Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1927 — Page 2

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WiTA TE ASKS JUR Y FOR DEA TH OF AL GER

p-50 RIGHTS FOR ■OMEN PROVIDED r INBIILOFFERED Greater Participation in Party Politics Asked by Mrs. Gardner. Equal l-ights for -women In party organizations and a greater participation of women in politics are permitted in the 50-50 bill introduced today in the Indiana House of Representatives by Mrs. Ella V. Gardner (Rep.), Murion County. A House session lasting just an hour saw the introduction of fifteen bills, the withdrawal of three measures and a small number of committee reports. Picture Taken After having a group picture taken the body adjourned until 10 a. m. Friday. Mrs. Gardner’s bill is sponsored by women of all factions oi both parties, containing provisions long sought by women voters. Under its terms the person of opposite sex receiving the secoond highest vote for precinct committeernan becomes vice precinct committeeman. Now the vice precinct chairman is appointed by the precinct committeeman. Replaces East Rill The bill provides for election of ward chairmen by the committeemen instead of by appointment, as now. It takes the place of a bill introduced in 152!!, which was found to be missing when time came to vote on it. Later it was learned that the Speaker of the House had taken the bill with him on a trip. It is hoped by the backers of the bill that the party organization elected under its provisions will not be subservient to the demands of a county chairman. Decided opposition to the bill is expected. It is known that the bill does not meet with the approval of the Republican party organization. PROPOSES OITIES WILL ENIER INTO POWER BUSINESS Defeated Candidate for Governor of Tennessee Backs Plan. Times WriHhinfltun Bureau, 1322 Sew York Avenue WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. — The Tennessee State Legislature will be asked this session to enable cities to enter the power business, John R. Neal, defeated gubernatorial candidate, announced here. Tennessee should also, like Alabama, consider laying claim to part ownership of Muscle Shoals, Neal believes. Neal said he would appear before a State Legislature committee soon to urge his ideas. “The two issues are closely related,’’ Neal explained. “Tennessee cities are unable to purchase cheap power from the Muscle Shoals plant and distribute it among their citizens because there is no enabling legislation. On the other hand, an enabling act won’t help so much if Congress leases the plant to some private company, eliminating the public power supply. Since the Tennessee River waters flow through Tennessee and all the auxiliary reservoirs are in Tennessee, I believe the State has a just claim to part ownership.’’ The cheap power issue has already been raised in the Legislature by Governor Austin Peay, who, in his message, recommended that the State utility commission bo discontinued or made, by amendment of the law, to work in “the interest of the people instead of the interests of the utilities." Under the present system, utility company rates have increased'Steadily, it is claimed. BAR CHAIRMEN NAMED Ashby Selects Committees for the Coming Year. Samuel Ashby, Indianapolis Bar Association president, today announced committee chairmen. They are: Library, Thomas C. Daily; amendment of laws, William P. Evans; grievances, Homer Elliott; entertainment, Russell Willson; employment, Theodore Locke; executive, Samuel Ashby; admissions, Sidney S. Miller; judiciary, Earl Conder; legal education, Solon J. Carter; legal ethics, James W. Fesler; auditing, Russell McFall; American citizenship, Robert D. Armstrong; memorial meetings, William L. Taylor. LAUDS AMERICAN PRESS §1,284,1)00,000 Spent Annually for Advertising in United States. “The American is the freest, fairest and most powerful press of the world today as a result of the economic independence of advertising," declared Lee White of the Detroit News, today before the Indianapolis Advertising Club at the Spink-Arms. "The United States spends in excess of $1,284,000,000 annually in promotion of domestic trade. Approximately half of the sum goes for newspaper space," said White. White spoke to Butler University students this afternoon.

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Ilenry Ford trekked all the way from Detroit to Sudbury, Mass., to be present at the reopening of the school house to which Mary Sawyer’s epic lamb once followed her to class. Restored by Ford to practieal use, it stands on his famous Wayside Inn propertj. He and Mrs. Ford are here seen in the doorway surrounded by the neighborhood kids who are the new pupfls at tlie school. It was by accident that the sheep, ]>erliai>s a descendant of Mary’s own, strayed into the picture.

