Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 128, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 128

SUE EVENTS AT FAIN TO PLEASE ALL Entertainment for Those With Interests Other Than Farming. STARTS ON SATURDAY Rodeo First Night Will Be Feature. Aside from the regular attractions at the 1926 Indiana State Fair, r which opens Saturday morning at the State fairground, Innumerable side events, many of which never have been shown before In Indianapolis, will be presented for the visitors, whose interests are not restricted to agriculture. With an eight-day fair arranged this year, instead of the usual sixday event, something novel In the way of a attraction has been provided for each day, according to E J. Barker, secretary-treasurer of the State board of agriculture. Glories of the golden west of sagebrush days will be brought to mind when a score of cowboys mount their ponies in the Coliseum Saturday night and rush through the stunts usually seen only at round-ups. A genuine western rodeo has been arranged. Beveridge to Speak Sunday's program will be restricted to religious observance and appropriate music. Ex-Senator Albert J. Beveridge has consented to speak at the Coliseum in the afternoon on “The Bible as Good Reading." Station WFBM of the Merchants Heat and Light Company will broadcast the address. Activities will include sacred concerts in the morning and afternoon. All amusements will be closed, but the concessions will be open. Side attractions on succeeding days follow: Monday, address by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, 10:30 a. m., In front of grand stand. Tuesday, American Legion band | contest in morning and airplane for- ' mations. Wednesday, farmers’ day, all special attractions designed "to interest farmers. Thursday, Governor's and legislator's day. Indianapolis Day Friday, Indianapolis day. Entire day devoted to local visitors, program culminating in a night horse show in Coliseum. Saturday, closing day. Automobile races on one-mile track in afternoon. Official welcome of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce was extended to fair visitors throughout the State, by Frank S. Chance, courtesy week committee chairman. To assist out-of-town visitors, the committee has elected an information tooth where directions as to hotels, eating places and points of interest may be obtained. Small booklets, “What to See in Indianapolis,” may be obtained at the booth, which will *>e open daily from 9 a. m. to 5 ip. m.

U. S. GUNBOATS ON WAY 10 CHINA To Protect American Lives at Hankow. Bu United Preee WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Two United States gunboats with marines were en route to Hankow, China, today to protect American lives and property which may be endangered by civil war there, according to State Department advices. Th® U. S. S. Palos and Portage were dispatched up the Yangtse River, by Admiral Clarence Williams, commander of the United States Asiatic squadron, upon request of American Consul F. R. Lockhart at Hankow, and are expected to arrive tonight. The State Department has received no confirmation of the reported landing of Japanese troops at Hankow. There was no indication that the department would resent such independent action by Japan without waiting for common action by the other powers, since Japanese constitute the bulk of th# foreign colony at Hankow.

Stores to Close on Labor Day All stores that are members of the Merchants Association will be closed Monday in observance of Labor day. W. E. Balch, association manager, announced. As the day is a legal holiday In Indiana, all banks and State, county and city offices will be closed. Th® postofflee and Federal 'Bldg, also will be closed and no regular mall delivery, will be made. The principal Labor day celebration will be at the Indiana State fair. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis Will speak at 11 a. m. \

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High Dive on Circle “Falls Through” A scheduled 228-foot high dive from the top of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, with a young man, tired of life, as the chief participant, failed to materialize today, much to the disappointment of many who had gathered to witness the event. A woman this morning gave police a note which she said she found on Market St., near the Circle. It read: "I am a young man 25 years of age. I have had a great misfortune and cannot stand life any longer. I am going to jump from the monument between 11 a. m. and noon. Sept. 3.” Police made no efforts to prevent the performance. “Pshaw, I thought we were going to have some excitement,” said Col. Owen Perry, superintendent of the monument, when noon rolled around with no signs of the would-be Jumper.

