Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 89, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1924 — Page 8

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STEFFLER, YEGG SUSPECT, CAUGHT Alleged Partner of Tracey in Robbery Arrested. Bu Times Sperial ANDERSON, Ind.. Aug. 21.—Fred Steffler, 27, of Anderson, wanted by Federal authorities on a charge of robbing the postoffice at Willow Branch, Hancock County, on the night of June 20. and suspected of rut onerous robberies in Madison, Henry and Hamilton counties, is under arrest at Noblesville. Officers in that city arrested Steffler Wednesday afternoon oft a charge of stealing an automobile. Two companions whose identities are unknown escaped. Steffler, authorities allege, has been ringleader of a band of four men said to have perpetrated a series of robberies of filling stations, safes in outlying business houses and general stores in this section of the State during the past four months. The largest haul was made at the T. C. Fisher coal yard here, where $1,200 was obtained. An automobile in which Steffler is thought to have used in his alleged in the Willow Branch robbery was recovered in a local stone <V>*.rry this week. It was the property of R. Albea, of Indianapolis, who was visiting at the home of a fanner near Willow Branch on the night of the robbery and had left nls car in the road near the house. Dick Tracy of Chicago, who is alleged to have been a party to the Willow Branch robbery, was captured by local police and now is a Federal prisoner at Indianapolis. Theaters | F*un predominates the bill at the Palace today and for the rest of the week when skeletons, ostriches and monkeys, all mechanical figures, respond to ScMchtl’s touch and stage a nove/ offering. The skeleton can fall to pieces and then be restored to natural form. Heading her own company, Lucille Ballantine presents “The Spider Web Revue,” in which a special arrangement of and inces and songs are arranged and enacted by Sidney Boyd, Elton Helfrick, Arthur Mahon and David Gordon. Barney Gilmore, a true Irish comedian, who recently scored success in “LightninV appears with James Collins and Mina Shirley in “Two Pals and a Gal.” Old-fashioned b&Qads are rendered to the tunes of stringed instruments and still other features are given in “We Three Girls,” an offering of Margie Vial, Patricia Rossitu and Bernice Batson. Allen Norman, a young man wh4se sleeves are full of laughs, chatters through his “A Dis-Illusion.” Lila Lee and James Kirkwood, a happily married couple, have the roles of a philandering husband and a neglected wife in their most recent photoplay “Wandering Husbands" the last part of the week. The divorce problem is met and solved in a clever manner by the wife. In the cast are Margaret Livingston, Muriel FVances Dana, and Eugene Pallette. Pathe News, a comedy, and a scenic are the short reels. -I- I- IOther attractions on view today include: “Broadway and Buttermilk” at English’s: Roscoe Arbuckle at the Lyric; “Runnin’ Wild” at the Capitol; “This Freedom” at tfie Apollo; “Monsieur Beaucaire” at the Ohio; “Flirting With Love” at the Circle; a complete change of bill at the Isis: “Those Who Dance” at Mister Smith’s and “The Birth of a Nation” at the Lincoln Square.

