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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-19
Mother Who Tried to Kill
Family, for Fear of
Starvation, Freed.

BIZ OHtted Press
CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 19.-An
apparently hopeless fight against
grinding poverty. climaxed by a
question as to whether Santa Claus
would forget again this year to visit
her little home, led Mrs. Anna
Kempf several weeks ago to try to
poison herself and her three small
children.
With almost the last Of her
money, the mother bought card
board container of ice cream and a
package of rat poison. She mixed
them, and the family sat down to
what the children greeted as a treat,
but what she thought would be the
end of their earthly troubles, at
least.
One baby girl died. The others,
though made seriously i'll, recovered.
Mrs. Kempf was tried for first
degree murder at once, there being
no romance or drama in the case
and no reason for delay. The jury
disagreed.
A second trial followed Tuesday,
distracted, hardly caring what hap
pened to her, Mrs. Kempf decided
not to fight, and through her at
torneys offered to plead guilty to
manslaughter. The plea was &C
cepted and Judge Roscoe Hornbeck
sentenced her to a reformatory then
he changed his mind.
mo jury would have convicted
this m other" he said. IT shall place
her or probation"
Mrs. Kempf was freed, to start
over again her fight to feed the two
remaining children, and to remem-
bel' in her moments of rest how the
third one died.
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Id MI sTLEToE AT YULE DATES BACK TO HEATHEN DAYS

AS for how it gets about from
tree to tree, the old Druids might
have seen that themselves, if they
had used their eyes Il bit. The
seeds of the mistletoe are borne
within the white berries, which
eagerly are sought after by birds.
Since the berries are very sticky,
parts of them adhere to the beaks
and feet of the birds, and thus
are transported from one tree to
another. The only excuse for the
Drrid's oversight is that the seeds
are exceedingly small and not
likely to be noticed unless one is
looking for them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-19
Denying an Accusation

NE'FEE along with many others,
I'VE does me a signal injustice
when he expresses himself with ar
dor in belief and then adds,
perhaps you can make fun of it
It is not in me to scott at things
which men hold dear.
Possibly an exception should be
made in the case of hell-f1re preach
ers, but even then such ridicule as
can invent is not intended for
levity. I am just as much in
earnest as they, though on the other
side.
Certainly the conductor OF this
column is not cynic. would like
it fine. The barrier is lack Of Ca
pacity and not the need of inclina-
ton.
So frequent is the phrase cheap
cynicism" that people have come
to confuse the more recent word
"wisecracker" with an ancient and
honorable attitude. 1t is not just
to assume that every one who SCOTS
at the opinions of his day is shallow
or mean spirited.
There was more humanity in the
cynicism of Anatole France than in
all the cheer-up stuff by the Cad
mans, Cranes and Harold Bell
Wrights. One can love mankind
and still be cynical about human
pretensions and the smoke screens
behind which mortals live.
I'm not cynical, simply because
I'm not good enough. A cool and
detached point of view is necessary
and I don't possess it.
4 Copyright, 1928, for The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-19
OLDEST MAN TO
Be QUEST COAL
Roy Chapman Andrews to
Return to Mongolia.

