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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-14
Rain There Was and Plenty of It When
Rainmaker Got Busy With His Stunt

Bill includes a Charles Puffy
comedy, Aesop Fable, a news reel
and American Harmonists.
At the Colonial all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-14
FORD STARTS ON SHIPS
Work OF Dismantling Boats Bought
From Government Started.

BIZ Times Special
DETROIT-The task Of conv 1T
ing 200 wartime vessels into auto
mobiles and tractors has been
started at the Fordson plant as
workmen began dlsmantling the
ships Henry Ford purchased from
the Government for $1,706 900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-14
PROTEST GAMBLING BAN
Italians Fear Tourists VIII Not Go
TO Health Resorts.
BIZ Times Special

BID IfWfS NDcCfdT
ROME, June 14.-Italian health
driven away by a bill suppressing all
gambling. Senator luigi protested
to the Italian upper house that seri.
Gus business losses would result If
the measure passed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-14

Sometimes woman is so considerate she won't
kick if her husband has to work three four nights
a week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-14

Detroit woman who failed at suicide three
ing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-14

I bravely 10 solve the awful traffic
mess, but sometimes it seems hope
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Evening star., 1926-06-06

At 25 wears old. Richard Hal
hburton. finds himself with Il
wealth of experience gained from
O. vagabond tour OF the world. the
author of an entertaining book re-
counting. his travels and sue
cessful lecturer. And all because
he. chose TO follow his romantic in
clinations rather than accept
de luxe zip offered by his family
when M was graduated from
Princeton.
For he preferred the poetic to
the prosaic, and sought the heall.
tiful, the joyous. and the ro
mantle" In this spirit he scaled
the Matterhorn: then hoped TO
climb to the guarded peak Of Gi
braltar: then TO spend the night
on top. of the oldest pyramid And
finally. realizing dream Of wears,
he passed one moonIit night in and
by the ethereal tomb of Tai
Nahal.
These experiences have heen re
lated in two preceding installments.
CNhers follow in this article and
40 succeeding ones.
AS this article begins. we find
Mr. Halliburton at a littla roastal
town on the Malay Peninsula pre-
pairing to cross that strip at it's
narrowest part. on the way to
Bangkok
Evening star., 1926-06-06

knowing nor caring what happened
TO the enemy, hurried forward a.
fast as my very weak knees could
carry me In pursuit OF the guide. who
during the entire neiodrana, had
been plodding farther and farther
ahead blissfully ignorant Of the NOR
tai combat raging behind him.
did, not get very far. The reaction
that always follows petrffying fright
suddenly seized me. All strength
evaporsted: my head swan dizzily: my
legs gave way. and crumpled up in a
convenient mud puddle. But, oh,
what nice mud il was, what lovely
rich brown mud. 1t oozed through
my fingers: ! could feel its warmth
and sickness.
The rain had begun to fall again. 1t
trickled in gentle rivulets down my
prostrate nose--sweet i2Lin--so clean
and cool--and the idiot coolie--he was
standing over me with "a puzzled ex-
pression--what a faithful, amicable
old hoy, Beautiful jungle-beautiful
world--beautifu life
The third day of this desperate
struggle was about To close. Becon-
ing impatient az the elusiveness of
our destination. ] turned aside from
our route, and with what little
strength had left. fought my way up
hillock, the height of which gave
me a commanding view of the east.
| hoped to find the ocean. our goal,
and had ii not been visible I should
not have had the courage to move
another foot---hut there il was. not
half q mile ahead, and the railroad
close to the shore. The sight of the
undiscovered Pacific. after his strdg-
gle across the pathless Tsthmus of
Panama, never gladdened Ba1boa's s
eyes more than the sight of the old.
old China Sea after my struggle
across the submerged 1sthmus of
Siam delighted mine. nor was Co
lumbus more thrilled at the cry of
Land than | nj my own cry Of
Ocean
1t was rather d. noisy railroad trip
northward from Chumpon. We passed
through Bansatore, Bangatang, Bang
Peunom. Bang Bang. and finally into
the loudest Of the bangs. Bangkok.
The American consul and the secre-
tary to the legation were both Prince
ton graduates. and, learning that my
alma mater WAS theirs, they gave me
the key of the city. Through them
made the acquaintance of the Amer.
ican minister and his charming wife,
and as the protege of this hospitable
family held an open sesame to official
society in the capital.
After enjoying the colorful life Of
that city for 10 days, climbed aboard
a French coastal steamer~~once more
a vagrant. once more a, romanticist in
pursuit of new skylines. Malay hor-
rors were forgotten, Bangkok's hospi-
tality put away.
New and wonderful territory lay be-
fore me- was on the threshold of a
spectacle that alone made all had en-
dured worth while; ] was soon to be-
come one of those god-favored mortals
Evening star., 1926-06-06
Aerial Bicycle May Soon Be Perfected
AS Result of Promising Experiments

