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I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. Ps. 121:1-8. Os all created comforts, Cod is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.—Rulh rfold. Crime In California T"7|EN are hanged, so it is said, to deter other IVI men from murder and violence! On April 24 the State of California, marking up its twenty-fourth victim in two years, took 20-year-old Tuffy Roade and hanged him for killing a Los Angeles dope peddler. The execution ceremonies were not held on the Los Angeles commons as a solemn warning to other would-be homicides. They were held within the walls of the State prison at San Quentin for the special benefit of a handful of invited guests and the 2,000 convicts inside. On April 30 —six days later—within the vefy shadow of the gallows, a smoldering race riot broke out and Andreas Gomez stabbed to death an Indian convict and was in turn shot by the guards. The next day—seven days after the State had strung Tuffy Reade’s limp body over a gaping trap in warning to all who kill—two more convicts were stabbed to death and a third was seriously injured. Thus within one week after the State hanged a boy to deter others from murder, there occurred, within a few yards of the warning gibbet, three other killings. Such a demonstration can not fail to impress those who justify California’s present orgy of hangings on the ground that it will put an end to murder. The Mystery of the Red Box I"fT;II) you ever read one of those highly colLJ, ored detective stories of international diplomacy, intrigue and whatnot? If so you already have some idea of how secret State documents are hurried from one capital to another. When the London foreign office wishes to send an especially important memorandum to some cabinet member, it comes pretty nearly living up to your favorite novelist’s imagings. The foreign minister locks the paper in a little red box, to which only two keys exist—one in the hands of the foreign minister, the other in the hands of the Cabinet official receiving the box. "When the mysterious red casket arrives, .under elaborate, if secret, guard, the official opens it, reads its contents, locks it up again and returns it precisely as it came. It’s all very, very secret. One such document, however, the New York World tells us, has just gone astray. For once the little red box has leaked. Thus we read in a copyrighted World cable from London what purports to be the British foreign office’s secret report on the European situation. “One-half of Europe is dangerously

Government Prosecutes Its Super-Detective

Times Washington Bureau, 18tt New York Avenue. ASHINGTON, May 13.—Sinco Yy that day in March, 1924, __J when Gaston B. Means told the Daugherty investigating commitu < a few intimate details about the Department of Justice, things have rapidly gone from bad to worse for this ‘‘super-detective.’’ Already under sentence to Atlanta for alleged participation in a New York rum ring, Means is now to face the additional charge of forgery. The Department of Justice in the forthcoming trial will charge that Means forged the signature of Senator Brookhart, chairman of the Daugherty committee. If the charge is proved, it will tend to show that Means, after first giving the committee certain information, attempted to "double-cross" it by removing from its control documents which would have substantiated this Information. Intimate With Powers No detective in the recent history if Washington affairs has enjoyed greater Intimacy with the powers ;hat be than Means. When Presilent Harding, in 1921, had a paricularly delicate investigation in mind, it was to Gaston B. Means that he turned for assistance. When Attorney General Daugherty was under fire in the House of Representatives in 1922-23 it was to Means that he turned for aid. He assigned Means to the Job of “getting something on’’ the men in both the Senate and the House who were making efforts to impeach him. At least, so Means later testified; When Senator Da Follette in April, 1922, introduced a resolution to investigate the leasing of Teapot Dome it was Means who was assigned to the job of raiding the Senator’s office to learn how much information he had. William J. Burns, then head of the Bureau of Investigation, regarded Means as his best man. Burns told the Daugherty committee that he had "absolute faith" in Means, and that as a detective he had no superior. Would Do Anything While on the stand before the Daugherty committee, Means said he was ready at all times to invest!-

