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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16

Houdini taught him other tricks
after that The friendship grew
with the years. Houdini dedicated
his biography to Ernst, made him
intimate with every famous ma
gician of the day.
NATURALLY, I got interested
IN in their problems" explains
Ernst. There were problems of
especial interest to an attorney.
A magician must keep his art Sc
cret.
THE very pleasure. of the pub
lie depends upon that An audi
ence ceases to be entertained once
it learns how trick is performed.
"A magician may spend thou
sands of dollars and years of time
perfecting an illusion. 1t is neces-
sary first, that the secret be kept
from the public.
ut is necessary, second, that
other magicians be restrained in
Vic uSC VI bllC AlluolOlls WlllCll
would damage it's value to the man
who created it.
And, of course, it is impossi-
BILE for a magician to protect him
self by patents. A patent is open
to any one who wants to go to the
trouble of getting the description
of apparatus from the patent Of
fee"
In developing means OF pro-
tecting magical property. this
amateur legal conjurer has played
an important part. AS head of
magician organizations, he has
helped foster one of the most
rigid ethical codes known to any
profession.
The right Of magician to what
he has created, or even merely re-
vived and made famous, is recog-
nized by the organized craft
everywhere. Other magicians cas-
lily might duplicate the illusion,
but they customarily do it only by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
ASPHALT DUST
USED TO CHECK
OIL SCATTERING
Powder Is SprinkIed Over
State Roads; DetourS
Are Fixed.

Use of powdered asphalt sprin-
kled on fresh oil has been followed
by the state highway commission in
eliminating Objectionable splashing
from newly treated roads, according
to John J. Brown, department di-
rector. Several hundred miles of
roads have been made dustless in
this manner during the last two
weeks, it is said
Roads oiled and detours estab-
lished are:
Road l-Haeerstown north completed
July is; pa miles detour, good gravel.
Road 3-From junction with Road Is to
GAINESVILLE. COMPLETED july 90: no detour.
Milrov to Rushville completed july is: s.
none none e 1aTI Jur s NO detour mase
to GAINESVILLE. completed July Is; 9-mile
detour
Road Vernon to county line. COM
pleted July Is; no detour.
Road 2l-Jonesborro TO Delaware county
line, completed July l6; l5-mile detour.
Road S3-St. Joseph to New Albany. COM
pleted July %; no detour.
Road 35-Saiem to Becks Mill road, COM
pleted July 16; 7-mile narrow detour.
Road 44-Franklin to Shelbyville. COM
pleted July 20; l7l2-mile detour.
Road 46-Sunman to Batesville. com
pleted July %; l2-mile detour
Road 55-Fowler to Road "a. completed
July 10; 12-mile detour.
Road 5s-Elnora to White river bridge.
completed July 49, Odon to five miles
west, completed July 16; no detour.
Road 1O7-From Road 7 at Clifty Falls
park, completed July Is
Road 14s-Aurora to Road 40. completed
July is; no detour
- Evn f1ar
west, completed July 10; no detour.
Length and surface condition of
detours account paving and bridge
construction:
Road 7-Detour from seven and half
miles southeast of Columbus to six and
half miles southeast. for bridge construc"
ton and paving, is 7la miles, good gravel.
Road 14-Detour Just west of Rochester
for paving, is 2 mile, good gravel and
brick.
Road IS Detcur from one and half
miles south Of warsaw to North Man
chester. is is miles. miles concrete, re-
mainder good gravel
Road l9-Detourr from junction with
Marion. for paving, is II miles, good
gravel and stone.
|. Road 21-Detour Richmond to Muncie,
account paving. is IS miles good gravel.
Road 28-Detour from Elwood to four
miles west Of Roads 20 and 9; for paving,
crete, remainder good gravel.
Road 32-Detour at two miles west of
Anderson, account paving. is 13 miles. fair
| gravel.
Road 43-Detour at Westville account
| construction, is 612 miles one mile stone
! surface, remainder duStless type.
Road 44-Detour GIenwood to Corners
vile, account paving, is Is miles, 2l2 miles
concrete, 1872 miles good gravel.
Road 47-Detour Charlottesville to one
mile west Montgomery-Pa county line,
is "a miles, chiefly over State Roads 45
and 234.
Road 50-Detour from two and q halt
miles west of Seymour to Brownstown.
| account paving. is ii miles. good gravel
and stone. From Bedford west. account
grading and paving, is l41s miles, fair
! stone and gravel but narrow. Mitchell to
Shoals. account paving. is via Road 81 to
Bedford and Road $50 to Shoals or Road
81 south to Psoli, thence Road $50 to
Shoals. Detour in Shoals, account grading,
i is 34-mile, fair.
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FEDERAL CAR FIGURES
IN TRAFFIC VIOLATION
Judgment Withheld After Whisper
Conference With Judge.

