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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
APPROVE NEW UNIFORMS
Firemen to Have Khaki Trousers
and White Shirts.

Work uniforms of khaki and white
shirts, instead Of blue, and dress
uniforms for f1remen were approved
by the board of safety Tuesday.
Ffremen have protested about the
corduroy trousers they now wear,
Fire Chief Jesse A. Hutsell said.
Khaki trousers, he said, will be
popular.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
SEVEN DIE IN QUAKE
Many Injured i'm Asia Minor Town,
According to Dispatch.

BU Times Special
LONDON, March 1.-THE Ex-
change Telegraph Company's Con-
stantinople correspondent reports
that seven people were killed when
a violent earth tremor struck
Denizlu, town in Asia Minor near
Smyrna. Many injuries were re-
ported and ninety house collapsed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
BROWN SEEKS BENCH
Attorney Candidate for Superior
Court Judge.

First Democratic aspirant for
judge OF Superior Court, Room 5,
was recorded tod ~ with the declara-
ton of candid Acy Of Walter J..
Brown, attorney with offices at 4O2
Kresge Bldg. He lives az S440 N.
Meridian st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
Shamrocks No
Longer Irish

BB URfted Press
WASHINGTON, March IL
Shamrocks grown in America
are the vogue today-St. Pat
rick's day.
More than $4,000 packages of
growing shamrocks were inn
ported into the United States
From Ireland last year, but
they were replanted in United
States soil and cultivated for
today's occasion. according to
the Commerce Department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
Police Seek Dentists Who
Put Filings in Mouth of
Woman Whose Bones
Were Found Under Floor
of N. Senate Ave. Room.
CIRCUMSTANCES POINT
TO MURDER-0FFICERS
Dr.. Robinson Orders
Thorough Investigation
Victim White, Not Under
rs Years of Age Examina-
ton Shows.

Police today sought the rela-
tives Of a woman, white, over
25, with several gold-flled
teeth, probably from small In
diana town, who disappeared
sometime within the past two
years.
For the bones of this woman, po-
lice believe, are in the morgue OF
city hospital, where they were taken
after her skeleton was dug up Tues
day from under the floor OF a store
room at Thirteenth st. and n. Senate
Ave.
The woman, 1t was believed, was
murdered. her body thrust in a bar.
rel, covered with quicklime and
buried.
Medical experts examined the
bones today and attempted TO picture
the woman.
Small Woman
"The woman was small IN stature.
and could not have weighed over
10 pounds" DR. h. G. Kyle. Ely
Lilly e Co. expert, said.
"She had rather narrow. peaked
face and narrow nostrils. The high
arched palate indicates she was a
mouth breather, which would keep
the nostrils from distenalng nor
mally.
''She was not OF n high grade Of
intelligence-the low frontal bone
indicates that. She could not have
been under 30 years old---my geess
would be about S5 or 40. The large
amount of gold in her teeth indicate
that she was fond Of display, The
inroads Of the lime would show that
she could not have been buried over
two years. Another six months
would have destroyed all evidence,
III would say that this woman
might have lived in one o. the
smaller towns or cities. The char-
acter of the dental work, taken
WIFI Ine peTiOu III WiutH IL WIS
placed. clearly indicates the work
of n dentist who had not yet
adopted the methods which have
been prevalent in the past ten
years i'm cities.
"Were I to reconstruct the crime,
the argument is in favor Of poison.
ing.
Sees Poisoning
II was done by someone who had
easy access to a supply OF lime with
out causing suspicion. 1t was done
by someone who knew the effects
OF lime.
There would have been no odor,
except perhaps a chlorine smell for
three weeks which would not have
caused suspicion or detection"
The only woman In the missing
files of police who might possibly
answer the description was Mary
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17

Salesman Sam" thinks he is a
good salesman, and everything he
does is really funny-he keeps his
partner Guzzlem in hot water most
of the time. A comic, so full of
action, thai it keep you on your
tiptoes. 1t viii be started next
Monday on The indianapolis Times
comic page.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
222 BUILDING PERMITS.

Bert ]. Westover, building COM
missioner, reported 222 permits is.
sued for structures valued at $685.
l4s2 during the week ending March
Is, 70 the board Of safety Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
PROWLER FIRED UPON
Man Shoots Sixteen Times at Bur
glar Suspect.

Sixteen shots from a repeating
rife were fired at a prowler at the
home of Ralph Robbins, 1898 N.
Dearborn St., Tuesday night. Lowell
Fellows, 1880 E. Eighteenth ST.,
visiting at the home, heard the
prowler, and emptied the gun at the
fleeing man. He said he believed
he shot him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
TROOPS GUARD TRIAL
AssaiIant Indicted, Tried and Sen
fenced to Hang.

