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New Britain herald., 1926-02-27

There is q lot of truth in that saying. There is so. If you don't be- lieve it you ask Mr. Mocker the Mocking Bird. It almost always hap pens that people who are fond of playing jokes on other people sooner or later play joke on the wrong one. That is what happened to Mir. Mocker,
 Mir. Mochcr had fooled Sammy Jay by making Sammy think that another Jay had come to the Green Forest. However, M0Cker was wise
New Britain herald., 1926-02-27
Dr.Tr.lesElixir The True EamilyLaxative

Mrs. F. E. Smith, III Huntington Ave, Boston, wrote, "I have been taking pr. True's Elixir for constipa- tion and find 1t to be more effective than anything I ever used"
 You know the symptoms of chronic constipation; Sour stomach, belch- Ing, offensive breath, heavy, duff eyes, constant headaches, and eener-. al out-of-sorts, arouchy feeling. Let Dr. True's Elixir bring you relief. Family size sl.2o; other sixes sNc and 40c.
 Successfully used for Ouer s years
New Britain herald., 1926-02-27
nL.GIN nl.EI. InnAN

HENRY RAND, 55, business man. is found murdered in d cheap hotel h HDaf,on rotlcr find u "oman's hauilicrohiefuud the stub ot q yellow theatcr ticket,
 JANET RAND, hS daughter breaks her engagement with BAR ltl COLNl%, because of the dis grace JIMMY RAND his son. goes 10 Bridgeport where the thrator is. The stnb is traced 10 THOMAS
New Britain herald., 1926-02-27

Castors screwed in the corners of 2 board q foot square make an ex- cell"nt wagon for moving about q pail of water Whcn scrubbirg or cleaning
New Britain herald., 1926-02-27
Your Constipation Can Be Relieved

Take it fin hand today. Clean out your bowels with the pure quality herb laxative used for over seventy five years.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-27
Mocker Plays a Joke Once Too Often
Ky Thornton w. Burgess

Every joker, soon or late, Once too often leases Fate.
 --Blacky the Crow.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-27

tried-"You see, Miss Lowell. l Naa gttting all set 10 congratulate you. Now l congratulate you all the more," With which enigmate state ment he walked out of the room, still whlstling.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
BARROW BARRED
AT evansville
Noted Lawyers Speech on
Evolution Barred.

By Times Special
EVANSVILLE Ind. Feb. 16.-
Clarence Darrow. noted criminal
lawyer win not give his lecture here
March 4 on his mechanistic theory
Of evolution
He had been invited by the mems
club Of the Washington Ave. Jewish
Temple to discuss his theory before
meeting In Central High School.
Vehement protests filed the news
papers, and such pressure was
brought to bear on the temple mem
bers that Rabbi Jack Slxireall yes
terday withdrew the invitation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
Woman Doctor Who Lived
as Man Has Cancer Cure

pecting that she was not what she
pretended to be-a simple. garrulous
old man, practicing medicine mod
estly in a little Arkansas town.
Several months ago she met finan-
cial reverses. She could not keep
up her supply of drugs. Deprived
of them, she became i'll, a physician
was summoned--and her secret was
discovered. She is now being cared
for in home of a woman who says
that DR.. Mayfield cured her of can
GER years ago.
It was about twelve years ago
that DR.. Mayfield came here. She
got off an early morning train from
the north. dressed as man, carry
ing a suit case in one hand and a
crate full of live bantam chickens
in the other. She found a place to
live and began her work as a ply
stefan.
The cancer cure" became famous
in this part of the country. She had
salve which she applied to cancers
and which, she asserted, drew the
poison out of the sore. The cures
effected were considered marvellous.
Hundreds of persons will testify
that she relieved them of cancers.
Aside from her possession Of this
cure, IL 1t was cure, she did moth
ing to attract notice. Never did any
one suspect she was a woman. She
smoked an old black pipe, chewed
tobacco occasionally like any good
Arkansan and loafed in corner res
taurants and cigar stores with the
other boys" To be sure, it was
noticed that she never swore and
would not listen to shady stories
but nobody thought anything about
il.
Wealth Is Fictitious
She had been twice married. she
told her friends, and one wife was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
HE'LL GO TO PRISON

