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easy" Stunts
Hard to Do

GONE of the things that look
~ like they are easy to do are
often found to be very difficult,
if not impossible in some cases.
The following "stunts" are Of
fered as good examples and you
can have a lot of fun trying to
perform them:
Stand with your back two feet
from the wall and your hands
behind you and keeping your feet
firmly on the floor, touch the wall
with the back of your head.
Get n of your friends to
blindfold you and then time you
to see if you a stand perfectly
still for five minutes.
Stand with your heels to the
wall anu lily " pin uP al ODJCNS
from the floor without moving
your feet or losing your balance.
See if you are contortionist
enough to touch your a with
your elbow.
Put a toothpick across the nail
of the middle finger of either
your right or your left hand,
pass it under the first and third
fingers and try to break the tiny
stick.
Stand by the wall Of a room
with both feet placed lengthwise
and touching the w%ainscoting and
keep your balance.
Seat yourself squarely in a
chair and try to get up without
bending your body forward or
moving your feet from their
original position.
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a glass filled with
ID water on the thin edge Of an
ordinary playing card is, appar-
emily, a feat that requires steady
nerves. However, this trick is
easily performed, once the ANA
teur magician gets the knack Of it.
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turns to the national advertising.
Selecting a page at random, she
begins to sing in operate recita-
tive Ga free musical defamation,
similar to the method of singing
chants in church,. Another
guest complexities matters by in
terjecting the idea Of a duet on
the subject. Perhaps an adver-
tisement of cigarettes is passion
ately sung, or a tender passage
relating to a celebrated chewing
gum. BY this time someone
else has rushed to the piano and
with a few chords plays an &C
compartment. He can puzzle the
extemporaneous performers by
forcing them to change key,
rhythm or speed if he is quick
enough with his improvisation on
the theme they set. The object
is twofold: one, to get an anus
ing song on an advertisement
sung in the grand manner; the
other is to try to develop the song
so that one of the performers
will be forced to give up or 60
wrong in the harmony.
With such a truly gifted COM
bination, any lay guest who may
be present Is knocked almost
speeches. at the display Of
bravura and genius.
America is full of men and
women who know quite a thing
or two about music, and in any
musical gathering it is almost in
evitable that there are present
ardent musical fans that are
quick to betray themselves and
no opportunity should be lost to
make the most of it. Try them
out and see if they really know
as much about their favorite COM
posers as they seem to think they
do. Play, hum, or whistle any
phrase from that composer and
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knowledge, a simple musical
stunt can be made from this by
having someone just play or hum
a bar from the merry Widow"
"Mandalay" or some other popu-
lar work. By combining the
tunes to popular songs of the
past, everyone can join in, and
individual scores kept Of the
numbers recognized.
There Is usually someone who
is able to help the host or hostess
give a pictureless movie. This
trick has two performers, a
musician and an announcer. The
announcer calls out the titles
and subtitles, while the musician
on the piano-or any other in
strument handy-plays music ap-
propriate to the scene or situa-
ton announced. 1t is quite an
amusing performance, and you
can almost e the old familiar
movie scenes just by hearing the
titles and the musical accompani-
ment.
For example, should you like
to try this stunt, a start might be
made with Game the dawn on
Egypt's coral strands and the
Arabs folded their tents, as had
their fathers fathers before
them"
Music: Grieg's IN forming"
from the Peer Gynt Suite.
Title: "Little Oolalah, daugh-
ter of the Great Sheik, casts her
sorrowful eyes to the palm trees
where last she met her beloved"
Music: Indian Love Lyric,
"Kashmir Song" (Pale Hands !
Loved).
Title: "But Her Father Had
Other Plans"
Music; Chopin's Funeral
March.
Crpyrishs 1899. Premi., Syndicate. Inc. :"
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HE game Of Musical Eve
ming" can be played by any
one with a good ear for
music by sounding the theme on
the piano and whistling the de-
velopment of it. 1t may as well
be admitted, however, that these
musical games are more for the
layman's enjoyment than for his
actual participation. A clever
variation of this can be pre-
sented by making a musical
theme out Of any snatch Of con-
versation, initiating the infection
of the voice and the accents.
One Of the guests picks up a
copy Of the nearest magazine and
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Solutions of Last Weeks Puzzles

