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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-02

Charles DENLY. Havana Ribbon, VIM.
Penn, San Felice, Garcia Babies, John
Ruskin.
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KIDNAPPED MAN FREED
Ransom Of $4,000 Not Paid to Mex
lean Bandits.
RyUrited Press

UI IIo6
MEXICO CITY, Aug. Fred
erick Hardy, British superintendent
at the irrigation works Of the ]. G.
White Engineering Company, in
Aqua CaIintes, who was kidnapped
by bandits two months ago has OBJ
tanned his release. The 10000-peso
about $4,000 ransom demanded
originally by the bandits was not
paid.
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FORMER REDCoAT HELD
Canadian ex-Policeman Arrested on
Fight Charge.

Walter Young, Al, of 2o52 North
Illinois, who said he is a former
Canadian Royal Northwest mounted
policeman and for seven years an
employe of the Indiana state farm at
Putnamville, was under arrest today
on charges Of assault and battery
and disorderly conduct preferred by
his wife, Mrs. Cecil Young.
Mrs. Young told police her hus-
band beat her and her daughter
Margaret, II. and refused medical
aid to the daughter, who is ii.
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For Clear, White Skin

Freemans Freckle Cream .49c
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PLENTY OF INCENTIVE,
so TWINS MOVE FAST
l0-Year- Annex Family Car
for Trip to Park.

w. -CAAo 4hAbtlA
for Trip to Park.
Having proved that where there's
will and an automobile, there
way, I0-year-old twin boys visit
ing in indianapolis reflected on the
wonders Of Riverside park today
while tingling under parental pun
ishment for their escapade.
Visiting at 2747 Bellefontaine
street, Mrs. Maude holland Of
Pocoa City. Okla, telephoned police
Thursday afternoon her twin sons,
Edward and Everett. we're missing.
Gone also was her automobile.
When told that the boys had
been promised visit to Riverside
park, Motorpolice Charles Johnson
and Otto RaaSch escorted the
worried mother to the park.
They we're having the time Of
their lives" said the police report
Of the successful search. Car
parked at curb; not damaged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-02
PARK, WORKS
BOARDS AGREE
ON BRIDGE PLAN
Adequate Approaches to
Delaware Crossing Is
Proposed.

Theodore Dammeyer, works board
president, today proposed 70 build
adequate approaches to Delaware
street bridge widening abutting
streets If the park board will acquire
the tVo blocks north Of the bridge.
Park and works board members
discussed joint purchase of the Jose
5alz tract needed for the ap-
breaches for $4,000 Thursday. The
park board tentatively agreed 10
purchase the property If the works
board will widen Twenty eighth
street, Talbot street and Washing
ton boulevard, and construct Fall
Greek boulevard north Of the span.
Park Engineer J. Z. Perry estimated
the street widening and construction
will cost about the same as the land
expense. An option is in the hands
of the city officials.
Anxious for Improvement
Wen do anything you say TO get
this improvement. It's been pend
ing four years now City Engineer
A. H. Moore told the park board.
The works board Volunteered 10
improve Pleasant Run boulevard
south drive. from Shelby 10 Pros
pect streets. included in the park
board program, to equalize the eX-
penditure
The park and city engineers will
confer on the needed Improvements
and present plans to the board next
week.
Divide Coal Contracts
The park board awarded 4 con-
tract to the Peoples Coal and &C.
ment Company. on the low bid for
1890 ton, for $50 tons Of three-by-
two inch Indiana. fourth vein egg
coal, and the Indianapolis Coal
Company a 5O0-ton contract for
six-by-t three egg at S408. Both
companies submitted the same bid
on the 500-ton contract.
On motion of Adolph G. Emhardt
TO give the entire award to the Peo-
pies, the board cast a tie vote.
President John E. Minor voting
with Emhardt to give the entire
contract 70 the one company.
Michael z. Foley and Mrs. Mary
Hoss voted 10 split the contract.
Foley made the second motion
which vas unanimous.
A resolution ordering $4,000 bond
issue for comfort stations at RAIDER
and Udell and Nickel and Wyoming
street Fairgrounds and a golf and
caddy house at Pleasant Run golf
course was adopted,
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
Hack Wilson's Bat Was
Loyal to Him in Pinch

