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The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
63 Bells Shipped Here by
English Firm; viii Be
Placed in Cathedral.

The sixty-three bells in the new
Scottish Rite carlton were released
from bond Wednesday by George
M. Hawkins, assistant collector of
customs, when they arrived in In
dianapolis in three cars from Bos-
ton.
The cars were spotted at Pratt
street and the canal on the Big
Four lines, and work was to start
today for their removal to the sing
ing tower of the cathedral.
r. S. Ferguson, resident manager
of the American Railway Express
Company; A. T. Byers, Big -Four
city freight agent, and j. D. Heck,
Big Four yardmaster, assisted the
customs official.
The largest bells were packed
separately, and the smaller bells
we're contained in large boxes. They
were made by the John Taylor Bell
Foundry at Loughborough, England.
The entire shipment weighs 1O5,-
24O pounds, and is said to be one
of the largest single shipments ever
handled in the local yards. Custom
duty was about $4,000.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
DANCER IN FLAMES;
PANIC IN THEATER
Ballet Leader Stops Rush
With Special Number
by Actress.

BIZ United Press
TROY, N. Y, Dec. 13.-Backstage
of the Troy music hall Wednesday
night, Miss Georgianna Urrutea,
21-year-old New York ballet dancer,
stepped too close to an open gas jet.
Her gauze-like Spanish costume
caught fire and she ran screaming
up a flight of stairs.
Before the footlightS, ballet dane
ers stopped short. ......'..
The audience startled by the
screams, in a moment saw smoke
pouring onto the stage from the
wings and started rush for the
exits.
Firemen on duty forced them
back. Miss Doris Niles, ballet lead
er, true to the traditions of the
stage, assured the assemblage there
was no cause for alarm and put on
special dance.
Backstage, Miss Urrutea stood
wavering at the top of the stairs.
Before aid could reach her, burn
ing Spanish shawl had scared her
back, shoulders, arms and legs.
A physician was summoned from
the audience.
He took her to Samaritan hos
pital, where her condition is re-
ported serious.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
THAW, EVELYN
FROLIC AT CLUB
Meets Former Wife at New
Cabaret Opening,

By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec 13.-Harry K
Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit frolickeo
at night club early today, just a.
they did in the days before Thaw
shot to death Stanford White, but
it was all swell publicity stunt"
Evelyn opened a new night club
as an entertainer Wednesday night
and Harry was invited by a
thoughtful press agent as one of
the premier guests.
Thaw walked into the club and
saw Evelyn. For a minute he was
nonplussed and then he said:
Hello, you're looking we'll"
Hello, you're looking well your
self, Evelyn responded.
Later she joined Thaw at the
table where he sat with two othed
entertainers. ,
Thaw exchanged repartee with
the three and Evelyn told all about
her son Russell Thaw, who now l.
licensed pilot. She waved her
arms in describing her sons air
proWess and Thaw, smoking a large
black cigar, nodded knowingly.
He left early in the morning.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
MAIL EARLY, PLEA
PoStOffiCe Prepares for
Holiday Rush.

All Christmas packages and let
ters for distant states should be
mailed not later than this week,
if they are to be delivered before
Christmas, Postmaster Robert H.
BrySon warned today.
Final arrangements were being
made today at the postoffice for the
big rush expected to start next
week. Some Christmas mail has
passed through the postoffice al
raedy. The peak rush is expected
Dec. 81.
One stamp and two parcel post
windows Will be open from to 6
p. m. Sunday, and beginning Mon
day parcel post windows will be
open from a. m. to 1870 p. m.
daily, Bryson said.
Part of the 600 additional Christ
mas rush employees will start work
Monday, Extra parcel post delivery
routes will be started Monday, with
branch distribution stations in
Broad Ripple, Brightwood, Irving
ton, E. Michigan street and Uni
versity Heights.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
BLOCK BURIAL TODAY
Hold Funeral for Merchant
This Afternoon.

