Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1930 — Page 9

OCT. 6, 1930

RUM-CRAZED NEGRO SHOOTS GIRL AND 2 MARION COPS

FIRE OF POSSE MEMBER BRINGS DOWN GUNMAN Hip Shattered as He Flees After Attack on Police, Stepdaughter. 150 BULLETS ARE FIRED Stepfather of Lynched Youth's Mate Bitter Over Hanging. £>u T ’mt Svtctal MARION, Ind , Oct. 6 —Two police officers and a Negro girl were wounded here Sunday by a drinkcrazed Negro who also was wounded by a member of a posse which captured him in a cornfield after several gun duels in which more than 150 shots were fired. None of the victims is believed seriously wounded, but officers immediately moved the wounded Negro to the state reformatory at Pendleton for safekeeping to avoid a possible repetition of the trouble which resulted in the lynching of two Negro youth here the night of Aug. 7. The wounded are: Chester Marley, 36, patrolman, three shotgun wounds in back of head and neck. Don Everhart, 30, police lieutenant, shotgun wound in back of right hand. Hezekiah Burden. 47, Negro, right leg fractured by rifle bullet fired my members of posse. Mrs. Marie Carter, 18, Negro, 1404 Madison avenue, Anderson, wound in left arm from revolver fired by Burden. She is a stepdaughter of Burden. Argued Over Lynching Efforts of Mrs. Burden, wife of the gunman, to aid her son, Herbert Cameron, 18. alleged member of the bandit trio which fatally wounded Claude Deetcr and, criminally attacked his girl comparrfon, Miss Mary Ball, is said to have caused an argument with her husband Mrs. Carter, who had come from. Anderson to visit her mother, rebuked Burden for his attitude. He immediately fired a revolver, the bullet striking her just above the left elbow and passing out near the shoulder. Burden followed his wdfe when she. ran from the house. Armed with a revolver and shotgun, the Negro drove her from a neighbor's house, threatening to kill her as soon as he saw a police officer. Starts for Scene Police Sergeant Tony Hennigan, who resides near the scene of the shooting and who was eating his lunch, was informed of the trouble. After requesting that police headquarters be notified, Hennigan, armed with a revolver, started for the Burden home. Mrs. Burden, who saw the officer approaching, ran from the house. Burden immediately opened fire with his. revolver and shotgun and the officer took refuge behind a pile of logs and returned the lire. Two officers from headquarters parked their automobile near the Burden home and started to walk toward the front door, unaware that a gun battle was taking place in the rear of the house, which is situated m the outskirts of the city. Burden saw them approaching and opened fire from a window as they were coming through a small gate. Both of the officers were wounded by the shot and retreated to the police car. Everhart placed his wounded companion in the machine and as they drove aw T ay, Burden fired again, but the shot did not take effect.

Bullets Come Close Fred Gibson, civilian member of the posse, who was armed with a police rifle, narrowly escaped being killed by Burden. Two revolver bullets fired by Burden struck a post in front of Gibson, who was preparing to climb a fence into the field. Gibson took deliberate aim and fired at the fugitive. The bullet struck Burden's right leg near the hip and he fell to the ground. As Gibson approached. Burden attempted to aim his revolver, but the pain from his wound was too great and he fell back. Burden was taken to a hospital where the fracture was reduced and removed to the reformatory in an ambulance. HUNT KNIFE WIELDER Negro Is Sought In Connection With Stabbing of Former Officer. Police today sought. Fred Primus, 1944 Yandes street, on charges of assault and battery .with intent to kill, drunken driving, in connection with the stabbing of Patrolman Martin O'Brien, suspended policeman. following ■an auto accident Saturday Primus' car is said to have collided with O'Brien’s, driven by his son. The other motorist, a Negro, stabbed O'Brien. The policeman was one of eighteen Indianapolis police indicted recently on federal charges of conspiracy to violate liquor laws

