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Evening star., 1932-12-26

Read the price tag-and then pay
exactly half the amount it says!
That's the Millinery Sections offer
ing in this great after-Christmas
clearance-and you'll find every kind
of hat you need for immediate wear.
Palais Royal-Second Floor
Evening star., 1932-02-17

in the vicinity Of the hold-up checking
train movements, and then she was
further identified as having driven the
car at that hold-up and also at two
others. One was q train robbery on
June ~, 1929, and the other bank
job at Rodeo Calf. three months later.
IN which constable was killed. Wit
nesSes who saw her husbands body
said he also was in the three jobs.
Then silver half dollars that the
bandits had stolen in the hold-up be-
gan to dog their footsteps.
On December q maid in an Oak
land hotel found In a. room vacated
by man registered as E. r. Sherwood
5000 in half dollars, apparently over
looked In a dresser drawer. It was
to Seattle, after shipping a heavy
package to a man in that city. This
man and his wife had gone when their
apartment was located, but on the
floor was found a small bit Of bind
ing tape with the name Of q local
firm of mems furnishers. Overlooking
no bets, this was taken to the stoO,
where it was disclosed that the two
men in question had purchased expen-
Sive underwear, for which they had
paid with silver halves, after having
currency pockets sewed in the "shorts." /"
1t was discovered also that these per-
sons had paid rent for an apartment
with silver halves.
About the time that this angle was
being developed two women went into
grocery at. Olympia, Wash, asking
for some bills for q quantity Of nickeS.
THE grocer changed one roll Of the
stoins, but advised one Of the women to
take the rest Of what she described as
her savings" to a bank. They were
In a car which carried Texas tags, and
that night. when the grocer was held
Up by two men. who took everything
Evening star., 1932-02-17
TOO MANY QUERIES
TRIP BANDIT GANG
Post Office Files Tell Story
of Hunt for DesperadoeS
Operating in West.
Frank Ellis asked too many ques-

Frank Ellis asked too many ques-
So-EIlis is dead, and his wife and
two other confederates are under 25-
year prison sentences, bringing to an
end the operations of this desperate
bandits and slayers-who for two
years kept authorities on the jump.
The story of the gang came today
from the files of the Postal Inspection
Service of the Post Office Department,
with the announcement that the last
member to lose his liberty had been
convicted for completely in the final
episode in which they figured-a mail
train hold-up.
It was the story Of an intensive man
hunt that resulted in the roundup OF
the entire band, with one exception,
who was attended to by business
rivals" who stepped in before the law
could.
On November 7, 1880, a Southern
Pacific passenger train was just Slip
ping out through the fog from, San
Francisco when an unwelcome pas
senger, masked and armed, climbed
over the blind baggage and dropped
down on the engine, informing the
crew that from then on he would take
charge.
Joined by Four Men.
1t q selected spot he ordered the
train stopped. There four heavily
armed men joined him, coming from
an automobile driven by woman.
The mail car was entered, despite the
stout resistance Of the railway postal
clerks. The registered mail was tossed
into the car; the bandits followed and
in a few seconds went roaring away
with their loot.
Postal inspectors and State and rail-
road police lost no time going Into ac-
ton They realized at once they were
up against skillful band. for the rob
berry had been staged on a heavily
travelled line.
But there had been one important
slip-up, against which the bandits had
not guarded. This came to light the
following day.
Then investigators securing San
Francisco learned that q man driving
q brown eight-cylinder car had been
around few days previously, asking
Evening star., 1932-02-17

q lot Of questions about pay roll ship
ments out Of San Francisco. He had
aroused suspicion, and some one had
copied the automobile tag numbers. The
car was traced to Frank P. ElHs Of
Oakland, and further investigation dis
closed that Ellis had been picked up
as q suspect in post Office robbery a
couple Of years previously.
Armed Posse Visits Home.
On Sunday afternoon, November 8,
an armed posse descended swiftly on
Ellis home His wife, Ellen, answered
the door. She was seized, and officers,
entering the house, found Ellis in the
bath room. He also was overpowered,
without q struggle, and q search of the
place begun.
The house was virtually an arsenal,
and In addition TO the arms the search
ers found cracksman's tools and bullet
proof vests. More important, however,
was q red memorandum book filled
with coded entries.
Members of the posse started to the
Federal Building In Oakland with their
two. prisoners. Ellis, sickly dope
addict. had not been manacled, and as
the building was reached ne made a
break for freedom The officers opened
fire. and he fell dead.
The memorandum book gave up ad-
dresses at several coast town, also data
on the movement of psy rolls and on
pay days in the industrial belt in that
section. Consequently the investi-
gators began probing the addresses.
Meanwhile Ellen Ellie picture had
appeared in the papers. where it was
identified by one bankei III whose es-
tablishment she had safe deposit box.
This yielded $4,000 In currency The
officers also learned that for several
days prior to the robbery she had been
Evening star., 1932-02-17

