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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
ROUNDING ROUND
With s, WALTE 7 r
XXTE are facing just nov
w son in the theater.

VXTE facing most important period the present
w in the theater.
As would suspect everything happens at oe Marie
Monday night Enghs Passion Play
opens its weeks engagement at the Murat.
Thursday night Guild brings the most
discussed play of the Strange Inude with Pauline
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-08
SALTS FINE FOR
ACHING KIDNEYS
When Back Hurts, Flush
Your Kidneys BY Drink
ing Lots of Water.

Most folks forget that the kid
news, like the bowels, sometimes get
sluggish and clogged and need a
flushing occasionally, else we have
backache and dull misery in the
kidney region, severe headaches,
rheumatic tWinges, torpid liver, acid
stomach, sleepleSsness and ali sorts
of bladder disorders.
You simply must keep your kid
neys active and clean and the mo-
ment you feel an ache or pain in
the kidney region begin drinking
lots of water. Also get about four
ounces of Jad Salts from any good
drug store here, take tablespoonful
in a glass of water before breakfast
for few days and your kidneys
will then act fine. This famous salts
is made from the acids of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with
Iithia, and is intended to flush clog
ged kidneys and help stimulate
them to activity. 1t also helps neu-
tralize the acids in the urine so
they no longer irritate, thus helping
to relieve bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; makes
delightful effervescent lithia wa
ter drink which everybody should
take now and then to help keep
their kidneys clean.
A well-known local druggist says
he sells lots of Jad Salts to folks
who believe in trying to correct
kidney trouble while it is only trou-
ble.-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-08
COUNCIL Will
PASS ON PLANS
FOR HOSPITAL
Bond Issue for Power Unit
viii Be Acted on
Next Week.

Plans for the new city hospital
power plant have been tentatively
approved by the city health board
and will be submitted to city coun-
cilmen next week.
An ordinance authorizing a bond
issue for the power unit probably
will be introduced in city council at
the next meeting March IS, DR..
Frederick E. Jackson, health board
president, said.
DR.. Jackson said there are five
alternative plans on the power unit
and the exact cost depends upon
which features are decided upon by
Mayor L. Ert Slack and councilmen.
Approximate cost will be about
$450000.
Councilman and Mayor Slack will
be asked to meet next week to go
over the power unit specifications.
The board discussed the plans with
c. R. zimmerman, consulting engi-
neer; Robert Frost Daggett, archi-
test, and DR.. G. w. ParneIl, nos
pital consultant, at a conference
this week.
The power unit will be located
west of the present hospital build
ings, in vicinity of the Riley power
unit.
At the conference next week the
city officials will decide what unit
shall be erected next. The health
board has tentatively decided to
switch to the multiple-story plan
for the next units of the main hos
pital.
This will necessitate rearrange-
ment of the hospital and conversion
of the present administration build
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-08

psny. Central Wall Paper and Paint Com
pany. Chamberlin Metal Weatherstrip Com
pany Chambers Manufacturing Company.
Cinder Block and Material Company.
Citizens Gas Company. H. V. Cook Com
pany. De walt Machinery Company.
Dierks Lumber and Coal Company, F. W.
Durham Company. Eaglesfeld Hardwood
Flooring Company. Edison Construction
Company. s. II. Edlin and Company. Eiec-
trio Refrigerator Company, Fletcher
Avenue Savings and Loan Association,
Frigidaire Corporation. Gibraltar Cement
Products Company Grain Dealers National
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Hall-Neal
Furnace Company Hamilton Weatherstrip
Company. c. w Hitchcock, George w.
Hobson. Holland Furnace Company,
Hoosier Electric Refrigerator Corporation.
Hydraulic Press Brick Company. Indiana
Builders Supply Association, indianapolis
Life Insurance Company. indianapolis Oil
Burning Association, indianapolis Paint
and Color Company. indianapolis Power
and Light Company, indianapolis Real
Estate Board, Indianapolis Tent and
Awning Company. Inland Bank and Trust
Company. Frank E. Irish. Iron Fireman
Company of indianapolis. Jackson Supply
Company. johnson Manufacturing Com
pany. w. H. Johnson & Son Co.,
Kelyinator, Indianapolis. Inc, Larimer
Company James H. Maxim. Marmon Motor
Car Company. Master Woodworker Man
ufacturing Company Midwest Heating
and Service Company. Montgomery Canvas
Products Company. Modern Builders
Equipment Company, National Pressure
Cooker Sales Company. NeeveS and Com
pany. Oilking Sales. Patterson Shade
Company, Pearson Piano Company, Peer
less Electric Supply Company Peerless
Foundry Company. Peninsular Furnace
Company, Pettis Dry Goods Company.
Pierson-Lewis Hardware Company, Polar
Ice and Fuel Company, Potter Coal and
Material Company, Railroadman's Building
and Savings Association, Ralph r. Reeder
81 Sons, Richardson Manufacturing
Company, Rolscreen Company, Romer
Lighting Fixture Company. John Rubin
Company Sanborn Electric Company,
Joseph H. Sewage. Shank Fireproof Stor-
age Company, Sherman Oil Gas Burner
Company. Singer Sewing Machine Com
pany. Spickelmier Fuel and Supply Com
pany, Stewart Inso Board Company,
Slower Winstead Company, Taylor Carpet
Company, Thorp Awning Shoppe, Inc,
Truscon Laboratories. Union Title Com
pany, Van Camp Hardware and Iron Com
pany vonnegut Hardware Company, West
Side Lumber Company, Wood Conversion
Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-08
MOST OF HOME
SHOW SPACE is
ALREADY SOLD
80 Per Cent of Contracts
Let for Realtors
Exhibition.

