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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12

M. S. T. says he heard two men
in a restaurant discussing alcohol.
One of them explained he would
not touch denatured alcohol, what
he wanted was the good-natured
kind that wouldn't leave him so
ill-natured.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
Germany's Battleship.
Manchester Guardian. }

Great interest has been aroused in this coun-
try and in France by the description which has
been published of the new German battleship.
The restrictions imposed by the Treaty of YER
sailles left the German designers with the prob
lem of producing a frst-rate fighting ship with
displacement of no more than 10000 tons. They
appear to have contrived very ingenously BY
the use of material and methods of consruc-
ton calculated to keep weight down to the
minimum they have produced a ship carrying six
ll-inch guns in triple turrets eight 9-inch guns
on the upper deck amidshps, and a number of
4l-inch anti-aircraft guns and torpedo tubes
Her speed is reported to reach &c knots 1t is
something quite new in naval construction and
proves once again how necessity fosters inyen-
ton The Paris papers affect alarm at this de-
velopment of the German navy
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
MASK BALL

Fun at the Mask Ball, Feb. 23
at Moose Hall. Features include
6 big prizes and novelty numbers
by Juneau's best dance band. the
Serenaders. A special prize for
most comic costume. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
----------------~ -
ALONG LIES
DETOUR
BY SAM HILL.
Soft For 1t

Soft For 1t
Temptations leading most easy
life,
For to it young people gladly
yield;
Their parents oft stubborn fight
put up.
But they, you bet, no urging
! need
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
Mavbe We're A Moron-But-

Sometimes when scientists with
great gusto announce something
new they think they have discov-
cred our reaction is "Who wants
to know" and "Who cares!"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12

~ can't sleep at night" began
the man with a long tale of woe.
well, that saves you from hav-
ing bad Dreams" snapped his in
tended victim, as he hurried on.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
oh. Mani

"Just what do you think this
television will mean?" asked Mr..
Brown.
at will mean we haven't seen
anything yet" grinned Mr.. Black.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
Funny

oh, what the heck's the use
Peace treaties to be writing,
When they never fail to start
Our Senators to fighting!
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
Add Definitions

GLASS feminine gend ~
something to look into.
GLASS masculine gender) -
something to drink out of.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
Need surer Remedy

For colds it may be good,
But ! confess | doubt,
Had | the flu, I'd trust
The juice Of sauerkraut.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12

There would probably develop hitch in the
Senates vote if it were asked to ratify the Ten
Commandments.-( PHILADELPHIA Inquirerl
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
Passing Observation

Many there be who'll try to get
the best of you, but few there be
who try to see the best in you.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12

Al Smith says he will be heard from time to
time on the air. Evidently the rank and file of
democracy will get no peace until ii makes up
that $1,500,000 deficit Seattle Times)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
They're the Berries at That

Nty TIC TIC OC' TO OFT U "ae
"Women as Lawmakers -Head-
line.
They can't be beat!
They lay it down
And how
They can enforce it'll
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12

There seems to be something appropriate in
the ownership of the airplane Goddess that
will be built for the Russian Soviet
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
Harn;na Back to the % Mark

Do you remember way back
when the refueling was done at
regular intervals in places that
had hitchin.g fences and watering
troughs in front of them?
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
Poor Risk

Blinks-Is it safe to trust him?
Jinks-As safe as it to trust
thin ice.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
JoYkiller For Today

Friend wife soon will start plan
ming her spring housekeeping.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12

II may be taken as a significant indication
that the American LEGION composed of warriors,
mas pledged support and cooperation to the Amer
lean Peace Society Boston Globe
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12

II is understood that Texas Democrats have
ALREADY begun suit to replevin the State (Phil.
adelphia Inquirer)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12

we may not be so much on preventing dis
asters but how we do probe Nashville
Bannerl
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12

Ketchikan is a live town and enterprsing,
and entitled to all the good things that one
might say for it. However, as it happens in
this case, it Juneau that built the dock
and warehouse; that deserves to succeed; that
does things.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-12
NOTABLE EXAMPLE.

