Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 190, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1927 — Page 1

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SEEK HEARST BRIBE CLEW IN CABLEGRAMS Reed Committee Digs Deep on Challenge From Mexican Consul. — f~ SMITH CASE UP TODAY Delay in Senator-Elect’s Hearing Expected Tax Bill Considered.I Em United Press WASHINGTON, Dec . 17.—The Senate’s Reed committee did Congress’ main business today.' The Reed (Pa.) committee was called for 10:30 a. m. to get reports of cablegrams passing between Mexico City and the Mexican consulate in New York City. From these, it expected to develop whether so ne documents, printed in the alleged Hearst Mexican bribery expose, were genuine. Consul General Elias, called as a witness in the inquiry, had branded as forgeries the documents, allegedly showing a plot by President Calles to pay $1,200,000 to four United States Senators. To--support his statement, he challenged the committee to get the telegrams^—and this was ordered done. Consider Smith Request Meantime, the Reed Missouri committee was called to consider the request of Senator-Elect Frank L. Smith (Rep.), Illinois, to postpone until after Christmas any hearings in his expulsion case. It was conI sidered probable the committee I would grant the request. In the Senate proper, a report on the deficiency bill was expected and also the tax reduction bill, as passed by the House was expected in, for reference to the Senate finance committee. The House was in recess for the week-end, with one or two committees, however, planning to keep busy. A brief adjournment of the committee probing the Mexican “expose” may be taken after the hearing today, to enable detectives or Government secret service men to start work. Senator Reed hopes their work will provide the committee with evidence impossible to obtain from witnesses now known to the committee. New Yorker Is Called The committee called from New York for questioning a man whose name was not divulged. He wrote a Senator that he had some interesting information concerning the documents, and the committee desired'to question‘him privately to ascertain if his information is of sufficient importance to warrant calling him as a witness. The Mexican embassy last night issued a statement for Albert J. Pani, former minister of finance, now in Paris, stating that documents published by the Hearst papers bearing his signatures were forgeries. “The charge is as ridiculous as it is malicious,” Pani was quoted as sayihg. The $289,000,000 tax reduction bill as passed by the House goes to the Senate today on the second stage of its way to the statute books.

First to Committee It will first be referred to the Senate Finance Committee, chairman Smoot of the committee favors delaying tis consideration until aft* er the Christmas recess. After the bill is altered to suit the committee, it will go to the floor of the Senate for debate. Regular Republicans fear an effort by the Independents to make radical changes. President Coolidge thinks the House bill provides excessive reduction. It was said in behalf of the president that the treasury estimate of $225,000,000 reduction was as far as Congress should go and that he was confident the Senate would cut the bill to that figure. New York Stock Opening —Dec. 17— / Allied Chem .154% Amer Can 73 Vi Amer Car Foundry 103)4 Amer Smelting 176% Amer Steel Foundry 65% Amer Sugar <2% Amer Tel and Tel 181% Anaconda 56V4 Beth Steel .59 % Canadian Pacific 217 C. F. & 1 82>/ Chrysler 61 Dodge 1814 Famous Players 110 General Asphalt 79% General Electric 134 General Motors 132% Goodrich 93% Hudson Motor 76% Hupp Motors 38% Kenn. Cop 83% Mack 108 Marland J 4% N. Y. Central - I**, N. Y., N. H. & H 88% Pan-Amer Pete <B) 44% Pennsylvania 64% Packard 57% Pullman 81% Radio ..., 94% Sears-Roe'ouck •% Sinclair 18% S. O. Calif 85 S. 0.. N. 39% Stew Warner 83% Studebaker 59% Texas Oil 52% Timken "JoF* U. 8. Alcohol -109% U. S. Rubber '67% U. S. Steel 1*9% Wabash (At pfd ?3 Willys-Overland •■... 18 Yellow Truck 35 /• Hourly Temperatures 6 a. 20 9 a. m. ..... 21 7 a. m 20 10 a. m. 23 8 a. m...... 19

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VOLUME 39— NUMBER 190

AL IS HOME ‘AND GONTA STAY’

Nice Trip but Saw Too Many Stars, Says 4 King ’