from the cash register but the roll OF
nickels, the merchant told police
about his woman visitors.
Picked Up In Seattle.
The next day-December l2-Sher-
wood and his companion were picked
up In the car in Seattle. A secret
pocket in Sherwood's coat gave up two
safe-deposit keys, and when the box
was opened $3.50 in currency and two
valuable diamonds were disclosed.
Sherwood's companion then was found
to be wanted in Michigan, and he was
turned over, while Sherwood was held
for trial In the Nobel Station robbery.
A man known as Charles Berta, who
had escaped from quarantine officers
while attempting to smuggle machine
gun across the California Oregon line,
now became the principal object Of
attention, and on January 26 he also
was picked up in Seattle after a gun
duel, being trapped through q call
made to an apartment where he lived
while a woman there was being ques-
toned by police. Berta was shot In
the fight with police.
And now the investigators knew there
were still two men to be taken care
of-Edward J. Kenny and James
Sargert.
In the Spring of 1881 Kenny was
shot in gang war in Camden, N. j.,
Evening star., 1932-02-17

while under surveillance. Before ne
could be definitely linked with the
California case he was released from
the hospital, but not for long. On Sep
tember 8 he encountered better Marks
manship and that eliminated him from
the worries of officers.
Sargent was keeping clear, and every
effort was being made to get a line
on him, when it came to attention that
woman known to have had some
connection with the gang was ASSOCIATE
ing with an old-time yegg. James NC
Nulty, alias Madison Jimmy"
McNulty and the woman grew nerv-
GUS one day when they noticed they
were being carefully observed while in
service station at The Dalles, Oreg.,
and they drove away precipitately-
only to be followed by the men whom
they rightfully had suspected Of being
officers. The pair were fired on, and
their car halted It looked like the
same machine that had figured in an
other case, and McNulty was asked
where he obtained 1t. He said a man
In Portland was the previous owner.
This mans home was visited and there
Sargent, wanted also for the murder
Evening star., 1932-02-17

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Of bank messenger In Bradley Beach,
N. j., was taken into custody.
+ The day was November 5-just two
(days short Of q year after the South
ern Pacific hold-up.
Sherwood, Berta and Ellen Ellis, tried
together, already had been convicted
in San Francisco, and Sargent got the
same dose Before he starts on the
prison term, however, he is due to face
trial for murder in New Jersey, and
perhaps for robbery in Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1932-02-17

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proclamation for al the churches
within the district are to be received
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Central Office for Banns.
Paisley Presbytery of Scotland has
Systematized the proclamation of mar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-17

1t is not safe to suggest that any
one country can control its own mar
cotic problem. All nations must
combine if the situation is to be
properly worked out.
Any one nation that cares to sepa-
rate itself from the rest of the
world in this matter can have the
other nations at it's mercy.
Smugglers will take care of get
ting the preparations into the coun-
try that tries to stop the illegal
use of narcotic preparations.
The airplane and other modern
methods of transportation have
aided the smugglers, just as they
have served for legitimate pur-
poses.
Attempts still are being made to
develop international agreements
for limiting definitely the amount Of
narcotic drugs produced annually.
1t is fairly simple to calculate
what is a reasonable supply of mar
cotics for any civilized nation.
If the total supply can be con-
trolled, and if adequate records can
be kept of the manufactured prod
ucts and of their distribution, much
will have been done to stop the lille
gal use of these preparations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-17
Mrs. Fiske

Minnie Madden Fiske small and somehow
shmmering figure that turned its back on one audi
ence to talk rapidly passionately, and intellgenty
toward another that was invisible
Her great parts always were those in which the
apparent played mere accompaniment to the more
portentous drama being enacted in a womans soul
and mind.
Up to the time of her appearance as Tess of the
D'Urberviles, she just another small arrestng
actress, with husky, rushing voice. a crisp knot of
tawney hair pitched well up at the crown of her head
quick, slim lips and expressive hands,
At that period it seemed unfortunate that her
prettiness not of the conventional type. The
eager. shortened face of tragic Puck was untitled
for the airy requirements of light comedy
Her laughter was a trifle too breathy and fraught
with meaning for the amless mirth of lines with
small cubic content 1t carried disturbing impica-
ton of genius unworthily engaged with the set of
founces and the devices of Irritation
Then suddenly the Minnie Maddern of fimsy moth
ings marched forward as the Minnie Maddern Fske OF
Tess, of Nora in THE Dolls House." of Rebecca West
in "Rosmershom," of Hedda Gabler Becky Sharp, and
Leah Kleschna
She invested herself with the mantle of a woman
set amidst tangible conditions but moving to the di-
rection of unseen forces She became the type and
symbol of situations which, for want of better word
we are wont to call modern The mind was her realm
and the impulses of the mind the calls to which she
responded.
When she turned her back upon us and sped sharp,
breathess words toward the backdrop the dull
est of became little aware that conflict in the
human, victory, defeat even compromise result from
other elements than those which playwright producer
and actor may designate through words and scenes
alone.
Yesterday Mrs. Fske turned her back upon us in
the final act of ALL Many of think of her death
simply that And will go on thinking of her.
small bright, fervent misunderstanding the unseen
and wringing meaning and message from it's
silence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-17
SCIENCE
Electric Motor SlolCed Up to-
TaCo Revolutions a Dsy ia
Westinghouse Test.
BY DAVID DIETZ-