BU United Press
BELOIT, Wis, Dec. 19.-Search
for the oldest man" will take Roy
Chapman Andrews back into the
lonely places of scarcely explored
sections of Mongolia next March
for an intensive study expected to
yield scientific facts.
DR.. Andrews, who was awarded
an honorary degree of doctor of
science from Beloit college, his alma
mater, last night, for his explora-
lions in the Cobb desert, discussed
both his Forthcoming expedition and
the one he and his party just COM
pleted.
He and his associates of the
Asiatic expedition of the American
Museum of Natural History, expect
to find in Mongolia the predecessor
OF the Java man, the closest rela.
ton of the So-called missing link
known to science.
This forerunner of the Java man
will be sought in a treasure troVc
of Rliocene fossils estimated froD,
one million to six million years old,
in eastern Mongolia.
1.-THE expedition just finished,
DR.. Andrews said, was intended
mainly to explore sections of Mon
golia never visited before, in all
We mapped 5000 miles of virgin ter
ritory. We found many interesting
fossil specimens of strange prehis'
toric animals, including the giant
animal enormously termed the
'woolworth,' weighing in the neigh
borhood of thirty tons; a titan
hose, with battering ram nose; and
a mastodon with shovel-like beak.
that used to feed in succulent
fnr.aste r,nillinrns of 1raat.s 400 .
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trees it lives on, how it gets there
(another thing unknown to the
Druids), are all set down, in a
perfectly throbless fashion, in the
botany books.
Mistletoe is a semi-parasitic
plant, which gets its living by
sending it's root-like suckers into
the tissues of other plants and
stealing their sap. 1t is not COM
pletely parasitic, because it has
green leaves and thus is able to
manufacture part of its own
food, but for water and probably
for other parts of its nourishment
it must depend upon the tree that
is its unwilling host.
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rious plant, whose leaves re-
manned green when the whole
forest was bare, growing on the
oak and yet not of it, was an OBJ
ject of veneration among the
Druids of old; how the Celtic
maidens went forth at the winter
solstice to gather it with golden
sickles; how like other pagan Gus
toms it survived into Christmas
usage, being left with us as a first
aid to the bashful and peril to
determined bachelors.
Science, however, has robbed the
plant of much of the glamour
that attaches to mystery. What
the mistletoe is, its relation to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-19
From William McFee

" AM sorry have fallen down
Il on the job this time" he
apologies. II have been sick and
then away in Baltimore, and then
sick again, and I did not see your
article of the early part of the
month. Even now it has come to
me by way of the Toledo News-Bee
of Dec. 3, and I saw Harry Hitch
cocks letter in rebuttal IN the
Telegram before that.
Indeed it was Hitchcock's indig-
nant TRADE which made me send
for your article. I agreed with him
in toto, but I had to find out just
what you had said about Conrad
before I could turn and rend you.
Hitchcock is right in his conten-
ton that there is something about
Conrad that is simply human great
ness. I don't pretend to define it
more closely. I know I felt the
same in the company of Muirhead
Bone, the etcher.
st feel that the afternoon Muir
head Bone took me round the OK
ford colleges last August, putting
me in just the right corner to get
the full glory Of some vista he has
gloated on for years, telling me in
a few words the beginnings of this,
that or the other college, was a
complete education in genuine cul-
ture in itself. And in the same
way, when I read Conrad I am
lifted to higher plane of human
life.
st speak with a certain amount
of energy on this subject of Con-
rad, because I have just spent the
summer in England with a family
of writer's who cannot bear Conrad
at all. They have a positive dislike
of his methods and philosophy.
"Of course, Hitchcock will not eX-
pect me to feel great pleasure to
hear that he can not remember any
of my women. That may not be my
fault. Some men never can remem~
Der women anyhow.
But do feel that he is unusual
when he reports Conrad's women as
being so much clearer to him than
the men. I do feel that Dona Rita,
to take only one, is not a success
because of Conrad's insuperable re-
luctance to tell us the whole story.
I have had to leave re-readlng OF
Arrow of Gold because as a
novelist I felt that Conrad was
muf1ng the story. 1t was too near
to himself think. Something ..ap-
pened to that young Polish sailor
in Marseilles. Conrad was living
romance then and in his endeavoI
to get it over into the book entire
he failed, This is my view and !
don't suppose anybody will say !
have a prejudice against Conrad
Nobody likes to feel that he
doesn't know anything about
women and can not depict them IN
his books. I suppose this is mas
culine pride. For myself l have
long known that any knowledge ]
may have is purely theoretical, II
is some years since my wife put
the whole matter in a nutshell
She said, dropping copy of Com.
mand' in the newspaper basket and
lighting a cigaret, you write q
books, but you know noshing about
re women"
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BIZ Science Service
XXTASHINGTON, Dec. 49,
w Christmas means many
things in many places, but in al
most every land where it is cele-
brated at all, Christmas means
at least one thing-holly. Holly
was part of the Yuletide feast
even in the days when Yule was
not Christmas.
For the people of Europe cele-
brated midwinter feast which
they called Yule even while they
still were heathens, and they used
holly and mistletoe at this feast.
When they became Christians and
began to observe the feast OF
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ries, was one of the chief things
they brought back to make their
houses more cheerful.
And the wise missionaries who
made Christians of them saw
that this custom, though heather,
was harmless, and they did not
tell the people to stop it. And
they have not stopped, even to
this day.
II VERYBODY knows about the
IL romantic side of mistletoe.
For years its story has been part
of the standard literature pre-
scented to the public during the
holiday season: how this mystic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-19