POLITICIAN BEGINS TERM Negro Gets Sentences on Uouor Law’ Charges. Lewis Butler, 232 W. Michigan St„ Negro politician of Indiana Ave., today began serving a term Imposed by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter Thursday on liquor charges. A 120-day jail sentence and S3OO fine were imposed on one charge and and a ninety-day term and S2OO fine on a second charge. The term will be served concurrently. WOMAN AND MAN’SLAIN Bodies Are Found in Hotel Room at liexington, Ky. Bu United Prent, LEXINGTON. Ky„ Sept. 3.—A man and woman were found shot to death in the man's hotel room here today. The hotel register gave the man's name as K. C. Kirtley, Charleston, W. Va., and the woman's as either Alma or Mildred Gregory of unknown address. Offered Gertrude * Wine? Terrible! Bu United Pre** OMAHA, Neh., Sept. 3. The Omaha chapter of the- Women's Christian Temperance Union today asked President Coolidge to investigate reports that William Corcoran, United States Consul at Boulogne, France, tendered Gertrude Ederle a glass of champagne following her conquest of the English channel. The chapter petitioned Coolidge to recall Corcoran from his post if the report is confirmed. NO CIVIL SERVICE THERE Duvall’s Golf Course Appointment Goes Right Through. There's little prospect of extension of “civil service” to the city’s golf courses, it appeared at park board meeting Thursday. ”1 wish to suggest the name of J. J. Jones for assistant starter at Pleasant Run golf course,” said R Walter Jarvis, park superintendent. “This is a personal appointment of Mayor Duvall.” Board members mechanically registered approval.

WILL FLY OVER ANDES American to Face I>ra.th If He Is Forced Down. Bn United P'eee SANTIAGO. Chile. Sept. 3. James Doolittle, American aviator, departed for Buenos Aires today in a Curtis airplane. Doolittle will fly over the Andes Mountains en route. Doolittle's intention to 'fly across the Andes aroused great interest in South America, especially because of the aviator's recent injury to both ankles which would make his death almost certain *if he were forced down. Even if Doolittle could effect a safe landing he probably would not be able to seek assistance. FOGARTY IS SWORN IN Takes Chicago Jail Office Despite Opposition. Bn United Preee CHICAGO. Sept. 3.—in the face of much opposition Edward .1. Fogarty, fourteen years prison warden at Michigan City, Ind., today was sworn in as superintendent of the Cook County jail. Objections to Fogarty's appointment was raised by former Judge George F. Barrett on the grounds that Fogarty had not been a resident of Cook County or of Illinois for a year. Judge John P. McGorty, however, ruled the appointment was lawful. HURLS ACID AT GIRL Youth Commits Suicide After Disfiguring Sweetheart. Bn United Preee BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 3.—Enraged because she had rejected him, Leo Duskiewicz, 22, hurled hydrochloric acid into the face of Anna Nycko, 19, his sweetheart, probably disfiguring her for life. Later in his cell in the police station the youth swallowed a dozen bichloride of mercury tablets he had concealed in the lining of his necktie, dying in the hospital early today. MILL STRIKE SETTLED Bn United Preee MANVILLE, R. 1., Sept. 3.—National Guard troops were to be withdrawn from Manville today after settlement of the cotton mill strike in which mill officials agreed to discharge a nonunion worker whose employment precipated the walkout.

DRY LAW IS WONDER TO ENGLISHMEN How Can Free People Stand It? Is Question, Says Pastor. REV. WICKS RETURNS Little Animosity in Britain, He Asserts. There is no outspoken animosity toward the United States existing in England today, but a-feeling is prevalent that this country has not been as magnanimous as it might have in the matter of settling war debts. This is the view’ of the Rev. F. S. C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church, who, with Mrs. Wicks, has returned to Indianapolis after a two months’ tour of England and Scotland. The popular English interest, in America, however, is not in connection with war debts, According to Dr. Wicks. It is centered on prohibition. English Wonder. “Everywhere the American goes,’’ he said, “he is questioned about pro hibitlon. English people cannot understand how free people can submit to this law. “And their freedom from restraint under the law seems to produce better conditions than America has se cured through legislation. In the two months I was in England, I saw one man drunk. I have been in that country four times and have seen just four drunken persons there. And I have never seen any one in cpn tinental Europe drunk.” Dr. Wicks explained that in England the keeper of the “public house,” or place where liquors are served, is made responsible. If a person to whom he has sold liquor becomes intoxicated the proprietor (Turn to Page 4) Two Women Defend Poolroom , in Court When a grandmother and a mother defended a poolroom operated at 2025 Madison Ave., by Ed Decker and his brother Clint, the two, and eight others taken in a gambling raid at the place Aug. 30, were released by Judge Dan V. White in municipal Court today. Cases were continued indefinitely. The grandmother, Mrs. Kate Egalhoff, 2102 Madison Ave., and her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Bradshaw, mother of three young men, who lives across the street from the pool room, were vehement in their defense of the place and the neighborhood. “Just some husybodles have been talking about a craps game at the poolroom,” Mrs. Egalho ffsaid. She signed bonds for some of the men.

