Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 2 September 1926 — Page 3

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,1926.

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Who Said There Hain’t No SantaClaus

Well look what Santa Claus brought Judge Dearth while he was honk honking through Canada! A nice, brand new street extending south along the street east of his house. And wbo did this kind act for the judge, while he was away on his travels meditating on the wickedness of the sons of Belial, who, like the mice, were playing hob in Muncie while his honor rested from his labors? We’ll let you in on the secret, but pray don’t tell anybody. It was the kind, benevolent, ev'er thoughtful- city administration. And the beauty of it is that it won’t cost the judge a bent. The street department did the work under the supervision of Superintendent Frank Sample, and the people of the city as a whole will have the honor of paying for it while the residents of South Monroe street, who didn’t want their street improved, will be touched to the tune of two hundred dollars for each fifty foot frontage, Which is much better than paying nothing for the entire length of a lot, 125 feet. The street abutting the east side of the judge’s lot was beautifully graded, covered with crushed stone and surfaced with tarvia. Having a street improved at the expense of all the taxpayers is a great improvement over the regular system of taxing the cost up to the abutting taxpayers, but the boys got tdgether, and out of the fullness of their hearts decided to do something nice for the judge, who had departed leaving behind him the impression that he was not altogether pleased with the ‘way Hampton and Hoffman and the rest of the high kickers had been running the town. But there’s his new street, all as slick as a whistle, paid for, by gum, right out of the city treasury, so why, the boys argue, can the judge cherish any further ill will toward those who planned and executed the surprise party? The materials entering into the construction of the street, bought of the regular administration shop, were hauled to the scene by the celebrated second hand truck, recently acquired by the city for the modest sum of $2,600. The old wreck hung together long enough to get the crushed stone to the street, and its performance is now being pointed to with pride. When the truck was bought of, ahem, Mr. Williams, it was, so to speak, somewhat short of perfect. Having hauled coal for a member of the board of works for four years the old bus wasn’t what she used to be, but at that was all right for the shape she was in. The lack of paint wasn’t so bad, but she needed new tires,’ a rear axle, an engine and other things too numerous to mention. But the board of works wanted that truck above all others. A new one of the same make and capacity, offered to the city for $2,200, was spurned. Statesmen Hoffman, Thornburg and Cranor, all free spenders—of other peoples’ money, were going in for antiques, so they bought the wreckage and then discovered that the wheels wouldn’t go round. And by the way the finance committee of the city council, alert and watchful of the city’s interest, put their official O K on the bill for $2,600 and numerous qther bills for repairs and parts, including a brand new motor which hadn’t been run over seven years purchased of a junk dealer at Indianapolis, who as a special favor let the boys have it for $400, or at least that was the amount that was jacked out of the city treasury for it. Iduriously it might also be stated that Councilman Frank Barclay, who Complained in a council meeting about the purchase of the truck, is the chairman of the finance committee that allowed the bills. But when the missing parts were purchased, and everything hooked up, the’ relic of the past actually ran! Those who witnessed the launching of the antique were almost as incredulous as those who stood on the bank of a river eight or ten years before the year the truck was born and gave Fulton the horse laugh when he tried out the first steam boat. But if the truck never runs another city block, it will go down in history as the conveyance which transported the churshed stone to Judge Dearth’s nice, new 1 street, which is something, after all. Two blocks of Linden street were kindly fixed up by the big hearted city administration. The work covers two blocks, extending from Riverside Avenue to North street. Judge Dearth’s home is at the southwest intersection of University and Linden, therefore he has the benefit of 1.25 feet of the free improvement. Four inches of crushed stone, bought of the “right” dealer, was placed on the street and Harry Hoffman and Claude Hines, local agents for tarvia, got theirs out of the job. The estimated, actual cost of the work is around $1,200. 'Everybody will have to dig down in their jeans and contribute to the little token of regard to Judge Dearth. It would have cost less if the street repair department had confined he work to the 125 feet abutting Judge Dearth’s lot, but if that had been done some of the neighbors might have kicked. Diplomacy goes with true statesmanship. The three members of the board of Avorks are diplomats, so it will cost the city $1,200 for this particular diplomatic move.

