Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1926 — Page 2

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TAFT DOES NOT FEAR EFFECT OF SENTIMENTALITY Says Result of Maudlin Sentiment, on Justice May Be Exaggerated. The second instalment of tho exclusive interview granted by Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the United States Supreme Court to Carl D. Groat. Washington manager of the United Press Association. is given here today. Groat interviewed the Chief Justice and the only living ex-President at the Taft summer home at Pointe Au Pic. Quebec. In Monday's instalment. Mr Taft discussed certain pegal phases of the crime question which is creating intense interest throughout the country. Today he sneaks of some of the human elements in the setuation. By Carl J). Groat, f nttrd Press staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1926, by United Press) (Copyright in Canada) (Unauthorized publication in whole or in part prohibited) POINTE AU PIC, Murray Bay, Orebec, Aug. 24.—William Howard Taft, rhief justice of the United States Supreme Court and the Nation's only living ex-President, has little fear of the effect of “maudlin semtimentality" of the “weekly emotioftal" who "belong to the lunatic firinge of society’’ on the future of American justice. Mr. Taft, an an exclusive interview with the United Press at his summer cottage here, discussed the ciime situation and the difficulties which confront the courts in coping with itr-r-a question which now is drawing the serious consideration of public official and private citizens. “It is a common basis for complaint,’’ he said, “that the maudlin sentimentality of many develops into an obstructing public sympathy for bloody-handed murderers who are brought to justice, loading to efforts to prevent the execution of sentences already pronounced. Exhibition in Bufl'ulo "Such au exhibition as tha: recently shown in Buffalo when a murderer, since executed, was cheered because a jury disagreed, may well be cited as an instance. "But I think the effect .of sucli expressions of the weakly* emotional may be exaggerated. ‘“they belong to the lunatic fringe of society. But if we can only get the murderers convicted and sentenced, I don’t have any particular alarm about sending roses and cheers and apparent popular sympathy for those on their way to the penitentiary or the gallows.” The chief justice suggested that pa'ft of the crime wave of today “which fills the newspapers and discourage many people must in some degree he attributed to the war as an aftermath,’’ but lie suggested that “does not explain it all.” Attacks Paroles While he did not take too seriously the maudlin sympathy complex, the chief justice suggested that there ig however, “Real danger in a lack of sense of proportion in associations and persons pressing legislatures for measures which permit/he parole of hardened criminals through appeals to boards and officers that ate not subjected to public scrutiny.” This, he suggested, “Is a challenge to public prosecutors, who should present the interests of sniajety against any abuse of the parole afht pardoning power.” “Then too," continued the justice, “In the effort to avoid cruelty and to reform criminals by measures of encouragement, reformers forget that the chief aim of punishment is to protect society by deterring others from committing crimes, and it destroys the main object to change a penitentiary into a free boarding house with all sorts of entertainment. It robs punishment of ifs characters as such and leads criminals to think that they will not suffer for law-breakijrg.” Despite the situation he pictured, Mr. Taft Is optimistic for the future, and he observed In conclusion: “But all of this is now under investigation. Reforms are contemplated, able commissions are at work, the public is aroused and I look for great improvement in all .the directions I have indicated.” Daily Aiiio Rides Mr. Taft’s health now is such that he can take daily automobile rides or brief walks, besides doing his work on briefs for the Supreme Court. Mr. Taft is looking forward to seeing all of the Taft family path cred here in September/ including ten grandchildren, two sons and a daughter, and others. It is expected that about thirty or thirty-five members of the Taft family will be here for Mr. Taft's birthday. He is at work early each day with his secretary and then rests, resuming his work in the afternoon. He told me he was feeling quite fit now and laughed at reports published in the United tSates that he was seriously failing. With care, the indications are Mr. Taft will liye to a much riper age. His spirit certainly remains young and optimistic.

TWO CHILDREN HURT Struck by Autos in Street Near Their Homes. ■Two children were injured in auto accidents early today. Eva McMillan, 5, of 805 Prospect St., ran front behind a parked auto into tlie side of an auto driven by Virgil Hayes, 1304 Harlan St., police said. The accident happened in front of her she received medical attention. While playing in the street at Troy A.vo. and Bluff Rd.. Robert Vehling, 4, of R. it. 5, Box 628, was struck by an auto driven by Louis R. It. 4. Box 260. The boy, cut about the head, was taken home.