spot where il is d part of the appd
ratuS.
Such air-propellei' gearings as have
been examined appear to be often III
geniouS. At the moment when the
wheels quit the earth the pedal force
is thrown onto the air propeller by
means of an easily worked hand lever
Considerable force is thus gathered OIL
the air. AS matter OF fact. both mo
tor boats and rolling vehicles on lsnd
have been propelled by such attack on
the air alone 1t would not be suffi
cient. however. to work up the rolling
speed at ~ 1-3 miles per hour neces
sary to make the planes take hold OF
the air and find support thereon.
Others have no air propeller at ali
in analogy to the motorlesS airplanes
Where the latter get support from
height and on lifting winds. the air
bike gets the same by this rolling
speed on earth-and coming down to
bump the earth again. which makes
the skim.
When the machine is thus without
an air propeller it can nevertheless
take unexpectedly long skins by
rolling down hill--and even get some
thing like the motorless airplane's fiy
ing movement when able to roll swift
ly down hill and mount against the
wind.
1t is difficult of course. to work up
rising speed when rolling against the
wind on the fiat earth: but Henri9uet.
on the parade ground at Issy. is said
to rise rolling with the wind. then
turning round in whole or i'll part
when iii the air. obtains the motorless
airplane's flying for a little bit Of 4
while-before he capsizes. which regu
larly seems to happen.
Poulain. who has an air propeller,
tries to breast the wind The seeks
wind: and when he has the strength
to rise and does not capsize his am
bition is to keep on breasting the wind
by air-propeller force with his pedals.
If he could once get we'll started. this
way, he might continue to swing
ahead on the air. who knows?
Who knows? Two years ago, the
roto-motor ship seemed a wild story
Both Of them df you look back) seemed
wilder than the aerial bicycle.
The Peugeot Decametre prize, they
say, could be won tomorrow by more
than one of the eXperimenters em-
ployed by the great constructors. Bur
which would give away their plans for
10000 francs-less than $3.50?
The aerial bicycle, they say, is pr'ac
tically a success as a wildly populsr
Skinner" in any case. The diff
Guilty, 1t IS claimed, is to find some
thing in it that will support a patent.
OF course. they will bring it out even
tually anyway. probably by agree
ment. But they would hate to be
without patent.
This is why no prize of a, few thou
sand francs can make the great con
structors hurry.
The aerial bicycle is its own prize.
Purses are OF no consequence. The
real thing Is the "skimmer''--to patent
1t and sell it everywhere. for Henry
to skim over the good roads!
Evening star., 1926-06-06
Explorer in jungle Finds Himself Near Death From EnraSeC

Ed upon the prostrate 1nagnihcence
and suffocated all but a, few of the
most indomitable giants.
OF the remaining buildings the
Temple of Bayan is in a class of in
terest by itself. MlitiIated, over.
thrown. the lodgment for a forest of
trees and vines, it is still the most
original and fantastic temple in the
world. Formerly 1t contained 81 tow
ers, each faced near the top Of an
four sides. with a great carved coun-
tenance Of Brahma feet high.
Although many of the faces are lost.
number remain, and the sight OF
them. looking calmly out to the -four
quarters of Heaven as passive as
Sphinxes, is weird and wonderful. The
cracks and yawns i'll the joints OF
the stones upon which they are carved
give each of them a different and con-
.orted expression, some wry, some
smiling, some evil. Lianas have crept
across the eye of one; lichens AMI
moss have blinded another.
They peered at me from the tree.
tops; they pursued me with their scru-
tiny like a bad conscience, no mattes
where l tried TO escape. Stamped with
the wisdom OF a thousand years, they
seemed to read my puny soul and
mock the awe of them that rested
there.
Slowly and wonderingly / climbed
about these fabulous ruins. The
sun set beyond the western jungle
tops, and before l realized that day
had gone twilight enveloped me.
Every bird became hushed: the faint
est breeze seemed to hold it's breath,
Not even O. cricket broke the pail Of
silence that sank upon this mighty
corpse.
From the shadows, death and Oh
iivion crept forth to seize the CITY
from the retreatinG sunshine: ghosts
drifted beside me as J moved ami
dreamed through the gathring dark
ness. Loneliness-loneline al!
this stupendous graveyard OF ma n no
monument, stood--the only living
human being.
copyright 1929
Evening star., 1926-06-06