Hack Wilson, the bat breaker with
the Chicago Cubs, may never get a
job prophesying after his playing days
are over, because the prophet business
isn't so good nowadays. But If he
does, he ought to make a good one.
In the Pacific Coast spring series be-
tween the Cubs and Pirates one year,
Hack got his prophesyer working-and
howl
1t was in game in which Earl
Smith, the talkative catcher, was be-
hind the bat for the Buccaneers. The
Pirates were ahead, a to U. and he
was telling Wilson, who was al bat,
just how good the Bucs really were.
Two men were out and there were
two on the sacks. The count on Hack
was two strikes and two balls. The
pitcher prepared to deliver another
pitch.
Earl" said Wilson, rather kindly.
"after this pitch the score is going to
be to g."
Kremer shot the ball at him and
Hack crashed it into the bleachers.
Came the seventh inning and the
Cubs had the tying and winning runs
on third and second.
"Earl," said Hack, as gently as he
could, 'this here ball game is over"
1t was, because Wilson hit the next
pitch for double, scoring two runs.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
Happy Days of Umpire
Recalled bv Veteran

Ever since "Steamboat" Johnson
went into the Southern association as
an umpire, fans have wondered why
he always takes his money and jewelry
on the field with him.
The thing is mystery no longer.
Steamboat is merely practicing safety
|. first. Like the soldier who goes forth
to war, he never knows whether he
will get back to his home base-in
this case his dressing room.
"Once," said Steamboat, 81 did not
get back. l went straight from the
ball park to the Jail. Incidentally, j
spent the night therein.
"It was in Des Moines and on
Fourth of July, too. The home team
was trailing, 1 to O, and there were
two out and runner on third in the
last of the ninth.
"The hatsman hit to short and the
fielder threw to the plate in time
to get the runner. tried to be pleas
ant, as is my custom, and said, "The
game is over, boys, let's go home to
supper" This was my way of calling
the runner out.
Johnson's face and head are COW
cred by marks left by flying pop bot
ties.
'The boys don't throw 'em like they
used to-" he nused. "Umpiring is get
ting to be real delight. Sometimes,
though, / miss the old days. But don't
put that in the paper. The wolves
might wake up and start throwing
bottles again."
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22

en-. Other dancers in other cities took
up the fad and son with the dancer
became the watchword of the hour
From 80 hours the record went to 50,
then to 73, then to so, 80 and 100 Out
in California Viola Pompey and Hor-
ace Dunn started at Los Angeles and
danced eight miles down the highway
to Ocean Park. They kept up their
dancing for 140 hours.
And then, of course, there's flag
pole sitting. A good way to rest up
after a dance marathon is to climb up
on flag pole and just sit. And flag
pole sitting was a close second to
dancing in endurance popularity. In
1927 "Shipwreck" Kelly, sailor,
went aloft on a 40 foot pole in New
ark, N. J., and stayed there for II
days. Not to be outdone by this ex-
hibition of civic supremacy, other
cities staged similar contests and
many of the burghers of those munich
palties got permanent cricks in their
necks from permanent flag pole sitters.
If 1929 is never famous for any
thing else, it will be famous for some
new and unusual championships"
Consider, for instance, Bill Williams
Of Hondo, Texas, who rolled a peanut
with his nose over the % mile route to
the summit of Pixies Peak. 1t took him
30 days to do it and he got $500, plus
a large amount of newspaper public
ity. Inspired by his example L. R.
Rose of Rule, Texas, started from
Galveston to knock croquet ball all
the way to New York and 81. p. Will
liams started rolling little iron hoop
for the same destination.
The so-called weaker sex is not far
behind the other in their bids for
fame. Last summer any number of
cities held rolling pin throwing con-
tests and husband calling contests in
which housewives showed both their
strength of arm and voice. And Cham
paign, H., is the home of Mrs. III. B.
Schmidt who claims the worlds cham
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22

pionship for rocking, she having spent
401 hours in rocking chair swaying
back and forth.
Yes, everybody's doing it, including
the children. Last summer, the previ-
ously mentioned "Shipwreck" Kelly
gave a 23-day exhibition in Baltimore.
The result was pole sitting epidemic
among the children of that city. Avon
w. Foreman started it by staying on
top "a II foot pole for 10 days, 10
hours, 10 minutes and 10 seconds.
When he descended he was praised
by the mayor of Baltimore for "the
old pioneer spirit" and acclaimed
worlds champion fifteen-year-old
flagpole sitter" His record was brok-
en- by twelve-year-old Willie Went
worth, however, who stayed up nearly
a month, breaking even "Shipwreck's"
record.
BY starting young perhaps some one
will break the record which has stood
for 1,47S years. 1t was made by Sim
con Stylites, the Syrian shepherd boy
who became monk and who, to prove
his devotion to Christianity in the
days when martyrdom was popular,
mounted to the top Of nine foot col
umn, chained himself there and oc-
cupied his time in prayer. He stayed
there 80 years?
Yes, the children are showing them
selves worthy sons and daughters of
their fathers in this matter of think
ing up new feats in which to vie for
the championship" But they will
have to be original indeed to match
the merchants of Belle Plaine, Iowa,
who thought that a contest to decide
who had the most flea-bitten dog in
four counties would be a good attrac-
ton for their annual fall festival. They
offered prize Of $1O0 and it was won
by James Parks of Belle Plaine The
judges counted 113 fieas on his dog.
(Author's Note: The list of 'cham.
pionships" in this article does not pre-
tend to be complete one and some
of the records" in some events may
have been broken since the article was
written. But does it matterO
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22

