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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-16
RAlNMAKER'S ORDER IS
DEFIED BY HEAVENS
Black Clouds Gather for Control
Doctor But No Water Falls.

Black Clouds Gather for Control
Doctor But No Water Falls.
Bu United Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Dr. G. A.
I. M. Sykes, who, flushed with the
success of keeping rain away from
Belmont race track for seven sue
cessive days, offered to make it rain
Tuesday for nothing, feels that,
after all, he does not completely
understand the weather in these
parts.
Black clouds gathered-at his be-
hest. he said-but when the sched-
uled hour of $50 arrived no rain
had fallen and the spectators went
home quite dry. 1t simply would
not rain.
But his failure did not dim his
faith in his rain control machine"
for hadn't he collected $500 for
keeping the rain away all OF last
week?
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ODD FELLOW VISITORS TO
TAKE AUTO TOUR OF CITY

of Rebekah degrees in the Atne-
naeum. Miriam Rebekah lodge, 4O7,
East Chicago, supervised degree
ceremonies.
Appearances of the Indianapolis
Odd Fellow band, bedecked in new
uniforms, at downtown hotels gave
a touch of spirit and color TO the
convention Monday.
At converting of the Association
of Rebekah assemblies in the Lin
coin this morning, Miss Amelia
Blake, San Antonio, Tex, became
president of the association with
Miss Agnes E. Rogers, New York
outstanding contender for the vice
presidency.
National bodies will view degree
work by the staff of Union lodge, 81
Connersville, in the Anthenaeum to-
night at 1880 prior to the grand
sire's reception, scheduled for 9
Theone Poole, 8, daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Poole, 1850 East
Washington street, will serve tht
staff as maid Of honor.
Wednesday will be military day
at the convention, which VIII close
Saturday.
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RADIO MOVING URGED
Safety Board Considers Building
New Police Station.

Removal of the Indianapolis
police radio station WMDz, from
the top floor of the x. of P building,
Ohio and Pennsylvania streets, was
proposed today by safety board
members and Robert I. Bats, radio
superintendent.
Safety board members are seeking
to slice the cost Of the radio opera
ton and intend to build station.
Willard park is considered the
most likely location.
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comment.

Held since Friday under
the alias of Emrald Harris, he
was identified this morning
by Carl Losey, Indiana state
policeman, ending a six
weeks search for the man
identified by a ,Bertillon
photograph as Lingle's slayer.
Losey's identification was support
ed, in turn, by George Williams and
two other investigators attached to
offices of Pat Roche, special inves-
tigator for the Cook county QlO
prosecutor.
The hunt was intensified over the
weekend when three hijackers
were captured, and a fourth, be-
lieved to be Geisking, escaped after
a gun battle with federal agents
and police which followed hijack-
ing raid On a liquor truck en- route
to Indiana from Florida.
Arrested While Speeding
Meanwhile, Geisking was held in
Jail here since Friday night under
the alias of En1rald Harris.
Monday he was identified by
fingerprints while a lawyer strove
to Iiberate him on a writ of habeaS
corpus, and when LoSey substan-
tiated the identification this morn
ing, Geisking was ordered held
without bond on murder and fug1-
tive charges.
Geisking was arrested by Detec-
tive Cecil EzeIl of the Louisville po-
lice department, while speeding
seventy miles an hour over the
municipal bridge connecting Louis
vile and JefersonVille.
With him were his secret BRIDE
of a month, formerly Ruth Harter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-16
KOS RETRIAL STARTED
Opening Statements Scheduled in
Car Death Case.

Opening statements were to be
made this afternoon in the criminal
court retrial of Max S. Kos, IS, OF
245 West Thirty-eighth street, on a
charge of involuntary manSlaughter
in connection with the death in an
auto accident two years ago of two
workmen for the indianapolis Street
Railway Company.
A jury was impaneled shortly
before noon, and the trial got I'M
der way Immediately with partial
opening statements by Prosecutor
Judson L. Stark.
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GE|SKING, CITY CANISTER,
HELD FOR Jingle Staying,
s, LINKED TO zUTA'S MURDER
indianapolis Racketeer, Nabbed by Louis
vile Cop, Is Branded Gunman Who Shot
Down Chicago Newspaper Man in Loop.
PHOTOS AID IN IDENTIFICATION
Captured While Speeding Over Municipal
Bridge 70 Miles an Hour, Accompanied =.
by Secret Bride of Month. "