angry,” says this secret memorandum drafted by the foreign office for the guidance of the British cabinet, and “the other half is dangerously afraid.” Such is the gist of the document. We chronicle it because it drives home precisely what this paper has been pointing out for weeks. Austen Chamberlain, the British foreign secretary, has been saying this to those who can read between the lines ever since he came int ooffice, warning Britain, Europe and the world as far a she openly dared. Now. it seems, the uncamouflaged truth is out —out of the little red box. Germany, the document says, intends to change her Polish frontier and recover Silesia; France intends to hold the Khine until she no longer fears for her security; Russia “is the most menacing of our uncertainties,” and the League of Nations is not strong enough to stop a war should one start between the great powers. All of which is far from reassuring. Kings used to put to death couriers who brought bad news from the battlefields. But the corollary to that is, no ostrich has ever yet staved off disaster from himself or from anybody else by burying his head in the sand. The day of world peace still seems far off. Such is the unwelcome message of the little red box. Still Settling Scores mF the Department of Justice were always as vigilant as it is in the case of Gaston B. Means, the I nited States would be a sorry land for lawbreakers. In the brief year since Means saw fit to volunteer certain unhappy facts concerning Attorney General Daugherty to the Senate investigating committee, he has been brought to trial on half a dozen charges. lie is now under sentence to Atlanta penitentiary for participation in a New York rum ring. Next week he will he brought to trial in Washington on a charge of forging the signature of Senator Brookhart to a letter addressed to himself. We hold no brief for Means. If he is guilty of any crimes, let him he punished. We have a feeling, however, that had Means not appeared before the Senate committee, he still would be out of trouble. A former intimate of Daugherty, of Jess Smith, of William J. Burns, and a former special investigator for President Harding, Means had attained the reputation of the Government’s “super-detective.” He got to a point where lie knew too much. Apparently, his record was such that criminal prosecution was possible whenever the proper time arrived. The time came swiftly when Means broadcast unsavory information about the Department of Justice. The department’s prosecution of men who have been connected with the Senate investigation would he less striking if other cases, usually much more important, but without an element of personal animosity, were brought to trial with equal promptitude.

gate any one, provided only he was paid to make the investigation. Senator Wheeler asked him, “You have never gone through my offices, have you?” Means replied, “If somebody will assign me to it, I will do it.” Ten years ago Means worked for the Burns Detective Agency. From there he went to the employ of the German government, making reports to t the German secret service in the period just before America went to war. Another International assignment was his work for the Mexican government after the World War. He was hired to keep a watch on the activities of Mexicans in the United States who planned revolution against the Mexican government.

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You can get an answer to any question ot fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washinton. D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unetgned requests cannot be answered. All letter# are confidential.—Editor. What was the longest time ever spent on a single movie production? “Down to the Sea in Ships” and “Greed” each took about two years to make. These were possibly the longest. What are the largest dry docks in the world? They are located at Kiel, Germany; Hamburg, Germany; Portsmouth, England; Montreal, Canada, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Which of the early Presidents were members of the Protestant Episcopal Church? Washington, Madison, Monroe, Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Pierce and Arthur were members of the Church of England which Is the Protestant Episcopal Church. Where do tornadoes generally occur In the United States and when? Tornadoes occur for the most part only in the central part of ’the

Means had lost his Job with the Department of Justice before the Daugherty committee began its hearings. It has been said that he was too active in running down evidence against prominent New York Republicans who happened to be in tho liquor business. He appeared before the Wheeler committee as a volunteer witness and gave information which, while spicy and harmful to the reputation of the Attorney General, played only a minor part in bringing about Daugherty’s resignation. If Means forged Brookhart’o name to a Velf-addressed letter he committed al criminal act. So far it has not been shown that any one, or any cause, suffered as a result of this alleged action.

United States. They come in early spring and early summer; March, April, May and June being the princlpa’ months. What has become of the U. S. S. Frederick? Has she been scrapped? She has been out of commission since 1922 and is now at Mare Island Navy Yard. California. She is not being scrapped. Is the bat a bird or an animal? An animal• a small with a wing membrane extending from the ‘enormously elongated bones and fingers of the forelegs to the short hind limbs. W mt is the greatest peach-pro-ducing State In the United States? California. How many nurses and nurses’ training schools are there in the United States and wha.t proportion of nurses are women? According to the last census there were 149,128 trained nurses In the United States, of whom 143,664 were women and 5,464 men. According to figures of December, 1923, there were 1,744 nurses’ training schools of accredited standing in the United States.

