Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1927 — Page 3

JUNE 4, 1927

GENTLEWOMAN WAITS PRISON , IRONICAL DOOM Unless California Governor Parcfons Her, She’ll Go to Crusade Object. - By Times Soecial SAN QUENTIN, Cal,, June 4. The history of martyrs records the tales of many gentlewomen suddenly thrust into* squalid jails tb suffer for their ideals. But history has yet to pen a fate more ironical than that which probably awaits Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney. California philanthropist, club woman and reformer, destined to serve as a felon for one to fourteen years for joining a radical party eight years ago. Unless Governor Young grants her the pardon demanded by all classes in the it is believed he will not do—Miss Whitney soon will become the inmate of the women's prison here, which for years she has crusaded against as one of the nation's most insanitary, overcrowded and disgraceful institutions. Too Late for Her Largely through her efforts anew women's jail is being built, separate from the men’s quarters, on the bleak promontory into San Francisco Bay, called San Quentin Point. This will not be ready until August, too late to receive the benefactress whose zeal helped create it. The present . jail was built fifty I years ago to contain thirty women * prisoners. Today there are ninety of them packed into its frame walls. rt Is inside the great wall that incloses the men’s penitentiary, death cells, gallows and the quarters of 3,100 male prisoners. Os the ninety women prisoners, one-fourth are Negroes. Among her other companions will be Mrs. Peete, Clara Phillips, Dorothy Ellingson and other murderesses. These sleep on hall cots and are cramped into quarters that make the place almost unllvable. Name for Number Today Miss Whitney divides her time between her rustic retreat in Carmel-by-the-Sea, an artist colony, and her home in Oakland, the spacious old Whitney mansion, where her aged mother and sister live. From these surroundings she will be taken to San Quentin, exchange an eminent name for a number and her gown for a, coarse gingham uniform with an extra flannel skirt for “reception” wear. She will be searched for “dope,” her hair trimmed and she will receive a fumigation bath. Then she will begin the routine of a woman felon—a shift at sewing, window washing, floor scrubbing and kitchen police. ■ Because of morale, she will not be made ,an exception. NEW TRADE BILL ' WILL BE PUSHED Sponsor Urges Passage of Price Measure. JJi/ Times Soecial WASHINGTON, June 4.—The drive to have Congress enact a “fair trade” bill will continue through the summer, Representative Clyde Kelly of Pittsburgh announces. Known as the Capper-Kelly measure, the bill seeks to legalize a uniform sale price on trade-marked and nationally advertised goods, has the backing of manufacturers' associations but many retail organizations oppose it. The measure has been before Congress for the past six years, It was favorably reported to the House, in a modified form, at the last session, but no action was taken on it. Kelly spoke on behalf of the bill at Atlantic City this week before the National Association of Manufacturers of Toilet Articles. “I will speak in its behalf at every opportunity before Congress recon-> venes,” Kelly said. “We are hopeful of getting action in the next session.” Oral Argument Requested Request for oral argument on petition to dismiss the petition of the Peoples Motor Coach Company for .establishment of a bus line on Guildford Ave. from Union Station to ~ Sixty-Third St., was filed with the public service commission today by Attorney Charles B. Welliver, on behalf of himself and other vicinity residents. Hearjng on the company petition has been set for’Mune 30, and if grantedy, oral argument may be held before then.* Range Horses Dying HELENA, Mont., June 4. —Outside the range fences of Montana lie the skeletons of hundreds of wild horses, victims of a hard winter and a scarcity of fodder. A few emaciated survivors still roam tins hills. Even these are being rounded up and sent to slaughter houses. Flivvers and tractors have made horses more valuable in the form of glue, bow-strings. He Gypped Lawyers! NEW YORK, June 4.—James Annini, with half a dozen aliases, posed as a destitute veteran with a claim for $4,000 back pay. He'd give the case to an attorney and then “borrow” on the money he was supposed to receive. They hauled him into court the other day. “Do you want a lawyer?” he was asked. “Who could I hire?” asked Annini despon dently. “I’ve trimmed them all.” Indian Tomb in Panama PANAMA CITY. June 4.—Far lnhto the mountains of Panama, where "it* is believed no white man has gone before, two American explorers have discovered an ancient Indian temple. George Williams and Wallace Bain, returning here after months of work in the jungles, brought solid gold trinkets, told of finding copper armor battle-axes.