With the opening of the realtors
home show at the state fairgrounds
April 4 to 13 still nearly a month
away, more than 30 per cent of the
exhibit cpace has been sold out, ac-
cording 20 a report of j. F. CantWell,
director. The report was made at
meeting of the home show COM
mittee of the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board at the Columbia Club
Friday noon.
A large percentage of the unsold
space has been reserved by manu-
facturers and distributors Of home
building and furnishing materials
Cantwell said, and it is expected
that the show will be sold out with
in the next two weeks.
Members of the Indianapolis
Home Builders Association took out
q building permit for erection of
the centerpiece model home last
Thursday, and started construction
Immediately. The house is being
built under the supervision of j. L.
Holloway.
Exhibitors who have contracted
Tor display space in the show to
date are as follows:
Advance Tent and Awning Company.
Allied Coal and Material Company. Ameri-
can Gas Machine Company. American
Radiator Company, American Tent and
Awning Company. Arkansas Soft Pine
Bureau. L. S. Ayres & Co., Boldwin Piano
Company. W. H. Bass Photo Company,
william H. Block Company, Brazil Clay
Company, L. M. Brown Abstract Company,
Burnet-Binford Lumber Company, August
Buscllmann 81 Sons. Inc, Earl Bryan,
Caldwell Supply Company, j. E. Cantwell
Company. Capitol City Fuel Company.
Capitol Electric Company. Cathcart Bros.
Furnace Company. Central Supply Com
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-08

Although a tablet on London
tavern states that Samuel Pepys,
the famous diarist, was born in a
house on that site, there is doubt
about it. No one really knows
whether he was born in London or
in a Huntingdonshire town.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-08

Naphthalene worked into the
garden soil in the production of
one ounce to the square yard is a
protection against destructive moth
larvae
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-08

ing into a residential unit. A new
administration and out-patient
building probably will be erected
west of the new surgery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
M'MANUS TRIAL
IS POSTPONED
III Witness Is Cause OF
Delay Until Nov. Is.

Bu United Press
COURTROOM, NEW YORK, Nov.
12.-The effort to try big George
McManus on a charge of numbering
Arnold Rothstein encountered ob-
stacles today and ordered post
poned until No. 18, after one juror
was sworn.
Illness Of Titanic Thompson,
one of the picturesque gamblers ex-
pected among the array of wit
nesses, caused the postponement. He
is in a Milwaukee hospital.
George McManus, associate Of
Rothstein, was called for trial ac-
cused of having been Rothstein's
killer. He was arrested nearly a
year ago and now is the only man
held in connection with the murder
which has figured SO largely in New
York affairs for the last f1fty-t' zee
weeks.
With Judge Charles G. Mott, pre-
siding, the scene of the case is in
the same courtroom where Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker was
tried years ago for the murder of
Herman Rosenthal, gambler, whose
successor Rothstein, in a way, came
to be.
The theory of the state was be-
lieved to rest upon claim that the
defendant actually shot Rothstein
after he had joined others of New
York's sporting fraternity in an ef-
fort to collect a 100000 gambling
debt Rothstein allegedly had re-
fused to pay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
Washington Nov. 12.-Plans for
election Of Negro Democrats to con-
gress~ from st. Louis, Chicago and
New York were discussed with Vice
President Curtis, by James A.
Arnold, vice-president of the South
ern Tariff Association, letters un-
covered by the senate lobby investi-
eating committee today indicated.
The proposal to elect Negro con-
gressmen was part of general plan
outlined in documents found by
committee investigators in Arnold's
Office to organize a southern Re-
publican council" to hold the gains
made by the Republican part yin
the south in the last election.
Arnold's alleged visit to Curtis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
CHINESE ENVOY,
Wife TO PRISON
Sentenced for Smuggling
Opium Into U. S.

