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The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
BURGLARS F0ILED BY
WATCHMAN'S BULLETS
Negro Believed Shot in Attempt to
Jimmy Bank Window.

Two shots, one of which is be-
lieved to have struck a Negro who
was prying open a window at the
]. F. Wild State Bank, closed by
State authorities, we're fired by
Orbis Foist, 1914 Pruitt St., night
watchman at the bank, at 2:30
a. m. today.
Foist told police he was making
his rounds through the counting
room when he heard a noise and
looked toward the window leading
to the alley side of the bank. There
he saw the Negro with large pry-
ing bar and a white man who had
something in his hand.
One of the two bullets shattered
the glass where the Negro was
working and he yelled, Foist said.
Both men ran south in the alley
and an auto speeded after them.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
ELKS WILL CELEBRATE
46th Birthday of Charter To Be
Observed Friday.

Indianapolis Elks Lodge No 13,
celebration of the forty-sixth birth
day of the lodge charter at the Elks
will meet next Friday night in
Club, Merioian and st. Clair SITS.
A stag dinner will be given at z
D. m. under the direction of Jack
Quill. George w. June, sea food
steward, founder, charter and life
member, will be a guest. Charles F.
BALI is secretary, and Edmund
Rosenburg is right honorable primo.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
STATE YOUTH HON0RED
Shortridge High Graduate Wins
Amherst Scholarship.

Paul Bartlett, son of Prof. and
Mrs. George Bartlett of Lafayette
and a graduate of Shortridge High
School in 1923, has been awarded
the Addison-Brown scholarship at
Amherst College, according to word
received here by Franb B. Wade,
Shortridge faculty member.
Bartlett maintained the highest
scholarship record of his class dur
ing his first three years at Amherst.
He is a candidate for the Rhoades
scholarship of Massachusetts,.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
BIND OVER CRASH DRIVER
$1,000 Bond Set in GrottO Death
Accident Case.

Harry Stewart. 6 s. West st., driv-
er of the truck in the Grotto crash
on Emerson Ave. Oct. IA, in which
twenty persons were killed, waived
preliminary hearing on an involun-
tary manslaughter charge In Mu-
nicipal Court late Friday and was
held to the grand jury under $1,000
bond by Judge Dan v. White.
Following the accident Stewart
was arrested and released on his
own recognizance.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
800 KILLED BY STORM STATE LET'S CONTRACTS

Hundreds Are Injured in Cyclone
at Bellore, India.
BIZ United Press
LONDON, Nov. 5.-The Daily
Mails Madras correspondent says
300 persons were killed and hun
|dreds injured by a cyclone at Bellore,
India, ninety eight miles northwest
of Madras.
Many buildings collapsed in Ma
dras also, according to the report
received here. -
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
DRY LID is TIGHTENED
Heavier Jail Sentences Shut Off
Booze, Says Lowman.
BV United Press

BN United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Wider
clamping Of jail sentences on dry
law violators has improved prohibi-
ton conditions in many large cities,
including ST., Louis, Buffalo and
Philadelphia, Assistant Secretary of
Treasury Lowman said today.
Conditions in western New York
are better than at any time since
prohibition, he said. During the
last flve months agents working out
Of Buffalo have seized more liquor
than in any previous period. he
added.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
RETURN DANGERS MATE

Fawn Gray's Husband Here to Face
Stock Selling Scheme.
Hamilton Smith, 40, New York,
wanted by local authorities for vio-
lation of the Indiana securities law,
was returned to Indianapolis from
Baltimore by Detective Sergeant
George Hubbard, Friday.
Smith, who was arrested in Bal
timore, is alleged to have promoted
motion picture company stock
selling scheme. The stock proved
worthless, police said. Smith is the
husband Of Fawn Gray, a well
known dancer.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
Mrs. Leonard Wood Ill

BU Unlted PfeSS
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-Mrs. Louis
Wood, wife of the late Maj Gen.
Leonard s. Wood, former governor
general Of the Philippines, Is in
the Fifth Avenue Hospital today re-
covering from an operation,
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
PIANIsT's RECITAL SET
Willard MacGregor to Play AT
Institute Nov. 13,

Willard MacGregor, pianist, will
play at the John Heron Art In
stitute Sunday, Nov. 13, at 3 p. m.
MacGregor's program will include
1.-THE Beethoven Appassionata Son.
ata," the Bach-BuSoni Chaconne,"
two ballads by Chopin and selec-
ton of old italian pieces transcribed
by Respighi.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
GAS STOVE IS STOLEN
Winter Preparations Made BY
Secondhand Store LOOters.