Supreme Court Confirms Liquor Vio-
latiOn Term
This oft-repeated admonition Of
justice, that igorance Of the law Is
no excuse, was voiced today by State
Supreme Court In Affirming the con-
viction Of Lorenz Zalrasek of Elk
hart, convicted Of possessing thirty
gallons of liquor, was sentenced to
prison.
Zakrasek, appealing. said the
1925 Legislature, If 1t had intended
for persons owning liquor to destroy
1t, would have made some provision
for doing so. He said he did not
know it was illegal to possess in
toxicating liquor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
BRIDGE BIDS
$4,000 Low
Fall Much Under Estimates
of Engineers.

Low bids opened today by the
State highway commission on thir-
teen bridges in nine counties of the
State, fell more than $21, 900 under
the estimated expense, an unofficial
tabulation showed
Highway engineers had figured
the total cost at $203,11s76. Low
bids totaled 1881 1863, meaning a
saving Of s2l,941.S7 TO the state.
The bridges are to be On State high
ways in Crawford, Orange, Scott,
Vigo, Fayette, owen, La Grange,
Putnam and Maroon Counties
The three Marion County bridges.
all along State Rd. 80, will cross
Lick Creek, Grassy Creek and Little
Brady Creek. Low bid Of $22 ,092. 90
on these bridges was made by Ker-
nodle & Fulwider Lebanon, as
against an engineers estimate OF
2S,105.66. b
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
MAY SEEK JUDGEsHIP

State Representative Mentioned
Justice Makes Announcement.
State Representative Russell v.
Duncan will run as a Republican
candidate against Judge James M.
feathers for the Superior Court
judgeship nomination, one politician
said today.
Another political development was
the announcement by Isidor Wulfson
of his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for Center Township
Justice. of the peace. A recent law
reduces the justices to one for each
township. Wulfson was city weights
and measures inspector eight years
and has been justice of the peace
seven years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
Scores Tell of Remedy She
Used-May Die and Take
Secret With Her.
BIZ NEA Service

BIZ NEA Service
LENA, Ark, Feb. 16.-Did DIR.
IMl NJ. V. Mayfield, the myster-
LII ious old woman, who came
to this little Arkansas town more
than decade ago to live her life as
a man, possess the secret that
learned physicians have sought
fruitlessly for scores Of yearsZthe
cure for cancer?
Her patients assert she did There
are any number of people in this
neighborhood. who are ready to step
forward and swear that she cured
them of malignant cases of the
battling malady
A strange sort of paste, or salve,
the formula for which was known
only to herself, made up. her
remedy. Doctors scoff at the notion
that she had a genuine cancer cure.
but many people in Mena are fully
convinced.
The story of her work and her
alleged cure is being told here now,
while the aged woman lies helpless,
sick with what probably will prove
her last illness, in a room provided
by charity.
No Solution in Sight
1t is just one more mystery added
to the tangled tale of her life-a
tale that probably never will be
Strengthened out.
Indeed. II DR.. Mayfield had not
been drug addict. 1t is likely that
she would have lived her life
through without anyone here sus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
is, 1926

buried in Washington. She spoke
OF having property in other States,
and was generally reputed to be
wealthy.
But when she became III and her
secret was exposed, Il was found
that this talk of property was only
talk. There came reports from city
In Iowa. telling how she had lived
there as man and had been en-
gagged to a giri-but nothing moro
to shed light on her past
She says she was born in England
and started living as boy at the
age OF two. But her talk is contra.
dictory and confused and no con-
nected story OF her life can he
pieced together,
If she dies in her present Illness it
is probable that her cancer "cure"
will die with her, as the formula is
known only to her
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
100000 IDLE
ABROAD, EUROPE
SURVEY REVEALS
Germany and Britain Lead in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and Italy Exceptions,
Copyright, 1926

