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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11
SHOOTING is PROBED
Mars Hill Man Wounded in
Right Knee.

Deputy sheriffs today were in
vestigating the mysterious shoot
ing late Friday of George Grove, 80,
of Mars Hills, found at his home
suffering from shotgun wounds in
his right knee.
Grove. deputies said, told a story
of having gone to the residence of
Sherman Ball in Mars Hill and
asked for drink. Grove told them
Ball shot him.
Authorities were unable to find
Ball or any members of his family,
but said they learned two men rode
Grove in their car for more than
an hour, attempting to bandage his
wounds. Grove is held in the city
hospital detention ward on a vag-
rancy charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11
THEY TELL NE

sentation. Purneu therefore looms
as compromise, it is said.
Hope of the speakership will, it is
believed, keep Fred from making a
determined bid for the G. o. P.
nomination for Governor next year.
Besides. he really doesn't want that,
his friends say. His ambition is to
be senator.
So there you are-he, at least,
can afford to pick and choose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11

Very timidIy Skipper" fumbled
for a hunters horn and blew two
blasts.
Miles slipped past. Habitations
were as rare as the wind. Every
bend in the river was just another
milestone in the longest route that
ever ran between two points.
Government lock, No 1 loomec
ahead. Crew of the Marganed, ir-
ritable as are all tired travellers
rose to it's first threat of mutiny
Skipper" maintained the UniteC
States would never lock the Marg'
aned. Just a Sixteen-foot boat witt
motor that sounded like a buzz
saw. She was just too small.
Grew" fumbled a Delaying" pir
with murder in his eyes.
Were gonna go through Of
bust" he said slowly, and very de-
terminedly.
BLOW your horn, you idiot
They've gotta hear you," he yelled
Very tin1idly skipper" .fumblec
for a hunters horn, kept for just
such an occasion, and blew two
blasts.
T IKE magic, half dozen men
- poured out the watch house,
dragging all manner of tow-lines
mooring ropes and hooks.
They're gonna hang U.s." NUT
tered Crew. Skipper was spell
bound. This was one occasion
when taxation was self explanatory
Marganed bounded easily into the
lock, and Grew scrambled up the
high wall. Skipper was left alone
with his fears.
Gates clanked, hinges squeaked
and the roar of water in the vat
drowned out all other sound. Mar
gained swung dizzily at her mooring
as a torrent rushed in from the
upper gate.
The effort it required here to lift
Marganed nine feet would have
raised the Chrysler building. We
felt indebted to the government.
Past the lock, the cruise of the
Marganed became serious business
Kentucky at this point couldn't
boast habitation or a home. Liv-
ingstone wrote about darkest Africa,
and neglected the dreariest section
of the earth.
ILLS pressed us on every side
L Drift clogged the river-drift that
chills the spirit of every cupboard
boatman, and sends the propeller
spinning.
Drift lanes eventually led into
ponds Of still, covered water
Stale f1sly odor lay in waves on the
sultry river. White skeletons of
dead trees lined the banks. Hawks
circled lazily above.
Buddy, if I ever get out of this
I'll never come back" Skipper con-
fessed.
The Kentucky river has fishes
They are of vicious species. Once
an ugly creature, fully three feet
long, leaped out of the water, ffoun-
dered on the deck for several sec
onds, then fell back into the water
After that, 1t seemed that every
spoon-nosed catfish in the Ken
lucky river took a 'pot-shot' at the
Marganed. They capered up and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11

L'REE Wheeling adds a
! lark element to
motoring.
Folks who used to be a
little bored or blase, may
be, at the idea of going
someplace in the car. now
jump at the chance.
You start someplace.
You don't just motor
you Free Wheel. well may
be. a fifth of the way at in
tervals. It's a circus. Mo-
mentum carries you sailing
and you save gas and oil.
It's fun, ard it 9 freeI
You can have the joyous
thrills of Free Wheeling
today in a real Free Wheel
ing Studebaker at $685.
the lowest priced Six with
Free Wheeling as standard
Observation-Disclosures
from tip to tail to give you
its fullest benefits in it's
finest form. Get the thrill
of your young life-get
behind the WHEEL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11
'SEERS' ROB WOMAN
Voodoo' Cure Costs SIS and
Clothing.

