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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

the amateur brings to his hobby
the background of his profession
and the ideas of a workaday
world.
He sees magic through the eyes
of an engineer or a sales manager
or an apartment house owner who
constantly is trying to keep his
tenants pleased and happy"
n a.
A 6 soon as the Truth Machine
L n had been demonstrated.
Remoh turned his attention to
something else. The machine was
too cumbersome to cart around
the country.
To set it up anew for each en-
tertanment cost too much. Some
thing along the same line was
needed. So, several weeks ago at
a private session Of the society, the
appraiser demonstrated his newest
invention, the Intelligent Hand.
The Hand, a woman'S hand
made of papier- mache, rests on a
sheet of ordinary glass. Remoh
Rajah Remoh for this act, all
dressed up in a Hindoo costume)
holds the sheet Of glass at arms
length.
The Hand starts rapping on the
glass. 1t raps twice for YES, thrice
for no. Numbers can be written
on blackboard and concealed
while Rajah Remoh is absent from
the room.
He returns with the Hand and
the Hand raps out the right num-
berS.
THAT Hand cost me a lot of
money to make" he explains, but
it is worth it. Magic is a fine
hobby. You get 2 real kick doing
something that hasn't been done
before.
It's a good business asset, too. I
can arrive in a strange town where
l don't know soul. If do a few
tricks at the hotel, I" have two
or three invitations to dinner by
night.
Last year I toured the entire
country. I made thousands of
friends never would have made
without magic"
Next: DR.. Hooker, master ma
gician.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

four years on a truth machine
with which to bewilder adults. He
demonstrated it for the first time
March 10, 1881, before the Society
of American nagicians.
The machine consists of num-
erous dials, indicators, meters.
Metal bracelets are attached to
persons wrists. The current is
turned on. Questions are asked.
IF the person being tested answers
untruthfully, the machine buzzes
and electric currents shoot
through it like tightening.
Also, the machine will read a
PERSONS mind quite as expertly as
any stage mind-reader. It spells
the name of a person brought be-
fore it by flashing when the prop
er letter is called.
Now" speaks the magician,
tell us the first letter of the
name. Is it A, B, c, D, E?"
When the right letter is reached
the machine buzzes and flashes
lightning.
In similar fashion it tells a
PERSONS age, name, playing cards
chosen mentally, etc.
a LII of it is illusion, of course:
L A straight magic, of no more
scientific Importance than the
Transformation of a pair of white
gloves into a pair of white pig
cons. But consider the public's
reaction.
After that demonstration in
1884, laughs Homer, Il got letters
and kilograms from all over the
country. There was even cable
or two from Europe.
Heads of police departments
wanted to know if the machine
would work on criminals. Profess
sors of psychology asked for per-
mission to study the apparatus.
In one case I was asked to make a
demonstration before a medical
college.
I got big kick out of that. It
proves that magic, if kept new
enough, still has the power to in
terest thousands of people.
And it is the amateur magi-
clan, probably more than the pro-
fessional, who constantly is add
ing new illusion. That is because
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
PORTABLE SCHOOL
WILL Be ERECTED
Action Taken on Arlington
and Shelley. Site.

City school officials today were pre-
pairing to erect a portable school at
Arlington avenue and Shelley
streets, as result of coming appeals
board action Monday. in granting a
coming ordinance variance for the
school.
Only directors were Mr.. and Mrs.
W. E. Springer, residing opposite
the site, purchased by the board for
$4,000 to relieve small children
from the necessity of crossin Z
Washington street to attend distant
schools.
Objections of neighboring prop
erty owners resulted in withdrawal
OF petition of Natalie L. Smith for
permission to build a filling station
at the southeast corner. Pennsyl-
vania and Forty-sixth streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
FINE 8 IN RUM CASES
Law Has Perfect Batting Average
in Judge Sheaffer's Court.