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Admiral Paul Coiidouriotis, who has accepted the temporary presidency of Greece following a revolution in which the army and navy took part. The Pangalos government was overthrown. Coiidouriotis promises a nation-wide election.

OLD TIME A UCTION IS CURIOSITY I Traders Alley Visit Recalls the Heyday of Old Dobbin. fJtil Brandlein is a trader. He belongs to the street'. Not “the street" of high finance, but "Traders Alloy," which is Pearl St., between Missouri and West Sts. Here is the last stand of the horse, and here Brandlein does a thriving harness business,' enlivened with an occasional auction sale. Tuesday was auction day at BrandleJn’s, and "Traders Alley” took on something of the atmosphere of two decades or more ago. Horsemen with slouch felt hats were on hand to bid for saddles and bridles. Farmers were there to secure tugs and reins. Even the old-time “speculator” was on hand to see what could be bought low. and later sold "high.” Surries for Sale Besides the dozen and one things that the harness shop hud to offer, there tvere ancient, aurries and simiIpr conveyances to lie sold. Despite belief that the horse is passing these sold like hot cakes. For hours after the aucioneer, Col. O. S. Burkhardt, had ceased his labors persons were busy hauling their new possessions home. "Traders Alley” refuses to believe that the horse is done and the harness maker is loud in his support of this belief. After the auction he scanned the list of results with a practiced eye. “We didn't do so well. Things -sold too. cheap,” lie commented. Asked if he thought harness was losing value, he said: “You think all the horses are In the bone yard?" he asked excitedly. “Let me tell you they are not. We still have money in ’Traders Alley' and good horses, too. "Nothing can replace a horse. They are needed to pull these thousand dollar automobiles out of the mud.” • Like Cavalry Officer Then Brandlein launched a tirade against modern transportation and defended the horse like a cavalry officer. He will take you to the rear of his tiny shop and show you a fine specimen of horse flesh stabled there. Every Sunday the harness man goes for a buggy ride. He drives to Martinsville, and this fine nag never steps under five miles per hour, he said. "The only trouble with buggy riding is that the kids holler at you,” he explains. “If you call on your 'old friends with a horse and buggy they think you are queer. It takes a brave man to stick to It, believe me.” Many farmers still take pride in their work horses. The harness man fells them beautiful tassels in all he hues -of the rainbow. He exhibits them with as much pride as an auto salesman does anew car. Advises Breeding "GOod work horses are getting scarce, he said, as his brow knit with alarm. “The farmers better get busy and breed some new stock. Hundreds of old horses and mules are disposed of each winter and there is no young ones growing up to take theLt; place." “More and Better Horses," yeas in the beginning, is now and it looks like it ever shall be the slogan of "Traders Alley.”

WANT BUDGET INCREASE Majority Cotincilmen Will Boost 1927 City Costs.' Majority faction city councilmen will take fiist steps to incre;Vse the 1927 city budget at a special meeting of council tonight. The councilmen plan to vote readvertisement of the budget at a rate of $1.05. City Controller William C. Buser submitted a proposed levy of $1,035 to the council. Council may Increase the budget, but must take action not later, than ten days after the budget is readvertised, according to Philip Zoercher, State tax board member. OSAGE JURY RESUMES Locked l'p All Night—Considers Murder Case Sinoe Friday. !iu I nit rd press | GtTTHRIK, Okla.g Auk. IM.—Unable so far to reach a verdict, the Federal Court debating the case of j William K. Horse, wealthy Osage Indian, was to receive the delibera- | tions tbday. After being locked up all night. The jurors have been considering the case since Friday. Ramsey and Hale are alleged to have killed Horse In order that Hale could get the $25,000 life insurance he carried on the Indian.