Cold weather was given as the
propable reason secondhand
store at 1922 E. Twenty-Fifth ST.,
owned by Edward Sinkbinder, 2510
N. Dearborn ST., was broken into
Friday night. A gas stove valued at
$25 was stolen.
Sam Kostourous, 119 N. Liberty
St., reported to police his restaurant
had been robbed of $25, concealed
in a can under the counter. The
burglar is believed to have entered
with a key early in the morning.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
U. S. TO GET WAR DEBTS
S96,574,O00 Will Be Paid Dec. Is by
Foreign Nations.
Bv United Press

BV United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Foreign
nations will pay the United States
$96,574,000 on their war obligations
Dec. IS, bringing total war debt
payments for the year to more than
$163, $4,000, the Treasury an
nounced today.
Great Britain will pay $67 7,575, 900;
Czechoslovakia, $1,500,000; Belgium,
$1,125,000, and Poland, $l,000,000.
Smaller payments will be received
from Finland, Hungary Latvia,
Lithuanis and Esthonia.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
GRANT PILOT PERMITS
City Men Given Licenses to Fly by
United States Air Division.

Fred j. Maibucher, 3640 Fountain
ST., and Karl A. Biedemeister, S.
Arlington Ave-, have been granted
pilot licenses by the aeronautics di-
vision of the Department of Com
merce, according to q Washington
dispatch.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-05
MOVIES NEED ATHLETES
Producer Says Tennis Courts and
Links Will Yield Them.

BU United Press
LONDON, Nov. 5.-Future queens
of the screen will be found on the
tennis court and the links, not the
cabarets, Herbert Wilcox, movie pro-
ducer, commented. Friday in an
nouncing that he had signed two of
England's bright young tennis stars
for the films.
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
EXPLOSION OF SUN
SEEN AS POSSIBLE
Many Other Big Stars Have
Blown Up.

Chicago.-Should the sun explode,
which astronomers say may not hap
pen in a million years, or might hap
pen tomorrow, inhabitants of the earth
would know of it in eight minutes and
would have but 138 hours to live be-
fore they were destroyed by poison
gases.
Astronomers at Yerkes observatory
admit such an explosion is possible
any minute, basing their assertion on
the fact that every star has gone, or
will 60 through the explosive stage.
In the Spiral Andromeda alone more
than forty stars have exploded In the
last twenty-five years.
The last great star to explode vas
Nova Pictoris, which expanded many
thousand diameters In 1925.
Prof. @. 7. Elvey of Northwestern
university is preparing thesis on this
subject. He says:
at Is quite true that stars do ex-
plode and there is no reason why the
sun should be an exception. AS yet
we do not know exactly what the
cause Of this phenomenon can be, but
the generally accepted theory is that
the explosions are caused by internal
eruptions, caused by the liberation OF
atomic energy.
1.-THE liberated energy travels from
the center of the star at explosive
speed. When it finally reaches the
outside the star is many times It's
original size and its intensity in
creases many times.
"Nova Pictoris, the last big star to
explode, has increased In intensity
more than 10000 times.
"ShouId this happen to the sun, and
1t Is entirely possible, we would know
of the explosion in eight minutes and
we would have an outside limit or
1873 hours to live At that time the
burning gases would reach the earth
and we would be annihilated"
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
Largest Of Telescopes Is
Found to Be Too Big

