHIP OWNERS
ASSAILED FOR
SEA DISASTER
Blame Put SquareIy on
Greed for Profits in
VeStris Sinking.

Charles Johnson Post, well-known
Marine expert, author, and investiga-
tor, continues with this issue an
authoritative series of articles on the
VestTis disaster.
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WHISKY PLOT
CASES DROPPED
Remaining Jack Daniel Aids
to Be Dismissed.

Authority to dismiss indictments
against remaining defendants in the
Jack Daniel Distillery theft case,
tried here in 1925, has been granted
by the United States attorney gen.
erals Office, Albert Ward, United
States district attorney, announced
today.
Twenty defendants, mostly of st.
Louis and Cincinnati, were SEN
fenced in December, 1925.
The case involved theft of 800
barrels of bonded whisky from the
Jack daniel Distillery at ST. Louis,
owned at the time by George Re-
mus, Bootleg Gar" recently found
insane, following his trial for the
murder of his wife, Imogene, at
Cincinnati.
Among the cases to be dismissed
by Ward are those Of Lem MatloW,
Thomas A. Heffernan and Henry L..
Dahlman of Nashville, Tenn; Fred
Essen, st. Louis; Leonard Stone,
George Halls and a man named
Houlihan, all fugitives; Frank Hoff-
man, Chicago, released at a re-
moval hearing; Michael Kinney,
granted a new trial in District
Court, and John Connors, George l..
Landin, William Lucking, Cincin-
natl; Anthony Foley, st. Louis; Rob-
ert E. Walker and Edwin j. O'Hare,
whose conviction was reversed by
the Circuit Court of Appeals.
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1 can not believe that they are
even aware of the ,loatheSome and
unsanitary conditions amid which
even the company strikebreakers
are being lodged.
Everything from near murder and
assaults on women to violation OF
constitutional rights has been per-
perated upon defenseless workers
and their families.
I have no doubt that, although
the miners union itself has made
every effort to maintain peace and
order, individual strikers have re-
belled and broken the laws. But the
situation facing them has become
breeder of radicalism and boil
sheviSm which might well spread
and become national menace.
We found Americans living in
squalor, suffering misery and dis
tresS, conditions bound to lead to
sickness and crime.
We found no actual starvation be-
cause the union has tried to take
care OF it's own and human beings
can exist on very little when forced
to do so. But the unions tempo
rary Shacks are crowded and I'M
sanitary. They will be worse in hot
weather.
We found workers crowded into
little bunkhouses under most I'M
sanitary conditions. In one house
occupied by strikebreakers they had
even removed the stove.
Most of the Strikebreakrs are col
ored men. They aren't of the best
class. The employers take in any
one who says he is a coal miner
and then treat their men like dogs.
Thus they have a great many in
experienced men, and that is a dan
gerouS situation in coal mine.
We had women before us who
had been beaten or criminally as
saulted by coal and iron police.
Many of the atrocities on miners
and their families have taken place
on public highways. The people
seem to be helpless and unable to
get relief.
The committee gave the operators
every chance to excuse themselves,
but they made virtually no attempt
to do so.
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credited with assuming the afore-
said attitude.
naturally assume that the Doc
passed the 30th year of his life
and might be even now on the
home stretch. The older they are,
the harder they fall for the bunk
that there is any age limit on
love.
In these days the Doc can't be
"rulec off for trying" 1t wouldn't
be necessary to stop at a filling
station to see that the Doc is
running on a fiat tire. In fact,
it easily would be noticed (by
quick squint at the picture of his
philosophical bean that the Doc
tor nurses neatly clipped flock
of flea ladders on the only motive
portion of the human skull, in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-07
TAX BOARD ASKS
FOR SCHOOL PLANS

1--WE wish that you would furnish
detailed information of the amount
to be expended for each building
proposed" the Brown letter read in
part. I'VE would like to know the
exact character Of the improvements
to be made.
This board desires to cooperate,
but obviously we cannot proceed
without accurate knowledge"
He asked that all plans and Speci-
fications be turned over the tax
board at once.
William H. Book OF the civic
affairs committee of the Chamber
Of Commerce and Willis c. Nus
baum, attorney for the Indiana Tax
payers Association, conferred with
Brown and other board members
today, regarding the school bond
issue.
The issue appeal was taken by the
Taxpayers Association Of which
Harry MieSe is secretary.
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ESSAY TEST CLOSES
Best Girl Winner to Be
Named Thursday.