CLOWNESS as well as speed some-
- times is required even In the
modern high-Speed machine age.
While automobile and railroad
builders are thinking of greater and
greater speeds, while engineers are
attempting continuously to speed up
machines, a group of scientists at
the Westinghouse laboratories has
been working to see how slowly an
electric motor can be made to go.
They have perfected a timing mo-
tor that will revolve only twice in
the course of an entire day.
But according to L. w. Chubb. di-
rector Of research of the WeSting-
house Electric and Manufacturing
Company, and T. R. Watts. research
engineer, who has co-operated in
the development, that is only the
beginning.
They say that they could slow
down the motor to the point where
it would only make one revolution
in the course of a year.
Theoretically, they say, there is no
limit to the SlowneSS which the new
motor can be made to achieve.
To show the usefulness of such
motor, Chubb and Watts have used
it in the construction of an electric
clock. So far, the clock is a labo-
ratory experiment only and not
available commercially.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-17
The Fight Has Just Begun

The fight for federal hunger relief just has begun
In the senate the hard-boled Republican and Demo
cratic leaders" have combined to vote it down But
it was narrow escape for them
There will be another day. And-unless we miss
our guess-before this congress adjourns, the poll
tcians will be forced TO listen to the cries of limo
cent and hungry victims of this depression.
Before congress is through that cry of the people
is going to be louder than the commands of the big
campaign contributors, who ruled the senate Tues
Gay night.
Our guess that this fight will be eventually
is more than wish 1t is based on the steady
growth of public sentiment and the politicians in
creasing fear of that pressure coming in from the
election districts back home.
Last year the politicians and their wealthy hackers
beat this movement easily by the sneering use of
only one word-"dole" Even as recently as two
weeks ago, when Senator La Toilette made his great
speech opening the present fight in the senate it
appeared that the senate could sidetrack this basic
issue in two days time and crush it with 9-to1 vote
But each day and each hour the pressure from
the voters grew stronger. The debate heightened,
day after day, until the Republican and Democratic
leaders in fright began to seek abis and substitutes
Such face-savng substitute, after initial defeat
has been reintroduced by the Democratic conserva-
tiyes It would increase federal road grants and make
relief loans to the states. The joker is that the
small roads provision win be used to kill the pend
ing large public works relief BILL and that loans to
states which have exhausted their financial or legal
borrowing capacity mockery.
Purpose Of the La Follette-Costigan bin not
to Try to cope with unemployment, for which many
other bills have been introduced, including the other
La Toilette bills Purpose OF this measure purely
humanitarian 10 meet an emergency of starvation.
Government and local relief experts having testi-
fed that local public and private relief funds
inadequate. the need and duty Of the federal gov
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-17
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TINE earth it seems, is overfowing with heart
4 broken mothers who disappointed IN their
children Sometimes, suspect, good many OF US
secretly glorify in our martyrdom.
Sentimentalists, who have done us grave harm,
long ago set up pathetic picture Of a good mother
weeping for her erring children 1t IS 1annar PIC
ture and very moving unless we examine 1T closely.
Such sorrow to mother is a poignant reality Her
daughters refuse to listen to her advice. They smoke
perchance they take cocktail and and then
thew pet They keep later hours than she was per-
nitted to do. So distrustful, alarmed and appre-
hensive for their future she takes refuge in tears
And that gets her nowhere in the first place,
repining weeping and naggng, because they call at
tenton to the parents virtue and the childS short
comings is the very last thing we should use upon
FESTIVE daughters. Recrminations no good Warm
ngs are no good. They only weary youth.
A ND while one can feel sympathy for the mother
Atwho is placed in such position land is there one
of us who is not there?) We also understand the
rebellion of the girl 1t is situation that calls for
tolerance and wisdom and not for beratings.
The woman's mind has been trained to believe in
certain standards Unless her children subscribe to
those and follow exactly in her footsteps she is sure
they are lost In this attitude, at least, she shows
an intolerable smugness.
She is assuming that she is right and that all
her ways are vrtuous ways And this don't you think
but adds fuel to the fame Of rebellion in the heart
of her child?
The conduct of yesterday is not that by which to-
morrows man will live. The world moves and with it
run swiftly the feet of the young They not exist
on bygone creedS or wornout ideals.
So the wise mother will dry her tears and muster
up her courage Let her cultivate the good qualities
of her children. Thus she may eliminate the bad
is mother.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-17
A Tax Program