ish Town D. Chosen. Z. Yellow Sea.
s. Japan Sea.
Hidden Name Of Inventor: The sem
tence reads: In the humming depths
Of every mine this ~life-saving lamp
throws down its brightest ray. The
name of the inventor is Humphrey
Davy, traced through squares number
~. z. 46, d, 40. so, 81. %. IL. SO. 20.
Il. Score AL.
The Cooks Recipe: Fl (%one-fourth
Of hare). A (one-third Of ham). s
(one-fifth Of goose). II (one-fifth OF
thyme). The dish Is hash.
Letter Divisions The word Is:
PROMULGATE
1928 4567S9O
The problems are: 1856 divided by 80
Is 1895 and 1896 divided by SO is SO.
Riddles: l. Both have to be broken
before they a be used. 2. Figures.
3. Both have a perfect balance. 4.
Because they are candid (candied).
g.. Face powder, because It goes on
with q puff.
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DITCH old Cadwallader Crab is the owner of a very fine estate, part
bS of which he converted into a beautiful park open to the public
on certain days. Great throngs came to see the place, and S many
visitors brought their dogs with them, which they permitted to run
loose and dig up the flowers and shrubbery.
The owner of the park became greatly incensed over this, but
not wishing to close the park to all visitors, he had painted a very
large sign Of warning which was set up in front of the lodge at the
entrance to the park.
The sign was 81 large, in fact, that it had to be made IN three
sections. When it was erected, however, the workmen got the sec
tons mixed up and joined them as you see here, scrambing the sign
and making it uninteligible. Can you correct their error by cutting
the sign into three sections in such a way that when the three pieces
are properly put together the sign reads correctly?
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\ Puzzle in Fractions

TT is often astonishing what
Il combinations can be made
with the nine digits. For example,
write down the digits from one
to nine in reversed order and
subtract from them the digits
written in their numerical order
and yet will be 864197532,
which contains all the digits from
one to nine.
Here are two new combinations
of the nine digits which offer a
puzzle in fractions: Arrange
them to make one-half and then
to make one-fourth.
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Riddles

TO not brag about how good a
~ guesser you are until you
have tried to answer these BRAIN
teasing riddles:
1. What man earns his living
by creating scenes?
2. In what way are an orange
and a bell tower alike?
8. What is the difference be-
tween a mason and a hen?
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In addition to the feature pic
ture, a newsreel Of "topics Of the
day" may be effectively an
nounced.
And SO it goes, for better or
worse. With a witty announcer
and an accompanies who plays by
ear or memory all the familiar
pieces, very funny entertainment
can be developed from this. It
is, Of course, best to prepare the
scenario beforehand.
Copyright 1928. hy Simon & schuster.l
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The NeW Cross Word Puzzle
0

1OLAALOC A.
What English poet depicted his
own character in his famous
poem, Don Juan"2
e-Pull.
1O-Who was the victim of the first
fratricide?
14-Erect.
15-vaporous exhalation supposed to
emanate from a living body.
~16-FeStive.
17-Every.
1S-BeveraGe made Of hops.
11-Fermented liquor (plu.)
20-Alluvial deposits in the mouth or
a river.
23-What American humorist wrote
Fables in Slang?
25-printeT's measure (plu.D
26-What father and son have been
Presidents Of the United States2
c9-What was the ancient name Of the
Spanish Portuguese PENINSULA
S1-What United States admiral in
the Civil War captured New
Orleans?
S4NSnare.
S5-Which IS the fourth largest Of the
Great Lakes?
36-Who succeeded William q. Har-
rison to the Presidency!
S8-Spread for drying.
4L-Nothing.
42-Grow old.
a+-Skill.
45-French metric unit.
4G-Period of light between sunrise
and sunset.
47-COmplete this statement, Henry
VII. and Edward VIII. were -
monarchs Of England.
49--Slender.
50-Definite article.
51-After the first name OF what
Italian discoverer was America
named7
54-Paleness.
57-Tremulous.
5S-Reverential fear.
59-Drink slowly.
6~l-CoUntry pumpkins.
65-Child's marbles.
67-Lethargy.
70--What Pope crowned Charlemag
Emperor in S00f
71-Castor silk.
PA dull noise made by something
falling on a hard surface.
73-TaE.
75-Repose.
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The Game OF "Musical Evening"