STRAION LEMS ‘KINGDOM’AFTER BLOW BY PRESS Fundamentalist Leader Denies Newspaper Story of $30,000 Lectures. IJli ( nited Preset NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Dr. John, Roach Straton, considered the successor of ’William Jennings Bryan as leader ot' the fundamentalists, has announced his retirement from active connection with the “Supreme Kingdom” and resignation of the presidency of two other fundamentalist organizations. The Supreme Kingdom is the organization founded by Edward Young Clarke, former Ku-Klux Klan leader, devoted to furthering fundamentalism and other causes and about which there has been great controversy. Dr. Straton announced his retirement at a meeting of fundamentalists here last night. He accompanied it with a stout defense of the Sultbeme Kingdom and denied in detail charges printed in the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and widely cried that he was to receive $30,000 as a lecturer for the organization. He charged that the Macon Telegraph was imposed upon by (two men alleged to have been “discharged from the Supreme Kingdom” because of financial irregularities. He said he received S7OO for the lectures he delivered. Dr. Straton gave the demands on his time by Calvary Baptist Church in New York as his reason for retirement. VALUES FORD STOCK Hupp Auto Official Testifies to $12,000 a Share Worth. <* Bu I nilrtl I'rrss DETROIT, Jan. 20.—A fourth automobile executive, Charles D. Hastings, chairman of the board of directors of the Hupp Automobile Corporation, today added his name to the list of Henry Ford’s contemporaries who valued the Ford Motorl Company in 1913 at $240,000,000, or $12,000 a share. Hastings’ estimate was given before the United States board of tax appeals in the hearing of nine original stockholders of the Ford Company -seeking release from an added tax of $30,000,000 as a result of their sale of holdings to Ford in 1919. Troy G. Thurston, Indianapolis, field examiner in the Internal Revenue Bureau, formerly of Detroit, testified that in his opinion after a careful study of income tax returns from the sale in 1919 ? the minority stockholders “sold at ’a great sacrifice." FEES TO GENERAL FUND Money Collected Will Go to County Treasury, Rill Provides. Fees of the Marion County treasurer and sheriff will go into the county general fund and not into the pockets of the officeholder if a bill introduced today by the five Etate senators from Marion County becomes a law. The bill Is aimed at the fees collected by the treasurer of Marion County in the past, it is said. Estimates have placed the sum as high as SBO,OOO a year. RECEIVE DEATH NOTICE Word was received Tuesday night by Detective Chief Worley from Mrs. Thomas Martin of Cincinnati reporting the death of Ed Wilson and asking that his sister, Mabel Wilson, of this city be notified. Miss Wilson's address, according to the wire, is 1426 N. New Jersey St.

Senator Cleared in Election Case

Senator Lawrence D. Tyson of Tennessee has been cleared of charges that lie spent excessive sums in his last campaign. The Senate eleetinns committee has dropped tlie charges made against him by John R. Neal of Knoxville, defeated candidate.

UNITED FOR WAGE CUT Coal Mine Owners of Area Ineluding Indiana Frame Program. Bu United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 20.—Coal mine owners and workers again today were at opposite poles over wages in the industry, presaging a strike in the bituminous fields when the Jacksonville agreement expires next March. Operators of the central competitive district were united today to demand drastic wage reductions in the joint conference with union leaders opening Feb. 14. Representatives of mine owners in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana, meeting in Toledo, decided on a sliding wage scale to make wages competitive with those paid in non-union fields. The reduction w r ould amount, on the present basis of pay in the two fields, to about 20 per cent in the union wage.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: John Dowdell, 930 Michael St.; Oakland, 516-524, from 1803 Shelby St. Amos Stevens, 237 Summit St.; Ford, 26-476, from Capitol Ave. find Market St. Edwin Kautsky. 2534 N. Talpott Ave.; Buick 531-048, from Sixteenth and Illinois Sts. Russell Miller. 3011 Kenwood Ave.; Chevrolet, 576-418, from New York and Illinois Sts. Walter W. Baker, 814 N. East St.; Ford, 520-102, from Washington St. and Jefferson Ave. James Bird. Wermore, Kas.: Ford, 34-721, from Meridian and Ohio Sts. Harold Francis, 718 Exeter Ave.: Chevrolet, 11-797, from 939 N. Meridian St. Dr. R. J. McElwee, 1009 Broadway; Hudson, 11-941, from Vermont and Meridian Sts. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found by police belong to; Dorothy Ransdell, 2626 N. Sherman Dr.; Ford, found at Sixty-Fifth St. and Keystone Ax - e. Alont Johnson, Plainfield, Ind.; Ford, found at Nineteenth and Alvord St. PART OF HOSPITAL BURNS Hu United Press , j ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Jan. 20.—Lives of thirty-five patients were endangered at the Jefferson Barracks Post j Hospital by fire that destroyed the west wing of the building early toI day. Bed-ridden men were carried to safety by hospital attendants.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FAVOR ELECTRIC LAMPS AND ROCK DOST FOR MINES Measure Being Formulated to Prevent Repetition of Mining Mishaps. A bill requiring the rock dusting of mines and other safety measures including the compulsory use of eleotric cap lamps in gaseous mines is being formulated by the State board of mines and mining for earlj intro luction in the Legislature. Steps to prevent repetition of such disasters as that of Francisco mine are seen in the proposed measure which would make it illegal for any one to enter a gaseous mine with an open light. Board members now considering the provisions of the measure would not detail its provisions pending a conference on the bill to be held this afternoon in the office of Albert C. Dally, director of the mines and mining board. Operators’ representatives on the board are Harve Conrad, Bickriell, and William Johnson, Vincennes. Miners’ representatives are Willliam Mitch and Tyler G. Lawton, both of Terre Haute- Conrad will attend this afternoon's conference in the place of John A. Templeton, regular board member.

