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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-13

For the first time since she had
known him, he struck her as being
old-old and broken.
He cleared his throat, and went
on talking: You know, Mary Rose,
no one ever quite takes the place of
a son in a man't life. He has his
wife and his career and his friends
but his son is different, somehow
Everything that he does is for his
son in a way. See what 1 mean?"
Again Mary Rose gave her little
nod. ITS too bad you didn't have
other children" she answered quiet
ly. Another son-or a daughter. "
She watched him while he got up
and walked down the length of the
room and stood for a moment at the
windows, looking out at the cold,
gray world.
He came back and stood behind
her chair with his hands on her
shoulders.
His mother and I said that very
thing today" he told her. And we
thought you might come here to live
with us. We're very lonely and
you're all the daughter we have"
Don't make up your mind about
it now" he added. Think it over
for day or two and then let us
know what you've decided"
The next morning at breakfast
Mary Rose told her mother about it..
IF I were you, I'd go and live
with them" Mrs Middleton surprised
her by saying. "Flosie is going to
need me. anyway. now that she's
going to have baby. And II you
lived with the Fitzroys she and Sam
could move right in here"
But Mary Rose shook her head.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-13
1927 LICENSES ARRIVE

First shipments of the 1927 In.
diana automobile license plates,
which are being manufactured at
Anderson, have been received by the
State automobile license department
and are being distributed among
three branch Offices. approximately
100000 sets Of the plates are in
cluded in the contract. The plates
have q black sui Y in white
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-13
BOOZE CHEMIST HIRED
Bootleggers Plan to Take Gasoline
Out of Denatured Alcohol.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-Under.
cover agents of the prohibition unit
have discovered that bootleggers
have employed expert chemists in an
attempt to remove gasoline from de-
natured alcohol, it was learned at
the treasury today.
Because of this disclosure Govern
ment chemists were ordered to work
on new denaturing formulas for
making alcohol absolutely undrink.
able, but not deadly in case some
hitherto undiscovered method of
separating gasoline from alcohol is
devised.
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interesting study to local psyche
analysts. The method which she
employed was to induce her victims
to commit suicide with her. To each
she gave real poison while she
drank a harmless potion of the
same color.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-13
SIX DIE OVER WOMAN
She Betrays Each Lover in Suicide
Pact.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
BUDAPEST, Aug. 13.-Ctarged
with melting six different young
men to commit suicide, a young
Budapest widow has been taken in.
to custody by the local police.
A seventh, instead of yielding to
her persuasive argument that 1T
would be beautiful to take poison
and die in the arms OF beautiful
woman broke away from her en-
braces and rushed to the nearest
police station.
The woman's mentality in wishing
to have the young men die in her
presence promises several weeks Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-13

Mary Rose learns that the en-.
gagement between John Manners and
Doris Hining is broken in tomor.
rows installment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-14
WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW

story which will keep you up late
at night.
"'Show Boat"-By Edna Ferber.
One of the fiction leaders Of the sea-
son.
Her Sons Wife'-By Dorothy
Garfield. The story of a son bring
ing his course and unrefned wife
into the home Of his fine mother
"Nigger Heavenly Carl Van
Vetchen. If you buy this for a gift
be sure of the one you are going to
give it TO. BE sure that it will be
appreciated.
"Smoky'-By Will James. A de
lightful biography Of a horse.
FOR CHILDREN
Here are some good books that
every child will enjoy: THE Real
Mother Goose; THE Peter Patter
Book" by Leroy +. Jackson; bible
Story Books" by Seymour Loveland;
"Once Upon a Time" all of the old
fairy stories; Little Folks Mother
Goose" THE Nursery Zoo" illu-
strated by Anne Anderson and Alan
Wright; David Goes to Greenland"
by David Binney Putnam; The 9th
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-14

had been taken toll by unsafe mines and thus
far, the safeguards few.
The people must know, too, that their warmth
and prosperity is purchased at the hazard of hui
man life, and that many must die that the
rest may live.
1t is unfortunate that the appeal for charity
should not be made in the of Justice and
that those who have benefited at the sacrifice OF
these lives should not have provided against this
very hour.
But since we have not reached that stage of
thought where the heroes of industry are placed
upon the same high basis as the heroes of war we
must keep on appealing to sympathy and pity to
give what should be offered as justice in sharing
these hazards.
Those families must be lifted from their low
level of want and misery. Grief is terrible. Grief
with the addition of poverty, is savagery.
That Christmas appeal of the Red Cross needs
an answer today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-14
More Paw for Miners

