Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1922 — Page 7

'APRIL 11, 1922.

CHINESE TALES OUTDO STORIES OF STEVENSON Escapades of Pirates Rival Best That Fiction ' Produces. SHANGHAI, China. April IL Robert Louis Stevenson’s tales of pirates bolil are rivalled by the daring escapades and adventures of the Chinese river and coast pirates. One of the most audacious deedg of the Chlneae pirates which has ever occurred in Chinese waters took place recently when an armed pirate gang boarded the China Merchant Navigation Company's steamer Kwanglee." off the coast of Amoy, held up the European captain, the ship's officers and passengers and escaped with $130,000 in valuables and money. Capt. Lindsay Crawford was sitting in his cabin when pirates rushed ir, held him up with revolvers, bound h'm. He was tied, gagged and locked in a little room along with other foreign officers for more than thirty hours. HOW ROBBERS FLT THEIR TRADE. The robbers proceeded to the treasury room of the vessel, broke it open and removed silver bars valued at 530.000. The bars, together with $120,000 taken from the terrified passengers, were lowered over the side of the steamer to their fellow pirates, who were waiting in Chinese junks. Rich silks and furs, amounting to $30,000. being taken from Shanghai to Canton as carfo, also were taken by the pirates. Before leaving, the pirate captain with a swagger equal to the bravado of a “Treasure Island" hero, wished the captain of the Kwanglee good by and a safe journey.” Incidentally, they put the engines of the ship out of order. While (plundering the vessel ‘he pirates shot a number of Chinese passengers, threw two Chinese overboard, but did not molest the "foreign'’ passengers. Mrs. Wu Ting Fang, wife of Dr. Wu Ting Fang. forn* r Chinese minister to the United States and a leader in the activities of the Canton government, a passenger, was uninjured. While this affair is unquestionably one of tbe most daring and successful robberies to occur ofT the China coast, the pirates operating along the South China coast and the rivers carry on wellorganized robberies almost daily. PIRATES NUMBER THOUSANDS. The pirates number into the thousands, and they are particularly fond of boarding the Junks on the rivers and carrying off a cago of rice, wood or sundries. They are organized into bands and follow the directions of their leaders. The Islands off Ningo are infested with the robbers, and so well acquainted are they with the country that it is almost impossible for the river and coast police to capture them. When they are captured the pirates are shot immediately. The pirate' Tery superstitious as well as religi ius. Practically every port city or town has . “Temple to the Goddess of Heaven.” where the pirates, as well as the boatman, worship the young goddess who is said to have the power to save their boats from harm during a storm. When out at sea in a storm the pirates fall on their faces and implore the go<jdess of the heavens to save them. If they see a strange red light In the heavens they rejoice and feel that their supplications have been aswered. Pirates on shore burn Incense in the “Temples to the Goddess of the Heavens” during a typhoon for their brother pirates ou the rivers or ocean.