BURGLARS ROUTED FROMTWOHOMES Woman Appears Man Leaps Through Window. Two burglars rfed from houses when interrupted in the midst of their work late YVednesday. YVhen Mrs. R. T. Schmidt, Apt. 104, at 1129 N. Alabama St., opened the front door, a man inside leaped through a side window. He took with him a watch valued at $25. He had piled clothing and other loot ready to carry away when interrupted. Police say he had forced open the front door. Mrs. Elmer Shepard, 1943 Bellefontaine St., was in the upstairs of her home xvlien she heard a noise downstairs. When she investigated, a Negro who was standing in the living room fled. Nothing was taken. Joseph Gibbs. Negro, of 2322 Aqueduct St., heard a noise in liis hen house and, investigating, found four fowls missing. He encountered George Jones, Negro, near the shed, whom lie held for police. A daylight burglar entered the home of Jack C. Dooley, 5869 N. Delaware St., by breaking the glass around the front door knob. He took jewelry valued at $125. OFFER TO AID MEXICO Yaqui Indians Would Desert Revolt to Fight for Federal*. Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, Jan. 20.—Yaqui Indians, who have been in revolt, have offered to surrender to government troops and join theVn in crushing their former rebel allies, dispatches received here today said. The government, however, has indicated it will not accept the offer. The rebels, according to the war department, are , now virtually hemmed in by Federal troops and their capture is imminent. General fighting throughout the rebellious I provinces was continuing, it was reported.