challenge them to continue it and
name it. You. as teacher, can,
Of course, use the musical score
for this, for you yourself are not
pretending to know as much
about it.
A variation of this is the old
game Of tapping out a rhythmic
pattern by hand on a tabletop,
and asking the hearers to guess
the tune.
For most of US lacking all this
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oDpyrish. 1929. Premi., Syndicate. Inc.
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nANNY DWARF is a very
- happy little fellow, for he
has a new and perfectly trained
steed, on the back of which he
takes many fine rides.
Here you see Danny, reins in
hand< and all ready for a ride.
But what kind of a steed does
he have and where is it? You
can easily find out by connecting
the dots in their numerical order
with a continuous line. This will
give you a nice drawing of
Danny's pet. Then get out your
box Of crayons and attractively
color the picture.
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76-A river OF Germany.
77-Who is the muse OF lyric and
erotic poetry?
VERTICAL.
1-Slender nail.
2-What university has q bulldog az
its athletic symbol?
S-Small stream.
4-Bone.
5-What State in the Union has the
smallest population?
Slight thrust.
7-Regret.
S-Any open surface.
9eWhat peak in the Sierra Nevada
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mountains OF southeast Califor.
MIA is $4,000 feet high?
10-Complete this statement, -
Khan III, leader Of the Ismaelian
Mohammedans, succeeded his
father, - Khan II. in 1852
11-One who bales merchandise Tor
shipment.
12-Any Of several gum resins.
1S-What is the Forbidden City" s&
21-Allowancs for waste.
22-Droop.
German Republic?
27-Silenced
28-Pen for swine.
30-Suff1x meaning small.
31-To ward off.
32-Melody.
33-Angry.
37-What Roman household gods are
connected with the Penates2
SS-Hydrous magnesium silicate.
covered Greenland7
40-Prefix: half.
42-Complete the missing character Of
the Three MusketeerS -
Porthos and Aramis.
43-What German physicist invented
4S-Nucleated egg-cell.
49-Submerged.
5o-What is the symbol for thaIliumf
52-Emissary, scout.
5~3-Populate.
5+-Who wrote "Marius the Epi-
curean"?
55-Cognizant.
56-Who is the author Of "Main
Street.?
Ca registration OF persons FOR voting
on taxation.
62--What was the scene Of N~apoleon's
first exile?
6S-In England. a former court o.
Jurisdiction for petty offenses,
decomposition for one person.
66-Reclined.
GA riotous rabble.
69-To initiate servilely.
74-Suffix: Like.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
HINT BROKEN HEART
WAS SUICIDE CAUSE
Loser in S25O,000 Balm Suit Against
British Air Ace Ends Life.
By United Press

Bg United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 20-Esther
Case, 40, former European opera
prima donna, had been singing a
song called Forgotten" almost
nightly from radio stations here. 1t
seemed to listeners that there was
a genuine sob in her voice.
Thursday night she was found
dead in her apartment. She had
cut her wrist with a razor blade
and inhaled gas.
Miss Case had been melancholy
since she recently lost a $250,000
breach of promise suit against Cap
tain Reginald Sheridan Carroll,
British war ace, who now lives at
Baldwin, L. l. She left note ask
ing that several trinkets piled on
her bureau be returned" to Cap
tain Carroll.
The singer was born in California
AND had been on the European stage
for fourteen years before coming to
New York.
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lass BURIALS
ARE HELD FOR
Mine VICTIMS
Be Sure You Puts Johns
New Coat on Him. Plea
of Negro Mother.

BIZ Urftsf Press
MALESTER, Okla, Dec. 2o.-A
.ong procession Of conVeyances
wound through the streets today
With twenty-five caskets bearing the
bodies Of Mexican victims of the
Old Town mine disaster.
While a priest read the burial
service the caskets were lowered into
a long trench that had been dug
by fifty convicts from the Oklahoma
state penitentiary. Stores were
closed and the town joined the rela-
tives of the Mexican miners IN
mourning.
Burials will continue through to-
day, Saturday and Sunday, until the
last of the. ninety-nine bodies re-
covered have been laid away.
TWO miners, q Mexican and a
Negro, still were missing, it was an
nounced as final Identification lists
we're completed. Search for their
bodies will be resumed when the
mine is entered Saturday for an in
vestigation of the explosion.
The Negro miners probably will
be buried in a common grave, as
were the Mexicans. One, Claude
Dodson, will wear a new oveTcoat
as a shroud. His aged mother had
bought it for him as a Christmas
present.
BE sure you put Johns new coat
on him." she told morgue attend
ants. He might get cold"
A committee was distributing re-
lief funds to destitute families. More
than $4,000 had been received.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
SCHOOL FARLEY CLOSED
Central College Session Ends With
Prominent Church Speakers.

