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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
Unable to Pick Out
Home; He Rides Car

He was loquacious though dishev-
elea. A select wardrobe showed indi-
cations of an all night out. He knew
not that his sympathetic listener
Christmas morning on the College
Ave. street car was a reporter as he
told his tale of woe.
"Sure, went home" he said, but
it didn't do me any good. There are
six Of those blankety houses just
alike and 1 live in one of EN-. How
in the thunder could 1 tell which one
at 3 a. m?
Wen. sir, 1 know I tried all Of
EN- and they chased me away every
time. / sat down on the curb 10 wait
until it was light enough to find my
own house and darned cop told me
to move along. 1 moved, but got
tired moving, so l crawled on this
car to keep warm, and here 1 stay
until it is light enough to find my
house Gee, won't the boss raise the
devilr
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
BEWARE THE
COUGH OR COLD
THAT HANGS ON

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serious trouble. You can stop them
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
TWODRUG STORES
SCENE OF BLAZE

Fire thought to have started from
a discarded cigaret stub in the wom-
ems dressing room at the Hook Drug
Store, Pennsylvania and Ohio SITS,
caused a loss amounting to between
three and four thousand dollars
from smoke and fire at a. m. to-
day.
1t was with difficulty that firemen
reached the flames in the basement
the heat and smoke blocking the
stairs. Holes were battered in the
glass in the sidewalk, and water
poured in. The Bankers Trust Bldg,
was filled with smoke. The base
ment of the drug store was used as
a stock room, according to II. C.
Kennedy, manager.
Fire of unknown origin caused a
$3.50 damage at the Johnson Phar-
macy, 1101 w. Thirtieth St, at Z
a. m. today.
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Women Hide

Smithsonian scientists are hoping
that DIR. Stirling won the friendship
of the pygmies sufficiently TO be
shown their women folk. Rawlings,
try as he would, was unable during
his visit to even catch sight of a
woman. AS the white men came the
women fled, and their husbands, de-
spite what to them must have been
unbelievable brides, refused to betray
the hiding place.
DIR. Stirling fails to mention the
women in his letter, but does report
that the pygmies, in general. ARE
very mild hammered. quiet and I'M
obtrusive, and not in the least timid,
seeming to trust thoroughly our good
Intentions"
The great scientific questions DIR.
Stirling hopes to throw light upon is
where the New Guinea pygmies
came from. An answer may give
science a much better idea of mans
beginnings.
The pygmies of the world, accord
ing to DIR. II. s. Harrison, an inter
nationally known expert. are di-
vided into two great groups. the Ne
grillos Of Central Africa and the Ne
gritoes Of the East Indies, including
the New Guinea tribes.
One theory is that the two groups
are related, that the pygmy race orig
mated in Africa and was there ahead
of the later black men. Harassed
by these stronger invaders, some of
the little men are supposed to have
retreated to the center Of Africa,
while others, in frail. toy boats. ven
tured along strange coasts into I'M
known seas, eventually reaching
New Guinea. the largest island in the
world, equaling both France and
Great Britain combined, and called
by Captain Rawlings "the least
known and the most savage land on
the surface of the globe" Here also
they were forced inland by new
giant" invaders, being found today
only in the bleakest, harshest and
most inaccessible regionsi
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Be BETTER AND
HAPP|ER|S WISH
Of LOCAL PASTOR
DR.. WickS States How One
May Hope to Gain
Next Year.

A program of better living for
next year is given by DIR. Frank S.
c. Wicks of All Souls Unitarian
Church.
This is stated in the current issue
of the Indianapolis Unitarian Bulle-
tin.
DR.. Wicks gives his program for
1927 as follows:
LAS you face a new year I would
bid you gather in one sheaf your
memories Of the past year; your rec
objections Of Joy and sorrow, Of sue
cess and failure. Fix in your minds
as permanent possessions, your ex-
periences Of happiness. Take, as we'll
those EXPERIENCES Of sorrow. Trans
mute them, as by kind Of spirit.
ual alchemy, into memories from
which you would not part because
they enshrine love; because they
urge you to be active in good deeds
in memory of what you have lost.
Take even your mistakes, your
errors, your sins, and remember
them just long enough to distill wis
dom from them; then bury them
deep under your present better and
wiser living.
This done, would have you take
the forward look, and paint the fu-
ture bright with the colors of hope.
l would have you face the future
with a courage that dehes any storm
that may blow; with confidence that
good things are in store for you;
the trust that the end of next year
will find yourself a better and hap
pier man.
without this hope we will start
the New Year with leaden feet, de-
feated at the first step"
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ROUMANZA SEEKS
L. s. FRIENDSHIP
Society of Friends to Be Formed as Aftermath of Visit
of Queen Marie-LoCa Meeting After Jan. l.