Christmas they kept the holly
and the mistletoe with it.
The old feast of Yule used to
be celebrated at about the same
time we have Christmas. To our
heather ancestors this day, about
a week after the longest night
in the year, was time of re-
joicing, because the days had be-
gun to get longer, and the sun
did not seem to be so far away.
So they searched among the
dead and empty forests for the
trees and bushes that showed
some signs of life, and the little
holly tree, with its bright green
leaves and still brighter red ber-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-19
DIES AT AGE OF 100

Mrs. Hannah Bradbury Celebrated
Birthday Less Than Month Ago.
BIZ Times Special
GREENS FORK, Ind, Dec. 19.-
Mrs. Hannah Bradbury, 100, is dead
here, less than a month after cele-
brating her one hundredth birthday.
More than 200 persons took part in
the celebration.
Heart disease caused death of
Mrs. Bradbury. She was native of
Wayne county and had lived here
eighty years. She was a Sunday
school teacher at Is and was one
of the first w. G. T. U. workers in
WAYNE county.
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I I
SEEMS
TOME
Il u
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

A LITTLE while ago I said that
L N William McFee was the friend
of columnistS. And this I felt be-
cause I've found that it was always
possible to wangle long contribu-
ton from him by the simple ex-
pedient of saying something about
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-19
POISONER OF BABY
GETS NEW CHANCE
SzOeet Home!
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
COESSE, Ind, Dec. 19.7-For
the third consecutive year,
Alexander Miller has obtained
a supply of honey from be-
meath the siding of his home.
This year bees stored $50
pounds, more than half of
which was of high grade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-19
EARLY DECISION PROMISED
ON PROCEDURE OF CITY IN
TAKING over GAS COMPANY
Hoffman to Hold Conferences With Slack
on Different Proposals Before
Final Action Is Taken.
MATTER is DISCUSSED AT LUNCHEON
$4,000 Available for Special Counsel to
Represent Municipality in Any
Legal Proceedings.

Assurance of early decision the cys procedure in
taking control of the Citizens Gas Company originally
provided the 1905 franchise granted the utility given to-
day by City Corporation Counsel John W. Hoffman.
Hoffman, mayor in 1905 when the twenty fveyear agree
entered into, will discuss various proposals with
Mayor Er Slack preliminary setting the stand of the
Slack administration save the gas company for Indian
apOlis."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-19
GIVE REALTORS CHANCE
Home Building Commissions to BE
Offered at G. of c. Luncheon.

Local realtors will have an OPP
portunity to make actual business
commissions at the Indianapolis
Real Estate Board luncheon, at the
Chamber of Commerce, Thursday
noon.
Members of the indianapolis
Home Builders Association will
offer for sale on a commission basis
some of their recent BODYBUILDING
jobs. Fred L. Palmer, president of
the association, will preside.
The business program will be in
charge Of Everett j. Holloway.
Other speakers on the program
will be E. L. Cothrell, William L..
Bridges and Walter M. Evans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-19

Indianapolis IN Christ
mas costume! Stores, office
buildings, clubs, streets
abIaze with red, green and
SiJUer decorations. Soon
homes aOiU don the festive
decorations.
AbOVe-CoIumbiG Club,
aUhich looks like q gigantic
Christmas card.
Center-CircJe theuter.
BelO1U-IndiunG theGter
aOith its grove of SiIUered
Christmas trees.
Left-One of the huge
trees the city park depart
ment placed on each seq
ment of the Circle.
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conrad, partlcu-
larly something
derogatory.
The last time 1
tried this Moth
ing happened. I
ex p re sSed the
o pinion that
the women in
M C F e e S ow n
novels we're more
vivid than any
created by the
dead m a S t e r.
S yer al CORE
spondents came
to Conrad'S res
cue, a n d on e
wrote at Sum-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-19
WINS IN UNUSUAL SUIT