Pasadena, Calf. - Scientists have
found that In making the worlds larg-
est telescope they made it much big
ger than necessary. The 100-foot
dome which houses the 101-inch mir
rored telescope at Mount Wilson OBJ
servatory, above Pasadena, could just
as well have been only 40 feet to house
an instrument approximately 60 per
cent smaller, according to DR.. g. W.
Ritchie, who designed the record star
gazing apparatus.
The smaller size, he said, would
have been equally effective. This will
have no effect on work now progress
ing on Mount Wilson, DR.. T. G. Pease
Of the observatory staff said after re-
ceiving information of the new find
Ing from Doctor Ritchie.
Practical Importance lies in the
greatly reduced possible cost of con-
structiug still larger telescopes, Doctor
Pease said. A model embodying the
new ideas has been constructed and
named the "aplanatic telescope" Like
the great Mount Wilson instrument,
this also IS of the reflector type, in
which a mirror takes the place of the
usual lenses. A concave mirror re
fleets the starlight back toward the
star to smaller mirror, from which
it travels back again, through a hole
in the larger mirror, to the eye Of the
observer. Scientists found a new
method OF making the mirrors, thus
reducing the length Of the telescope.
In the model the mirror is about 161a
inches in diameter. though the entire
telescope is less than four feet long.
Doctor Pease has suggested plans
for an instrument with 300-inch mir
ror to cost approximately S120OO,OOO.
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
Sweets Growing More
Popular in America

WashingtOn.-Fathers and mothers
seem to be getting more indulgent IN
the United States, or else the fathers
and mothers themselves are consum-
Ing more candy, chewing gum and ice
cream, because the production Of
tAese three children's favorites is set
ting new altitude records nearly ev-
cry year. The Commerce depart
ments census Of manufactures dis
closes tremendous Increases which
small boys will find hard to believe.
Comparing 1914 figures with those for
1925, the following was set forth:
The nation now produces $47,838,-
600 worth of chewing gum, compared
with the pre-war figure of $17,000,O0O,
and the product still sells for a nickel
a package.
The ice cream bill is $780, ,175,6S6 a
year. compared with $55,983,133 in
1914.
Candy costs s379OS1. All, compared
with S153, $50, ,523 in 1914.
This present bill of $7OO,OO0,0OO or
more-about S35 annually per small
boy-if small boys got all Of it
doesn't represent all the money spent
by dad and sisters sheik, either, for
these figures are wholesale prices.
Retail prices will boost these three
industries into the S1,0O0,000,O 0,O00-a-
year figure, experts believe.
The increases are variously attrib-
uted to prohibition, advertising, in
creasing export trade, and the at
tempt Of the factories to catch up
with the appetites Of small boys and
high school girls.
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
Gen. Percy May End
the Row In Albania

Scutari, Albania.-The Albanian
question" is now largely in the hands
of Gen. Sir Jocelyn Percy, a veteran
Of the South African war, of several
Indian expeditions and of the great
war.
Gen. Percy came here to reOrganize
the gendarmery and was appointed by
Ahmed Bey Zogu to command the
military and civil administrations Of
all Albania north of the Matir river.
He expects to pacify the turbulent
region Of the Malissore tribes and
thus put stop to the continual agi-
tation along the frontier between Al
bania and Jugo-Slavia.
Gen. Percy's policy is that Of the
square DEAL"
"The tribesmen of the region under
my command" he says, "can come to
me and pour out their grievances with
confidence that they will be heard and
dealt with fairly"
Gen. Percy, after leaving the Brit
ish army as major general in 1919,
went to South Russia with a British
mission attached to Gen. Denikine's
army. He was later with Gen.
Wrangell in the Crimea. He enjoyed
three years of rest and quiet on a
ranch in British Columbia.
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16

tective bureau, was at Omar, the
scene of the murder of Robert R.
Kitchens and took number of finger
prints from the doorway and other
parts of the house of Kitchens. The
object in obtaining these finger prints
is to preserve them and compare them
with the finger prints of some sus-
poets who may be taken into custody
within a short time.
State Detective Ottie Donoway and
former Deputy Sheriff Bud Coy, the
latter being an expert on finger
prints, went to Wilmington and en-
listed the aid of the Wilmington po-
lice department in their efforts to
solve the murder. It was on their re
quest that Detective Mcdaniel went
there.
In order to get the finger prints,
powder was sprinkled over them so
as to bring out the lines and the
prints were then photographed. The
detective returned to Wilmington and
developed these prints so that they
will be ready as soon as possible for
use by the officers at work on the
case.
Though some time was taken in
getting the finger prints. the officers
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
To HAVE APPLES ALL YEAR
UNDER new KENTUCKY PLAN
CONSUMERS CAN HAVE FRESH
APPLES WITH ORIGINAL FLAVOR
Growers at Louisville Convention
Unite and Promise a Constant
Supply of Fresh Fruit