(COPJIlBHt, lJ1ol
BIZ Times Special
LONDON, Feb. 16.-Approximately
100000 unemployed workers are
receiving doles in ten European
countries as the old world struggles
through the seventh winter since
the war.
Business depression and NAL.
adjustments Of currency, both
caused by four years Of un'
productive fighting, have laid this
unemployed burden on the shoulders
of those men, women and children,
who are so fortunate as to have
jobs. The 100000 figure Is com
piled from the official statistics of
the various governments. An I'M
official census might discover twice
as many voorhees, persons, but these
uncounted ones receive no dole as
do their tabulated fellows.
Germany Leads
Europe's two greatest industrial
900 Of the persons officially listed
as unemployed. Germany reports
/ 1000 and Great Britain 1900, 900.
Unofficial German figures place un-
employment at 100000. Since the
Dawes plan became operative the
great imitation boom which pro-
vided most Germans with work has
collapsed, and Britain has been
surpassed as the nation with the
greatest number of voorhees,
citizens.
In Austria the unemployment stu
alton Is serious. The country is
small, but 500, 900 persons are unem-
ployed, owing to the disturbing In
fiucnoe Of currency troubles which
have afflicted the State since 1913
Unemployment In other European
countries Is reported officially as fol-
lows:
Poland, 2S5,oO0; Italy, $4,000; Den
mark, $4,000; echo-Slovakia, 1000;
Hungary, $4,000; holland,N25, 900; Swe
den, $4,000.
The foregoing figures merely rep
resent the number Of persons actu-
ally drawing unemployed benefits
France Busy
Some European countries are
soercely affected by unemployment
problems. Conspicuous among these
Is France, where a business boom
grounded on inflated currency pro-
vides work and depreciated currency
for all There are just $50 regis
tered unemployed persons in France.
There are 1900 unemployed per
sons In Belgium, but this number
represents only is per cent Of the
Belgian industrial population. Swift
zerland reports 10000 out of work,
but the figure represents only 1.6
per cent Of her Industrial workers.
Mussolini's firm government and
the tremendous squirt of the artifi-
cial silk industry are said by experts
to have solved Italy's Unemployment
problem, although the ame1ioration
will be gradual in It's later stages
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
BLAMEs BUSINESS MEN

NEW YORK-Business men who
fail to take jury duty seriously
handicap efforts to combat the
crime wave! Judge Cornelius Col
Inns of the General Sessions de-
clared. Fifty men, called for jury
duty. failed to respond, calling forth
his speech. The men were ordered
held for contempt Of court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
Her Knees Were Perfect
She Takes Beauty Prize

modern freedom of the knees which
the average girl enjoys"
The artist explained that as beau
ty after beauty pranced by him he
grew madden and madden at their
knees until he o,uld hardly contain
his irel
High Heels Did It
High heels have murdered beau
dful knees" he said They cause
the girl In walking to put most Of
her weight upon her knees instead
of dividing the weight between
calf, thight and knee. as it should
be.
This weight upon the knees en-
larges the knees. widens them, and
ruins the shape OF the knee cap.
They look moro like hard-bosed eggs
or mustache cups than kneesl'
The irate artist asked Miss Au-
drey. his balm in Gilead, to tell the
sisterhood never to wear high heeled
shoes againi
But always do" said Miss Au-
drey, Il got my knees that way by
sitting down all day long on a tele-
phone exchange stool"
This almost knocked out War
shawsl1y, but with the air of an en-
tomologist finding the worlds rarest
horned beetle he continued to shout
huzzas to the species kneeus love
ncanus, which was not born to
blush unseen, but which won beau
ty contest for q plain little grill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
TAX REFUND SOUGHT
Opening Arguments in Suit of Pump
Company Heard.

Opening arguments in the suit Of
the P. II. & F. M. Roots Company,
Connersvillel, pump manufacturers,
against the Government for 49,
S00.42, which the firm alleges was
collected as taxes by the Govern
ment without cause, were heard by
Federal Judge Robert c. Baltzell
today.
The company avres that it was
forced to pay taxes on certain non
taxable assets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
CONGO EvoLUTToNIsTs

LONDON. - New evolutionists
have been found in the Congo. Ma
tives known as the Batagni believe
that apes are descended from dis
graced men. I'VE are better and
prouder than the apes, therefore we
eat Them" they told the Rev. H. c.
Graham, returned missionary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
NEWS TO US

L,ONDON.-Reports received here
from the United States are to the
effect that anti-smoking legislation
Is imminent. The reports, purport-
ing to come from Britishers, who
have investigated, also declare that
fewer young persons are forming
the cigaret habit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
WABASH RIVER
LEVEE ORDERED
Judge Approves Southern
Indiana Project.