[CHURCH DESTROYS HOPES FOR PEACE ' - IN MEXICO SOON | % \ Announces Stand Against Compromise—Wait Word From Rome. [Pi/ l nit rtf I'ret* MEXICO CITY, Aug. 24.—Early I settlement of the religious controversy between church and State I seemed impossible today. Hopes of immediate peace were removed by Monday’s statement of the episcopate in which the church announced its intention to stand fast against all compromise, pending further instructions from the Rope. I The priests and prelates, therej fore, wilt not return to their churches until Rome has Instructed ! Archbishop Mora Del Rio with re- ( spect to civil registration of priests | and regarding t lie legal procedure, [ if any, to be adopted by the church to obtain reform of the religious laws. After a meeting of the Episcopate Monday, it was • announced that the situation was unchanged after President Calles conference with representatives of the church, and that suspension of services in the churches would remain in effect. It was officially stated that the Pope's instructions had been requested by cable. X A United Press correspondent touring tho Stales of Morelos, Guerrero and the southern part of the State of Mexico, found the people generally apathetic to the religious controversy, although some sections were experiencing a business slump. BOARD DECISION FINAL, HASKETT Civil Promotion Rules Likely Topic Wednesday. \ Board of safety members plan to appoint and promote policemen and I firemen recommended by the newly created civil service boards, O. D. Haskett, safety board president, said today. “There's not a chance in a thou- ' sand that we would appoint or pro- ' mote others than those recommended by the civil service board,” Haskett abided. “The board of safety, however, is given the power by State law to ap point and promote in the two departments. We welcome tho aid of men of the high type of those named by Mayor Duvall.” John F. White, chairman of the I two civil service boards, said he, | probably would announce a meeting I for Wednesday afternoon at which rules for appointment and promotion would be discussed.

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Baron Frederick von Krupp, Jr., heir to the vast Krupp estate and young est of the house of Germany's famous munitions makers, has dec 1 a r e t d that when he ' Bit ins control of the estate he will not allow the manufacture of a single cartridge. A student -at Harvard

University, he has vowed to spend his days working for peace.

“ WHAT? MORE TWINS Rn I. Riled Prtxs HOLLAND, Mich—Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Slaugh, of North Holland, were recently presented with a set of twins for. the second time within one year.

VALENTINO, THE POET / Bn United Prm* NEW YORK. Aug. 24 —To 'the world Rudolph Valentino was known as an actor, but he dabbled in poetry at times. In 1923 a book of his verse was published by the McFadden publications. It was called "Day Dreams.” A typical selection from it reads: YOU Your eyes, Mystic pools Os beautous light Golden brown in color Deep, Yet amber clear Unshadowed by a frown, Fathomless, Wherein My senses drown. Your eyes. YOl'R LIPS Your lips, Twin silent petals of a dewy rose. Altar of the heart Where love Kindling desire, Worships unafraid, Crucible of passion, The rose in masquerade. Your lips. YOl'R KISS Your kiss, A fiYunC > Os passion's fire, The sensitive seal of love, In the desire. The fragrance of your caress; Alas, at times I find Exquisite bitterness, In your kiss. The verses|were written Just prior to Valentino's marriage to Winifred Hudnut, his second wife.

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Walter Beech (right) is the Winner of the Ford reliability tour for commercial type airplanes, which too It a score of machines over thousandsof miles of country without a serious mishap. He is shown receiving congratulations from Lou is Meister of Detroit, who took second place. Indianapolis was one of tlie cities visited by the fliers.