Louisville, Ky.-How the American
consumer is enabled to have fresh
apple on his table or in his pocket the
year around was revealed at the thir-
ty-second annual convention OF the In
ternational Apple Shippers associa-
tion.
'Today American fruits have no sea-
son." said Samuel Fraser of GeneseO,
N. Y, a fruit grower. '"The supply
is constant. While our population has
increased 40 per cent in the last 20
years, the rail movement of fruits and
vegetables has increased more than
300 per cent, and that by truck enor-
mously. The rapid increase in city
population and in the standard of liv-
ing has created a market for Ameri-
can fruits, especially the apple. which
was not dreamed Of a quarter Of
century ago."
Twelve Hundred Firms United.
Twelve hundred firms In the United
States, Canada, Great Britain, the
Scandinavian countries, Germany,
Spain, Finland, Italy, Tasmania and
Australia. have membership in the as
sociation. whose headquarters are in
Rochester, N. Y. There also Is a rep
resentative in London. Producers,
storage men and buyers are represent
ed in the association which thus has.
so to speak, a personal interest in the
apple from the orchard to the whole
sale distributor. A number of British
delegates registered at the convention
and several German firms were rep
resented.
The L A. S. A. is a clearing house
for anything affecting the apple, It
was explained by r. G. Phillips. sec
retary. In June, when the fruit IS in
blossom, the members are furnished
with crop estimates for the United
States, Canada, England and the con-
tinent. The antipodean crop does not
come into competition with that in the
northern hemisphere At the annual
convention in August a statistical re-
port by states and countries Is fur
nished. together with the relationship
of the years crop to those for five or
ports members make their deductions
as to how the crop should be moved
This Is followed up with September
and October reports. showing possible
fluctuations.
Receive Storage Reports.
On December /, association mem
bers get figures on storage holdings in
the United States and Canada. A sim
liar report on January I records the
movement of the month previous,
which enables shippers to judge
whether 1t has been Of right proper
ton Monthly surveys are continued
until June, each time with a resume
of storage holdings for the last five
years.
The stabilizing effect on the trade
of these reports is obvious. The ship
pers are able to move up or hold back
the crop, so that every corner grocery
and fruitstand can have regular sup
plies Of fresh fruit every day Of the
year. Secretary Phillips explained.
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
KITCHENS MURDER UNsoLvED

Detective Mcdaniel, Enlisted to Aid,
Takes Finger Prints at Omar
Detective Horace Mcdaniel, finger
print expert of the Wilmington de-
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
MAN HELD in WOMAN MURDER
Say Negro Confessed Killing Of WO-
man Near Glasgow

man near OIdSBOW
William D. Stewart, colored, Of near
Porter's, who is charged with the muir
der of Alice Franklin, negress, whose
body was found on farm near Glas-
gov, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 6, was
arraigned before Magistrate Thomp-
son, Of Newark, Tuesday, Of last week
and ordered held without bail for the
Grand Jury. Stewart was formally
charged with the killing after he had
made a full confession to Lieutenant
Ray, of the State Police. In his con-
fession, Stewart is said to have stat
ed that he beat the woman about the
head and face with his fists during an
alteration over a trivial matter. Then
he is alleged to have confessed, he
dragged her into a field and left her
there to die. The woman was found
with her head under bush, her cloth
ing disarranged and her face cruelty
cut and bruised. Investigation has
revealed that the negress had lived
with Stewart for the past six months.
The woman, whose body has been held
at the office Of Robert Jones, Newark
undertaken since il was found Sunday
afternoon, Nov. 6, was identified on
Tuesday afternoon Of last week as
Alice Franklin, by her aunt, Sallie
Franklin, of Baltimore.
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
Girl coils" Freighter
to Avoid Liners Ease

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. than un-
dergo the "monotony" Of cross
ing the ocean aboard a luxurious
liner, Miss Ely Carey, English
scientist, made the trip on a
freighter, passing most Of the
time in the stokehole oiling the
engines.
Clad in grease-stained over
alls, she arrived aboard a Brit
ish freighter from London. She
was putting on a cigarette, while
she carefully oiled a valve, when
she was discovered in the stoke
hole.
Il really do think that a wom-
an should do something rather
than simply look pretty she
said, after explaining that she
was on her way to visit a sister
in New Mexico and embarked
on the freighter to avoid the
stupid orthodoxy" Of a voyage
aboard a palatial steamship.
"You see, am awfully interest
ed in engines. so otter paying
my passage money I persuaded
the captain to let me work in
the stokehOle."
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
Claim Of Psychic"
Exposed By Science