TWO UNKNOWNS IN CHANNEL HIT English Woman and Man Leave Early Today. Bn United Preee CAPE GRIS NEZ. France. Sept. 3.—Mona MacClaren, a physician, and Horace Carey, both of Folkstone, England, started swimming the English Channel at 5:10 a. m. today. Two and one-half hours later, they were two and a half miles offshore. The weather was unsettled. Both are comparatively unknown. Their effort was made unannouned and unheralded. The woman'swimmer refused to be photographed. ANOTHER GIVES UP British Swimmer Abandons Attempt a Few Miles Out. Bn United Preee LONDON, Sept. 3.—Norman Dereham, an Englishman, abandoned an attempt to swim to England from the French coast when a few miles off Dover at 6:15 a. m. today. Dereham, who lives at. Southend-On-Sea, entered the water at Cape Gris Nez at 3:45 p. m. yesterday.

Boys, Who ‘Played Too Rough ’ With Playground Matron, Fined

Because they “played too rough” with the playground matron at Oak Hill Park, Clarence Wells, 20, of 1914 Holloway St., and George Flasha, 20, of 2240 Langley Ave., were fined $1 and costs each by Judge Paul Wetter in municipal court, Thursday afternoon. Miss Mary Armstrong, 19, of Apt. 9, Keancora Apts., Twelfth St. and College Ave., was the matron, who appeared against the youths. She charged them with assault and battery and disorderly conduct. The latter charged was dropped.

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Imposing structures in the sand pile today marked the last play day at Ringgold Park playground, which will close for tlie summer on Saturday morning. The buildings show the slide and shelter house of their own playground, as built in sand by .lerry Jerome Reese, son of .Mr. and Mrs. George Reese, 939 Prospect St. (left); Eva Jeanette Green, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Green, 1305 Hartford St. (center), and Charles Canfield, Jr., of 1252 Ringgold St.

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THREE INDICTED IN CONNECTION WITH KIELLETT MURDER Include McDermott, Massillon Bootlegger and Louis Mazer. Bu United Preee CANTON, Ohio, Sept. B.—Three men were indicted on first-degree murder charges here today by the Stark County grand Jury, following its eight-day probe of the Don R. Mellett assassination. Accused arePatrick McDermott, fugitive since he disappeared from Cleveland haunts, July 28, following the murder. . Ben Rudner, Massillon bootlegger, arrested this morning on a murder warrant. Louis Mazer. Canton bootlegger, held In county jail at Cleveland charged with murder and conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. Final Witnesses Heard The jury handed the indictments to Judge A. W. Agler shortly after reconvening at 1 p. m.. following adjournment this morning when testimony of final witnesses had been hea rd. Mellett was assassinated in the back yard of his home here July 16, six weeks ago today, when h# went outside to put up his automobile shortly after midnight. The Canton Daily News campaign against bootlegging and civic vice was immediately believed the cause of the murder by Investigators brought here to find the assassins. Mellett was publisher of the paper owned by former Governor James Cox. riot Told A few days after the Investigation started, Steve Kascholk. a friend of McDermott, came forward with testimony that he and McDermott had been offered money to "beat up" the editor who was "spoiling the liquor business.” According to investigators, Rudner plotted Mellett’s death and Mazer and McDermott fired the fatal shots. Rudner Is said to be head of one of the largest bootleg rings In the country, operating between Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Canton and Detroit. STREET CAR MAROONED Bn United Preen WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. A motor truck rescued a score of passengers marooned in a derailed street ear when 2.34 Inches of rain fell In an hour here. The water washed mud and debris from an excavation across the car track, derailing the car, and the water flowed so deep around it the passengers could not walk "ashore’.’ to the sidewalk. CHILDREN TO BE HONORED Bu United Preen NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—When Mrs. Clemlngton Corson, conqueror of the English channel, arrives in New York Sept. 11, her two children, Clemlngton, Jr., and Margaret, 2, will ride at the head of the parade being arranged to welcome her.

