Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1924 — Page 8

BOY PILOTS TUNE yp FOR 500-LAP BICYCLECLASSIC Track at Twenty-Eighth and Meridian Will Be Scene of Event Saturday, A bicycle race that to boys corresponds to the annual 500-mile automobile classic is to bet. held at the one-sixteenth mile track at TwentyEighth and Meridian Sts., Saturday, June 28, at 10 a. m. It is to be of 500 laps or 31% miles. To date there are five teams of four boys each entered in the event; the “Duesenberg,” “Em-Roe,” ‘'Smith-Hassler-Sturm,” “Durant,” and ‘Barber-Warnock” teams. Smith-Hassler-Sturm and the EmRoe Sporting Goods Company have each furnished a bicycle for the team bearing its name. Persons Rader is captain of the “Duesenberg” team and his teammates are William Rader, Bud Eisoner, and Jack Craig. The “Smith-Hassler-Sturm” team is made up of Bradford Hodges, captain, William Hadley, Roger Mullsberry, and Ted Lippencot. The members of the “Barber-Warnock” quartette are George Horace, captain; Jake Roadhamel, Robert Bushman, and Ralph McElroy. The “Em-Roe” team has for its captain Junior Dankey; the others being Gailord Overman, Harrison Schnaiter, and Arthur Cox, while the Durant team is led by Myron Walker with Richard Neil, John Compton and Ed Cowan. Relief Riders There will also be relief riders and others connected with each team. Eugene McManamon will be pacemaker while Captain Glenn of the police department will be official starter. The track is in good condition and much time is spent each day by the boys in “tuning up” for the big event. Last year the average for the race was seventeen miles per hour, and it is expected to be raised this year, as the qualifying rounds have been high. An average of fifteen miles an hour for two laps is required to qualify. Dusies at Pole Thus far the “Duesenberg” team has the pole position with a team average of aver nineteen miles an hour. They are picked by many to win, although a “dark horse” may show itself in the race. To date Jack Craig ?\nd Persons Rader hold the track record for a single lap, making it in 10 seconds for an average of 22% miles an hour. There is no admission. ON YOUR MARK, GET SET .All’s in Readiness for Annual Pushmobile Race. All is in readiness for the fifth annual Arsenal Ave. pushmobile race at 1:30 p. m. Saturday on Arsenal Ave. between Tenth and Twelfth Sts. Fifteen entrants have been made in the senior class and ten in the junior. Entrants are requested to register between 12 and 1 p. m. at 1442 E. Eleventh St. Outstanding contestants are: Featherstone. Brown, Berry, Fox, Healy, Sterns and Ben Turpin. Prizes including a camera, baseball bats, reading lamp, groceries, camp cook set and pies and cakes are being offered by merchants in the vicinity. CORNS Now!—get relief in one minute from corns, callouses and bunions with Dr. Scholl’s Zino-pads. They remove the cause—friction and pressure. Thin, easy to apply, antiseptic, healing. Three sizes. Nothing so quick and sure. At your druggist or shoe dealer. Bl Scholl's ’XI no-pads “Put one on — the pain is gone ”