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RILEY DAY TO BE OBSERVED 81st Birthday Anniversary to Be Celebrated. Eighty-first anniversary of the birthday of James Whitcomb Riley will be celebrated with a public ceremony at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday at the Riley home on Lockerbie street. Meredith Nicholson, author and friend of Riley’s, will address several hundred school children at the ceremonies. Hugh McK. Landon, president of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association, will preside at the ceremonies. A program will be presented by pupils’ from School No. 9, Announcement was made today that all school children of the city would be admitted at 2 p. m. Tuesday for a tour of Lockerbie home without charge. Special arrangements have been made to care for children visiting the home. Riley died in 1916 He would have been 81 years old Tuesday. HOTEL Ogden Asked to Investigate Conditions in City. Attorney-General James M. Ogden was appealed today to investigate Indianapolis hotels in his role of vice crusader The appeal came from Charles B. Gifford, 1420 Chester avenue, Cleveland, 0., who stated in a letter to the attorney-general that he is a former resident here. “Doubtless you do not remember me, although you should,” the letter states. Ogden admits he doesn’t. Inclosed were two phamplets describing hotel vice conditions which, it is alleged, corrupts bell boys and sometimes the entire staff. Hotels, many of them the more prominent, have become the home of booze parties and commercialized vice, it is alleged. Gifford’s letter alleges that hotel conditions described prevail in Indianapolis and throughout the country.

SEEKS $75,000 FROM RAILWAY FOR INJURIES Indianapolis Brakeman Files Suit for Fall From Box Car. Vaughn M. Jennings. Indianapolis. brakeman, today filed suit for $75,000 damages against the Indianapolis Union Railway Company for permanent injuries allegedly growing out of a fall from a box car at the East street railroad crossing a year ago. Jennings charges fellow employes with neglecting to throw a switch, causing a fast-moving car on which he was standing to crash into a locomotive. He was thrown to the ground, sustaining extensive body injuries, he alleged. The suit was filed in superior court one.

DUTY BEFORE FREEDOM Negro Awaits Sheriff's Return Before Leaying Jail on Bond. B<u Times Svecial SCOTTSBURG, Ind., Oct. 6. George Washington, Negro, indicted for the murder of Edward Pearson, Negro, walked out of county jail here today on SIO,OOO bond, after staying over the week-end “just to help out around the jail.” When bond was provided Washington refused to leave the jail until the sheriff returned this morning. “Gotta take care of the prisoners and deputy sheriffs.” he exAged Man Dies COLUMBUS. Ind., Oct- 6.—Mark M. Morgan, 76, formerly a merchant at Lafayette and Indianapolis, died in the county hospital here following a two weeks’ illness. He came here nine months ago to make his home with an adopted daughter. Mrs. Robert Barnaby. Besides Mrs. Barnaby, he leaves two other daughters, Mrs. Mazo Buyer, Lafayette, and Mrs. William Elliott, Indianapolis.

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Great-grandmother’s enthusiasm for feminine emancipation is no mystery to Miss Esther Wall, 1649 North Alabama street, left photo, who tried out the first cook stove manufactured in Indiana, at the annual all-Indiana industrial show, state fairground The implement is in possession of the Indianapolis Stove Company. In center photo, Miss Gertrude Phillips, 1704 Union street, has a yen for heating appliances these chill October mornings. The auto heater is manufactured by Nob-litt-Sparks Company. Miss Marie Wurstler, 5331 North New Jersey street, is shown in right photo, giving the world a spin or two. The globe is an exhibit of the National Map Company.

BUILDING WILL COSTS3OO,OOO Work Is Under Way on New Coca-Cola Plant. Construction is underway for the new two-story building of the Coca Cola Bottling Company, 860 Massachusetts avenue. The building, with equipment installed, will cost approximately $300,000 A garage has been erected and now is in use as general offices of the company pending completion of the new structure. Work on the main building began Sept. 1 and will be ready for use March 1 The structure will have a. terra cotta front and a basement, in addition to the two floors. Rubush and Hunter are the architects. LAFAYETTE BUS LINE PLEA IS PRESENTED Three Petitions for Route Pending Before Commission. A third petition to establish a bus line between Lafayette and Indianapolis was filed today with the public service commission by Jack Schott, Indianapolis, Hearings now are underway before the commission for abandonment of the T. H., I. & E. interurban line from Lafayette to Indianapolis. The commission is considering two other petitions for permission to begin bus service over the same route. The Greyhound Bus Company and Ward B. Hiner, for the Red Ball Transit Company, are the petitioners.