More than 1000 men have lost
their lives in the coal mines Of the
United States this year. and it was
not record-breaking year either.
In 1907, more than 5000 lost their
lives and in 1910 more than $500.
Coal mining is a hazardous .occu-
patton. a constant battle with death
in some of its ugliest forms.
This is worth thinking about as
we sit before an open CRATE, or be-
side n warm radiator, and argue
that the miners should not ask for
more pay.
Most people shudder Mt the mere
thought of going, 4lto coal mine.
much less working in 1t. They are
daunted by the long descent, the
the oppressive air.
An easier lot should make us all
a little more considerate OF those
who pursue this risky trade in or
der that we may keep warm, that
the factory whistle may blow reg
ularly and that our pay envelopes
may continue to come each Satl-=-
day night.
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tracy
Query for Information on
"Red" Central America
Is Timely.
BY NJ. e. Tracy

Representative La Guardia Of New
York has introduced a timely reso-
luton. 1t is entirely proper for
Congress to ask the State Depart
ment what it knows about bolshe-
vism in Central America. Four
weeks ago a report was given wide
spread circulation in this country to
the effect that Mexico was intrigu-
ing to set up a red hegemony, which,
If successful, would constitute a seri-
Gus menace to the Panama canal.
No authorities were quoted, but
the report was worded in such Il
way as to create the impression
that it was derived from official
sources.
1t has been charged that this re,
port was based on the suggestions
of a high official in the State De
partment.
Serious complications have re-
suited. Nicaragua has become a
battle-ground not only for two poll
teal factions, but for American and
Mexican policies.
The situation should be promptly
and frankly cleared up. The people
of all countries concerned have a
right to know whether a diplomatic
impasse has been brought about by
groundless rumors, or whether our
State Department is in possession Of
facts it has thus far refused to Of
ficially disclose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-14
JIMMY KENTPER
OPENS AT PALACE

With Jimmy Kemper and his COM
pany consisting of an orchestra and
girl dancer and singer, the Palace
the first half has a first rate feature
act TO top off a bill that is good all
through.
In Kemper's act the orchestra
takes you on a rapid tour around
the world by means of melodies sug-
eestive of the different localities.
Then by means of short specialties
by Kemper and the woman some
thing is done along the line of song,
dance or pantomime that makes tao
picture more realistic.
OF the different numbers por-
trayed the orchestra showed up best
in the one depicting Scotland. All
in fun they give an impression Of a
Scotch singer and a group of bag
pipes. Having no bagpipes The play
ers got. around tins dific ulty by
draping some chairs with fancy rib
bon and carrying them, playing
clarinets the while.
Kemper knows we'll how to put
ever a ballad as his song numbers
are the evidence. Another good
thing of his was n pantomime offer
ing of a short Chinese sketch.
White and Tierney are a young
man and woman, who contribute an
excellent line Of comedy to the bill.
Depending solely on their personality
this couple have an act Of which
every minute is full Of aood fun.
Among the things they do are a
burlesque on a sentimental song, by
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Want to Give a Christmas BOOk?-Here's List

er Side of the Circus" by Edwin p.
Norwood; Little Abe Lincoln" by
Bernie Babcock; Martha The Sew.
enth" by Jane Abbott; "A Yankee
Girl at Vicksburg" by Alice Turner
Curtis; 1.-THE Story of Columbus" by
Sara Ware Bassett; Our Friends at
the Zoo" by Julia r. E. Stoddart
and Nip and Tuck" by Leila Croch
eron Freeman.
The titles of the above books will
give you an idea whether they will
interest the young or just the very
young.
HERE AND THERE
Here is a brief list Of some fine
books of real value:
1.-The Royal Road to Romance
BY Richard Halliburton. The best
travel book of romance of the year.
Published by Bobbs-Merrill. VIII de
light the entire family. "Tar"-By
Sherwood Anderson. The story of a
boy in the making from the age of
consciousness until the period of
adolescence.
"Darwin"-By Gamaliel Bradford.
The story Of a lovable old man.
Any of the books Of poetry of Bill
Herschell. published by Bobbs Mer-
rill.
1.-THE Best Plays of 1925-26"-By
Burns Mantell. The best Of its kind.
"Etiquette"-By Emily Post To
my way Of thinking it is the best of
many such books.
hope that this list will be of prac-
teal value to those who want to
give a book for Christmas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-14
GERMANY WINS VICTORY