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Marion Harris Knows Why She Is Sad, All Because She Was Not on Noah’s Ark

By Walter I). Hiekinan iE, Oh my, Oh mercy me! 14 Know I know why Marlon v A Harris Is sad and lonely. She admits in song that she hasn't a sweetie and she has discovered the reason. In a song called "No One,” Miss Harris admits to slow movin’ melody that "Noah filled his ark with a pair of every kind, for every he a little she to keep each company." And Just because Marlon did not sail around on the ark. she sings in this song that she hasn’t found her sweetie yet. She sings, "I am blue because no one is here to comfort me," and that the only place in this world where she can find sympathy Is in the dictionary. She sings that she has a cat and a dictionary but what’s the use?— she is still cravin’ sympathy. Am just trying to let you in on the fact that Marlon Harris has a brand new Brunswick reconi. In "No One” she lands hack in that fine croonin’ vocal jazz from which made her famous. And this number 1 a real Marlon Harris number. It has that show movin’ appeal and those nifty sentiments expressed In the language of the day. While singing “When You and T Were Seventeen" on the other side of this Brunswick record, Marlon Harris admits she la a wee bit happier, because she allows that “Once more you hold me to your heart —.” Here are two Harris-Brunswick records that ring the bell of popular approval. Go shopping today—that’s my tip. Some Importations I-ast week I told you that I wanted to put you next to some European recorded records. Now, I am not boosting foreign

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

AUTOMOBILES FOR COUNTY OFFICIALS IARION county commission ers Monday purchased two new, high-priced automobiles —a nice sedan for the county surveyor and an expensive open car for the sheriff. Two light coupes were also bought for lesser dignitaries. The State tax commission about a week ago held that the county

.council can’t make special appropriations outside the budget. .These automo'biles weren’t i provided In the budget. But then what’s i budget among [friends? I We have about reached the stage where every public official must have an automobile at public expense. Otherwise the

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dignity of the office is irreparably damaged. The State of Indiana recently spent $3,766.50 for an automobile for the superintendent of the School for Feeble-Minded —a brother of the Governor. In the face of such example why should Marion county be niggardly? But a lot of taxpayers walk, ride street cars, or drive cheap, tinny cars. Why shouldn’t county officials do likewise? A county surveyor can do as much surveying with a low-priced car as with a Rolls-Royce. The former will get him there and back. So with other public officials. Economy in public expenditures has been much talked in Indiana. Where and when does it begin? INDIANA HAS - A SEAPORT EHE British steamer Agga is aground at the entrance of tho Michigan City harbor. This is the second voyage this steamer has made with a clay cargo direct from England to Michigan City. A sister ship is now loading abroad for the same destination. The visit of this foreign vessel to a Hoosier city is significant. It proves that Indiana possesses a seaport. A thousand miles from the sea, the industrial development of Indiana and the middle west has been retarded by high freight rates. To reach foreign markets they have had to pay long rail hauls and tribute to New York and other ports. Opening the Great to ocean vessels by way of the St. Dawrence, thus making seaports out of Detroit, Chicago, Michigan City and other lake cities, has long been a dream. It may soon become an actuality. Already Henry Ford’s steamers plow the Seven Seas with cargoes of flivvers from his River Rouge plant in Michigan. Wheat has gone from Duluth to Liverpool in the same bottoms And clay is being shipped by boat direct from England to Michigan City. Improvement of connecting waterways to accommodate larger vessels and this trickle of foreign commerce on the Great Lakes will become a flood. Singapore and Hongkong will be connected by water with the Hoosier backyard. The district around the head of Lake Michigan from Chicago to Michigan City is now the nation’s greatest railroad center. With ocean-going steamers plying the lakes it will become the transportation cross-roads of the nation —its industrial heart. Without much Imagination It is possible to conceive that English white clay unloading in Michigan City today may spell mud to New' York and other Atlantic ports tomorrow.

recorded records, but when I discover ’em, I sure am going to yell the fact from the housetops. Odeon has just released two new records as played by Marek Weber and his orchestra. They were recorded in Europe. Am speaking of "Innocent Youth” and “Titina” on one record, and "The Pearls of Cleopatra” and “Don’t You Know How I Care for You?” Here is soothin' melody with no Jazz attachments. These records bring a sort of a glorified waltz at-

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mosphere right Into your home. Weber and his orchestra In Europe occupies about the same position that Paul Whiteman does over here. Weber goes in for those smooth, cuddling, pretty and tuneful effects that Invite day dreams. Am telling you that these two records create