CALLS IRELAND THE BRAINPAN Impassioned Tribute to Erin by non-Gaelic Stirs U. S. Senators. WASHINGTON. April 11.—Ireland was described as the “brainpan of the world” In an Impassioned tribute to the Emerald Isle by Senator Stanley, Democrat, of Kentucky, during a recent debate on the floor of the Senate. Stanley eloquently pleaded the cause of the Irish Free State, saylnir it has risen through centuries of oppression to command the admiration of the world. "I have not a drop of Irish blood in my veins.'’ Stanley said. “I wish I had. I can trace my ancestry back to an unbroken English l*ne and I’m not specially proud of It. Fat I know that when the history of all the peoples of the world shall have been written there will he nothing in song or story sweeter or sadder or grander than the sufferings and the triumph of the Irish people and the Irish nation. “RISES LIKE TRAxsnol RATION.” "Out of centuries of persecution such as no other race ever suffered, up from fields Incarnadined in blood of heroes and stakes and gibbets, sanctified by the sacrificial deaths of martyrs, in her rags and her poverty, her learning and heroism, wild and grand and beautiful, Ireland rises like a transfiguration to command the admiration of the world, for at last, thank God, Old Ireland is free.” Stanley suggested that if the pleas of pro-British were followed, that the statue of Andrew Jackson tn front of the White House be torn down and anew one erected to Lloyd George or George Harvey. “Why should not Ireland feel an antipathy to Great Britain?” Stanley demanded. "No Senator has the right to treat contemptuously the Just resentment against wrongs so deep and damnable that their reiteration might make the very angels In heaven weep. “Were I an Irishman, as I am an American of English ancestry. I would •wear my first-born son, as Hasdrubal did Hannibal to eternal hate of Rome, to the abhorrence of all that Englishmen say or do or think as long as he remembers the women they had outraged, the the babes they had butchered, the sons sent to stake and the gibbet, her faith dishonored and her fields drenched with blood and desolated by fire and sword.” Stanley praised the deeds of Irish citizens who came to America to make their homes free of British oppression. “Irishmen have filled every post with honor and have adorned everything t 'ey have touched,’’ he concluded. “I pay my humble meed of praise to the brainpan of the world, to the home of poetry, of eloquence and of valor —to the Emerald Isle." NEW YORK NOTES. Strips of colored suede, In green or br&frn. red or blue, woven Into belts are Tory effective. These belts are used with frocks of the heavier cotton fabrics. White Is to be popular this summer. The shopkeepers have laid In large supplies of pare white sweaters and scarfs, most ot which are In silk. The slip-on jumper type of sweater threatens to be one of summer's fads. “Study your type, isdies” advises an authority on veils. “You may be pretty but you won’t be if you do not glorify your points of beanty. The veil is a great agency which beanty may be made to stand onL Individualize the veil and It will enhance your appearance." Amelia Blnghem’s Indorsement of the eereet la her recent lecture .to club women In Philadelphia has brttaght her many letters of comraendatioi). Miss Bingham Is firmly against the extreme faddist tn dress. “The most beautiful part of a well-dressed woman her bust,*’ she says. “A sensible corbet always aarcrea bar of shape and shape i*

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LOWER AMOUNT PROPOSED FOR HOSPITAL BOND New Ordinance Will Be Introduced to Council. Proposal that $423,000 be spent upon additional buildings at the city hospital instead of $650,000, as provided In a bond issue authorization ordinance now pending, was made at a conference of Dr. E. E. Hodgin, chairman of the hoard of public health; Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian, and architects with the finance committee of the city council. The council has opposed the $650,000 issue. Anew ordinance authorizing the lower amount may be introduced next Monday evening. The higher amount would have provided for erection of a wing for patients, a nurses' home and an administration building, as well as the wrecking of one of the present buildings under the State fire marshal’s ban. Change of plans to lncluda wrecking only of the top story of the*dangerous building, and erection of a four-story nurses' h . jie and threestory administration building was favored at the conference. Under this arrangement only three floors of the nurses’ home would be finished, the top floor to bo developed later. The board of health is anxious to get the nurses’ home erected because it is almost impossible to get students to enter the nurses' training school with present housing facilities. The number of student nurses has dwindled to the pe'nt where the board has had to hire trained nurses. If this continues long. Dr. Hodgin said, available funds for the hospital this year would be used up long before the end of the year. FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS. The presilge of the feather fan is being threatened by creations of Fpanitles and luce, in combination or alone. Feather fans of the folding variety are coming down in size. The latest styles are medium in size or very small. Incidentally, there is something entirely new ahead in the fan line. It is a small hand-bellows with a decorative rubber bulb which can be covered by the hand. The practical lady who gets very warm, may keep her complexion from running by squeezing the bulb, after aiming the silv -r tube ou the end at her face. It is the fad here at present for young men to have the pictures of their sweethearts on their cigarette cases. This is in return for the honor shown the young men when the girls took up the idea of putting the likenesses of the males on their stockings. A jeweler on Rue do la Paix has found a way to embellish the gold and silver cases with the photographs so that the features of the men are plainly recognizable. This same jeweler, however, reports ihat it is not so easy to change photographs on the cases and ho implores the girls to stick to their beaux. * Sleeves that cover the arms, trains, pockets and draperies, all in one, are in contemplation among the dressmakers here. One model has sleeves that hang elear to the floor and trail along behind. Every day anew reason appears why the men should be thankful for their sex.

Two for One GEORGE W. BECKER AND HIS WIFE. HILLSDALE, Mich., April -11.—Mrs. Bessie M. Becker, Deflmocrat, again Is opposing her husband, George W. Becker. Republican, in a campaign for the office of township clerk In Somerset township. Already Mrs. Becker has beaten her husband twice in contests for the same office—once by ona rote.

