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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
MILLIONS Will
BE SPENT FOR
SKY DISPLAYS
Fireworks Sales Are Far
Heavier Than Reported
Last Year.
HEAT WAVE PREVAILS
Pre- Holiday Accidents Are
Numerous, With Many
on Casualty Roll.
HEAT WAVE PREVAILS
BIZ Times Speciol

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, July 4.-The
Nation today celebrated the 152nd
anniversary Of its independence.
The cost will be nearly 200 lives.
5000 injured and some $S,000,000
for fireworks, if expenditures and
injuries of previous years are
duplicated.
Increase of about $1,000,000 a year
in fireworks purchased indicates
the celebration will be even more
costly than heretofore, unless small
boys develop an unnatural caution
in setting off giant crackers.
Hot weather over the country
caused fears for a large number
of drownings at swimming resorts.
The capital, deserted by PreSi-
dent Coolidge, most of the Cabinet.
diplomats and officials, celebrated
with few speeches and fireworks
The District of Columbia tries to
prevent the deaths and injuries Of
celebrators by banning sale of eX-
plosive fireworks, but stores across
the line in Virginia and Maryland
had a boom business in young dyna-
mite
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
GIRL HICKMAN is
UNMOVED IN CELL
High School FIapper Tells
Without Emotion of Her
Kill Impulse.
BpNEA service

BY NEA Service
OAKLAND, Cal, July 3.-"The
girl Hickman" is the title police here
have bestowed on Miss Erna Janos-
chek, 17-year-old high school girl,
held on charges of first degree muir
der.
Erna, a pretty, intelligent young
f1apper, strangled to death a year.
old baby, Diana Liliencrentz, for
whose parents Erna worked as a
maid and nurse. She told about it
with flip unconcern.
It strangled the baby because
felt her mother was supporting me
in managing her other child, and
because I felt they were working me
too hard"
At this point the girl interrupted
her explanation to laugh.
Laughs at Crime
81 have to laugh when the i'm
pulse comes over me-" she said
when things like this happen !
have to laugh"
Which remarks help to explain
why the police call her ''the girl
Hickman"
Some criminologists here see ar
amazing similarity between Erna
and the young Los Angeles muir
derer.
Neither in looks nor psycholog-
ical makeup does either one bear
any outward sign Of abnormality OF
degeneracy. Both were bright stu
dents in school, apparently desiring
to do creative thingS-Erna's room
contained scraps of poetry she haC
scrubbed.
Each surrendered abruptly to the
impulse to kill, and displayed nC
remorse or grief afterward.
DR.. and Mrs. Guy Liliencrentz, TO
whom Erna worked, had come tt
San Francisco, where the young doc
tor, a recent medical college grad
uate, is a hospital inferno. Will,
they we're gone Erna calmly calle'
I'D the police to tell them she hat
killed the baby.
Had Impulse to Kill
"Td rather face the police thai
Mrs. Liliencrentz," she explained.
She told how she brooded, alon
in the house with baby Diana ant
little Francora, aged 3, over he
supposed overwork.
Suddenly came the impulse to Kill
She did not harm Francora; she wa
fond of the child. Instead she seize
the smaller child from the Grill
wrapped a towel about its neck an
killed it. Then she summoned tn
police.
At the police station she told O
having had the impulse to kill othe
children who had been left in he
care. Always before, she said, Sh
had overcome it.
She insists, however, that a de
sire to be revenged on Mrs. Lilien
crentz was her sole motive in thi
crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
Surgeons Try to Cure
Boys Runaz0ay Complex
Lad of 9 Has Left Home
so Times in Last Few
Months.
BIZ NEA Serrice

By NEA Serttce
SEATTLE, Wash, July 4.-Sur-
gical science is going to try to cure
a 9-year- old Seattle boy of the
runaway complex"
He is Byron Louth, and alienists
say he is above the average in in
telligence. But he has run away
from home fifty times in the last
few months.
Sometimes he starts out afoot;
sometimes he pedals away on any
kids tricycle. that comes handy.
ct don't want to run away" By
ron says, "but something comes over
me and I just can't help it. If the
doctors can stop me, I'm for them.
I want to stay home"
Around his neck Byron wears a
tag. It says: "This boy runs away;
please send him home to =" Of
flcers all over the Northwest know
him; sometimes he gets hundreds
of miles away before he is caught.
Examination of the child by
alienists here shows that one side
of his brain is over-developed; the
other, under developed. 1t is hoped
that a surgical operation may cor
rect this, allow the weak side of the
brain to develop and so make Byron
a home boy"
Veteran officers for miles around
Seattle say that "it would take half
dozen deputy sheriffs to keep the
kid in his own back yard when he
wants to co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
ROAD NEAR COMPLETION
Macadam Pike to Sunnyside Ready
in Two Weeks.

