Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1922 — Page 2

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PUZZLE EXPERTS FAIL TO SOLVE N, Y. MYSTERY National Leagues Swear Off Holding Con /entlon In City of Subways and Traffic. TWO ARE FOUND STARVING Told to ‘Follow the Green Line/ They Are Lost for Two Days in Maze. DY WESTBROOK PEGLER, Inked News Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, July B.—The ordinary puzzles of the average New Yorker's ’ daily life were too much for the members of the national puzzlers’ league. They are returning home with a resolve to hold their next convention far from the city of intersecting subway stations and modern traffic signals. Not only were some of the out-of-town puzzlers stumped time and again in their efforts to get about town, but the vanqulshment of two Western puzzle experts is said to have brought them close to tragic consequences. Lost in Subway The two Westerners arrived at the Grand Central station and confidently plunged into the mazes of the subway station there for the five-minute ride to the hotel McAlpin, where the convention was in session on the missing word phase of this subtle science. They were found in a starving condition by a party of guides just in time to be put on the train for home. “There’s some trick in It," one of them gasped. “The sign said: 'Follow the green line’ and we walked two days and nights without finding our way out. Then everything went dark before my eyes. Where am I?" you ask somebody?" the guide inquired gently. Don’t Speak Yiddish “We did," the exhausted puzzle expert panted. “We did ask but it was no use. We don’t speak Yiddish.” Joshua Price of Bangor, Pa., tax collector of his own home town and a wizard with numeral puzzles, reputed inventor of the Government's Income tax questionnaire, is said to have missed the league’s luncheon because he couldn’t make out when the traffic policeman on Fifth Ave. meant “stop” and when he meant "come ahead." Mr. Price finally took a taxi. There is no known key to these traffic signals and that is where Mr. Price fell down. Asa matter of fact they aren’t so much a puzzle as a game. You just rush across the street and if you’re caught you are sent back; if you’re hit you're sent to Bellevue and if you get across you win. Labors on Flatbush Map It was during a business session of the league that Dr. A. T. Kleykamp of St. Louis was stumped, for the first time in his long career. As to his expertness in solving puzzles it need only be said of Dr. Kleykamp he long since discovered who struck Billy Patterson and what is so rare as a day in June. Finding a sort of chart on the table before him he thought he had happened on an in tricate elaboration of the famous pigs in clover puzzle. He withdrew to his suite and was still working on it late at night when William Delaney, treasurer. of the Puzzlers' League, burst into the room greatly upset. “I shall have to stay in town over night; I can't get home to Brooklyn," he cried. “Someone has stolen my map of Flatbush." Trys Hash Enigma E. E. St. Germain of New York, president of a chain of popular priced lunchrooms, mixed business with pleasure by Inviting his colleagues of the Puzzlers' League to try their wits on the missing word in his alpha betlcal soup and if that was too easy, to undertake a solution of the hash mystery. New Yorkers have long known the missing word “s-o-u-p” but the hash matter is regarded as one of those insolubles like Lewis Carrol’s famous poser of the monkey, the pul ley and the horse-weight. Most of the puzzle-makers have entrained for home, but not a few were reported to be still in their rooms at the hotel trying to make sense out of the railroad time-tables. GRASSHOPPERS THREATEN , Farmers in Need of More Turkeys to Reduce Pest. SHERIDAN, Wyo., July B.—“ More turkeys” is the cry of the Sheridan Gaunt- farmers in their battle against the grasshopper pest, which has been very destructive in this vicinity recently. According to Alfred Eastgate, engaged in grasshopper control work here for the United States Government. one turkey will consume seven bushels of grasshoppers during a season, and he is urging farmers to increase their flocks. More than six tons of poison. Including arsenic., and amyl acetate, mixed with bran and molasses, has been used in Sheridan County during the past month in the fight against grasshoppers, which threaten ranges and farms with greater destruction thap for many years. USE PLANES TO REFOREST Air Service Offers Equipment to Hawaiian Staff. HONOLULU, T. H., July B.—Army airplanes have been pressed Into service here- to assist the territorial department of forestry in the reforestation of certain Inaccessible districts in the mountainous county back of the United States military reservation at Schofield Barracks. The mountain districts which are being reforested are so precipitous that the foresters have been unable to get in to do their work. An appeal made to the head of the Air Service forces on Oahu resulted in the loan of several planes, which In favorable weather fly over the steeper gorges, while tree seeds are dropped by members of the forestry staff, who are taken along as passengers. Thrown From Train CHICAGO, July B.—Mias Sarah Hlnchciiffe was thrown from a rapidly moving suburban train by a man who trio 4 to force his attentions on her.