According to testimony, both boys frequent the park playground evenings. On Tuesday of last week they walked to the car line behind Miss Armstrong and Miss Katherine Noonan, 21, Parkview, the other matron. When time came to board the car the boys held Miss Armstrong's wrists and were going to make her wait for the next car. The conductor and Miss Noonan came to the rescue and the girl was released. The boys declared that it was all in fun. "You shouldn't play sc rough,” the judge admonished the youths.

Announce Four Accepted on First Reading—First Half of Fifth. By Henry Wood United Prcee Staff Corrrennndent GENEVA, Sept. 3. —Four of the American reservations /to The Hague Court protocol anti the first half of the fifth have been accepted on first reading. President Van Eysinga of the conference of court signatories announced this afternoon. General discussion of the reservations ended today and a committee was named which will report both with regard to acceptance of the preliminary first four reservations and the manner in which Washington is to be notified. The report is to be made before the league assembly ses(Tura to Page 23) Bandits Get $96,000 in Cancelled Checks Bu United Preee PHIU\DELPHIA, Sept. 3. Flourishing guns, four bandits held up Harry Gruh, 39. messenger for the Southwark National Bank here today and escaped with 196,000 —in canceled checks —according to bank officials. BLAST ENTOMBS TWELVE MINERS Two Rescued From Oklahoma Shaft. Bu United Preee TAHONA. Okla., Sept. 3.—Twelve miners were known to have been entombed today by a stas explosion in mine No. 29 of the Superior Smokeless Coal Company here today. Company officials feared others are in the mine. Two miners were brought from the shaft shortly before noon suffering serious injuries. Mine rescue squads are en route here from McAlester and attempts will be made to enter the shaft in search of other miners that may be in the workings. The blast occurred as anew shift of miners entered the mine. Volunteer rescue, workers were attempting to gain entry into -the mine tunnel which was filled with gas fumes. Tshona. a small mining camp, is practically Isolated so far as wire communication is concerned. IKICTOR TAKES LIFE Bu United Preee WASHINGTON. Pa., Sept. 3 While being questioned In connection with death of a local society girl, Dr. Roger S. Parry, 45. prominent physician and former Army suggeon, committed suicide by slashing his wrists. 18,000 DEER KILLED Bu United Preee LANSING, Mich., Sept. 3—Michigan hunters killed 18,000 deer and eighty-four bear last season, compilations announced by the State Department of Conservation today showed.

TRENTON' DAY AT EXPOSITION Bu United Prrsx PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 3. Special trains, motor busses and private automobiles brought dreds of Trenton (N. J.) citizens to Philadelphia today for the observance of Trenton day at the Sesquicentennial Exposition. WAY TO RE HARDER “The way of the trangressor is going to be harder in Marion County after Jan. 1, 1927," declared Raymond F. Murray, Democratic nominee for prosecuting attorney, in predicting the success of his party at the polls, Nov. 2, at a Thirteenth Ward Democratic organization meeting at the home of Mrs. J. J. Schneider. 1007 E. Morris St., Thursday night. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 70 10 a. 74 7 a. m 70 11 a. m 77 8 a. m 71 12 (noon) .... 80 9 a. m 72 1 p. 82