BY United Press
GENEVA, Dec. 14.-Military con-
troll Of Germany will pass from that
country's late enemies, and into the
hands of the League of Nations on
Jan. 81, 1927. The inter-allied mill
tary commission, which long has
ranked the hearts of Germans, will
cease to exist, and the league, of
which Germany is a member with
the other powers of Europe, will de-
termine how Germany will carry out
the provisions of the Versailles peace
treaty.
That agreement, considered a tri-
umph for Foreign Minister Gustav
Stresemann Of Germany, was
reached Saturday at a conference
Of the foreign ministers of England,
France and Germany.
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This baby of the movies is win
ming a big following in the film
world. The diminutive stars name
and the answers to the other ques-
lions appear on page sixteen.
1. What Is the stage name of the
child in the accompanying picture?
2. In what State is the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado River?
3. Who composed the opera, die
Walkure"?
4. Is the college big Ten" an
eastern, western or middle western
conference?
5. What is Thomas Edison's mid
die name?
6. Who wrote DIR. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde?
Z. Who play the leads In the pic
ture, THE Temptress"?
s. What is the first name of Nine.
Bori, opera singer?
9. Who was named defendant with
Albert B. Fall in the oil land case
presented before the District of Co
lumbia Supreme Court?
10. For what year Is the next
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-14
Intellectually GroWn7

Professor Conklin OF Princeton
thinks that men have ceased to grow
intellectually, that evolution has
come to a halt temporarily. II not
permanently.
He says that in the opinion OF
many careful students, no modern
race is the equal of the ancient
Greeks.
This brings up the Question as
to whether the last few generations
have progressed so rapidly because
of mental superiority. or because
they had more accumulated knowl-
edge 10 start with.
a great many people believe we
are able TO discover and invent more
than our grandfathers. because we
are smarter. but perhaps, the books
served experience of ages, account
for it,
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by Walter ID. Hickman

What will get Jimmie, Bill. Ma
bel. Joe, Mother and Dad for Christ
mas?
AS Christmas day approaches we
are all asking the question-What
will I give?
Why not a book-That's a good
answer. But-What book?
So once again I am going to give
you n list of books, many Of them
have told you about in this de-
partment and others that 1 will soon.
Let us start with Dad. a rather
serious father. and 1 recommend
these books for him:
THE Man Nobody Knows''-Here
is a modern day version of Jesus ex-
pressed in the language of the day.
! BY Bruce Barton and published by
Bobbs- Merrill. The companion volume
and just as interesting is THE Book
| Nobody Knows" Both are listed as
among the best six sellers among
the non-fction.
THE Story of Philosophy'-By
Will Durant. They are sure talking
about this one. II deals with the
systems of thought. Published by
! Simon and Schuster.
> "Why We Behave Like Human
Beings"-By George A. Dorsey. Pub
lished by Harpers. One Of the real
thought leaders.
Milton c. Works Auction Bridge
Complete-Of course if you play
bridge you are reading the daily les
sons of this leader of the game in
The Times. The John c. Winston
Co., has published complete bridge
book by this authority.
IAN Autobiography of Abraham
Lincoln by Nathaniel
Wright Stephenson. Published by
Bobbs-Merrill. Lincoln's life as told
in his own letters and papers.
ADULT FICTION
In my list of adult fiction I am not
stating that these books are more
suitable for reading by men or wom-
en- Adult applies to both men and
women.
My recommended adult fiction
list is a follows:
IAN American Tragedy''-By The
odore Dresser. Published by Boni-
Liveright If I was awarding first
fiction prize for the year, this Dreis-
err story of murder would get first
prize.
1.-THE Silver Spoon"-By John
Galsworthy, published by Scribners.
A story of a very spoiled young wom-
an who learns the great lesson that
she can't have everything in the
world.
THE Private Life of Helen of Troy"
BY John Erskine. One of the
finest comedies ever written in late
years. I also recommend his latest,
"Galahad." Both published by
Bobbs- Merrill.
Introduction to Sally"-This one
is especially great for the women.
Published by Doubleday Page.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"-By
Anita Loos. Published by Liveright.
The diary, burelsque in nature. of a
lady Of much question. Probably the
smartest laugh book Of the season.
"Bellarion"-By Rafael Sabatini.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
Here is romance and war of other
days. Thrilling. Better than enter
tanning reading.
THE Corbin Necklace BY Henry
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Stage Verdict

