Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1921 — Page 9

BURGLARS AND FOOTPADS KEEP ON OPERATING Masked Bandits Collect From Restaurant Owner and Employes. GUNS BACK UP DEMANDS Pocket picking, burglaries, hold-ups and attempted hold-ups continued last night. Three bandits wearing handkerchiefs as masks entered the restaurant of Nick Charles, 701 Arnolda avenue. lined Charles and three employes up against a wall and proceeded to search them. From Charles they took *lO. from Bores Stotoche *ls. and George Stotocbe *O. and only a notebook from George VasselL The bandits evidently mistook the note book for a purse. One of the bandits was armed with two revolvers. He fired one shot into the floor to emphasize his orders to “stick, ’em up.” BOBBED ON BRIGHT WOOD CAB. J. Henry Poliquin, 3064 Lancaster avenue, was robbed of *BS, and a *SO Liberty bond as he boarded a Brightwood street car. H. M. Keene, 1632 East Washington street, was robbed by the pickpockets as he entered an East Washington street car. Hia purse contained *2l. Frank Coleman, 1051 Broadway was on his way home at 12:30 a. m. when a negro attempted to hold him up as he was walking on College avende near Twentieth street. When Coleman refused to stop the negro gave chase. THIEF PLUNDERS LOCKER BOOM. A thief visited the locker room at the Bell Telephone Company's building yesterdsy. J. W. Win get, 118 East Pratt street, reported his brown overcoat valued at *75, gone and William Jones. 3238 Graceland avenue, reported a green jersey coat worth $lO stolen. Burglars entered the home of Terry Talbert, 417 East Eighteenth street, by removing a screen and forcing a window. A .38-caliber revolver was stolen. Louis Trangott reported hia garage In the rear of 15 East Thirty-Fourth street broken Into last night. An automobile tire and rim were stolen, he said. DISMISSAL ASKED IN ‘EVIL MIND’ SUIT Woman Suing for $700,000 Damages to Be Heard. An oral motion to dismiss the *700.000 “evil mind” suit of Mrs. Teressa E. Wnrtsbaugh, a 1-cal attorney. Is under advisement today by Judge W. W . Thornton of Superior Court. Room 1. The mo tion was made late yesterday by Attorney Charles W. Miller who appeared as friend of the court. The court Indicated that the case would not bet stricken from the docket until the plaintiff was heard. Mrs. Wurtsbaugh created much comment Saturday when she filed a .*700.000 damage suit against Kennesaw M. Landis. judge of the Federal Court in Chicago: Judge Albert B. Anderson, judge of the Federal Court here: William G. MeAdoo, former director general of railroads. the city of Indianapolis, and about fifty other defendants for alleged jury done her in a period covering twenty-eight yeers. FINE IS DOUBLED. MILWAUKEE. Wls., Dec. 22—Sigmund Sobotk, when fined SIOO in District Court on a liquor violation charge appealed. The municipal court Jury made it S2OO. Sigmnnd is undecided about appealing further.

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ORIRO PETANO, New Guinea.—Dear ] Dad: We have finished our second diry's hike Into the interior of New i Guinea and are camped at a village called j Oriro Petano. It Is the fifth we have en- ; tered since we left Yule Island, and, as in ; all the others, we are attracting much at- | tention because this is the first time so large a party—four white men and 120 , native carriers, besides an escort of flf- ; ‘een policemen—has ever gone inland ! from Yule Island. I Getting those carriers was a hard job. They came from a village which has not Ibeen called upon to furnish carriers for a long time and they are notoriously tricky. Once they even ran away and I left Governor Murry stranded without j carriers in the interior. Not even the ' fact that the police rounded them up and a large number of them went to Jail taught them much of a lesson. How- ! ever, Humphries is a wonder at handling | natives and if we can toll these fellows ! along until we reach the mountains wq will be all right, for they are afread of | the mountain natives, who have not yet forgotten their cannibalistic ways. Noth-