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Russian Baths Priced at Three Million Rubles

MOSCOW, July B.—l have just paid three million rubles for a bath. Clean-' lines® comes high in Moscow. Everything else does, too; everything costs regular New York prices and then some. After all, three million rubles is only 75 cents, not too much to pay In America. But I have been spoiled by my year in Europe. Everything in Germany is cheap as dirt, if you know the language and where to buy. Moscow is the most expensive capital in Europe. It is expensive even for foreigners with good American dollars. We folk have been accustomed since the war to exchanging our good money for a lot of paper money in Germany, or Austria, or Italy, and just buying up the country. Russia isn’t going to let us do it. There are quite a lot of old New Yorkers who have got into the government of Russia, and they don’t intend to be held up by any one! They intend to do the holding up! I told a commissar at Minsk how cheap everything was in Germany in comparison to Russia, and he replied dryly: ‘'But that is just selling Germany away. Germany has to on account of the reparations. But we do not have to sell out Russia.” Flays Communism Russia tried first to offer communism to the world—a system in which , every one would work hard and be given free of charge whatever he needed. She couldn't make her industries run on that basis. Partly this can be blamed on the war. the blockade and the famine and partly, as the communists themselves say; “Because there were not enough honest people in Russia —not enough people who would refuse to accept from society more than they returned. We must train ap the next generation. “State Capitalism” So Russia has now retreated to what she calls “state capitalism.” Every one is free to go out and make money, to produce goods and sell them, to charge as much as they can and make any fortunes they can pile up. But let no one believe that this is capitalism as we have it in Amcr ica. For the government runs the key industries and the biggest factories all over Russia; It runs them to make money, it sells the product for the market price and pays the workers according to what they produce. It intends to make all the money it can, to build up its surplus and to use that surplus for developing Russia. Defines Purposes The government hopes to develop Russia toward communism, that depends on what happens in the rest of the worjd. As long as the rest of the world is on a capitalistic basis and money is the standard in foreign trade, Russia intends to have money and pay her own way. Meantime she keeps up a running fight with the speculators. The speculators had the best of it during the winter, for tho government's resources were drained to fight the famine. The speculators hoarded grain in hope of a rise; they speculated wildly-in rubles, which sank every few days to

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half their previous value. Everything was tumbling. Advertises Bread Loan Then suddenly, observing the chance of a good harvest, the govi ernment advertised a ten-mlllion-dollar | bread loan, selling at a low price flour ;to be delivered next winter, it sud- { denly made the paper ruble good, since you could pay paper rubles for food j seven months ahead; it cut the price I of flour and forced the speculators to unload. The bread loan shows every J sign of being oversubscribed, which Is I quite a mark of confidence of the peo- ; pie in the financial power of their govj ernment. j But how can the Russians them- | selves pay the high prices charged for ! everything Germany has to keep her i railroads bankrupt, because if she charged enough to run them the Germans could not afford to ride. All countries whose money is worth little in the world market have this problem. Russia Venturesome But Russia can dare do things which the other countries cannot because all her essential workers are on government rations and have practically free lodgings and free transportation when on public business. They should worry about rising prices. Let foreigners and speculators make money and pay ' money, there is another and a safer standard in Russia, along with this money standard. A girl I know works as Government stenographer; she got s!> last month In wages. She refused an offer of five times that sum to work for a private concern; she preferred the security of rations and lodging. Incidentally, ehe believed in her job. BRITAIN AIDS CANADA j Farm Loan Planned to Stimulate Colonization. OTTAWA, OntT, July B.—The empire settlement bill recently passed by the British House of Commons makes available 15,000,000 pounds sterling annually for fifteen years for the purpose of financing British colonists who desire to settle in 1 overseas dominions of the empire. | The bill, it is believed, will prove a j. treat impetus to immigration to t ianada from the British Isles. The bill provides that one-half of ] fie sum made available shall be dej' oted to paying the passage of settlers >o the dominions they select as i • heir future home and the other half J is to be used to make loans to them ! nfter they have gone upon the land. | The maximum loan to each settler is reckoned at $1,600 by the govern-' I ment. Arrest Trails Legacy. OLDHAM. England, July B.—Re ! turning after an absence of three j years to claim a legacy of $35,000, | Frederick Bancroft was arrested for j neglecting his children. Cockroach Racing. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 8 | Cockroach racing is the favorite sport here now. In some events the tiny j insects are painted different colors.