$1.04 TAT RATE IS PRESENTED AT PUBLIC HEAK Representative of Chamber Protests Budget Increase. A 1927 municipal tax rate of $1.04 was presented today at the public hearing on the tax legislation by the budget committee of city council. Counciirnen ignored many of the recommendations of City Controller William C. Buser who had submitted a levy of $1,035. j Assertions by Leonard V. Harrison, Chamber of Commerce civic iffairs secretary, that council has no legal right to raise the rate and that "there are dubs and dead weight in the police and fire departments” provoked a heated discussion. "Resent Outsiders” “There is also dead weight in the Chamber of Commerce," Boynton J. Moore, council president, retorted. "We resent outsiders coming in and criticising our policemen and firemen," said Councilman Walter R. Dorsett, rising from his chair and clenching his fists. Moore asked Harrison if he was a resident of Indianapolis. "At present I am living outside the city limits," Harrison replied. Committee members proposed abolishment of inspectors of police and their replacement by other titles as a result of which acting Supervisor of Detectives Claude M. Worley will reecive a substantial pay increase. Raise for Worley All inspectors now receive $3,282.50 a year. The new budget would raise the office of supervisor of detectives, who would be called chief of detectives, to $3,600 a year, and the police inspector, who would be a "major of police" to $3,400. However, the inspector of traffic would be replaced by a captain, who would be reduced to $3,000. Counciirnen also eliminated the proposed abolishment of all intermediate grades of rank between sergeants and patrolmen, and of three engine house companies. The park board levy was increased 1 cent to 7 cents and the recreation department one-fourth cent to 1.5 cents, while the salaries of the city building department offi cials were raised to conform to the new building code. A proposed appropriation of $25,000 to buy equipment for the police department was cut to SI,OOO. The hearing was the final opportunity for taxpayers to discuss appropriations for city government before they are presented at city council meeting Monday night. Only a few were present. Council is expected to set the levy at $1.04. Monday is the last legal date for councilmanic action.

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INDIANAPOLIS REPUBLICAN WOMEN LEADERS AROUSED BY WHEATCRAFT INCIDENT

Baltimore Sun Correspondent and Indiana Writer Confirm Story. DETAILS OF INTERVIEW Tell How Mrs. Wheatcraft Gave Them the Facts. From Portland, Me., where she is engaged in work for the Republican congressional committee, Mrs. Vivian T. Wheatcraft last night gave out a denial that she had ever told the representative of the Baltimore Sun that she had a “poison squad” of five women in each county and that her "whispering women” had given a victory by gossip. Promptly the editor of the Baltimore Sun announced that the interview had been obtained by A S. Douglas, one of their most trusted men, a journalist of wide experience on both sides of the Atlantic, and whose accuracy had never been before questioned. And then Douglass, now the Chicago representative of the Sun added that when he obtained the interview it was in the presence of F. J. Prince, correspondent for a number of Indiana dailies. Second Confirmation Prince not only confirmed the statement of Douglass, but added that other parts of the interview not printed in the Sun, which took only the national view of a unique situation, but interesting to Indiana citizens, had been printed and would be given further publication. The denial sent by Mrs. Wheatcraft to the Republican women at Terre Haute brought a statement from the leader of those who had demanded that Watson and Walb immediately secure her withdrawal from all political activities that they would not press the demand. Whether that attitude lyill change in view of the statement of the two newspaper men who obtained the interview is problematical. The Denial The denial of the “poison squad” attributed to Mrs. Wheatcraft said in part: “I certainly made no such statement as appeared in the Baltimore paper or any other paper,” she asserted. "We have an organization in Indiana of 3,500 precinct committee women, with ten helpers to each precinct. This is the organization to which they probably refer. The duty of these ten helpers is to get out the vote and spread Republican doctrine. “I never at any time said anything about a ’poison squad’ or ‘whispering campaign’." Douglas’ Statement The statement issued by Douglas and sent to The Times insists that the interview was accurate in all its phases. He said: “The interview’ accorded the Baltimore Sun correspondent hy Mrs. Vivian Tracy AVheatcraft took place in her room at the Severin (Turn to Page 23) POPE IS GIVEN AUTO Bu United Per** ROME, Sept. 3. —Pope Piqs has found his new automobile', presented to him hy Milan Catholics, to be satisfactory. The oar arrrived at the Vatican Thursday, its doors sealed with white ribbons. HIDDEN FORTUNE DUG I P Bu United Prme MEXICO CITY, Sept. 3.—Recovery of treasure estimated to be worth $1,500,000 which had lain buried for 116 years in a canyon was announced today by the local press.

