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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24
EAGLES
Getting Set For Annual 4th
of July Outing

Times are hard and money is
scarce, hut Butler iAerie No. 4O7,
Fraternal Order Eagles, is determin-
ed that nothing is to interfere with
it holding its big annual outing and
Independence Day celebration, as of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24
Practically Pricslsss

II have just purchased very rare
object-the fountain pen with which
Dante wrote his Divine Comedy"
But fountain pens had not been In
vented In Dante's time"
81 know It, That's what makes ii
80 rare"-H Travaso (Rome).
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24
Keeping Up Appsaraneas


You have complained that your
books are in the red" said the busi-
ness doctor.
YES" answered the manager.
Wen fix that in jiffy."
"How?"
Throw away your red ink and use
purple. Wash shington Star.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24
A Pleased Customsr

Floorwalker-I noticed that your
last customer did not buy anything,
but he seemed very pleased. What
did he want to seer
Salesgirl--He wanted to see me ut
eight o'clock.-Union Pacific Maya
zine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24

Jsck-I paid s. to fortune teller
yesterday. She described you exactly.
and said we should be married within
q year.
JOAN could have told you that for
nothing Stories.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24

Let US have faith that right makes
might, and in that faith let us to the
end dare to do our duty as we under
stand it.-Lincoln
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24
Wsalthy Whonners

Aunt Jane-Well, Ethel, see you
have landed q man at last.
Anglers Daughter-Yes, auntie, but
you should have seen the ones that got
away.-BOstOn Transcript.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24
Wsirhty Problem

He-Can you make cakes ike moth
er used to?
She-Yes, II you can put up with
the indigestion father used to have
Smiths Weekly.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24
Unsettled Sun

"The sun never sets on the British
empire" said the Englishman proudly.
"What a pity" remarked the Amer
ican girl. "At home we have such
lovely sunsets"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24
A New One

"What's the idea of the Howards
taking French lessons?"
srhey have adopted French baby
and want to understand what she says
when she begins to talk. ."-Answera
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24
Eorhiddan Drink

"Hi!" roared the constable. "You
can't swim there"
II know I cant!" shouted the un-
lucky boatman. Help! Help An
swers
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-24
THAT FELLOW FEELING

I'VE all think well OF good loser"
Yes; particularly II we get some Of
his money"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

The balloons, unreported since
they sailed away from Curtiss-
Wright Reynolds airport with five
other contestants, we're believed to
have drifted to the northeast. Pre-
vailing winds at the start of the
race probably would have carried
them north in the province of Que
bee, contest officials said.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
was understood to have asked War
rem D. Robbins, American minister
to Canada, to ask provincial author
tiles to join in the search. Forest
rangers, it was reported here, we're
ordered to scout isolated sections of
the province for word of the bal
looms.
Flying in the two missing craft
were Ward T. Van Orman, plotting
the Goodyear TX, and Captain
Francizek Hynek and Lieutenant
Zbiginew BurZynski in the Polish
entry. Frank A. Trotter was accom-
panying Van Orman, one of the
United States outstanding balloon
lists. Three times Van Orman has
won the Bennett trophy.
The Polish filters likewise are vet
eran airmen. They participated in
the 1882 race held in Switzerland.
The Polish consuls office here asked
race officials to begin a search for
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
LEGION WILL STAGE
PARADE SEPT. II
Feature of Installation Day
Is ARRANGED.

A parade by American Legion
members will feature the Joint in
stallation of all post officers of the
Eleventh and Twelfth districts here
Sunday, Sept. IT,. it was announced
at the monthly meeting of the
Twelfth district executive committee
IN the Indiana World War Memo
rial building Thursday night.
The parade will commence at
Meridian and st. Clair streets at
100 in the afternoon and proceed
south around the Circle and back to
the north side of the memorial
shrine.
V. M. Armstrong, newly elected
state commander, will be the in
stalling officer.
Committees appointed at the
meeting, presided over by Captain
Otto Ray, district commander, are
Ralph B. Gregg, general chairman;
arrangements, John Ferree, chair
man; Joseph Luts, Patrick Shea,
Elmer Goldsmith, and DR.. Ralph
Hammer; decorations, William Mid
ellsworth, chairman; Garrett Davis
and Floyd Bass; music, Elsie John
son and Tom Jordan. John w. Hano
will be parade marshal. He will be
assisted by Lawrence zinken.
Fred Hileman will have charge of
the Eleventh district legion mem
berS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
CATS WILL STRUT IN
ANNUAL FAIR SHOW
Twenty Breeds Are Entered
in Competition.