LOUISVILLE KY, Sept. 16.-Grilled by Chicago, In-
dianapos and Louisville police today Theodore Geisng
hiiacer gangser and alleged murderer of Alfred Lnge
Chicago newspaper man. indicated he will fight attempts to
take him to Illinois.
On the other hand he appeared willing to the Ohio
river to Indiana where he may be charged with of
era crimes including bandry hijackng robbery and auto
thievery.
Persistent questioning concerning his connections with
gang activities Chicago and the murder Of Lnge in the
Chicago loop June brought only vigorous denias from tbs
prisoner.
"Why should take the rap in Chcago?" was his only
comment
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LACK OF FUNDS BLOCKS
STATE DROUGHT RELIEF

Indiana's drought relief program
has reached the point where there
are plenty of statistics but no
funds it was disclosed at meet
ing of the drought commissioners in
the statehouse annex today.
Dean J. H. Skinner of Purdue
university. chairman, reported the
commission survey has disclosed the
greatest need OF The drought suf-
fererS is money. As far as he knows,
none will be forthcoming, except
through regular banking channels.
he said,
Eight hundred and twenty fani-
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lies in eleven counties returned
questionnaires asking relief in the
form of feed for cattle, seed for fall
planting and the purchase of fer
tilizer, or the financing of these
purchases, Skinner said. There is no
immediate danger of families starv-
ing, but there may be want in some
sections this winter, he asserted.
Brown county reported 1873 fani-
lies in immediate need Of relief.
This was the only one in which such
a situation was reported. Skinner
declared.
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U. S. BOAT TARGET
Chinese Reds Open Fire on
Naval Craft in River.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-The
American gunboat Oahu was fired
upon heavily last Saturday by Chi
nese communists" at a point 203
miles above Hankow on the Yangtse
river, American Consul General
Frank P. Lockhart at Hankow re-
ported to the state department to-
day.
The Oahu returned the fire with
eleven 3-inch shells and 200 ma
chine gun rounds, the consuIs mes
sage said.
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Penny Wise

BU Unfted PTes8
PLAINFTELD, N. j., Sept. 16.
- Thomas Eggleston, 10, has
commenced serving a forty day
term in county jail because he
could not pay a $40 fine i'm
posed by City Judge William
Demez for stealing a news
paper.
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BUYING POWER HELD UP

Hoover Declares u. S. in Better
Shape Than Foreign Nations.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-PreSi-
dent Hoover announced today that
foreign trade statistics indicate that
American buying power has held
up much better than that of foreign
countries" under the worldwide fall
in prices.
The entire foreign trade this year
has been about so per cent or IS
per cent of normal, the President
said.
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dropped his racket and motioned to
the girl.
DR.. Jack Steele was summoned,
and restoratives were administered
with the aid of a police pulmotor,
but Sills died soon after.
His wife, their small son, Kenyon;
Mrs. James B. Kenyon, his mother
in-law; the daughter and Jack
Goodrich, friend of the family,
we're with him.
Married Last in 1925
Sills was in excellent spirits and
apparently in good health when he
began the tennis game. He had not
been working for some time owing
to the heart ailment, but it was
believed he was recovering rapidly.
Stills and Miss Kenyon were mar
ried in October, 1926, a short time
after he was divorced by Cwladys
Edith Wynne, to whom he was
married in London in 1870 Dor
othy, now 18, was a child of the
first marriage.
Miss Kenyon became i'll shortly
after the marriage and Stills took
her in a special train to the Adj
rondacks to recover. He also be-
-ame i'll, and the first of his retire
"snlents was made necessary.
Educated in Chicago
Sllls was born in Chicago, Jan. Il,
1870 uvL xrroc oLt,CokoI - al
He graduated from the University
of Chicago in 1903 and for two
years held a fellowship in philoso-
ply.
He had not trained for a stage
career, but early in life decided his
talents lay in that direction.
He made his professional debut
in New Palestine, O., as the leading
man in Dora Thorne." Later Be-
lasco, the Shuberts, Frohman and
Brady featured him in eastern pro-
auctions.
Motion pictures attracted Stills in
1914. His first picture was in Frank
Norris story Of Chicago wheat, THE
Pit" He rose to stellar heights in
n short time and once was paid
$4,000 a week, a record for that
period.
Reached Great Heights
He reached his greatest heights in
the silent films, among his best be-
ing THE Sea Hawk" and Men O.
Steel" His health was failing at
the time sound pictures became
popular and he remained out of
work several months. His first
talkie was 1.-THE Barker"
Stills, a member OF Delta Kappa
Epsilon at Chicago, the Lambs and
Players Clubs in New York, and
other organizations, never lost in
terest in educational work. He was
prominent member of the motion
picture academy of arts and
sciences, and was preparing to at
tend one of its meetings when he
died
He frequently lectured at colleges
and universities on screen art and
literature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-16
RIGHT SOCK CAUSES ALL
THE LAUNDRY TROUBLE
And So Association Will Try to Find
Out Just Why.