New macadamized road connecting
Sunnyside tuberculosis Sanatorium
with Cumberland pike, under con-
struction at a cost Of $4,000, will
be finished within two weeks, 4"
County Road Superintendent Luther
e. Tex said today.
Intermittent rains have caused
considerable delay in the last month.
The road is being built with regular
county forces, no contract having
been let.
Prior to now the sanatorium has
had only cinder-gravel road, which
became bad during wet weather.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
COOLIDGE HAS
QUIET BIRTHDAY .
AT REST LODGE
President Declines All Invi.
tationS to Holiday
Celebrations.
BY ROBERT MOOREFTELD
United Press STAFF Correspondent

CEDAR ISLAND LODGE, Wis.
July 4.-President Coolidge OBJ
served his f1fty-sixth birthday an
niversary today by spending a
quiet day with his family at
Cedar Island Lodge, the summer
White House.
He did not participate in any
public July Fourth celebration, but
remained in seclusion with Mrs.
Coolidge and his son, John.
Several birthday cakes had been
baked for the President, both in
Superior and Duluth, and the cut
ting Of them will include the only
ceremony on his natal day.
This afternoon, members of the
presidential party from Washing
ton, visited the lodge.
Invitations to take part in indie
pendence day observances here were
declined by the President, who
made known his desire for a quiet
day with his immediate family on
the banks of the Brule.
The President has taken no ac-
ton to appoint a successor to HUI
bert Work, Secretary of the Inter-
Tor, who presented his resignation
Monday, to take charge of the
Hoover-Curtis Republican cam
paign.
The resignation probably will not
be accepted formally until a success
sor has been named. James w,
Good, who has been considered as a
possible successor, was understood
to have refused the post, because Of
the press Of private business.
Herbert Hoover, it was under-
stood, sent word to President Cool
idge today that he would visit the
chief executive in the near future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
Hospitals Are Ready

BIZ United Press
ST. LOUIS, July 4.-St. Louis hos
pitfalls have provided six free emery
ency treatment wards to care for
an anticipated 400 injured as a re-
suit of today's independence day
celebration.
Forty-four injured yesterday
raised the total for the preholiday
casualties to 155.
Miss Frances Mitchell, Is, was
the second person to be seriously
injured when shot by blank cart
ridge wad. The missile penetrated
her back for an inch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
THURSDAY EVENTS

AhOhoOhA ~ LAN
American business Club luncheon,
Rotary Club luncheon. Claypool.
Advertising Club luncheon, SPHINX
Engineering Club luncheon, Board of
Indianapolis Association of Credit
Men luncheon, SEVERN.
Sigma Chi luncheon, Chamber. OF
Sigma M luncheon. Board Of Trade.
Methods of using the Junior Red
Cross as an educational feature in
the schools were discussed by Miss
Maude Lewis, representing national
American Red Cross headquarters,
before students and faculty of the
Teachers College of Indianapolis,
Tuesday afternoon.
The picnic of the Indianapolis
chapter of the Order of De Molay
has been postponed from Sunday
to Saturday, according to David
Neafus, chapter advisor. The out
ing will be at Broad Ripple Park.
"Sing and Be Happy" was the tip
Harper Garcia Smyth, of Cleveland
Ohio, song director and pageant
producer, gave members Of the Ro-
tary Club Tuesday at the clubs
Claypool hotel luncheon. He led
the club members in singing numer-
GUS popular songs.
Annual picnic of the Columbia
Club, to be held July II at the Ulen
Country Club at Lebanon, will be
attended by about 200 persons. The
picnic will be an all-day affair, with
golf, tennis, baseball and horseshoe
pitching for the men and bridge for
the women during the afternoon.
Suit to paddock a residence and
soft drink stand of Steve and Anna
Stonich, 702 Haugh ST., as public
nuisance, was filed in Superior
Court Three Tuesday by attorneys
for the Anti-Saloon League. Liquor
has been sold there, it was alleged.
A years paddock is sought.
Russell Smith and Earl Drake,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
Stunts at Evansville