Vincennes Man Hurt by Own Car
Awarded $4,000 Judgment.
BJ Times Special
VINCENNES, Ind, Dec. &c. o.
Miller, garage proprietor, holds a
judgment for $4,000 for injuries suf-
fered when he was run over by his
own wrecker car.
The wrecker was struck by taxi =
cab as Miller stood in front of it
hurting his own machine against
him. He won a $4,000 verdict
against the Yellow company in a
suit for $4,000.
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Gent length to fill half column.
McFee was silent. BY now all is
forgiven, for it seems that he was
out of town, and at the earliest OPP
portunty he wrote to me.
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Man, 81. Hurt by Auto

By United Press
MARION, Ind, Dec. 19.-Richard
Johnson, "a, prominent landowner
and one of the best known men in
this section, was struck by an auto
mobile and seriously injured here
today.
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TALKS AT |. C. CHAPEL
Y. M. c. A. Student Secretary

Y. NJ. c. A. Student Secretary
breaches at Exercises.
Buying Up Every Moment" was
the subject of ]. H. Ehlers, student
secretary of the indianapolis Y. M.
C. A. at chapel exercises Tuesday at
Indiana Central college.
A short farewell talk was made
by DR.. H. w. Marshall, head of the
education department, whose resig-
nation becomes effective Jan. 1,
after sixteen years at the school. DR..
Marshall will become head of the
New Mexico State Normal schools
psychology department.
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Id e a s a n d
opinions ex-
pressed in this
G lu m n are
those of one
of Americas
most interest,"
ing writers
and are pre-
scented with
out regard to
their agree
ment with the
editorial atti-
tude of this
paper.
The Editor.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-10-19
WINTER BRIDE-ELECT
HONORED AT SHOWER

Miss Thelma Jenkins, 1910 East
Washington street, was hostess
Thursday evening for a miscel-
laneous shower in honor of Miss
Eleanor Rosenberg, whose marriage
to william Butler will take place
this winter.
Appointments and decorations
were in the bridal colors, gold and
orchid. The hostess was assisted
by her mother, Mrs. A. c. jenkins,
and her sister, Miss Helen Jenkins.
Guests with the bride-elect and
her mother, Mrs. Louis Rosenberg
were Mesdames William Butler Sr.
and Jack Workman; Misses Vir-
ginia and Violet Taylor, Marion
Hennessey, Dorothy Gift, Constance
Perkins, Beatrice Datzman, Ruth
Strohm, Mary Smith, Margaret
High, Helen and Melba Whiting
ham, Helen Townsend and Lola
Landig.
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of
Sorority at
Dinner Fete

Sigma Kappa Alumnae association
entertained at the Chamber of Com
merce Thursday evening with din
ner served at one large T-shaped
table decorated with three bowls of
dark red roses and lighted with
lavender tapers, to carry out the
sorority colors. Roses were given as
favors.
Miss Helen Woolery Bedford,
served as toastmistress. Miss Alma
Barker. president of the Indianap-
oils Alumnae association, and Mrs.
Horace OldhamS, Greenfield, gave
interesting talks regarding the ma
tional convention of the organiza-
ton held in Washington, D. c., last
June. Miss Owetah Thompson,
president of Tau chapter, talked on
Campus Activities" Musical selec-
tions were given by Misses Mildred
Legg and Martha Temples, Tau
chapter. Guests present were:
Mesdames Paul Summers James Ramsey,
tNODeIL OOleuldn MdIBdEtl 1hkEaFl, Ray
mond Calvert, Verna y. Grimm, William
H. Hutchinson. Robert Lingle Bertram l.,
Edwards, Horace Oldham and DR.. Lillian
Mueller Misses Helen Trent MaryQnn
Baker. Edna Mae Katezenberger, Florence
White, Mabel Bell, Ann Gullion, Helen
Wooery, Beatrice Peck, Cora Jane White
head. Alma Barker Jewel Barlow. Helen
Walsh, Mary Reid. Gladys Nichols. Louise
Townsend Gladys Linton, Martha Tenn
pies and Mildred Legg.
Eleven members Of Tau chapter
also attended.
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Logan
Wed Today
i'm Church