BIZ Cnted Press
CHICAGO, Sept. 16.-The Laun-
dry Owners National Association
met, $500 strong, here today to dis
cuss among other important things:
Why men wear out more right
socks than they do lefts.
w. j. Henning, Toronto, president,
said that 2,226,00O pairs of socks
a day are darned by American laun-
dries and that the right sock always
gets more attention from the darn
ing needle than the left.
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Orphans Give Program

bU 7 lniCN NDeCtlE
ANDERSON, Ind, Sept. 16.-The
sixth anniversary of the Madison
county orphanage's occupancy of its
modern home east of Anderson was
celebrated with a program in which
the county's 100 wards participated.
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THROUGH
WITH CUP RACE
I'm Too Old to Try Again.
He Tells Vanderbilt.
BY CORNELIUS VANDERBILT JR.
copyright. 1880. by United Press in all
Countries. Reproduction without Per-
mission Prohfbfted)

NEWPORT, r. L, Sept. 16.-Sir
Thomas Upton told me today that
the Shamrock v is the last of its
illustrious line, and that If he loses
this year, he never will challenge
for the Americas cup again.
'I wish had known that the
Enterprise was to be product of
the machine age. for then I could
have equipped the Shamrock in
some similar manner. But am too
old for the mechanical age" Sir
Thomas said.
Sir Thomas revealed himself as
being amazed by the mechanical
efficiency of the Enterprise.
at would be beyond the concep-
ton of our rocking chair fleet at
home, that such a craft as the En-
terprise ever could appear" he said.
"Will you ever challenge again,
Sir Thomas?" I asked him.
mo" he said, II feel 1 am too
old"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-16
DUTY NEGLECT CHARGED
PatrOlman Alleged to Have Played
Pool While on Beat.

Charges of neglect of duty were
filed with the safety board against
patrolman Edo Lands today by
Police Chief Jerry Kinney. Accord
ing to Kinney's allegations, Lands
has spent several hours playing pool
at 465 North Belmont avenue, re-
Gently. Lands will be tried by the
board Sept. 30.
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PARENTS ARE SPURNED
BY BONDAGE GIRL
Lola Long Chooses to Remain With
Family Which She Served.

TIFFIN, O., Sept. 16.-Lola Long,
IS, today chose to return to Attica,
O.. and the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. F. Reif, where she has lived for
the past three years, after common
pleas court granted her freedom to
select for herself a future place to
live.
The court decision was made on
the application of Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Long, Sulphur Springs, o.,
parents. for writ Of habeas corpus,
returning the girl to them. They
are reputed to have sent Lola in
bondage to the Reiff home three
years ago to work out debt Of the
father.
The girls mother became near
hysterical IN court today when Lola
refused to embrace her and chose to
live with the Reif1s.
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. NVAANbO PLUACooNI DIAUIL
hieved fame as a screen actor,

bad suffered from
heart disease be-
fore and twice
had been forced
to retire tenn
porarily in order
to regain his
health.
His wife, Doris
K e nyon, also
fan Gus in the
films, was watch
ing Stills and his
daughter, Dorothy
on the tennis
court at their
Brentwood heights
home when sud-
denly the actor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-16
ACT TO INBOUND CARS
City Studies Move to Halt Parking
Autos in Banned Zones.

Steps to impound autos parked in
no-parking areas in the downtown
district were taken today by the
safety board after several COM
plants were received that down.
town alleys and narrow streets at
times are impossible.
City legal department will give
an opinion on the boards power to
enforce such a rule.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-16
MORROW ON PROGRAM
Takes Part in Mexico Independence
Day Ceremonies.