Lieut.. Paul Payne of the Hoosier
airport was at Evansville today for
Fourth of July celebration exhi-
bition. He has been there several
days and will return Thursday.
Capt E. w. Sweeney of the same
airport was scheduled to give an ex-
hibition at HARTFORD City today, pro-
vided the weather was suitable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
Eight Hurt in Crash

By United Press
DENVER, July 4.-The first
Fourth of July automobile accident
reported here today injured eight
persons, two seriously.
An automobile driven by w. c.
Thornton, Denver f1nancier, turned
over, injuring the eight occupants
The injured are: Thornton, his
wife, Rose; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wigg,
Kansas City, Mo-; Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Eaton, Denver; Mr.. and Mrs
A. E. Moore, Cincinnati.
Sixteen other persons were in
jured in crashes here yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04

both 80, of Shelbyville, were ordered
held to the Federal grand jury on
liquor charges by United States
Commissioner John w. Kern Tues
day. Bond was set at $500. 1t was
charged that Drake, a Shelbyville
hotel porter, sold liquor to Smith, an
employe Of a poolroom, at Shelby
vile Monday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
CABS COLLECT JEWELRY

NEW YORK, July An four
months. this year, more than $751;
600 worth of jewelry has been left
in taxicabs in this city. Forty-flve
packages OF jewels, besides cloth
ing, brief cases, luggage, UNI 2rellas,
canes and other articles were found
by drivers after their fares had de-
narted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
New Golf Links Near Rushvine

By United Press
RUSHVILLE, Ind, July 4.-The
Rush County board of commission
ers has agreed to converting the
old Playground here into golf
course. The new course, covering
twenty-five acres, is about one and
one-half miles from the city, and
promoters believe will afford place
for local golf enthusiasts to play
instead Of going to nearby towns
with courses. Oliver Cartmel, Hal
bert Brown, Virgil Maffett and
Robert L Newlrik, local business
men, are promoters Of the course.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
Damp Fourth

By Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 4.
The Fourth of July for Mrs.
Arthur Stone and her two lit
tie children. They are ma
rooned by hgih water near the
mouth of Green River, where
the family has a summer cot
tage.
The husband and father, a
local attorney, plans to ask aid
Of the Government relief
steamer Kankakee unless the
water recedes by Thursday.
The family has plenty of food
In the cottage, but there will
be no fireworks for the chill
dren.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
Steal Cannon

MORRISTOWN, Pa, July 4.
Five men are sought as the
thieves who attempted to steal
an antique cannon from a shop
here last night for a Fourth of
July celebration. They they
were dragging the cannon down
the street at the end Of a rope,
a trolley crashed into II and
smashed 1t.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
STORM DAMAGES HOMES
Wind and Lightning Combine at
NobIeSville.

BU Times SDecldI
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, July "A
heavy electrical and wind storm
which swept this city today dam
aged homes for a distance of four
COR five blocks in the vicinity of
the 1900 block North st.
Six persons in a house wrecked
by lightning escaped injury, but a
mother dog and her six pups in the
rear of the house were killed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
BALKS RUN ON PARD0NS
Colorado Governor Ends Year
without Freeing a Prisoner
syNEA serVice

IIO0
DENVER, July 4. - Governor
Billy" Adams has made pardonS
in Colorado very unpopular since
his Inauguration more than>a year
ago. Despite terrific pressure he
steered the ship of State to the
close of his first year at the helm
without granting a single pardon to
penitentiary prisoners.
Prior to attaining the States
highest Office, Governor Adams
served forty years in the State
legislature, from district in the
where he still has vast ranch prop
southwestern part of the State,
critics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
TOWN HAS THREE TIMES
AlvOrdton, CO., Residents Give Up
Hope of Knowing Hours

ALVORDTON, Ohio, July d
Finding out the time in this town is
a tough job. Ask one man and
you'll get one kind Of time, ask an
other and you'll be an hour late and
a third and you might be an hour
early. Some folks in this town go
by sun time, railroad men go by
central time, which is the official
time of the State.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
ANCIENT BELL is RUNG
Caretaker in Philadelphia Carries
Out Old Custom.