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CANADA LEADS IN HOMES OWNED BY RESIDENTS Eighty Per Cent of Ontario Townsmen Are Rated Freeholders. MONTREAL RATED LOWEST Two United States Cities Compare'With Average of Neighbors. OTTAWA, Ont., July 8. —Canada has a larger percentage of home owners in its population than any other nation, according to recently compiled figures of the census department. London, Ont., leads among Canadian cities with 80 per cent of its Inhabitants owning their own homes. Hamilton and Calgary have 60 per cent home owners, Toronto 55 per cent, Halifax 51 per cent. Vancouver 45 per cent, Edmonton 45 per cent, Winnipeg 44 per cent, Ottawa 40 per cent, Montreal 6 per cent. Montreal, the largest city in Canada pulls dojvn the general average to 85 per cent for the ten cities. Taking into consideration the country districts, it is believed by the census experts that nearly 60 per cent of the people of Canada own their own homes. Canada is a land of farm owners where the tenant farmer Is almost unknown. No better proof of Canada’s basis prosperity, it is pointed out. is to be found than this large percentage of home owners among its citizens. The ten cities covered by the figures range In number of residences from 9,000 to 134,000. Os seventytwo cities In the United States with a population of 100,000 or more, only two—Des Moines and Grand Rapids— It is declared, have a 60 per cent population of home owners. Des Moines tops the list with 51.1 per cent, while Grand Rapids has only a shade fewer. Recent government statistics in the United States show that 45.6 per cent of the people of the United States own their own homes and 54.4 per cent live In rented quarters. BURGLAR STEALS BATH, TOO Flees in ilin Nude, Leaving Jewels When Discovered. KALAMAZOO, Mich., July B.—Hearing the water in tho bath tub running late at night, and finding all members of the family asleep, Mrs. David Marehand took a peek In tho bathroom and then screamed for the police. The bather was a burglar who apparently thought the household was absent. He gathered his garments and fled through tho window, leaving on tha floor several hundred dollars in Jewelry he had gathered from bureau drawers to take away.