The City of Ketchkan has built itself
dock at cost of about $4,000 The
dock warehouse has frontage of 144
feet, is ~ feet deep, and the dock is so
constructed as to be able to accommodate
the steamers which ply from Puget
Sound ports to Alaska.
Prince Rupert has never had to build
a dock or even floats so far. No ac-
commodation has been made here for
the fishing boats except such as the
Provincial Government built or private
concerns provided. Ketchikan deserves
to succeed 1t does things. (Prince
Rnnerf News
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
NICHOLSON TO TALK ON
AIR FOR CIVIC THEATER
Author Will Broadcast Plea for Aid
Over WKBF.

Meredith Nicholson, Indiana
author, will talk on the aims and
ideals of the Civic theater Of In
dianapolis over WKBF, the Hoosier
Athletic Club station, Friday eve
ming.
Twenty men, business, professional
and literary leaders Of the city, are
on the committee sponsoring the
movement to obtain between
s15O.0O0 and 100000 for the new
theater.
Boyd Gurley. editor of The In
dianapolis Times, in talk before
the KiWanis Club at the Claypool
Wednesday, outlined the history of
the spoken drama and said that
only by establishing the Civic
theater could the aspirations of IN
dianapolis persons interested in
cultural community development be
realized.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
POLICE RADIO URGED
Chamber of Commerce to
Aid Move.

Chamber of Commerce co-opera-
ton III the move to establish a police
broadcasting station with which to
maintain communication with police
cars in the field was promised today
by William H. Book, secretary of
the civic affairs division.
Book conferred with the safety
board, urging that funds for the
radio equipment be included in the
1880 budget. He suggested that the
chief of Berkeley, Cal. police be
brought here for a week to lecture
On the successful radio system used
by his department.
The United States Radio and
TeIevision Corporation has donated
fifteen receiving sets for use on
police cars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
QUELL FOREST BLAZE
40 Homes in Resort
Raced by Blaze.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
MILL VALLEY, Cal, July A.
Only a few wisps of smoke arose
from the steep southern slope of
Mt. Tamalpais today as hundreds Of
families who had evacuated their
homes when a portion of the town
was destroyed by forest fires Tues
day and Wednesday began to put
their dwellings in order again.
Furniture and other valuable
property that had been carried from
many houses were returned to their
regular places. thus reducing the
danger of loooting. Only three cases
Of theft were reported. ---.--..
The absence of looting on a large
scale was considered remarkable.
since many expensive belongings,
piled helter-sk elter on the ground
or in automobiles, had not been
guarded.
The blaze destroyed 10 houses,
valued at more than 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
SENATE PEEvED
At HENRY FORD
FIivyer King Ignores Invita-
tionS to Testify.

b. Tuitcd Press
WASHINGTON. July 4.-The
senate is becoming sensitive TO
Henry Ford's indifference toward its
invitations.
Early this spring the senate agri-
culture committee, then framing the
farm relief bill, invited Ford to tes-
tify before it. H never did.
Monday the senate finance COM
mittee invited Ford to come before
it and give his views of the Is per
cent tariff on automobiles. He has
not answered the invitation.
Now the word has gone out from
members of the committee that if
Ford and others invited continue to
ignore the invitations they will be
subpoenaed.
Alvin McCauIey, president Of the
Packard Motor Car Company and
president of the Automobile Cham
her of Commerce, is the only one
who has accepted, it is reported.
The others include Alfred Sloan,
president of General Motors, and
w. IT. White, president Of White
Motors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
ASK CONDUITS FUND
Seek $4,000 to Transfer
Police Wires.

Request for a $4,000 bond issue
was before the city controller today
from the board of public safety to
enable the city to place police and
fire telegraph wires on East Wash
ington and Shelby street in under
ground conduits.
The city has kept high tension
wires on the poles of the Indiana
Bell Telephone Company for sew
eral years, after the poles were
abandoned by the telephone COM
pany for conduitS. A recent offer
to the city win enable the transfer
of wires without cost except for the
underground change.
The transfer will permit the adj
dition of needed fire boxes on the
east and northeast sections.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
ACCELERAT0R STICKS,
CAUSING CAR CRASH
One Man Injured in Peculiar Ac-
cident; Davis Arrested.