KEITH S-What good show
manship and fine regard to
color and the right kind Of mu-
sic can do for a dance act is
seen in the revue of Roye and
Maye.
Palace-Jimmy Kemper and
his orchestra have a good Of
fering in their trip around the
world and the different special
ties.
LYRIC-Jack Wyatt's Scotch
lads and lassies offer a colorful
revue with a Scotch atmos-
phere.
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w or k,
Some Fine Points on the
Gentle Art of Fl
neSSe,
BY Wilton c. Work

Today's pointer is:
With less than eleven cards of tho
suit in his two hands Declarer
should finesse to catch King.
A Sequence is two or more touch
ing" cards cards next in value to
each other). A Tenace is the two
end cards of a three-card Sequence,
the intermediate cards being adverse
ly held; for example, Ace-Queen or
King-Jack. Ace-Queen-10 is known
as the double tenace. To finesse is
to lead toward a tenace and play the
lower card Of it; for example, to lead
q small card from North toward
South's Ace-Queen and to play the
Queen. OF course, If East play the
King, the f1nesse would not be made,
When cards are held in sequence
with the lower cards of the tenace,
q combination finesse is made by
leading one Of these cards and not
covering IT, for example, with Queen
Jack-x in the South hand and Ace-1G ~
K in North, leading the Queen a. NJ
playing small from the North han0
III West did not play King) would
be a combination finesse. There are
few hands in which a Declarer will
not try some flnesse. In some hands
there are plain indications that the
finesse should be tried-such as a 4
Did or double; in others there are
situations Cttrh VAAdtN.. "a j
trick to make game, which make 1t
inadvisable to risk any flnesse. In
the absence Of any cue from the pre-.
vious declaration or play. or any
eMgency which makes q flnesse in.
dispensable or not worth rislIing, the
finesse decision should be based on
the mathematical chances; and those
chances trying the King finesse
when the flnesser has less than
eleven cards Of the suit in his two
hands. Today's pointer Is especial
ly important because many who do
not read books believe in an absurd
saying that you should never finesse
when holding as many as nine cards
In the two hands. OF course, there
are occasional singleton Kings, and
when one appears on the left Of the
Queen the finesse costs a trick; but
with four cards in the two adverse
hands the chance Of singleton
King on the left Of the Ace Queen is
remote.
Even with a total of ten cards in
the two hands, the chances still IA
vor the finesse; there being two pos
sible divisions of the adverse cards
in which it will win, to one in which
1t will lose.
Tomorrow's topic is flnessing to
catch Queen.
Copyright, John F. Dill Coz @
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PROVING THE CASE

Last April Senator Ernst of Kentucky was all
for Muscle Shoals bid submitted by thirteen
ciated power companies.
The bid recommended by a congressional
leasing committee without a single public meeting
hearing
Senator Ernst was so certain it was the best
possible bid for the Governments $3.50 600 power
and nitrate properties the Tennessee River that
he voted against motion by Senator Norris OF
Nebraska for additional public committee hearings.
The motion defeated and not to this day
has the public had a chance to speak.
But what does Senator Ernst do?
He Jugs into the Senate resolution providing
entirely bid for the properties the bid of
the so-called Farmers Federated Fertilizer Corpora
ton, organized by c. Bascom Slemp, President
Coolidge's former secretary.
The new bid is said to be better than the old
one just the latter is ndisputaby better than the
Ford offer which members of Congress were
in love with four years ago.
That better and better bids being made
proves the soundness of the position taken by
Senator Norris and others in their fight for Govern
ment operation of the plant These Government
operation advocates insist that if the people keep
their property long enough any kind of lease will
be recognized as a giveaway.
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A CHRISTMAS APPEAL