CITY HEADS STUDYING STREET CAR PLANS Mayor Sullivan to Call Parley of Aids Within 10 Days. Within ten days, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan expects to call a conference of the works board, city controller and corporation counsel for consideration and discussion of the Instill plan for rehabilitation of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, he said today. Copies of the reorganization proposal, as announced last week through Halsey, Stuart & Cos., reorganizat on managers, are being studied by Mayor Sullivan, William L Elder, controller; Edward H. Knight, corporation counsel, and board of works members.

CLEAR OAKIE OF LINK TO WOMAN’S SUICIDE Toledo Coroner Changes Mind About Quizzing Young Actor. B<i United Press TOLEDO, Oct. 6.—Jack Oakie, screen comedian, was free today of ; the possibility in connection with the i suicide of Mrs. Marion Lowry in her , apartment last Thursday morning after returning from a. party at 1 which the screen star was a guest. Coroner Frank G. Kreft told the United Pi ess Sunday night he would not request Oakie to return her* to explain his acquaintanceship with the 30-year-old woman, since he was convinced Oakie only was a casual acquaintance and could not throw any light upon the case. Oakie had been asked Saturday bv the coroner to make a sworn statement regarding details of the party. A formal verdict of suicide was returned in the woman's death today, concluding the investigation. PAGEANT TELLS HISTORY Cast of 400 to Make First Appearance at Sullivan Tonight. Bti Times Special SULLIVAN, Ind. Oct. 6.—An historical pageant of Sullivan county depicting changes in the period from 1812 to the present will be given its first presentation here at 7:30 this evening and repeated at the same hour Tuesday. A stage a half block long will be used. The cast of 400 contains persons from 6 to 60 years of age. Winner of a pageant queen contest will be announced tonight. The Chamber of Commerce and Business and Professional Women’6 Club are sponsors of the pageant. _

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BROWN IGNORES COURTS ORDER Refuses to Pay Assessors’ Fees at South Bend. Director John J. Brown of the state highway department took a step today which may place him in contempt of the St. Joseph circuit court, but by which he expects to save the state some money which he feels that court unjustly has assessed. Brown announced he will refuse to pay $1,950 for appraisals of seventeen properties along State Road 31, north of South Bend, which were brought through condemnation proceedings for $15,090.15 for use in widening the road. “We are going to refuse to pay this appraisers’ bill without a mandamus suit,” Brown declared. “Average cost of appraisals throughout the state is but $5 per appraiser per property. With three appraisers working at South Bend the court would allow them $38.20 each per property appraised. I consider this outrageous in light of the fact that the average of $5 would be high when there are seventeen properties all in a row. We will not pay it without a fight.”

4 KILLED AT RAGES Tragedy Attends Auto Events in Two Cities. Automobile racing caused four deaths in Indiana Sunday, all the victims being spectators. When a wheel was thrown by a car on a speedway at Brazil, it killed Mrs. Charles Wood, 36, Brazil, and Charles Dorsch, 9, Terre Haute, and fatally injured Frank Brunette, 37, Brazil Paul Gaddis, 7, Terre Haute; Ralph Bowen, 28, Carbon, and Ives RusSell, South Bend, were also hurt. The wheel hurtled into the grand stand. Bob Carey, Dayton, 0., driver of the car, suffered only slight injuries. During a race of junk automobiles near Greensburg, Edward Weisner, 16, was killed when a car driven by Orville Bowers skidded and crashed into a fence on which the youth was seated

BUDGET APPEALS TO BE HEARD BY BOARD Hours Are Set by State Tax Commission; Request Wiped Out. Hours for hearings on local budget appeals were set today by the Indiana state tax board commission. The hearings for the sanitary district and civil city will be held respectively at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. Friday. The board wiped out a tax levy request of 10 cents by the trustees of the town of Brooklyn, Morgan county, when it was shpwn that the trustees had sufficient balance to carry on throughout the fiscal year. OUTING ATTRACTS 300 Walton League Members Have Program Sunday at Monticello. Su United Press MONTICELLO. Ind„ Oct. 6 Three hundred fifty pounds of fish and four bushels of potatoes were cooked Sunday to serve more than 300 Illinois and Indiana Izaak Walton League members, gathered here for an outing. Boat racing, surf riding, horseshoe pitching, bait casting and trapshooting were included on the entertainment program. H. H. Evans. Newcastle, president of the Indiana Fish and Game League, talked on Waltonism in the only speech on the program