MILLIONS PAY RUDOLMIBUTE (Continued From Pagd'M) the bodies of Oscar Hammerstein. Anna Held and Nat Go'pdwin. lay when their day passed. In the somber setting of the gold room, with its impressive hangings, heavy furnituie and air of almost royal splendor, men moved quietly, preparing the setting. Outside there was the steady shuffle of feet and voices. Those who came were of all walks of life. Old women and young, some fashionably dressed and others in meaner garb, mingled with many men and occasionally children. They were permitted to linger a moment, and thru were to moved on. But, as though divining that she some right there, police did not molest one poorly dressed woman in her early thirties who stood near the door holding the hand of her 8-year-old daughter. The woman was Mrs. Rose Risen no, whose eyes were wet with tears. He Loved Flowers “He always loved flowers,” she said in broken English, as the great floral tributes were hustled past her. Mrs. Piscano said that she and Rodnlplio Guglielmi were childhood cliilms in Castellanata. Standing just off Broadway with its staccato noises, it was plain that for the moment Mrs. Piscano saw only the fields of her native Italian village. “He recognized me when I saw him here In New York once." she said. "He liked my daughter Vinoi and w£s kind to her.” Rush tlie floors As the day wore oh the crowd in front increased and an untoward incident occurred when several hundred pushed toward the doors and almost got out of control" of the police. The three officers on guard closed tiie doors and sent a call for reinforcements. ~ . The crowd was-not ill-natured and the incident amounted to no more than a concerted shoving which endangered the big windows of the establishment. The police kept the crowd back without resort to the use of clubs. The crowd by that time amounted to probably 500. Girls anti women predominated, but there were many men, too. at least a score being of the “Sheik” type with flapping trousers bottoms. At least a dozen claimed to have come from Valentino's home town, but were not admitted. Mrs. Lorita-' Aronica. Astoria. N. Y., said she had known Valentino’s tffster and begged tearfully for admittance, but it was refused. The telephone of the establishment rang constantly and Miss Ruth Harrington, the operator, was handling calls as fast as she could move her hands. Most of the callers were women and they wanted to know when they could see the body. Fully 50 per cent of them expressed sorrow at the death of Valentino, and seemed disposed to discuss it with Miss Darrington until she rut them j off. “I’m so sorry about his death,” "I’ll miss him in the movies.” "i want to see him once more before he is buried,” and similar phrases were poured into her ears all day long. Similar sentiments were expressed in front of the building by women visitors. One girl sa'id: “I saw him at a night club and he was so handsome I want another chance to see him.” Another said. “Gan t I see him? 1 feel so bad; he was such a clean boy and such a wonderful sheik.” Another Manhattan girl, who looked scarcely 15, clamored: "Let me see the sheik: I want in.’*’ Police forced her back into the crowd. Perhaps .the Gold Room will not be big enough, for the building has been stormed by an eager, curious public. The coffin may be placed in a larger room on the main floor of the buildirjg. Through the dawn today a single policeman guarded the undertaker's doctors. He had remained from the ten men needed earlier to handle the crowd. More policemen were to take his place when the morning traffic began. It was 4 a. nt. before the last groups at the doors broke up. and the policeman was left alone, except for an occasional night reveler. Traffic Congested At midnight, after tlie theaters let out, there had been thousand before tlie doors. Home-bound folk stopped their taxie, congesting traffic. One man "got a ticket" when he wouldn't I move on, but left his car to try to I peep In the windows. In the office I upstairs the telephone tinkled constantly. “One girl called up from a aharet—early this morning, an attendant at the undertakers s4id. : “I could hear the dance music i playing—over the telephone* She

wanted -tie to give iier ‘Regards to Rudy’.” All manner of excuses were made h.v persons wishing to enter. Some wished to leave flowers —one man had seventy-five bouquets ready, he said. Scores of "cousins” pleaded their claims with obdurate policemen. A woman brought a .14inch nickel crucifix, inlaid wi'h for-get-me-nots. in the Mosaic'of Italian workers. She asked that it be placed on the chest of the dead man. A spray of gladioli with a card. “Rose Fellman.” was handed tn It was the first floral tribute received by tlie screen hero in death. Policemen paced before the windows, forcing the people to move on. Offer Prayers At the actors’ church just Ass Broadway, scores of theatrical folk knelt for a moment to offer a prayer for Rudy. Girls on tlie subway trains read with damp eyes tlie story of their hero's death. Yet with Rudolph Valentina dead the stem laws of tlie theatrical world worked relentlessly. Plays went on as usual last night. And today the morning papers still carried th" announcement licit tonight will open Karl Carroll’s Vanities —with seats up to SIOO earn. Such is the tradition of the stage. Valentino had been in New York for a short time before he was taken ill and had lived the life of the usual actor visiting here. He had been seen frequently at night clubs —often with Miss Marlon Benda, now ap pearing in a revue here, and had been a guest at numerous informal dinners, dances and the like. Two versions are told of the hours Immediately preceding his collapse a week ago Sunday morning. One was that he had spent the evening at a night club, and had gone from there to the home of a friend, where he was taken ill. The other was that lie was attending a private. Informal all-night party at a friend’s home when the first touch of what proved to have been his fatal illness, came upon him.' Started as Indigestion Physicians said, however, that his illness was in no way due to anything which might have occurred during those hours —that it had been coming on for weeks, starting originally as “ a touch of indigestion" so slight that Valentino had paid no attention to it and had neglected to secure medical attention. During his life Valentino earned several million dollars hut the extent of the fortune he left is doubtful. Joseph Schenok. bis producer, said lie understood Valentino bad little in the way of a fortune outside of possible interest in films. That, others estimated, may make up an estate of the quarters of a million dollars, when added to his personal belongings. 5209.000 Insurance Valentino carried 8200.000 insurance in favor of the United Artists Corporation as part of his contract. Company officials said they could not estimate their loss from his death, blit had he lived to fulfill his contract, the income probably would have run into two or three million dollars. The dead actor was reported to have had a large collection of miscellaneous antiques, art objects and paintings. Valentino was said to have made a million dollars in the last year, but most of it. his friends said, he had spent in travel, in luxuries and in various ways. The contract in effect at the time of Valentino's death called for a cash payment of $200,000 when a picture was made and one-fourth interest in the gross income from the picture. EULOGIZED IN ITALY Editorials Compliment Valentino's Intelligence. ft it United J'rrtt ROME, Aug. 24.—Rudolph Valentino was eulogized in the press today, the editorials especially complimenting the dead actor's intelligence in availing himself of the many op portunities offered in the United States. His death, the papers agreed, tvill causa mourning section of the international public which admired Valentino as one of the best interpreters of love on the screen.

