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average of every two miles. One class
was for the stages and their passen-
gers, while another catered to the
wagon teams and drivers. Some of
these taverns became quite famous.
For instance, the drivers of the stages
would make a decided effort to have
their passengers spend the night at
a place where they might enjoy the
luxurious depths of the feather beds
for which that tavern was noted. Hot
buckwheat cakes and sausage gave
another an enviable reputation, while
the ability of the host to play the
fiddle brought popularity to still an
other.
The barroom was the social hall OF
the taverns of both classes. Here the
passengers of the stages would sit at
tables around the huge fireplace and
indulge in much talk and little corr
whisky. Whisky was the drink in de-
mand, but the better taverns kept ir
stock small supply of brandy and
fine wines for the aristocratic guests
After an hour or two of conversation
Indifferent card games or any other
amusement that was offered the
guests retired to their rooms. Ar
evening at the wagon stands or tav-
ems frequented by the drivers of the
teams was not unlike that enjoyed by
those who patronized the more ex-
pensive inns. When it was time to
go to bed the drivers brought out
their blankets, wrapped themselves in
them with their feet toward the fire.
place and slept on the barroom floor
$50
Daybreak found the tavern a very
busy place. The tavernkeeper and his
servants were busy preparing and
serving breakfast. The wagoners were
hitching the horses to the freight
laden wagons and, with mumbled
good-bys and CHEEKY calls to their
horses, were driving off. The stages
were driven to the door with much
prancing of horses and ostentation on
the part of the drivers. Passengers
stood in small groups in the barroom
waiting with assumed patience fol
the coach. Everyone was ready for
another day on the old Cumberland
Road.
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On the Old Cumberland Road

Indians, when he learned that his
colored body servant, Nemesis, was
not anxious to accompany his master.
The Negro had shown courage on
other similar expeditions, so the mas
ter demanded his reasons for not
wanting to go on this one. The serv-
ant told him that he felt he would
never return alive. However, the old
Negro was with his master when
the company left. the fort. Cresap and
his followers trailed the Indians over
Big Savage Mountain and as far west
as the next mountain, where they
overlook them. A severe battle fol-
lowed and at the end of the fight
Colonel Cresap found that Nemesis
premonition was true, for he was one
of the few slain in the battle. In
honor of the bravery and loyalty of
Nemisis this mountain was named
Negro Mountain.
The life on the pike was very color
full. Stage driving was considered
quite high calling and was the peak
of a young mans, ambition. In the
summer no other occupation offered
as many advantages, but in winter
cyclonic winds, deep snowdrifts and
sleet-covered roads were a test of any
mans courage and venturesome spirit.
Travel was always heavy. All day
long, and often in to the evening herds
of cattle, sheep and hogs, groups of
Negro slaves and weary travellers, on
foot as well as on freight wagons
and stage coaches, could be seen.
In a speech before the House of
Representatives T. M. T. McKennan
gave an estimate Of the amount of
traffic that passed over the Cumber-
land Road at Wheeling. He estimated
that in 1922 there were nearly 5000
wagons unloaded and 100000 paid as
the cost of transportation in this
town alone. From 1921 to 1888 (the
date of the Cumberland fire) Cum
berland had vigorous, almost prodi-
gious, growth from the traffic over
this road. AS high as 5000 passen-
gers were carried on the stages in
one month; twenty stage coaches were
seen in line at one time, and the
freight wagons passed in a steady
stream. These wagons were long and
deep, bending up in front and rear
The merchandise was protected by
white canvas stretched over broad
wooden bows in true "covered-wagon'
style. Loads of 10000 pounds were
sometimes drawn, although 5000
pounds was considered an average
load for six horses.
With the Cumberland road produc-
ing so much business, many taverns
and inns were required and they
sprang up with a rapidity and fire.
quency rivaled only by our present
day gasoline stations. A tavern Of
some description could be found on an
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Our PRAYERS

Our prayers are ships. We send
them to no uncertain port. They are
destined for the throne of grace; and
while they take a cargo of supplica-
lions from us, they come back ar
gosies laden with the riches of divine
grace.-Presbyterian Of the South.
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Our Supreme DUTY