DELAYED TRACK ELEVATION SHE Indianapolis Union Railway track elevation program is again in a trance. Actual construction on the project is apparently delayed indefinitely. That’s its normal state. After a couple of years of prodding the railroad finally submitted plans and contract to city officials for the $14,000,000 elevation program—to be spread over a period of ten years. For a minute everything seemed lovely. The south side could almost see relief from its intolerable grade crossings. But no provision was made for a bridge across White River north of Rayrdond St. That bridge, costing $1,500,000, must be constructed before work on other parts of the track raising project can proceed. It is the key to the whole improvement. The railroad says it can not finance the bridge construction and proposes that it be erected tinder the flood prevention law. Thus its cost would be borne entirely by city, county, and abutting property owners. What would a bridge for the exclusive use of the railroad benefit property owners in the vicinity, or the county? Only by a violent stretch of the imagination could it be classed as flood prevention work. The proposal was not acceptable to the board of works. Properly so. Ft. Wayne and other Indiana cities pushing track elevation only bear 25 per cent of the cost of the work and the railroads Involved 75 per cent. So Indianapolis is more than fair. It shares the cost on a fiftyfifty basis. What more does the Belt line want? Obviously it isn’t track elevation In which the Belt line is interested so much as delay. CHILDREN ATTHE WHEEL IENNETH REMLEY, a 14-year-old boy of Crawfordsc.—J ville, was killed the other night when he drove an automobile into a bridge abutment. Four other occupants of the machine were injured. It W'as a regrettable accident. But probably the youth wouldn’t have lost his life if the State law had been obeyed. The motor vehicle act. which recently became effective, prohibits without exception operation of automobiles by children under 16. Perhaps the law is unnecessary. Some children of the prescribed age may be competent drivers—safer behind the wheel than some adults. Still the legislature passed the law after due deliberation, believing it would promote highway safety. Both State and city authorities. under the samo belief, have announced Intensive warfare against violators of the provision. But it can’t he enforced solely by them. Parents and other adults must cooperate. Boys of 14 or 15 seldom own motor cars. If one of that age la found behind the wheel he is violating the law hy permission of parents or the adult owning the car. They are as guilty as he—and they are directly responsible for any accident that occurs. Sued by News Company Mrs. Rosazella McGinn, restaurant operator of 1045 N. Illinois St., was named defendant in a suit for receiver filed in Superior Court 4 today by the Illustrated Current New's Incorporated of Connecticut. Suit charged the plaintiff was granted $16.80 Judgment against Mrs. McGinn which Is alleged she failed to pay.

the right atmosphere on date night. This music will certainly bring the moonlight into any front parlor. Glorious, tuneful light music of the better kind. Being Bold Books on good manners tell me that a person should not seek Introductions. Well, I am telling the world that I want to meet a certain man. His name is Alfred Hertz, honored conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Hertz and his orchestra have just made their first Victor records. It is the Parsifal prelude of Wagner. It requires two and a half records to record this. On the other side of the second record Is the beginning of Wagner’s “Good Friday Spell." It Is completed on both sides of another record. It Is nice to want to make new musical friends and the phonograph certainly makes this possible. Have lots more to tell you next Wednesday. • • • Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Best People,” at English's; “Three Jacks and Two Queens,” at the Palace; Fields and Edwards at the Lyric; Lena Daley at the Capitol; “Adventure,” at the Apollo; "Introduce Me,” at the Colonial; "The Charmer,” at the Ohio; "My Son,” at the Circle, and ‘Tearing Through,” at the Isis. On Friday night In interest of music, the Technical High School band, which won first place in the Music Week band contests last Saturday, and the Technical Girl’s Glee Club will appear as additional features of the Circle. The theater management has invited the Shortridge High School orchestra, to appear on Friday night of next week. WOODBRIDGE IS NAMED Ad Clubs Select Philadelphia as 1926 Convention City. Bu T'ttited Prctw HOUSTON, Texas. May 13.—Phllarelphia will be host to the 1926 Associated Advertising Clubs of the World convention. The board cf advertising club presidents selected the Quaker City last night. The nominations of C. King Woodbridge of New York as president and of Philadelphia as the convention city will be placed before the assembled delegates Thursday for approval. Death Stays Granted Joseph Parkeran and Edward Barber, Terre Haute, sentenced to electrocution for murder of Stephen Kendall, a Terre Haute detective, have been granted stays of execution until Dec. 18 by State Supreme Court on pending appeals. Parker was tried In tho Vigo Circuit Court and Barber In the Clay court. They were to die May 29. Bid Opening ltfild McDonald and McKinley, Indianapolis contractors, placed a low bid of $1.03 a cubic yard for removal of 20,000 cubic yards of earth on Buck Creek hill, State road 22, bids for which were opened by the State highway commission Tuesday.