BIZ United Press
PHILADELPHIA, July 4.-One
hundred f1fty-two pealings of the
bell on the old Statehouse marked
the anniversary of American indie
pendence at midnight.
AS has been the custom since 1776,
the caretaker has tolled the bell at
midnight on July the number of
times that the anniversary is old.
Belated pedestrians paused ana
many removed their hats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
CAROLINA CAPITAL Is
PERILED BY FLAMES
Historic Hotel Is Destroyed by
Raleigh Blaze.

Ralelgn bIdZe.
By United Press
RALEIGH, N. c., July q. - Fire
threatening an entire business block
including the city auditorium here
was brought under control after the
historic old Marlborough Hotel was
destroyed.
Fire fighting equipment was called
from Durham, twenty-six miles
away, to aid local liremen In con-
trolling the flames.
Other buildings in the block
where the fire conferred were be-
lieved out of danger, but f1remen
continued to play water over the
smoking ruins of the hotel and on
nearby buildings.
The fire was discovered in an
elevator shaft soon after it had
started. There we're few guests in
the rooms at the time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
SERVE MEMPHIS FREE
Two officials Refuse Checks; Fire
mems Fund Benefits.

MEMPHIS, July 4.-Imagine
working for nothing! You would
not like it-yet that's just what
M. j. Condor and Lloyd Bindford
do. Condor is chairman of the civil
service commission and Bindford
is chairman of the board Of CEN
sors. They both refuse their MONTH
ly checks; Bindford has neve allied
for his and Condor lets b. remain
with the city clerk for several
months and then signs them over to
the f1remen's relief fund.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
WILLS IN FINAL

American Tennis Queen Beats Eliza-
beth Ryan at Wimbledon.
BIZ United Press
WIMBLEDON STADIUM, Eng
land, July 4.-NIiss Helen Wills,
American champion of all three
leading tennis countries, entered the
final in the womens singles at the
All-England tennis championships
today by defeating her Wightman
Cup team mate, Miss Elizabeth
Ryan, with the loss Of only two
games, 6-1, 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
TRIES TO CHANGE LOOT
Boy Caught in Attempt to Select
Fit in Ball Nit

ELYRIA, Ohio, July 4.-Summer
time and baseball can do lot Of
things with a small boys mind. A
lad of ten, passing a bank here,
saw the sporting goods display of a
store. He took a fancy to a base
ball glove in the window. He
walked into the bank, took the glove
and walked out. Later, finding the
glove didn't fit, he went to the
store and tried to exchange it for
another, with disastrous results.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
FIND STONE AGE BONES
Three Skeletons Of Famous Cro-
MagnOn Race Unearthed
BIZ Science SerUice

BIZ Science SerUice
PARIS, July A new find Of
three skeletons Of the famous Gro
Magnon race Of stone age times is
reported from the alice du Roc.
Charente, in France. The remains
were those of a man about fifty
years old, Of a woman, and of a
youth just cutting his first wisdom
tooth. They had apparently all
been buried in a cave, the roof of
which later fell, covering their
graves still more deeply with rough
blocks of stone. This rock fall had
considerable damaged the skeletons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
EXPLORER Will
FOLLOW TRAIL
OF MARCO POLO
Chinese Region May Bare
New Story of Origin
of Man.
Rm Science Serrice