The voodoo is gone, and so are
So and several articles of wearing
apparel once owned by Mrs. CLYDE
Newsom, Negro, 306 East Michigan
street.
Mrs. Newson told her story to 20
lice today after gypsies who prom
ised to take away the voodoo"
failed to return her clothing and
money Friday afternoon.
She said the women told her sick
ness from which she is SUFFERING
would disappear and that they took
the money and clothes, despite her
protests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11
STATE PAVINCS
BLOWING UP
Heat Wave Is Blamed for
Roads Damage.

Torrid weather Of more than a
week ago caused 100 blow-ups of
rigid type pavement on state roads
which cost the state highway de-
partment about $1,000 to repair, it
was said today by Director John J.
Brown.
This is the greatest number of
such occurrences in more than six
years. Forty blow-ups occurred in
the Greenfield district alone.
Several breaks developed during
the heat wave on the National road.
Average repair cost was estimated
by the maintenance division at $50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11
OVERCOME BY EXHAUST
Receivers at Hospital From Effects
of GAGS in Garage.

Overcome with monoxide gas late
Friday while working under his car
in a garage, Charles Roney, 40, Of
1547 Sheldon street, is recovering
today at the city hospital.
Roney told police he had the mo-
tor running and crawled under the
rear of the automobile to make an
adjustment. He was found by a taxi
driver, who passed in the alley in
the rear of Roney'S home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11
SUICIDE is FRUSTRATED
Bottle of Poison Knocked From
Woman's Hand BY Mate.

A bottle of poison hurled from her
hand as she attempted suicide Fri
day night, Mrs. Eva Ash, 46, of 1923
West Ray street, today is recovering
at city hospital from burns on her
hands and face.
Her husband told police his wife
had been respondent for several
weeks and that he arrived at home
Friday as she was preparing to
swallow the poison and knocked it
from her grasp.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11
No Respect for Law

PITTSBURGH. July 11.-Never
again will Charles NJ. Kelley, police
chief at Lancaster. o.. park his auto
in Pittsburgh without locking the
doors. Friday night he left the
doors unlocked and thieves stole his
badge, a suitcase containing several
suits and a lo0-year-old revolver.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11
BY EDWARD c. FULKE

WHAT the Kentucky river lacks
w in majesty it has in dignity
Marganed turned into its mouth on
the fifth day, leaving the broad Ohio
behind.
Dense foliage bent over the stream
on both sides. A breeze apparently
never has caressed the streams sur
face. Oppressive heat and the suns
glare weighed heavily on two sun
burned landlubbers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11
F0KKER RESIGNS POST
Quits as Engineering Chief of Gen
eral Aviation Corp.
By United Press

NEW YORK, July 1l.-Anthony
H. G. Fokker, airplane designer, has
resigned as director of engineering
OF the General Aviation Corpora
ton and the Fokker Aircraft Corpo-
ration Of America, both General
Motors subsidiaries.
The resignation was effected at a
board meeting Friday. Fokker will
remain as director and stakeholder,
however.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11
.QUlZZED IN DRUG FIND
q. S. Sleuths Question Driver of Car
Containing Narcotics.