COPS SHOOT EX-CONVICT Wild Auto Chase in Chicago Ends With Wounding of Fugitive. Bv Urtited Press CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—A wild automobile chase through the west side of Chicago Sunday ended with police shooting Joe E. Jenek, exconvict and parole violator, through the head. He was taken to the Bridewell hospital where it was said he probably would die. r Jobless Man Tries Suicide Bu United Press SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Oct, 6.—C. L. Hobbs, 40, was out of a job with no prospects of getting one. He was also practically penniless. He decided he needed a change of scenery so he and Mrs. Hobbs left their home in New Palestine and drove northward in their automobile. When they reached Shelbyville the automobile engine sputtered and stopped. Hobbs, a garageman when working, investigated. The gasoline tank was empty. So was his pocketbook, but where it should have been he had a revolver. He shot himself. He will recover.

MOUNDS PARK WILL PASS TO STATESYSTEM Transfer Ceremony Will Be Held Tuesday at Anderson. Bu Time* Special ANDERSON, Ind, Oct. 6 Mounds park near here will be transferred to the state of Indiana Tuesday to become a part of the state park system. Evans W. Woollen, Indianapolis banker and first vice-president of the Indiana Historical Society, will be the principal speaker at the program of dedication, beginning at 1 p. m. His subject will be “Monuments of Indiana’s Past.” James J. Netterville, Madison county historian, will preside. Arthur W, Brady, who was receiver for the former Union Traction Company of Indiana, which once owned the park, will speak on “The History of Mounds Park and the Mound Builders.” Acceptance by Governor Wilson Newton, president of the Madison county board of commissioners, will present the deeds for the 256-acre tract as the representative of the county. A speech of acceptance on behalf of the state will be made by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Richard Lieber, director of the state department of conservation, will speak on Indiana’s parks. The park contains what is regarded as one of the most important prehistoric earthworks in the state. Located on the high ground overlooking the west fork of White river less than three miles northeast of Anderson on state road 67, is a great circular mound and smaller earth heaps are recognized as highly important in the state’s history.

Purchased by County For many years the mound area was the property of the traction company which has maintained an amusement park. Madison county has purchased the entire area. Mounds Park is the first of the prehistoric monuments of the state to pass to control of the department of conservation. With the general awakening of interest in the early history of America, it has been predicted that the park within a few years will be an important mecca for sightseers. An illustration of the largest mound in the park is given in S. C. Shetone’s book, “The Mound Builders.” Great forest trees surrounding the mounds and growth from them pove the great anticquity of the earth works. The largest mound is in the form of a perfect circle with an opening to the south inclosing another equally perfect circular mound. The entire diameter of the circle is 384 feet.

SUIT AT GREENCASTLE MAY SET PRECEDENT Collection of Insurance Premiums Paid as Favor Sought. Ejl Times Svecial GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 6.—A suit believed without precedent in Putnam circuit court has been filed by Samuel C Sayers against Morton Wells, a Bainbridge merchant, seeking collection of $48.40 paid as premiums for insurance. Attorneys say that the practice of insurance companies in accommodating policy holders by keeping premiums recorded as paid, is not unusual, but whether a company can force payment of such advanced premiums is apparently a matter that has not been ruled upon In a general denial to the suit's allegations, Wells declares he is not at fault, and in addition asks SSOO damages. He alleges that as a result of the suit, patronage of his grocery and meat market has been reduced.