GUARDS REPULSE EFFORT OF 1,800 TO TAKE BRIDGE Several Injured in Attempt to Capture Entrance To Rhode Island Textile Factory. Manvllle, R. I., Sept. 1 —State police and striking operatives of the Mahville-Jencks company’s plant here engaged in a pitched battle last night twhen a crowd of strikers and sympathizers numbering 1,800 tried to storm the bridgehead leading to the mill. One man tried to break through anti was pushed back by the troopers. The crowd thten rdshed the police cordon and the troopers drcive them back with tear-gas bombs.

the fighting still was in progress, with the police still occasionally hurling a bomb as further attempts to take the bridge were made. Shortly after 9 o’clock troopers fired a volley from their revolvers into the crowd. One man ran into a store bleeding from the arm. There were probably others injured. The bridge, which leads from Yelle square across the Blackstone river and the railroad to the mill, was unoccupied except when troopers made an occasional foray forward to attack the crowd, which jammed the square in a furious mob and retailiated with a bombardment of stones taken from piles brought to the bridgehead. Later the troopers fired another volley of six or seven shots, one of which struck a boy in the leg. A third person, a man, is reported to have been hit also. The boy was- carried to a store in which a window was shattered by another

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CONSERVATION OF NATURAL BEAUTY URGED BY L1EBER

State Director Foresees Development of Resources in Southern Indiana.

Henryville, Ind., Aug. 28—Southern Indiana’s panoramic beauty and interesting, rolling topography are destined to become the state’s popular playgrounds, and we may expect to see thousands of persons motoring into this section each Aveek-end with advent of a superior system of state roads,” Richard Lieber, director of the state conservatien department told an audience of 3,000 gathered in a pretty grove at the state forestry reservation here Thursday afternoon. It was occasion of the seventeenth annual meeting of new comers and home comers of Scott, Washington and Clarke counties, but the audience was represented by at least a dozen counties of southwestern Indiana. Mr. Lieber was followed on the program by Albert Stump of Indianapblis, candidate for the United States senate. Indiana First | Mr. Lieber, whose deparament has jurisdiction of the forestry reserve, pointed out that state preserves in Indiana are a part of the system to conserve the natural resources, and called attention that that state was "the first to recognize by law the economic value of scenery as a natural resource. Indiana, owing to its geographic location, is in the pathway of the nation’s automotive traffic and should profit by it, he declared. On a recent trip to Gary he was informed, the speaker said, that 24,000 persons in automobiles passed a given point on the Dunes highway traveling east and west in one day. He declared he would not be surprised if soon 25,000 perple visited this section in a day, providing southern Indiana people conserved their beauty spots and made them comfortable and invit-

ing.

Parks Popular - Attention was called by Mr. Lieber that each year witnesses a vast increase of state park attendance. Turkey Run park this year will show an attendance better than eighty-five thousand, while Clifty Falls at Madison, just two years old as a park, will entertain more than fifty-five thousand this summer. Other state parks are as popular in proportion to the territories they serve. The speaker drew an amusing picture relative to the state seal, which he humorously said was sold to uS some one hundred thousand years ago by shrewd fellows from Connecticut. At that time Indiana was practically one great forest. The designer pictured a white man, buffalo and a setting sun. It really represented the keen foresight of the designer who believed that the last white man was choping down the last tree, as the sun set on a scene of devastation and desolation which certainly would prompt a buffalo to sprint for more fertile fields if thete remained a buffalo to do it. o “Trudy” Ederlee Given Ovation by New Yorkers New York, Aug. 28.—Gertrude Ederle was given a . home coming ovation yesterday ■ such as New York never before has given a woman. Packed throngs that witnessed her triumphant procession up the canyon of lower Broadway were estimated as greater than those that welcomed returning heroes after the world war. It was the day of days for the youthful swimmer who was the first of her sex to conquer the English channel, and in a time better than any man had ever achieved. A triumphant parade, brass bands, fluttering flags, showers of confetti, and thunderous shouts of applause marked her progress up the famous thoroughfare. The crowd that gathered outside the -City hall, where Mayor Walker presented her with a scroll commemorating her deed .reached such proportions that 100 extra policemen were called to prevent serious trouble. Six women and children were injured when crushed in the mass of humanity. Fences were broken down under the windows of the City hall and the doors were stormed after they had been closed during the welcoming ceremonies in the mayor's chambers. — —o

Hartford City Boxer Killed In Fight

Hartford City, Sept. l-^-Leo (Bill) Landis, 22, of Hartford City, an amateur boxer, died at 4:20 a. m. yesterday from concussion of the brain suffered in a fight with Frank Cruse, of Muncie, staged in an open air boxing arena at Muncie Monday night. Landis was knocked out in the first half minute of a scheduled six-round bout. He revived shortly after the blow was struck but was taken to the Muncie hospital, where he died yesterday morning. Cruse is a brother of Clyde (Buck) Cruse, Chicago White Sox catcher. Coroner Frank T. Kilgore was conducting an investigation yesterday.