Federal narcotic authorities today
were to question Manuel Savage,
427 West New York street, who was
arrested by police on vagrancy
charges Friday night after a guam
tity Of narcotics was said to have
been found in his auto.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11

This is the third Of series Of stories
by Edward c. Fulke. Times staff writer
on his experiences during an cupboard
motor boat trip on the Ohio and Ken
lucky rivers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-11
CABLE TO BE SPEAKER
Address Sunday at Tabernacle to Be
on eff 1 Were the Devil"

E. Howard Cadle will "play the
devil in Cadle tabernacle Sunday
afternoon at 2:30, he said today,
announcing he would deliver here a
lecture on IF I Were the Devil
How I Would Run Indianapolis"
He has invited police and city Off
Gals. A local automobile car wash
ing firm viii give tickets to car own
ers attending, for one free wash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01

more encouraging sign is found in the
report that retail sales in April Of this
year have exceeded those OF any other
recent year. 1t is true that prices have
been low, but the records OF the Federal
Reserve Boards index Of department
store sales for April now available show
that in quantity the retail sales have
been high, indicating that the public
Is buying again. Commodity prices
were asa per cent lower than in April
of 1929, when the prices had reached
their peak, and Were lower than at any
time since 1915.
April, the report Of the bureau says,
showed q slight improvement In the
volume OF general employment. but was
less than the volume reported for 1880.
Nevertheless, the trend is upward, and
not all because of seasonal employment,
it is reported.
Obviously, it is too early to assert
with certainty that the bottom of the
depression has been reached and passed,
when the conditions that brought it
about are worldwide and not confined
to this country. Nevertheless, the signs
grow more hopeful Is the year 1881
advances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

The Quest.
A man once longed for peace complete
He sought the ocean strand.
Where waves come singing soft and
sweet
To the untrodden sand.
But soon they built little town,
Where bands began to play;
And then a tidal wave came down
And washed EN- all away.
He sought the wooded mountain height
To shun the crowd below.
A big hotel soon met his sight
With artificial show;
And next an earthquake shook the place
Until the mountain fell;
The devastation left no trace
OF mountain or hotel.
Out there upon the level plain.
Where far his gaze might roam,
He turned his quest of peace again,
And sought to make home.
But savage huntsmen round him crept
Or raised warrior shout;
And then a cyclone came and swept
The whole collection out.
And when the cyclone dropped the man
He said, Right here Ill stay.
Here will strive as best can
To use what comes my way.
From toll and strife I shall not fee,
Nor shirk the issue grim.
No more will seek peace" quoth he, .
And, straightaway, peace sought him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01

today to take up novel writing. Per.
haps he's destined to produce the long
awaited great American novel" dealing
with the romance, tragedy and comedy
Of national life at Washington. He
might call it Fever and Tumult" (the
Presidents description Of his first two
years in the White House,, or Hail
Columbia, Scrappy Land"
Not in a long time has the dome of
the Capitol rung with such fervent ora
tory, Dixie brand, as will reverberate
beneath it tomorrow afternoon. when
Mississippi unveils its memorials to
Jefferson Davis and James q. George in
Statuary Hall. The President Of the
Confederacy is not the first great
Southern leader to be so honored.
Statues of Robert E. Lee, Gen. Joe"
Wheeler, Zebulon B.. Vance. Alexander
Wade Hampton are among the revered
sons of the South already immortal
lied in the Nations Valhalla Seven
speeches will echo through Statuary
Hall before Mississippi has told the
story Of Davis and George. Gov. Bilbo
will present the statues, then come ad-
dresses by Senators Harrison and
Stephens. and finally a cluster Of ora
tions by other silver-tongued Magnoli-
ais. lie OIllLSu 0tdLeS MaTlIle bdnQ Will
play Dixie" and pair of Mississippi
bellies, respectively granddaughter of
Davis and George, will pull the strings
which will release the statues to public
gaze. The whole Southland will listen
in to the ceremonies over Columbia S
Dixie network" Col. Hodges. Presi-
dent Hoover's military aide, will attend
in his capacity as president Of the
Louisiana State Society of Washington.
X
Herr Friedrich Wilhelm Won Prittwitz.
German Ambassador this week leads
off the annual exodus of Washington
diplomats to home shores. He'll sail for
Trieste on an italian liner. in order to
pilot his own motor car through the
Tyrol and into Germany, at the outset
of Summer in Berlin. NJ Bostrom,
Swedish Minister to the United States.
is also off for leave of absence In his
own country. He once was Swedish
national tennis champion and still
shoots wicked serve across the net.
Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