The law had perfect batting av-
erage In the court of Municipal
Judge William H. Sheaffer today,
sentences being imposed in all cases
tried.
John Starkey, 423 Virginia ave-
nue., was fined 500 and costs with
a thirty-day penal farm term in a
blind tiger case. The fine was sus-
pended.
Mickey Lynch. city. was fined
$40 and costs and given a sixty-day
penal farm term for drunkenness.
On the same charge Boyd Corum.
1913 North Capitol avenue. was fined
$40 and given a thiry-day term.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
EXPERTS IN JAlLCRAFT
Boy Scouts Show Sergeant Way
Out of Locked Cell.
By United Press

u tHtttu FftSS
CHICAGO, July 19-Three Boy
Scouts trained in woodcraft and
thoroughly able to find their way
out of the woods, if they became
lost, have taught Sergeant Thomas
Walsh thing or two about the de-
tective bureau Jail.
Walsh was showing the scouts
through the jail. He led them into a
cell and locked the door behind
him. After a few minutes he turned
his key in the lock to leave and
found the lock jammed. He shout
ed for help, but jailers paid no at
tention.
Then scout noticed a window,
behind which was a locked graf
ing. He took the sergeant,s keys.
unlocked the grating, and the four
escaped through the window.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
County Highway Tax Levy
Eliminated in Estimate

only county official to reduce his
salary voluntarily last year.
He recommended the wage scale,
now in effect, for employees of the
department, advising commissioners
the cut made last year would be
sufficient. Wages range from 30
cents an hour for laborers to $3.50
a month for foremen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Drop Move to Fire Chief

oH tHifCd Press
MITCHELL. Ind, July ia de-
mand of the city council for the
resignation of Police Chief Clyde
Smith was withdrawn by the coun-
Gil Monday night after a demon
stration of more than 800 protesting
citizens. Councilmen had charged
Smith permitted lawleSSness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
WINS PUSHM0BILE RACE
PuShmobiIe Event Is Feature Of
Busienss Mems Celebration.

Brightwood Special, piloted by
Ralph Coverstone and pushed by
Al Huestand and Bob Brown, won
first place in pushmobile race held
Monday night in the 2700 block
North La Sale street, under aus
pices Of business men Of the COM
munity.
Committee in charge of arrange
ments wes Mrs. Omer Wisehart and
Mrs. Margaret Kimmel. Harry Bur-
nett was starter and Wayne Muir
ply. timer. Prizes were awarded all
contestants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
CHILDREN ENJOY HOCUS-POCUs
Ne7c York Millionaire Brings Magic to Thousands

Through the ages the mystic art of
legerdemain has intrigued all men Out
of this ancient interest has grown a
unique fellowship. the Society of Ameri-
can Msgicians. Included in its men,
bership are distinguished representatives
Of science. the professions. business and
the world OF affairs generally.
Some Of them. in the pursuit of white
magic as a hobby. have acquired a skill
ana lore beyond the ken of the or
binary professional performer But so
quietly and modestlv do thew demon
strate their attainments that the public
hears nothing of this side of their lives
Earl Spsrling has written a series OF
articles about these interesting men and
their strange gifts. the third of which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Air Liner stilI Missing

BIZ United Press
SANTIAGO, Chile. July ls.-Five
military airplanes and a tri-motored
machine Of the National Airways
had found no trace today Of the
missing Panagra air liner San Jose,
lost with nine persons aboard on a
flight over the Andes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
CADETS TO GET TESTS
Physical Examination of Officer
ASpirants Slated at Fort.

FHySIcaI EAamlnatl0n OF UHlCer
ASpirants Slated at Fort.
Physical examinations to deter
mine fitness to hold commissions in
the organized reserves will be given
fourth year cadets at the Fort Ben
jamin Harrison c. M. T. C. Wednes-
day and Thursday.
Examinations will be given by
regular army physicians under di-
rection OF Lieutenant Colonel c. M.
WalSeh, post surgeon. Fourth-year
men passing the tests will be rec
commended as second lieutenants in
the reserve infantry, a class of the
c. M T. c., Aug. 8.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Wrong Tack
By UHited Press

81 JHlFcd Press
FIT. WORTH, Tex, July 10
c. j. Porter, 20. was mailing I'D
a sign in a grocery store, and
smoking at the same time. He
coughed, swallowed a tack, and
landed in the hospital. An
X-ray failed to disclose the
tack, so Porter went back to
work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
FETE VETERAN U. S. AID
Federal Employees Honor John
Cronk, Who Ends IS Years Service.