REPORTS LARGE UNLAWFUL ALIEN EXODUS TO U.S.

Immigration Head Says That Thousands Barred by Quota Swarm Over the Border.

Washington, Sept. 1—Thousands of aliens, barred from the United States by quota restrictions, are swarming along America’s vast land borders and resorting to every conceivable trick and deception to slip into the country, Harry E. Hull, commissioner general of immigration, announced yesterday. In a personal survey of the Canadian border, just completed, Mr. Hull found that: 1. Aliens are attempting to steal into the country from Canada by crawling over the under girders of the Niagara bridge. Confederates help the aliens to scale the cliffs on both sides after the perilous crossing of the gorge. 2. Women persuade American citizens to marry them in order to win qfiick entry under a nonquota status. 3. Disguises are supplied by organized bands of alien smugglers to “Americanize” foreigners and rush them past inspectors amid the throngs of tourists. Search Remote Sections Aliens travel afoot for weeks to search out remote sections of the border inadequately guarded, Mr. Hull declared. By posing as “farmers” many gain preferential entry to neighboring countries, after which new ruses are removed to spirit them into the United States “through the back door.” HAYSSUGGESTS MOVIE ARCHIVES AT WASHINGTON Tells Coolidge of Plan to House Old Films iri Federal Building.

OUAKE DESTROYS TOWN IN AZORES: MANY HOMELESS

Islanders at Capital Take to Open—Fifty Casualties Reported in Shocks.

Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 1— The island of Fayal is described in a message from the mayor as “a mass of ruins, especially the city of Horta.” The injured in the earthquake are estimated by him as four hundred.

Paul Smith’s, N. Y., Sept. 1.—A plan for the preservation of motion picture records of incalculable historic value was laid before President Coolidge yesterday by Will H. Hays, directing head of the motion pictuije producers of the United States. The producing companiefc, Mr. Hays said, are in agreement on the scheme, which would place the negatives of such events as the signing of the Versailles treaty, the first airplane flight and presb dential inaugurations in the national archives building to be erected in Washington. No Expense Involved. The producers are seeking to enlist the interest of the United States public buildings commission in the proposal which, Mr. Hays asserted, would involve little or no expense. The plan Avas formulated during the administration of President Harding and it was indicated President Coolidge was favorably disposed toward its completion. In discussing the plan after his visit with the chief executive, Mr. Hays said it Avas proposed to arrange storage space for 50,000 reels of film, 2,000 of which are arleady being kept by the companies. Many of these pictures, which represent the camera’s record of changing scenes and customs of national life as Avell as of historical events Avill possess in time, Mr. Hays pointed out, a value approaching that of a negative showing Lincoln delievring his Gettysburg address, had the motion picture existed in 1863.

London, Sept. 1.—The town of Horta, capital of the Island of Fayal, of the central group of the Azores, was partly destroyed by an earthquake yesterday. The first shock, brief advices received here say, occurred about 11 a. m. This was followed by a series of shocks some of a minor nature, which affected both Fayal and the neighboring islands, accompanied by a tidal wave that swept the small

village of Feteira.

The Governor of the Horta district, cabling to the Lisbon government, the island being a Portuguese possession, estimates the total casualties at about fifty, which is believed to include killed and injured. The Governor’s dispatch, however, which was sent in French employs the term “victims” and this might imply fifty killed. Another private report gave the number of killed as six, with num-

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BLUFFT0N GIRL COMES HOME TO UPHOLD VESEY Miss Ruth Sleppy Says She Is Victim of Circumstances; Denies An Elopement.

