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The Washington times., 1935-01-23

Pontiac 1880 Coach-Has been C1OE
carefully driven and is in ex- DISC
trs Eood shape: including tires:
$50 H St. n. T.,
The Washington times., 1935-01-23
OIdsmobile

Oldsmobile 1891 sedan-S43 Gao
down and S26.OS a month: 30 OfO
day guarantee against labor DOWN
and parts; your car may be more than
the down payment. Ask for car No
L. P. sTEUART. INC. 1898 14th
The Washington times., 1935-01-23
Auburn

Austin 1894 Coupe-Runs good; COOK
looks fine and at a real price; UGOO
trade and easy terms.
MANDELL CHEVROLET
18th g. Good Hope Rd. 8. e.
Atlantic 44O2
The Washington times., 1935-01-23
Wanted Automobiles

HIGHEST cash Prices for all tate model
cars See Mr.. Wellborn. 1921 18th ST. NV.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
The Slogans Ready, Too

TN HIS subcOnSciouS mind he thinks OF himself as
i living on top of a high wall This makes it i'm
possible for him to take more than one short step
in any given direction Although afraid to jump the
patient is subject to dizzy spells, during which he
falls. The side to which he falls is wholly deter
mined by the way in which the wind is blowing.
Some reports from Washington indicate that the
Humpty Dumpty complex is pandemic in the halls
of Congress. This is reason for moving the
government to Stamford, which boasts modern hos
pital and several wel-equipped sanatora. But most
cures obtained around here spontaneous and may
be attributed to the cool, dry climate. Mr. Reynolds
my tenant is a case in point. To be sure he not
as badly off as Congressman Brewster who could not
say either yes or no" Mr.. Reynolds merely
couldn't say no" when he first came here to settle
But he is bravey overcoming that difficulty, as
have found each time called upon him with the bill
for the rent
The Department of Agriculture should be par
ticuary enthusiastic about the switch to Stamford,
because the oil here is full of rocks and Indian
rowheads and is ideally suited for blowing under
practically any kind of crop you to mention.
When 1 came here was a nervous wreck and had
the greatest difficulty in writing my columns Now
I can do them with my eyes closed and both hands
tied behind my back Need 1 say to any con-
gresham about to rise and ask leave to print?
OF course, slogan will be needed to sell the idea
too why continue in a place of blk and money?
Why not try this land of milk and honey?"
tCopyright 1885,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
The Place Has Everything

WE have paved roads. electric light and more
w newspaper men than you could shake stick
at. There is a small lake just back of the spot
have temporarily chosen for the house office build
ing 1t well stocked with bullheads, but this need
not necessarily confusion, as most Of the
congressman will be wearing hats.
Ours is a respectable neighborhood and Joe's
saloon is within easy driving distance. The mint
can be built around the house where quentin Rey-
nolds is living 1t WILL of course be necessary to dis
possess him first but 1 have objection to that, as
he is one of those querulous tenants who always
finding fault about something Right now he is kick
ing because the well has gone dry. This is some
what irritating since 1 have known him, man and
boy for than 40 years and this is the first time
I ever heard him express any concern about water.
Indeed 1 cite the dryness of the well as one OF
the virtues of our Stamford climate. When the
drought occurred last year the rainfall hereanoutS
was prodigiouS. Now that the floods are loosed IN
other and less fortunate communities we are having
a drought Stamford has a mind OF its own, ana
that very fact might prove most beneficial to many
congressman.
For instance have been reading in the news
papers about the sad of Rep Brewster from the
state of Maine Seemingly he suffers from what the
psychiatristS call "a Humpty Dumpty complex"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
NurD,i Had a Purpose