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rarriers pawning through a native village. The expedition started out with 120 of these carriers.

inw will coax those carriers to run away after we get to the mountains. Last night we camped at Inawabui after five hours in boats and native canoes—crossing from Yule Island to the mainland — and a hike of four miles from the village of Bloto, our landing place. We hurried through Bioto, which the explolrer, D'Albertts, who spent the night there amid Us countless mosquitoes, branded a place of torture which nothing in Dante's “Inferno” could equal. If Bioto Is the worst, Inawabui runs it a dote second, as I am willing to testify. I don't know what the others suffered, but I went to sleep with my mosquito net tightly tucked in around my cot and woke up about midnight with a hundred mosquitoes inside the net. The villages through which we have passed have been very much alike —a fence-enclosed area of ground with a score or so of houses, • one of which Is religiously set aside for visitors and government officers and another as barracks for visiting police. A NEW TYPE OF MISSIONARY. Word of our coming always precedes us. We find evidences on every hand—groups of men too old to act as carriers feverishly cleaning the roads lest Humphries, “the government man who shakes us up.” let loose the viais of his wrath; women sweeping up the village streets and dusting out the government house. The village constable always Is at hand to greet us, garbed in his uniform, his locket of office around his neck. lie snaps to “attention” and salutes stiffly,

OPEN NIGHTS OPEN NIGHTS PAYAFTER XMAS A E £S* M\l/y w'h„ a /f v Watches $5 to $35 FOR MEN |l Nothing makes a BfOOCheS, inclndfng^fh™ 4 *]!"- fiP* A flner g,ft Th 9 Cuff Links, $2.50 to SSO ifiAlA a anew styles will <*l + sok Hamilton. Every Bru /tj appeal to you- ?1 ™ 925 l/f' j§Bj , V? *"***■ * EMfl ft IT tir +v. ViM xr l e l prices from W s \a/v \i f 12 50 to Watch Necklaces, * locn . w|By v Chains SSSi 53.50t0 $12.50 to \^7 OPEN NIGHTS UNTIL CHRISTMAS

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Letters from cannibal land written by BEN BOYCE of the ‘West by Southwest Expedition ’ to his father, W. D. BOYCE.

then has bananas and freshly opened cocoanuts brought that we may eat anil drink. So far we have seen only those Papuans who are quite used to white men and their ways, but they do not like them particularly. Much they would prefer to be left alone, although they display real affection for those missionaries who labor In their midst. At Inawaia we met Father Branges, a French priest, who has Just got back from a two years’ leave of absence. “France Is much too civilized for me now. I prefer to be here.” Thus he simply explains why he is content to

dwell la a village of savages. Here at Oriro Petano we met another Interesting character —a woman missionary and teacher. Rose Albaniel Is her name and long ago she came from Thursday Island, In Torres Straits, to live among the Papuans. Educated at one of the missions, she speaks English, French and the native dialects of hereabouts. To them she Is known as “Mama,” and her Filipino husband answers to “Papa.” She rules this village with a rod of Iron, albeit It Is a kindly one. She compels the youngsters to come to her house to school and with a long stick with a crook In the end she pulls those who “play ; hookey” down from their hiding places and drives them before her Into the | schoolroom. When they take refuge In | the river she sends her 14-year-old son, I Emmanuel, Into the water after them. ORIORO PETANO NOT PEACEABLE VILLAGE. Oriro Petano is not a peaceable village. Not so very long ago its war like proclivities got out cf bounds and Its men descended upon a neighboring village and the battle raged for three days. Yet Rose Is not afraid of them. She bosses them and mothers them and physics them, and, In case she deems they need it, she is not averse to putting the fear of God into them with a club when words fail to produce results We got here about the middle of the afternoon after a hike of twelve miles through dense Jungle and river bottom* that grow grass twice the height of a man. We were wringing wet with persplra-