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 16.-United
States Ambassador Dwight w. Nor
row, winding up his affairs in Mex
leo City before returning to the
United States, took part in an Off
cial ceremony today in sSaonor of
Mexico's independence day.
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PICKPOCKET GETS $50;
RETURNS THE BILLFOLD
City Man Receives Empty Wallet
Through Mail After Robbery.

Thanks for the $50. Here's your
billfold!"
This was the anonymous note
Robert w. Walker, living at the Y.
M. G. A, received in the mail this
morning, twelve hours after a pick
pocket relieved him of his billfold
containing the money and person
al papers as he boarded a street car
at Maryland and Illinois streets
Monday night.
The empty billfold accompanied
the note.
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FACE BOOZE CHARGES
Two City Men Held to Federal
Grand Jury by Kern.

NAt@AAN Jul " @NNN] ~
Chris Vilashcoff and Chris
Shischcoff, 843 East Washington
street, were held to the federal grand
jury on liquor charges by John w.
Kern, United States commissioner,
Monday, following a liquor raid at BAL
East Washington street.
Frank Yates, IS, of 321O East
Tenth street, was held to the grand
jury under $1,000 bond on liquor
charges by Commissioner Fac w.
Patrick.
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GOVERNOR DISCUSSES
LABOR PROFITEERING
Talks Over Steps at Session With
State Prison Trustees.

STATE FrISOn IruSLeeS,
Prevention of profiteering on
convict labor by manufacturers and
jobbers bidding for state con-
tracts during 1881, was discussed by
GGovernor Harry C. Leslie and
trustees of Indiana state prison at
luncheon at the Claypool today.
Fear was expressed that contrac-
tors will attempt to take advantage
of the general depression by de-
manding lower prices at the expense
Of the state and convictS.
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CHAMP DIVER TO WE'D

Miss Helen Meany and New YORK
Broker Get License.
Blu United Press A 90
Z GREENWICH, Conn.,, Sept. To-
Miss Helen Meany, Is, worlds fancy
diving champion, and Harry Russell
Balfe, SO, New York broker, applied
for a marriage license today.
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Film Star Dies of Heart
Attack After He Ends
Tilt With Daughter.
LONG SERVED MOVIES
Started Film Work in 1914;
Chicago U. Graduate and
Former Professor.
BIZ United Press
HOT VXHNOF

BV United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Sept. 16.-|
Milton Sills, screen actor, is dead.
An attack of heart disease,
occurring soon after he finished
game Of tennis with his daughter
Monday night, caused his death.
Sills, a college professor before
ne achieved fame as a screen actor.
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EXPLOSIVES ARE SEIZED

German Fascist's Aid Is Charged
With Murder After Capture.
|. BV United Press
BERLIN, Sept. 16.-A big store
of explosives was reported seized by
police today in the house of Kurt
Conrad, one Of Adolph Hitler's Fas-
cist heutenarits,. In Cologne. Con-
rad was charged with murder and
breach Of the regulations against
carrying firearms.
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RADIO BEAUTY CHOSEN
Chicago Artist Selected as Fairest
for New York Trade Fair.
BIZ United Press

DW CWtttU IFtoo
NEW YORK, Sept. 16. - Berna-
dine Hayes of radio station WBBM,
Chicago, has been chosen as the
most beautiful radio artist in
America, it was announced today by
Arthur Stringer in charge of the
nationwide contest for the seventh
annual radio worlds fair which will
open here at Madison Square Gar
den, Sept. %.
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-O-O-O-
Fifty Nations To Confer On Roads

Anticipation runs high concerning the Sixth In
ternational Road Congress to be held in Washington
this October Optimistic prophecies have it that this
congress- meeting for the first time in the United
States, will be the largest, the best attended, repre-
sentative of at least fifty nations and productive Of
most concrete results
Seven general reporters will present subjects
listed the program Each must discuss the question
assigned him in paper of not more than 1000 Words
which prepared after his receipt and study of papers
that subject from other delegates to the congress-
One discussion sure to attract much attention
the building of roads in countries and un-
developed regions which will be presented by E. w.
James of the United States Bureau of Public Roads.
It is planned to have the delegates inspect the
Mount Vernon Memorial Boulevard under active con-
strQction at that time This highway will present
picture of the most upto-date type Of road in all
stages Of it's making.
The first international Highway Congress was
held in Paris in 19O8 the other four have been held
in Brussels in 1910, in London in 1913 in Seville in
1923 and in Milan in 1926 Papers dealing with sub
jects discussed are printed in four anguages-Ger-
man, French, English and Spanish.
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Gold Star Mothers