Deputy Prosecutor Stark Makes Opening Statement in Murder Case. NINE MEN ARE FARMERS 14 Witnesses Sworn by Clerk as Trial Opens. By Eldora Field, Times staff Corresoondcnt DANVILLE, Ind., Man! 20. —Deputy Prosecutor Judson Stark demanded the life of Gene Alger, IS, | of Indianapolis, for the murder of Traffilcman John J. Buchanan, Negro, July 9, in the State’s opening statement today in Hendricks Circuit Court. Stark opened the State’s fight for the death penalty after a jury was obtained at 11:05 a. m. on the fourth day. The last juror selected was the forty-eighth talesman to he questioned. Anew panel was drawn this morning. Special Judge Edgar Blessing swore fourteen State's witnesses after Clerk Alvin Woodard had sworn in the jurors. YVitft tears in her eyes Mrs. Garl Algert, the defendant's mother, bowed her head and left the courtroom shortly after Stark began his statement. It lasted more than an hour. Alger Squirms Through a glass door she watched tlie deputy prosecutor and her son. Using a blackboard, which bore a chart of the scene of the shooting of the Buchanan, Stark dramtically traced incidents leading to the tragedy. For the first time since -Monday Alger lost his poise and squirmed in his seat. Seated with the four attorneys who he expects to save him from the electric chair, Alger picked at pieces of a newspaper while Stark spoke. The youth's throat throbbed with inward fear. Ilis father also was disturbed, but remained in the courtroom with liis son. Stark declared that Alger on the morning of the tragedy had with him a gun, overalls and was “prepared to embark on a career of crime.’’ Alger also had a small piece of steel used to pick the locks of Chevrolet autos, which, it is charged, Alger had intended to steal, Stark declared. Carries Death “The Evidence will show that the defendant did not resist arrest, and did not shoot in self-defense. From the beginning he was in fault, the evidence will show. Only luck prevented him from killing several who got in his way,” Stark told the jury. "The evidence will show that the defendant is guilty of first degree murder.” Stark concluded. First degree murder carries the death penalty. State's witnesses were to be heard | this afternoon. Nine of the twelve selected to de- j cide the youth's fate are farmers. ' The jury. Edgar Stevenson, Danville; Wallingford Cooper, Clajton; George R. Blake, Lizton; Elvm “*vte, Middle Township; Edwin Scearce, Howard Cox, Washington Township; Alfred T. Cooper, Stilesvilie; D. V. Broadstreet, Stilesvilie; Verne Wolfe. New Salem, ana Frank W. Allen. Clayton, merchant; Charles Beasey. Danville, telephone manager, and Amos V. Smith, Coatsville. traveling salesman. Father Nervous “I certainly feel sorry for that mother,” is an expression frequently , heard in the hulls. Mrs. Carl Alger, mother of the defendant, Wednesday gave way to tears for the first time since the trial began. The father suffers, too. Nervously objecting when asked permission to take the boy's picture, the man showed the grftit strain he is under. "My son, my son,” he said brokenly, “I don’t want him pictured as a criminal. Oh, I wish I could go through all this for him.” Report that the long grind of selecting a jury was near an end. after three days of questioning, filtered out over town late Wednesday, and for the first time since Monday every seat in the courtroom was filled. People lined the walls and groups stood outside in the hall, looking curiously through the glass doors. The air grew tense, for the fight for a human life was about to begin, under unusual circumstances. The defendant. accused of firing with the hand of a Jesse James and killing an officer of the law, is an innocentlooking blue-eyed youth with dimpled chin and a mobile mouth that seems ready to break into friendly smiles any moment. “Does that boy look like a bandit and a murderer?”. people ask each other, and answer their own question with a puzzled but emphatic “No!” .Students in Court Students with books in their arms —both boys and girls—a j constant- j ly coining and going, and many of i them go ’round the front hall and j through a glass door, commanding a front view of the young prisoner s face, gaze long and earnestly at him. Alger did not shrink from their glances. His eyes, bright and friendly. greeted them with the coniredship of youth. He appears to be waiting for some interesting and :m----personal drama. Talks Sex Problems to Y. M. C, A . Men Regard for women is on the decline, according to Dwight S. Ritformer city purchasing agent, and now secretary-treasurer of the Grassfork Fisheries at Martinsville, who addressed about 100 young men Wednesday evening at the Y. M. C. A. He spoke on “The Universal Allurement,” as the second of a series of twelve subjects grouped as “adventures’’ or epochs in a man’s life. The “adventure in sex” was the topic. “More restraint on the part of young men is necessary to the betterment of present-day morals,’* Ritter said. “Men do not hold os high regard for women today as they did in I years gone by.

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Unlike the temporary "|K>lice” jobs sometimes given school boys, the kid oops of Kearny, X. J., arc the real tiling. The force was created l*y Police Chief Roll after an attack upon a child and because of the frequency of coasting accidents. It consists of a chief, a captain, two sergeants and eight patrolmen who arc constantly on duty. Here (left to right) are Sergt. Stanley Gedwith, Chief Norman Doyle and Capt. Joseph Clifford.

MEATLESS, SPANKLESS INDIANA IS WANTED

Children would not be whipped and meat would not be eaten in Indiana if two bills sponsored by Airs. Anna S. C. Lee 539 Massachusetts Ave., should find favor in the present Legislature. The hills were snt to Lieutenant Governor F. Harold Van Orman by Mrs. Lee, with a letter asking their favorable consideration. Parents, teachers or any one else caught whipping children,