Il
pertinent with medi-I
cines Of uncertaipl
merit. When your -
child Is bilious, head
achy, half-sick, feverish, restless, with
coated tongue, bad breath, no appe-
tite or energy, you know that nine
times out of ten it's sign his little
stomach and bowels need purging.
And when you know that for over
fifty years leading physicians have
endorsed one preparation for this con-
dition, there doesn't seem to be any
reason for trying things.
Rich, fruity California Fig Syrup.
clears the little stomach and bowels
gently, harmlessly and in a hurry. 1t
regulates the bowels, gives tone and
strength to them and to the stomach;
and helps to give your child new
strength, energy and vitality. Thou
sands of Western mothers praise it.
Mrs. Joseph w. Hill, 4306 Bedford
Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, says: "Pll
never forget the doctor who got me
to give my baby boy, John, California
Fig Syrup. Nothing else seemed to
help his weak bowels. That was:
when he was just baby. He suf-
fered a good deal before I gave him
Fig Syrup, but it stopped his trouble
quick. I have used it with him for
colds and little upset spells ever since.
I consider him Fig Syrup boy"
Insist on the genuine article. See
that the carton bears the word "Cali-
fornia." Over four million bottles
used a year.
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All this takes place in the sagebrush,
and the Indians, we blush to say, wear
hardly any clothes.
Now, let us moralize a bit. If these
poor Indians were civilized whites
in large American city, what would
they do? Probably they would be very
up 10 date and enter a marathon
dancing contest in a hall. They would
dance continuously with only brief rest
periocs and with nothing much to eat
or driak. Only, of course, being civ
ilized, they would not stop at the end
of thrse days. They would try to make
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
Fights at Miami

There will be two fights promoted
by the Madison Square Garden corpor-
alton in its new outdoor arena at
Miami, Fla. The first will be of minor
importance, but the second will be
the heavyweight elimination bout fea
turing Jack Sharkey and an opponent
who will not be named until the lat
ter part of December. although IL has
developed that Tuffy Griffiths is the
leading candidate for the opposite
corner. Tuffy has been coming fast
in his recent fights and will do we'll
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
Spnrt

Ireland has prejudice against "for.
eign' games.
Kiki Cuyler was the best base steal
er in both leagues the past season.
National horseshoe pitching cham.
pionships are held at St. Petersburg,
Fla, eacl winter.
Tommy Loughran plans to begin his
comeback campaign in New York
shortly after January 1.
Of the five tie games played in the
National league in 1929. the Chicago
Cubs participated in four.
Football players may take comfort
in the thought that they are no more
of menace" than Santa Claus.
There is probably nothing, though.
in rumor that Wrigley will plow up
the ball park and plant it in spear
mint.
The late closing Of the majors is
making it hard on the players who
usually pick up exhibition game money
in the fall.
The new football stadium of Duke
university has a scout box at the
bend of the horseshoe. There is room
for 60 scouts.
Boxing, known as ell boxeo, is be-
coming the national sport in Mexico.
"Boxeadores" now flourish everywhere
in the country.
Writers in the affected areas must
remember hereafter that in comparing
hailstones to golf halls the new golf
ball is larger.
Hickory has gone up IL times in
price, and it is reported the golfers
at st. Andrews, Scotland. are taking
up steel-shaft clubs, to improve their
game.
Perhaps one reason for the little
woman's languid interest in your care
full explanation of the football rules
is that she knows you know nothing
about them, either.
Despite his unusual stature. Hans
Wagner was phenomenal base run
ner. He stole more than SO bases in
five straight seasons. 1904-19OS. and liz
one of them, 1907, annexed 81.
Harry Carl Pass, a Toronto mechan-
ical engineer, after six years work,
has perfected a tOtalizer machine for
race tracks which reveals before a
race what each horse will pay if he
wins.
Karl KoZeluh of CZechoslovakia
holds permanent possession of the
Bristol cup, emblematic of the world
supremacy which he won by defeat
ing all the leading tennis profes
sionals in 1927. 1923 and 1929.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
Baseball Admired