This month the first contingent Of Gold Star Mo-
theirs will visit the graves of their in France at
the expense of the United States government. Wives
Of American soldiers who are buried in France are
also eligible for these trips, provided they have not
REMARKED.
According to the law under which these pilgrim
ages were authorized there will be opportunities for
trips also in 1881 and 1892 that those concerned
may choose the year most convenient for them.
Arrangements for the transportation and comfort
Of the mothers and widows are made by the War De-
partment, and number Of Army officers left for
France last month in order to see that suitable ac-
commodations provided
By making provisions for these pilgrimages Con
gress did most worthy and patriotic act It is hoped
that every American woman who has loved one bur-
led cover there" may be able to take advantage of
the governments generosity in arranging these pill
grmages
-O-O-O-
Five mail sacks taken in truck hold-up in Chi
cago have been found. And strange as it may seem,
they were found empty.
Folks living III the village Of Nasty, England,
have petitioned to have the of the place chang
ed Their request seems reasonable.
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:&dit0EEia1s Q EEiaa1s;
Washington Had His Rapidan

The picture of President Hoover unsnarling po-
litca knots in his weekend camp the banks Of the
Rapidan brings to mind that the first American Ex-
ecutive knew the value Of rural retreats Wash
ington One hundred miles from the national capital
lies Capon Springs West Virginia, often visited by
the family of George Washington.
Capon Springs water was and is noted for its
curative value Once favorite resort Of the Indians
the place was later patronzed by wealthy families of
Virginia and neighboring states who pitched their
tents there in the summer before hotel was built.
Visitors can still see of the three roads that led
through wild mountain passes to the springs In some
parts it is steep house roof Tradition has it
that the carriage bearing George Washington and his
family once gave way on one of these terrifying grad
es, and the Father of His Country, with other occu
pants of the vehicle saved themselves from death
ly by tumbling out pelmell in the nick of time Dur
ing subsequent years, the place modernized and
made more comfortable Mountain House, which was
built at Capon Springs in $780, was then the largest
hotel in the South It was later burned to the ground
but other buildings have been erected Last year, a
railroad extended to within three miles of the
springs making their beauty and waters acces-
sble to pilgrims.
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THE IVY GREEN

THE IVY GREEN
By Charles Dickens
Oh, dainty plant is the Ivy green,
He creepeth DER ruins old
OF right choice food are his meals, !
ween,
In his cell so lone and cold.
The wall must be crumbled, the stone
decayed,
To pleasure his dainty wtim,
And the mouldering dust that tha
years have made
Is merry meal for him.
Creeping where no eye hath seen,
A rare old plant is the Ivy green.
Fast he stealeth on, though he wears
no wings,
And staunch old heart has he.
How closely he twineth, how tight he
clings
To his friend, the huge Oak Treel
And Slyly he traileth along the ground
And his leaves he gently waves,
AS he joyously hugs and crawls
around
The rich mould of dead mems
graves.
Creeping where grim death has
been.
A rare old plant is the Ivy green.
Whole ages have fled and their works
decayed,
And nations have scattered been,
But the stout old Ivy shall never fade
From its hale and hearty green.
The brave old plant, in its lonely days,
Shall fatten upon the past;
For the stateliest building man can
raise
Is the Ivy's food at last.
Creeping on, where time has been,
A rare old plant is the Ivy green.
Nogales international., 1930-05-30

"Believe it or not" Ripley could hardly get away
with this yarn: The New Hampshire legislature for
got to appropriate money for the members pay be-
fore adjourning.
scientist says that movements Of the big toe
tell how ones mind is working A young fellow some
times finds out how his sweete's papas mind is work.
ing that way.
Nogales international., 1930-05-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill Smith of
Tucson, formerly of Nogales, will
spend Memorial Day here, guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Odle, Jr.
Nogales international., 1930-05-30
HUMORETTES

Visitor: You are growing into
nice little fellow and will be just
like your father.
Little Boy: Yes, that is what
mother is afraid of.
Nogales international., 1930-05-30

C. Roesner, and son Harold, were
visitors at Phoenix Tuesday.
Nogales international., 1930-05-30

Mrs. M. G. Whitehead is recover
ing from an infected tooth
Nogales international., 1930-05-30

Fortune Teller: Do you want to
know about your future husband?
Visitor: No. I want to know
something about the past of my
present husband for future use.