Funeral services for William H.
Block, founder of the William H.
Block Company department store,
are to be held at 2 p. m. today at
the residence, 1918 North Delaware
street.
Rabbi Victore E. Reichert of Gin
cinnati is to officiate. Burial will
be in Indianapolis Hebrew Congre-
cation cemetery. Illness will pre-
vent Rabbi M. M. Feuerlicht of In
dianapolis Hebrew Congregation
from participating.
Business leaders, Block store en-
ployes and friends will join in pay
ing tribute. Scores of messages of
coincidence have been received. The
Block store is closed all day.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
IRATE WOMAN'S
AK RAID STARTS
DRY CRUSADE
Kansas City Police Chief
Wins Federal Aid in
Cleanup War.

81 United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 13.-
A city that will be made as dry
as posSible-but not bone dry-wa5
the future for Kansas City as the
city police department, federal and
county officers united in o drive
against bootleggerS that promised
to be the greatest since prohibition:
became effective.
The drive to make Kansas City q
desert instead of an oasis came as
the climax to the action of Mrs.
Maud Wilson in demolishing with
a hand ak a saloon that threatened
the happiness of her home by SELL
ing liquor to her 18-year-old daugh-
ter and husband.
Dispositions were taken from her
Yesterday for presentation to &
grand jury.
Quibbled Over Blame
For two days after the "axing' in
aident. federal and local officers
quibbled over who was to blame for
5he saloon-ridden condition of the
city. but truce was reached late
Yesterday, allowing city officers full
play in federal courts.
Lincoln R. Toyne, chief of police,
after receiving the pledge of CO.
operation from federal agents to
dry up Kansas City, today declared
the department meant business this
time.
kansas City will be as dry as
possible following the series of raids
that we will make, but it will not
be bone dry" the chief said.
"There always will be some wet
places and the best we can do is to
minimize the booze evil. The city,
county and federal officers will wage
a concerted drive to make the boot
Ieggers and soft drink parlor pro-
prietors suffer as they have never
suffered before"
Hint Drastic Methods
Toyne didn't care to reveal what
methods he would use to get the
liquor out of Kansas City before
Christmas but he intimated they
would be drastic.
twenty-five 'air-tight' liquor
cases from the police for prosecu-
ton in federal court and word of
this would fly through the under
world so fast that the sale of liquor
would be reduced by half" said the
chief.
Toyne declared that liquor has
come into Kansas City in carload
lots from Chicago, Detroit, Pitts
burgh and Philadelphia.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by
the police:
Kenneth Horney. Rural route No.
1, Noblesville, Ind, found at 8l2
Church street.
Red Ford coupe, license 250-5l2
found in front of 10 East Maryland
street.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
SUES TO KEEP HOOVER
FROM OFFICE; JAILED
Asks Injunction; Charged With
Lunacy.

By UHttCd Press
CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 13-Gus
tave Ebding, inventor and author
of "The World Not a Globe" todas,
was in Jail here on a federal charge
of conspiracy following the filing of
suit to enjoin the induction of
Herbert Hoover as president. 4
lunacy warrant also was brought
against him.
Ebding contended his suit 7as the
result of his interest in constitu
tional and political history and was
simply filed to SETTLE legal point
"on which lawyers are not agreed. "
He set out that Hoover has been
a legal United States resident but
nine years.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
WATSON PICKS MAN
C. A. Smith, LoganSport,
Urged for U. S. Marshal.
BIZ Times Special

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Sen-
ator James E. Watson today recon-
mended to President Coolidge the
name of Charles A. Smith, of Lo-
gansport, an examiner for the state
board of bank examiners, for the
position of United States marshal Of
the northern Indiana judicial dis
trict.
This is the position from which
Frank E. Rozelle, of La Grange re-
signed a few months ago.
Smith formerly was deputy audi
tor of Cass county, and formerly an
accountant for Westinghouse, Stone
g. Wester, and other big utility
firms, and also for Logansport con-
tractor.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
STAGES SILENT H0LDUP
OF STORE WITH NOTE

Bandit Hands Clerk Slip of Paper;
Escapes With $50.
BIZ United Press
BOSTON, Dec. 13.-A silent rob-
berry, in which the bandit wrote his
commands on a slip of paper, was
staged in the business district here
Wednesday night.
A f1ashily- dressed young man
sauntered into a chain cigar store
and handed clerk William Barry a
note which read:
keep quiet Hand over all the
cash. One suspicious move and I'll
slug you.
(Signed) "a Quiet Customer"
The clerk passed $50 across the
counter and the bandit escaped.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
FIVE GUILTY OF ATTACK
Men Sentenced at South Bend on
Girls Charges.