Roadster carrying certificate of
title issued to the. federal depart
ment Of justice, but bearing license
plates for a sedan of Otis Hansen.
524 North Liberty street, figured
prominently in a traffic ordinance
violation case Friday in municipal
court of Judge William H. Sheaffer.
Robert Logiston, 80, of 1910 Lee
street, was arrested Thursday after
noon for failing to stop at the
preferential crossing of Kentucky
and Senate avenues.
When stopped by motorcycle DO
liceman Ernest Taught, Logiston is
said to have told him This is the
Governors car" Logiston denied
that he meant Governor Harry @.
Leslie, but repeated his remark to
the officer. He added that he was
a federal man." but did not ex-
hibit badge, Taught said.
A whispered conversation between
Sheaffer and man believed to rep
resent the department of Justice
preceded announcement from the
bench that judgment was with
held.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
HOOVER CUTS OWN
PAY 20 PER CENT

ton on salaries possible under the
economy bill.
THE President, therefore, has
issued the necessary orders by
which they will be reduced Is per
cent, instead of the alternative
which would amount to 81 per cent
under the furlough provision.
The Constitution stipulates that
the Presidents salary can not be
changed by congress during his
tenure Of Office.
The President, therefore, person.
ally directed the treasury to make
the 20 per cent reduction on his
own initiative.
THE Presidents salary was
raised to $4,000 when William How
ard Taft became President in 1908. +"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
PRISONER NOT
MAN ARRESTED,
OFFICER INSISTS
Court Mystified as Cop
Says Defendant Was
Bigger Fellow

Patrolman Emmett Mccormick
said the defendant wasn't the man
he arrested.
But the man said he was the man.
And another man arrested at the
same time said that the first man
WIS the man.
Two witnesses Of the arrest said
he wasn't the man arrested.
Now it is the problem Of Munich
pal Judge William II. SheafTer to
decide whether Incarceration in the
city prison while awaiting bond
could change the appearance of a
defendant, James Freeman. Negro.
OF SOB 2 South Capitol avenue. to a
degree that the, srresting officer
wouldn't recognize him in court. The
case was continued until Wednes-
day.
According to Mccormick he ar
rested Freeman and Wilbur Wilson.
II, Of 3 Poplar street, June is at
the office Of Hannah Noone, town
ship trustee, 122 North East street.
and slated them for vagrancy. dis
orderly conduct, resisting arrest and
resisting an officer.
When the defendants appeared in
court. Mccormick interrupted pro-
ceedings with the denial that the
man appearing as Freeman was the
freeman he arrested. He was sup
ported In his statement by Frank
Manning, deputy in the trustees
office, and Cecil Gibson, an in
vestigator for the trustee.
The man insisted he was Free
man, and Wilson agreed. Freeman
reminded the officer that he was
wearing green suit at the time
OF the arrest, and exhibited a pen
Gil, asking if Mccormick remem-
bered it.
Mccormick insisted that the man
he arrested was of larger build than
the one before the bench"
Ernest E. Owens, attorney for the
defendants, could offer no help,
stating he had been retained in the
case without comforting with the
clients.
Wilson is said by police to have
been engaged at other times in
making speeches and causing dis
turbances.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 16.-Presi-
dent Hoover Friday cut his salary
20 per cent, and ordered reductions
of Is per cent in the pay of the
Vice President and. the cabinet
members.
Instead of $4,000 yearly, Mr..
Hoover NOW will receive 100000,
and the Vice-President and cabinet
members will get s12,75O instead of
$4,000.
In making the cabinet reductions,
the White House issued the follow
ing statement:
THE President has received the
unanimous request from members
of the cabinet that they should be
subjected to the maximum reduc-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
BABY FOUND AFTER
SIX-DAY SEARCH
WAS SUFFOCATED