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tion, yet our carriers, with loads of a hundred pounds swung on a pole between each two of them, were hot on our hr .Is right along. We hree tenderfeet were congratulating ourselves upon our endurance and speed when Corporal Amlo, whom we had left at Yule Island, came tramping in with fresh bread and a case of meat which we had requested Magistrate Conley to send after us. Amio, heavily loaded, made ir one day what had taken us two. Tonight, clad In pajamas, we three lone white men strolled about the village, heedless of the naked savages, armed with big bowie knives, who dogged our footsteps. They might like to take a cut at us, but deep In their hearts is the fear that “the government, he go

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Rose Albaniel, the Oriro Petano teacher, and two of her charges. She rules with a heavy hand on occasions, but Just now Is playing the rolo of nursemaid. wild." I wonder If, a week hence, when we reach the mountain* the government'# prestige will be as great a safeguard. Humphries shakes his head doubtfully. There isn't much protection In something about which the mountain folk have heard but vaguely and whose mighty hand has never touched them. But we are going anyhow and the readers of the Times will be able to read about people whom no other writers and photographers ever saw. With love, your son, -S’. California Man Can Petrify Wood Easily LONG BEACH. CaL, Dec. 22.—Nature has met another rival. This time it is a southern California man, who claims he Is able to petrify wood. Assertions to this effect were made by C. R. Edwards, an explorer, of this city, who said he was able to petrify wood In a remarkably short period of time. Edwards related that he noticed that the ground In the vicinity of petrified forests was heavy In mineral content and that he believed the trees became petrified wnen the minerals weie drawn Into the tree cells In liquid form. Edwards set to work to duplicate nature's feat and stated that his experiments have met with success.

POLITICS WILL HAVE NO PLACE IN PROMOTIONS Mayor-Elect Shank Gives Practical Talk to Local Firemen. “Promotion Is going to be based upon merit, and 1 don't care If a man Is a Republican, Democrat or a Socialist, as long as he is a good fireman,” declared Samuel I.ewis Shank, mayor-elect, In an address to firemen stationed at Engine House No. 13, Maryland street and Kentucky avenue, at a dinner and reception held last night for Battalion Chief John J. O’Brien. O’Brien will be chief of the fire force under Mayor Shank. His headquarters have been at the engine house for several years. The men gave the farewell party also in honor of Battalion Chief John Blackwell, who Is to be an assistant chief in the new administration, and who also has been stationed at their house. FIREMEN MUST KEEP SOBER. Mr. Shank told the firemen that they will have to keep sober, refrain from playing politics and pay their bills or get off of the force after Jan. 2. He announced as was predicted Wednesday, that Assistant Fire Chief Simeon C. noyl will be retained in that rank, In place of John C. Loucks, present fire chief, who was offered the assistant chiefship, but who will resign from the department on Jan. 2. Hoyl was originally slated for reduction to battalion chief. Mr. Shank said that as assistant chief ho will have much more to do with active fire fighting than he has heretofore, making It possible for Chief O’Brien to devote most of his time to administrative duties. PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED. Mr. Shank also announced that Lieutenants Daniel Hill and Philip Klley, also of Station No. 13, will be promoted to captaincies. Firemen will not be compelled to wear dress uniforms to fires because a fireman Is "not in the right frame of mind to do his work when he Is dressed in a tailor made suit of clothes," Mr. Shank said. He also promised that he would not sign any ordinance reducing firemen’s pay. TALK BY IT RE CHIEF. Chief O'Brien warned all firemen that "race, religion and lodge affiliations win have no lnluenco with me In matting promotions," and that “If the best friend 1 have falls down on the Job I’ll remove him.” Ernest L. Kingston, chairman, and James E. Armttage, Democratic member of the new board of public safety, promised their sjpport to the new chlof. Mnmbers-elcct of the city council promised to help better conditions of firemen. Besides those mentioned guests were: Joseph L. Hogue, appointee for city controller; Patrick Lynch of Newcastle, Ind., clerk of the Supreme Court, and John B. King, Ileydon W. Buchanan, William E. Clauer, Lloyd D. Claycombe, Walter W. Wise, Otto Ray and Ira I* Bramblett, councilman-elect.