BIZ United Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec 13.-
Five men ranging in age from 81 to
20 we're sentenced by Circuit Judge
Cyrus E. Pattee today to serve from
5 to 81 years in the state reforma-
tory for criminally attacking a IT.
year-old girl last June.
Leo Shaffer, Lester Evans and
Russell Juday stood trial and we're
convicted. Peter Kish and Bumus
Murray pleaded guilty.
Both court and prosecutor char
acterized the quintet as "a gang of
beasts and despoilers."
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
FLAPPER KILLER
ELUDES POLICE
Dance Halls Searched for
Mystery Gun Girl.
BIZ United Press

BV Unitcd Press
CANTON, o., Dec. 13.-Suburban
dance halls frequented by Vernard
Fearn, Waco coal dealer who was
shot and killed week ago by a
mysterious gungirl, continued to re-
ceive the attention of police today.
Sheriff Edward Gibson said he
hoped to find a dance hall habitue
who will be able to give some def
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Acknowledgements to the po-
lice as having been stolen:
c. H. Bradley, SAB West McCarty
street, Dodge coupe, license 19-409,
from Vermont and Illinois streets.
George Traubarger, 1926 East
Eighteenth street, Pontiac coupe,
license 647-936, from rear of 403
East Market street.
william Renshaw Chicago, Ill.
License Illinois 1-232-907, from
Capitol avenue and Georgia street,
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
CONFESSES KILLING z
Texas Trapper Tells of
Casting Bodies Into River.
BIZ TniteA Press

BIZ United Press
PORT LAVACA, Tex, Dec. 13.-
Flood waters of the Guadalupe riv-
er were watched today for the
bodies of two brothers believed to
have been murdered and thrown
into the stream.
In Calhoun county jail here is a
grizzled trapper arrested after he
told R. w. Moore, father of the slain
men, of throwing the bodies of VOL
let Moore, 26, and James Moore, %,
into the river. near his cabin on
KellerS Island.
q, The trapper said he clubbed and
shot the Moore brothers after a
drinking argument at his cabin.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13

mite information concerning the
girl and her motive for killing the
young coal man.
"It is true" County Prosecutor
Henry Harter admitted today, that
our efforts for the week have been
barren of results; we do not know
who the killer is, nor her motive.
ct want to add, however, that the
search will not slacken because of
these difficulties"
1t was a week ago tonight that
the phantom fapper, as she is
known locally, called Fearn to the
door of his home and shot him five
times.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
AGED MAN AUTO VICTIM

Crossing Ohio street in the 400
block Wednesday night, Hubert
Whittenhouse, 10, OF 422 East Ohio
street, was knocked down when he
stepped into the path of an auto
mobile. Suffering from severe cuts
and bruises and possible skull
fracture, he was taken to city hos
pital, where his condition this morn
ing was reported serious. Paul
Koehring, Orion avenue, the driver,
was held blameless by witnesses
ana was not arrested.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
Ex-French Ambassador Dies

PARIS, Dec. 13.-Paul Daeschner,
IS, former French ambassador at
Washington and Constantinople
and former minister of war, died
here today of heart disease.
Daeschner had been awarded the
grand cross of the Legion of Honor.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
NET EARNINGS GAIN
Indianapolis Street Railway Co.
Reports Big Gain.

Net earnings of the Indianapolis
Street Railway Company for
October totaled $137,119.26, an in
crease of $2O,01166 for the same
month in 1927 the report submitted
to the public service commission
shows.
Gross earnings, however, de-
creased $4,45847, the total being
SAT-, 1918.
The increased net was result of
reduction in operating expenses
and less taxes.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
Pursne Algerian Raiders

ALGIERS, Dec. 13.-Punitive eX-
petitions of both Moroccan and
Algerian troops are pursuing tribes
men connected with ambushing and
killing of five French soldiers near
Colomb- -Bechar but had not re-
ported anY CAPTURES early today.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
OFFERS 4-ACT COMEDY
Presbyterian Club to Produce Play
Friday Night.