Kings, queens, princes and prin-
cesses of catdom took over the dog
and cat show building at the Indi-
ana state fair Thursday, replacing
the dogs.
The building was aired thoroughly
and disinfected to remove the ca
nine odor and permit the members
of the feline tribe to strut without
keeping their backs arched in readi-
ness for their natural enemy.
More than one hundred indivi-
duals, representing twenty breeds
of cats, were on hand when the
building was opened.
The show brings more and better
cats than have been seen at the
show in years, according to Mrs.
E. c. Holland, Indianapolis, Indiana
Persian Cat Club secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

as low as 3 cents, cooking 2 cents,
commercial Is cents and large
power rates as low as l cent per
kilowatt hour.
Despite the fact that compliance
at the plant with the NRA code has
added $120 monthly to the over
head and the new state law reqires
a tax of $4,000 this year, the low
er rates will provide ample return
on the city's investment, Adkins
testified.
The new rates would be the low
est charged anywhere in southern
Indiana, he said.
In 1882, the Washington plant
earned an IL per cent return on a
property investment of S666000 and
stands free of Indebtedness, be tes-
titled. It's profit for the year was
$4,000, after per cent allowance
for depreciation mad been made.
Mayor Mccarthy recounted that
$4,000 annually had been trans
ferred from the light plant account
to the city general fund since 1880.
He said that in 1888 nearly 100000
would be transferred TO pay costs
of the city's operation above the
$6,275 sum allowed by the county
tax adjustment board, which set
the city tax levy at II cents.
In 1880, the tax rate was Slip,
the mayor said.
Plant profits have been used for
unemployment relief. Mayor Nc
Carly explained. Pay rolls were
created through street and alley
construction and the city now has
$3.50, 900 public works program under
way.
Effort to reduce rates in 1927 was
checkmated by the commission, the
mayor asserted.
Adkins said that only three
months since the plant has operated
have revenues declined. January was
the only month this year when de-
crease was noted. Since then an
increase has been registered month
ly. despite depression, he said.
The cheaper rates are the more
electricity people use" he pointed
out. We look to have our rev.
enues restored within three months
after this decrease by reason of in
creased consumption
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08


men here.
Concern for the missing trio was in
creased when Captain Macdonald of the
lake steamer Roosevelt docked here and
reported he had sighted a large piece of
fabric. appearing to be from an airplane,
six miles out.
With Manning were Carl Otto an auto
giro pilot, and Miss MAGENTA Gerard of
Chicago. They we're returning from
banquet given by Vincent Bendix in South
Bend for pilots.
The coast guard station at Michigan
City reported sighting an autogiro flying
toward Chicago over the lake at II O'Clock
Wednesday morning Manning left South
Bend a half hour earlier
Captain Lon Yancey. trans Atlantic
flier and a friend of Manning, was ex-
pected to be one of the filters starting this
morning in the search. He said he under
stood there was sufficient fuel in ManningS
plane for two hours flying Manning. it
was reported, had planned to take a short
cfrt he Lob of nl1 h<
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

But Chief Mike did not know that
the state police had moved from the
third floor of the statehouse to the
basement. and that the states radio
was not attached to the proper cur
rent for .snatching robbery reports
from the air.
So Feeney today absolved Chief
Mike Of playing "holdout' on the
city's pet bank robbery with the
remark that it'll never happen
again"-meaning the failure to re-
ceive the robbery call-not another
bank robbery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