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npn RANCES HALL, farmer I J-i near Mulberry, tried to L—l remove a large limb which had blown down across the road in front of his home. High tension wires, concealed in the leaves, shocked him unconscious. His wife chopped the wires away with a hatchet. Miss Mabel Connelly and Arthur White of Marion had a narrow escape from death when an auto upset and caught fire. They escaped through a window. Karl C. Kraft, Frankfort, composer of love tunes, has sued his wife for divorce. Cr— JHARLES THOMPSON, Owensville farmer, dreamed l ___ his silo was toppling over and fell out- of the window of his bedroom. He was badly bruised. Evansville police have warned girls against accepting invitations to take auto rides with chance acquaintances, following complaints of girls being forced to walk home. Rhubarb grown by Emmet Watson at Forest Hill, near Greensburg, suffered elephantitis. Watson is displaying a leaf with a spread of 38x 30 inches. Br- ILOOMINGTON has a “top to the bottom” thief. Police L__J are investigating the theft of a top from one flivver and a set of tires from another. Harvey. 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Coonrod of Russiaville, slept in a strange bed and walked in his sleep out of a window. Charles Shipps, Oxford, resident, in United States for seventy years, has been granted naturalization pa pers. HEN Mr. and Mrs. Fred yu McCarty of Sullivan heard screams from a farm house while motoring they foun 1 a woman cornered by a snake six and one-half feet long. McCarty killed the snake. He was so excited he forgot to ask the woman’s name. Wiliam H. Roby, 12, Greencastle, tried to cast with an artificial minnow. The bait landed in his face. A doctor had to cut out the seven hooks imbedded in his cheek. CLUBS COIffLEIE FLANS FOR PICNIC Fairvrew to Welcome Butler Saturday, Final arrangements for the “Welcome Butler to Fairview” celebration at Fairview Park Saturday afternoon and evening, under direction of the Mapleton Civic League, will be made tonight by the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs at the home of William M. Swain, 2537 Parkway Drive. George Beaman, president of the Mapleton Le;igue, is in charge. A number of northside merchants will have floats in the parade, which starts at 1:30 p. m. from ctiy hall, Beaman said. North side citizens are asked to join the parade with automobiles. Those who do not care to come downtown may join at Fortieth St. and Capitol Ave. The celebration Saturday is for everybody. Those attending are urged to take their s ppers. FIRE ORIGIN IS PROBED Incendiarism Suspected by Authorities in 51,500 Blaze. Police and fire officials are investigating a fire that damaged a vacant building in the rear of 820 N. Missouri St. late Thursday for possible incendiary origin. The building, formerly occupied by the Howard Carpet Company, has been vacant fog some time. Damage was estimated at $1,500. Sparks fired thi bam of Mrs. W. Codd, 809 Fayette St., and caused a small loss. Quick action by Police Sergt. Ralph Dean, who ordered firemen to turn a line of hose on the crowd, probably saved more than a score of persons from serioius injuries, as several live wives fell just as the crowd was forced back.

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BEGIN HERE TODAY John Aingley. a man of education and breeding, whose war wounds left him unfit for manual labor, returns hungry to his shabby iodginghouse. His landlady confront him with a demand for the week's rent —one dollar. .Being a gentleman born. Ainaley is hiifniliat id at being unable to pay her oh the instant. He asks her for an hour of grace. He decides to pawn an ivory n oiiai ire of his mother—the last, of his pos^.'-sions—-in order to wipe away the debt and to get food for himself. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY mSAW myself, before I had opportunity to prove those undeveloped gifts, entering the French hospital service at the outbreak of the great war. I saw myself later, transferring to the army, which later decorated me for valor. And then I saw the months that followed the war. Wounded in the last battle before the Armistice, I was discharged, as cured, six months later. Illness developed, and the last of my father’s estate went to pay my hospital bills. I saw myself seeking work. I remembered the sudden horror that swept over me when I discovered that I was incompetent. I was a dilettante and the world refuses to pay the amateur. I knew no trade, no profession. The only thing that I could do better than most people was the performance of certain tricks in ’sleight-of-hand. That was because few people practiced parlor magic. I had in me a streak of stubbornness, that I called pride, that forbade me to trade upon my father’s friendships. Like all youths who have been brought up with the idea that there will always he enough money available for their wants, I was conceited. I thought that success was an easy matter. I will not recount all the visions that passed before me as I looked at the miniature. Suffice it, that with times hard, I got no work. And when finally I had swallowed my pride and was willing to work as a common manual laborer, illness and privation had sapped my strength. I had moved from the best hotel in New York to as thabby a rooming-house