Bluffton, Sept. 1.—Miss Ruth Sleppy, employed as stenographer in the office of the bankrupt Hoosier Rubber Products company at Mishawaka, owned by Dick Vesey, of Fort Wayne, arrived here late last Saturday night, it was learned yesterday, to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Sleppy, northeast of this city, and refuted neAvs stories sent out from South Bend and Mishawaka last week, which indicated that she and Yesey left South Bend together last Thursday Vesey also returned to his Fort Wayne home late Saturday night and denied the elopement story. Miss Sleppy, in corrobarating Vesey’s denial of the alleged elopement, said she remained at her South Bend rooming house from Thursday until Saturday with the exception of short trips on the street. She said that as she was in a strange city, she had not read the papers until Saturday afternoon when she happened to pick up a South Bend paper and saw the story in which her name was used. She said she then started home immediately to assure her parents she was innocent of the elopement charges. She insisted that she was entirely a victim of circumstances. Vesey told Fort Wayne newspapers that he was in Chicago from Thursday until Saturday and denied he knew the whereabouts of Miss Sleppy. o WOMAN’S STORY GIVES NEW TURN TOMELLETTCASE Murder Conspirators May Have Killed Pat M’Dermott and Shipped Body.

Rudy’s Films Make Fortune

New York, Sept. 1—Valentino, dead, is worth in cold dollars and cents about $1,000,000 more than Valentino alive. When the film star died a week ago his estate Avas about solvent and that’s all. But now, with the release of his last two pictures, in which he had a half interest, the dead man has an earning capacity of something like $25,000 a day, so great is the demand for those pictures. It is estimated that before “The Son of the Shiek” and “The Eagle” had run the limit of their popular interest, they will have brought to the Valentino estate a

cool million.

When the’ former film Avas released in a number of large cities last Sunday, the day the star’s financee fainted at his bier, box

After three-quarters of an hour iffs.

The troopers are aided by 1 offices were mobbed and receipts in a score of deputy sher-! quickly mounted in the one day

■: alone to $300,000.

Fig Leaf Next

PARIS.—’Skirts now end above the knees, that authority on women’s. wear, A. G. B. (or Art, Gout, Beaute) records, and they have scalloped edges which make them still more abbreviated. This has brought knee caps into vogue. They are embroidered, beaded, laced and made to match the hem of the dress. They look rather like the frills of the knickers that were worn in 1830, and they help to limit the ' revelations of a very short skirt. Fur is being worn more and more. The latest notion is to treat squirrel, f,ox and rabbit with peroxide to give them the fashionable blond tint.

Decatur Lad Drowns In Tile Mill Pond F" _ " ! • ' ) . Bluffton, Ind., Sept. 1.—Charles Gilbert, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Gilbert, was drowned at 8:30 o’clock yesterday morning while SAVimming in a pond near the’ tile mill at the south edge of Decatur. The boy with a companion,; whose last name was reported 'as | Hillard, was in swimming. Gilbert was using an inner tube to aid him in swimming. While in water, which was about six feet deep, the air in the tube escaped letting the youth sink. The Hillard youth got out of the pond and ran some distance for help. A physician was called and a pulmotor used, but the youth was thought dead when the physician! arrived. | TWO HURT NEAR MONROE WHEN AN AIRPLANE DROPS

Herman Brooks of Bluffton ? Passenger, Suffers Frac- 1 lure of Both Legs.

Bluffton, Aug. >0 28 — Herman Brooks, proprietor of the Inn cafe this city, was badly injured yester, day afternoon when an airplane in which he was a passenger made a nose dive, near Monroe, Adams county. Bill Suddeth, well knoAvn in Ft. Wayne and other northern Indiana cities where he has appeared as a driver in automobile races, Avas the owner of the plane and was pilot-i ing the flyer when the accident accident occurred. Suddeth Avas only slightly hurt. Suddeth has been operating hip airplane about Smith field, near Monrbe, and it has been his intention to develop as a commercial pilot. He and Brooks are friends, both residing in Bluffton, and this accounted for Brooks’ presence in the machine this afternoon. The accident occurred when the plane was landing at Stoith field. The flyer A\ r as about 100 feet from the ground when it suddenly start ed a nose dive. The machine turn ed over once before it plunged to the ground. Brooks and Suddeth were both pinned helplessly under the plane, which A^as badly Avrecked, and it was 10 minutes before farmers in fields nearby who hastened to their assistance, could extricate the men from the wreckage. Brooks suffered a double fracture of the left leg between the knee| and ankle and a single fracture of; his right leg between the knee and ankle. He was badly cut about the mouth and head. i Suddeth was painfully cut and!! bruised. Both men were rushed to the Bluffton hospital, but Suddeth was able to go to his home later. Brooks’ injuries are serious, but physicians who attended him said last night that he will recover. MANY DETOURS ARE ELIMINATED BY RAPID WORK State Roads Are Greatly Im-proved—Run-Arounds Are Removed.