WORD BATTLE OVER ‘CO US I NS' IN CO UR T

Dictionaries Called Into Play to Settle Question Arising From Unusual Marriage—Hearing Continued.

Just what are cousins? Numerous weighty and impressivelooking dictionaries were called into play in an effort to settle that ques tion in municipal court today before Judge Dan V. White. % The occasion was hearing on a motion to quash perjury charges against Robert Holt. 36, of 3229 Graceland Ave., whose marriage five days ago to Miss Mabel Grever, 18, has brought him wide notoriety and some trouble. Judge White took the motion under advisement until next Wednesday, when he will affirm or deny it. Perjury Alleged. Holt is a first cousin of his mother in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth 'Wheeler, R. R. 1, Box 57-b, and she caused the perjury' charge to be preferred, asserting he perjured himself when he answered “no" to the question on the marriage license application “is the male contracting party of nearer blood kin to the female contracting party than second cousin?" It is her contention that Holt and his wife are "germaine" cousins, a nearer relationship than

Forecast ~ Unsettled tonight and Saturday; probably showers or thunderstorms; not much change in temperature.

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Republican Leaders Repeat Demand for Feminine Equality in Party. ‘POISON SQUAD’ STINGS Resent Insinuation They Can Be Controlled by Gossip. Out of the statement o$ Mrs. Vivian Tracy Wheatcraft, Republican State vice-chairman, that she operated "poison squads” of women to obtain "victory by gossip” in each Indiana county in the last primary today grew a demand by Marion County Republican women that they he given the right to choose their own leaders. By telephone and by casual or arranged meetings in small groups a number of women were discussing the situation and determining a course of action. Aside from being indignant, that the nominal leader of State Republican women had been quoted as insinuating that their votes might be swayed by gossip the Indianapolis women viewed the incident as tangi hie evidence that the time has come again for them to assert their demand for real political equality with the men. Want Own Leaders, "We can get nowhere with man appointed women leaders,” said one leader. We must have the right to set up our own organization and select the women we ourselves feel are fitted to be at the head.” Typical of the discussion going on was the statement of Mrs. Willard G. Gray, secretary of the Ninth Ward Women’s Republican Club and former law enforcement superintendent of the W. C. T. U. She said: "The State-wide indignation of Republican women following the publication by the Indianapolis Times of a reported interview with Mi-s. Vivian Tracy AVheatcraft should not be a surprise to the men of the Republican organization. 50-50 Fight Recalled “It is but a logical result of their having put into operation the so called "50-50 bill” passed by the last* Legislature, which is presumed to give women equal rights in political organization, but which in fact is (Turn to Page 4) ARMY DIRIGIBLE LANDS SAFELY —. t TC-5 Delayed—Passed Over Indianapolis. After a twelve-hour fight with a storm encountered forty miles east of Indianapolis the United States Army dirigible TC-5 landed safely at Scott field, Belleville, 111., early today. The TC-5, which left Dayton, Ohio, at 4:55 p. m. Thursday, on the last leg of a flight from Langley Field, A'a., passe,! over Indianapolis at about 6:45 p. m. The dirigible, flying low, was sighted by a number of Irvington residents. Lieut. W. A. Gray, according to dispatches, said the ship was driven fifty miles north of its course and was forced to wait until dawn to proceed to Belleville. The dirigible had been expected at the flying field at midnight. The flight of the TC-5 was the first Inland voyage of an army or Navy airship since the Shenandoah disaster, just one year ago.

second cousins. Mrs. Holt has declared she will stand by her husband. “Under the old Roman law, germaine cousins were recognized, but the English common law does not take cognizance of such fractional relationships,’’ Asa Boulden, defense attorney, told the court. “As there is no Indiana statute relating to the matter, the English common law should be recognized.’’ Books Brought In Then Boulden and John L. Niblack, deputy prosecutor, representing the State, girded their loins and brought the dictionaries before the judge, seeking to prove that germaine cousins do or do not exist. It was a real battle of words. Among the books brought Into play were: Noah Webster's dictionary and the University dictionary, for the defense. The New Standard dictionary and Bouvier’s law dictionary, for the State. Niblack also presented to the Judge a diagram of ancestry, the “family tree," for perusal.