University of Minnesota, said. cit
apparently had been held prisoner
in a cage or box in which it strug-
gled and scratched itself"
Other wounds on the child's body
were ascribed to it's slayer forcing
it down a narrow cesspool opening.
The child was not strangled.
A new hunt for the slayer of the
child was started Immediately after
the announcement. The cesspool
lies within $50 feet of the Delano
home, and at first it was thought
the child might have fallen into the
hole and died.
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permission, often by payment of
a royalty.
And especially does a member
of the sociey never reveal a secret
to an outsider. The amateurs
keep as mum as the professionals,
probably more so.
In addition, Bernard Ernst has
obtained a court decision which
amounts to legal Magma Charta
for nagicianS, 1t is quite story,
involving the saving of a woman
in half.
Back about 1920, Horace Goldin,
an American magician who gained
great fame in England and Eu-
rope, was visiting the United
States for the first time in many.
years.
WE were at Houdini's home"
w Ernst remembers, and
Harry said, Horace, I'd like you to
perform at the coming conven-
ton of the society. How about
putting on something new for the
crowd?"
"Goldin insisted he did not have
anything new. Houdini said, "All
right, I'll find you something. He
went to his shelves filled with
books on magic and got out an old
volume and turned to description
of an illusion made famous in the
seventeenth century by Giuseppe
Pinetti.
This is just the thing he as
serted How about saving
woman in half? It hasn't been
done for a century"
"Goldin agreed to do it, and
Houdini had his own mechanics
build the apparatus. Goldin got
more and more interested, and
improved on Pinetti's original
method
"At the convention that year
-Houdini was head of the ma
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
BILL To SHIFT
CAR TAX FUNDS
REACHES HOUSE
State Share in Gas, License
Money Cut More Than
Half in Measure.

After being buffeted between fac
tional arguments for eight days, the
gas tax and auto license fund re-
distribution bill, reducing the states
share in the annual SIS, 900, 900 reve-
nue., has been advanced to the house
by representatives by the ways and
means committee.
The measure would reduce the
states share of the funds from Is
to so per cent.
1t increases shares of cities and
towns and provides that distribution
be made on basis of road mileage
and population.
Brought on Breach
It's introduction into the house on
the second day of the special session
last week was accompanied bv a
breach between the city and coun-
try, in which the country sought IN
prevent cities from obtaining a
larger share.
Mayors of larger Indiana cities
including Reginald H. Sullivan Of
indianapolis, argued before the
committee at public hearing that
cities are threatened with impending
bankruptcy due to growing poor re-
lief costs unless given relief in form
of additional shares in the gas tax
and license revenues.
Take Place of Levies
AS passed to the house today the
measure stipulates that counties re-
ceive four-fifths of the remaining
half, one-eighth to be divided on
basis of population and seven
eighths in proportion to road mile
age. The remaining one-1fth of the
four-f1fths would go to cities.
The shares, to be distributed
quarterly, would take the place OF
local levies for road construction and
provide to maintenance and repair
Of roads, in form of a special road
fund.
Minority report, recommending
the gas tax of 4 cents a gallon be
cut, was made by Representative
William G. Babcock (Rep.), Rensse-
laer.
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By United Press
MINNEAPOLIS, July 16.-Baby
Leslie Delano, was sufTocated prob
ably by a mans hand across it's
mouth, Coroner E. x. Thorston of
Anoka announced today.
The child's body was found after
a. six days search by police. citizens
and national guardsmen. The baby
was the 0-months-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Ray Delano, Columbia
Heights.
THE child died within twenty
four hours of the time its body was
found" DR.. James G. Mccartney,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16

Through the ages the mystic art Of
leEerdemain has intrigued all men. out
OF this ancient interest has grown
unique fellowship. the Society Of Amer
lean MaEicisns. Included in its mem
bership sre distinguished representatives
Of science. the professions. business. and
the world Of affair generally.
Some Of them. in the pursuit OF white
magic es HOBBY. have acquired skin
and lore beyond the ken OF the ordinary
professional performer. But 50 quietly
and modestly DO they demonstrate their
attainments that the public hears moth
inE OF this side Of their lives.
Earl Sparkling has written a series OF
articles about these interesting men and
their strange gifts the second Of which
follows
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
8 SCOUTS WIN
EAGLE HONORS
100 Are Enrolled for Third
Camp Period.