Tests for Girls in Opportunity Contest to Be Held All Next Week

jib '^Shh^|s^%^'4 ,3 .-? flf- - .

Miss Louise Fahle, 5665 E. St. Clair St.

How to arrange the try-outs for the large number of entrants in The Times and Publix Theaters Opportunity Contest is the problem now confronting the judges. Six evenings next week, beginning Monday, have been set by Glenn Allen, Circle Theater manager,or eliminations. Contestants will be advised of the time for their appearance and requested to furnish data on their needs in way of accompaniment. Every possible facility tending to make the auditions a success will be placed at the disposal of all girls who aspire to become Miss Indianapolis. The high character of the judges selected has caused a deluge of last minute enri-ants. The judges are: Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks, Mrs. Henry Schurmann and Randolph L. Coats. “Young America.” the personality revue, in which Miss Indianapolis will have a part and in which she will be starred when the show comes to the new Indiana Theater, in September, starts a twenty-one-week tour of the country at the Paramount Theater, New York, July 9A contract calling for not less than nineteen weeks at a salary of $75 a week and railroad fares will be signed by Miss Indianapolis when she leaves for New York. The contract is now held at the Circle Theater. Several hotels in cities which the show will visit have asked the girls in the cast to be their guests. Newspapers in other cities will act as hosts.

Lindy Made Test of Cats Landing on Feet

By Morris De Haven Tracy United Press Staff Correspondent. (Copyright. 1927. by the United Press) CHAPTER IV Two cats have won honored places in any story of Charles A. Lindbergh’s career. The first was a pedigreed Angora, aristocrat of the feline family. Lindbergh dropped it from a second-story, window 7 . The second w-as a kitten of unknown antecedents. He treated it with such consideration that he has W'on commendation of humane societies and animal lovers the country over. In addition to these two cats, which now have gained such great fame, do£s, horses and animals of -every kind have had their places in Lindbergh's life, for he is one of those men who never is alone as long as there is an animal, preferably a dog, near by. But to dispose of the cats. One of the earliest anecdotes of Lindbergh was told originally as illustrative of his early development of the experimental urge. Someone had told him that a cat, no matter how far it dropped, would always land on its feet. He was then aged six and the family was living fn the upper flat of a “two family house” in Minneapolis. The folks downstairs had a valuable Angora, Charlie appraised it and decided tjiat it would be a good bit of material for an experiment to determine the truth of the stories of cats ailways landing on their feet. He captured the Angora, took it upstairs and dropped it from a window. “It landed on its feet,” he explained to his mother, w'hen she took him to task for his experiment. •The other cat was the one which adopted Lindbergh at Curtiss field, Long Island, New York, while he was preparing to make his transatlantic flight. He proved that his boyhood love of animals was still with him, for he never was too busy Ao stop a minute and play with the kitten. Often he was seen around the hangars, in those trying days, with the kitten on his shoulder. When, in the excitement of the start for one attempted to put the kitten in the machine with him, Lindbergh was not too busy to object. “It may be cold and the kitten might die,” he said as he insisted ft hat, for its own good, it be left behind. But dogs are Lindberg's real companions. Asa youth he wandered through tlie Minnesota woods around his home, often being gone all day wnth only his dog for company. He built a boat one summer in Minnesota and on it he and his dog embarked day after day on long excursions over £he \nearby waters. It was in those days that he t became known first as a youth who always traveled alone. He j did not dislike the company of others, but it was hot necessary to his happiness and when he was engaged in thp thing in which he _ was most interested, he always wanted to be alone and have all the'Yesponslbility hitpself. It is difficult to say whether this trait was a development of tho 6

Miss B. L. Moreland, 522 E. Raymond St.

afi , -

i —Photo* by Dexhetmer. Miss Elsie Fisher, 19 N. Oriental St. Miss Janice Fieldman, 707 N. / Alabama St. These girls are among late entrants in The Times and Publix Theater Opportunity Contest.