Bn United Press
NANKING, China, Nov. 12.-Kao
Ying, former Chinese vice-counsel
at San Francisco, and his wife,
found guilty of smuggling opium
and laborers into the United States,
were sentenced today to prison
terms and fined $1,000.
Kao was sentenced to serve seven
years on the smuggling. charge and
sixteen months additional on the
charge of illegally bringing laborers
into the United States. His wife
was sentenced to four years impris-
onment.
Suen Foon. chancellor of the con-
sulate, was acquitted of COM
plicity.
Kao and his wife were arrested
by customs officers in San Fran
cisco last July, when Mrs. Kao'S
baggage was found to contain
100000 worth of opium, and it
was discovered that she was bring
ing laborers into port in the guise
of her personal servants.
They were released by federal
courts there when they promised to
return for trial in China.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
STORY CLEARING MOONEY
OF BOMBING CONFIRMED

to William j. Quinn. chief of po-
lice of San Francisco, in which he
tells of his brothers confession to
him.
The statement of Smith is similar
to that of his sister, Mrs. Monroe,
made public last week. He de-
scribeS his brother as a soldier of
fortune, who left home when Is
years old. He states that Lewis was
in the German secret service before
the war and was a German spy
during the war.
Smith said his brother told him
he was to receive $4,000 for the
San Francisco bombing, but act
rally received less than $4,000.
Three other men and a woman had
a hand in the bombing, Smith said
his brother told him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
GENE ALGER Makes Offer
TO PLEAD GUILTY If Wife
IS ALLOWED TO GO FREE
Statement Is Made After Hours of Quizzing
by State Policeman Carl Losey; Held
Behind Bars at Vernon After Capture.
BRANDED AS PARIS CROSSING BANDIT
Employees of Bank Name Slayer of Indian-
apolis Policeman as Man Who Looted Till;
Abandoned Car in Forest Reservation.

Willingness to plead guilty and go to prison eff my wife
prosecuted expressed today by Gene Ager 21
yearod Indianapolis parole voator and alleged bank bandit
after hours of questioning by Jennings county authorities and
Carl Losey state policeman at Vernon, Ind.
Alger his wife Josephine and his brother GAIL II, and
the atters wife, are held in Vernon following their arrest
Monday afternoon in Clark county after fourhour auto
chase by sheriff's posse.
In fve-page statement, Alger said he would plead
guilty to robbng the Paris Crossing State bank Aug Is,
when he alleged to have scooped $3.50 from the cashiers
cage if "you will not prosecute my wife"
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RR J'nifcd Press
WHEELING, w. Va, Nov. 12.-
Confirming the story of his sister,
Mrs. George Monroe of Shady Side,
A. L. Jess Smith OF Wheeling, a
brother of Lewis Smith, declared to-
day that Lewis had told him of
throwing the bomb into the San
Francisco Preparedness day parade
for which Tom Mooney now is serv-
ing a life sentence in a California
prison.
Smith, a steel worker. declared
that his brother had told him of
two other bonbings as well as the
San Francisco affair and also of
having bombed the Canadian gov
eminent building In Montreal.
Smith wrote letter Monday night
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
LINK CURTIS TO NEGRO
INVASION OF CONGRESS

was described in a letter he wrote
to a co-worker, Vance Muse. The
letter follows in part:
Il went with the darkey today to
see Vice-President Curtis and he
thought well of our Negro congress-
man idea, but said it was matter
that should be taken up with Mr.
Hoover, and that he would talk with
Hoover about it,"
The letter said Curtis thought the
solution of the Negro problem was
to get "a better line Of Negroes" to
lead in the south.
But our line Of apporach Is more
acceptable to politicians and to
Negroes Of equalizing by blackening
the Democratic party than by whit
ening the Republican party" Arnold
wrote.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
Model Neighbor Here