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

as the city held. And now my landlady threatened me with eviction. Well, I could at least assure myself another week of shelter. After that—( refused to contemplate what would follow after the proceeds of my transaction with the pawnbroker were gone. I had not eaten for forty-eight hours. Before that I had eaten scantily, not more than once a day, for six months. Asa sandwich man, as an errand man when 1 could get a job, as guardian of motorcars parked on the city streets, I had managed to pick tip enough added to the results of frequent trips to the pawnshop, to pay my . small rental, and buy myself an occasional meal. But for the last two days I had earned nothing. And I was too proud to beg. Today I was starving. I recognized that fact at last. Starvation! That, unless I yielded to the impiiise of self destruction, was my inevitable end. The battle was over, even though I might postpone surrender for a few hours longer. I, born and bred in luxury, educated in the best university in America, a connoisseur of the fine arts, would die in blackest poverty. And probably the only person to mourn w’ould be little Peter Gannon the landlady’s son, whom I had frequently amused with tricks of legerdemain. At least, though, I would die owing nothing. So I rose, putting the miniature in my pocket, and unsteadily descended the stairs to the street. I walked uptown to Washington Square, then crossed to Sixth Ave. The oily gentleman with hard black eyes, with v/horn* I had had so many little transactions in the past, looked up as the bell on the door ;angled ft my entrance. It was an unflourishing establishment tha* he ran. I never %vas compelled to meet curious eyes. But this evening he was engaged. He leaned across the counter whispering to a client who also looked up at my arrival. He looked away

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again swiftly, but not before I had time to gain an impression of shrewd eyes, a rat-trap mouth, a diamond shirt-stud, a rich fur collar and a general atmosphere of money. [ wondered vaguely why one so apparently prosperous should be dickering with a pawnbroker. As I waited for my friend Weinberg to finish with the other man and attend to me, I somehow seemed to sense that, whatever had been the subject of their conversation before my entrance, their talk now concerned me. The fur-collared gentleman glanced over his shoulder at me. not once but two or three times, and seemed to be putting questions to the pawnbroker. "FEEL BETTER?” HE ASKED. HE KNEW MY CONDITION. Then Weinberg's vistor, turning his collar up so that his flashy shirtstud was hidden, nodded abruptly to the proprietor and walked out of the shop. His hard e3 r es searched my face as he passed. However, he did not pause, and I promptly forgot him under stress of my negotiations, with Weinberg. I had done too much business with the pawnbroker for him to believe that there was any remote chance of my redeeming the goods which I pledged with him. I had every reason to believe that he took advantage of my poverty; yet I was too proud to open negotiations elsewhere. I did not haggle. I asked for ten dollars; the ivory alone was worth more than that, I believed; the silver frame in which the portrait was set must also have been worth at least ten dollars. Intrinsically, the thing, as a work of art, was worth hundreds. Sentimentally, it was price-

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less. But he need of Mrs. Gannon was beyond anything else. I took the live dollars that Weinberg offered and went out. The midwinter air had grown chillier with the later hours. I shuddered as I stepped from the close atmosphere of the pawnship upon the sidewalk. I had promised Mrs. Gannon her money within an hour. I could keep my promise and still have time, before paying her, in which to satisfy my anguished stomach. I walked up Sixth Ave. toward a mean little restaurant where I could dine cheaply. I was as near to an animal as it is possible for man tr be. My whole being was concentrated on the effort to conserve my erergies so that I would not collapse before reaching the restaurant. So when a man laid a hand on my shoulder, halting my feeble progress, I turned on him with a snarl. I was at the door of the place where I planned to satisfy my hunger, and a delay maddened me. “Let go!” I cried. I recognized my gentleman of the fur collar at once. He slightly hack, then smiled ingratiatingly. “Take it easy, son,” he said. “I want to talk to you.” I shook my head; the effort of speech was too much; I moved again toward the restaurant door. He stopped me once more. "Wait, son,” he commanded. “You want to be careful; you might kill yourself overeating. Come along with me, and I'll fix you up.” It was bad enough that Mrs. Gannon and the pawnbroker should know my abject poverty; it was shameful enough that I myself should know of my starvation; but it was worse that a man whom I had never seen, until twenty minutes ago, should accost me thus and venture impertinent solicitude. For no matter how kindly he may have meant it, I considered it an unwarranted intrusion into affairs strictly my own. Moreover, he had struck at more than my pride; he was interfering with the gratification of my appetite. As I have said, I had become animal-like. Reason had departed from me; I was governed by my belly, not by my mind. So, like any animal balked of his food, I struck at him. Had I not known how weak privation had made me, I would have learned it then. For he avoided my blow with ease. Exhausted by my effort, I pitched forward and would have fallen to the ground had he not caught me. The next few minutes were blurred. I dimly