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(Copyright, 192i, by United Press) WEAF, New York (492 M), 7:30 P. M. EST—Talk by Jackie Coogan on behalf of Near East Relief. WFT, Philadelphia (395 M), 7 P. M. EST —Richard Hageman directing the Fairmont Park Symphony. WGY, Schenectady (380 M), 7:45 P. M. EST—The WGY Student Players and the American Lithunian Club mixed chorus. WWJ, Detroit (517 M), 10 P. M. EST —Jean Goldkett’s Orchestra in dance music. WCBD, Zion (345 M), 7 P. M. CST —Concert program. Hoosier Briefs EE if you cean beat this,” I J said Joe Mailer, when he 1 J placed a two and three-quarter-pound sugar beet on display at Bluflfton. Charges of assault and battery were clinched against John Pearson at Logansport, when his wife told police he struck her son with a hammer. Shelbyville now is calling Harry Ray the “marryin’ squire.” Ray married seven couples in less than a week. W. H. Green Is not popular with Kokomo girls now. He is carrying a queer looking worm around In a glass bottle and displaying it to his friends. None has been able to tell what kind of a worm it is. * Mary Booher, wed for forty-six years, has sued her husband, William, at Marion for divorce. Frankfort has abandoned its annual melon feast held in the county courthouse basement. Too many came last year. mT was hot in Gary, so Motorcycle Officer Regers arrested Stanley Barko of La Porte, who was wearing a heavy overcoat. Around the man’s waist, the officer found a thin can, containing five gallons of whisky. Rushville is named right, according to Will Havens, patrolman there. Record numbers of tourists, are rushing through the town tlfls year, he says. Work directing traffic was so heavy he asked to be changed to the night shift. A real relic of by gone days was dug up at Goodland. It was a stone jrg, found under an old saloon, once owned by Pat O'Toole. William Medcalf. blind, is writing a novel at Boonvilie. SHIS “tail” had a sad ending. It belonged to a blind horse owned by Oscar Gurhett of Plymouth. The animal stood too close to a threshing machine and its tail got caught in the machinery. The machine was also put out of commission. George Freeman, State representative- from Kokomo, told the Lions Club there that no club, no matter how good it is, can supplant the church. Oliver Waymire, Alexandria farmer, is glad United States is approaching the horseless age. His team ran away and he broke his leg.

BE A GOOD-NEIGHBOR Kiwanis Told Success Lies in Doing Usual Things Well. In order to have good neighbors, we must first be a good neighbor, said Thomas F. L. Henderson, business conuselor of the extension division of La Salle University, before the Kiwanis Club at the weekly luncheon. Success in life does not come from doing unusuaj things, but doing usual tnings in an unusual way, he said. Henderson said 5 per cent of the people in the United States employ the other ninety-five because the latter are not willing to pay the price the 5 per cent pay. TAX CUT ASSURED City Controller Announce Good News at Ft. Wayne. By United Pres FT. WAYNE, Ind., Aug. 21.—Tax payers of Ft. Wayne today were given assurance of a 3 or 4-cent reduction in the tax levy for next year. Strict economy and increased valuations to make all property holders pay their rightful share of the taxes will make the reduction possible, according to Julian Franke city controller. MISSING DOG RETURNED Baby’s Playmate Returned to Marion, Ohio, After Located Here. A little brown and white dog lost from an Ohio tourist auto Aug. 6 on Washington St., is on Its way to Marion, Ohio today, following a report in The Indianapolis Times Wednesday of the loss to Sheriff George Snider by the owner, Harry Fies. Fles’ baby missed its playmate. and wanted it back. The wanderer was in possession of Hans C. Robertson, 3380 N. Sherman Dr. Lilly to Address Druggists J. K_ Lilly, president of Ell Lilly & Cos., will adress wholesale druggists' representatives here as guests of the company, at the Severin tonight on “The History of Eli Lilly & Cos.” Other addresses were, scheduled at morning and afternoon meetings at the Severin. Furniture Men to Meet The Indiana Furniture Manufacturers’ Association will hold a special meeting at 12:15 p. m. next Wednesday to decide whether to take space in the Indianapolis Industrial Exposition, Oct. 4-11 at the State fairground. Claude Wallin, publicity manager for the exposition. spoke at the association’s .luncheon Wednesday. Sustains Head Injuries Earl Case, 35. of 631 N. New Jersey St., is suffering with head injuries today received Wednesday when he fell while crossing the street at Senate Ave. and Washington St.