William S. Ragan, 40, alleged
Fisher QllD bandit. formerly was
manager of the Linde Air Products
Company, 2919 Roosevelt avenue. He
left here in March to become su-
perintendent of the Chicago branch
of the company.
NeighborS of Ragan, when he re-
sided at 4111 East Washington street,
said he impressed them as a model
neighbor." Ragan has been con-
nected with the company eight
years. He has a wife and three
daughters of school age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
FORMER CITY
FACTORY HEAD
BANK BANDIT
William Ragan Confesses
Attempting HoIdup in
Home Town.
WOUNDED BY MARSHAL
Former Indianapolis Man
Held Good Position
in Chicago.
BU United Press

BN nltc0 PfeSS
FISHER, ILL.,, Nov. 12.-Home to
the little town where he was born
and trudged to grammar school came
Billy Ragan, while news of his as
serted confession to an attempt to
rob the Fisher State bank buzzed
among the 700 men, women and
children who live here.
AS William S. Ragan, superinten-
dent of the Chicago branch plant of
the Linde Air Products Company at
a salary of more than $400 a month,
the former Fisher boy was looked
up to as model of what an incuS-
trious young man can accomplish by
the time he is 36.
With him was his wife, Mrs.
Madge Ragan, mother of their three
children, suspected at first of being
the woman who went to the bank
last Friday morning and asked
questions about the town shortly
before Ragan pushed gun through
the grill and demanded the banks
money of Miss Cecile E. Cook and
w. L. Davis, assistant cashiers.
Ragan, suffering from a bullet
wound in each thigh, inflicted when
Town Marshal c. R. Potts fired as
he was passing the bank and saw
the revolver in Ragan's hand, was
brought here from Champaign, fol-.
lowing his removal from the House
of Correction hospital in Chicago.
1t was there that he admitted the
robbery attempt and a number Of
other rob- b cries, Chicago police
claimed.
Must Have Been Drunk"
II did it," the Chicago officers
told local authorities that Ragan
admitted. II must have been drunk"
I'm in too much pain to tell any
more now."
Fofk in Fisher who knew Billy
Ragan as boy could not conceive
why he would come here to rob,
perhaps to shoot them. Off1cials of
the Linde Air Products Company,
by whom Ragan had been employed
for twelve years, equally were
amazed.
They said he was an efficient and
trusted employe and was in line to
receive an increase in salary soon.
That Ragan had taken 81 300 of the
firms money, later repaying it, was
revealed in his confession.
Ragan sought to exonerate his
wife Of blame. He said he had left
her at Danville, Ill, at the home of
sister and driven on to Fisher
Friday. He got here Friday eve
ming and they went back to Chi
cage without his wife learning he
had been shot, he said.
Changed Car Plates
Authorities we're inclined to ac-
cept that as true.
Suspicion was directed toward
Ragan as the result of a forty-mile
pursuit of the bank bandits auto
mobile by Leslie r. Mitchell, school
teacher. At Danvillle, Mitchell saw
the fugitive change the license
plates on his car. Those put on had
been issued to Ragan when he lived
in indianapolis.
Ragan was said to have gone to
the Fisher bank twice for change
before he attempted the holdup.
Bank officials said he could have
got but $4,000 had he been success
full.
Mrs. Ragan said she believed her
husband earned but $275 a month,
that he formerly had been a heavy
drinker and that she doubted his
constancy.
The Ragans we're married fifteen
years ago. They have three daugh-
ters, 13, II and 9 years old.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
SNOW is PREDICTED
Falling Temperatures to
Bring White Blanket.

The gloom sign was displayed
prominently at the United States
weather bureau here today as j. H.
Arlington, meteorologist, predicted
that today's rain probably will turn
to snow Wednesday morning.
The condition will prevail gener-
ally over Indiana, he said.
The thermometer, lowering above
forty-f1ve during the last three days,
is expected to drop to near freezing
tonight.
Wednesday afternoon will see the
snow clear away, Armington de-
clared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
NEVADA IS DETERMINED
State TO Fight California Unless
Power Demands Are Met.