axle and thus describe. in sinking
downward, an arc the center Of whose
circle is the hub of the front wheel.
When the pilot thinks he has the
necessary rolling speed on the ground
tabout 10 yards per second). he slips
a hand-lever attached to the handle
bar-which shoots open the bolt hold
ing the bicycle frame on the back
wheels hub. With jerk Of the
launches. he makes it slip off, frame
and saddle sinking under him and him.
self with them. The whole apparatus
except the wheels themselves) being
Of a piece, it pivots OH the hub of the
front wheel. dragging the planes back
with an upward slant-the slant de-
sired to favor the attack on the air.
and SO on.
Collot was the first man to camou.
fiage his gearings with pasteboard.
Evening star., 1926-06-06

Now, nearly all do it, 80 that impor.
tant details cannot be easily learned
by rivals
Almost none of the trials are pub
licly seen. The men seek garages on
little-used macadain roads of the Paris
suburbs and make every effort to
avoid inspection. 1t has even been
said that "a mechanical novelty has
been found" but that the inventors
are mot yet able to handle 1t success
fully" Another is claimed to be
''skimming." by means of "his third
and fourth pedals (which indicates
second set. geared directly to the air
propeller.
Regularly. when an outline plan of
an aerial bike is published (photo-
graphs are entirely discouraged), the
air propeller is merely indisated in the
Evening star., 1926-06-06

most magical array Of stone tapestry
on earth.
1t is this proximity that lends the
greatest enchantInent to the gigantic
temple. From afar Angkor. with its
ascending rows Of colonnaded gal
leries, it's hundreds Of elaborately
barred windows. it's labyrinth of
roofs, steps, cupolas. towers. looks
more Ike a mirage than a reality.
Only close at. hand can one fully
appreciate the inconceivable intricacy
end beauty OF its details and orna-
| ments. The Egyptians might have
raised this vast pile Of stones in
place, but only the Khymers could
ever have executed the carvings.
| Every inch of the wonderful
wrought structure is covered with
finely chiseled decorations.
lOF the many Angkor wonders the
most wonderful is the bas-relief
| that stretches unbroken for a. half
mile around the second terrace. Pro
| tected from the weather by a gal
lery. It has withstood the ravages Of
| time and is as vivid and fresh todav
as 1t was 700 years ago. One could
spend weeks before this great stone
] picture and not see it all, since there
are fully $4,000 figures chiseled upon
| ii in such inextricable confusion ones
head begins to swim from examining
| them.
| Some day the artistic world will
! recognize the Khymers as the greatest
artists that ever Iived-though per-
haps they never lived. Perhaps they
| were angels, as the Siamese insist.
| descended from heaven to carve this
superhuman work
| A flight of steps worn almost to "A
slide leads from terrace to terrace, and
| into the galleries. through which one
| could walk all day and never retrace
| ones steps. They We're once the scene
| of great activity; they are silent now
| except for the endless screech and
whir of a million bats that swarm i'll
l the black recesses OF this desolate
building.
| Angkor Vat. after all is only the
greatest and best preserved Of a vast
array Of magnificent sandstone struc-
lures once inclosed in the city Of AnG-
| kor Thorn, which in the days Of its
| glory had several million people and
was the luxurious capital Of mighty
| empire. The number and dimensions
of the city's ruins are staggering
and, oh. how melancholy, how in
describab1y desolate.
How was It possible for such race
as the Khymers to disappear 80 abso-
lutely? Did it happen in a day? Was
this Heavenly city, with its vast pOpu'
lation. its armies, its palaces, Its
might ard glory, surprised by its
enemies and destroyed overnight by
the sword?
What diabolical wrath was spent
upon it, No sooner had the roar OF
tunbling bsttlements died away than
that Unsuitable fiend. the jungle, rush
Evening star., 1926-06-06
New Hair Measures.
THE human hair may now be me,

THE human hair may now be meas
ured and classed as accurately as
an automobile part. Charles Nessler
of New York. president of the Ameri
can Master Hairdressers' Association
exhibited at their convention recent,
two machines, one called metre
scale" and the other an adjustable
square"
The adjustable square detects the
quantity of hair on the head with
great accuracy. The normal human
head, the instrument shows, has
from 100 to 100 square inches Of hair
covering the scalp. The number of
hairs varies from a mere 100000 up
to 100000, depending upon the tex
ture. Human hair grows at the rate
OF half an inch per month.
The fnetrescale afialyzes the quality
Of the hair. Tt has shown that ohemi-
cally the composition of human hair
has a striking similarity to wool, and.
like wool, 1t shrinks. This machine
detects the rate of shrinkage, which
enables the permanent waver to tell
what kinds Of hair can and what can
not be waved.
Evening star., 1926-06-06
Paris Said to Be Getting
Coffee From Philippines