One Man Injured in Peculiar Ac-
cident; Davis Arrested.
A stuck accelerator, and brakes
that would not hold we're blamed
today for a traffic crash at 1912
Brookside avenue which sent one
driver to the hospital and caused
the arrest of another Wednesday.
Joseph Taylor, "a. of the Brook
side avenue address, driving an AL
len A. Wilkinson Lumber Company
truck, turned into his driveway.
Following closely behind him in an
other car. Burton Davis, l9, of 2240
BrookSide avenue. was unable to
stop and crashed into the rear Of
the truck. sending it over the curb
and throwing Taylor to the ground.
His back wrenched and right arm
broken Taylor was taken to Metho-
dist hospital.
Davis told police his accelerator
stuck and his brakes would not hold.
He was charged with assault and
battery an dreckleSs driving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
CANCER RESEARCH BY
GOVERNM IS ASKED
Z. S. Should Employ Specialists to
Battle Disease, Says Specialist.

U. S. Should Employ Specialists to
Battle Disease, Says Specialist.
BIZ Science Serrice
WASHINGTON, July 4.-Organ-
lied cancer centers should be estab-
lished by the United States govern
ment, where full-time specialists
and research workers will devote
themselves to the study of this
disease and acquire special skill in
its treatment.
This recommendation just has
been made to the senate commerce
committee by Dr.. Ellice Mcdonald,
research worker of Philadelphia.
A special cancer subcommittee
of the senate commerce committee
will hold hearings late this summer
in an investigation into the whole
subject of cancer work with view
to discovering what the United
States government should do to
further it in this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
; DIE IN CHILD FIGHT
Father Seeking Tots Kills
Mother, Sister and Self.

BU United Press
PUEBLO, Colo, July 4. A
quarrel over possession of two chill
dren was believed by authorities to-
day to have been the cause of a
double murder and suicide at
Beulah, near here, late Wednesday.
Mrs. Benjamin Gaylor and Mrs.
Wilbur Dewar, her Sister-i n-law,
were shot and killed by Benjamin A.
Gaylor, Cripple creek miner, after a
furious struggle at the Gaylor home.
Gaylor then ended his own life.
Gaylor, divorced from his wife,
demanded possession Of the chill
dren. A furious quarrel ensued, it
was said. ending in the triple slay-
ing,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
u. S. HOLDS URBAN POPE
Alleged Conspiracy Leader Held on
Dry Ace Count.

Urban Pope, 1925 Shannon ave-
nue., alleged head of the Pope liq-
uor conspiracy" two years ago, was
in Marion county Jail in default OF
$4,000 bond today on charge OF
violating the national prohibition
act.
Arrested Wednesday by deputy
United States marshal, he was
bound over to the federal grand
jury following q hearing before John
w. Kern, Unhed States commits
sioner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
MEADOW MOUSE IS
COSTLY FARM GUEST
Hundreds of Tiny Animals Can Eat
Ton of Glover in Year.

Bp Science ScrricC
WASHINGTON. July 4.-The
meadow mouse looks soft and pretty
and harmless. but he is most eX-
pensive guest just the same.
Vernon Bailey of the United
States Biological Survey, has been
figuring his board bill, with rather
startling results.
A meadow house eats about thir-
ty grams. or a little over an ounce
Of green food every day. That runs
up to twenty-three pounds in a
year.
A hundred mice will stow away
over a ton of green grass or clover
in a year.
Even as few as ten meadow mice
TO the acre on 100 acres of meadow
would take about eleven tons of
grass or FIVE and one-half tons Of
hay a year.
This number. on the 100000
acres of hay raised in the thirty
eight mouse states of the country.
would cause a loss of over 5000 900
tons of hay a year. or a money loss
of some $3O,OOOO0O annually in hay
alone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
SIX PRESIDENTS
HAD NEGROES
AMONG GUESTS
Abe Lincoln Was First;
De Priest Incident Causes
Search of Old Records.
By JOSEPH VI. BAIRD
United Press san Correspondent