BU United Press
WILLIAMSON, w. Va, March
17.-While State police maintained
vigil to prevent mob violence, Harry
Sawyer, 80, Negro, was brought into
court here today, indicted, tried and
sentenced to hang April 10 for at
lacking Mrs. Cullen Ambergue,
white woman.
The entire procedure required less
than thirty minutes. He was rushed
to the State Prison afterward.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
BILLION FOR ROADS
Figures on City, State, Federal
Projects Are Given.

BB United Press
WASHINGTON, March IL
States, municipalities and the Fed
eral Government will spend more
than $1,000.000.O00 this year on
highways, Secretary Of Agriculture
Jardine said today.
States will spend $685.. $50 ,94S; mu-
nicipal authorities. $431 500. 700. and
Federal aid funds available TO States
total $11S,76S ,4SS.
States plan to construct 29,216
miles of new highways this year and
improve 234.5S2 miles OF roads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
SHARP TREMORS FELT
Registered by Seismograph at Chi
cagO University.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. March II. - Sharp
earth tremors We're registered on the
University Of Chicago seismograph
at a. m. today. The tremors con-
tinued until S:15 a. M, reaching a
maximum intensity at 6:12 a. m.
They were estimated to be 1850
miles distant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
Forecast

INCREASING cloudiness with
Il probably rain tonight or
Thursday; warmer tonight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-17
Home Edition

ID FAD Eddie Ash, Times
IN Sport Editor. He's with
the Indians at Hot Springs.
Evening star., 1926-12-06
METHODISTS FIGHT
PASTORS DISMISSAL
'Fundamentalists in Texas Aroused
Over Action on Evangelist
and Modernism Foe.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Pfese.
FORT WORTH, Tex, December g.
Every Methodist Episcopal Church
South in the Fort Worth district will
be asked to assist in a fight over the
virtual dismissal of Rev. William f..
Hawkins. jr. evangelist and avowed
foe of modernism, by the Central
Texas Conference two weeks ago, as
the result of a meeting Of two dozen
Methodist Fundamentalists here yes
terday.
The fight will go to the churches
in the form of a letter to Bishop
John NJ. Moore of Dallas, dema nding
to know why the evangelist lost his
appointment from the conference
without charges being preferred or
any reason being given for his dis
missal. leaders said. The text of the
letter was not made public.
The evangelist has charged that
conference dignitaries eliminated him
from recognized standing because of
his pulpit attacks on modernism. He
declared he was warned three years
ago to deSist, and finally was sent to
a rural circuit charge.
When informed of the action Of the
meeting yesterday in Dallas, Bishop
Moore said the conference was not re-
Quired to give a reason for the dis.
missal, but that Mr.. Hawkins was not
appointed to place by the conference
because Of "inedlciency and inaccept-
ability
Evening star., 1926-12-06
VILE URGES D. C. VOTE
BEFORE JEWISH FORUM
Correspondent Reviews Political
Situation on Eve of Con-
vening of Congress.

A plea in behalf of District suffrage
was made by Frederic William Vile,
newspaper correspondent, in speech
before the third session of the Ma
tional Jewish Forum at the jewish
Community Center last night, lie
urged his auditors to take an active
interest in the work for national rep
resentation.
VILE reviewed the political situation
in Washington on the eve Of the con-
vening Of Congress. and mentioned
farm relief. taxation, radio legislation.
alien property and Illinois and Penn
sylvania slush funds as the main do
mestic issues confronting this session.
Edward ,Rosenblum, president o, the
Y. NJ. H. A., presided at the meeting.
Mrs. Alexander. Wolf representing the
center, madeM "a shoEH speech. Open
forum Rss held following the speeches.
Evening star., 1926-12-06
CONvICTS RESENT
ATTACK ON @. HENRY
Prison Paper Replies to Mencken
Article Calling Writer
"Jailbird."
By the Associated Press.