Bar Will Install New Officers Jan. 4 Lewis A. Coleman, who was elected president of the Indianapolis Bar Asso- ! elation at a meeting last night, will be installed the night of Jan. 4. Allen P. ; Vestal was re-elected secretary, j Other officers elected are: Howard S. Young and Etusley W. Johnson, vice presidents; Donald 8. Morris, treasurer. Ralph Bamberger and Quincy A. Myers ; were elected to the executive committee and George L. Denny, Smiley N. Cham- | hers and William R. Higgins to the I committee on admission. I The association Is planning to give a I dinner some time next month.

OPEN THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY NIGHT UNTIL 9 P. M.

the Entire family furniture ondTctjs Shop at the NATIONAL FURNITURE CO., “Out of the High Rent District”

CARD TABLES -AT--52.49 nn A co 11 a p slble card table, with Imitation leather top, reinforced at corners with metal tips. Special Friday at *2.19.

LET US DELIVER A McDOUGALL KITCHEN CABINET

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W ■ we know they will be), pay for it on OUR WEEKLY OR MONTHLY PAYMENT PLAN

Pift atTIwMATiOWACS TOY DEMRTMENT wo More Days and Nights to Shop! Hurry!! Hurry!! Hurry!!—To Toyland.

Metelaphone 189 c Twelve-key metelaphone, as 11-* lustrated, with two little wooden playing mallets. Offered special at 894*

TRAIN ON TRACK at 49c This ontflt consist* of an engine, tender and one coach with circular track. Wind up tha engine and it will run on the track, special Friday and Saturday at... ~494

Hobby Horse at $3.49 Here it is boys, a hobby horse as pictured with saddle and bridal; offered special Friday and Saturday at $3.49.

Aational*Pur/titi/reCo "Out ttuitDistrict , 33s * 313 WUSastA. -St;

SMOKING STANDS \ 20i 1 Friday and Saturday we are offering all remaining Smoking Stands at a discount of 20%.

PEDESTALS In golden oak, fumed oak and Imitation mahogany. Priced from $3.98 p

to Your Home on Trial. —Now Is the time to gat Mother, Wife or Sister’s Christmas Gift—let it boa McDougall Kitchen Cabinet —a gift that will lessen their work. We will Bend one to your borne for TWO or TH R E B WEEKS’ TRIAL and If they are not satisfied we will call for it. If they are (and

BOOKS-'—'' —give the little friend a Story Book, we have a large and varied selection, from Ducky Quack Books to Boy and Girl Scout Books ranging in price from 9c upward.

Character SSjI DOLL ffso9Bc f) A large 16VtOi y/\ inch CharacJy ter D o on hair, as ( A 1 11 u strated (— —'yy A special Fri--VvSk. da | Bnd Sat * ><s at .f.-.9B<i

FORTUNE IS TELLING Hr 8 19 c A game of Fortune Telling, played with cards, very Interesting; offered special Friday and Saturday at 194>

Coaster Sled at 79c Be prepared for the snow; give that boy or girt a Coaster Sled like we are offering for Friday and Saturday at 794-

FOR Frid f and Saturday Floor f Lamps j| Complete Shade and Base /f?j§| 25% y fcwOFF a Original prices /fra from $19.75 upDiscount Prices from $13.80 upward.

12 SELECTIONS Sold Cash Or On the Easy Payment Plan

Carom and Crokinole Boards at. $4.98 As Illustrated a combination Carom and Crokinole Board that we are offering special Friday and Saturday at $4.98.

16 PIECE SET OF TIN DISHES _ A I 4Q C i “w | ® Beautiful set of 16 pieces, tin dishes, decorated with neat floral design, special at 494 a set. 'Same set In 11 pieces at 394 a sot.)

SHO-FLY FOR THE BABY 89c Special for Friday and Saturday, we are offering a Shoo-Fly Rocking Horse, as illustrated, at 89£,

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