The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-26
STUDENTS SEE
RADIO EXPOSE
SPIRIT FAKES
Wireless Wizard Displays
Wonders of Science at
Manual Training.
FRANCILL'S SCHEDULE
MONDAY
ZOO. ABS, 600. 8:35 P. NJ.

200. 4:S5, 600. 1885 P. M,
Lyric Theater. Supreme all-week vaude-
vile attraction. Operating a miniature
wireless controlled battleship. a driverless
automobile. and performing other wireless
wonders
TUESDAY
1915 P. NJ
Illinois street. from Georgia to Ohio
Operating by wireless control, without
motorman, conductor or touch of human
hand. standard trolley car of the In
dianapolis Street Railway Company.
200. 4:s5, 500. s:35
Lyric Theater; vaudeville presentations.
TBS to 1885 P. M.
Address. ''The Radio Age" over station
wFBM of the Indianapolis Light and
Power Company.
Phantom hands, in the form of
wireless waves, caused all manner
of ghoStly manifestations to take
place Monday morning, in the au-
ditorium of Manual Training high
school, when Maurice j. Francill,
Americas radio wizard, gave
special expose of the tricks and
frauds of fake spirit mediums,
clairvoyants and other so-called
fortune tellers," for the benefit of
students and faculty of that insti-
tuition.
Without touch of human hand,
the wizard, by electro magnetic i'm
pulses, duplicated many of the most
treasured featS of the Self-Styled
seers, prophets, and other disciples
of hokum and bunk, and then even
went them one better by doing by
science more than they can do by
magic and other methods of decep-
ton.
FranciH caused bells to ring,
spooky lights to burn, horns to
blow, trumpets to talk, hands to rap,
and produced many other phe-
nomena.
Marvels Performed
BY passing the open blade of a
knife through the air, he severed a
cord, supporting big red ball,
thirty feet away. BY striking a
match In the audience, he caused a
candle to flame on the stage. The
knife was borrowed from student
and so was the match He even
caused powder to explode in a small
receptacle on the stage. although he
was many feet away from the point
Of the explosion.
Francills scientific expose of the
frauds and fakes of spiritism and
so-called psychic" phenomena was
given under auspices of The Times.
He told the students and faculty
there was no such thing as a ghost,
no such thing as "spiritism" and
occultism. In the slangy parlance
of the day, he said the weird and
deceptive practices of mediums and
so~caIed psychic" workers was "a
lot of hooey."
Then the wizard set out to per-
form an array of manifestations
even more elaborate, more battling,
and more daring than the fake me-
dlums can produce. And after he
had performed his manifestations,
he showed his audience exactly how,
by the science of wireless. millions
of innocent persons are being de-
ceived and defrauded under the
guiSe of occultism and spiritism and
other kinds of fortune telling isms.
Exposes spirit" Tricks
And he exposed each manifesto
ton as he went along, so that there
might be no doubt whatever in the
minds of his spectators that he was
telling them the truth.
Francill will be in Indianapolis all
this week, appearing four times
daily in program of radio expert
mentS and wireless wonders on the
vaudeville stage of the Lyric thea
ter. The wizard is rated by scien-
lists as probably the greatest living
authority on the application of radio
remote control to motive and other
forms of power.
In addition to his stage presenta-
tons and the scientific expose of
fake spiritism, he will give a num-
Der of other demonstrations of sensa-
tional wireless feats, under auspices
of The Times.