MANY COUNTRIES MO CRN Women Soli as Death Is Announced in British Theaters. I Rn United Prm * LONDON. Aug. 24.—News of Ryt- ' dolph Valentino’s death had pene- ; trated to most of the remote spots of the world Monday night, and to- , day the flapped and movie fans of [ many countries were mourning the | dead actor. Great Britain especially shares the sorrow of Americans, for Rudy was known as well here as on the other side of the Atlantic. Valentino's death was announced in British theaters yesterday, and many women were heard to sob as the death message appeared. “He was a great artist," said the Daily Express today in an editorial.

KLAN WORRIES COOLIDGE AGAIN May Have to Stay Away to Dodge Parade. Bu Timm Sverial PAUL SMITH’S, N. Y., Aug. 24. The Ku-Ivlux Klan has become a presidential worry again. Last year the organization caused Coolidge embarrassment by announcing a huge parade in Washington a day or so after he had planned to return. To avoid comment. Coolidge stayed in Swampscott, Mass., where he was spending the summer, until it he conclave was well over and all Klansmen had left the capital. It now appears he wilt-have to do the same tiling this year. For the Klansmen. hoping to win his fa--vor sufficiently for his presence in the reviewing stand, have announced another parade at a date even later In thflTear. The parade is set for the middle of .September, and it is said around tlie summer White House that Coolidge lias no intention of being in Washington when the Knights inarch down "Pennsylvania Ave. This decision has its drawbacks. The summer season in the Adlrondacks lasts only two months. July anil August, and northern New York weather has a way of sinking from a lukewarm summer to a bitter winter with little or no way station. So the presidential party is not in the best of spirits over the idea of staying here until jhe latter part of September. None is equipped with winter clothing. Already all are wearing the warmest clothes they have with them. \