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Nearly all genuifih armor and 1 weapons of the middle ages are in the hands of national museums or

private collectors.

Ganton, O., Sept. 1.—That Patrick Eugene McDermott, missing keyman in the hunt for the slayers of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher, was murdered and his body shipped to New York in a trunk, is the theory upon Avhich Canton authorities started working Monday. A AA r oman avIio lives in a town near Canton, gave the story to theauthorities. Investigation thus far has substantiated it. McDermott is believed to have been lured to the town and “put away” to remove Avhat detectives thought was their best chance of solving the mystery of Mellett’s assassination. The woman who told of what may prove to have been McDermott’s murder, declared she heard two shots in the house next to hers late on the night of July 28. A short time later she said a truck was driven up to the rear of the house and a heavy trunk loaded on. The truck then was driven to a railroad station. Authorities found, according to reports, that such a trunk was sent to New York on the night of July 28. They questioned the man who lives in the house and were to)d, they Sjaid, that his sister had gone *to New York and that the trunk contained her clothes. Further investigation proved however, that the sister had never gone to New York, it was

said.

V/o^king into the theory ri that DermOtPs' body '-toas in 'the tthhM i& Jflie fact that hf’' left Cilovelartd on the day before in response to a telegram. The telegram is in the hands of authorities.

Indianapolis, Aug. 28.—Results of intensive construction work so far this season are beginning to show forcibly noAV as numerous detours and bridge-run-arounds arfej eliminated and the new improvements go into seiwice, it was pointed out yesterday in the state highway commission’s traffic bulletin, issued by John D:’Williams, direc

tor.

Mr, .Williams said that in the last few days detours and run-arounds had been removed as follows: Bridge on No. 10 opened at 6ne mile south of iSullivan; four mile detour lifted on No. 11 on account of paving repair south of Alexandria, and completion of new bridges at one mile south of Albion, and at one and one-half miles north of Oolumbia City in the same highway. Maintenance forces have completed applying tar'and asphalt to No. 13 between Waterloo and Angola, and this road is now open to traffic. A new bridge also has gone' into service on No. 21 at one mile! north of Decatur, eliminating a detour. The bulletin called attention that a bridge collapsed on the east bound detour marked to carry traffic around the Putnamville railroad overhead construction on the National road and until a temporary structure can be built, all traffic will use the route formerly intended for west bound only. No. 21 (Liberty, Richmond, Portland, Fort Wayne)—Detour at bridge construction at north edge and eight and one-half miles north of Decatur. Watch for grading gangs six miles south of Portland. Detour around paving gaps at two bridges just south of Fountain City. No. 13 (Newcastle, Muncie, Fort \Vayne, Angola)—Detour for two miles just north of Newcastle on account of paving gap at Blue rjver.

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(Continued from Page One.j) Since the court that needs to use tfie contempt power least is the one that commands most pnblfc respect, I be^ lieve a steady improvement in the quality of the judiciary would pretty much eliminate the whole contempt issue. ■Such improvement can come only through less apathy and more interest on the part of the rank and file of voters. The press of America can be a most powerful force in hammering that idea home. I believe, in addition, that statutory boundaries should be set up defining where contempt may be committed and providing for trial of contempt cases to be held in courts other than the ones offended.

NO LIMIT ON RIGHT TO COMMENT. (By Casper S. Yost.) Editor, St. Louis (Mo.) Globe-Democrat, Former Presi dent, American Society of Newspaper Editors. The first amendment, I think, applies to courts as well as to other public functions. There should be no legal limitation upon the right to comment on the conduct of a court except in relation to pending cases, and except, of coui’se, as to libelous attacks upon the court, in which, however, the truth should be sufficient justification. But the power of a court to punish for contempt is an essential one that applies to many conditions and circumstances not affecting the press. Legislation designed to restrain that power should be well considered. I would not like to commit myself to any such proposal without full knowledge of its provisions and study of its probable effects. I believe in the Dale case the court exceeded its authority and feel confident that the U. S. Supreme Court will so rule.