The request was laid before the
commission Thursday afternoon by
Mayor John w. McCarty of Wash
ington.
The mayor was Joined by j. P.
Adkins. plant superintendent, and
Fred Dobbyn, in relating the history
of municipal ownership which has
caused Washington to be cited
throughout the nation.
Rate reductions asked at this
time would place lighting in line
with cooking and avoid unfair use,
Adkins explained. A hearing before
the commission was made necessary
by the city's request to increase the
monthly minimum rate of so cents
to ST..
Domestic rates, however would be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

on election day." interposed an
other.
And now Courthouse Joe has the
Brown Derby
He is King Joe L
OFF with the strawsl On with the
derbies! Derby Joe is wearing his
and his first mandate to his sub
jects is that they douse the Bang
kick and Panama for the headgear
Of his kingdom-the derby.
Joe is king for one year. Hall!
Hurrahl Huzza And by the way,
waiter. bring us another one,
sans the collar. Al
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
King Joe Crowned Amid Huzzas of His Brown Derby Subjects

band that could play but two
tunes. Sidewalks of New York"
and "Lieber Augustine that re-
ceived the kelly of kellys and
silver plaque from The Indian
apolis Times while a crowd of his
balloteers looked on.
Courthouse Joe was brought to
the fairgrounds atop a hearse
with a garbage can as his throne
seat.
Russell East, president of the
Playground board, introduced the
master of ceremonies, L. Ert
Slack. former mayor, and as the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

strains of New York's Sidewalks
died away. Courthouse Joe got it
on the dome.
=
COUNTY Auditor Charles Gros-
~ Sart and County Recorder
Ira Haymaker had good words to
say for Courthouse Joe. They
had spent one-half of Thursday
hunting Websters dictionary for
good words to say about Joe and
they said them.
Tom Quinn. former derby king,
crowned the 1888 winner with the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

right to be called the city's most
distinguished citizen.
Tom gave Joe credit for getting
ballots out Of the air He sug-
gested that Joe manufactured bal
lots by merely looking at The
Times when it was linked.
Then Joe replied to the crown
ing with the dun-colored head
piece and the presentation Of the
silver plaque.
He invited the world to beat a
path to his door at Room "A, the
courthouse, with the hope that
none bring him mouse traps for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

Long, Hard Struggle Waged Reach Heights of Diamond Lii

act in vaudeville, and prides her
self today on the fact that if the
bottom dropped out of the sexy
play business. she still could make
good as a vaudeville singer and
dancer.
She helped several of her
vaudeville accompanies to make
good - among them were Harry
Richman, whom she persuaded to
change his name from Reichman,
and Jack Smith, the Whispering
Baritone"
DUT the shimmy soon failed to
- shock theater world that
was turning smoothie, and Mae
West went on to higher things.
She appeared only now and then
in some musical show. but the itch
to write that broke oht all
through her youth in remark
able ability to lad lib lines I'M
der all circumstances, now broke
out in a play of her own. 1t was
called, with the delicate restraint
that has marked Macs whole ca
reer, Sex"
Some people thought Sex was
funny, some thought it vulgar,
most of the critics called it gar
bage, and practically everybody
agreed that it was a terrible play.
But for eleven months Days
theater was damned with people
who went to find out about Sex"
Mae Vests first play was a senSa-
ton.
Then suddenly somebody dis
covered that Sex" was immoral.
The police bounced on Days
theater, and bundled the luscious
Mae into the Black Maria for the
trip to court.
Despite fervent pleas of her
lawyers that Sex" was no more
obscene than Hamlet" and was
really something like "A Tale of
Two Cities" jury awarded Mae
ten days on Welfare island and
$4,000 worth of priceless pub
licity.
VISITING royalty seldom got
' more attention than Mae
West got during her brief sojourn
in the gov at Welfare island.
Interviews, pictures, magazine ar
ticles on her experiences, color"
for new plays, and a swell time
we're had by all, especially by Mae.
When the ten days we're up, the
author producer-St was full of
new plays and plans.
Purified by this ordeal of pun
ishment for her histrionic sins,
Mae West was ready to go on to
the triumph that was to make
Diamond Lii" a national heroine
and Ills regal figure beacon of
hope alike for the declining corset
industry and the woman who
never could stay on a diet.
NEXT - A new feminine ideal
appears, and what Mae West
thinks it will mean to women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