Publix Theaters, of which the Indiana is one, have engaged such men as John Murray Anderson of Greenwich Village Folligs fame to stage the production. Stage careers, the hope of most girls, will be made possible to Miss Indianapolis and the girls from Other cities by having their work watched

days of patrolling the woods and the streams with his dog and g in, or whether a desire to be alone was the reason for-such excursions. There was hardly a tree or a nook in the woods around Little Kalis, where the family lived, that Lindbergh didn't know by the time he was 15 years of age. He became a crack pistol shot and was also good with a rifle. But a cap pistol was one of his first cherished toys and he always seemed to prefer the smaller weapon. When a student at the University of Wisconsin, the only trophy he had won up to that time in any important competition was a medal of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps for pistol shooting. He prized it highly. " Lindbergh's father was always a great admirer of Theodore Roosevelt and he told his son stories of Roosevelt's campaign in Cuba and of the Rough Riders. Soon Charlie decided that he was a rough rider. He added a horse to his \ list of animal friends and there followed, a year or two of extreme anxiety on the part of his mother as almost daily she saw her son riding wildly through the country, alternating between the characters of a Rough Rider and a cowboy. During all this time he continued his interest in machinery and was following closely the development of the .airplane. He became a motorcycle enthusiast later, but finally dismantled his motorcycle to apply the engine to a home-made ice boat in which he rode the ice of Lake Mendota. ice boat came to grief in a collision, T>ut after a couple of weeks it was in commission once more, repaired through the resourcefulness of its youthful builder. He learned to drive an automobile and his friends say that he is as skillful behind the wheel of a motorcar as he is with an airplatfb. With the family forced to divide its time between Washington and Little Falls, Charles had his difficulties in the matter of his early schooling. He attended school part of the time in Washington, then, in the middle of a term, would go back to Little Falls and become a student there. His mother, who was a school teacher before her marriage, and now a widow, is again teaching, spent much time acting as his tutor and it was through her efforts that he was able to keep up in his studies despite the many interruptions. There came a time duringx the World War when Charles’ father was forced to devote practically his entire time to affairs in Washington and away from home. Conduct of the little farm, where the family lived, accordingly fell upon Charles. He took hold of it in his customary thorough manner, but soon decided that there was not enough use made of mechanical power. He set about to remedy the defect. When he finished almost everything around the farm and farm house was mechanically operated and the farm became a center of much interest in the community. .4bout that time he was gradu ated from the Little Falls High SefWbl and entered the University of Wisconsin. ,• He began the study

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Miss Helen Williams, 323 W. New York St.

by'stags and screen directors and producers who are ever on the alert for new faces, new names, new talent and new personalities. The siif winners in the elimination contests will meet at the Circle on Tuesday evening, June 14, when Miss Indianapolis will be chosen. /

of mechanical engineering, but college was not to Lindbergh's liking. He felt he was not learning there the things he wanted to known. He stood well in mathematics and he was an eager experimenter in thO laboratories. But it developed that his interest in experiments was gone wh’n he ompleted-the laboratory work. He disliked writing up his notes and he was continually behind. His main interest in college was in the pistol shooting competitions. He took only a small part in college life, preferring to be by himself and to follow his own dictates. Finally he gave up college in 1921. without completing his course, and soon thereafter began his amazing career as an aviator. DEMON FOR SWIM IN SACRED LAKE Professor Returns From . Tibet With Strange Taies. l ; it United Press MOSCOW, June 4.—How he dared the Mongolian demons by swimming across a sacred lake in the Gobi desert and was himself welcomed as a demon by the natives when he came out of the water unscathed was told by the Academician Kasloff on his return here from Thibet. The natives wailed in prayer while he made his swim, he reported. On an island in the middle of the deep lake he discovered a solitary Buddhist priest who had lived there in voluntary exile so long that he had lost control of the years. Professor Kasloff found a Mongolian tribe ruled by women, each woman having several husbands as her absolute slaves. At one point in the Gobi desert his party was welcomed by 300 horsemen who received them with music and feasting for several days, then suddenly at< tacked them. Kasloff's party of ten men had to fight tlier way to safety. Chimpanzees Like Tea LONDON. June 4.—Properly attired in lounging suit and slippers. Jack, eldest of London Zoo chimpanzees, pours tea every afternoon so his family. Jimmy and Clarence enjoy it most of all; Bibi must have mostly milk and four lumps of sugar in hers. Sniffs Out Thief NEW YORK. June 4.—Sande Rodrequez has an excelent sense of scents. Sando was dining out one day. A fellow Spaniard, one Martinez, produced a flask, filled a glass with wine and offered it to Roderquez He sniffed. (He called a policeman and asked Martinez be arrested, insisting that he recognized his own wine. Sold Song for $3 SHIOCTON, Wis., June 4.—“ Silver Threads Among the Gold,” in the form of a poem, was sold for $3 by Eben Rexford, its author, it has been revealed. Years later the poem was set to music and the song swept the nation.