moniously established through the
organization" Lupear said today, 'as
we'll as the sentimental exchange Of
cordially.
"A like organization called the So
ciety of Friends of the United States
was organized in Roumania a year
ago. Since that time, thirty-five Rou-
manian professors have made a tour
of the United States to study and ex-
change educational problems and So
lutions, largely through the efforts
Of that organization"
a meeting of indianapolis people
interested in the organization will
be held after Jan. l, according to
Wallace o. Lee. chairman of the city
reception committee for the queen.
The organization is good" Lee
declared. Its purpose is ideal and
tends to bind the two countries even
closer together"
Headquarters OF. the organization
are at 33-W. Forty-Fourth ST., New
York City. 1a.
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Interest in the Society of Friends
of Roumania aroused as an after
math of Queen Maries visit here,
has become widespread, according
to Alic j. Lupear, who was chairman
of the Roumanian State committee
for the reception of the Queen in In
dianapolis.
Several hundred letters have been
circulated inviting membership in
the organization, which has for it's
purpose 1.-THE perpetuating and de-
velopment of the existing friendship
between the peoples of the Kingdom
of Roumania and of the United
States of American by promoting
mutual knowledge and appreciation
with regard to their respective his
tories. literature, art, language, con-
ditions and achievements, and, gen.
orally, by the acquisition and dis
semination of information concern
ing the two countries" as outlined in
the certificate Of Incorporation of the
organization.
Industrial relations can be har-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
HOOSier
Briefs

McGrawsville expects to have a
brighter New Year. The Peru Elec-
trio Light Company is installing
transformers to give the town cleo
trio lights.
Birch Graves, Windfall claims the
Crosley Radio Corporation is using
a radio device which he says he in
Anderson firemen averaged more
than a run day during the year.
A. total of 3S5 alarms have been an
swered. Voyle Vandeventer' home
was the last one.
Columbia City lis getting foxy.
Twenty pairs of foxes have been de-
livered to a ranch there.
Evansville's famous Black Annie,
In service for eleven years, must go,
Police Chief Harry Anderson has de-
creed. "A new police patrol has been
ordered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
STREETS BEING
CLEARED; MORE
SNOW FORECAST
May Have Rain Tonight,
Weather Bureau Says
City Uses Trucks.

The Christmas weekend over, In
dianapolis today settled down TO get
ting the snow cleared from Its streets
and establishing traffic as usual"
Mostly cloudy weather will prevail
tonight and Tuesday, with q likeli-
hood of snow or rain, the United
States weather bureau said. predict
ing a slight rise in temperature for
the evening. Lowest temperature
during the might Is expected to be
about 80. But little melting OF snow
is anticipated before Tuesday, ut the
earliest. Temperature at Z this
morning was % or 7 below normal
Fifteen large city trucks this
morning were being used to carry
away snow and ice from the streets
downtown. Crews, with the trucks,
started work Saturday night and
continued on Sunday.
Heaviest Since 1916
1t was the heaviest Christmas
snow which Indianapolis has had
since 1916, the bureau stated. The
fall on Saturday totaled 4.3 inches,
hul lIIlS SSANlCd W q 4h1ANS NAAo
morning. In 1916 4.3 inches fell on
Christmas day. and the fan on Dec.
20 1919, was 6.5 inches. The white
blanket started descending about
noon Saturday and continued till
night.
Snow was general over Indiana,
except in the extreme southern por-
ton, where there was some rain.
Wires Broken
White Christmas brought woe to
the traction companies throughout
the State. Heavy sleet broke wires
by it's weight and. in some instances.
poles were pulled down.
The indianapolis & Cincinnati
Traction Company was the heaviest
sufferer. In the Greensburg section,
numerous poles were severed and
wires broken, Traffic was tied up
for several hours until repairs could
be made.
The Interstate Public Service
Company reported broken wires and
attended delays. The Union Trac-
ton had no trouble. Train schedule
was maintained. although their buss-
es were heavy sufferers from the
snow. four being sent to the repair
shop as result OF heavy snow buck
ing. Bus travel was demoralized
for a time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
TWO DEAD IN NEW YORK
Many Others Hurt i'm Accidents OH
Ice-COated Streets.