BiU United Press /"■CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—“ Scarface '^ 4 A1” Capone, grand chieftain and overlord of all Chicago’s gangland, returned home last night, announcing with relief that he was “glad to get here.” Even the police sympathized with the much-abused beer baron, and despite their threat of arrest as soon as he arrived, permitted Capone to spend the night at the home of his mother, unmolested. Not even the eight-hour forced sojourn in jail at Joliet dimmed Capone’s joy at returning home. He arrived “just full of the Yuletide spirit.” “I had a nice trip, but after all, there’s no place like home, you know.” A1 said. .“Those yokels out in Joliet kept me in jail eight

HUGE CARGOES OFBOOZE SLIP PAST CUSTOMS ARMY

CO-ED BANDIT CASE TO JURY No. 3 Head—See 1 Puzzle Stirring Appeal Made by Husband of Girl Robber. B)/ United Pro Cfi j COURTROOM, LA GRANGE, Tex., Dec. 17.—A jury of twelve farmers this morning began deliberating the fate of Rebecca Bradley Rogers, Texas’ first co-ed bank robber. The stirring appeal of a stricken young husband rang in the jurors’ ears as they retired. The plea of Otis Rogers, 25-year-old lawyerhusband of the pretty University of Texas graduate, brought sobs from court attaches. His tubercular-wracked body tiring under the strain of his appeal, Rogers leaned against the rail of the jury box while he pleaded in a broken voice that if the jury must find his wife guilty they send her to death rather than to prison. Becky sat unemotionally staring at the floor while her husband spoke. Her mother, sitting beside her, sobbed continually. Toward the close, when Rogers sagged against the railing, his face paled from the physical strain, Becky was seen to brush aside a few tears, her first since the trial opened.

How the Market Opened

Bn United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Advancing tendencies were still in order on the stock market in early dealings today. Coppers, merchandising shares and airplane issues moved up sharply and demand continued for United States Steel and General Motors. Greene Copper soared nearly 3 points to 129%, anew high record, /ftnerican Can made anew high at 73%, up %; Pacific Gas and Electric gained 3% to 50; Hudson 1% to 77%; Curtiss Aero 1% to 66%; Sears Roebuck % to 86%. General Motors opened at 132%, up % and then moved to 133%, a new high on the recovery. Other motors were in demand, including Studebaker, White, Overland and Mack. United States Steel held steady around Its opening at 149%, up %. Other steels were dull. Oil issues firmed up with Sinclair very active. Food shares received attention, featured by National Biscuit, which spurted to 175. Railroad issues ruled firm in quiet dealings. New York Curb Opening —Dec. 17— Bid. Aslc. Humble Oil j 65% 65% Continental Oil 18 Vi 18% Imp Oil of Canada 59 % 60 Ind Pipe Line 75 76 Ind Pete 36% 36% Ohio Oil 65 Vi 66 Prairie Oil and Gas 48 b 49 Prairie Pipe Line 182 3 4 183% S. O. Indiana 80 Vi 80‘/a 8 O Kansas 15% 15% S O Kentucky 123 V* 122% S O Ohio 77 77(4 Vacum-Dll 142 Vi 143 Salt Creek Prod 32% 32% Durant Motors, Dela 9Vi 9% Ford oP Canada 600 608 Stutz Motor 19 19% Cities Bervice, com 52 Vi 52% Marmon 47 47% Chicago Grain Opening CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—Wheat: December, up %c; March, up %c; May, unchanged. Corn—December, unchanged; Maroh, off %c; May, up 1/ K c. Oats—March, unchanged; May, unchanged. Provisions, weak.