JOSEPH DONALD GRAFTON AND TWO WOMEN WHO (l AIM TO BE HIS WIVES. PEGGY DAVIS AT LEFT AND ELLEN MIXTURE GRAFTON AT RIGHT. NEW YORK, April 11.—Courtship has , been reduced to the art of sales efficiency by Joseph Donald Grafton, according to three women, who say he rushed them after whirlwind wooings to the marriage license olffee. I The New York grand Jury has been hearing bigamy charges against Grafton. The witnesses against him are Mrs. Ellen Mclntyre Grafton, who says he deserted her on their honeymoon to marry Mrs Mary Margaret Laird Grafton, whose stage and screen name is Peggy Davis. “He was a super salesman of himself as a husband," says Peggy Davis. “Ho certainly hid love sales efficiency reduced to a science," says Mrs. Ellen Mclntyre Grafton. The first wife says she had been a bookkeeper in a furniture store owned jby Grafton's brother in Pittsburgh. She ' recounts that Grafton Induced her to break an engagement to a childhood - chum nnd married her last Nov. 23 at Youngstown. They came to Now York and— Let Peggy Davis continue the story: “I met Mr. Grafton when I was making \ movies in Florida. We encountered each other in my boarding house. He called all his sale? science to his aid nnd before I knew it—in seven days after we had met —I was completely sold on him.” The two women met, compared marriage licenses, then caused the grand Jury Investigation. Meanwhile a third woman, living in ' Pittsburgh, says Grafton had gone so far as to get a license to marry her, j also after sales efficiency courtship. STERILIZER. The teakettle can be an efficient sterilizer for baby's water, if the mouth of the spout is closed with a cork. This keeps the steam Inside so it will react on the water. FURNITURE. Whenever you get a disinterested, neutral feeling about the home, try : changing the furniture around. A change in the setting often renews vigor and in- | terest In the household. WALL PAPER. Persons who “don't know what nils them" may find a cure in choice of a wall paper that suits their tnstes. It has been proven that wnll paper can produce nervousn-ss and irritability, if Its tone clashes with the feelings of any one in the house. COLOR. Too much color in a room Is worse than rone at all. Contrasting colors in an otherwise dull room puts life Into the whole arrangement. HUMIDITY. The water trough at the bottom of the furnace should always be filled with water while the house Is being heated. Dry heat is unhealthy. Besides, less heat is needed to heat the room when the humidity is kept up.

DOWNSTAIRS Will You Have a New Coat for Easter ? Here is the Place to Find it ■yTTE ARE all ready for Easter, with over 500 coats and capes ** in stock in the newest styles and materials. There are velours, camelshairs, polaires, herringbones, shawsheen cloths, and also tricotines. Belted and loose models, many of them with the new Oriental sleeves, in the wanted shades, are included. \. i • Prices Range From $7.95 to $39.50

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SHOW NEED OF BIG GUATEMALA ROAD PROGRAM Despite Financial T andicaps, Highways and Ra roads to Be Constructed. GUATEMALA CITY, April 11.—Additional lines of communication in various parts of Guatemala are considered by the Interior Department as the key In the reconstruction and development upon which President Orellana baa embarked. Because of financial conditions it is considered impracticable even to attempt the elaborate campaign of ralirond construction -which wUI be undertaken as soon as the country is on its feet, but meanwhile a program of highway construction, river transportation and a short piece of railroad building has been begun by the Department of Fomeuto under Minister Lie. Alberto Mencos. Minister Mencos has named nine Guatemala engineers to construct the short stretr'.i of railroad from San Felipe to Quez-i enango, which will give Los Altos dlro-i railroad connection with the Pacific ports and with the capital. San Felipw is at an elevation of approximately l,oio feet above sea level, while Quezaltenango, capital of the district of the same name, is about 9,000 feet above sea level, and the distance between the two Is only sixty miles. The need for this road has been recognized by all political parties of the country. but it hod never been attempted until president Orellana took office. The section to be benefited will pay for the .'building of the road by a high tax on 'liquor and yielding an annual income of 15.000,000 pesos, which is now in operalion. With the road complete, highways ■will connect with other Important centers and will permit tho shipment of .produce from this section, one of the ‘granaries of the republic and rich in timber and minerals, by rail Instead of by , oxcarts and mtilebnck. In connection with the building of jthls railroad an extensive hydro-electric plant Is to bo Installed, utilizing the 1 waters of the Salama River, which descend in a short distance 10,000 feet. This power plant will light all Important cities and the railroad will be electrified. 'The present program looks to repairing \ old highways, the hufding of some new roads In level country and the establishment cf a gasoline launch service on two of the navigable rivers. These highways will connect with Salvador on tho south. —Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. COOK BOOK MARKS. If there are favorite recipes in your cook book, mark them with small book marks. Turning back the pages soon wears the corners off. SAVES TROUBLE. A small piece of screen will save a lot of trouble if placed over tho sink drain when you are pouring refuse into thes ink. It will catch most, of the refuse and let the water run through. STARCH. It is best to wash out a starch pan as soon as you are through using the starch. Otherwise the starch sticks to the sides and makes It much more difficult to clean.