~
SAN QUENTIN, Calf. December 9.
A recent reference to O. Henry, the
short story writer as q "jailbird, by H.
L. Mencken. editor Of the American
Mercury, has aroused the ire Of con-
victs at the State penitentiary here.
The editor was assailed in the cur
rent issue Of the prison publication.
the Bulletin.
1.-The kettle calls the pot dirty
face" the paper remarks. 'Mencken
Is a self-styled intelligentsia' (which
Is Latin for shiftless Bohemians. tin
horn journalists and mental vacuums
Of the shabby genteel stamp.
"It Is true that o. Henry was q
jailbird; that is, II having been In
Jail once leaves that indelible stamp
upon a man. It is also true that he
was the greatest short story writer
of his time.
John the Baptist, John Bunyan,
Tom Paine and numerous other i'm
mortals, including Voltaire, were jail
birds: and If the name of Malicious
Mencken endures as long as that of
any one of them, even the most par
simonious hundred percenter of fu-
ture generations will be glad to con-
tribute to a popular slush fund with
which to erect tablet to his memory
and to see that his traducers are
properly chastised."
Evening star., 1926-12-06
PAIR PLACE NOTES
AND THEN DROWN
Bodies of Mining Expert and
Woman Found in Surf
at Tampa.
BY tha Associated Preas.


TAMPA, Fla, December 6.-Lewis
F. Sweeney. A, New York mining ex-
pert, and Mrs. /. Maingot, 35. Port Of
Trinidad, were drowned yesterday
while swimming in the surf here.
Each left a note naming relatives to
be notified In case OF accident.
Sweeney, formerly secretary to j. F..
Stevens, who preceded Gen. Goethals
as chief engineer of the Panama
Canal, and Mrs. Maingot were regis
tered at different hotels. Yesterday
morning they were taken to the beach
at Venice by NJ. L. Robb, a friend.
While swimming together both were
noticed to be in apparent distress and
before aid could reach them they went
under the waves. Their bodies were
recovered.
Mrs. Maingot requested in her note
that a cousin, Eric Anderson. be
notified at the Chatham and Phoenix
Bank, Broadway, New York. or at 1906
Ocean avenue, Brooklyn. Sweeney
asked that his brother, Thomas
Sweeney, Raddison Hotel, Minneapolis,
be told Of any accident.
Both notes were conspiouously
placed in their respective hotel rooms.
Evening star., 1926-12-06
FOOT BALL DIVIDES
HEADS0F COLLEGES
Presidents at Odds Over e.
feet of Growth of Sport
on Studies.
BY the Associated Press.

by tuc AbSDClbtcu ITtsSs
INDIANAPOLIS, December 8. - A
symposium of college presidents
views on William Allen Whites asser
ton that the foot ball, tail is wagging
the college dog is published by the In
dianapolis Star today.
Says Louis B. Hopkins. newly In
augurated president Of Wabash Col
lege:
Undergraduates constitute far less
than 10 per cent of great crowds at
foot ball games and probably not 2
per cent Of the reading public. One
might as We'll contend that foot ball is
wagging the American business world.
We increase interest in the classroom.
not by curtailing distracting In
fiuences like foot ball. but only by
making the classroom more inter
esting."
Other Views Differ.
Several college presidents see
grave dangers in continuance OF the
rise Of foot ball to heights of popu-
lartty never conceived a decade ago.
Football is running away with il
self" DIR. p. l.. Powell of Franklin
College says.
Dr. Il. RI. Murlln OF Depauw Uni
versity classes the growth Of foot ball
interest as unfortunate.
Says White Exaggerated.
William Allen White appears to
have employed his well known skill
in the gentle art Of exaggeration for
commendable ends" says Edward C
Elliott Of Purdue University, but thu
tail appears to wag the dog only t.
those who don't know the rea
dog"
1T Is one Of the most serious prob
lens confronting educational author
ties" says Robert J. Alley, presiden,
Of Butler College.
Less pessimistic, however, is Dr.
William Lowe Bryan of Indiana Uni
yersity. intercollegiate athletics ar.
mixture Of good and evil" he says
But the good far outweighs the evil
Evening star., 1926-12-06
AMERICAN WOMAN
NOVELIST VAN|SHES
Scotland Yard Drags British
Streams in Search for
Agatha Christie.
BY the Associated Press.