THE Times, starting Monday, is bringing anew puzzle-con-test to Indianapolis—a puzzle and contest combined. • A puzzle, more fascinating than “cross words” and the score of others that haVe swept the country in recent years, because it deals with the news of the day. A contest in which there will be daily cash prizes for successful puzzlers. It is called PUZZLE-HEAD. Here’s the way it’s played: Every day in The Times there are a number of head-lines on news stories called “No. 3 heads.” These consist of two lines of heavy type. They are marked in today’s issue so you can identify them readily. PUZZLE-HEAD consists in taking the No. 3 heads in each

hours while they decided what they had arrested me for, but that’s all right, too. I’m just plain glad to get back. “I’m really getting tob prominent to travel, anyway,” he continued. “I had a fine time, though, especially in San Diego, where lots of people invited me to them. “And say, that Biltmore Hotel out in Los Angeles didn't ask me to get out, either. I just left when the papers started talking about running me out of town. “I bought my tickets under another name, expecting to get a little privacy. “Privacy I There ain’t no such thing. Every time the train stopped sheriffs with great big stars guarded It. At Kansas City

$20,000,000 Worth Yearly Smuggled to Gotham, La Guardia Charges. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—A bootlegging syndicate handling more than $20,000,000 worth of foreign liquor a year has been outwitting the prohibition bureau through use of cancelled custom stamps, Representative La Guardia of New York charged today. He bared details of the ring’s operations, following his offer on the House floor to turn his data over to the treasury. Though New York is the principal port of activity, the said, the same system is in operation at San Francisco and at large ports on the Atlantic and the gulf. The main offices, he said, are at 32 Broadway and in the Knickerbocker Bldg, at Broadway and For-ty-Second St, New York City, La Guardia declined to make public the names of buyers, but he said his photostat! ccopies of orders and deliveries contain names of social, business and civic leaders. He estimated that at least 6,000 cases a week are brought in through New York at a price of S4B for the liquor and S2O extra for delivery. The syndicate, according to La Guardia, employs taxi drivers, its own agents and baggage handlers to cut cancelled custom stamps from trunks after they have left the piers. Empty trunks are then deposited on the piers, supposedly for loading on the vessels alongside, but actually to be filled with liquor from the ships. The cancelled stamps then are pasted on, La Guardia said, and the liquor-laden baggage passes the custom cordons without question. He named, among ships from which liquor is obtained, the Homeric, Majestic, Aquitania and Terengaria of the British Cunard line, and the He De France and Paris of the French line.

HOTEL IS BOMBED; ' DAMAGE IS $20,000

CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—Three persons were injured here today by a bomb explosion in the Haymarkei Hotel. The hotel was nearly wrecked damages being estimated at $20,000. The bomb exploded on the second

GRILLS MIND EXPERT Remus Cross-Examines Alienist on Stand. CINCINNATI, Dec. 17.—George Remus, pleading transitory insanity as a legal excuse for the killing of his wife, today continued a vigorous Cross examination of one of the insanity experts who have declared him sane. Dr. E. A. Baber, alienist, spent an uncomfortable period on the witness stand as Remus asked for definitions of the various terms denoting mental disease. The defendant assumed the position of a professor asking questions of a somewhat hesitant student. Some of the queries advanced by Remus amused the spectators as when he asked Dr. Baber whether Julius Caesar had been considered a lunatic.

PUZZLE-HEAD, A GREAT NEW GAME, WILL START IN THE TIMES MONDAY

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the coppers were so thick they fell over each other. “I like California fine,” Capone continued. "I saw Mary Pickford’s new house, but I liked the old one better. Next time I make a trip I'm going South, though— I think the climate’s better. It rained two days out in California. “Anyway, I’m not going away if the coppers do keep hounding me. I like it here and Tm gonta stay, that’s all.” When he returns to Joliet to stand trial on charges of carrying concealed weapons, Capone said he intended making "a good big donation to the charities of Joliet, Just to show I’m not mad at anybody.” He was released, together with seven companions, under $2,400 bail each.

MURDER TRIAL LACKS JURORS No. 3 Head—See Puzzle Eighty-Nine Rejected at Lloyd Kimble Trial. Bu Times Bnecial DELPHI, Ind., Dec. 17.—Trial of Lloyd Kimble in Carroll Circuit Court, where he is charged with the murder of Daniel Sink, is in adjournment today until Monday morning when examination of twenty-three veniremen remaining of a total of 112 called since the trial opened Tuesday, will be resumed. The four days’ proceedings have resulted in no progress toward obtaining a jury. Many of the eighty-nine examined and rejected for jury service are members of the Dunkard religious sect, tenets of which include opposition to capital punishment and refusal to take an oath. The State is demanding the death penalty, which Is opposed by many of those examined who are not Dunkards. ONCE INDIANS’ CAPTIVE Oldest Native Bom Cass County Woman, 95, Is Dead. Bu Time A Svecial LOGANSPORT, Ind., Dec. 17. Mrs. Mary Barnett, 95, oldest native born Cass County resident, is dead. When only a year old she was stolen by Indians from the pioneer home of her parents, but brought back wthin a short time. since the death of a son, last survivor of her three children, Mrs. Barnett b<='l made her home with her daughter-in-law. Mrs. Cotner Barnett, Sr., north of here.