Berlin.-Another psychic" phe-
nomenon, backed up by Photographic
evidence, has been upset with nothing
more than a rubber glove filed with
water, plus a common alarm clock.
DIR. julius Won Ries, well-known
physician, tells Of a woman living at
Geneva who believed she was pos
sessed Of the power Of "animal mag
netism" and practiced the laying on
of hands to cure the sick. In an ef-
fort to learn whether any physica!
emanation actually did come out froD
her hands she laid her left hand on
a covered Photographic plate and kept
velOpment the plate showed a lumi-
nous print the size and shape Of her
hand. with what seemed to be short
rays streaming out
DR.. Won Ries was somewhat skep-
teal. He tried the experiment over
again and got the same luminous
print. Then he substituted rubber
glove filled with warm water for the
living hand, weighted down with q
running alarm clock to simulate the
pulse-and again got the same pat
terni Finally he used glass vessel
filled with water and weighted down
with the clock and once more got q
print. this time the shape Of the bot
tom Of tile glass. He concludes, there
fore. that the Photographic effect is
not psychical but physico-chemical.
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
ENSEND NEGRO WAS SHOT
auel Reason Removed to General
HOspitaI AT Dover BY officers

|auel Reason Removed to General
hOspital AT Dover by officers
bert Jones, colored, charged with
1t with intent to commit murder
ping the shooting Of Samuel
-, cOlOred, near Townsend, Sun
/ was held under $4,000 bail when
gned before Magistrate Gluck-
y IN Wilmington, Monday morn
I for a hearing at IL o'clock on
HnOer "A. Lydia Ponzo, colored,
\ held under $500 as a material
! S Tor the state, and also under
on charge Of carrying a CON
deadly weapon, a revolver be-
'olnd IN her possession when tax
% custody by the officers. Rea-
as shot Saturday night, and lay
y ned near Townsend for nearly
hours with half Of his knee
away Owing to the loss Of
AIS condition is serious. He was
I'll . the General Hospital at Do
mere he is said to have made a
u q leat 70 the State highway police
Il lg Jones with the shooting. The
III Vho is thought To have been
Il aed IN the shooting, is held as
ii elal witness, the carrying Of
aled weapon having no connec-
q 81 u the shooting Of Reason.
% ~ I tae tnding Of the injured man
"a Cole, Of the State Highway
IT, AIDED by Owen j. Hession. Ed
Il ssfpenter and John Conrad, of
lTay Police, and Detectives
saa Robinson Of the Whining
d. scuve bureau, began a search
\, NJ Inlnlding him asleep in his
= west Front street, Will
sunday night. The woman
I ]. !. Iound in that city Sunday
d N. N locked up for a hearing and
N. M y giving security was sent
''8 castle County Workhouse.
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
Planes Rout Locusts

Moscow.-A signal victory on the
"locusts 'front.' Is reported by the
aerial expedition In charge Of Kidding
soviet farms of the pest. A total area
of $4,000 acres is said to have been
cleared OF locusts by spraying from
airplanes.
Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
; mutual Between These Men

udl Between These Men
MN rall resounded to the gentle
fsalar T. shuttle Of dancing shoes
NJ VI polished floor. i
n a shaded corner we're two
y lai aai. tall woman With tbe sbarn
|. asked. asked the first man. sl 'lis S''a'p
EaIIS aTII0Sapanion nodded.
H. is,l.; Continued the other oT,vs
IN, ns,oAlng at her for Soma tir,e u
Earrys : 'af' The very last woman
other MAJ
'tOn. 'an gazed at him in adj
p perfs.t y said at length. eve
Il That NJ, os,yllpathy with each
Woman | ian n Is actually the
R'iele-Telegr-a,,rSlr Pittsburgh
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Smyrna times., 1927-11-16
Batik Hats for Men

Paris.-Men's batik hats with batik
ribbon streamers are being introduced
to Paris by male mannequins. The
first of them appeared at the noon
hour at a cafe near the Theatre Fran
Gals. Frenchmen take the batik head
gear calmly.