News Quirks

NEW YORK —Hamisbey, Egyptian fakir, will be buried six feet under ground, with ears, nostrils and mouth plugged with cotton, to demonstrate the power of the mind over the physical body. He promises to remain under ground three hours. GREEN RAY, YYis.—‘Mevc Mojiewlcz, 12, >f Hofa Perk, was curious about (lie trifling object which lie jinked up on his way to school. It was a dynamite percussion cap anti Steve is in the hospital with a badly burned band, following explosion of the cap. CHlCAGO—Because 3-vear-old Hugh Archut told his mother that "Papa met a swell blonde on the street,” Judge Joseph Sabath granted Mrs. Fannie Archut a divorce from Herbert Archut. She further alleged that her husband pinched her when she questioned him about the matter. STEVENS POINT, Wis.—Exertion of cranking his car on a cold day, caused John Seider, 45, to burst a blood vessel leading to the heart. He died before medical aid arrived. CHICAGO—-Chided because he failed to pass his mid-winter school examinations, Lester Parizek, 13-year-old grade school pupil shot himself through the heart, dying almost instantly. BARAROO, YVis.—Deer promenading about the streets of the town have become a commonplace sight here. The animals are protected at this time of year and come into town in search of food. NEW YORK.—John Carrington, charged with a traffic law violation while driving a taxicab, appeared in court arrayed in correct morning attire. “Are you a taxi driver?” asked the magistrate, surveying the frock coat. “Only at night,” replied Carrington. “In the daytime I am a stock broker.” Whereupon he paid his fine and hurried off to his place of business in Wall Street. BROOKLYN.—Declaring a hot towel the inalienable right of every’ patron of a barber shop, Joseph Solomon defended his refusal to pay for a shave when haled into court by the -barber. So eloquently did he plead the case of the hot towel that the barber forgave him and the magistrate dismissed the case. 11 AliT FO R I), Conn. —Pleated fronts, bellows pockets and lined collars, demanded by style, slowed up the production of shirts in tlie Connecticut prison factory so much den Scott told the State Legislature, that the prison lost $40,000, WarCHICAGO.—"Why, the law ought to compel a wife to pay alimony to her husband in such a case,’’ Judge Joseph Sabath exclaimed here when Mrs. Lillian Morrow Schloss requested alimony from Lewis T. Schloss. a blind man, who has an income of only S3OO a year. NEYY’ YORK.—Since their reconciliation .James A. Stillman and his wife apparently arc living happily. It was learned that the banker recently gave Mrs. Stillman a necklace valued at 8500,000. LINDEN WOOD. X. J.—Robert Harper picked up a stick to bat snowballs thrown by his grade school companions, but the stick moved in his hand. It was a five-foot blacksnake which had been partly frozen in a snowbank. Robert threw the

slapping or boxing their ears or frightening them by shutting them in dark rooms and the like, would be fined under one of the measures. The other forbids the killing or eating of animals, fish game and fowl, and violation carries a sentence of both fine and imprisonment. Mrs. Lee is a vegetarian, and in the past has advocated anticorset legislation.

snake in a policeman's traffic booth and the patrolman thereafter directed in the street until the snake revived and disappeared. TRENTON, N. J. —In investigating the financial affairs of the late Circuit Court Judge Willard W. Cutler, it was found that he had failed to cash salary checks aggregating 516,J41.68, dating as far back as 1919. NEW YORK —Ten-year-old Druid F trjeon has composed the music of "Hiawatha.” which will be sung by Ethel Hayden, mezzo-soprano on Feb. 2. David says he is a “modernist” and has composed “Rhapsody in Red," a caprice and several suites. He began musical composition at the age of 8. BOSTON—The Charleston came to Bowdoin Square. Boston. A patrolman saw three pedestrians performing wierd contortions and went ovei to investigate. He, too, strutted his stuff. Later it was found that do fectivo tyiring had charged the side walk. OIL ARBITRATION DISCUSSION WAITS Senate Committee Session Deferred. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The question of arbitration of United States-Mexican difficulties was temporarily sidetracked in the Senate today when Chairman Borah cancelled the scheduled meeting of his Foreign Relations Committee, due to pressure of other business. The committee had planned to consider the Robinson resolution for arbitration in the Mexican oil dispute, and also to study a resolution asking withdrawal of American marines from Nicaragua. The committee probably will meet tomorrow. Secretary of State Kellogg said he was studying the arbitration proposal but emphatically denied press reports —not carried by the United Press—that he had committed himself to such action or changed his Mexican policy. But. while the YY’hlte House and State Department were described as impressed by foreign criticism and the flood of arbitration appeals from prominent American citizens and organizations, there were significant reports that certain American oil interests oppose the proposal. DECLARES WAY CLEAR Mexican Newspaper Predicts Oil Arbitration. till I nil■'! Press MEXICO CITY', Jan. 20 —War talk has ended'and the "road to arbitration is now opened,” said the newspaper Universal today in an editorial discussion of 'MexicanUnited States relations, which was believed to represent the government's point of view. HOLDS JAPAN CRUMBLES SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 20. The island empire of Japan will sink into the Pacific, according to Dr. Levi F. Noble,of the United States Geological Survey. But it will take 10,000 years. Japan is slowly crumbling. according to Dr. Noble, falling off along the east coast. Periodic cataclysms such as the upheaval of 1923 are to be expected in Japan, lie said. Flexible rocks are rare, -but a slab of sandstone, recently found, bends. easily.