Miss Helen Logan became the
bride Of Eugene O'Sullivan Wednes-
day morning at st. Johns church,
the Rev. Francis H. Gavisk oficiat-
ing. The bride was attended by
Miss Catherine Connor, who wore
a gown of brown transparent velvet
with a gold hat and carried an arm
bouquet of bronze roses. Patrick
Fox was best man.
The bride wore frock of brown
transparent velvet with a hat OF
gold cloth and carried a shower
bouquet of Aaron Ward roses. Fol-
lowing the ceremony a wedding
breakfast was served at the Clay
pool hotel. Covers were laid for
twenty-five guests.
Among out-of-town guests at the
wedding was Miss Mary Dempsey,
New Orleans, La. Mr.. and Mrs.
O'Sullivan have gone on d trip to
Chicago. They will be at home at
337 South Audubon road.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-10-19
TWO ENTERTAIN FOR
SATURDAY BRIDE-ELECT

Miss Irma Roller, whose marriage
to George S. Walker will take place
Saturday, was honor guest at a
bridge party given Thursday eve
ming by Misses Jane Ogborn and
Bertha Green at the home of Miss
Green, 7l2 East Thirty second
street.
The guests, members of the Scar
let Quill, an honorary organization
of Butler university, to which Miss
Roller and the hostesses also be-
long, presented the bride-elect with
a clock.
Those present were Misses Mar
garet Elrod, Irene Bowers, Gladys
Hooker, Irna Ulrich, Louise Eleanor
Helmer, and Mildred Kelly, Frank
fort.
This evening Mr.. and Mrs. Roller
will entertain with a bridal dinner
in honor Of their daughter and Mr..
Walker at the Columbia Club.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-10-19
Family Menus
BY SISTER MARY


BREAKFAST-Peaches, cereal,
cream, baked French toast, milk,
coffee.
LUNCHEON--Ham and veal tim
bales, creamed carrots, shredded
celery cabbage, apple GAUGE, cookies,
milk, tea.
DINNER-Vegetable plate, frozen
cheese salad, fruit cup, milk, coffee.
Ham and Veal Timbales
One cup chopped veal and ham
mixed, one-third cup stale bread
crumbs, three fourth cup milk, two
teaspoons, minced parsley, two eggs
salt and pepper.
Melt butter, add bread crumbs
and milk and cook five minutes,
stirring constantly. Add meat,
parsley and eggs slightly beaten.
Season with salt and pepper, the
amount of seasoning depending on
the Saltiuess of the meat. Turn
into buttered individual molds or
custard cups, making cups not more
than two-thirds full. Put cups into
a pan of hot waiter, cover with but
tered paper and bake 80 minutes in
a hot oven. Turn out of moldS on
to q hot platter and serve.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-10-19
Mrs. Miller at
National Affair
0fJuniOr League

Mrs Eugene c. Miller, 5616 Cen
trail avenue, regional director of the
Association of Junior Leagues of
America and an active member in
the Junior League of Indianapolis,
attended opening of new quarters OF
the national organization in the
tower of the Barbizon hotel, New
York, Tuesday. Nearly five hundred
guests attended.
The opening consisted, of recep-
ton and tea to which officers and
directors from all parts of the coun-
try were present. New headquarters
occupy the twenty-first and twenty
second floors of the tower and are
intended for the use of the 10000
members in the United States and
Canada. The decoration of the
building, after the modern manner,
was done by Mrs. Eugene Draper.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-10-19
BRIDGE AND SHOWER
TENDERED BRIDE-ELECI

Misses Marjorie Okes and Maui
rine Jaquith entertained Thursday
evening with a bridge party and
miscellaneous showed in honor of
Miss Dorothy Lou Thomas, whose
marriage to Robert c. Schetter will
take place Oct. 26. The party was
given at the home of Miss Jaquith,
241 Blue Ridge road,
Appointments were in the autumn
shades and fall flowers in those
shades were used in decorating.
Guests with Miss Thomas and her
mother, Mrs. r. B. Thomas, were
NIesdames U. S. Okes, Robert Nip
per, Walter Carpenter Hiser, Eugene
Hough and F. Noble, Ropkey; Misses
Billie Mae Kreider, Mary Frances
Ogle, Madeline Byrket, Betty
Holmes, Kathleen Hottell, jeanette
Sheehe, Lucille Tymer and Mary
White.