moon can do. Not the work Of the
half moon or the three-quarters moon
but of the ancient lull moon Of child
hoods memory.
Such was the moon for which small
hands grasped, and which the legend
said was made of green cheese. Even
the smallest infants know better than
that.
They sense, even If they cannot say
that the mysterious moon has o COM
| position in nowise resembling cheese
green or otherwise.
y X X
The play of shadows over the lawn
changes from minute to minute.
Perhaps 1t would be better to note
these changes in 15-minute mutations
After all, minute of human time is
very little
Though life Is short and art long,
often enough time seems very slow in
the passing.
A minute may be equivalent to eter-
nifty, rightly viewed, but with most OF
us on this sphere q minute is just a
minute.
And minute is not very much.
So II any one, reading here, desires
to watch shadows, let him be both pa
tient and careful, without wondering
too much about the passage of time.
The shadow, not the time. is the i'm
portant thing when one is watching
shadows Let time take care Of itself.
You watch the shadows.
The shadows come and go with every
passing cloud, with every breeze through
the trees. The slightest twig can blot
out whole constellation. One does
not have to be Sir James Jeans to
know something about stars tonight.
In the presence Of this vast immensely
the watcher Is inclined to applaud the
question of the great Napoleon, what
you say may be true, gentlemen, but
who made all that?"
A branch Of tree, moving in our little
wind, obliterates million million stars;
but the stars do not mind, in the least:
the wind does not know. and the twis
does not care. Who are we to ask
questions In the face OF the ancient
mysteries? We have enough to do to
watch shadows.
There goes a moving shadow, a small
lump Of darkness outlined against the
larger masses OF the lilacs.
A rabbit!
Now its large ears stand up, as it
strains those perfect hearing instru-
HleIlUS IOF Ine SOU SWISH OF ION
crafty progress through the grass.
But the cat is not around. He Is
elsewhere.
The rabbit drops its outstanding ears
slightly, and falls to on couple of
choice delphinium plants.
II you had not seen him cross the
lawn and seek the succulents, you
might imagine him nothing but a
slightly darker shadow in the gross
output OF shadow material.
He is very much alive. however, as
you presently note, when, for some
obscure. elemental reason, he bounds
away like an elongated streak. and is
swallowed up completely by the obliter-
ating shadows.
This Is that feeding time Of which
the psalmist spoke when lions do roar
for their meat. Helpful shadows of
the moons. save and protect the little
things abroad tonight.
Let their softness merge into the
velvet of shadow masses, so that larger
stronger things, going by with cleaning
eyes may not tell one from the other.
Keep what Thou hast created, Lord,
safe in Thy shadows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01
The Railroads.

The railroads, like other big industries
in this country, have been losing money
during the business depression. 1t
would be more correct to say they have
been making less money. For despite
the fact that they have been hard hit
because of lack of business, none. prac-
tically. of the big railroad companies to-
day shows a deficit, although the earn
ings have been cut materially. The sit
uation is serious for many of the roads,
seeking some measure Of relief.
While railroad revenues have fallen
off very greatly in 1880 and in the first
quarter of 1891, by drastic economies
their operating expenses to such an ex-
tent that they have continued to show
net earnings, although these earnings
are in nearly every case materially re-
duced. The belt-tightening process In
lean days Il not only necessary but
effective. In the end, however, there
must be some readjustment If the roads
are to continue to live. At present there
has bsen agitation on the part of some
Of the railroad executives for an increase
in rates. There is reason to believe
that the demand comes from holders
Of railroad securities, who have seen
dividends reduced in some cases to the
vanishing point. The question, however,
is whether the railroads, by an increase
in their rates at this time, could really
better themselves. The railroads are
suffering not alone from the depres-
sion but also from a constantly growing
competition from highway transporta-
ton, motor bus and motor truck. They
have seen the inland waterway and
Panama Canal traffic constantly on the
increase in recent years, not to men,
ton q growth in the pipe line business
| and a new field Of competition from
the air. An increase In railroad rates
might play into the hands of the CON-
petitors of the railroads, thereby reduc-
ing the traffic of the roads still more
An increase in railroad rates when
business in this country is struggling
to come back" might prove o serious
blow to . return Of business activity,
also. II there Is one thing above al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01