COAL OFFICIALS CLAIM MINERS ARE UNDERPAID Should Eliminate Periodical Shutdowns, Is Belief of Herbert Hoover. MUST REMOVE UNCERTAINTY Authorities See Intervention on Part of Government as a Last Resort. WASHINGTON, July B.—Coal miners are paid cheaply for their labor, considering the hazards of their work and other factors, Government officials are convinced, after a study of the miners' side of the controversy with the operators. Tho human element in coal production at last la recognized by tho Government as the chief thing to be weighed in coal strike settlements. One of the chief spokesmen for the Administration in coal problems—Secretary Hoover—declared emphatically that permanent settlement of coal strike troubles, present or future, can only be possible by removing from coal production the ever-present danger of lntermittency. Mines Stagger As long as the Industry Is so constituted that coal mines are allowed to stagger along, working two or three days a week and keeping men employed only part of the time, strikes are inevitable. This element of "lntermittency,” Mr. Hoover is convinced, has led to much of the trouble which now confronts the country by a tie-up of most of the soft coal mines. In other words, the coal mine luborer is worthy of his hire and should be assured reasonable wage and reasonable periods of employment. Besides doing the most undesirable form of labor, the miner works at the whim of a system which may or may not so manipulate the production strings—and in turn production prices —jthat the average worker gambles on the size of his pay envelope from week to week. Wages Lowest Government records now show that the coal miner receives a lower annual wage than workers in most other industries. It is the time out of work that puts a crimp in his wallet and leaves hlrn owing the grocer and the landlord. If he has a family hia risks are even greater. There still is lacking that assurance which ultimately must be given the miner, of reasonable certainty df length of employment. Just how the element of Intermittent employment can best be over come is not yet clearly Indicated. Some suggestions have been made that the operators themselves must take the lead and reform their own industry. If they do not. Bay some Government observers, the Government may in the end be forced to take a hand and attempt a solution of what is now regarded on all sides as a major problem, along with the railroad problem. SWEDISH SINGERS MEET Denver Convention Will Hold Musical Festival. DENVER, Jtfy B.—An “orgy of Orpheus” will be staged in Denver from July 19 to 22, when the quadiennlal convention of the American Union of Swedish Singers will be held here. The convention will be featured by one of the greatest musical festivals ever held in the United States. Male singers of Swedish choruses from all parts of the country wiU unite in a chorus of more than 400 voices. Soloists for the occasion include Mme. Marie Sundejlus, soprano, and William Gustafson, both of tho Metropolitan Grand Opera Company. Delegations from New York. Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Moline. 111.; Rock Island, 111.; Omaha. Neb.; Jamestown, N. Y.; Kansas City, Mo.; Seattle, Wash.; Los Angeles and San Francisco are expected to participate I in tho great musical event, j Governor Shoup of Colorado will | deliver an address of welcome at tho j opening session Wednesday, July 19, to which HJoimar Nilsson of Minne apolis, national president of tho organization, will probably respond. DOGS ‘TREE’ BOOZE CACHE Find Still Hidden in Mountains of West Virginia. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., July B. Bloodhounds owned by Thomas Everson, deputy sheriff, are now known ]as "hootch hounds.” Put on tho trail of robbers who pilfered the apartment of C. W. B. Chapman, general claim agent of the Monongahela Power and Traction Company, they followed a scent to a vacant house, in upstairs rooms of which officers found a complete distillery, one of the largest yet found In the country, and hundreds of bottles lying around. a KAISER SUES HUMORIST Charges Satirist With Libelous SlateMents of Him. BERLIN, July 7. —Tho ex-Kaiser’s lawyer in Berlin has filed suit for libel against the well known satirist, Carl Sternhelm, for poking fun at the oxKaiser in his latest book “Libussa," in which tho ex-waiflord's charger Libussa "knocks” Us memoirs on tho floor of the stable. It is a sharp satire on the role the ex-kalser played In politics at Petrograd, London and Berlin while he. was In power. PREACHER IS POLICEMAN Makes Seven Arrests First Day on Force. # FAIRMONT, W. Va., July B.—The Rev. M. J. Pritchard, a Methodist Episcopal minister, temporarily without a charge, has been appointed, at his own request, .a member of the Fairmont police force. He is now serving successfully as a traffic officer. His first day’s duty resulted in the arrest of seven traffic violators.

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Vampire Ghost Drives Ex-Pastor Into Bigamy