BIZ United Press
NEW YORK. Dec. 27.-New York
was coated with fee today and traffic
moved slowly along the dangerously
slippery streets after a storm that
caused two deaths and many in
juries.
One death was due to a fall on
the ice and another to an auto ac-
cident caused by the slippery going.
Four persons were severely injured
by falls on ice and three men were
taken to hospitals suffering from ex-
posture.
The storm started with rain that
turned to ice as it fell, followed by
snow. The city was a beautiful spec
tacle when the snow stopped yester-
day afternoon and the sun came out,
turning every tree into a flashing,
diamond-coated creation of lace
Thousands turned out in the parks
with cameras to record the unusual
spectacle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
PROPOSE HANGING THREE
Officials Announce Plans in Case
Against Man and Two Women.


Against Man and Two Women.
BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-State's attor-
neys today prepared to ask the death
penalty for three persons in connec-
ton with the murder Of John Lind
strom, 81, here Dec. 7.
Until confession was obtained
yesterday it had been believed that
Lindstrom had slipped and struck
his head on the pavement.
Loren Patrick, a former inmate Of
the county Jail confessed that he
dubbed Lindstrom over the head in
payment of a debt to Mrs. Lillian
Fraser, friend who got him out of
Jail by paying fine of S1S7.50 Mrs.
Katerine Cassler, Hebron, Ind, sug-
gested his name to Mrs. Fraser, he
said.
Mrs. Fraser, who had been living
with Lindstrom, wanted him killed
tor $1,000 life insurance, Patrick
said. She also wished to return to
her husband, from whom she had
been estranged four years.
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BOAT CAPTAIN ILL
United Press

BIZ United Press
JERSEY CITY, N. J., Dec. 81
\John Rohweder, captain of the mo-
tor launch Linseed King, which sank
In the Hudson River, Dec. 20, with
a loss of life estimated at forty or
more, was taken to hospital today
with pneumonia. Rohweder, who
faces charges of negligence in con-
necion with the disaster, swan to
safety through the icy water when
the launch went under and was
treated for submersion in hospital
at the time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
After the FLU lis over
you need a Tonic

old-time strength and energy ne
stored. 4
s. S. S. is unequalled for restori =
strength and vitality. 80 ~
You owe it to yourselfsand Tsfnlnr
to give S. S. S. a trial. 1t helps Ma
ture build up red blood corpuscles.
1t improves the processes by which
the body is nourished 1t is time
tried and reliable. S. S. s. is made
from the roots of fresh herbs and
plants, and is prepared in a scientific
way in a modern laboratory.
S. S. S. is sold at all good drug
stores In two sizes. The larger size
Is moro acknowledgements.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
Helps Needed to Restore
Your Wasted Strength
and Energy

Flu" leaves the body weakened
and rundown. In such cases. tonic
is clearly indicated. Restore the APP
petite and rid yourself of that let
down feeling
Flu is very enerVating disease.
1t leaves it's victims so weak and de
bilitated that there is as much
danger from the after-effects as from
the disease itself. In other words,
after an attack Of the "fiu," you
need a selective tonic to rebuild the
system so that you may have your
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
LAD, PARALYZED, DIES

BU Times Special
PETERSBURG, Ind, Dec. 81
Funeral services were held here to-
day for Martin Mohr, IS, who died
here from injuries received last Sep
TENDER in an auto accident. He
had been totally paralyzed since the
accident
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
SNOW BOUND IN OETO
Christmas Celebrants Held Up By
Snow and Sleet Storm.