BIG BANNER IN EYES OF PEOPLE URGES CLEAN-UP Fire Chief Issues Warning Against Source of Roof Blazes. Downtown pedestrians today were reminded of the city-wide campaign by a huge banner, flung across Washington street half way between Pennsylvania and Meridian streets, bearing in foothigh letters the slogan: “Let's Clean 'Er L T p—and Make Indianapolis Safe, Sane, Sanitary.” This banner, placed by the fire prevention committee of the Chamber of Commerce and the city departments. will remain flying until April 22, which marks the close of the cleanup drive. North side residents were visited for the second time during the clean-up campaign by units of city wagons. Fire Chief O’Brien has issued a warning to every one to use great care in burning trash so that roof fires and flue blazes will not occur, as “the big idea” back of the “Let's Clean 'er Up” drive is to remove the many risks which attend trash piles throughout the city. Smashes Masher and Dodges Tossed Brick A would-be masher met his equal in Sam Wyekoff, 39 Virginia avenue, last night. Wyekoff and his wife were walking southeast on Virginia avenue when accosted by a young man who made an Insulting remark to Mrs. Wyekoff Wyekoff told police he struck the masher a blow which felled Min. The latter is said to have thrown a brick at Wyekoff which missed the mark. Police found no trace of the miscreant.

Beeman’s SlaiUj Jfep VOL. 1 No~2S Humbled "Do you know how to run 4 motor carl" "YFhy, I thought I did untit I had a s> ->rf conversation with 4 tap yesterday." —New Haven Register. • * * Lots of people think they have good digestion, too —until they have a short conversation with their doctor! If you have any doubts, try Beeman’s 10 minutes after every meal—it helps digestion. • * • T7\g original pepsin (ftim —- and ttiU the most popular Beeman’s pepsin Chafing Gum American Chicle Cos. TIMELY beauty hints Society women wash their own hair, not because It is a fad, but because they wish to obtain the greatest possible hair beauty and be sure they are not using anything harmful. They have found that In washing the hair it is never wise to use a makeshift, but is always advisable to use a preparation mado for shampooing only. Many of our friends say they pet the best results from a simple home-made canthrox mixture. Y'ou can use this at a cost of about 3 cents a shampoo by getting some canthrox from your druggist nnd dissolving a teaspoonful in a cup of hot watpr. This makes enough shampoo liquid to apply to all the hair Instead of Jus.t the top of the head, as with most preparations. Dandruff, excess oil and dirt are dissolved and entirely c.‘sappear in the rinsing water. Your hair will be so fluffy that It will look much heavier than It is. Its luster nnd softness will also delight you.—Advertisement. An Aid to Wearing This Season’s Fashions (Helps to Beauty.) Here Is a simple, unfailing way to rid the skin of objectionable hairs: With some powdered delatone and water make enough paste to cover the hairy surface, apply and in about 2 minutes rub off. wash the skin and every trace of hair has vanished. This Is quite harmless, but to avoid disappointment be sure to get the delatone In an original package. —Advertisement.

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Striking Tweed Topcoats / V Baimacaan Topcoats, reliable and smart in fabric, excellently tailored and smartly cut—the kind that can be worn suitably for sports and general wear through a whole season—are indeed desirable at $25.00 and §35.00. So desirable, in fact, that they should sell out quickly. Love!y plaid tweeds, soft gray mixture tweeds, light herringbones and cord-like new imported tweed are the novel materials of which these belted and baimacaan toppers are made. The baimacaan styles have the raglan shoulders. And both the belted and fha baimacaan at the $35.00 price are full lined with silk crepe and trimmed with leather buttons and buckles. The $25.00 numbers are yoke or half bddy lined. Otherwise they are practically identical with the $35.0,0 ones. Such shades of tans and grays in soft plain tones and mixtures have been chosen by the buyer as the most practical and best looking In this kind of coat. —Ayres—Coat section, third floor.