Round table discussions on prob
lens Of higher education and
speeches by prominent church Off
Gals comprised today's closing ses-
sion of the Indiana Central college
annual educational conference.
Speakers were Bishop H. H. Fout,
Indianapolis; DR.. 1. j. Good, preSi-
dent of the college; the Rev. Bash
AFFORD, Wabash; the Rev. j. Hart
Truesdale, Wisconsin conference
superintendent; the Rev. 20. T.
4 Deever, Dayton, o., head of the
Young Peoples department of the
United Brethren church. and DR.. J.
B. Parsons of indianapolis, super
intendent of White River confer
ence. The Rev. A. B. Smith of
Corydon was secretary of the con-
ference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
COOLEY BURIAL
RITES DELAYED
Former Local Man Dies in
California; Widow III.

Due to failing health of the
widow, Mrs. Cora Edison Cooley, of
Los Angeles, funeral arrangements
for William B. Cooley, u, former
Indianapolis business man, who died
in Los Angeles Wednesday, have
not been completed.
Mr.. Cooley went TO California in
1928 after his retirement from active
business life in this city. He was
born in Hartford City, and was en-
gagged in banking and manufacture
ing in that city before coming to
Indianapolis in 1903.
He was active in real estate opera
tons, and was connected with the
Plaza garage in indianapolis.
He was member Of the Chamber
Of Commerce, Woodstock Country
Club, Columbia Club and the IN
dianapolis Athletic Club.
Survivors, besides the widow, are a
daughter, Mrs. R. w. McKinnon,
Evanston, Ill; granddaughter,
Mrs. Carl F. Gushing. Indianapolis,
and a grandson, William McKinnon,
Chicago.
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CASE READY FOR JURY
4O-Page Charge Is Read as Textile
Trial Nears End.
BIZ United Press

Bt CnttcU IFtSS
huntsville, N. c., Dec. 20.-A
forty-page charge was read today to
a Yancey county jury of eleven
farmers and a carpenter trying the
case of eight Mcdowell county
deputies accused of second degree
murder in the deaths of six textile
strikers at Marion Oct. 2.
The trial, which opened ten dayS
ago, probably will reach the jury
by early afternoon, climaXing one
of the most bitterly contested court
battles growing out of textile strike
disorders in the Piedmont belt of
North Carolina.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
CHEER DOUG AND MARY
Thousands Gather at Yokohama Il
Rid Novio STARS EarexUeU

Thousands Gather at Yokohama to
Bid Movie Stars Farewell.
BIZ United Press
YOKOHONdA, Dec. 20 Despite
the bitter cold and rain, thousands
of persons gathered at the harbor
to wave farewell to Douglas Fair
banks, his wife, Mary Pickford, and
Jack Pjckford, who sailed on the
Asama Maru today after a visit in
Japan. During the movie-stars' visit
they we're greetd enthusiastically
in every city. Also on the Asana
was the Chinese naval mission,
headed by Admiral TIL Hsi-Kuel,
who will visit American navy yards
and air fields as official guests of
the state and navy departments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
PAPAL JUBILEE HELD
Plus XXI Starts Celebration at St
Johns Lateran.

BIZ United Press
ROME, Dec. 20.-With a simple
ceremony, unobserved except by his
closest companions of the church,
Pope Plus xI today began the cele-
bration of his sacerdotal jubilee by
a low mass at st. Johns Lateran.
At $50 a. M, the pope left the
Vatican, motoring privately to tkG
BaSciIa, where he was met by Car
dinal Basilio Pompili, archpriest of
the Lateran, and welcomed to the
papal altar.
All the canons of st. Johns were
present.
At the conclusion of the mass, the
pope visited the missionary museum,
remaining there until $40, when he
returned by motor to the Vatican.
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Some Turk

r. UHtcd Press
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 90
Add to the Yuletide catas-
trophies that of w. E. Fraud
weine, who was injured so
badly by a big turkey, he was
about to behead, that he had
to go to hospital.
The gobbler. sensing some
thing was amiss, lashed out
with a leg, kicking Fraud
weine's knife into his arm and
severing an artery. Then the
turkey pounced on the wounded
man and tore his shirt to
ShredS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
OIL MAN is DIVORCED
Winfield SCOTS Third Venture Is
Ended by Wife.
BIZ United Press

BIZ UntteU PTeSS
FIT. WORTH, Tex, Dec. 20.-The
third marriage of Winfield Scott,
millionaire oil man. has ended in
divorce. Charlotte Morgan Scott,
whom he married In California in
1927, obtained the decree on grounds
of cruelty. She was awarded Gus
tody of three-year-old daughter.
The latter will get $4,000 in cash
and 500 a week for eighteen years,
under the court order.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
GERMAN REDS CLASH
WITH BERLIN POLICE
Two Communists Hurt in Labor
Demonstration at Berlin.