BIZ United Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. e.
Hundreds OF Christmas celebrants
were storm-bound throughout Ohio
today as a result of one of the worst
sleet and snow storms in years.
Highways in many sections were
impossible under huge drifts of snow
and electric railways were seriously
handicapped while steam roads were
running behind schedule.
Communication was badly i'm
paired, the heavy sleet fall swapping
wires on more than 1000 poles in
Central Ohio and doing considerable
other damage.
Traffic accidents were numerous.
but only two deaths directly at
tributed to the storm was reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
MINERS AID BLAST VICTIM

BU TfmfS NDecfuI
PETERSBURG, Ind, Dec. 27.-
Dependents of the victims in the
Francisco mine disaster received
SLIPS apiece when employees of the
Gray stripping mines here gave their
wages as Christmas present. A
total of $1.525 was contributed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
BARBER KILLS SELF

Bv Times Special
RICHMOND, Ind, Dec. PA
widow and two children today sur
vived Everett Root. AZ, barber, who
shot himself to death. Dependency
over his defeat as a candidate for
county recorder was blamed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
PYGMIES' WOMEN
REMAIN IN HIDING
DR.. Matthew W. Stirling Leader of Expedition Into New
Guinea, Describes Race of Little People.

smoke cigarets, live in primitive
apartment houses, affect hair dye
and wigs in old age, practice matri-
M NAL fidelity, are afraid of mir
rors, but not of fellow men almost
twice their sic.
DR.. Stirling reports:
They are energetic agriculturists
and there are big clearings around
their small villages. They raise a
kind Of white sweet potato, which is
excellent eating. and their staple
product; also a kind of taroroot, SUI
gar cane, raspberries, tobacco and
many other plants l do not recog-
nize. They also raise pigs in con-
siderable numbers and have dogs
"One of their curious customs"
he writes, lis that certain groups
cannot speak to other groups. To
get around this difficulty they have
an elaborate sign language by
which they carr OF conversation.
This custom is believed to be re-
spOnsible for the earlier report that
the boy men spoke only in whis-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
Times Washington Bureau,
1922 Mem York Avenue

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-A letter
from a lost world.
In the heart OF wild Dutch New
Guinea 1t was written, by DR.. Mat
thew w. Stirling, to inform ciriliza-
ton Of a strange race of pygmles
studied there by the American ex-
plorer and his Dutch associates.
Posted months ago, the letter was
delivered to the Smithsonian In
stitution in Washington with the
Christmas mail. arriving just about
the time DR.. Stirling was beginning
the long trek back to the outer
world. The explorer is expected to
land in the United States in the late
spring.
The Stirling expedition plunged in.
to New Guinea's island jungle early
this year, determined to find the
little baby men alleged to inhabit
the almost inaccessible inland noun.
tains. The New Guinea pygmies had
been seen by earlier explorers, notab-
ly by Capt. c. c.. Rawlings, an Eng
lishman in 1910, but hardly any
thing was known of their racial his.
tory.
Four months the present ex-
petition struggled inland through
the coastal jungle and outer noun
tains before finding a pygmy village,
according to DR.. Strings letter.
I'VE travelled" he writes. for ten
days through a belt of no mans
land, a rough, mountainous country
with no sign of human or animal
occupation, no sign Of birds and but
few insects. About a day below
this point we reached a large trib-
utary river with a fairly gentle
sloping valley and the life zone sud
denly recommended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
TO START AGITATION
WilcO A. A. Wants A. A. u. Registra-
ton Committee AppOintive.

BIZ Times Special
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.--The Wilc@
A. A, led by President Hugh Hir-y
shon, will start agitation to make
the registration committee of til AZ
A. A. U. appointive instead of eleo,v
tive at the next quarterly meeting Of
the A. A. u.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
ST.
LONELY, TAKES
HIS LIFE HERE
University of Louisville
Mathematician Had Spent
Christmas Alone.