MOREOVER, when Paavo Nurmi had been wip-
1V1 ing out records in the distance runs night after
night of his great American tour just after the war;
the greatest campaign waged by any foot racer.
nobody had attempted to read into this achievement
curious superiority of the white hooters over
the red, black yellow. He just an individual,
and his marvellous ability on the track was easily
accounted for. Nurmi came from Finland where dis
lance running had been fad for some years and
he individually was mOrOSe determined youth with
only one interest in the world He had concentrated
on running and thanks to his singleness of pur-
pose and fine equipment of lungs and legs had
become such master this generation is not likely
to see the equal Of
There had been Charlie Paddock, too, who had
run 100 yards in "a seconds If he had been a Negro
his mastery OF the field in his time would have pro-
vOked suggestions having to do with the reflexeS Of
the Negro.
Such suggestions usually put forward when
Negro becomes champion.
1t is so, now, to Eulace Peacock and Jesse
Owens, it to Eddie Tolan the solemn
Olympic athlete from Detroit who wore spectacles
on the track and looked like deacon out of old
Zimmerman cartoon, and Joe Cans said to have
inherited his of timing and his eye for distance
from his jungle forbears. But all these Negro ath-
letes came from sophisticated surroundings and
there is nothing to support the notion that they
received special advantage from proximity
to nature in the raw.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12

Tightening up" at the 10 ports of
entry where artistic antiquities.
if established as productions of an
earlier date than 1880, are entitled
to free entry to the United States.
Mr.. Moyle's action has helped
to swell Federal revenue. In
recent shipment from abroad to
New Orleans. heavy duties were
imposed on supposedly antique"
china, entered as pre-1830 variety.
One of the plates happened to
bear a design of the steamship
Great Eastern. which did not ex-
list until 1858.
Some supposedly ancient furni-
ture received like treatment. Nails
withdrawn for inspection were
machine-cut. Machine-cut nails
originated in 1855. Previous to
that only hand-forged nails were
used.
So, if you import an antique,
be sure it has a bona -f1de exist
ence prior to 1890 Otherwise the
government will do its duty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12


The others ere dead by
courtesy of police bullets or
the electric chair, or they
are serving long prison
terms as interest on that
borrowed time.
Harry Clark is serving out the
principal-he got life!
All of that hysterical climax.
done in the best Deadeye Dick
manner that was in no small
measure promoted by Federal and
local police, who sensed a spurious
drama in the situation, seems far
from the time that John Dillinger
started his career of crime.
He hit an old man on the head
with length of pipe and robbed
him. That's the first recorded
crime of John Dillinger, late ma
TONS No. public enemy. The man
he hit didn't have gun-he was
no equal in strength to his assail-
ant, and if he had been, Dillinger
had some one along with him.
Later on, when Dillinger had
progressed so far on his crime
career that he was newspaper
copy, John Dillinger Sr. got maud
lin about that first crime. Such a
little thing, he said, to cause his
boy to go so wrong. Eight years
i'll prison for so small a crime!
His companion, Ed Singleton,
got lesser punishment and that al
ways was a sore spot with Dillin-
ger while he lived. Dillinger, the
deSerter from the United States
Navy; Dillinger, attacker of de-
fenseless old men; Dillinger, whose
monumental and weak self-pity
disguised his decent wife and
caused her to leave him!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
He'll Take AristOcratS