'BLUE LAWS’ EVADED Show, in Two Towns, Uses Ruse to Defeat Sunday Ban. Bv United Press ORANGE, N. J„ Oct, 6—Twelve ! hundred persons were packed into one section of the Palace theatef here Sunday while 900 seats, on the other side of the auditorium, remained unoccupied. This condition was made necessary by the fact that the town of East Orange, in which half the theater lies, has a law against Sunday movies. The town of Orange recently revoked its Sunday blue law. SCHOOL MEN TO MEET Nine Cities to Be Represented at Nashville Tuesday. Bn Times Svecial NASHVILLE. Ind., Oct 6.—A meeting of the School Men’s Club, composed of principals and teachers in schools of nine central Indiana cities, will be held here Tuesday. Superintendent detriments of the Nashville schools is arranging the program, which will include selections by old time fiddlers. A president and secretary will be elected during the session. WOMAN IS TRAIN VICTIM Suicide Theory Discounted in Death of Miss Marie Ostheimer, A patient in Kneipp sanitarium for nervous diseases at Rome City for five days, Miss Marie Ostheimer, 33, daughter of Louis Ostheimer, 1605 East Michigan street, was killed by a Pennsylvania railroad freight train near the sanitarium today. She was walking across the tracks and apparently did not hear the train. Coroner Harold Shew dis* counted suicidal theories, and said the tragedy was an accident. Flames Destroy Garagre and Truck A two-story garage and a truck were destroyed by fire of undetermined origin at the W. D. Huffman pickle plant, 320 West St. Clair street Saturday night. Loss was $3,000,

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Not Nero Rome Fired by Hot Dog Stand, Modern Aesop Tells Audience.

BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY NERO never burned Rome at all. That fire started at a hot-dog stand at the Circus Maximus and the anti-Nero politicians hung it on the old man. The truth was that Nero was only fiddling to arouse his emotions to a. high pitch so he could write a great poem. At the time the chief of the Roman fire department, Flaccus Cutrius, was a racketeer. He would demand down payments from householders before he would put out their fires. On a dull day he might even drum up a little business with a torch. In modem times, Oct, 9, 1871, occurred the great Chicago fire. Here also scientific historians have been at work. They conclude that Mrs. O’Leary never had a cow, or if she did she didn’t have a lantern and if she did have a lantern it was out of oil the night the fire started. At any rate she is exonerated of the charge of starting the $168,000,000 conflagration which cost 200 lives. # tt o AND all of the great fires of history are laid largely to one supreme source—carelessness. In some such manner as the above. Z. C. Sanderson, head of the educational division of the office of State Fire Marshal Alfred E. Hogston, is going about the state this week “debunking” great fire stories and driving home the fact that carelessness is the great cause and can be prevented This contribution to fire prevention week, which is held annually on the anniversary week of the great Chicago fire, is to be given by Saunderson at Clinton, Kokomo. Peru, Ft. Wayne, Connersville and Greenfield Miss E. F. Jacques, assistant educational director, is handling the talks in the schools. tt a tt “TT seems that Nero did not burn X Rome at all,” Sanderson tells his audience. “For ages and for some reason, I suspicion political since such reasons are best understood in a republic, this charge of arson has been hung on Nero. “It hardly seems quite fair to the old fellow when after all he was trying his best to be a great poet. “I am told that the records show the 'origin of the great fire of Rome to be entirely different. It seems they were having one of those great spectacles, or what we would call today a frolic in the coliseum, and the fire actually started in a hot dog stand just outside, along the Appian Way. “There have been a lot of things started in a hot dog stand since that time and so I believe we should blame the great fire in Rome to a hot dog stand instead of Nero.

a tt tt “X TOW in Rome under Nero, the JIN fire department was under Chief Flaccus Curtrius. It appears that this gentleman had a splendid eye for business and probably had a monopoly on fire prevention in Rome. He responded in person to all fires. Reaching the place he took up a stragetic position in front of the burning building and then would barter with the owner over the price of extinguishment. “The longer the fire burned, the harder it was to put it out, and consequently, the higher the price. When business was dull, Flaccus would quicken the fires of Rome with a fire of his own kindling. “Here you see that Chicago really does not have anything on ancient Rome, and that Flaccus after all had quite a ‘racket.’ The authorities finally realized his breach of trust and his efforts to increase business was his undoing “Flaccus was replaced with a volunteer fire department of 12,000 members,'’

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cated Tuesday with Patrick Cardinal Hayes of the New York diocese officiating. He will arrive here Tuesday morning from New York in the private car of George McDonald and will go directly to Notre Dame. University officials will escort him about the campus and to St. Mary’s college for inspection tours. In the long list of Catholic leaders who will attend the dedication rites will be Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Englishman of letters, who will give a six weeks' course of lectures at the university. The Rev. Charles L O’Donnell, president of the university points out that the new building fulfills a need for expansion in that branch of the university that has been long felt.