floor of the hotel building, which once housed a gambling resort. Adjoining buildings and an automobile in the street in front of the hotel also were damaged. The hotel belonged to Jack Zutf. proprietor of a neighboring gambling house, bombed twice within a month. A1 Ferger, clerk was cut by glass and was taken to a hospital. John Sweeney and John Joyce also were cut by glass, but their injuries were considered not serious. Two men were held by police in connection with the bombing, and authorities sought a short heavy set man who ran from the hotel crying, “a bomb! Look out!” Just before the explosion. THIEF PREFERS BOOKS Fountain Pens, Second-Hand Volumes and Cash Stolen. A literary thief broke into the Capitol Book Store, 206 N. Meridian St., Friday night, taking SSO worth of fountain pens, some second-hand books and S2O from the cash drawer. Entrance was made by the rear door, Manager E. S. Blessing reported to police.

day’s Times and “jumbling” them—putting one line of one head with another line of another head —until you have a list of new combinations. Every headline you-manufacture in this way must make sense. It can be ridiculous or ludicrous—in fact, the best PUZZLE-HEADS are humorous ones. In making your list of PUZZLE-HEADS, use No. 3 heads only and only chose in one issue of The Times. You can, however, use the same line as often as you choose in combining it with any other line. Your list will be judged: 1. For humor and cleverness generally. 2. For length. 3. For neatness.

UNDY DRAFTS HIS PLANS FOR NEWAIRTOUR All Countries of Central America Will See Him; Nicaragua First. CALLES TO TAKE RIDE Ocean Flier Goes Up Today With Mexican Notables as Passengers. BY G. t. FINE United fren BtsS Correspondent MEXICO CITY, Dec. 17.—The president and an ex-presldent of Mexico planned to be Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s guests in the air today. Both President Plutarco Elias Calles and former President Alvaro Obregon, who again is candidate for the presidency, had been sent written invitations to fly with the American visitor, it was understood. Lindbergh planned to use a Mexican plane, since the other half of “We”—the Spirit of St. Louis—would not offer sufficient room for the two famous passengers without radical changes In the tonneau. The “American Viking” today planned his route to Central America. The first halt in the flight probably would be Nicaragua, it was said authoritatively. Will Visit Ail Countries Although Nicaragua had not been mentioned yet, Lindbergh apparently intended to fly to all the Central American countries to which he had been invited. Lindbergh’s program for today included the postponed athletic celebration in the national stadium. Some 60,000 school children from the capital were expected to pay their homage to the hero of all Mexico. Calisthenics, national dances and patriotic songs were planned. Final decision on whether the American “ambassador of good will" would win the good will of the Mexican people by attending the bull fight Sunday night in his honor, or if he would be influenced by numerous telegrams from humane societies in the United States, still was undecided. All agreed it was for Lindbergh to decide whether the Charro festival Sunday morning would be the only part of his program tomorrow or if he would go to the fight. , Feels Free to Go Lindbergh himself said he believed he was entirely free to decide, in spite of many telegrams from the United States. Both the aviator and American Ambassador Dwight Morrow have received numerous telegrams of protest. Ambassador Morrow said he felt the decision was up to Lindbergh, who was under no obligations to attend, since the fight was not a part of the official program. The “Flying Colonel” said he felt it was not in the province of anyone in the United States to crticise customs of another country and it was not his business to try to reform the country whose guest he was. After attending the one event in his schedule for yesterday, a visit to the American school, Lindbergh yearned for action. And he found it in flying. Once at the flying field Lindberg took up a Moran monoplane for nearly three hours late in the afternoon. He had many passengers. They included General Alvarez and Ramon Limon, both of the presidential staff; Will Rogers, humorist, and Major Castarejon, Mexican aviator. Mother Going to Mexico Bn United Press DETROIT, Dec. 17.—Mrs. Evangeline L. Lindbergh, mother of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, has decided to accept the invitation of President Calles and spend Christmas in Mexico City with her son. She probably will leave here Sunday or Monday morning, arriving in Mexico City either Friday or Saturday. It was believed she would travel alone in a compartment, although her brother, Charles Land, may accompany her. It will be necessary for Mrs. Lindbergh to obtain a leave of absence from the city high school where she teaches a chemistry class.