COMMITTEE MUST DIG IN INDIANA (Continued From, Page 1) permit the operation of busses for Ward B. Hiner after Hiner’s attor- } ney had failed to secure, is on the list for SIOO. Fred C. Gardner completes tlie list of donators with SIOO. The strange thing about the Robinson report as filed is that Synimes is shown to have placed $1,(500 of his donation in the hands of the campaign management several days after the primary had been held and that, although the election was held on May 4. Melson. the junior member of the Robinson. Symmes & Melson firm, paid the treasurer S3OO on ty 13. Women Paid While the Watson report shows many women paid for the work done by them, some in the form of Expenses, the Robinson statement shows only one woman, other than stenographers and clerks, as having been paid. Senator Robinson's expenses were divided as follows: Postage (approximately). .. .$2,123.(51 Printing, etc. (approximately) j Advertising (approximately) 1,723.25 j Expenses, Robinson personal, I (approximately) 550.00 Office rent, clerical help, donations. J rent of hall, telegrams and telephoning make up the balance of $lO,496.62. It is apparent from a close perusal of the reports that the Mellons ami Insults who figured so prominently in tlie senatorship races in Illinois and Pennsylvania were not interested in the Indiana situation. I*arge contributions are conspicuous by their absence. Tn the Watson campaign the Senator parted with.s2.soo, his relative, j Judge W. H. Watson, was willing to let it cost him a like amount, and ! Elam Neele. former collecter of revenue, also paid $2,500 to show j his regard for the Senator. A choice spot was selected in ! which to file the report of the senior I Senator's campaign. His treasurer, I Archie V. Bobbitt, State gasoline tax collector, lives at English, in Cranford County, and, according to the law. it had to be filed there. The balance of the contributions to the Watson organization were in sums smaller than the listed $2,500 class. They vary’ from that amount on down and include the name of Otto Carmichea-1, once interested in newspapers. SI. 101 for Manager The report shows that Eleanor P. Barker. Marlon County manager for 1 Watson, was paid $2,101.2(5 for | salary, rent, expenses and postage." Miss Barker in ap interview had said that she “was not paid"—the report shows the word "salary" some six or seven times. Grace MVilson I Evans, Terre Haute, was paid a j salary of S4O per week for seven weeks and also drew expense money, j The services of Mrs. P. J. Davis of i Gary were valued at SSO per week for a matter of six weeks. i The statement that women are in j politics for the “love of the game” and the “good that can be done” seems to he contradicted by the long list of names un varying amounts paid women workers in the Watson campaign. Mrs. Vivian Tracy Wheatcrafl. vice chairman of the Republican State central committee and former hairman of the women's bureau and manager of the primary Campaign among women for Senator Watson, was paid SBBS in salary from March 9 to May fi, 1926. This in addition |to expenses. Mrs. Wheatcraft by reason of her success in Indiana has been sent by the national congressional committee to work *n Maine on behalf of the Republican ticket therpy Funds paid Mrs. Wheatcraft will in all probability come In for scrutiny if Senator Reed comes into Indiana. On her own admission Mrs. Wheatcraft was paid for her services in behalf of the Senator from July 30, 1925. until March 4. 1922. ajthough the amount Is not shown. / Several Jobs Reference has also been made to the fact that Mrs. Wheatcraft also acted as political agent for Senator Watson at a time when she was vice-chairman of the State central

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Throughout tlie summer southwestern Kansas and eastern Colorado have been terrorized by these two boy bandits/* Forrest Gonce, above, is PJ; bis brother, Leslie, below, is only 14. They escaped last spring from a reformatory and perpetrated many holdups. Posses finally caught them. Forrest has been sent to the penitentiary. and Leslie, who resisted arrest, was shot and is in a critical condition.

committee. Burns’ Annotated Indiana statutes state. " —No person shall be appointed to act as treasurer or political agent in any election or primary election who is not a citizen and resident of the State of Indiana and no person shall he appointed to act as such treasurer or political agent who is chairman of any political committee.” If tlie matter is brought out by the senatorial committee, refuge will probably be taken behind The fact that candidacy does not begin until the actual declaration has been filed and that expenses incurred prior to j that time do not come within the corrupt practices act of Indiana. LILLIAN TELLS WHY SHE QUITS Says She Will Not Try Channel Again This Year. I!y Lillian (annon, (Copyright, 1926. by NEA Service.) CAPE GRIS NEZ. FRANCE, Aug 24.—The game is up for this year, so far as I am concerned. , The season is getting late and the weather is more and more uncertain. These facts force upon me the sad disappointment of going home without swimming the English Channel. I tlo not understand the reason for the failure of m.v second attempt to make the crossing. 1 was full of confidence, feeling fine and really enjoying the swim. All of a sudden I doubled up with cramps. As long as possible I fought against it, for everything was at stake. It was my big chance, and I did not intend to let it slip. But it was no use. If 1 had had a choice, l should much rather have been beaten by a storm, as in rny first attempt a week earlier, than by "this internal j trouble. The doctor who examined me here ! says- f-he fault is due to overtraining. The weeks of grinding work and hours in cold water while waitI ing favorable conditions have been | too much. I must take a long rest the doctor says, and not reattempt the effort this| season. \ want friends everywhere to believe I gave the best 1 had. And I still believe I could swim this [ i hatmel—which lias been such g iinx to me. BLAME EIRE BOG - IN IWO BLAZES City, State Officials Join in Quiz. State and city fire officials today joined in investigation of two fires Monday night. Both were charged to a pyromaniac by firemen who fought the blazes. ) An alarm that sounded at 3:18 a. m. today destroyed a story and a half, frame dwelling at 1775 S. Randolph St., owned by Mrs. Mary MeGuff, but unoccupied. Another firp of unknown origin, in a vacant house, was extinguished at 9 p. m. .Monday night, at H 22 N. Capitol Ave. Theeblaze,was put out with a loss of SSO. Police arrested Marion Duzan. 23. of 525 Woorilawn Ave.. and Mrs. Fourth St.. e>n charges of running over fire hose. WIN SONG HONORS Bit Timm Soccinl KAILUA, Hawaii. —Haili church choir of Hilo wpn the 1926 singing championship of the territory here at the close of the one-hundred-and-fourth annual convention of the Ha - waiian Evangelical Association. Eight choirs from the different Islauds were entered.