TNHE character builders assembled at Mr. Bells
rooms in the Ritz, for years the social headquar-
tiers of the coaches when large events going on
in Philadelphia fell to discussing their preferences in
athletics. There were those who favored big mighty
country Jumps without too much imagination but
with hard muscles and great endurance. There
s)me who Endorsed the high school graduate raised
end taught in the big cities.
About this point the Harvard coach put in to say
that if he had his choice he would take the New
England aristocrat for he had found this kind to be
the gamest of them all under the hardest conditions
the best sportsman and as good an athlete as the
next man.
For my team" said the Harvard coach. give me
a lot of kids who can trace their back in the
blueboCks. will take them and the sissy tradition
and lick all your millhands and hay-shakers on
courage alone. have all kinds but the aristo-
crat, with his pink, fuzzy cheeks, will keep on fight
ing as long as he can keep getting up. You have
to cut them to pieces to stop Them
This was from Harvard coach who was no aris-
tocrat himself but of those rugged South Boston
Irish who brought in years ago to lift the Grim
son out of the mud where the aristocracy had been
dragging it for quite time
Copyright, 1885, by United Feature Syndicate. Incl
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DILLINGER was sent to prison.
~ 1t was and is society'S only
way of collecting a bill run up
against it by an anti-social in
dividual. He served eight years
and was paroled, partly due to the
kindness of the old man whose
head he cracked with an iron pipe.
The parole board, guided by a
model" prison record which in
Guided disorderly conduct, at
tempting to escape, gambling, de-
struction of property and posses
sion of razor in his cell, paroled
him in 1882 and sent him back
with his bill half paid to society.
The boards "sob-sister wisdom"
soon was betrayed because in
September of the next year, Dill
linger participated in the $25,0 GOO
Massachusetts Avenue Bank rob-
berry in indianapolis, and a few days
later he was arrested in Dayton,
o., several days before 10 Indi-
ana State Prison convicts escaped.
Dillinger Is generally supposed
to have negotiated that escape,
and SO in october, after he was
returned from Dayton to Lima, O.,
to await trial on charges of hav-
ing robbed a bank at Bluffton,
O., there was call at the Allen
County Jail.
Two men, Charles MakIey and
Harry Pierpont, armed, of course,
said they represented the Indiana
State Prison and asked Sheriff
Jess Sarber to interview Dillinger.
u
CHERIFF JESS SARBER was a
~ farmer before he was sheriff
and he was no more than
a farmer-politician after he was
elected. He never was a police
officer. He was a Soft-spoken,
pink-faced, mild man. as friendly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
THOMAS MEIGHAN IN
CRITICAL CONDITION
Stage, Film Star UndergoeS
Throat Operation.

BIZ Unitsd Press
NEW YORK, July 12.-The con-
dition of Thomas Meighan, star of
the stage and screen, critically i'll
in Doctors Hospital after a throat
operation, was described as "un-
changed but favorable" by hospital
attendants today. The crisis will
i be reached for four or five
days, they said.
The actor, who had recently at
tempted a comeback in sound pic
lures, was confined to a Hollywood
hospital in January with pneumo-
mia. After coming to New York a
few weeks ago, an obstruction de-
veloped in his bronchial passages
which necessitated in an operation
yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
ONE YEAR-A MYTH is SHATTERED
Diinger and His Pals Weren't CleuvThey Just Thought So
BY JOE COLLIER
Times STAFF Writer

Asst year at this time, John Dilnger and some of his
associates at large national DULLES and social
testers. They living IN alleys and loving molls
They were the worlds most spectacular towards.
Today only two of them at large and the odds are
eight to five least that of them is dead victim of
police bullets and buried by his associates = buried like
respectable people dispose of garbage.
That ore is John Hamilton whose shifty eyes
shifty even picture, and who rated of Diln-
GERS chief lieutenants
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
FUGITIVE FROM STATE
FARM is NABBED HERE

Ivan Rubin, Free Two Years, Re-
turns for Brothers Funeral.
Ivan Rubin, a fugitive from the
Indiana State Farm since Septem-
Der, 1888, is in custody today follow
ing his arrest last night at the
home of his mother, Mrs. Anna
Rubin, 3112 w. North-st.
Rubin had returned to Indianapo-
lis from Pine Bluff, Wyo., to attend
the funeral of his brother, Walter
Rubin, who was slain Saturday night
by Kenneth Tebeau, BIT w.
North-st.
Ivan Rubin escaped from the farm
while serving term for burglary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12

defenseless than was William
Stanley, Chicago police sergeant,
who was shot down and killed in
December, 1888, by John Ham
ilton-but he was more vulner-
able. He died.
He had been waiting at garage
for some suspicious person to call
for a car parked there. John
Hamilton called, and shot the SER
geant in the back.
And that started the concerted
police drive against the gang that,
unnecessarily and incorrectly, was
put in the light of being clever.
This will be explained in the
second of two articles accounting
for the spurious fame that once
was accorded the nations worst
criminaIS).
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as a bird dog and just about as
dangerous-armed or not armed.
So when he asked the two thugs
to see their credentials, naturally
they beat and shot him to death
that is Pierpont did, while Max
ley, the other desperate, under
took the difficult and dangerous
job of guarding Mrs. Sarber and
an unarmed deputy who looked
on Mortified.
Public Enemies No. and had
no trouble doing away with de-
fenSeless middle-aged man in an
office sheltered from view from
the street, out of earshot. (John
Dillinger hit an old man with a
length of pipeO Sheriff Sarber
died the next morning, wondering
if he could have brought himself
to shoot a man even if he had
had gun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
CLARENCE 7, BRADY
is BANKERS LEADER
County Association Elects
Slate at OUTING.