MYTH the odor of Dublin
w stout, the breeze of the
shamrocks, and the blarney Of
"ould Erin" the King of the
Brown Derby was crowned Thurs
day night in front of the Indiana
state fair grand stand.
Shure. ana begorra, it was some
crovningl
A goodly crowd was there and it
wasn't down at Joes barroom on
the corner of the square.
But it was Joe-Joe McLafferty
of the Marion county court
housf. who. led by German
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

presents or gifts that in any fash
ion resemble votes.
= II
ZOE voted for himself so many
~ times that even Thursday
night he couldn't restrain from
voting for himself when, at the
conclusion of the ceremonies, he
gave himself a vote Of thanks for
his own speech.
If had his voice" echoed one
politician.
His brogue. What
brogue. It's worthw million votes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

The day of the holdup of the
State bank of MASSACHUSETTS, ave-
nue., Captain Matt Leach of the state
police did not hear of the robbery
until he read It in the papers"
This long distance method of no
LITIGATION and resultant account in
The Times resulted in Police Chief
Mike Morrissey calling Al Feeney,
Mats boss and safety director, to
iron out the difficulty
1t was found after a checkup that
Chief Mike Morrissey thought that
Cap" Matt surely would hear Of
the robbery over state police radio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

Here Mae West perhaps was the
inventor, and certainly one of the
pioneers of the shimmy. Although
both Bee Palmer and Gilda Gray
have been given credit for this
great contribution to the art of
the dance, Mae West supporters
claim they never were any great
shakes, and that Mae herself
brought on the day when a SHIN
my no longer was a shirt.
Mae West always had a good
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

earned the name of The Baby
Vamp."
She did a stretch in vaudeville
with an acrobatic act, in which
she tossed her male partners
about with easy grace.
But by the time she was Is, Mae
Vests optimism, eagerness for the
spotlight, and keen eye for the
main chance had landed her in
the Big Time" the Keith circuit,
whose nadir is the Palace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

Rod of her life she used to gaze
on the solid proportions of the
Venus of Melos and devoutly wish
that some day she might embody
those famous measurements. But,
of course, Mae West is bit of
kidder.
IRON the child roles of the
l. stock company, Mae naturally
was graduated into burlesque, via
dancing school. There she
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

one Of the important Septem-
Der publications OF the BObbs-
Merrill Company Of Indianapolis
will be Dark Moon Of March, D."
by Emmett GOwen. His first novel,
Mountain Born won distin-
guished critical appreciation. both
in this country and abroad. 1t
resulted in Mr.. A. p. Orage of
THE New English Weekly" to re-
fer TO him as "One of the few
great new writers of America"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
GOLDSMITH COMPANY
TO DISTRIBUTE CIGARS
Territory to Extend From Marion
County to Ohio Line.

County to Ohio Line.
Announcement was made today
of appointment Of the Goldsmith
Sales Company. 129 Kentucky av-
enue, as exclusive distributor for
General Cigar Co., Inc, in a ter
ritory extending from Marion coun-
ty to the Ohio line
officers of the Goldsmith COM
pany are Sol Goldsmith, president;
Julius Goldsmith, vice-president,
and Louis Goldsmith, secretary and
treasurer.
The sales and service policy of the
General company Will be continued
by his company, Louis Goldsmith
announced.
The Goldsmith company is ex-
elusive distributor in this territory
for Canada Dry beverages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
In the Air

Weather conditions at a. m:
Southwest wind, miles an hour;
ceilirg. unlimited, visibility. six
mileS: temperature, 30; general con-
ditioas. clear: barometric pressure,
30.06 at sea level.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
Cops Kiss and Make Up
Everything's Explained in Failure of State Police
to Be in on Bank Holdup