WOKINGHAM. Berkshire, England.
December 6.-Scotland Yard detectives
have been called in to aid the Berk-
shire constabulary in their search for
the American novelist, Agatha Clar-
issa Christie. who disappeared after
leaving her home i'll Sunningdale in
her motor car late Friday night.
Her car was found yesterday in Il
hedge on the Surrey Downs. 1t con-
tanned "a grip holding clothing and
some papers. There was no trace of
Mrs. Christie, who is the wife of Col.
Archibald Christie and a daughter Of
the late Frederick Miller of New
York.
Police Drag Streams.
The police are arranging for ma
tional broadcast of her description
and are dragging all the deeper
streams and ponds in the region. AS
the countryside consists of woods.
brush and downs. several days will
be required before the district can be
completely combed.
Mrs. Christie is an expert motorist
and friends are unable to account for
the position of her car when found. as
Is was apparently abandoned while in
motion, swerving into the thick hedge
in which it lodged.
The first body of water dragged is a
little lake half mile from the posi-
ton of the automobile. It bears the
sinister name of silent Pool" is
deep, and has rather mysterious iEs
and outs. being covered with reeds in
places The police were dragging il
again today. and also five other
ponds in that region.
More than 100 men of the Guildforo
constabulary are working on the case
as well as the Berkshire police and
Scotland Yard operatives. who make
a speciality Of tracing missing per
sons,
Evening star., 1926-12-06
COUPLES DEATH
IN POND UNSOLVED
Massachusetts Police Believe
Failure of Auto Brakes
Was Cause.
BY the Associated Press.

bv the AssOclduu
PLYMOUTH. Mass. December O.
Details of the strange tragedy in
which Sarah Swift of Chiltonville and
Antonio Thomas of North Plymouth
rode in an automobile to their deaths
in Little Pond remained unexplained
today.
The medical examiners verdict was
accidental drowning. but the authori-
ties were puzzled by the fact that the
car was found in 80 feet of water and
so feet from shore with ignition switch
turned off and emergency brake set
The spot where the car was found
was $50 yards from the road.
For Ave days the pond held the
secret Of the disappearance. while
police tried to trace the couple after
they left Plymouth Center last Mon
day night Saturday the girls body
WAS found floating In the pond, and
yesterday Searchers with graphing
irons recovered the youths body and
located the submerged automobile.
All the windows of the automobile
were closed but that beside the dri-
ver's seat was broken. Three cuts on
Thomas left arm indicated that he
had smashed it after the machine
plunged into the water and that Doth
he and the girl escaped through the
opening.
\ trail of broken and bent bushes
led from the road to the pond. Police
were uncertain whether the car had
failed to make a turn in the highway
and had plunged through the bushes
and into the pond. but were more in
-riined TO believe that the driver had
turned in among the trees TO park,
turning off the lights and motor and
setting the brake. The ground there
slopes gently toward the water. and
the police believe the brake failed
TO. hold and the car was rolled down
the incline before Thomas could stop Il
Evening star., 1926-12-06
FORMER CONVICT'S WIFE
IS SUING FOR DIVORCE
Mrs. Thora Frazier, Whose Hus'
band Disappeared, Says Mar
riage Rarely Effects Reform.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE. December 6.-Marriage
often fails TO reform an eX-convict in
the opinion of Mrs. Thora Frazier,
former New York social welfare
worker, who is seeking divorce, from
Norman Frazier. The Fraziers be-
came acquainted through correspond
ence and were married in June. 1925,
shortly after Frazier's release from
the Missouri State penitentiary. He
obtained employment here, but in
less than a year he disappeared. Mer.
chants and bankers charged he took
more than $4,000 in cash and dia-
monds. which he obtained through va
rious manipulations.
Evening star., 1926-12-06
WEALTHY WIDOW WEEDS.
Marries Clerk in Hotel Where She
Kept Apartment.

PATERSON, N. j., December 6 Up.
Mrs. Anna A. Warner, wealthy
widow of Ridgewood and this city,
was married Saturday to Charles W.
Potter, son of Rev. Charles L. Potter,
retired Methodist clergyman of Staun-
ton. Va. The bridegroom has been
employed here as a clerk at the Alex
ander Hamilton Hotel, where Mrs.
ment.
The ceremony was performed In
New York by City Clerk NJ. T. Cruise.
Mrs. Warner. whose first husband
died 10 years ago. gave her age a.
So and Potter 45. The couple have
gone South on a honeymoon trip.
Evening star., 1926-12-06
REAL CANADIAN WINTER
GREETS PRINCE GEORGE
Son Of British King, Visiting in
Ottawa, Il Experiencing Severe
Climatic Conditions.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, December 6.-All the
r1gors of a true Canadian Winter
greeted Prince George of England on
his week end visit with the governor
general and Viscountess Willingdou.
A stingtng east wind, with a driving
snow, and temperature we'll below ger"
tailed, however, to keep the sailor
prince Indoors. He attended service
at Christ Church Cathedral. had
luncheon at government house and
spent the remainder Of the day with
his hosts.
He was greeted on bis arrivel by the
governor generals staff. and the
prince later visited the paper mills in
HUI. QUEBEC, called at the Badminton
club. skated at the Mimic Skating
Club and was the guest of honor AZ Il
Euancing party at Government house
The prince leaves tomorrow for 81.
John, where he will sail for England.
Evening star., 1926-12-06