LOS ANGELES, July B.—Courted by the dead. Besieged day and night by the phantom of a matron who had killed herself for love of him—a posthumous love more powerful than the lure of living women. Desperate efforts through drugs and amours to shake off the ghastly infatuation. This Is the weird defense Donald D. | Stewart, one-time clergyman and! prominent moral crusader of Call-! fornia, will make when he is brought, to trial in Boston on charges of bigamy, g.-and larceny and conspiracy. Stewart and one of hie alleged j wives, Mrs. Ethel Osbuldeston Stew-j art, were arrested near Los Angeles: by Pinkerton detectives on Eastern warrants. This woman, while proclaim,ng him a Jekyll-Hyde, is standing loyally by the former pastor, corroborating his tale of occult terror and saying. "His last threo marriages all were per- j performed while he was under the in- j fluence of drugs.” Haunted by Lovelorn Ghost For seven years, Stewart asserts. ! he has been haunted by Mrs. Maud Hendricks, Hayward, Cal., who he declares comm.tted suicide because of unrequited love for him. Explanatory’ notes were left, and the scandal that ensued resulted In j the then fighting punter being dis-, missed by the Presbyterian Church. j ‘Tier spirit has flitted between me \ and happiness,” explains the cul-; tured, fascinating heartbreaker, as he is pictured by those making the; charges. “Every night since that tragedy ! the woman's wraith lias trooped 5 with stealthy, accusing footsteps out-j side my door. 'A:ss Favorite. “Women used to say I had fascln- ! ating ways. They were the ways of desperation. Anything to counteract' that creeping presence. It followed ; me everywhere. There was no peace, j It was while so haunted that I went j from bad to worse In marriage ven- j ture.H.” There It Is, a tale told in the Los j Angeles jail—one to Intrigue the sue- i l essors of Edgar Allen Poe ns well j as to interest the law. At tho time ,Jne was unfrocked REWARD DUMAS’ ASSISTANT Co-Writer of “Three Musketeers' Offered Royalty. PARI 9, July B.—"By Alexandre Dumas” will remain the only indication of authorship on the title inige j of “The Three Musketeers” and com-j panlon romances. Decision to this effect was announced by the local Civil Court following trial of the suit brought by Auguste Maquet, member of Dumns’s famous “fiction factory,” for the right to appear as co-creator of Athos, Porthoa and Aramis. Maquet was awarded royalty rights until 1928, in accordance with his contract with Dumas. DAUGHTER H*T TO HELPMOTHER Now Can Do All Her Honsework AloneßecauseLydiaE. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Helped Her Jasper, Minn.—“l saw in the paper about Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta--11 i7j jjl j | I ble Compound and 1 took it because I 51 was having such pains in my atom•.JV— 'Nfllai ach and through Mg V my back that I 'Jf could not do my -rrapjl work. I had tried other medicines, but none did me your Vegetable Compound did. J Now I am able to do all m y work alone while before I had my daughter staying at home to do it. I have told a number of friends what it has done for me and give you permission to use my letter as a testimonial.” Mrs. Jesse Petersen, Route 1, Jasper, Minn. There is no better reason for your trying Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound than this—it has helped other women. So if you suffer from displacements, irregularities, backache, nervousness or are passing through the Change of Life remember this splendid medicine. What it did for Mrs. Petersen it may do for you. The Vegetable Compound stands upon a foundation of nearly ‘ifty years of service.

Stewart, it Is charged, was married and the father of three children. He left them to go East and in Wilmington. Deia., married again, he asserts, “seeking forgetfulness.” Weils Again In New York "Then in New York I met Mrs. Ethel Oabaldeston, the most inspiring Influence in my life, whom I afterward wedded. I married three others." Tie asserted wife who was arrested with Stewart is declared by deteci tives to have posed as his sister and secretary, to have abetted his subsequent marriages and to have conspired with him In wheedling money | from various brides, as is charged. Psychologists who have had Stewart, alias Brown, alias MacGregor, under observation declare his to be j a striking case of dual nature: One a Jekyll of honor, integrity, brains ; and honest desire to uplift hia fellows; the other a Hyde of sinister promptings. “Perhaps I am." says he. "If so, it was because of the woman who ! haunted me."

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JAP-AMERICANS REFUSE TO SERVE OWN COUNTRY Declare Selves to Be American Citizens Not Subject to Conscription. PRIESTS DELIVER SUMMONS Said to Be Drifting From Insular Traditions in New Attitude. HONOLULU, T. H., July B.—Breaking precedents of long standing by openly and defiantly refusing to obey an army conscription summons Issued by the Japanese government, two American-born Japanese living on the Island of Kauai have declared them selves to be American citizens and not subject to orders of the Japanese government, according to a story published in Kauai Shimpo, a Japanesvlanguage paper, of the district in which the two Japanese live. The conscription summons was served on the two Japanese by a Buddhist priest, acting as agent for the Japanese Consulate at Honolulu. One of the men told the priest that he was “an American citizen and not. subject to serve in the Japanese army.” The other simply tore up the summons. The incident is looked upon as significant of the attitude being taken by the younger generation of Japanese in the islands, who are thought to be drifting away from the influence of their government owing to Americanizing Influences with which they are surrounded.

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