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BEGIN HERE TODAY The “Nervous Wreck," an eccentric rouug- easterner, is (irivin? Sally Morsan from her lather s ranch to ‘the station when they run out of gasoline. At the point of a (run the Wreck takes five gallons from a passing ear. Later Charlie MeSween. foreman of a ranch along the way. hides the Wreck s ear and forces Sally to act as cook. Then they discover that Mr. Underwood, the owner of the ranuh, was in the ear which they held tip. Sheriff Bob Wells. who Is Sally's fiance. Is unwittingly searching the countryside for the “bandits'’ who held up Underwood. Young Chester Underwood, son of the owner, chances upon the shed in which MeSween has hidden the Wreck's car. and tells his father. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY EXCELLENT advice, but Underwood himself had omitted I to follow It, and he actually had his hands on the bandit car. “Get a lantern,” he said. “Let’s go down and hav ea look at it.” Chester fetched a lantern from the kitchen, and they went down to the tool shed. Jerome Underwood examined the mysterious flivver with more attention than he had ever given to his own imported car. He studied the license plate with a searching eye, trying to make himself believed that it awakened recollection. He could not be sure, but the more he looked at it the more familiar It seemed to be. Unconsciously, he was creating a memory of It, which might, after all, serve just as well. The missing wheel baffled him. He could not invent a reason for it. Had there been a smash-up which crumpled a wheel, there would almost certainly be other marks on the car. But all it showed were a few ordinary dents and a myriad of scratches, common to hundreds of thousands of other flivvers all over the world. Standing there on its three wheels, with a soap-box serving as a crutch in place of the fourth, the dusty thing possessed an uncanny faculty of annoying him. He was aware of a feeling of resentment toward it. He had hated flivvers always; the people who d-ove them, as he saw them, never had any road manners. It was useless to pass them In the highway and leave them sputtering In your wak,

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because there was always another one ahead. Now It seemed that his diffused hatred came to a focus on one solitary specimen out of all the millions. He led the way back to the house, swinging the lantern and trying to make something out of Chester's discovery. When they entered the liv-ing-room he did the obvious thing.

“SHE’S A FLIVVER, ALL RIGHT,” REMARKED CHARLEY. “Go get MeSween,” he said. “AnJ let me do the talking.” Chester found the foreman in the bunk house, getting ready to pull off his boots. Charley was a believer in going early to bed when there was nothing else to do. He went up to the ranch house, wondering what the boss wanted. Mr. Underwood always tried to make it a practice of getting immediately to the point, particularly with subordinates. “Who owns the car that stands in the tool shed?" he asked. "What car?” asked Charley. Then and there he passed a Rubicon, and realized it. Probably he had passed it foolishly, too. But the

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question had taken him by surprise, and his own question in return had snapped Itself out automatically. That was the worst of speaking without due reflection. Why hadn't he said that the car belong to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Williams and let the truth have its way? “There's a car down there, a three-wheeled flivver,” said Underwood. “Who does it belong to?” “A three-wheeled flivver?” repeated Charley. "I reckon that's anew kind. It ain't any wonder they keep takln’ chunks off the price." Mr. Underwood stared at his foreman. "Mean to say you didn’t know there was a flivver In the tool shed?” he demanded. “First I ever heard of it,? said Charley promptly. Having inadvertently set a course for himself he proposed to sail It. He had a superstition about turning back. And what was all the fuss about, anyhow? "Well, we found one there. My son and I have been taking a look at It. Do you know what we think?" “U'm! No, I can’t say as I do, Mr. Underwood.” Charley was becoming cautious and curious. He scratched his chin and resolved to be deliberate. “We think it’s the same car that was used by the gang that held us up.” “Well, I'll he dog-goned! And standin’ down,there in the tool shed? Why, I’ll just be damned, that's all!” “And you mean to say you don't know anything about it?” "But I'm a-goln’ to,” said Charley. "I'm a-goln’ to have a look.” He seized the lantern and hastened out of the room before Mr. Underwood could utter another question. Down near the shed he paused for thought. There was no need to go and look at the Wreck’s flivver; he knew all about It. What he wanted was a little time. Twice within the space of a minute he had been surprised, and he proposed to get himself in order before they did it again. It had never occurred to him that any member of the Underwood family would take the trouble to discover the flivver. That was the first surprise. It was entirely unnecessary, too, he reflected; he might as well have left the thing in the open. Nobody could vse it, anyhow. But the other surprise—the suspicion that this was the flivver! “The sons of guns!” he muttered. "The sons of guns! Stickin’ up the boss and then buttin' into his own ram h and askin' for breakfast! I ain’i sayin’ they did! I ain’t convinced. I’m always in favor of pre-