BIZ Science Service
HANKOW, China, July 1.-The
footsteps of Marco Polo will be fol-
lowed by Prof. George B. Cressey,
Shanghai College geologist, who has
Just passed through here en- route
to KanSu and Inner Mongolia,
where he will study the ancient past
of those remote districts of China.
New evidence of the origin of man
may be unearthed by Professor
Cressey in his studies, although his
principal studies will be upon the
climate of Asia during the last ten
millions of years.
Whether the people of the over
crowded plains OF China will be able
to emigrate to the great expanses
Of empty land in Mongolia, as some
writers have urged, may be deter
mined by agricultural studies to be
made by Professor Cressey.
Explores in Mongolia
The area to be explored lies in
western Inner Mongolia, north Of
the Great Wall from Kansu. Ex-
cept for irrigated strips along The
Yellow River all this region is a
desert.
In the center of the area lie the
great ALASKAN range of mountains,
which rise to over 10000 feet, and
divide the desert into two distinct
regions, the ALASKAN desert on the
west and the Ordos on the east.
The Ordos includes the district
within the great northward bend
Of the Yellow River outside the
Great Wall.
Although an ancient Monaghan
trade route crosses this district, it
seldom has been followed by for
eigners. Except for the few trails
most of the Ordos and ALASKAN is
quite unknown, both geographically
and geologically.
Marco Polo crossed the area on
his Journey to China, and during
much of the summer the expedition
will be following in his footsteps
The Chinese city of Ninghsia anc
the Mongol trade center Of Wang
Yeh Flu will be the headquarters
for work.
Knows This Region
Prof. Cressey has over 200 miles
of travel in Inner and Outer Mon
golia to his credit Both the OrdoS
and the ALASKAN we're visited by
Prof. Cressey in 1924, on the return
from an expedition to Koko Nor in
Tibet.
There was no opportunity for de-
tailed studies at that time, but hasty
examination indicated severa.
promising areas. Since that time
the few available reports of earlier
explorers have been examined anc
definite projects mapped out.
An attempt to continue work il
1926 resulted in an attack by bri-
| gands, before the area was reached
Mongolia itself is characteristically
peaceful, but the Chinese border
lands are often in an unsettled con-
dition.
Reports indicate that condition,
along the route which it now is pro-
| posed to follow are quiet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04

By United Press
NEW YORK, July 4.-James
Altman, former English jour-
nalist, who says he failed to
make a living from his pro-
fession because of his inability
to learn to use the typewriter,
was arrested here for soliciting
aims.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
ELECTRoCUTE INSECTS
Englishmen Proposed Charged"
Wire to Replace Fly-Swatter.

BIZ United Press
LONDON, July 4.-Don't swat the
fly, for another and easier method
has been invented here which
doesn't take one-half the effort Of
swinging a fly swatter. It is made
OF two bare-wire solenoids in a
case, on which a bait that appeals
to the insects appetite is laid. An
electric light attracts the insects.
they go to dine, and are electrocuted
or stunned so that they fall into
trap and cannot escape.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
TOO MANY CHICKENS
Two Men and Women Caught I'm
loading Hens From Machine.

Too many chickens caused the ar
rest of George Chadwick, Al, of 1856
e. McCarty ST.; Roscoe Williams,
Al, Of 522 Virginia Ave-, and Helen
Blake, 46, of 1859 S. Delaware ST.,
on vagrancy charges Tuesday night
Sergt. Cummings and squad found
the three unloading chickens from a
sedan in front Of 1876 E. mccarthy
st. They found four chickens in
the house. Williams and Chadwick
told different stories, the police
allege.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04
FARM LEADERS CALLED
Committee viii Decide Monday on
Political Action.

By United Press
DIES MONIES, Iowa, July A.
The corn belt committee, composed
of farm organization leaders in
eleven middlewestern States, will
meet here next Monday, under a
call issued Tuesday to consider the
farm relief planks in the Demo-
cratic and Republican platforms.
Definite action as to which party
to support is expected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04

In Georgia every unmarried man
or woman of 80 has to pay tax of
Sc yearly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04

Church, near Porlock, England.
Measuring only thirty feet long by
twelve feet wide, the church is re-
puted to be the smallest in the
country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-04

The first wedding for ten years
has just taken place at Culbone
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-15
HONEYMOONERS
IN AIR CRASH
nv international New. Service

nv International News Service
DETROIT. Feb. 15.--Three Cleve.
land Detroit airplane passengers were
recovering today from injuries sut-
fered when their plane crashed last
night. mile west of Wayne, In a
forced landing.
Two of the passengers, Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer J. Sermak, of Cleve-
land, had been married just before
the hop-off. The third passenger
was Dan S. Busche. of Los Angeles.
Five passengers entered the plane
at Cleveland, but two were forced
out because Pilot Brandon failed in
six attempts to lift the ship from
the wet field.
The pilot lost his way in dense
fog over Monroe. according to
Rusche, and after circling aimlessly
he returned to Monroe. Finally, the
pilot was forced down near Wayne
and the plane crashed into trees
and underbrush, landing in a ditch.
The passengers injuries were
minor. The pilot was uninjured.
The plane was wrecked.