Our supreme duty is to give our
selves to Christ, and with ourselves
all that we possess.-Bishop H. n
Hoss.
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County,

county,
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land.
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County,
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land.
for Car
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ported
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and CO.
hereof be
Inc, 1880,
serted in
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weeks be-
ale to be
DOUB.
Clerk.
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The two lovers belonged to enemy
tribes and therefore could never mar
ry. Rather than live without each
other they climbed to the highest peak
of Wills Mountain and, from an out
jutting rock, jumped to the shallow
Willis creek hundreds Of feet below.
That .overhanging rock has ever since
been known as Lovers Leap. Negro
Mountain has an equally interesting
history. Colonel Cresap was. about to
start in pursuit of so 'ngI
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County,
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Do not confuse the "Cold Con.
troll with Frigidaire's auto
matte temperature regulator
which maintains an ideal tenn
perature in the food compart-
ment-without attention.
The "Cold Control" enables
you to control the temperature
in the freezing compartment,
speed the freezing of lice cubes,
and make a great variety of
delicious desserts.
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DEATH CLAIMS
ALFRED LAUTER
Furniture Manufacturer III
for Month.

Alfred Lauter, So, of 3046 Wash
ington boulevard, president of the
H. Lauter Company, furniture
manufacturers, died early today in
st. Vincent's hospital after illness
Of more than a month.
Mr.. Lauter was prominent here
many years as a citizens and manu-
facturer. He graduated from But
Ter college, and was a member of
Phi Delta Theta fraternity there
He also was a member of Indian
apols Rotary Club.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday at FIanner & Buchanan
mortuary, with Rev. Frank Wicks
officiating. Burial will be in Crown
Hill cemetery.
Survivors are two sons, Alfred, Jr.,
and Herman, and four daughters,
Mrs. John McShane Kaylor, Miss
Minnie Margaret Lauter, Miss Helen
Lauter and Miss Lois Virginia
Lauter, and five sisters, Miss Flora
Lauter, Miss Eldena Lauter, Miss
Sara Lauter and Mrs. Frederick P.
Robinson, all of Indianapolis, and
Mrs. o. G. Singer of Los Angeles.
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say that they export below cost
of production, which is the real
meaning of dumping.
n y y
CTALIN does not take the
, dumping charges seriously, he
declared, adding that the Soviet's
production and exports still are
too small to affect the world
market.
For many years yet, our home
market will absorb all we can
manufacture and a lot more" he
said.
"It is only as an exporter of
grain that we will take a large
place." he said.
I'm two years we shall be the
worlds largest grain producer
just as two years ago we were the
worlds smallest. But all this talk
about selling below cost, and
about forced labor is sheer non
sense"
n a
CTALIN had a special message
~ for the United States.
He said: IF it can not establish
political ties with the United
States, the Soviet Union at least
desires to strengthen its economic
ties with America.
And America being a great,
wealthy, technically progressive
and developed country, must ap-
preciate the advantages of such
economic intercourse as much as
We do"
lie recalled Litvinov's offer of
business-like negotiations about
the debts and how the offer re-
manned unanswered.
He said the United States had
suffered less than other countries,
financially, through the Soviet
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Charles Markham, Chief
of Illinois Central, Dead

Southern Pacific railroad shortly afterward, and in
twenty-three years with that company rose to the
position of president and general manager.
Markham's railroad was interrupted for
six years, when he was associated with Andrew
Mellon, now secretary Of treasury, in the oil bust
ness He was stationed first at Beaumont Tex,
later serving as president of the Mellon Oil COM
panies at Pittsburgh.
The Illinois Central took Markham as its presi-
dent in 1911 and he continued in that capacity
until poor health forced him to relinquish that post
in 1926 when he became chairman OF the board
His death was the result of paralytic stroke
which occurred three days ago. His son, Fred Mark
ham, was with him when he died.
Funeral services will be held in Chicago Friday
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-24
CITY FIREMEN
TOHELP POOR
Donate | Per Cent Of
Their Earnings for
JobIeSS Relief.
cN&0