WASHINGTON. July 4-When
Mrs. Herbert Hoover entertained
Mrs. Oscar Dc Priest. wife Of the
Negro congressman from Illinois, at
the White House last month. she
was following Z precedent observed
By six Presidents on at least four
teen different occasions, it vas
learned today.
Karl Phillips. Cancellation com
missioner. who has been delving into
the history Of interracial social con-
facts at the request of James j.
Davis. Secretarv Of labor. named
Presidents Lincoln. Cleveland Hayes.
Grant, Roosevelt and Coolidge as
chief executives Who had enter
tanned Negroes.
In 2 report 10 the secretary. he
said his researches we're incomplete
He will continue delving in the rec
ords.
lincoln Was First
Back in 1854. near the close Of
the Civil var. President Lincoln in
vited Frederick Douglas to dinner,
Phillips said At the great enlanci-
pator's" second inaugural reception
in 1865. Douglas again was enter
tanned at the White House. His
torians. according to Phillips, have
commented on LinColn'S marked
cordialitv toward the Negro.
A Negro senator. B. K. Bruce, Tss
entertained BY President Grant. &C
cording to Phillips, and Mrs. Bruce
is said to have had members Of the
contemporary diplomatic corps in
her home.
The other instances Phillips cited
were:
P. r. e Finchbaek oone-time
Governor of Louisiana was enter
tanned bv President Grant in 1871.
Visited Negro Home
Frederick Douglas was invited tn
the White House by President Hayes
in 1878.
President Hayes i'm 1919. was en-
tertained BIZ the president Of How
ar university. Negro school. on this
occasion he met John NJ. LangstOn,
Negro dean Of the Law school. upon
whom Hayes called later at his
home.
The minister to Haiti. IN 1895. was
entertained by President Cleveland.
Friedrich Douglas. in 1885, dined
with President Cleveland at the
White House
In 1908, DR.. Booker T. Washing
ton. principal Of Tuskogee institute,
dined at the White House with
President Roosevelt.
John c. Dancy. recorder Of deeds,
and his wife were entertained at the
White House in 1903.
Roosevelt Had Guest
Judson ". Lyons. register of the
treasury. and his wife we're enter
tanned by President Roosevelt in
1904.
In 1912 President Roosevelt enter
tanned William H. Lewis, former as
sistant attorney general. at the for
mer's home at Oyster Bay. N. Y,
as an overnight guest.
President Coolidge entertained
the president of Haiti when he was
here in attendance at the euchar-
istic congress in 1926.
President Coolidge entertained
President BorneO Of Haiti at a dip
1ornatic reCeOtiOn later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
Murder Trial Continues
BpTim special

Ep i'm IS SpCci1l
SALEM. July 4.-The state will
continue presentation Of evidence
Friday morning when trial OF Law
renee Turpin. Bedford. charged with
the murder of Zack Burton, Mitchell
grocer. during a holdup, is resumed
The hearing was in adjournment
over the Fourth of July. Mrs. Ber-
tina Burton. widow of the grocer,
has been one Of the prosecution wit
neSSeS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
RUBBISH DUMPING ON
ROAD BRINGS ARREST
Deputy Sheriff Acts When Mar Ig
nOreS Warming,

Deputy Sheriff Acts When Mar Ig-
nores Warning.
You can't dump that stuff here,
stranger"
These warning words of a deputy
sheriff were not needed by Ernest
Scale, 80, of 332 South Emerson
avenue, and today he faces charge
OF dumping rubbish on public
highway.
Scale was arrested Wednesday by
Deputy Sheriff Sam Young. in
charge of the prison labor gang,
after Scale was alleged to have
dumped large quantity OF rubbish
along Emerson avenue near Prospect
street.
Charles Mann, county highway
superintendent. issued the mo
dumping ultimasuln when he took
Office Jan. /.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
STREET RAILWAY SUED
Woman Asks $4,000 for Alleged
Crash Injuries.