Federal employees honored John
w. Cronk, retired after thirty-five
years in government service, at a
dinner Monday night at the Kou-
per Kettle, Morristown.
Cronk had been in the internal
revenue department since 1901. pre-
vlously having served four years al
postmaster at Veedersburg. He
reached the retirement age. 10, three
years ago, but was given an extern
sion which was withdrawn because
OF the federal economy measurs
passed by congress recently.
Cronk plans TO return to his hons
in Veedersburg.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
RAILROAD CHIEF QUITS

Canadian National President, Board
Chairman Resigns.
By United Press
MONTREAL, July 19.-The resig-
nation Of Sir Henry Thornton.
president and chairman of the
board of directors of the Canadian
National Railways, was placed be-
fore the board here today and
formally accepted. The resignation
is as OF Aug. l."
S. j. Hungerford. vice president,
is to be acting president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-29
AIR MANEUvERS
OFF THIS YEAR
Criticism Hats Display on
Vast 1881 Scale.

By Scripps-HOt0drd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, March 29.-Last
years vast air corps maneuvers, in
which nearly 700 fighting planes
we're concentrated and paraded over
the eastern Seaboard, will not be
duplicated this year.
In fact, it is likely there will be
no maneuverS at all this spring. The
reason-criticiSm
Patriots last year shouted that it
was 100000 aeronautical holi-
day. Pacifsts protested against it
as an arrogant display of military
strength. Nervous nellieS cringed
at the thought of airplanes falling
upon them.
But too late, and the TOO planes
flew 100000 miles without a ia
tally.
AS a matter of fact, it didn't cost
the taxpayers anything. Maneuvers
were paid for out Of the regular air
corps appropriation, and the same
amount of flying would have been
done at home fields.
But such an immense and spec
tacular gathering of airplanes is
bound to attract undue attention
and adverse criticism. The war de-
partment has about decided that it
won't run the risk of similar criti-
cism this year, even though the
fault finding is based on error.
The maneuvers probably will be
replaced with routine training
flights at air corps stations.
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highway director

that well might impoverish any
countryside erosion, destroying
fertile farm lands; and cessation
of transportation, killing COM
merce.
But those conditions, though
they might reduce a prosperous
nation to poverty and even fam
inc, could not wipe out millions of
people in the space of half CEN
fury.
Disease did the rest. The sitting
Of the lakes changed them into
pestilential breeding places for
MOSQUITOES that spread malaria
and yellow fever among the popu-
lation.
In the fifty years Of the collapse,
epidenics of these diseases must
have swept over the Magyar land.
Powerless to stem the tide of death,
the terrified survivors fled from
their plague -stricken country.
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This, incidentally, explains how
they solved their transportation
problem, for so far as is known
they had no beasts Of burden and,
with all their ingenuity, they
never invented the wheel.
q
A S the Magyar population in
"a creased, the farmers cleared
more and more of the uplands to
make fields for their maize and
other crops, thus exposing the
rich, black soil to the torrential
tropical rains that drench the ter
ritory during six months Of the
year.
The fine, fat lands gradually
we're eaten away and washed down
into the lakes, which eventually
became mere mud holes, unfit for
navigation.
Here. then, were two factors
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coe Ates, the counting of noses
revealed several unlimited adver-
Using solicitors present. None
was selling anything-just max
ing Contacts
One night there was a party at
the Embassy club and another
at the Montmartre next door.
Guests from one place would
travel through the kitchen, which
serves both places, to the other.
After this had continued for
some time, few outsiders caught
on to the idea and worked it sue
cessfully.
The exclusive Mayfair club,
which has very strict regulations
regarding its guests, never fails
to have its share of troubles with
the gate crashers.
College boys and girls are the
chief offenders, but occasionally
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-29
TINE letter reads:

Here they laboriously rebuilt
what they had lost, but this So
called Second Empire never re-
captured the glories of the first.
Who or what destroyed the first
Magyar empire? Investigators
seeking to solve the mystery have
advanced various theories.
Some laid the collapse to. a long
and suicidal civil war. Others
believed a blight withered the
Magyar crops and a great famine
swept away vast portions of the
population.
Still others reasoned that an
epidemic, a series of earthquakes,
or drastic change in climate
were responsible for the tragedy.
y n
COOKE found the secret in the
~ swamps and marshes that
constitute about 40 per cent Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-29