Womanly courage, as exemplified
by the help which Mrs. Z. "A. Brown
lent fellow victims during the explo-
sion last July of the Naval am
munition storage depot at Lake Den
mark, N. j., received official recog-
milton yesterday, when Secretary
Wilbur sent her a letter of COM
mendation. Lieut.. Comdr. Il. A.
Brown, her husband, was killed In
the disaster.
Mrs. Brown, after the first detona-
ton had rocked the reservation, piled
two elderly women and all the chill
dren of her neighbors into her car,
Evening star., 1926-12-06
BLIND COTTON PICKER
ELECTED TAX COLLECTOR
Wife and Son Help Him in Cam
paign, Won Without
Speeches.
3, me Associated Press.

Sy the Aesocated Press.
WEATHERFORD. Tex, December
S.--Blind IL years, Dan Carroll, Al,
has left west Texas cotton fields,
where he has picked a daily average
NJ zoo pounds. and is peparing to take
the office Of Parker County tax col
lector here January /.
Early this year Carroll announced
for collector. With assistance OF his
wife and his Jay ear-old son, he made
a race without speeches because of his
affiiction. y Going into the Democratic
run.ofY, Carroll was returned winner
over Clyde Boley. incumbent. That
was IN August. When cotton harvest
began Carroll took his family to the
fleids. where he groped his way with
sensitive fingers that left few loose
cotton strands for a child to pick be-
hind him.
Twelve years ago Carroll, as farm
er, was struck and blinded in one eye
bv a stick Of wood. Total blindness
soon followed. Operating country
store for a while, he came to Weather
ford and hecans Er2Sfn
Evening star., 1926-12-06
Fireman in Illusion
Sees Train Coming,
Jumps to His Death
BY the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH, December g.
An optical illusion, which caused
a railroad eneineman to leap from
his cab because he thought col
lision with another train was i'm
minent, yesterday resulted in the
death of A. f. Jones. 33. Penn
sylvania railroad fireman.
Jones jumped from a locomotive
last Friday night when he thought
a train on an adjoining track and
travelling in the opposite direction
was on the same track as his en-.
gine. He received n compound
fracture of the skull when his
head struck the tracks. The re-
port as to the cause of death was
made by the coroner.
Evening star., 1926-12-06
Naval Secretary Lauds Officers Widow
For Courage in Lake Denmark Explosion

picked up some Marines along the
way, and arrived, finally, at New
foundland, ". j., with IA persons "in
and on her car" Secretary Wilbur
congratulated her upon the courage
and cool-headedness" which she dis
played.
performed during the emergency at
Lake Denmark and also work done
in raising the sunken submarine S-51
were sent by the Secretary, many to
public officials who organized relief,
hospital attendants and civilian or
ganizations. and certain Army and
NAVY personnel.
Evening star., 1926-12-06
Critics of u. S. Film
Invasion of London
Now Bewail the Mist
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 6.-News-
paper paragNphers, who lately
have bewailed the invasion of
American motion pictures to the
detriment of the British industry,
now are bewailing the British
climate, which interferes with
British film making.
A production had to be aban-
doned temporarily the other day
because of a mist which crept un-
noticed into the studio. 1t was
virtually invisible to the eye. but
made good photography impos-
Sible.
Evening star., 1926-12-06
Two New Cardinals Listed.

ROME, December @.-Mgr.
Giuseppe Gambia, Archbishop Of Turin,
and Mgr. Lorenzo Lauri, nuncio to
Poland, will he created cardinals at
consistory 10 be held December 20.
This announcement vsN made Official
w II The Vatican today. -
Evening star., 1926-12-06
Yacht Club In Basement.

NEW YORK. December R.-A
yacht club in the subbasement. with
a dock promenade and a landing float,
houseZfp be built in the fashionable
residence district. on the East River
at thesfoot Of Fifty-second street.
Evening star., 1926-12-06

Nearly e1o, ,0oo, 900 IL destroyed each
year through the Chinese custom of
burning small pieces of gold leaf on
certain anniversaries, says the Dear
born Iplepsp6ARh
Evening star., 1926-12-06

There were 2sS railroad men killed
and 21.216 injured in accidents INF
Great Britain last year. according to
Official report.
Evening star., 1926-12-06

Coral jewelry is returning to favor
among fashionable women in Paris
and London.