IKE and Matt have kissed All well between the
Iva Indianapolis police the Indiana police
bank robbers must face the being hunted by state well
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
BY WILLIS THORNTON
MA Service Writer

NEW YORK, Sept. 8.-The girl
~ who was to put the red light
in the theater in place of the
spotlight, and the ur-glass in
the place of the stove poker as a
model for the female form divine,
was destined for the theater as
inevitably as a hot dog is destined
for a bun.
Mae Vests mother was a native
Parisienne. She died a few years
ago. Battling Jack West, the one
time lightweight prize lighter who
was her father, now is Long
Island chiropractor.
Mae grew up in Greenpoint in
the far reaches of darkest Brook
Ign. She was one of those kids
that every neighborhood knows:
She had talent"
Mae won most of the prizes at
amateur theatrical affairs. Before
she was 5 she was giving perform
ances at church and club socials,
doing representations of Eva Tan
quay, Eddie Foy, George M. Co
han, and the popular idols of
day which Mae herself now says
was not so SO 44-100 per cent pure
as some like to suppose. She re-
fers you to the Police Gazette for
1905.
THE kid was good, all agreed,
- and soon she went ahead.
She got on as a child actress with
Hal Clarendon's stock company at
the Gotham theater in East New
York. She played child charac-
tiers in the good old shows like
Little Lord Fauntleroy," The
Moonshiner's Daughter" and East
Lynne"
She was the little daughter who
implOred Father. dear father,
come home with me now" in
Ten Nights in Bar Room"
She was the saccharine Lovey
Mary in Mrs. Wigs of the Cab
bage Patch" AS the golden-haired
Little Eva of Uncle Toms
Cabin" Mae was more than once
waited up to heaven on piano
wire.
There was no hint that this in
nocent child one day would make
an even greater success by going
theatricallly to hell in her own
plays.
However,
Between the acts of the old
fashioned drama, there used to be
little vaudeville acts called olios.
Mae did her share of these when
the play did not call for a child
part.
She sang songs, and became
what was known in those days as
a coon shouter."
Mae AYERS today that irf this pc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
Parachute Champion and
Woman Missing on Lake
By UHifed Press

CHICAGO Sept 8Coas guard patrol boats and several aplan
Michigan
parachute
flight
companions
plane bucing headwind exhausted supply
LIZ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
Falls Dead in Home

Francis NJ. Davis. So, of HAS
South Ewing street, fell dead to-
Gay at his home. DR.. J. A.. Salb,
deputy coroner. said death was due
to natural cause.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
Balloon Pilots Missing;
Rangers Launch Search
By United Press


Sept 8Range of southeastern Canada joined with
bal
which Bennett
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08


pointed plane
Held blades
without craft would had buoancy they
explained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
City-Oluned Utility Asks
State TO O. X. Rate Cut

Public service commissioners today bordering the
of the famed municipality Washington
profits 100000 annually and lower koxatt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

This is the second Of three stories on
Mae West. the buxom actress who Is re-
storing curves to feminine favor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
Makes Good AS Sleuth

He promptly was summoned be-
fore the grand jury by the Tam
many district attorney and forced
to admit he had no evidence. HUI
inflated, he concealed his profess
sion, and entered upon an investiga-
ton of the New York red light dis
trict, at that time something which
would have put the barbary coast
in its palmieSt days, to shame.
He came out of that investigation
with evidence-284 affidavits. each
descriptive of one house of i'll
repute
1t shocked the town. The Lexow
legislative committee was author
lied. 1t heard TOO witnesses, its
minutes filled 10,576 pages. mostly
concerning astonishing official cor
ruption.
Tammany Leader Richard Croker
quit and at the next election an
aroused public removed the Tam
many administration from Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

Held on Attack Charge
William Gates, 70, 808 South East
street, was arrested Thursday on
charge of attempting. criminal at
tack upon an 11-year- old girl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08

Give me the name Of book to
read at nights when I return from
the Chicago fair2" Pretty hard TO
answer. but I would take with me
The Farm" by Louis Bromf1eld-