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FIRST SELLING OF ELDERBERRIES. City Market Has New Fruit —Prices Quoted. Elderberries, nt 5 (H-nts a pound, were brought to the city market today by Indiana farmers for the first rfme this summer. Shell-out beans were slightly higher. 40 Vents. Eggplant was down to 20 and 25 cents each. Good peaches jvere more expensive. $2.50 to s3.s(ra bushel. This included Hale. Alberta and white varieties. Pickles were down 40 cents to .$1 a hundred. ITickley pears, a new arrival, sold at 15 cents each. Other prices ineuded: Squash, 5 to 10 cents each: Spanish onions, 10 cents each, white asparagus, 10 cents a bunch: huckleberries, 25 cents a [lint; cauliflower, 35 to 50 cents a head: pimentoes, 5 cents each; crabapples, 10 cents a pound; sugar and Bartlett pears, 10 cents a pound; German endive. 10 cents a head; orange watermelons, 15 to 30 cents each, and home-grown green watermelons, 40 to 75 cents each. Jelly plums were 5 cents a pound; blue plums, two pounds for 15 cents; tomatoes, three pounds for 10 cents: transparent apples, four pounds for 25 cents; maiden blush apples, three to five pounds for 24 cents: white corn, three to five earn 10 cents; golden bantam corn, three ears 10 cents; fresh lima beans, 40. cents a pound; concord grapes, cents a basket; seedless grapes. cents a pound: malagas, 15 cents a pound; peas. 20 cents a pound; green beans. 10 to 15 cents a pound; tip top melons, 10 to 40 cents each, and lemons, 20 to 30 cents a dozen.

UNIQUE TABLE IS DISPLAYED Contains 259,450 Pieces —at Statehouse. More than passing interest has been shown by visitors at the State* Museum in a table, now. on display at the Stat,ehouse, which contain S 259,450 separate pieces of hardwood, according to Verne. Petty, curator. The table, constructed several years ago by Peter Messner of Etna Green, has been turned over to the State temporarily by its maker. Messner, in the meantime, is beginning a tour of the world to collect rare specimens of hardwood, which he use in other articles of furniture. Messner once contracted to sell the table to a collectors’ syndicate for SIO,OOO, but the deal failed of completion. Messner is it violin maker and master woodworker, specializing in intricate designs. He has his entire life, to the work and rc™ gards the table as his masterpiece. No single piece of hardwood in the table now on display is larger than a quarter of an inch. The table is large and ponderous, but altogether graceful in its lines. chicag-stTpaul AIR ROUTE IS UP Line Will Be Discussed With Stout Company. Rn United Pretttt DETROIT, Mich.. Aug. 24.—Plans for early establishment of a passenger, mail and express air line from Chicago to St. Paul have progressed to the point where Col. ,T. H. Britten, chairman of the St. Paul aviation committee, announced here today that a formal meeting of directors and officials of the Stout Air Services, Inc., had been called for Wednesday to discuss the project with him. While no definite steps have yet been taken for inauguration of service, Britten said, officials of the Stout Company and other local a\Jption leaders are interested in aiding early acquisition of facilities. The Stout Company now operates a passenger air line between DetroU|| and Grand Rapids. The St. Paul Chicago mail route is to be doned by the present operators Oct. 1. EXPLOSION KILLS THREE Ri/ Unit rtf Prm * SYDNEY—A new British Immigrant settler in Western Australia placed a quantity of gelignite caps in a disused stove for safe keeping. His wife lighted a fire in the stove. The settler’s wife, his mother and a neighbor's wife were killed in the explosion.

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