Eight Boy Scouts received Eagle
ranks at the conclusion of the sec
ond camping period at the scout
reservation, Friday night.
The new Eagles are: Ernest
Brockman, Enos Pray, Forrest
Satterfeld, Don Morrison, Alvin
Fernandes, Robert Sorenson, Clar-
ence Gault and Frank Blackburn,
Jr.
More than 100 scouts have en-
rolled for the third camping period
which will open July Is. The
fourth period begins Aug. Is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
ARRANGE CAMP FIGHTS
Athletic Program at Fort Is Pre-
pared by Officers.

Athletic program for entertain
ment of c. NJ. T. c. candidates at
TT. Harrison will include two prsc-
tice polo games this weekend and
boxing matches three nights week,
it has been announced.
The Aghts, open to the public,
will be held on Monday, Wednesday
and Thursday nights. Eleventh in
fantry officers and the Rolling
Ridge polo team will meet at $3.50
Saturday and again at Sunday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
RUMANIA AT POLLS
TO NAME PAIL LAMENT
3s7 Members of Lower House Are
to Be Chosen.
ByUhitcd Pres,

By United Press
BUCHAREST, JHly l6.-Rumania
went to the polls today to elect 387
members of the lower chamber of
parliament
1t will be in accordance with King
Carols decree diSsolving that body
on the appointment early in June
of DR.. Alexander Vajda- Viewed to
form national peasants govern
ment succeeding the government of
Dr. n Jorga, national Democrat.
The total vote cast at the last
election. June l, 1882, was 1927 900
out of registration Of 10000
Only men 81 years or over NAV
vote. Women have no franchise nor
does the army 100000 mem.
Today's voting is important in
that it will be a test of strength of
Carols position. which has been
made increasingly difficult by the
depression Of the last two years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
ASSESSMENTS SLICED
Property Owners Costs Cut in Six
tenth st. Widening Job.

Reductions in assessments of some
property owners to pay for widen
ing of Sixteenth street from Cap
itol to Northwestern avenues, have
been made BY the works board.
Assessments of owners of property
from Northwestern to Mills avenues
were cut to so per cent; Mills ave-
nue. to Missouri street, 50 per cent;
Missouri street to Big -Four railroad,
north side, 80 per cent; Methodist
hospital, 20 per cent, and from al
ley west of Senate avenue to Capt.
tol avenue. 20 per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
FARM HANDS EARN LESS
NOW THAN IN 1902
Wage Rates Range From s1s.54 a
Month to S46.O1.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 16.-Farm
hanos' always among the poorest
paid lahorers, now make less than
they did thirty years ago, the de-
partment of agriculture reported
today.
Moreover there are two men anx-
ious to take every farm job avail
able.
Wage rates without board range
from s18.54 a month in the south
central states to s46.01 in the far
west, the average being s27.1O. The
average is % per cent less than a
year ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
TIPPECAN0E LAKE Is
WEEKEND SUGGESTION
Best Route to Northern Resort Is
Listed by Motor Club.

Weekend trip suggested by the
Hoosier Motor Club this week is
Tippecanoe lake, a distance of 135
miles.
Route is north on Michigan road,
No. 90, to Logansport; Road Is to
Rochester; north on U. S. Road 81
for seven miles to Evergreen Cor
ners: turn right on county gravel
road to three miles west of Mentone,
then on Road IS through Mentone
to Warsaw; north on Road Is to
Leesburg; east on county paved road
to Oswego and Lake Tippecanoe.
The route is nard surfaced with
exception Of road from Evergreen
Corners 10 Mentone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
Three Dead in Plane Crash

BIZ United Press
DULUTH, Mimi, July ia
seaplane about to land here after a
trip from Minneapolis crashed on
the lake front Thursday night kill
ing three persons. The dead were
Henry V. O'Hara, %, pilot. Duluth;
Robert Bean, Is, passenger, Duluth,
and Lloyd Rice, Virginia, MINI.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
ARTHUR WOLF AGAIN
Is BOYS CLUB HEAD
Begins Tenth Term as President Of
indianapolis Association.