All answers to the my Best Girl
Contest" were in by midnight Tues
day and judges already have started
their task Of sorting and classifying
the replies.
In addition to a representative
from the Loews Palace Theater.
there are two other judges, Miss
Mary Rose Hemler, of Bobbs- Merrill
Company. and George o. Hutsell,
Marion County clerk.
These three will determine the
winners. The Indianapolis Times
reserves the right to be the final
judge in all matters of dispute. This
clause will eliminate all error in the
selection Of prize winners.
There are two lists of prizes. One
for men and one for women. The
prizes are first, $25; second, $40;
third, fourth and fifth, SIS, and ten
prizes Of one pair of free tickets to
the Palace for the ten next best
essays. Winners will be announced
Thursday.
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All of which makes it necessary
for a chaste salute, generally
known as a kiss, to be passed to
the kissee's facial gap by means
of a pea-shooter-especially if the
kisser'S skin is a bit sensitive if
she or it had not gone through
a course of intensive training, US
ing a coil of barbed wire as a
sparring partner.
Perhaps this self-infiicted idea
Of manly beauty, covering a chin
with a set of bristles, may have
caused many fair damsel or
damselS to "break slow at the
barriers"
I long have considered the pos
sibility of interviewing bewhis-
kered professors throughout the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-07
HICKMAN ACCEPTS
CATHOLIC RELIGION

Church, it was learned here today.
Richard Cantillon. Hickman'S
youthful defense attorney. was
authority for the announcement.
Cantillon said Hickman was
baptized last week in the county
Jail here, and now looks forward to
the reception of. the next two
sacraments-holy communion and
confirmation.
Cantillon said the next two
sacramentS probably would be given
while hickman awaits the outcome
of his present joint trial with Welby
Hunt for the murder of Ivy Toms,
Los Angeles druggist.
Hickman's great admiration for
the Rev. Father E. H. Brady, pastor
Of st. Cecelia's Catholic Church, led
the convicted slayer to consider
conversion, Cantillon said.
Hickman may take the witness
stand today to aid in his own in
sanity defense. In this event, at
torneys said, alienists will follow
the procedure of the Parker trial in
giving Hickman mental tests.
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country on this point and reveal
ing the results of my inquiry to
an eager nation.
This handicap possibly might
make the Doc sour on the
weaker sex, or in this case of
synthetic love diagnosis, stronger.
The good Docs own actions belle
his own words as they have been
quoted to me, THAT man past
80 is incapable of love-"
The unnecessary packing of
chin germ catchers might show
that dignified Doctors are in love.
Yes-in love with themselves.
Understand me now, 1 am not
making this personal.
Otherwise, generally speaking,
why the stray moss on these chin
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dentistry known as the parking
space of the lower molars, in other
words, known as the jaw, or, to
be more to the point, what is
known in the social set of Madi-
son Square Garden as the but
ton"
q Il n
IF the Doc can prescribe human
L activity in a couple of lines,
then I can diagnose his own state
.ment by a slant at his map.
One also can notice, even two
could notice, that the Doc filters
the fresh air to his bellows via
the hedge route under his beak,
designed by nature for the sense
Of smelling. not blockading one
of the five senseS-if any.
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joints that are wobbling around
on all the best lecture platforms
these days? Is it ego, vanity,
conceit, or just plain bunk? Ask
me anotherl
But why dignity mental per-
spiration? When the skull is
dead, the brush frequently still
grows-ask any undertaken! If
you don't want to ask any I'M
dertaker, take my word for it.
This might be circumstantial
evidence in the case at hand.
How do I know?
Don't feed the trained seals as
you pass out on your left.
Jim, bring in the mop.
Yours, as usual,
BUD FISHER.
Copyright. 1919. Bell Syndicate, 1nc.l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-07
TAX FRAUD FOUND
Alterations in Barrett Law
Records Revealed.