Sixty families in the little town of Francisco
desoated and grief stricken, will have Christmas
cheer, perhaps not food unless the people of
this State respond to their cry for aid
1t is pathetic picture which the Red Cross
presents and indictment of our cruel system of
industry.
In the morning, husbands and fathers of chill
dren went into mine chat homes everywhere
might be and cheerful and that in other
places, other men would be able to earn living.
In hour they were dead. Their lives were
wiped out in instant 1t was hazard of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-14
Waiting for Death

King Ferdinand of Roumania is
the victim of cancer. Had he been
born a generation or two later. he
might have escaped, or been cured OF
this dread disease. Meanwhile, he
must suffer and succumb to it, like
any other mortal. though that
forms but a meager part OF the
picture.
What interests those who are
closest to the stricken old man, is
not the pain or discomfort he en-
dures, but how long he will last.
They wait for his death with the
same tense expectancy as racers
wait for the signal gun. 1t is a
pathetic spectacle, but 1t seldom
fails to occur at the passing OF kings.
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mistake-the loud work Of a plant
in the audience. She has a too good
an act, a real novelty, to permit this
plant" to annoy her work. This
plant puts no comedy into her
act. She doesn't need it because she
is too clever. A mighty good novelty
with this exception.
Joe Mack and Gail Rossiter appear
in a Modern Occurrence" Val Har-
ris and Vera Griffin offer THE Sheik
Of g." one of those sketches in
which an old man about sixty and
some gets excited over pretty girl.
Doesn't appeal to mel but l am in
the minority as the audience liked 1t.
At Keith's all week
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erything but the spirit Of the dance.
Here is one dance offering, thank
goodness, that has gotten out of the
beaten path. Somebody has used
real brains in getting this act to-
gether. It is worth going 10 Keith's
this week just to see what a dance
producer can do with color, artistry,
talent and the right kind of music.
Two of the dancers stand out
the Just a Dance" Of Roye and
Beautiful Silks" There is a lot of
color and artistry to Meath the
South Sea Moon" and there is nov
city to My Playmate" as done by
Billie Maye.
Toto now has n company, but as
to be expected it is Toto, the clown,
who attracts all the attention. His
act does not change so much from
season to season. l can understand
this, because some Of the things he
has originated stand at the very top
of the ladder of eccentric clown
Woih. 1Htie are dboul AOuI SCeueS
to his revue this season. His en-
trance in a baby auto IS still one Of
the mysteries Of the stage to me.
Togo stages a sensational slide on
n rope over the heads Of the
audience. Gus Stewart and Ollie
Olive has an eccentric dance offer
ing. hard shoe dancing. Stewart has
good impression Of Eddie Leonard,
he was with Leonard for a number
Of years.
Birdie Reeve is the fastest work
ing typest 1 have seen. She does
work a fast typewriter and she has
a clever method Of presenting an In
telligent routine. She makes one
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Wild Color and Some Wilder Dancing
Feature the Work Of Roye and Maye

the man and some rather eccentric
dancing by the woman.
Billie Regay and Company offer
song and dance act that has some
pleasing stuff in it's makeup, con-
sisting of much comedy by the man
and woman principals, and some
fast dancing team.
Walter Gilbert opened the show
with a contortionist act in which he
does some difficult bends and other
tricks of this type Of act.
Included on the bill is a pho
toplay Popular SIM" with Florence
Vidor and a News reel.
AT the Palace today and tomorrow.
(By the Observer.)
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knows that ne has
a production full
Of color and nov
city. He works
with the greatest
ease, both in his
fancy ballroom
stuff or an eccen-
trio dance Of
great merit.
Roye, l under
stand, is respon-
sible for this
dance act. 1t is
wild in suggestive
color. Lights and
color of fabric
gives this act
speed even when
nobody is dancing.
He has sur
rounded himself
with dancers who
seem to forget ev.