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servin’ a Judicial mind and bein' fair to all concerned. But when you come to think of it —h’m! There's Henry Williams now. It's always been puzzlin' me to figure him. Accordin' to his wife he's a kind of invalid. But accordin’ to Mort, and things which I've seen with my own eyes, he's a rampagin’ rhinoceros. I wouldn't pick him to be in the stick-up business. and yet I wouldn't say he don’t possess qualifications. The main thing is, lie's got all the required nerve. The son of a gun!” Charley stood tweaking his ear and frowning at the tool shed. “Admittln' the indictment —which I ain't necessarily, but admittln' it for the sake of argument—what am I goin’ to do? I said I didn’t know there was any flivver here. If I go back and say I did, I'm a liar. There ain’t anything I hate to be accused of worse than that. Besides, if I admit I knew all about it, and it turns out that Henry lives up to what may be justly expected, then I'm maltin' myself a sort of accessory' after the fact. Which ain’t true and is damagin’ to my reputation. I may be rough and untutored, but I ain't any Henry Williams —the foureyed son of a gun!” He picked up the lantern, turned toward the ranch house and paused again. “Furthermore, here I’ve been tellln' the boss how I got him a prize cook from out east, along with her obligin’ husband. He's liable to form a kind of poor opinion if I admit he came near havin’ no cook at all. It's a reflection on foresight and management. And it’s too late, anyhow. I can't tell him it’s Henry Williams’ flivver. I can’t tell him It’s mine. I can’t admit havin’ any guilty lfnowledge appertainin’ to it. It looks like I had to keep right on bein’ innocent, which Is one of my best points. But —the son of a gunl” Deciding that he had been away long enough, he went back to the house, where he found Underwood and Chester waiting for him in the living room. “Well?” demanded the boss of the establishment. “She’s a flivver all right,” remarked Charley as he set the lantern on the floor. “She’s just what you said, a three-wheeler.” . “And you don’t recognize It?" “No, sir. It’s anew sight to me. It’s an amazin’ visitation, so far's I'm concerned.’ “You mean you didnt know there was a car locked up in that shed?” Jerome Underwood’s eyes were fixed in a glare of incredulity, but Charley MeSween gazed back with mild steadiness.

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“Did't know she was there. Didn’t know the shed was locked. Hadn't been any call for anything that was kept in the shed.” “But—damn it —how "ould It get there?” Charley looked thoughtful. "I’ve been tryin' to think," he said. "If she had four wheels I'd say she got there in the regular way. But she’s only got three wheels and a soap box. That puts her In a class by herself. I can't figure her.” “Anybody around this ranch own a car?” “No, sir. One of the boys had a motorcycle once, but he couldn’t learn to stay on the seat. We ain’t had even a bicycle around here since.” Underwood continued to regard him with unwinking amazement, “You're suppsed to know what's going on around here, aren't you?” he demanded. “Yes, I reckon I am,” said Charley. “But it's a fair-sized ranch, and sometimes I'm travelln’ around it.” “Do you want me to understand that a hold-up gang can use my place as a headquarters without my foreman even knowing it?” “No, sir. I don’t aim to be perfect, but I don't aim to be too careless. either. I take it you're feelln’ pretty cartaln it belongs to the gang?”

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“I am now. I only thought so before. and so did my son. But when I'm told that you don't know any* thing about It. than I’m convinced.^ ‘‘lt looks reasonably convincin', *8 admitted Charley. “What went on here the night bet fore I arrived?” “Nothin’ that I ’specially recall. X reckon we all turned in pretty early. • "Could they have run a car In hem without your knowing it?” "Looks like they did, Mr. Under* wood. It certainly makes me feel kind of foolish, bein’ such a sound sleeper. But there she is, setting there on three wheels and a There ain’t any argument about} that.” Charley knew that he was jooMngj sheepish, and felt It was the righff way to look. (Continued In Our Next Issue) “Civic” Day at Camp Saturday will be “Civic” day at the Boy Scout camp northeast off Indianapolis. Representatives from various organizations will visit the reservation and open house will be held by the scouts. Athletic contests and stunts are on the afternoon program. A Hiawatha pagea*f| Is scheduled for the evening.