HIGHHANDED PROCEDURE UNDERMINES CONFIDENCE. (By M. H. Creager) Managing Editor, (Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal As a rule judges are highly sensitive about trying cases in which they are in the slightest degree interested personally, yet in cases of contempt of court—the very cases in which personal feelings might be expected to be most involved—judges usually insist on being the sole arbiters. Such highhanded procedure does far more to undermine confidence in the courts and to detract from their dignity than the contumacious acts which occasion it. Newspapers would do a public service to bring all such cases fully to their readers’ notice with the object of bringing about a law requiring contempt cases be tried by judges other than the one directly involved. o “VILE SMELLING MESS.” (Editorial in Editor & Publisher.) Closely examine the facts in the case of George R. Dale, an obscure weekly editor of Muncie, Ind., pilloried by a tyrant on the-bench, and today facing a prison sentence for his courage to tell the truth as he saw it that the people might know of public affairs. If this contempt of court case does not stir the blood of the newspaper men of this country the backbone has gone out of free journalism, and it deserves to be ridden by judicial despots at will. We respectfully suggest to the newspaper fraternity that contempt of court cases have gone a bit too far in the United States. The facts in the case of Editor Dale are recited in our news columns. We are informed by responsible Indiana newspaper men that they are correct. We hope that some publisher of means and true American spunk will see to it that the Dale case reaches the Supreme Court of the United States, and that those who made him suffer in mind, body and purse for courageous truth-telling will be shown to the world for what they are. The principle that truth is justification for the publication of information involving our political system is the rock upon which rests the whole fundamental, constitutional right of free speech and free press. An Indiana State judge has struck it down and the Supreme Court of that State has sustained him. Any discerning newspaper man will observe the probability of a political frame-up against Editor Dale. The motives are clear. It was a neat means of ridding the community of a man who objected to a political control which has become notorious for its injustices and its un-Ameri-canism. Eollowing his newspaper assaults on the political powers the man was arrested for alleged violation of the Prohibition laws. The indictment against Editor Dale was dismissed for “lack of evidence.” But prior to this dismissal he published in his little fighting sheet an editorial in which he alleged that “Nobody in Muncie doubts for an instant that the frame-up indictment of the editor of the Post-Democrat is the natural sequence of the general conspiracy to discredit this newspaper and its publisher.” The county prosecutor carried this editorial to Judge Dearth. Given no chance to retain a lawyer the editor was haled before the judge, A\dio straightway, without any of the normal checks which our law in principle provides, was sentenced to 90 days and a $400 fine. There is a possibility that the judge may have been sincere in that action, but imagine Avhat tyrannical motives must have controlled him when, a few days later, the editor, in good faith, filed a legal answer to the contempt conviction, setting forth the entire editorial and offering to prove his charges. This arrogant judge, to the everlasting shame of the.American bench, again cited the editor for the alleged contempt contained in the answer and gave him another sentence exactly like the first one. • Of course, when this vile-smelling mess came before the State Supreme Court the latter judgment was quickly reversed, but the first was sustained and the court held that truth was no justification. Does a super-government exist in the county of Delaware, Indiana—overriding individual rights which have been established under our constitution through long years of strife for freedom? We do not think so, but a little work must be done in Indiana and at Washington to prove the fact.

Child Bitten By Dog While Going Past Show Lobby

Acco^cling to one investigator, the ‘mdn wlio lakes d waik'dlbfKr’in New York run^'ThMy-slX' Hides more risk of being held up and robbed, than if he took the same

walk in London.

Portland, Indiana, Aug., 21.-— Carl, the five-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. Cord Hysfell, residing.on West Fifth stret, was bitt'en by a dog,t Said to!< be owhed by' J. S. Hines of East Walnut street, Wednesday in front of the Crystal theater. The little fioy, in comp-

any wih two other youngsters were playing in front of the theater lobby when the dog grabbed the child on his right side, below the arm. The other Poys fled when they saw the dog bite their companion. Fred Meeker, local resident, who passed the scene shortly after the boy wafY bittbn, took the Tittle fellowrfto thP)0$'iCe of Dr. J. ; E. Nixiin; ryhere medical attention was givep* 'He J Was then taken to his home.; It is said that the dog has bitten several other children who. were playing in front of the theater