the old Maya country, now again
an almost inpenetrable and unin-
habited wilderness.
He made close study of the
soil and formation Of these boys,
or bajos, and of the uplands sur
rounding them. His survey of the
terrain and his tests of the COM
position of the soil led the &C.
ologist to these conclusions:
The marshes, at the time of the
Magyar empire, formed a system
of deep, clear lakes. The Mayas
built their great cities and titled
their farms on the surrounding
hilly shores, where their Jungle
covered ruins are found to this
day.
The lakes they used for navi-
CATION, shipping their farm pro-
duce and articles of commerce by
boat from settlement to settle
ment.
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the dissolution of this strong, en-
hghtened nation, writes Robert
E. Martin in the May Popular
Science Monthly.
Between $50 and $50 A. D.,
when the country's prosperity was
at its height, and its population
numbered more than 100000
souls, the Mayas left their won
derful cities like rats deserving a
sinking ship.
They abandoned their farms,
their homes, their sumptuous
palaces and temples to the mer-
cies of the jungle.
= n
ITOSTS of Mayas died in the
l. Il fateful fifty years of the col
lapse. The survivors fed from
their Guatemala homeland. Some
settled in various parts of South
America. Others migrated to
western Yucatan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-29
OYSTER CURE IS
USED IN ANEM|A
Sea Food Held Valuable in
MaIady Treatment.

BIZ Science Service
NEW ORLEANS, March EFF
you are plagued with pernicious
anemia, eat oysters instead of liver.
They are as good as liver in cura-
tive properties, and much easier to
take-if you like oysters.
This dietary advice emanateS
from report before the American
Chemical Society, meeting here to-
day, by DR.. Harold Levine and DR..
Roe E. Remington of the South
Carolina food and research COM
mission and E. j. Coulson of the
United States bureau of fisheries.
"A few natural foods, such as
beans, chard, spinach, lean beef and
liver, equal or excel the oyster in
iron content" the report stated,
but as source of both iron and
copper in natural form, the oyster
can be compared only with liver"
Practically all oysters provide
enough copper, it was found, but
only oysters from southern waters
contain a sufficient quantity of both
copper and iron to be of value in
combating anemia.
A source of vitamin A, more than
a hundred times as potent as cod
liver oil, has been found in oil from
the liver of the food fish halibut.
Halibut liver oil contains an unusu-
ally large concentration of vitamin
d, according to a report by Drs.
A. D. Emmett and o. D. Bird, De-
troit, and G. Nelson and H. j. Can
non, Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-29
SENATE WAR
DECLARED ON
RELIEF BILLS
Use of Reconstruction Fund
to Pay Railway Debt to
Morgan ASSaiIed.
FIGHT GLASS MEASURE
Bank Regulation Proposal
Is Attacked by Imposing
Array of Witnesses.
BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 2e.-The
senate was moving today toward
controversy over reconstruction
finance corporation stewardship of
federal emergency relief funds. An
angry dispute also was developing
over the Glass bill to regulate
banking practices.
Senators Borah, Idaho, and
Couzens, Michigan. both Repub-
hcanS, charge that the finance cor
poration exerted undue pressure in
obtaining interstate commerce COM
mission approval of a $5,850OO loan
to the Missouri Pacific railway.
Senator Dill Dem, Wash.) COM
planned that the corporation, headed
by Charles G. Dawes, was making
loans to enable the roads to nav
interest on their securities. Couzens
implied that the Van Sweringen
brothers of Cleveland, who own the
missouri Pacific, have been aided in
getting the loan by James r. Mutt.
also of Cleveland, treasurer of the
Republican national committee.
Morgan to Get Money
objection to the Missouri Pacific
loan centers around the fact that it
was made to enable the railway to
retire half of a ST., ZOO 900 indebt-
edness to J. P. Morgan & Co., Loeb
q Co. and the Guaranty Trust
Company of New York.
The Interstate commerce COM
mission approved the loan-the law
requires its approval of all rail
loans-but accompanied it's sane
ton with a public disavowal of the
policy involved with respect to alb
sorption by the federal government
OF loans held by banks.
examination of information
placed before the banking and cur
rency committee during considera-
ton Of the reconstruction act
however, discloseS that bank loans
were listed in an interstate COM
merce commission report among
the maturing liabilities of the roads
which it was assumed the corpora
ton might assist in handling.
Glass Bill ASsaiIed
The dissension developing over
finance corporation policies recalls
Dawes statement, when he assumed
presidency of the organization. He
said that he and his corporation
were popular for the moment, but
would be the most unpopular or
ganization in the country in a year
or two.
The other financial dispute NOV
ing toward the senate floor involves
the Glass bill. Bankers, big and
little, have been appearing before
the banking and currency commit
tee for several days in opposition to
the bill.
A climax of attack was reached
Monday, when Leonard P. Ayres. of
the Cleveland Trust Company told
the committee that not even the pro-
vision of the bill providing relief
for depoSitors of failed banks should
be enacted at this time.
AyreS, nationally famous statis-
tician and banker, expressed the
opinion that the depression was get
ting worse and that there would be
two and one-half years more of it,
at the least.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-29
RODEO TO OPEN
CIRCUS SEASON
SeIIS-FIoto and HagenbeCk
to Perform April 10.
By Times Special