BN UniFed Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12-Senator
Pittman Dem, NevD indicated to-
day his state may seek cancellation
by injunction of any contracts
signed between the interior depart
raent and California interests for
Boulder dam power, unless Nevada
demands are met.
Representatives Of Nevada are in
sisting upon provision in the con-
tract that the state may withdraw
smaller amounts of power than the
eighteen originally specified by Sec
retary of Interior Wilbur and also
that she be permitted to sell power
outside the state.
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Losey said he informed AL
ger there is no chance for his
wife to escape trial at Vernon
for alleged completely in the
Paris Crossing robbery. She
is alleged to- have waited in
her car for her husband while
he robbed C. W. Lowry,
cashier.
Alger's statement was made after
he had been brought to Vernon
from Jeffersonville, where he and
his wife and brother and sister-in-
law were taken after the capture.
Immediately on arrival in Vernon,
Lowry and other bank attaches
identified Alger as the bandit.
In his statement, Alger told OF
his departure from indianapolis on
Aug. 16, saying he went to Louisville,
where he won money gambling.
From there, according to the state
ment, he and his wife went to De-
troit and then to Nanton, Canada,
but relatives of his wife refused to
allow them to remain there.
Associated With Bootleggers
Alger's statement said he and his
wife then returned to the United
States and went to Chicago, where
he was associated with "Bill Ryan,
the bootlegger, one of Al Capone's
old gang" for whom he worked. He
said he bought the auto, which po-
lice claim is a "hot car" from Ryan,
Alger stated he had been in In
dianapo1is twice since the hunt for
him was started.
Alger made no admission of
tI1eftS or bank robbing in his state
ment to LoSey.
"All I've got to say is that if you'll
let my wife go, I'll plead guilty for
the Paris Crossing bank stickup,"
Losey declared Alger said.
Alger is charged with bank rob-
berry, auto banditry and commission
of crime while armed. His wife is
charged with auto banditry. Alger
is under $4,000 bond and his wife
under $4,000. Gail and his wife are
held without bond, pending inveSti-
cation.
Governor Harry G. Leslie, who,
in May, granted Gene Alger re-
formatory parole on a two to twen-
ty-one year manslaughter sentence,
today said he was undecided as to
what action he may take.
However, it was said by Carl LO-
sey, state policeman, who is que5-
tioning the Algers at Vernon, that
Gene and Mrs. Alger will be tried
there. If onvicted, the parole vio-
lation term could be added to the
other sentence, and if not convicted.
Governor Leslie then could return
Alger to the state prison on the
parole violation.
Fire on Roadster
Capture of the Algers Monday
was the climax of four-hour auto
chase through the hills and over
muddy roads of southern Indiana,
during which Clark county authori-
ties fired once on the Stutz road
ster the Algers were driving.
According to Sheriff Hal Hughes
Of Clark county, Gene Alger, his
brother and their wives stopped at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
BY ELDORA FIELD

If every lady in Indianapolis
shortly turns into near Hollywood
beauty, it need surprise no one.
For that matter, indianapolis men
may also take heart.
At the second annual convention
and trade show of the State Society
of Cosmetologists and Hairdressers,
which opened Monday at the Clay
pool, more than 500 beauty opera
tors are demonstrating how
Your straight hair can crinkle,
your last years complexion can take
on this seasons tints and the gen.
eral appearance of your grand
mothers face can be made to re-
semble your baby sisters.
Changes Lines
Conformation, changing the out
line of form of the face, is the very
last triumph in beauty culture, by
the way.
women have long known how to
avoid wrinkles, and wonders have
been done for the skin and hair, but
these youthful effects often have
been counteracted by an aging con-
tour" said Mrs. Mary Ristine, Terre
Haute, state president.
1.-THE new conformation work-it is
molding with oil and electric pres
sure, and not plastic surgery-will
be revolutionizing in beauty cul-
ture."
A constant question at the beauty
convention is: whats the latest
conclusion about bobbed hair?"
Were in for long hair coiffures
because of the new trailing skirts.
which fairly demand long hair"
said Mrs. Ristine. But mark me,
both are a fad. BY spring, back to
the bobs' will be the battle cry Of
beauty"
Men Seek Beauty
Men, in appallingly increasing
numbers, are trying to get beautiful,
beauty operators concede.
why, only last week in Chicago,
I saw a husky motorcycle policeman
in uniform, calmly getting a per-
manent wave" volunteered Ben
Pickard, visitor from the Windy
City, who indicated the influence of
example by himself arnexing per-
manent, with Miss Helen Ehrman,
New York, as operator.
Among the exhibits at the show
are facial couch, whereon the GUS
toner can take nap while being
beautifed; a hair machine which
fits like a hood. drying all parts of
the head simultaneously; new per-
manent waving apparatus, with no
overhead attachment, SO the Gus
toner can walk about, or even
dance, while acquiring curly hair.
Today's program at the show in
cluded lectures and demonstrations.
A banquet and dance will be held
in the Chateau room tonight.