Apparently Respondent after spend
ing Christmas alone, Professor Louis
b. Siff, 55, head Of the University Of
Louisville mathematics department,
committed suicide by slashing his
throat and both wrists with razor
Sunday morning in his room here at
the SEVERN.
Liberty Bonds totaling $4,000 and
S1,172.13 in cash found in the dead
mans pockets precluded any theory
Of murder. police who Investigated
said. Coroner Paul r. Robinson
started a formal inquest today, prior
to sending the body to Louisville for
burial.
No Close Friends
Professor Slff was unmaaAd, It
was said at Louisville, and respite
his connection with the University
for eighteen years, had formed no
close friends. He roomed at the
home Of Leo Sandman, an attorney,
who said he knew but little OF
Professor Siff's private life. He was
not known to have any enemies,
however.
The body was found by Negro
maid, who entered to clean the room
about 1 p. m, Sunday. Professor
Stiff registered Christmas morning on
his stop-over here to Chicago, where
he was said to have planned to at
tend a mathematics convention.
Made viii
According to word from Louisville,
he designated Professor Warwick An
derson, dean of the university's col
lege of liberal arts, executor OF a
will made few days ago, giving his
estate to the university. Anderson
said he would take charge of fu-
neral arrangements.
The professor was fully clothed
when found, and his bed showed he
evidently had not slept in 1t all
night. Among his effects were found
citizenship papers. He was the son
Of an Austrian scholar, and taught
at the University of Nebraska and
the University Of Maine before go
ing to Louisville.
Professor Stiff had been q singer atN
the Metropolitan Opera House IN
New York City at one time, it was
said by one Of his associates. The
man was eccentric, it is understood,V
and led a lonely life, associating with
no one. The body was taken to the
Kirk & Moore undertaking paSlors,
1880 Station st.
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a friendly contest in The Times
started by publication in Hposier
Briefs OF an Elwood woman's claim
to the oldest school book in the
State has disclosed what is probably
one Of the oldest school books in
the country-a Episcopalean catech.
ism. shown above, printed in 1850,
in England during>the protectorate
Of Oliver Cromwell. The book is
owned by Felix n. Rutter, 1853 S.
Sherman Dr., and has been in his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
Use Stone Axes

1--WE found traces of human occu-
patton in the shape of a faint trail
along the, river. trees which had
been cut down by stone axes and
finally a bark shelter which had
been built on the edge of a bluff
The next day was reached a point
where the main river entered a
gorge with vertical cliffs on either
side. The gorge was very narrow,
probably about forty yards, and a
well-made rattan suspension bridge
crossed the river from cliff to cliff
at the entrance"
Four hours climbing and The ex-
plorers were in their first pygmy
village.
OF the pygmies themselves Dr.
Stirling tells little in this, his first
message, but much of their habits
and general life is already known
as a Jesuit Of the Rawlings expedi-
ton.
Though the English captain prob
ably did not visit the same villages
as the present explorers. his pyg-
mics living in the same mountains,
were of the same race, and DIR. Stir
ling is expected to substantiate the
earlier reports.
These little men, according to
Rawlings, are about four feet tail
and of milk chocolate hue. They
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27

OKLAHOMA CITY, OlIa.-The
city dog catcher here was better
paid than the mayor in 1926. L. III.
Terrill collected S2.648.S0 on dog Ii.
cense fees, besides an additional
$1,l60.80 on fees paid directly TO
the city treasurer. He received
Sl,605.50 for dogs he destroyed,
bringing his income for the year
to S4,410.10. Mayor o. A. Can
gill's salary is $4,000, while the city
commissioners get $4,000 each.
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WLUSHING, L. I.-While coast
guard crews were out looking for
rum runners, two policemen manned
a rowboat and turned coastguard to
pilot a ship in distress to a haven in
Long Island Sound and rescue her
crew of 20. The steamer CASTOR
from Newark to Boston with hole
stove in her bow was sinking when
the Ulcers boarded her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27

WASHINGTON - The body of
Horace II. Smith. prominent Depart
ment of Justice attorney, who was
found dead in his cellar with
revolver beside him, was taken to-
day to Plainfield, N. j., for burial.
Associates Of Smith indicated over
work had brought on nervous
trouble.