BH United Press
PRINCETON, Ind, Feb. 10
After litigation which has dragged
on for more than seven years the
Wabash-P atolka levee project today
became an assured fact.
Judge B. f. Carr of Monticello,
Ind, sitting as special judge in the
Gibson Circuit Court here under a
commission issued by former Gov
ernor Warren T. McCTay ruled that
this levee is going to work and the
land effected by it viii be benefited"
The levee construction, which will
involve practically eleven Of south
western Indiana, will cost several
million dollars and is said to be one
OF the largest projects of its kind
ever attempted in the Middle West.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
FIRM INCORPORATES
Concrete Forms Company to Take
Over Old Equipment.

Incorporation papers for the
Baker Forms Company. Indianapo-
lis, manufacturers of reinforced con-
crete building forms, were filed to-
day at the Statehouse. capital stock
being listed at $4,000.
Purpose Of the new corporation is
to take over equipment formerly
used by the Rath CONSTRUCTION Com
pany. Incorporators are Hugh j.
Baker. ]. r. Fenstermaker, H. d.
Fatout, C. w. Steeg and Herman
Rath.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
START WORK ON
TWO BUILDINGS
Merchants Heat, Light Co.
to Spend $4,000.

Construction of two buildings by
the Merchants Heat and Light Com
pany, to cost $11S. 900, WILDE started
Immediately. They will be at Cruise
and DAILY SITS. and Pine and DAILY
SITS.
One of the structures win be used
for a garage with capacity OF goo
automobiles. The other win he for
the storage of records and docu
ments.
The buildings viii be erected by
the Curry Construction Company
Plans are being drawn by Charles
Brossman. architect. The company
will vacate the garage which has
been used at 300 N. Senate Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
u. S. POW RL.ESS
In OUTRAGES
Coolidge Sees No Way to
Clean Up Tia Juana.

Bv Umttcd Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-Presi-
dent Coolidge does not feel that this
country can remedy conditions in
such resorts as Tia Juana, Mexico,
It was said at the White House to-
day.
The Presidents spokesman said
that no law could be passed barring
citizens Of this country from cross
ing the Mexican border, and SO long
as Americans show desire to seek
such places for amusement this Gov
eminent was powerless to prevent
outrages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
RAYS HAT TOSSED IN
Former Councilman Enters Race for
County Sheriff.

Otto Ray, 1045 Marian ST.. former
city councilman, today announced
his candidacy for nomination in the
spring primary for Marion County
sheriff. Ray, Democrat, was
nominated in 1924 and defeated by
Sheriff omer Hawkins, Republican.
Ray was councilman from 1922 to
1925. He is president and manager
of the Telesto Water Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
Audrey Admits Her Face Is
No Knockout
Different Now.

LEVELAND Ohio, Feb. a.
IL Because Audrey Clapp, 20,
telephone operator Of Cleve-
land, was attached to a pair of per
feet knees" she won recent Cleve-
land beauty contest in which thou
sands of girls with beautiful faces
competed.
Audrey herself says that her face,
while no knockout, is the best face
she's got, and she admits. moreover,
that when they tod her she'd won
the contest by g. knee she forgot to
tell thirteen parties that the line
was busy.
so comes an innovation in the
beauty contest realm
Artist judges have turned like the
proverbial worm! No more, shall ala,
haster brows and lily threats and
ruby lips and Grecian probosci be
rated above beautiful knee caps and
in time, sundry feminine appurte-
nances.
Cutie after cutie had shaken her
boyish bob before the Cleveland
judges Of pulchritude before Audrey
and her knees came along.
Looking for En-
A c. warshawslry, famous
painter of nudes. an authority In
anatomy, and the dean Of American
artists in Paris, saw them firgtl
The contest was over so fur as
this Judge was concerned
There they arel She's got themr'
he almost shrieked, explaining to his
judicial colleagues that for many a
long and weary year he had sought
perfect knees
Somebody told me about tho
bees knees" said Warshawsky,
butt they didn't seem 50 good to me-
I decided that the average girls
knees were a total wreck, a mis-
spent life. and that all lovers Of
beauty should rise up against this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
DRIVE ON AUTO LIGHTS
Police TO Watch for 1926 License
Plates on Machines.