Clarence T. Brady is president of
the Marion County Bankers Asso-
citation following his election at the
organizations annual outing last
night at Hillcrest Country Club.
r. E. Huffman is vice president;
Edward c. Freihage, treasurer; DON
aid D. Christie, secretary, and Will
liam G. Grauel, member at large.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
THREE CHILDREN HURT
AT CITY PARKS, POOLS
Girl Sewers Finger Tip at Pump;
Another Slips on Bathhouse Floor.

Girl Sewers Finger Tip at Pump;
Another Slips on Bathhouse Floor.
Three children were injured yes
terday while visiting city parks and
swimming pools. Marilyn Oakley,
8, of 2026 Madison-av, severed
finger tip when she caught her
finger under the pump handle while
trying to get a drink from the
park we'll in Garfield Park. She
was sent to the City Hospital.
A slippery shower room floor at
Ellenberger Park pool caused Char
lotte McConahey, 4, of 648 N. Tenn
ple-av, to fall and cut deep cash
in her forehead.
Dorothy OFT, 9, of 324 E. Ray
mond-st, struck the side of the Gar
field Park pool after she had
bounced off the chute in the pool.
She received a severe cut on her
chin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12

STANFORD Conn, the garden spot OF New England.
can put the proper officials in touch with man
who is willing to dispose of approximately 100 acres
on easy terms-a small sum down and the rest just
like rent The tract which 1 offering to the gov
eminent at bargain rates is convenient to several
schools and churches and is less than an hour by
motor from the Empire City track While wit
nesses in Washington are beating each other up on
shouting "Liar!" sleeping under blankets and
congressman could do the same the moment SIAM
ford becomes the nations capital
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
EuMouh
BY
PEGLER

TT was Southern athletic coach, coddling pro-
L hibition highball in Bert Bells quarters in the
Ritz Hotel in Philadelphia one night. who found
some comfort for the white in the spectacle of
Negroes leading their palld opponents to the wire
in many of the races in the Penn relays that day.
The Negro runners had won some of the most inn
portant events on the long program Not only that,
but in the minor hikes which had filled the intervals
between the starred performances it had seemed that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
SIDE MARDI GRAS
TO BE HELD JULY 24-27
Three-Day Fete to Be Given at
1Oth-st and EucIid-av.

A carnival midway complete with
ferris wheel, merry-go-round, and
numerous concessions, plus balloon
ascensions, band concerts, and anna
teur programs will feature the ninth
annual Mardi Gras sponsored by the
Sherman-Emerson Civic League,
July "a to 81.
The three-day fete, according to
F. A. Muehlbacher. chairman, will
be held at the 10th-st and Euclid-ay
grounds. Proceeds viii be used to
promote East Side civic activities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
WOLF AGAIN ELECTED
HEAD OF BOYS CLUB

Insurance Executive Heads ASsOcia-
ton for 14th Year.
Arthur Wolf, vice president of
the State Automobile Insurance As
ISOLATION, last night was elected
president of the Boys Club Associa-
ton of Indianapolis for the four
tenth consecutive year.
Other officers reelected are: Karl
G. Wolfe, Miss Sarah Lauter, Don
aid S. Morris, Herbert S. King and
Mrs. David Ross, vice presidents,
and Herman w. Kothe, secretary
and treasurer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
BUILDING BOOM SEEN
BY CHICAGO REALT0R
City Real Estate Board Members
Hear Encouraging Address.