tastes. They say it is too strong and
gets on their nerves.
This is the reason given by my cof-
fee blender for using so much Brazil
ian coffee. Porto Rico is grand" he
says. but it is too strong alone ~
which is as it may be. At the World
Fair of 1900 i remember that the
Guatemala pavilion served us the cof.
fee OF that country, ground fresh, with
nothing but pure water. boiling,
poured over it. And it was not black.
but golden, and it was most decep-
lively strong. 1t kept also the aroma
which Americans desire.
But what about Sainar coffee which
believe in without seeing the dis
tinct berries
A very scientific German statistical
book tells me quite wonderful things
about our country's foreign expansion
There are eight United States foreign
possessions
(a) Territories--Alaska.H Hawaii.
b) Colonies-Porto Rico. Virgin Is
lands, Panama Canal Zone, Philippine
Islands, Guam. Tutuila Group (Samoa).
For the Philippines, I find that there
are 1888 islands thus called. only 2.441
or which have names Of their own.
Samar Is one OF these, with IL, $50 in
habitants. Are they really taking
time from their sunny existences to
grow coffee and send It to Paris?
The German statistician does not
mention it. He says simply that the
principal exports Of the Philippine
Islands. Jumped together. are, in order
of iniportance: Sugar, coco oil. Manila
hemp, cotton, enbroideries, fruits and
tobacco and cigars these are sold to
France by a Spanish company. No
coffee-unless it comes under the head
Of fruits and they, all told, amount
only to bare 81 900 a year.
Perhaps some one has started doing
something in the East Sea Island Of
Sanar. II would be variety from the
South Sea Island craze of our paint
ers and book writer's.
One chief exporter of Porto Rico
coffee he is a Spaniard who has al
ways lived among gAmericans--crosses
my path in Paris often. He will tell
me whether there lis coffee from
Samar. For the good renown of my
countiyfnen in the Philippines, be
heve there is. and that we drink L..
hisnAsdN In Paris, a N
Evening star., 1926-06-06
PARIS, May 81.


TIME bright man who brings NE
two-pound packages of burnt
coffee berries--that is. not
L ground--regularly every Satur.
day has given me blow under
the fifth rib. 1t is news. if true-at
least to me-and I sat through the
negotiations Of Paris which gave lis
control" of the Philippines and
''ceded" to US Porto Rico definitely.
He said: This is q new blend. 1t
is Santos chat is, the Brazilian coffee,
which is at the base Of all coffee drunk
in France, except for the patrons of
very dear marks). Martinique 0hat is,
the West Indian Island which France
has owned and colonized and assimi-
lated for nearly 800 years.. Porto Rico
(Which is United States West Indies)
and Sanar."
''Samar coffee? Where does that
come from? / never heard of it,
''Oh, somewhere off therein Amer
ica."
''Samar is not in America. 1t is one
Of the Philippine islands"
Yes. that's it. But the Philippines
are American, too. A shipload came
to Havre with that coffee for our COM
pary."
ANOW, A. uidy Adtc uccil d piIdILOTl
ship of the Paris coffee runners i'm
agination in his efforts to please his
customer. Coffee is a tropical fruit;
the Philippines are tropical: Philippine
tobacco comes to France by the ship
load--why not coffee?
The French are great coffee drink
ers. more universally 80 than Alneri-
cans. who sometimes drink tea.
Michelet. the canny historian, said
that there would have been no French
revolution If the French had not been
drinking 50 much coffee.
French coffee usually exasperates
American newcomers. For the early
breakfast the liquid coffee Of the day
before is reboiled with the water that
is poured over the fresh-ground coffee
in the filter, and often chickory is put
in to boil with the rest. This gives
the dark molasses color and the light
bitterness which is liked. and deceives
the unwary into thinking that the cof.
fee is strong. French servants often
refuse to drink the coffee made for
kheig EnGlleM aAa 1Amaglcan Amn1awsenl
Evening star., 1926-06-06
Perpetual Electrifcation.