Organization OF the Firemen's Re
lief Fund for the Unemployed, to
open a campaign for relief to needy
Indianapolis families, was an
nounced today.
First contribution by members Of
the department will be donation of
l per cent of monthly earnings by
each employee. Harry E. VOshell,
fire chief, said the collection will be
made Dec. / and will bring in
$1,074.3O.
A similar collection will be made
the first OF each month throughout
the winter, Voslell said.
Firemen will probe reports for
relief in neighborhoods and render
emergency aid when necessary. Food
coal and clothing will be distributed.
The Christmas basket distribution
by firemen is to be carried on again
this year through the cooperation
of the indianapolis Christmas clear
ing house.
Along with announcement of the
relief fund, VoShell issued a plea
for persons who have clothing and
toys to notify headquarters and
some one will be sent after the do
nation.
In 1923 the f1remen collected So
489, distributed 869 baskets, distri-
buted twenty-six tons of coal and
relieved 1851 persons.
In 1929, including $3.50 from the
city emergency fund, the firemen
collected $5,756, put out 1855 bas-
kets, thirty-eight tons Of coal to
1888 persons.
To keep the fund replenished the
monthly assessment amounts to 81
from the chief and graduates down
to $40 from privates and substi-
tute firemen.
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BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Nov 24-Charles Markham, So chair
man of the board Of the Illinois Central railroad,
died today after a series Of paralytic strokes at
Altadena, Cal.
Born in GAINESVILLE Tenn. Markham taken
by bis parents to Addison, N. Y. when he a
small boy. He attended public school until he was
IA when he went to work a clerk i'll village
grocery store.
Needing Greeley's advice, he started west when he
was II, getting far as Kansas City, Mo, where he
ran out Of money. He got job as laborer in
packing house.
Later, at the age of %, he took up rairoading as
section hand for the Santa Fe at Dodge City, Kan.
He still a section hand when he went to the
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whose homes were in the path of the flood
Deputy sherffs, in automobiles, on horseback and
afoot rushed through the valley sounding the alarm
Authorities feared, however, that groups of
hunters in isolated sections unwarned and may
have been caught in the avalanche of water.
The flood was caused by break in the Mathis
CAM forty miles northwest Of Corpus Christi
Constructed less than year ago at cost Of
$2500O00. the dam extended across one end of Lake
Lovenskiold the water of which covered 1000 acres
Shortly after noon Sunday tiny leak developed
in an earthen embankment of the dam. :
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THE leak spread slowly, in few hours 1,2Oo-foot
section toppled over, and water swept down the
valley at estimated rate of half million gallons
hourly
Buildings in two villages, La Fruita and Bluntzer
were destroyed and ten feet of water left in the
streets Bridges washed out and railroad tracks
destroyed or covered with mud and wreckage.
Rescue workers estimated 1000 cattle were killea
The Nueces river normally about seventy feet
VIDE spread to more than 1900 feet across. strip
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-24
DRIVER HELD
FOR lawyers
CRASH DEATH
7. V. Miller, MunCie, Was
Known as One of States
Best Trial Attorneys.
LIQUOR FOUND IN CAR
EX-irOn PuddIer and Gold
ProSpeCtor Killed at
Winchester.
LIQUOR FOUND IN CAR
By Tim es Special

By Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, Nov. 24.-An iron
puddler. gold proSpector, COM
mon laborer turned lawyer
was Thomas v. Miller, 40, Muncie
criminal lawyer, who died in an au-
tomobile crash at Winchester Sun
day afternoon.
Herman Templin, Muncie fur
niture salesman, will face man
slaughter charges in Randolph
county as result of the crash.
Randolph county officials say that
liquor was found in the automo-
bile Templin was driving. The car
smashed into parked automobile
belonging to Judge A. L. Nichols of
the Indiana appellate court in front
of the Nichols home.
He Won Statewide Fame
Miller, who was riding with
Ten1plin. died instantly.
The lawyer, who won statewide
prominence in the Governor Ed
Jackson administration expose. the
Dale contempt cases and the Dearth
impeachment trial before the In
diana senate, had little formal edu-
cation, but the record in the courts
OF Indiana show him deep student
Of the law.
He won many cases before Judge
A. B. Anderson in the federal court
at Indianapolis and once was &C
quilted himself when he appeared
before that court as a defendant in
the charges developing in an ex-
pose of the Mayor Bunch admin
istratjon in Muncie. He acted as
his own attorney in the case.
Great Trial Lawyer
He was one of few Muncie lawyers
to hold the confidence of Judge w.
A. Thompson, one of the outstand-
ing juristS of Delaware county. Judge
Thompson was the father of Will H.
Thompson, indianapolis attorney.
The judge regarded Miller as one of
the best trial lawyers in the state.
Miller, to use his own words,
found only one court too big for
me-" That was the United States
supreme court where he was to ap-
pear in behalf of George r. Dale,
present mayor of Muncie.
Il run out on them" Miller de-
clared on his return to Muncie. but
before he ran out" he made ar
rangements to turn over the case
to another lawyer.
He was AFFILIATED with Tom
Adams, late Vincennes editor, in a
crusade a few years ago, and from
him he earned the Sobriquet,
the ne-galoused Hoosier lawyer"
Miller's ten-gallon cowboy hat made
him picturesque figure on the
streets of Muncie.
Never Attended School
His Indiana supreme court rec
ord is outstanding, it being claimed
that the number Of reversalS Of
convictions of his clients was the
greatest of any lawyer in the state.
Defense of persons without money
was a hobby of the attorney.
He clashed often with Clarence
w. Dearth. former judge of the
Delaware circuit court at Muncie,
who was hailed before the state
legislatures bar in impeachment
proceedings.
Miller never attended school. He
taught himself to read. Then he
studied law in the Office of Judge
r. S. Gregory here.
The attorney was married four
times and has three children. For
many years he has been associated
with John WalterhouSe in practice
of law here.
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of land twenty-eght miles long inundated under
from five to twelve feet of water.
Railroad section crews worked today to save what
lengths of trackage still remained All trains between
San Antonio and Corpus Christi were rerouted by
way of Alice
Thousands Of refugees here today awaited the
waters to subsde so they could go back and salvage
what remained of their homes They streamed into
Corpus Christi all Sunday night Some had saved
amost all Of their personal belongings. othersrnone
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All for Jobs

every cent raised by the
Shortridge- Cathedral high
school football game in Butler
university's bowl Thanksgiving
morning will go into wages for
the city'S unemployed"
This pledge was reiterated
today by William H. Trimble,
head of the Indianapolis Lee
gion, sponsoring the benefit
contest.
Butler is donating the use of
the field. Civic groups have
bought tickets to admit the
players. officials are donating
their services and have bought
tickets admitting them to the
bowl. Printers have donated
their work.
Nov it's up to the public"
Tri1nble declared. Lets pack
the bowl with $4,000 specta-
torsl"
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SNOW TO CONTINUE
Temperature Will Fall to rs
or 80 Degrees.

Indianapolis figuratively buttoned
up its overcoat today as snow fur
ries drifted down to the accom-
paniment of a forecast of colder
weather.
First snow of measurable proper
ton here this season was expected
tonight and Tuesday, as unsettled
weather was to be met with drop
in temperature to between Is and
80 degrees, according to the United
States weather bureau.
Snow furries will be general
throughout the state, the bureaus
forecast this morning set forth, con-
tinuing in the east portions Tues
day.
The mercury dropped this morn
ing from 40 degrees at 6 and Z a. m.
to SO degrees at noon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-24
IRENE LOSES APPEAL
Trigger Woman Turned
Down by Supreme Court.