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BRITAIN TREATING, CHINESE TROUBLE AS MAJOR ISSUE Foreign Secretary Calls Minority Leaders to Advise of Situation. Bu United Press LONDON, Jan. 20.—British difficulties in China today were formally recognized as having developed major importance when Sir Austen Chamberlain, the foreign secretary, summoned Ramsay MacDonald and David Lloyd George to the foreign office to confer with him. The two opposition leaders met the foreign secretary separately In accordance with the British tradition that leaders of minority parties in the House of Commons be informed fully regarding serious international situations. AMERICANS MENACED Among 800, Including British, in Disturbed Province. Bu United Press SHANGHAI, Jan. 20.—Upward eight hundred British and Americans were in peril in the province of Szechuan today, consular advices here said. YY'omen and children have been ordered to leave the area. By erection of additional barricades and enlistment of mercenaries and volunteers, foreign authorities here continnued today to prepare I for the expected Nationalist attack on Shanghai, where are collectec [ customs dues which would provide any army with ample funds. Transportation will he a difficult problem in the evacuation of women and children from Szechuan province because of seasonal low watei in the Yangtze. ORDERS EVACUATION U. S. Consul Tells Women and Children to Leave. Bu United Press PEKIN, Jan. 20. The United States consul at Foochow today ordered all women and children to leave the city, after anew outbreak of rioting. Fifty-seven women and children quit the city several days ago. After prolonged demonstrations, in [ which several persons were shot, the Chinese authorities placed a hundred rioters under arrest. SOUTHERNER BEST DUCK HUNTER *■ NATIONAL SENATE Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic Floor Leader, Holds Title. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic floor leader, is the champion duck hunter of the United States Senate. Robinson has packed his guns across the United Stales and Europe shooting ducks, prairie chickens, rabbits, grouse and quail. Recently he spent a short time on the southern preserve of Bernard Baruch, New r York financier, and returned with about GO fattened mallards. Taking a page from President Coolldge’s White House breakfast hook, Robinson is luring his followers in the Senate to political harmony with duck luncheons. YVhile Republicans gather at tlie White House to consume hot cakes at breakfast. Democrats gather in the capitol rooms of Robinson at duck luncheon. The ducks are cooked in the ate restaurant and served by capital chefs. They induce mental complacency through gastric contentment. Hunted as a Boy Robinson started hunting as a hobby when was a boy. Physicians told him that he needed outdoor exercise, hut that he was not physically able to engage in some of the outdoor sports. So he took up the gun and today his physical prowess is such as to command respect in any heated argument. He tells the following story of a recent hunt in Scotland: “Grouse furnish difficult targets. They fly about ten feet high with the speed of bullets. They are scared up from the ground by boys and fly straight toward the blinds. If you are rapid there is just opportunity for one shot as they come toward you. AYliirling fast you may get another shot as they leave you. "I could hear the attaches at the Scotland hunt club expressing their opinions that it would lie a hard day for me. ‘That Senator thinks he is going to get a lot,’ they said. ‘l’ll bet lie don’t get anything.’ Blasted Predictions “Well, sir. as luck would have it. I blasted away# into the first flock that came toward me and several fell. 1 whirled and plugged again and a couple more fell. On the first two volleys 1 led all the shooters. “My luck held out for the day and at the end 1 was high scorer. "Never before or since have l ever come near that high score, it put me in solid with the ScouW men. “Hunting is sort of like golf. Yo i may think you are a profession: i one day and even though you trv just as hard the next day you make an ordinary showing."