ARSON BLAMED IN THIRD FIRE Factory at New Albany Burns With SIOO,OOO Loss. Bu United Press NEW ALBANY. Ind . Oct. 6 Increased guards were placed about several New Albany factories and retail places today as authorities pronounced the third fire within a week, which caused SIOO,OOO loss to the Wood Mosaic Company plant, to be of incendiary origin.. Loss within the past few days has exceeded half a million dollars, and it is generally believed that all fires were incendiary. Harmon Young, night watchman at the mosaic plant, reported to police an hour before the fire was discovered, that he had been shot at while passing from one building to another. An inspection of the plant at that time revaled nothing wrong. Police believe a firebug, perhaps a disgruntled workman, to be responsible. They had a report that a man had attempted to set fire to Indiana Veneer Panel Company plant Sunday.

POPULATION LISTING SUIT IS OVERRULED Houston Loses in Effort to Block Atlanta Census Move. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Judge Frederick L. Siddons today overruled in district supreme court the application of the city of Houston, Tex., to intervene in the suit of Atlanta, Ga. ( which is seeking to have its population listed as 360,692 instead of the 270,367 figure reported by the bureau, Siddons said he did not see ho Houston interests would suffer in any way by Census Director Wiliam M. Steuart’s refusal to recognize “greater Atlanta” in official census tabulations. Houston’s objection was based on the fact that listing of Atlanta at the larger figure would displace it as second city of the south.

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ABANDONING OF ELECTRIC LINES BEINGjPPOSED Martinsville and Crawfordsville Striving to Retain Car Service. Proposals to abandon service on two divisions of the Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company will be discussed at two hearings this week. At Martinsville today a hearing is in progress on a proposal to end service on the line connecting that city with Indianapolis, and Thursday a hearing will be held at Crawfordsville on a proposal to junk the line between Crawfordsville and Indianapolis. Not only Martinsville residents, but those of Mooresville, Brooklyn and other points are expressing opposition to abandonment to Jere West, member of the Indiana public service commission, conducting the hearing. Forty employes of the division live in Mooresville. and it is estin*ated that $40,000 is paid them each year in wages, which the business men are loath to lose. It is also pointed out that five cars daily carry mail. Loss of taxes to Morgan county is also another item listed by opponents of abandonment. A hearing on the plan to abandon the Crawfordsville division will open at 10 a. m, Thursday. In opposition to abandonment, special committees of the Chamber of Commerce and city council will appear at the meeting, backed by a delegation of business men of the city.

PROBATION PRAISED AS PRISON REFORM Extension of Parole System Urged by Wickershaw AgentExtension of the parole and probation system are outstanding needs of Indiana penal institutions, according to Winthrop D. Lane of New York, who is here conducting a survey for the Wickersham commission appointed by President Hoover. Several penal institutions of the state already have been visited by Lane. He pointed out that many more parole agents are needed in field work and that adult probation is in its primary stage in this state. Lane is a native of Ft. Wayne and the son of the late Chester T. Lane, for many years principal of the old Ft. Wayne high and manual training school BROWN TO TAX PARLEY Highway Chief to Confer With Ohio Group on Levy. Director John J. Brown of the state highway commission will go to Columbus, 0., Wednesday to confer with an Ohio legislative committeeand a committee from the Ohio State Chamber of Commerce on proposed tax law changes in that state, Brown formerly was chairman of the Indiana state tax board and created a reputation as a tax authority. Upset Not Serious If System Gets This Help When you're out-of-sorts, headachy, dizzy, bilious, with coated tongue, bad breath, no appetite or energy—don’t worry. It’s probably constipation. Take a candy Cascaret tonight and see how quickly your trouble clears up No more headache; no gas on stomach or bowels. Appetite improves; digestion is encouraged. Take another tomorrow night and the next night. Get every bit of the souring waste out of your system. Then see how bowel action is regular and complete. Cascarets are made from cascara. which doctors agree actually strengthens bowel muscles. Ten cents at all drug stores.—Advertisement

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