The country soon will witness the
greatest home buying and home
building boom in its history, pre-
dicted Lawrence Wood, Chicago re-
altor. in an address yesterday be-
fore members of the Indianapolis
Real Estate Board in the Hotel
Washington
Mr.. Wood urged real estate men
to awaken to opportunities of the
new market, which he declared
would come as reaction from the
depression years, aided by assured
loans made through the Federal
Housing Administration plan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12

Or. Copeland, the New YORK
throat specialist who plays around
at being a Senator as well, has but
recently offered medical testimony
as to the evil effects of Washing
ton weather upon both the temper
and the judgment of congressman.
Of course, 1 realize that some struc-
lures, statues and other hostages to
permanence have been set up along
the banks of the Potomac, but it is
by no means too late to change the
site of the capital. 1 would not have
undertaken to criticise the climate
OF Washington if l we're not pre-
pared to make a constructive sug-
gestion. 1t is simply this: Try
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12

always some Negro lad was show
ing the way home to the white boys.
We'll, in sort of way" the
Southern coach sighed. rolling his
glass between his palms, lit was
pleasant sight to see-thoSe white
boys chasing these Negro boys that
way. 1t was like down home"
The assembled character build
erS, representing many colleges and
great experience in athletics, both
as participants in their time and as
instructors in more recent years,
were unable to agree on the reason.
Certain Negro athletes in the large
field that day had been faster than
the white kids in the me rnrnnr.ar n,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
HOLDS DEPOSITORS ARE
FINANCING NEW DEAL
Banks Hold so Per Cent of Bonds,
Warrick Says.

By Tunes Special
RUSHVILLE, Ind, July 12.-The
bank depositors of the country are
financing the Federal governments
program, Don E. Warrick, Indian
apolis, Indiana Bankers Association
secretary, said last night in an
address before the Kiwanis Club
here.
Over so per cent of the govern
ment's bonds are held by banks,
which means, Mr.. Warrick ex-
planned, that over go per cent of to-
days bank deposits are invested in
government bonds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
PROPOSED TRACKLESS
LINE DRAWS ATTACK
Central-av Patrons to Protest Troll
ley Co. Project.

Plans of the indianapolis Rail-
ways, Inc, to replace street car
service on the Central-av line with
trackless trolleys will be protested
by patrons.
Change in the line will be made,
according to James P. Tretton,
general manager of the company, as
soon as plans are completed for gov
eminent financing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12

They freed Dillinger that day
over Sheriff Sarber's body. They
just walked out-wise guys be-
cause it was so easy. And they
drove away. Simple! Cops are
dumb! Hicks!
They became a marauding band
of criminals. Gun mollS, attract
ed to them by the money they
took from banks, found them and
protested love for them, and they
believed it. Who was a hick
then!
4 Il
TT has been told by those "molls"
l. that they went to Florida and
rented house and sat on the
porch firing machine gun bullets
into the Atlantic Ocean.
At that, the ocean was no more
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
|. u. DENTAL SCHOOL
RAISES REQUIREMENTS
Two Years Work at Bloomington
Will Be Required After 1886.

Two Years Work at Bloomington
Will Be Required After 1886.
Changes in requirements for ad-
mission to the Indiana University
School of Dentistry from one to
two years pre-dental work was an
nounced today by Dean F. R. Hen
shaw The new ruling will apply
for the first time to students en-
tering the School of Dentistry in
September, 1887, Dean Henshaw
stated.
Students planning to enter the
Indiana University school Of den
tistry in 1897 and after that time
will spend two years in pre-dental
work at Bloomington before adj
mission to the school of dentistry at
the medical center here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-12
GAS THIEF BELIEVED
WOUNDED IN GETAWAY

Two Thugs Surprised While Taking
Fuel From Truck.
One of two gasoline thieves is be-
lieved to have been wounded late
last night, when they were sur
prised in an attempt to take gaso-
line from a truck at the parking
lot of the Advance Transfer and
Warehouse Co., 1920 S. Harding-st
Elmer wager, R. R. 7, Box Sol,
merchant policeman, reported that
when the men failed to halt at his
command, he opened fire. One of
them fell, got up, and ran again.