An Opportune , Easter- Tide Sale of Neckwear Direct from the manufacturers comes this enticing array of sale-priced neckwear, arriving opportunely for delicate adornment of the Easter frock or suit. The Assortment Includes Organdy collar and cuff sets. All-linen vestees with cuffs. Lace and organdy vestees, some with cuffs. Neckwear, in general, for all possible occasions. All Priced Specially And Very Attractively At But—sl.oo —Ayres—Neckwear, street floor. SHOWING TnE STYLES FOR SUMMER The New Home Journal Fashion Quarterly, 25c This issue shows all the latest Ideas In apparel for the coming summer, and contains, is well, a coupon worth 15c toward the purchase of a pattern. —Ayres—Patterns, second floor.

No Easter Costume is Complete Without Lovely New Silk Stockings A Special Pre-Easter Presentation , Emphasizing Style and Quality

The woman who dresses for Easter desires, naturally, that every detail should be in keeping with the charming chic of her suit and gown. She knows, for example, that hosiery chosen unwisely may be devastating beyond measure—and she chooses stockings with exceptional care. Ayres hosiery may be depended upon to approach most nearly her ideal of perfection.

McCailum’s chiffon silk stockings, full fashioned, with silk garter tops and soles. In black, silver, gold and white, $4.50 pair. Wayne-Knit full fashioned silk stockings, with open work French clocks, cordovan, $4.50 pair. Children’s half and threequarter length socks, plain mercerized lisle, 35<* and 50£ pair. McCallum’s sheer black silk stockings with open work French clocks herringbone effects, $6.00 the pair. Ayres’ 12-strand pure thread silk stockings, narrow fashioned ankles, black and colors, $1.35.

Has V our Spring Cleaning Revealed A Need for Linoleums? Linoleum is the one proved satisfactory floor covering for kitchens, bathrooms and sun porches—for all places where the floor is subjected to exceptional wear and the derogatory effect of water. For other rooms as well linoleum has proved decidedly serviceable. In the many tasteful patterns in which it may now be obtained, linoleum is beautiful enough for such use. Quality Printed and Inlaid Linoleums at Ayres * Our assortments are very, complete, and are offered at prices uniformly reasonable. Many pleasing patterns are offered, both in the printed and in the better Inlaid qualities. Genuine printed linoleums, Inlaid linoleums, retaining made of ground cork and lin- color and design through the seed o'! upon a sturdy burlap life of the material. Lighter back, sl.lO the square yard. weights, $1.45 and $1.85 „ , ... square yard; heavier weights, An excellent quality, very $ 2 .45; jaS per effects, green, serviceable, In an extensive gray and tan, $2.50 square range of patterns. yard. Measurements taken by our estimate men, the linoleum laid by capable layers at a regular schedule rate, very reasonable. —Ayres—Rugs, fourth floor.

Special—--660 Pairs French Clock Silk Stockings Full fashioned 240 pairs black or white chiffon with wide openwork French clocks, of clear first quality silk. $3.35 the Pair 420 pairs, full fashioned, sheer weight, silk soles and tops, with medium width arrowhead French clocks, white, black, seal and beige. $2.75; the Pair

A Manufacturer s Sale of Dainty Narrow Ribbons Presenting Many Very Pleasing Values at 10c the Yard First quality ribbons in an almost bewildering variety of colors and styles, including hosts of distinctive novelties from both foreign and domestic makers. Plcot, two-tone, tinsel and lingerie ribbons, as well as many others. For the style - favored girdle, topped with a rosette and ending in a happy little bunch of streamers, these are particularly good. —Ayres—Ribbons, street floor.

McCallum’s sheer weight silk stocking, black or white with contrasting clocks, putty or ooze with assorted clocks, for sport suits, $4.50 pair. Ayres’ special silk stockings, full fashioned • with double knees, in black, white and shoe gray, $2.25 pair. Out sizes, $2.50 pair. Pure thread silk stockings with broad tailored seam, in white and colors, $1.85 the pair. Full fashioned wool stockings with embroidered clocks for sports wear, in brown and oxford gray, $2.00 pair. -Ayres—Hosiery, street floor.

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