The tenth term in the presidency
of the Boys Club Association of In
dianapolis began today for Arthur
Wolf, vice-president of the State
Auto Insurance Association.
Wolf was elected head Of the as
ISOLATION at the annual meeting of
the board of directors Thursday
night at the Boys Club summer
camp. northwest of Noblesville.
Other officers are Miss Laura
Lauter, first vice-president; Dom
aid S. Morris, second vice-presi-
dent; Herbert S. King, third VICE
president; George L. Denny, fourth
vice-president; Herman w. Kothe,
secretary, and L. Ert Slack, Karl c.
Wolfe, DR.. K. B. Mayhill and
Henry e. Ostrom, directors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
BY EARL SPARKLING
Times staff Writer

lCopvright. 1892. hv the New York; World
Telegram Corporation
NEW YORK, July 16.-About
~ this time the folks up in Blue
Ridge, Essex county, start get
ting ready for the big free, open
air magical show
August would not be August
without that show. 1t has been a
regular event for years now, as
seasonal as the bullying of the
melons and the ripening Of the
corn.
1t is held in front of the viii
lage postoff1ce at 7:30 p. M; come
one, come ell, and bring the chill
dren. Everybody comes, all right.
The town folks start gathering
right after supper. The farmers
drive in for miles around.
And you would never guess, you
city slickers, who that rustic ma
gician is. None other than Ber-
nard M. L. Ernst, attorney, of IS
West Forty third street. A pack
ing box is his stage, farmer boy
his assistant.
The eggs he pulls out of the
farmer boys mouth are fresh, laid
that day But what are eggs to
a country audience?
Lawyer Ernst is better magi-
clan than that. He waves empty
hands in the air and suddenly
there is a box filled with store
chocolates, and another one and
another one. Real candy, too, as
the mothers and the children can
testify.
The children clap sticky hands
for more. All right, there, an
other box, right out of thin air
Meanwhile, the men are getting
anxious for the windup, the ira
ditional windup.
"That there bottle trick" MUIR
INJURED one of them. How about
it?"
60 the Blackstone conjurer. pro-
~ duces a bottle. Shucks; it's
empty. But the farmers just
grin. It's always been empty like
that, year after year
The magician waves his hand
and the bottle is filled He starts
pouring drinks and passing them
out. The farmers raise their
glasses. Shucks! it's just water.
And maybe the magician waves
his hand and the water turns to
wine, or maybe it stays plain wa
ter. Who knows?
Ernst is a pretty big magician
up there in Blue Ridge, where he
spends the August of every sum-
mer. He is a pretty big magician
elsewhere, too.
He is president of the New
York council of the Society of
American Magicians and vice
president of the Magicians' Club
of London.
1t all started years ago, when
Harry Houdini, the handcuff king,
bobbed into his Office with a legal
problem that required some fast
work, too.
Marvellous" beamed Houdini
when the lawyer had Strengthened
the tangle. Here, I'll teach you
one of my tricks"
1t was simple card trick. Ernst
tried it that night at home, was
surprised when it worked. You
put all the face cards in the
middle of the deck, made num-
Der of cuts, but the queens re-
fused to be parted from the kings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
This Rings Bell

By United Press
HARRISON, N. Y, July Is.
Wild life in Weschester coun-
ty must be preserved, authori-
ties decided.
So they decreed collars, bells
and licenses for all Westches-
ter county cats-a 81 fee for
males and 81 for females.
If the cat wanders into the
pound it may be redeemed
for So.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
AIMEE GETTING BETTER
Report Evangelist Slightly I'M
proved; Back Home Again.

LOS ANGELES, July 16.-Aimee
Semple Mcpherson Hutton. Evan
gelist, suffering from complication
Of nervous disorders, tropical fever
and conclusion Of the brain. was re-
ported slightly improved today ct
her Moorish castle, Lake Elsinore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16

Next--Eugenc NJ. Homes, expert
appraiser by day and by night
Remah the Wizard, amateur
magician whose tricks have de-
lighted hundreds Of thousands Of
children