JAIL FARE MAY PROVE CURE IN EPILEPSY CASE Prisoner on Diet of Bread and Water Suddenly Shows Improvement. Bu WEA Service NEW YORK, June 4.—Epilepsy, the dread disease which afflicts one in every 1,000 persons- and hitherto has baffled all efforts at permanent relief, is yielding to medical science. It always had been believed that epilepsy was due to severe derangement of the nervous system. Physicians working on that theory gained no favorable results. It was not until an accidental discovery was made at the Illinois Penitentiary that experts realized that the disease resulted from a form of poison in the blood and might be corrected by diet. A prisoner suffering from epilepsy was put-on a bread and water diet as a punishment for misconduct. Officials, fearing the diet might impair his already poor health, examined him frequently, found h was steadily improving under the plain diet. The department of neurology at the Post-Graduate Hospital here is experimenting to determine the foods best suited for relief of the disease. Women in Air Service ROME, June 10.—The aeronautical service of ItalV soon will start enlisting women. Their duties will be mainly observation and signal communication along the frontiers, to guard against the incursion of enemy aircraft.

*o Shopping Through ie Want Ad Store SUPPLIES EVERY >NCEIVABLE HUMAN NEED

Frbm your arm chair, each evening you can go on a shopping trip thru this store, so large that it supplies every conceivable human need. Everything from bulbs to buildings. The dad of a little lad, who has been longing for a companionable dog, buys the “pup” at the right price, a used piano for practice is secured for a girl—all thru the bargain counters of The Times Want Ad store. .The newlyweds select tjieir first “flat,” the newcomer finds a job and living quarters, the barber

THE TIMES WANT AD STORE

Whisky Cure Saved Child, Say Parents

ISIS, mm BT lips “v,

Laura Jean Smith

Mrs. Leah Smith, 744 N. Elder Ave., and her husband “broke a law to save a life,” the life of their baby, Laura Jean. Praising Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom for his insistence that the Wright bone dry law be altered so physicians may legally prescribe whisky Mrs. Smith told how Laura Jean's life was saved. “Our doctor had given 7 up hope for Laura Jean,” the mother said. "My husband and I looked down on the little body that was almost blue and lifeless. He went out and returned with a pint of whisky. It

was against the law. but we resolved to try it as a last resort. “So we gave our baby a diluted dose in a teaspoon. The little heart started beating faster Then we heated some of the liquor and bthed her tiny body, rubbing it briskly. Life returned and today she is a growing girl in perfect health. “Our doctor did not believe in using whisky. When he returned and found that our baby's life had been saved all he would say was, ‘Well, something surely did it.’ “I want to say that I'm proud of The Times for the stand it is taking in trying to get such a vicious law prohibiting use of whisky as a medicine changed.” It's 0. K„ Girls ATLANTIC CITT. N. J.. Jun-—Five-piece or one—it's all the same to the bathing-suit censors at Atlantic City this summer, because there will be no censors. City fathers have announced that any kind of bathing costume that doesn't cause a riot will be all right with them.

COME IN - ♦ and let us tell you the reasons we have for advocating a growing savings account with this Strong Company—the oldest in Indiana. 4% INTEREST ON SAVINGS The INDIANA TRUST JTK. c ™ $2,000,000.00 OPEN SATURDAYS 3 TO 8

A STORE THAT SUPPLIES EVERY CONCEIVABLE HUMAN NEED t locates a shop and Mary a beauty parlor—all from the Want Ad store. There, too, the young salesman who wants to buy a light used car to make more calls, finds a good buy at only $50.00 down. Sporting goods, household goods, clothing, autofnobiles, pets and supplies, tools, machinery, plants, almost any and everything that anyone may want can be purchased on your nightly shopping trips. The thrifty find it pays them well—to watch and shop and buy thru—

PAGE 3

URGE REALTOR SPEED Seattle Convention Reservations Are Going Fast. J. Roy Moore, “on to Seattle committee” chairman, handling the details for the trip by special train to the annual convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, today announced it would be necessary for city realtors to get reservations in quickly, as they are being taken fast. This convention will be held Aug. 10-13, preceded by a convention Aug. 8 9 of the Pacific Northwest Association. which covers Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. Moore announced that the Spokane (Wash) Real Estate Board has invited Indianapolis delegates to stop over there en route to the meeting. They will be taken on a tour of the Spokane region.