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The German Dye Patents

rrrnE have read of the decision In \Y/ the United States Circuit Court of Appeals confirming the way In which A. Mitchell Palmer as alien property custodian disposed of the German dye patents which were seized and sold to the chemical foundation. I have just read the court’s decision. The matter is worth much more space than I can here give it, for no affair of government is in more confusion in the public mind. In view of the fact that medicine, manufacturing and our ability to conduct any sort of war are involved, the thing is worthy of being thought over once In a while. Palmer disposed of the patents to the Chemical Foundation for $250,000. The court decided that this was an adequate price considering what the government sold. It retained the right to use any and all of the patents itself. It sold to a corporation which undertook to keep the patents from being monopolized by American users of them and to give license to all American users on equal terms. It sold with Tom Sims Says Just about the strangest news in the papers today is a Chicago chemist drank poison booze.

They captured six hank robbers in Moscow. We didn’t know robbing banks was illegal there. Men must stay home more. Seattle girl told the judge .she mistook a stranger for her husband. Most auto wrecks are caused by people who don’t know a four-letter

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■word meaning desist. Henry Ford's being sued for $12,000,000. If he loses, flivvers may go up a nickel next year. Schumann-Heink blames women for prohibition. When did people stop blaming things on the war? Coolidge, president, had his picture made with some Indians, but this won’t scare Dawes. Alabama man shot his wife when she threatened to leave, but we doubt if It changed her mind. A man broke Into a grocery store in Rockwell City, la., and got away with twenty-five years In the pen. Big tobacco company has gone broke. Profits went up in smoke. A Colorado woman shot her husband because he wouldn’t come to dinner. Read It to your husband. Radio photos came from Honolulu so fast three girls only had time to slip on bathing sultß. Chicago man held a perfect bridge hand. When this happens in poker the rules say fight. Washing dishes has made more cynics than almost anything. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

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a restriction of right to American users. It sold, too, to buyers who had never used the patents and did not know how. The patents sold were some of them patents for products with no directions for making them. Most of the patents had been drawn by crafty German specialists who defeated the purpose of the law as far as they could be still keeping the gist of the invention secret. In other words, the Germans claimed patents In which they had not disclosed the invention. All these things went into the mat ter of whether Palmer had induced the President to confirm a sale of enormously valuable patents to his friends for a fraction of what they were worth. The court says he did not. It also says that there was no conspiracy, criminal or other, to steal these patents. The plan was not one devised by the Du Ponts and others and put up to Palmer. Palmer got the Idea himself that the existence of a monopoly of the organic chemistry business outside the United States was dangerous to our very existence, and he It was who, with the aid of President Wilson, put through the plan to tuke over the German patents and transfer the business so far as we aro concerned to American soil. The writer knew much about this matter when It was going on. Most of his writing friends were opposed to it. The writer was always for It. Probably the organic chemistry business is of such a nature that it tends to build itself Into a monopoly here as it did in Germany; but I prefer that an American monopoly be In control of our medicines, our munitions. our poison gas, our dye stuffs, and the heart of our industrial life, rather than a German monopoly. I should prefer not to have a monopoly; but If we are to have one, T want it here, where we may possibly control It. rather than over In Europe. I still think we were right In seizing these patents, right in selling them to the chemical foundation to be administered In the interest of America; and I do not see how any lawyer can read this opinion and fail to be convinced that the court Is right In throwing out flf court Mr. Harry Daugherty’s suit by which he hoped to get back Into his own power these enormously Important pieces of property. He never gave us even a hint as to what he would do with them if he got them. Let’Er Rip! By Hal Cochran The best little tonic that man ever knew la one that Is always right handy for you. It lends to good feeling, so here's a good tip—whenever you feel like a laugh, let ’er rip. There’s plenty of trouble that’s floatin’ around, and gloom, when it’s looked for, can always be found. The thing that we all ought to aim to turn loose is all of the laughter that we can produce. You meet fellow men In the work of your day—they frown and they soon have you lookin’ that way. The pleasure or sourness that people express Is something that really is catching, I guess. So try, every day, to give eheerj to a friend by laughing; you’ll find It reacts in the end. Your life can be made a real happiness trip if you’ll kive way to pleasure and let the laughs rip.