By United Press
BERLIN, Dec. 2O.-Two Commun-
list demonstrators were injured in a
brief, but decisive clash between
would-be rioters and the police,
Thursday night.
Strong police forces were thrown
into strategic places in advance Of
the expected demonstrations against
unemployment, and as the crowd
attempted to march on the city
hall, they succeeded in dispensing
the mob easily.
Only two street clashes were re-
ported, one broken up by 8 charge
of mounted police, and the other
after the police had fired volley
over the heads of the rioters. The
two injured Communists were struck
on the head by truncheons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
BISHOP CANNON FIGHTS
CAMERA MAN; YIELDS
Churchman Is Loser After He
Scuffles With Photographer.


By United Press
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20.-Bishop
James Cannon Jr., who is visiting
his son at MontroSe, near here, to-
day had gained more renown in a
new style of warfare.
The gray-haired religious and dry
leader Of the south tried his hand
at battling newspaper cameramen,
who insisted on photographing him
outside a justice court where his
son, Richard w. Cannon, won legal
Skirmish.
Bishop Cannon failed when he
scuffled with a photographer in an
effort to wrest away his camera.
"What right have you to take my
photography" the bishop demanded
Indignantly.
The elderly ecclesiast finally con-
sented to pose,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
Depositors Get Bank Assets

BIZ 7 . Cd Pr0Ss
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20-De-
pastors of the defunct Pan-Amer-
lean bank will he able to buy
Chr. stmas presents. Superior Judge
Elliott Craig ruled that approx
imately 100000 recovered from the
assets Of the institution may be
distributed to 1900 depcsitors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
Smith, Walker in TaIkies

By UHtttu Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-After-din-
ner speeches given through talkie
movies, with former Governor Alfred
E. Smith and Mayor Walker of New
York sitting back and listening to
themselves speak, were a feature of
a dinner given Thursday night in
honor of Winfield Sheehan, motion
picture executive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
Beggar Found to Have $4,000

BV LHfItu FTtds
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-After Pete
Bortuzzi, IS, had been arrested for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
CITY MAN STRESSES
NEED OF ADVERTISING
Ayres Official Addresses Local Real
Estate Board.


Advertising first must sell ideas,
which in turn will sell merchandise,
Sydney A. Sullivan, L. S. Ayres &
Co. publicity director, said in a talk
before the Indianapolis Real Estate
Board Thursday.
In discussing institutional adver-
Using, Sullivan said, everything a
store owner and his employees do,
particularly in their treatment Of
customers, is advertising, either good
or bad.
Every institution should have an
advertising appropriation" he said,
"even a peanut stand, the appro-
priation for which, need only be for
sufficient extra fuel to keep the
whistle blowing"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
REVOLUTION is QUELLED
Revolt Leader Faces Firing Squad
in Mexico.

BIZ United Press
NOGALES, Soronora, Mexico, Dec.
20.-The latest attempt to inaugu-
rate a Mexican revolution was be-
lieved to have been thwarted with
the execution of General Carlos
Bouquet by a firing squad and the
imprisonment of five Of his COM
rades.
Arms, ammunition, maps and
other military equipment were
seized by federal authorities.
General Bouquet, credited with
being the leader of the Vasconcelos
indictments on the west coast OF
Mexico, was arrested several days
ago on orders from General Juan
Rico. federal commander here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
PRIEST SELLS LIQUOR
BOotIegger Is Victim of Ruse In
Detroit.
Bp United Press

M z UfTtU I7TtsS
DETROIT. Dec. 20.-LaSt week.
when an undercover dry agent
visited an alleged bootlegging estab-
lishment, he left abashed after
Father" John Driscoll in long
robes and clerical dignity had given
him spiritual advice. Another agent
found large quantity of liquor, but
Discoll still is missing.
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DEC. 20. 1929

begging In the subway. he was
found to have a $4,000 hank ac-
count.