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

saw him signal the driver of a closed motorcar. I felt myself being assisted into the machine; I made no effort to resist. 1 think I must have fallen into a stupor, for the next thing that I remembered I found myself sitting in a huge armchair. Someone was holding a spoon to my lipe. and I was drinking greedily of a hot soup. A few spoonfuls must have revived me. I sat up, pushed the spoon a Way and reached for the bowl from which the fur-collared gentleman—he had doffed his overooat now—was ■feeding me. He did not resist, and I lifted the bowl to my mouth. It revived me, yet merely sharpened my craving for solid food. My benefactor —at the moment I considered him such —smiled. There was neither mirth nor kindliness possible to those thin lips, but there was a certain bleak friendliness. “Feel better?” he asked. He knew my condition and I did not pretend to hide it. "I want more.” I said. He smiled again. “Wait a minute; let that soup get settled; then we’ll see what you can do to a chop.” I tried to return his smile. “I ll do more things to it than you can guess,” I told him.

GRADUATE NURSE TELLS HOW TANLAC HELPED MANY OF HER PATIENTS

Seattle Nurse Is Firm Believer in Tanlac and Recommends It. “From my long experience as a professional nurse I do pot hesitate to say I consider Tanlac the most efficient and natural stomach medicine and tonic to he had. It is undouMedly nature's most perfect remedy,” is the far-reaching statement given out for publication, recently, by Mrs. I. A. Borden, 425 Pontius Ave., Seattle, Wash., a graduate of the National Temperance Hospital, Chicago. “I have used Tanlac exclusively for seven years in the treatment of my charity patients,” said Mrs. Borden, “and my experience has been that for keeping the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels functioning properly, and for toning up the sys-

FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1924

He glanced over his shoulder at the opened door leading to the next room. He called a question, and a man-servant, correctly dressed, appeared. He announced that dinner was served. My host looked at me. “Can you make it?” he asked. “Watch me.” I replied. I rose unsteadily and walked with him into the dining-room. The soup had helped me mentally as well as physically. My mind felt clarified; I was able to exercise a self-control that had been lacking in me. I did not heed his warning that I must eat sparingly. But after his warning he tried to put me at my ease. I was surprised that the owner’ of such a face could possess so much tact. And as I ate. I tried to take stock of my host and his surroundings. Continued in Our Next Issue) MORE CARS AVAILABLE NEW YORK. June 27.—Class I railroads on May 31 had 338,526 surplus freight cars in good repair and immediately, available for service, according to reports filed with the Car Service Division of the American Railway Association.

tern in general, it has no equal. “About a year ago I had a lady patient who could not keep a thing on her stomach fifteen minutes, not even water. I' prevailed on her to try Tanlac, and after the sixth bottle she could eat absolutely anything she wanted without the slightest bad after-effects. “I had another patient who simply could not eat. I got him started on Tanlac and by the time ha finished three bottles he was eating ravenously and able to work. “These two instances that are typical of the wonderful merits of the medicine. My confidence in Tanlac is unlimited. Tanlac is for sale by all good druggists. Accept no substitute. Over 40 Million bottles sold. Tanlac Vegetable Pills, for constipation, made and recommended by the manufacturers of Tanlac.— Adv.