Traffic Inspector Walter White
today ordered am. active drive
against motor vehicle lighting law
violators. The motorcycle squad will
watch for 1925 license plates, and
examine tail and head lights. Those
driving with too bright lights, or
who fail to dim, will be slated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
NEW COAL MINES

LONDON. Galleries in the
Welsh anthracite district will spend
more than 100000 during the
next three years in increasing pro-
duction, 1t has been learned. At
least three new pits will be sunk
and improvements will be made in
the present machinery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
BUY TELEPHONE FIRM

Sale of the Earl Park Telephone
Company to Frank and Barbara e.
CRANES for $4,000 was approved to-
day by the public service commits
sion. Charles II. Hatch and Nellie
Woodruff are present owners of the
system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
DEMONSTRATION is GIVEN
Motor Police to Receive instruction
IN Restoration Work.

Capt. D. Melville Carr Of the
American Red Cross at Washington,
d. c., In charge of life saving insti-
tute here this week, gave demon
stration or restoration work before
motor police and emergency lieuten-
ants today at roll call.
Capt. Louis Johnson asked Ser
geants Shine and Owens of accident
prevention bureau to attend the life
saving course at the Indianapolis
Athletic Club. They will tour sub
stations and give motor police in
struction in restoration work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
COWBOYS COOLED

GHNEVA--It is a cool treatment
the American movie cowboy heroes
meet here. Revolvers Of these
rough and readies" are being blot
ted with ink on movie posters in
Switzerland, lest the imagination of
the youth be excited unduly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16

But Ping Pong died and Mrs.
Mead brought his body back to
New York. He was buried In an ex-
pensive coffin with a grave
blanketed with flowers A tomb
stone will be erected.
In all Mrs. Meade spent $1,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
TICKET SALE CHARGED

Pete Miller, 3S. Negro. 93S Indi-
ana Ave, was arrested today on
charges Of keeping gaming device
and resisting an officer. He was ar
rested, police said, at the Kingan
Company plant today where he had
been selling baseball pool tickets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16

BY selecting the most inexpensive
coffin which the undertaken offered
and taking advantage Of free burial
privileges in one the lesser oemeter~
les the funeral expenses were kept
down to sos. There were a few
Milted flowers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
LYNCHING BILL IS UP
Threat of World Court Foes May Be
Carried Out.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-As a.
direct aftermath of the bitter world
court cloture fight, the Senate
judiciary committee today took up.
the Dyer anti-lynching bin with a
view to reporting it to the Senate
Threats were made by anti-world
court factions when the cloture rule
was invoked recently with assistance
of southern Democrats that reprisal
would be sought on the and-lynching
bin If it came before the Senate this
session The bill has been held up
by the Democrats for years by fill
clustering tactics and appeals were
made by representatives Of the
co1ored race before the committee to-
day to invoke the cloture and force
the bill through Congress-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
BAD FLUE CAUSES FIRE
Ben Davis Home Loss Estimated at
5,O0O-Firemen Handicapped.

Home of Arthur Wade at Ben
Davis was destroyed today by 8
fire said to have started from a de-
fective flue. Damage to the two
story frame dwelling, was estimated
at $4,000.
Company 10 and Squad 2 made the
run, but lack of water connections.
handicapped them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-16
THEY'LL FIGHT FIRES
Headquarters Company Members to
Don the Gloves.

There's to be punch in future fire
fighting.
Headquarters company members
are preparing a gymnasium on the
third floor of their building at New
York and Alabama SITS, and boxing
is to be the chief article on the
sporting menu.
Today Assistant Fire Chief Ken
meth Burns and Recreation DIRECTOR
Jesse B. Mcclure obtained donations
Of sporting goods from Smith.
& Sturn.. and Spalding's.
They include two spring exercises,
twelve Indian clubs and two pairs
of boxing gloves.