By Times Special
PERU, Ind, March 29.-The 1892
season of the Sells-F1oto and
Hagenbeck- Wallace circuses will
open with the annual rodeo at win
ter quarters Sunday, April 10.
Sells-Floto will open at the Coli
scum in Chicago, May 1, followed
by an appearance at Lafayette. May
2. Hagenbeck-Wallace is dated ten
tatively to open at Louisville, May z.
With the circus will be the famous
animal trainer, Clyde Beatty, who
recently underwent hospital treat
ment following an attack by one of
his lions.
Tom Mix will not be with the
SellS-Floto this year, but will re-
main in Hollywood playing in west
ern films.
The John Robinson circus will
spend its second summer in winter
quarters because of financial con-
ditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-29
IRVING WEBSTER HIT BY
CHILD NEGLECT CHARGE
Son Alleges Publisher Has Failed to
Support Twin Daughters.

Irving Webster, publisher of the
Indiana Jormal, today was to be
ordered into juvenile court to an
swer an affidavit charging child
neglect.
The affidavit was filed Monday
by Judson H. West, representing
WebSter'S divorced wife.
The divorce followed WebSter'S
conviction several months ago on a
blackmail charge in criminal court,
on which supreme court appeal Is
pending.
The juvenile court affidavit
charges Webster with failure to
support his two children, Helen and
Clarice Webster, twins. Lewis Web
ster, 20, a son, filed the charge.
Webster had been ordered to pay
So weekly support, after his wife
obtained limited divorce. Mrs.
Webster is i'll at the city hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-29
HOLLYWOOD BANFTTS CRASHER

BY DAN THOMAS
NEA Service Writer

HOLLYWOOD, March o.
IL Party crashing around Holly
wood is getting so tough that
even "One-Eye" Connolly would
have a tough time getting a peek
inside.
There used to be any number
Of boys and girls who could fer
ret out a cinema social gathering
anywhere in Hollywood. Now
they have a tough time finding
one if it is more than a block
away.
In fact, the party crasher rap
idly is getting in danger Of be-
coming absolutely extinct.
Two main reasons may be cited
for the gradual elimination of
party crashing. First, there aren't
as many big parties as there used
to be; second, hosts are becoming
wise.
In days gone by an actor who
entertained in Hollywood enter
tanned Hollywood. Every one from
executives on down to extras at
tended.
That they hadn't been invited
meant less than nothing. Now
invitations go to a select few and
news of the party is kept as secret
as possible.
=
A NY number of means once
IA were used by the party Chi
sellers" And back in what some
still term "the good old days" any
one of them would work. One
of the favorites was to call the
hostess on the day of the party
and invite her for dinner.
Naturally, she couldn't accept
the invitation and SO times out of
100 would invite the "chisler" to
attend her party.
Another stunt was for party
bound persons to drop in on
friends en- route, have a few
drinks and then insist that these
friends accompany them to the
party.
Buffers who know their Holly
wood are getting wise to this
stunt, however, and it isn't as
successful any longer.
Then, there is the out and out
gate crasher, who turks just out
side the gates waiting for any kind
of a break. Sometimes he per-
suades one of the musicians to
let him carry an instrument case
inside.
4
A T a party given by Richard
L y Dix recently, he was surprised
to find that although he had en-
gagged only four musicians, eight
occupied the stand.
Some turned the music, others
just sat. OF course they weren't
paid, but they were content to
just watch.
At another party given by Ros-