Baseball is greatly admired by the
japanese. Two japanese newspaper
men covered the recent world series
between Chicago and Philadelphia
filing from the press box directly TO
their home papers. One unusual fea
ture of the performance was that they
were able to have the account and box
score Of Tuesday afternoons game
in Tuesday mornings paper. None Of
the most seasoned American reporters
could do that. The difference iD time
accounts for this freak.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
The Poor Indian

Down in the nelghborhood| of Poca-
tello, Idaho, the Fort Hall Indians are
showing how primitive and pagan our
aborigines can be even after the Unit
ed States government has done its best
to civilize and educate them. They
are holding a three-day sun dance.
With only short rest periods, and with
nothing much to eat and drink, these
benighted savages are posturing and
gyrating for the glory of their tribe.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
Beat This One!

Betimes we have said in this col
umn Americans were easily amused.
And that we pioneered in that thought
is borne out by the fact that all such
representations of ours were duly
made prior to the advent of the "dog
with fleas" marathon. Yes, sir, there
is such thing. At Belle Plaine, Iowa,
purse of 500 is to be awarded to
the owner of the dog with the most
feast We hereby wi hdraw all dis
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22

it three weeks and thereby set rec.
ord and get weeks engagement in a
cheap vaudeville house. While doing
this, for a cut of the gate receipts,
they would, we blush to say, wear
hardly any clothes.
No wonder they keep Indians on
reservations. They are really pagans
at eart.-Spokane (Wash.) Spokes-
man-Review.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22

HOTEL, good town, 8 steady boarders, we'll
equipped, making money. complete $500.
BAKERY, cafe, tables, Montana, receipts
$4,000, no competition, rent SIS, money
maker.
CLOTHING, shoes. Montana, bldg. stock, FIX
lures, $7,750,owner wishes to retire. Bargain
GENERAL STORE doing $4,000 vs.. rent
is yrs, gas pumps, $500.
HOTEL, 55 rooms Wisconsin, always filed
rent $120, hot water heat. S18, 5000.
BEAUTY SHOP, 2 chair barber shop, pay
ing business, rent $50, price $1,000
CREAMERY, good town. 39 yrs. re-
cepts s135.000 cap. 1900 lbs. hour.
DRUG STORE, Duluth. run so yrs, profit
able business, modern bldg, will invoice.
GEN. MDSE., est 10 yrs. Montana, $500
buys building, stock. fixtures.
GARAGE, Montana town. run yrs. cap. 25-
cars, Chev. agency. receipts $43. 900.
CAFE, run yrs, seats 20, rent $40,
cespts $500. price $500.
CONFECTIONERY, cafe, city 5000. soda
fountain, frigidaire, booths. tables.
CAFE, live Mont. town 1000, run 10 yrs.,
sea 81. cheap for $500.
ASSO. SALES SERVICE
Hamm Bldg. st. Paul. Mimi
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22

paraging and more or less distended
remarks we have made against rock
ing chair marathons, hog calling, hus-
band calling, terrapin races, bunion
derbies. etc.. level both our index
fingers in the general direction of
Belle Plaine. Iowa, and dast the world
to beat the idea of the "dog with
fieas" contest.-Co Coffeyville (Kan.)
Journal.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
HANFORD'S
Balsam Of Myrrh
A Healing Antiseptic
Think This One Over
An dealers authorzsd to refund your nsney for the
first bottle q not suited.

Think This One Over
A debtor seemed really anxious to
settle delinquent account. He
had only 50, crisp new So bill. He
took it to a pawnbroker and pawned
it for $1.50. He sold the pawn ticket
to sympathetic friend for $15O. He
then had in his jeans the much desired
So and settled the bill. Who lost?-
Puzzles. .
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
How He Use. Tbeml

Some one has asserted that the aver.
age man uses 12,0OO.O00 words a year.
And some of those he aims at his mo
tor car and the roads are simply ter.
Gbie.-Des Moines Tribune Capital.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