A four-act comedy, 1.-The Return
of High Jinks,' will be given at 8
p. m. Friday by the Boosters Club
Of the Tabernacle Presbyterian
church in the church assembly
room. Meredith Shaffer and Mary
Louise Wheeler are the stars and
are supported by a cast composed of
Katherine Price, Wilma Fiske, Har-
old Dunkel, George Whiteman,
Mary Beatrice Whiteman, Mary
Alice Click, Lucille Chafee, Virginia
Sanders, Fred Bowman, Charles
Clray and Grace Dyson, j. B. Mar
tin, executive secretary of the
church, is director.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
REALTORS GET JOBS
Board Names Two New Directors at
Luncheon.

Herbert c.. Knight, H. M. Stack
house and Marion Stump, all we'll
known Indianapolis realtors, were
elected directors of the indianapolis
Real Estate Board at a luncheon to-
day in the Chamber of Commerce.
They will serve three years on the
board.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
TEST BOY FOR SANITY
Slayer of Teacher Goes Before
Commission Today.

bY OHII6U FTCF8
STANTON, Mich, Dec. 13.-
Jimmy Deacons, 15-year-old con-
fessed slayer of Miss Flossie Car
ter, Sheridan school teacher, will
face sanity commission today to
determine whether he will under
take an insanity defense.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
$500 ATTEND OPENING
r. o. T. C. Members Escort Guests
at Shortridge Open House.

More than $500 citizens inspected
new Shortridge high school, Thirty
fourth and Meridian streets, at the
open house Wednesday evening
Open house will be held again to.
night and Friday night.
The sessions are being held from
7 to 10 p. m. Guests were greeted
by Theodore Vonnegut, school board
president, and Principal Georg'
Buck. Members of r. o. t. G. unit
served as escorts through the build
ing.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-13
KEN STRONG MARRIES

By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 13. Ken
Strong, New York university's star
half back, who led the nation III
scoring this fall, and Miss Amelic
Zimmerman, actress, were married
yesterday in a quiet ceremony at
the Little Church Around the
Corner.
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sALE--AUToMoBILEs.

chanical condition: looks rood Priced very
low
Studehaker 5-rsssenEer Phaeton. 1924;
nne condition; new tires. bargain.
Pierce.Arrow Roadster MODEL so: perfect
condition throughout. Priced right 20 sell.
Graham-Paige Demonstfator, model GID:
been driven few hundred miles. win sell
at reduced price.
Graham-Paise model el0: used as dem
cnstrator very little. Just broken in riEht.
AT reduced price.
LoGAN.s GARAGE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-20

tail, that our curvator coccygis
never curved one, and that our
attollens auriculam never lifted
an ear? Or shall we say that we
are walking museums Of compare
tive ANATOMY and try to find out
whence we came and whittier we
are going2
This is certain: there is no
fixed, standardized, perfect, or
biologically ideal human body,
there are no two human bodies
quite alike. Each one Of us reeksf
with evidence that our ancestors
were not the tWo-handed, two
footed creatures we are now; that
they had no talking muscles; that
they could not back up their talk
with speaking countenance; and
that they could not balance their
heads on their spines.
Some variations are atavistic
or vestigial. Like the buttons on
our coat cuffs, they no longer
function: like parlor boarders,
they often make trouble. They
are hangovers from a remote
past. They are prone to disease;
we should be better off without
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-20
By George A. Dorsey,
Phi. D., LII. d.
CHAPTER I