An alteration in the Barrett law
records involving $35 was revealed
Tuesday by County Treasurer Clyde
Robinson.
Search of records was ordered
after Center Township Tax Assessor
Frank B. Brattain barred several
falsifications found in his records,
by which the county might have
lost thousands Of dollars.
Grand jury investigation of the
assessors book changes is under
way. Several owners of downtown
real estate are to be called before
the jury, it has been learned. Brat
tain already has appeared.
1t is virtually impossible to beat"
the Barrett law department, be-
cause of the recheck system,
Deputy Joseph Hillman, who caught
the alteration, said.
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Chairman John j. Brown of the
State tax board today sent letter
to Albert F. Walsman, business di-
rector Of the Indianapolis public
schools, asking detailed information
including plans and specifications,
for the new buildings and additions
to graded schools for which a
100000 bond issue has been asked
The bond issue is now pending on
appeal before the tax board. Brown
referred to heaings that have been
held and denied charges of school
board members that the tax board
was trying to halt needed building
eXpenditures. ''for no reason at all"
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STATE BANKER
CALLED FORGER
Warrant Given to Sheriff for
James Lang.
By Times Special


SULLIVAN, Ind, March First
action under criminal law in the
case Of James M. Lang, 70, missing
president of the closed Citizens
Trust Company Bank here, has been
taken. A warrant Is in the hands
of the Sullivan County sheriff today,
based on a forgery charge filed in
Sullivan Circuit Court Tuesday.
Amount of Lang's shortage at the
bank has not yet been determined.
A check of records continue, but to
date State bank examiners have dis
closed that many forged notes have
been discovered and that Lang
failed to account for 100000 in Lib
erty bonds.
Denial that a reward of $4,000
has been posted for arrest of Lang,
missing since Feb. 2, is made by Ben
G. CroWder, temporary receiver Of
the bank, and by Mayor Richard
Bailey, vice president.
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ACTS AFTER TRAGEDY
Owner to Move Building at Center.

Owner to Move Building at Center
ton Crossing, Where Six Died.
By Times Special
MARTINSVILLE, Ind, March 7.
The store building owned by Lewis
Parker at Centerton, which OBJ
structs view of Terre Haute, In
dianapolis & Eastern traction line
crossing, where six persons we're
killed few weeks ago when an in
terurban car struck an automobile,
is to be moved.
Parker has advised Prosecutor
William G. Bray of Morgan County
that he will follow a suggestion of
the public service commission that
the building be moved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-07
TAX RECORDS PRoBED
Prominent Property Owners to Be
Called by Grand Jury in Quiz.

Several prominent Center Town.
ship property owners are expected
to appear before the Marion County
grand jury in its probe of falsifi-
cations recently revealed in records
of Township Assessor Frank B.
Brattain, it was learned today.
Brattain was before the grand
jury Monday, telling how he dis
covered the original figures scratched
out, and the Insertions of others,
lowering valuation of the property
in question.
Deputy Prosecutor William H.
Sheaffer declined to reveal names
of witnesses who will be summoned
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Cleared of Murder Charge

By THINGS NpecldJ
WASHINGTON, Ind, March T.
Fred McConn stands acquitted to-
day of first degree murder charge
in the death of George Coleman,
aged recluse, last December. A YER
dict of not guilty was returned Tues
day night by Daviess Circuit Court
jury which took only two ballots.
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Anthem Authors Kin Dies

bY lMCS NptCIuT
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, March Z. -
Clayton Key, 81, who claimed he was
a nephew of Francis Scott Key,
author Of 1.-The Star Spangled Ban
ner," is dead at the Allen County
infirmary here.
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spring Indianapolis youngsters showing
winter is
In the picture exciting Of marbles which
ShettS 43l S. Pine st, has challenged William Meoch
Ave Bernard Glaze 99 De P and Paul Tone 800 Harrison ST.
holding the neighborhood
Indianapolis upper right
pushing
though young support pleasures tcycng
those of roller skating.
Lower left Lincoln 526 Fall Greek Blvd snapped
sucker" the most popular spring tonic
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BY BUD FISHER