John E. Friedrich, manufacturer and business
man, has come forward with a very courageous tax
ing program While others talk Of changing tax sys-
TENS he declares that the time has to shift the
BURDENS from real estate to incomes.
Others have done this, but he adds the provision
nat incomes must be insured in order that the gov
lnment may collect.
Translated into other words, the Friedrich declara-
is that have the right to work and that gov
srnment must insure them work.
In other way can incomes be insured. In no
other way there be reservoir from which the
government may draw its income taxes.
More and more business men coming to the
conclusion that dleness is luxury, especially when
the other fellow is idle and the community must pay
the bill. AS to the evil results of enforced dleness
the part Of large portion of the population there
need oil comment.
Two years ago the Eagles lodge started national
campaign for the sterilization of employment and
raised the rather radical slogan ut is the naenable
right of every American citizen to work and to work
at saving wage"
Now comes Friedrich with his declaration that the
government, and he means state and local govern
ment must raise its revenues from incomes and that
incomes must be insured.
The two declarations work out to the same thing.
The nation not exist half in ideness and half in
poorly paid jobs There must be a purchasing power
that is steady and if not only business, but the
processes of civilized living are to be maintained.
Even two years ago the Friedrich statement to the
Rotarians, for he talking to business men and
not to politicians would have regarded as radical
Had it been made a street corner by Luesse, the
police probably would have scratched their heads and
wondered whether there should be arrest for rus
sian propaganda" But today it is accepted as the
most conservative and constructive doctrine
Income taxes on insured incomes will have an
appeal to the distressed property owner who can no
longer pay his taxes. 1t will have emphatic
appeal to the jobless worker whose income has dis
appeared and who asks not for charity but for Job
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-17
RotorS Are Used
this ring, but not touch

INSIDE this ring, but not touching
L it, is the rotor or rotating portion
of the motor. It's outer edge has
100 iron teeth, two more than the
Stator has.
There is a tendency for the mag
netism to jump from stator to rotor
when teeth are exactly opposite
each other. But owing to the diff
ferent number Of teeth on stator
and rotor, only two teeth are OPP
posite each other at any one time.
This gives a vernier effect around
the rest of the circle and the result
is that the rotor moves the distance
of two teeth for each revolution Of
magnetism in the stator.
In other words, while the mag
netism is going $500 times a min
ute around the stator, the rotor is
turning ony sixty times a minute.
This is exactly the speed required
for the Split-second hand.
Around the inner edge of the
rotor ring are 122 teeth pointing
toward a second rotor ring with 100
teeth around its outer edge.
This brings about a speed of the
second rotor of one revolution
This is the desired speed
for operating the second hand.
A somewhat similar system is used
to operate additional rotors, one Of
which has the minute hand at
tached to it, and the other of which
has the hour hand attached to it.
A permanent horseshoe magnet
attached to the second hand rotor
creates a magnetic field which is
used to drive the rotor of the min
ute hand. Another magnet at
tached to this rotor drives the hour
hand rotor.
Chubb says that any desired speed
can be obtained by the number and
spacing of the teeth and that there
is no theoretical limit to the slow
ness which can be obtained by the
system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-17
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :
SERVICE
Drug Control Is International Worry

1t is generally recognized that the
only hope lies in getting at the
drugs at their source. Each ounce
of the original opium must be &C
counted for, whether made into
morphine or heroin or any of the
supposedly harmless drugs.
The only way in which the drugs
can be controlled is to make the
manufacturer responsible for a
careful record of every step in the
process from the time the raw ma
terial enters his factory until it gets
into the lands of the consumer.
Every one concerned in the pass
ing of the material must be held
responsible for it while it is in his
hands or under his control.
The control of narcotic drugs is
much simpler than the control of
alcoholic liquors.
Alcoholic liquors may be made
from any fruit or vegetable and the
process can be carried out in almost
any place. To make narcotic prep
arations one must begin with the
raw opium or cocoa leaves. These
are commodities which can not be
smuggled successfully in appreciable
amounts.