Suit for $4,000 damages against
the Indianapolis Street Railway
Company by Mrs. Hattie Gfat5, 7o6
North Alabama street, was on file
in circuit court today. She alleges
she was permanently injured when
a railway company repair car col
lided with an auto in which she was
riding May l at Pine street and
Virginia avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
Boy MotorcycIst Hurt

BIZ Times special
NEWCASTLE, Ind. July AL
bert Crone, Is, Ashland, lies par
TALLY paralyzed in hospital here
today as the result of fall while
riding a new motorcycle bought
three days ago. The machine struck
a fence. throwing the boy consid-
erabze distance,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04

State of Indiana, County of Marion,
SIS:
I, G. Milton Kelly, vice-president
of the City Trust Company of In
dianapolis, Ind, do solemnIy swear
that the above statement is true.
c. MILTON KELLY.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this I'd day of July, 1929.
[SEALJ RAYMOND HERATH.
Notary Public.
My commission expires January
Is. 1893.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
WARD ASKS DISMISSAL
OF CONSPIRACY SUIT
Attacks Courts Jurisdiction of Rog-
erS' Action for $4,000.

erS' Action for $4,000.
Albert Ward. former United States
district attorney, has filed motion
in federal court for dismissal of the
$4,000 damage suit of William Rog-
ers against Ward and seven others.
Ward bases the motion on lack
Of Jurisdiction of the court. SINH
lar motions have been filed by At
torney Milton ClawSon and Crimi-
nal Judge James A. Collins. Other
defendants include Senator James
E. Watson. NJ. Burt Thurman,
George V. Coffin. Earl Klinck and
Russell Duncan.
Rogers based the suit on alleged
conspiracy of the defendants to CO.
cree him into repudiating his tes-
timony before the senate primary
investigating committee regarding
WatSon'S Khan membership. and
with causing his name to be forged
to an alleged false affidavit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
City Trust Co.
Charter No. 1877.

Charter No. 1877.
Report of the condition of the City
Trust Company at Indianapolis, in
the State of Indiana, at the close OF
It's, business on June %, 1929.
DICK MILLER, President.
C, MILTON KELLY, Vice-Presi-
dent and Treasurer.
D. A. MURPHY, vice-President
and Secretary.
H. O. CARAVAN, Vice President.
H. J. BARNARD, ice-PreSident.
T. w. DAVY, Assistant Treasurer.
K. E. SMITH, Assistant Secretary.
J. L. FORSYTHE, Auditor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
SCIENTIFIC ZEAL Is
BLAMED FOR DEATH
Yale Educator Passes, After Work
Leads TO tuberculosis.

j ale Educator faSSeS, AIttI WI
Leads to tuberculosis.
b. United Press
NEW HAVEN. Conn, July A
victim of his own scientific zeal. DR..
Toshiki MoriShita. 81. Of the Yale
department of bacteriology, is dead.
Physicians said his brilliant and
exhaustive research into micro-or-
gsniSms may have depleted his con-
dition so that he fell easy victim TO
tuberculosis.
A graduate of the University Of
Toxic. Morshita left Japan five
years ago to study in foreign uni
versities. Recently he had done re-
search work at McGill and Harvard
universities before coming to Yale.
Friends prepared today to send
Morishita's body home to Toxic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
Aetna Trust and
Savings Co.
Charter No. 1872

Report of the condition Of Aetna
Trust and Savings Company, at In
dianapolis, in the state of Indiana,
at the. close of its business on June
30 1929
E. S. GOODRICH, Chairman of
Board.
ROSS H. WALLACE, President
LEO NJ, RAPPAPORT, Vice Presi-
dent.
j. S. GRIGGS, Secretary.
o. r. OLSEN. Treasurer.
LOUIS S. HENSLEY, Assistant
Secretary
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
Defunct Bank Has S134,005

BIZ imcs SDcctGI
HOPE, Ind, July A report OF
the condition of the defunct Citizens
National bank here as Of June 20
show $134 005.08 available for dis
tribution among creditors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
HURT IN CAR CRASH
Woman Recovering From Injuries
When Car Hits Safety Zone Guard.

Mrs. Grace King was recovering
today from injuries received when
the auto in which she was riding
with her husband, F. w King, was
forced by heavy traffic into safe
ty zone guard at California and
Washington streets Wednesday eve
ming. Severity cut on the head and
body, Mrs. King was treated at city
hospital and taken to her home.