MOST of US have about 80
AVA muscles on each side of our
body. They are subject to such
variation that Testut. a noted
French anatomist, required 900
pages to describe them. Some of
us may have three muscles an
ape would be ashamed to own,
hangoYers from such e. remote
past.
We marvel at the agility Of
monkeys and are astonished at
the human quality OF their ac-
tions. Do we not often expect
comes; they have no muscle to
smile with. Even the cham.
pa.nzee cannot express with its
ace the emotions we think it
should: it's facial muscles are less
perfectly developed, less sharply
defined, than ours. In monkeys,
they are even less differentiated.
One-fourth of all our muscles
are in our neck and face! The
human face can light UP or cloud
over because its muscles are at
tuned for complex action-keyed
to the human pitch.
Facial muscles in mammals be-
low man are more simple. We
look for Intelligence in the eyes
OF a horse, not In the expression
of its face. When 1t needs to
flick a fly from its face Or
shoulder. it moves muscle
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-20
Learn TO Appreciate Your OWn Worth

slightest provocation. She has
also convinced them that their
lineage Is the finest in the coun-
try: ana that they have q little
better reason to hold up their
heads and take what Is their own
than most of their fellows. She
declares that other people value
you at your own estimate. and
she proposes to make her children
place a high estimate upon them.
selves.
There are men and women who
come of good blood; who have as
much sense as their neighbors;
who have the natural gifts of an
attractive personality and. yet
they are shrinking and backward
and afraid to assert themselves.
1t must be due to the training or
the atmosphere in which they
spent their childhood.
Contrast them with the many
up.and-coming American citizens.
who have nothing to recommend
them except their own determine
ton to outshine others who have
less energy, less ambition and less
tmpudence than they.
Between the overly-timid and
the overly -brazen there is happy
medium. The proper attitude to-
ward others and toward oneself
can be acquired. If 8 child can
be trained at home to consider the
rights of others and at the Same
time command his own just des-
serts, he Is lucky. II he fails to
receive the training at home, d
good education is the next best
thing in that direction that his
parents can give him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-20
Dr.. CaldweIHs 3 Rules
Keep You Healthy

DIR. Caldwell. watched the results
OF constipation for AZ years, and be-.
lieved that no matter how careful
people are of their health, diet, and
exercise, constipation will occur
from time to time regardless of
how much one tries to avoid it. OF
next Importance, then, Is how to
treat it when 1t comes. DIR. Cald-
well always was In favor OF getting
as close to nature as possible, hence
his remedy for constipation, known
as DIR. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. is
mild vegetable compound. 1t can
not harm the most delicate system
and is not a habit forming prepare
ton. Syrup Pepsin is pleasant-tast-
ing, and youngsters love it. Tt does
not grippe. Thousands Of mothers
have written us to that effect.
DIR. Caldwell did not approve Of
drastic physics and purges. He did
not believe they were good for hui
man beings to put into their system.
In practice of AZ years he never
saw any reason for their use when
a. medicine like Syrup Pepsin will
empty the bowels just as promptly.
more cIeanly and gently, without
gripping and harm to the system.
Keep free from constipation! 1t
robs your strength, hardens your
arteries and brings on premature
old age. Do not let a day go by
without a bowel movement. Do
not sit and hope, but so to = drug
gist and get one Of the generous
bottles of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pep.
sin. Take the proper dose that
night and by morning you will feel
like a different person. Use Syrup
Pepsin for yourself and members OF
the family in constipation. bilious.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-20
By L. Lamar Matthews

GAID q young insurance man
~ who finished college five
years ago, "If ever have a son,
I doubt whether III send him to
college. If he Is going into bust
ness, the sooner he starts in the
business world the better. And
with the drinking, gambling and
foolishness that goes on in most
colleges, a boy is better at home
than he is in school,
A man who had meager ad.
vantages in his youth, and who
recently paid for his own sons
education with the sweat of his
brow made this reply.
You will feel differently when
your son is ready for college,
Il know a lot of successful men
who did not have a. college educa-
tion and who think it is useless"
answered the young man.
DO you know any successful
men who practice that plan
where their own sons are con-
cerned?" asked the old man.
NO. / believe not" was the
reply.
That Is good talk for the
other mans children" the older
man continued. But when it
comes to your own flesh and
blood you want to give them the
best weapons possible to fight
with. Business Is q struggle from
beginning to end. The boy with
q college education holds a weapon
that others lack. Even IL he
doesn't study at school, he &C
quires a certain polish and grace
Of speech and manner that is a
mighty help in an executive posi-.