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Here’s a nice orchid you might buy your sweetie for Christmas, if you have managed to save SSOO. The flower, the result of fifty years of hybridizing, is being held by Mrs. Harold Lloyd of Hollywood, to whom it was presented by Its cultivators after it won first prize at the Beverly and Pasadena flower shows. It is called the ‘“Cypripedium Marmion.”

SUE DAVIES IN BANK TANGLE AT KOKOMO

1928! Each Saturday The Times mirrors the city’s fraternal life in its weekly Lodge Page. Today this feature includes a list of all conventions of fraternal organizations to be held in Indianapolis in 1928. TURN TO PAGE 2.

LUCID IS SENTENCED Judge Scores Manslaughter Charge in Death. George Lucid, 35, 926 Prospect St., was sentenced to two to twenty-one years in the Indiana State Prison, Friday afternoon by Criminal Judge James A. Collins, after he was found guilty of stabbing Lee D. Carpenter. 1021 E. Minnesota St., Oct. 25. Judge Collins criticised prosecutors for bringing a voluntary manslaughter charge when the evidence warranted a second degree murder allegation, which is punishable with life imprisonment. Deputy Prosecutor Vinson H. Manifold told the court the grand jury indicted Lucid and no one in the prosecutor’s office was authorized to do anything but try the charge. HOGS END WEEK WITH 10-CENT HIGHER TONE Porkers Advance Generally to Top of $8.60. Ending an irregular week at the local stock yards, hogs went up generally 10 cents on the hundredweight today to a top of $8.60, 15 cents below the week’s high point, established Thursday. Receipts were estimated at 5,500 with 316 holdovers. The market was fairly active at Chicago with bidding /steady to strong. The top was $8.55. Receipts were about 5,000, with 4,000 held over. Calves were steady with the newhigh attained Friday and other livestock was nominal with low receipts.

Simply take the No. 3 heads and write out your list on a plain piece of paper. Nothing to clip out —unless, for convenience sake, you wish to clip the No. 3 heads before you start to jumble them. The contest begins Monday. The No. 3 heads in Monday’s Times will be your tools. Your list must be in The Times office by 5 p. m. Thursday. PUZZLE-HEAD is great sport! It’s easy and it’s fascinating! Start Monday to PUZZLE-HEAD for fun and daily cash prizes! Winners will receive $lO daily—ss for the best set of PUZZLE-HEADS; s3Jjor the second and $2 for the third. Complete rules will be printed Monday. They are simple. Watch for them I

Ex-State Treasurer Asked to Pay Back Commissions on Big Deposits. Suit to recover $11,500 from former State Treasurer Ora J. Davies, said to Have been paid him by the now defunct American Trust Company, Kokomo, for keeping large amounts of state funds in that institution, has been filed in Howard Circuit court. Joseph C. Herron and Grover Bishop, receivers for bank, closed by the State bank examiners Sept. 14, filed the complaint. Davies served two terms as State treasurer, from 1920-1924 He is considered a lieutenant of Senator James E. Watson’s Republican faction and managed the campaign of Senator Arthur R. Robinson last year. Obtained Commission The fact that he had received 1 per cent commission for the State deposits first was made public by The Indianapolis Times. A Times representative was called before the Howard County grand jury. The suit charged that Davies colelcted $6,500 from the bank for an average of $165,000 of State money deposited in the bank while he was State treasurer. Davies did not account for the $6,500 as treasurer of State and appropriated the sum to his own use, the suit alleged. -—s About the time he retired from office Davies, with the consent and on the order of the State finance board, increased- the amount of State funds on deposit with the American Trust Company to $225,000, it is charged. Ignores Conference Request From the last of January. 1925, until March, 1927, the bank paid Davies 1 per cent a year on that amount on his representation that he would cause the $225,000 deposit to be withdrawn, if he were not paid, the suit alleged. A total of $5,000.00, $187.50 a month, was unlawfully paid Davies after he left th# treasurer’s office, the receivers charged. The receivers declare they wrote to Davies several weeks ago and informed him of their claim and that they would fine suit, but Davies has ignored their requests for a conference.