others which the railroads crave ut
present, along with the rest Of the
country, it is restoration OF business.
A recovery Of manufacturing and Of
production Of all kinds means to the
railroads more and more traffic. It Is
little wonder, therefore, that the rail-
road executives are divided upon the
wisdom of an appeal to the Interstate
Commerce Commission to raise rates at
this time.
The railroads Of the country are thor
oughly regulated. They are in effect
under the control Of two managerial
bodies. The first are their own execu-
tives and the second is the Interstate
Commerce Commission set up by Con-
gress to regulate interstate commerce.
Their competitors of the highway, the
pipe line and the waterway are far freer
in their operations than the railroads.
The very fact that they do not have
such regulation is the main complaint
today Of the railroads against the high
way carriers.
The railroads are part Of the great
economic and industrial and financial
structure OF the United States. They are
purchasers of vast quantities OF mate
rails as we'll as the agencies Of trans
portation. When they reduce their pur-
chases, the effect on many other indus
tries, like steel, Is at once apparent. Be-
cause Of their economies, the railroads
have been compelled to reduce their
operating expenditures. Railroad labor
costs have been cut materially, not
through reductions in wage scales. but
through laying off the workers or work.
ing them part time. The number OF
workers has shrunk from more than
10000 in 1929 to about 800, 600 in
February of this year, contributing in
large degree to unemployment.
The main thing for the railroads to-
day, as for other industries, is a rebirth
Of business, with growing demand for
goods Of all kinds. 1t is probable that
here and there are freight rates which
should be increased. But the roads
should consider seriously the effect upon
the whole business structure II at this
time a general increase in rates were
made Certainly 1t may be expected
that the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, which has the final word in this
matter Of rates. will give the situation
earnest attention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01
The Bond Issue.

The $500, o00, 900 Treasury bond issue
at ga per cent interest, taken in con-
nection with the report on the f1rst
four months Of trade in this country
made by the director Of the Bureau
OF Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
il interpreted today as an indication
that brighter times are approaching
for the business world and the Ameri-
can public. The bond issue announced
by Secretary Mellon is for a long period
and at the lowest interest rate since
the World War. The Government may
be taking this opportunity to do this
financing at a low rate Of interest in
an effort to get the necessary funds on
the best terms before there is q real
upturn in business, with money rates
appreciably higher.
The Treasury deficit OF 81 ,000, 000, 900
is to be financed primarily by short
term certificates, but the new long
term issue Is also connected with the
deficit. It has become necessary to re-
finance other short-ternn securities
about to mature. Indeed, s589, 000, 900
of certificates and about $4,000, 900 in
interest payments become due on June
IS. The new issue, which does not ma :
ture until 1949, with the privilege OF
retirement in 1916, Is designed in part
to take care Of these obligations. In
effect, the longtime bonds add $780,
900 900 to the national debt, although
the reduction OF that debt through the
sinking fund Is to continue as pro-
vided under the law. The new issue
may meet the charge that is made IL,
some quarters that the Government
has undertaken to retire the war debt
too speedily.
The survey Of business and trade
conditions, including both production
employment and prices. made public
by the Bureau Of Foreign and Do
nestle Commerce, shows that certain
industries have shown production up
ward trend in the first four months OF
this year, notably food products, tex
tiles, leather and shoes and automobiles
The Improvement Is taken as an indi'
cation that demand Is increasing ant
that the heavy overproduction of goods
Of all kinds, which was In great meas.
ure responsible for the crash in 1929
has been largely wiped OUT An even