By United Press
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24.-NTrs.
Irene Schroeder, blonde trigger
woman" under sentence to die in
the electric chair for her part in
the siaynig of Brady Paul, state po-
lice officer, lost her appeal to the
state supreme court today and her
only hope now lies in action by the
board Of pardons.
Glenn Dague, the woman's sweet
heart, who also is under death SEN
tence, lost his appeal when the
supreme court affirmed the convic-
tion of both and ordered the record
in the case RENTED to the trial
court for the purpose Of carrying
out the sentence.
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b Jnlfed Press
CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex, Nov. 24-Rescue
~ parties plodded down the fertile Nueces river
valley today in the wake of wall OF water, liber-
ated by the breaking of reservoir dam, which de-
head Of live stock
The bravery OF woman telephone operator. Mrs.
Godie jenkins, Is. of Mathis Tex believed
to have saved scores of lives After notifying au-
thorties, she remained at her switchboard in The
path s. the deluge for hours warning residents
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-24
SMELL ASKS ACTION
ON MUSCLE SHOALS

Congressman Proposes Considera-
ton of Pending Legislation.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.--Repre-
sentative Bertrand H. Smell rep.
N. V. chairman of the powerful
rules committee. which controls the
course Of legislation IN the house
proposed today that all pending
controversial legislation, including
Muscle Shoals. be taken up and
voted on at the short session Of
congress starting next MopaaR
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-24
Dox is AT C0RUNNA

Officers, Passengers and Crew Are
Given Civic Welcome After Landing.
By United Press
CORUNNA, Spain, Nov. 24-Ofh-
GERS, passengers and crew of the
Dornier flying boat DOx received a
civic welcome here today after the
arrival of the big ship from San
lander. 225 miles north, Sunday.
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At distance, Stain looks cold,
but at close range, he displays a
broad smile, almost as full OF
teeth as Roosevelt's, and, like
Roosevelt's, overshadowed by a
shaggy mustache.
DOTH Stain and Voroshilov de-
ID MED rumors Of revolts, mu-
TIMES and the arrest of General
Vassili C. Bluecher, high Soviet
commander, as well as other re-
cent alarmist stories.
Stain answered my question as
to the possible origins Of the
sudden rumors regarding the
Soviet Union, widely current
abroad recently, by saying he
could only guess, but that he be-
Iieved it sis an organized cam
paign by certain groups centered
in Riga and Berlin for the pur-
pose of DETECTING attention from
interventionist schemes which we
exposed"
Editors Note-A trial Of al
legged counter revolutionarieS is
impending, and charges have been
made by Moscow officials that
these men were aided by prom
inent French officials and others0
"They want to make the world
think the Soviets started this
counter revolution trial as smoke
screen to hide our supposed star
walton, unrest and so FORTH" Sta
lin continued.
""The fact that these imaginative
inventors are arising simulta-
neously in various cities proves to
me it is a deliberate plan to mis-
lead the worlds public opinion"
(NTALIN laughingly denied he is
~ the soviet dictator.
He said the persons who give
him such a title either are ignor-
ant of the structure of the soviet
government and the Communist
party, which does not permit any
man, regardless of his personal
ability or character to become a
dictator, or they are deliberately
attempting to miSrepresent the
situation.
Stain said he considered it diff
ficult to answer briefly about the
prospects for the world revolu-
ton.
But if I must answer in two
words" he said, II will say pros
poets good"
Can capitalist and Communist
systems co-exist peaceably," I
asked.
1t is possible" he replied, "and
the best proof is that they have
lived peacefully side by side since
the conclusion of our Civil war
and the Intervention period"
CTALIN has no hope that any
- thing constructive will come
out of the Geneva disarmament
conference.
Nevertheless, he said he feels
that the Soviet government could
not abstain from any effort, hoyr-
ever weak, toward peace. He said
Maxim Litvinov, foreign commisar
now at Geneva, may succeed in
injecting a few health clauses
here and there"
Regarding charges of dumping
leveled abroad at the Soviet,
Stain pointed out that while the
Soviets may be able to produce
some things cheaper because they
eliminate spectators and the
middlemen, it is ridiculous" to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-24
TWO KILLED IN PLANE
Test Ship Carries Men to
Death in Flames.

DETROIT, Nov. 24-Two men
were killed today when tri-mo-
tored experimental plane being test
ed at Ford airport, caught fire.
tnrned over when landed, and
burned.
Myron E. zeller. "a, pilot, Dear
born, and Carl Wenzel, 80, River
Rouge, mechanic, were the men
killed.