IELECTRIETCATIO that lasts ter
II years-perhaps forever-haS beer
achieved by a Japanese physicist, Prof-
Mototaro Eguchi. at Toxic. lie has
taken a simple wax mixture. melted
it. and allowed it to harden while III
a strong electric field between two
metal plates, with the result that the
wax cake retains a. strong electric
charge permanently Some of these
cakes have kept their charge since
1919. and show no signs of losing ii
A complete reartangement of the
atoms I'm the wax is the secret Of this,
Prof. Eguchi believes. This NAV
cause important changes in the theory
Of the atom. Some of the wax Cakes
have retained a surface charge of
100 900 volts to the square inch.
Evening star., 1926-06-06

- days and nights the monsoon
had not let mp for as many
1 hours. Yet IL was in this food
of water that ] had planned
10 cross the peninsula through practI-
Cally virgin jungles., without map
compass or interpreter.
My plan seemed suicidal: the three
white citizens Of Victoria Point insist
ed that il would prove SO. To roIubat
their arguments | took advantage Of
every nomentary respite from the
downpour to draw their attention to
the fact that at last the rain had
stopped.
Then Just as had screwed my cour-
age to the sticking point the heavens
would open up for greater lombard
ment than ever and drown out my
resolutions. However. / had come too
far now to so back. The railroad to
Bangkok was only 80 miles away
Rangoon. 600. And So. soundly damu-
ing my predirament the while. | de
clared war on the elements.
l procured TWO boatmen and Il sam
pan, which in Malas is nothing more
than a big dugout decked with hoard
rooted with a low arched mat OF 0alm
leaves and propelled by the wind.
Provisioned with a dozen bananas |
pushed off. followed by the good
wishes of the entire white community,
and with the aid Of sail oars and tide
in "a hours reached the headwsterS of
the river at place called Taplee. on
the Siamese side. 40 miles from Vic.
toria Point and Az miles from t'hltm-
pom, the railroad station on the East
ern shore.
My boatmen. having deposited me
i'm this dripping wilderness. sailed
home, and I was left in the heart of
the peninsula. | found the village
chief. and after long struggle con
veyed TO him the fact that ! wanted
tO cross TO Chumpon.
1t is not safe he replied. hr indi
eating water mp to his ncrk Then |
pantomilned an elephant. He laughed
In derision and shook his head. IN turn
pantomiming the elephant sinking in
mud mp to its hubs. Even 80. there
could be no turning back NOW. and |
determined to go on il II MAS the last
thing l did on earth.
After two DAYS OF failure. | procured
the village idiot as guide for IS tabout
three weeks wages, who was willing
10 risk his neck for such fortune.
ON the third morning. in the hardest
rain that had yet fallen, we set out
along path thar made a traNeStN Of
the name.
While a century ago there had been
cart road along the route. several
decades past il had been smothered
hy the jungle and all but obliterated
by floods. From in the morning till
In the afternoon my guide and [
Evening star., 1926-06-06

minded way. Not 10 minutes before
! had leaned upon it too heavily and
1t had split half in two, leaving q
sharp, splinter-like end.
was still carrying the upper half
from force of habit, though 1t was
too short for service. Notsknowfng too
we'll what was happening, I clutched
the broken end Of the cane, and, sum-
moning all my strength, struck at the
tender neither side of the cobra's swol-
len hood. The blow went true. knock.
ed the reptile from my ankle. and
gave me q chance to beat a strategic
retreat.
Once freed from that poisonous ern-
kepe r dsWae6 AAtAA A06 uMehM
Evening star., 1926-06-06

fought our way yard by yard through
that clutching jungle.
TIA sxln poured in sheets without
ceaNng; every gully had become a
torrent and every stream a river. We
were In mud and water up to our
knees at every step, stumbling over
roots. tripped by creepers, thrusting
aside bamboo, falling. slipping, half
drowned
The Siamese guide fortunately knew
the trail, both where 1t existed and
wheFe IL did not exist. He knew what
he was doing, for just at dark we
came upon a. small group Of jungle
dwellings in o. clearing.
AbOub nxF @0qen s,at5Nns tdAaaess9
Evening star., 1926-06-06
Oil Keeps Eggs Fresh.

RATHING eggs in oil is the latest
method for keeping them fresh
and sterilized, according to reports
from the General Electric Company.
Eggs at the rate of 36D, 200 pei. 10-hour
day are passed through a bath of hot
oil having a temperature of 235 de
grees Fahrenheit. The oil is said to
All the pores in the eggsheil and Dre-
'MDnk m1n HfwaH dasaeorfn3s
Evening star., 1926-06-06

who had been granted the privilege.
granted so few. of looking upon
Angkor.
X " X X
FOR two days and nights the little
ex.yacht that plies between Bang
kok and Saigon carried me as a deck
passenger "a misnomer, as a French
merchant invited me to share his first
class cabin along the coast of Indo-
China.
Discriminating at the little port of
Kampot, / spent a night on the beach,
and next day covered 140 miles in q
NOTORIOUS over magnificent rUCk
LzaeAA thEnngM capEanua4 alAAEnektane