Mr.. John N. Wheeler,
Dear John:
You sent me a quotation from
a so-called, is, may be or what
have, a DR.. Will c. Durant, "A
man past 80 is incapable of
love :"
Personally I never have had the
displeasure of meeting the Doc
and the displeasure is no doubt
mutual, but with one peek at the
Docs pan, easily can under
stand that the Doctor looks like
more or less Of a sedate, quiet
sort Of gent and easily could be
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BY FREDERICK KUN
United Press Staff Correspondent

BERLIN March THE death before a German firing
squad of Edith Cave British World War nurse described
for time in all its dramatic detail today by the German
doctor who witnessed her execution for helping prisoners
to escape
GA brave daughter of great nation the army physician
DR. Gottfried Benncaed Miss Cave in telling the story
in the newspaper Acht- Uhr- Abendblatt.
He told how she walked undnchingly to the execution
place said she glad die for England and received twelve
bullets in her heart and lungs.
Dr. broke en-year silence help clear up the
roversy that followed the banning by the British government
of motion picture film purporting to describe Miss Cavels
execution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-07
CLOSE U. S. HIGHWAY So
Road From West Harrison to Dear
born to Be Paved.

Director John D. Williams of the
State highway commission today an
nounced that United States Rd. So,
will be closed Monday from the In
diana Ohio line at West Harrison
to Dearborn in Franklin County.
The road will remain closed unt:S
paving is completed. There are no
detours and traffic between Indian
apolis and Cincinnati, Ohio, should
go through Hamilton, Ohio, and
Richmond, Ind, Williams said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-07
HELD FOR GRAND JURY
Two Men Face Charges of Robbery
at Speedway.

Forest Moist. 26, of 1929 Villa Ave,
and Raymond Fullen, IS, of 808
Fletcher Ave, we're held to the grand
jury Tuesday on charges of the
robbery of John B. Wickard, of 2306
Ashland Ave. They are said to have
forced Wickard into an automobile
at the Speedway and taking a dia-
mond ring and money from him.
Aura Condiff, 25, of 1858 Olney
St., and Floyd Fettinger, "a, of the
same address, we're held on charge
of robbery of a filling station.
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Smallpox at Peru

PERU, Ind. March with forty
cases Of smallpox here, health au-
thorities have ordered vaccination
Of all school teachers and pupils
not already immunized against the
disease.
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WASHINGTON March THE conditions prevailing
mnous coal fields OF Pennsylvania where thousands of
strike shocking.
They cruel often outrageous.
They
They demonstrate great economic waste.
They the benefit the the
the in the mines the people the coal bills
The subcommittee of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
went into the btminous with returned
Washington convinced of all these things.
believe the
cruties
police operators
their rights citizens by courts themselves
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By United Press
LOS ANGELES, March will
liam Edward Hickman, under SEN
tence of death for the murder Of
Marion Parker, has accepted the
tenets of the Roman Catholic
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.PATROLMAN APPOINTED

Arthur Jines Fills Vacancy On
Force Caused by Death.
Arthur Jines, OF, Democrat, 26071s
w. Michigan ST.. was appointed
patrolman Tuesday by the board of
safety. Jines was named to fill va
cancy caused by death last week.
Jines, an interior decorator, had
the recommendations of Mayor l..
Ert Slack, Councilman Willard w.
Ferguson and Ernest Prick, works
board secretary, all Democrats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-07
FIRST EYEWITNESS story /
OF GERMANY'S EXECUTION OF
BRITISH WAR NURSE IS TOLD.
DR.. Gottfried Benn, German Army Doctor,
Breaks Long Silence Regarding Death of
Edith Cavell at Hands of Firing Squad.
BRAVE WOMAN MARTYR EULOGIZED
Relates Death Trek to Brussels Shooting
Range, Where Nurse and Belgian Soldier
Unfinchingly Gave Lives for Allies


the
life for
officer.
in
versonS that haveR befoe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-07
COAL AREA CONDITION ARE
OUTRAGE, GOODING SAYS, IN
review Of SENATOR'S QUIZ
Situation Branded a Menace; Mine Police
Assailed; Violence and Squalor Every
where, Idahoan Declares.

OF
In
a o
BY SENATOR FRANK r. GOODING
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This is another of the series OF an
swers to Will Durant'S statement Man
is incapable Of real love after 30.'