Z: !: 3: : 2: !: ; : : !. :: {: : !;
~ VH&s3WtW ILL the uecduS OF lJ-U-
&X 80 be written down by
MM3I the historians of the
NE Ef9\ future as the mar
@V w \ athOn era" in Amer
A ican history? 1t may
very well be. if some
one ever takes the
trouble to count up
all the endurance contests and races
for freak championships which have
taken place during the last ten years
and which, If a visitor from Mars
were to judge by the interest shown
and the amount of newspaper space
devoted to them, he might regard as
typically American, if not actually
deserving to be listed among our major
activities.
Perhaps the marathon era" should
include the years from 1910 to 1920
also, for it was in 1910 that Sallie
Rope, a negress Of Kansas City, Mo-,
decided to set a new gastronomic rec
ord. So she slowed away some 1851
items of hardware, including 453 nails,
% screws, 8 bolts, 5 spoons, Thin
bles, 63 buttons, 105 safety pins, 115
hairpins, 136 common pins, so carpet
tacks, 81 needles, So pebbles, a four
foot string of beads and nail file. OF
course, it killed her, but she had
proved that the "so-called human
race" could compete successfully with
Ostriches and goats for variety in it's
menu when it chose.
1t was not until after 1920, however,
that the ''marathoners" struck thH'r
stride. On November %, 1923, John
Hinsin of New York City won over
Val Menges in a "hot dog" contest by
consuming 90. On November "a Of
that year Dan Henderson of Jones'
boro, Ca, completed 60 hours of steady
chewing on quid of tobacco. On De-
cember 6, 1925, G.. S. Carter of Groton,
S. D., ate 81 flapjacks, but lost the
championship" the next day to w. P.
G. Meyers, who ate 43 but his flap
jacks measured two inches more in
diameter. TIKI. .... .. .. ..
Commendable as were these enter
priSeS, it remained for Miss Alma
Cummings, dance instructor in New
York City, to start an endurance con-
test which was destined to become
the latest craze and to sweep the coun-
try. Some time in 1923 she noticed an
item in the papers about Frenchman
dancing continuously for II hours.
She decided that Americans could do
better than that and to prove it she
danced for q hours. And that started
it! Within a week she had to dance
for so hours to hold her title and
three days later her record was brok-
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
Ponce de Leon Myth?

There is little in the original mar
rative concerning Ponce de Leon to
substantiate the legend that the trav
eler was moved to go adventuring in
search of fountain of perpetual
youth.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22

most economical and satisfactory but
ter color made. Half teaspoonfuI
colors gallon of cream! 1t doesn't
color the buttermilk. It's purely vege-
table and tasteless. Approved by all
State and National Food Laws. Large
bottles, only 35S at all drug and gro
cery stores or write Wells and
Richardson Co., Inc, Burlington, Vt.y
for FREE SAMPLE BOTTLE.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
Record Gain in
Butter Profits
Doirymen Who Use "Dandelion
Butter Color" Say It's the
Best Investment of All.

The biggest creamer-
les in the country, who.
are most careful to cater
to the whims of the
public, are earning rec
ord profits by keeping,
their butter that appe-
tizing June color every
one likes. Ninety per
cent of them are doing
it with "Dandelion But
for Co1oro Tt's tha.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22

The year 1928 was the second larg
est in the history of foreign financing
in the United States.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
[S|'s!'2!IsS4|S|'|lE(;;||ijj||I11!lk|| e.; LIS
Endurance Run

Landlady-And what's wrong now?
Youthful Lodger-I just wanted to-
say that 1 think you get too much
mileage out of this roller towel
Loughborough Herald.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22

Thirty-five correspondents hsv.
formed foreign press association b
Stockholm.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22

I. A sweeping contest, held in Los
Angeles, Calf, to determine who
should be crowned "Queen of Sweep
ers." ..
2. A fourteen-year-old entry in a
Maryland flag pole sitting contest.
The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
Johr1ss Mother
Praises Doctor
There ISN'T q moth

There isn't a moth
er living who won't
agree that no half
sick child should be
the subject for an ex-.
pertinent with medi-
cines Of uncertain
merit. When your
child Is bilious, head
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-01-11
Shippers Resent
Foreign Invasion

New York. Jan. Ef--i he Amer
lean Steamship Owners association
has decided TO ask congress to enact
legislation TO prevent What they re-
gard as an invasion by foreign lines.
The action WAS precipita1cd by the
recent placing of the caronla OF the
,unard line i'll the New Nork-HaNana
traffic in competition with the Ward
line.
Franklin y Mooney. president OF
the Atlantic Gulf and West Indies
company, owners of the Ward line.
was named TO head committee
which will study American rights at
sea and recommend to congress such
legislation as they consider neces-
sary.
Yesterdays meeting came on the
eve of the arrival in New York of
the President Roosevelt and the
taronia, the two ships whose COM
petition for the Havana trade has
aroused American and British
circles