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FIRST PLANE REACHES HERE WITH AIR MAIL Service Inaugurated With Little Ceremony; Late From Chicago. FLIES THROUGH SNOW Cincinnati Lieutenant and One Passenger on Initial Trip. Indianapolis’ first air mail plane glided down at the Indianapolis airport at 9 a. m. today, bringing twenty pounds of mail from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and all parts of the country. The plane was an hour and five minutes late, although the trip from Chicago was made in an hour and forty minutes, fifteen minutes less than the regular schedule. It left for Cincinnati at 9:45 a. m. The start from Chicago was delayed from 6 a. m. to 7:20 a. m., awaiting arrival of planes from the east. There was no ceremony at the field to mark the inauguration of the event which fifty years ago would have been beyond the wildest dreams of any Hoosier. Ceremonies This Afternoon The ceremonies will take place this afternoon, when the first north-bound plane of the Cincin-nati-Indianapolis-Chicago air mail route arrives here at 3:45. Lieut. Homer Rader of Cincinnati. 27-year-old reserve flying officer, piloted this morning’s plane from Chicago. John H. S. Stoning of Chicago, Chicago Aviation and Service and Transportation Company, whose plane was used for the first trip was a passenger. The plane flew in snow for sevt, enty-five miles out from Chicago, Rader said. The silver-gray Ryan monoplane, the same type of plane Lindbergh flew to Paris and fame, carried twenty-two pounds and seven ounces, .1,565 pieces of mail, from Indianapolis to Cincinnati and points south. Few at Field It carried thirty pounds to Cincinnati from Chicago. Frank A. Ware, local operating manager for the Embry-Riddle Company of Cincinnati, which holds the Government contract for the air mail route, a few National Guard fliers, airport employes and newspaper men composed the only receptio ncommittee for the arrival - from Chicago. The northbound plane, which arrives here at 3:45, is due to leave for Chicago at 4. The northbound air mail was to be held open until 3 p. m. to permit as many as possible to get mail on. the first ships. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson announced. Bryson was to greet formally this afternoon’s plane, piloted by John Paul Riddle, secretary of the Em-bry-Riddle Company. Luncheon on Schedule The afternoon plane was scheduled to leave Cincinnati at 3:45, Eastern time. It will arrive in Chicago at 5:45. making connections with east and westbound mail planes from that point, so that air mail to any point in the country will be delivered the day after it is mailed here. A luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce at noon began the afternoon's air mail inauguration celebration. Mayor L. Ert Slack, Governor Jackson, and Earl B. Wadsworth, Government air mail service superintendent were to speak.

In the Stock Market

(By Thomson Ss McKinnon) NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Three million share days do not occur often enough to be allowed to slip by without comment. They have in the majority of times been the accompaniment of violent declines. That tljey should now be attained on orderly upturns signalizes the new orof things. Wall Street is no longer merely the financial district. It is now bounded by the two oceans, by the great lakes and the gulf, and doesn’t even stop there. It is an outlet for the tremendous prosperity of the nation and for a demonstration of its belief in the future. Nevertheless the spirit of conservatism should be observed and profittaking after such markets as we have had this week would seem to be advisable. YULETIDE CAUSES FIRE Blaze Caused When Christmas Decorations Drop on Stove. Christmas preparations, for the first time this year, were blamed for a fire today. Decorations, which the children of J. Frank Campbell, 922 N. Tremont St., hung around the house fell on u stove in the living room and started a fire which damaged the house SSOO. A Christmas tree, standing near the house, helped spread the blaze throughout the house. Ralph Campbell, one of the children, is a Times carrier.