Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1926 — Page 8

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4,000,000 IDLE ABROAD, EUROPE SURVEY REVEALS Germany and Britain Lead in Unemployment—France and Italy Exceptions, (Copyright, 1926) Bu Times Special IjONDON, Feb. 16.—Approximately 4,000,000 unemployed workers are receiving- doles In ten European countries as the old world struggles through the seventh winter since the war. Business depression and maladjustments of currency, both caused by four years of unproductive fighting, have laid this unemployed burden on the shoulders of those men, women and children, who are so fortunate as to have jobs. The 4,000,000 figure la complied from the official statistics of the various governments. An unofficial census might discover twice as many workless persons, but these uncounted ones receive no dole as do their tabulated fellows. Germany Leads Europe’s two greatest Industrial counties account for nearly 3.000,000 of the persons officially listed as unemployed. Germany reports 1.700,000 and Great Britain 1,200,000. Unofficial German figures place unemployment at 3,600.000. Since the Dawes plan became operative the great Inflation boom which provided most Germans with work has collapsed, and Britain has surpassed as the nation with the greatest number of worklesn citizens. In Austria the unemployment situation is serious. The country Is small, but 300,000 persons are unemployed, owing to the disturbing Influence of currency troubles which have afflicted the State since 1918. Unemployment In other European countries is reported officially as follows: Poland, 285,000; Italy, 115,000; Denmark, 50,000; Czechoslovakia, 40,000: Hungary, 30,000; holland,\2s,ooo; Sweden, 25,000. The foregoing figures merely represent the number of persons actually drawing unemployed benefits. FYanoe BusySome European countries are scarcely affected by unemployment problems. Conspicuous among these is Fiance, where a business boom grounded on Inflated currency provides work and depreciated currency for all. There are Just 560 registered unemployed persons In France. There are 11,000 unemployed persons In Belgium, but this number represents only 1.8 per cent of the Belgian industrial population. Switzerland reports 19,000 out of work, but the figure represents only 1.6 per cent of her Industrial workers. Mussolini’s firm government and the tremendous spurt of the artificial silk Industry are by experts to have solved Italy’s Unemployment problem, although the amelioration will be gradual in its later stages. U.S. POWERLESS IN OUTRAGES Coolidge Sees No Way to Clean Up Tia Juana. Bp United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—President Coolidge does not feel that this country can remedy conditions in such resorts as Tia Juana, Mexico, it was said at the White House todjiy. The President’s spokesman said that no law could he passed barring citizens of this country from crossing the Mexican border, and so long as Americans show a desire to seek such places for amusement this Government was powerless to prevent outrages. DEMONSTRATION IS GIVEN j Motor Police to Receive Instruction in Restoration Work. Capt. D. Melville Carr of the American Red Cross at Washington. D. C., in charge of life saving Institute here this week, gave a demonstration or restoration work before ( motor police and emergency lieutenants today at roll call. Capt. Louis Johnson asked Sergeants Shine and Owens of accident prevention bureau to attend the life saving course at the Indianapolis Athletlo Club. They will tour substations and give motor police instruction in restoration work. • DRIVE ON AUTO LIGHTS Police to Watch for 1926 license Plates on Machines. Traffic Inspector Walter White today ordered an v active drive against motor vehicle lighting law violators. The motorcycle squad will watch for 1926 license plates, and examine tail and head lights. Those driving with too bright lights, or who fall to dim, will be slated. NEWS TO U 8 LONDON. —Reports received here from the United States are to the effect that antl-smoking legislation Is imminent. The reports, purporting to come from Britishers, who have Investigated, also declare that fewhr young persons are forming the clgaret habit. WOMAN IS SENTENCED BP United Press WARSAW, Ind., Feb. 16.—Mrs. Cecils Franger of Plymouth today was sentenced to sixty days In Jail and fined SIOO on her plea of guilty to bootlegging. COWBOYS COOLED GENEVA—It Is a cool treatment the American movie cowboy heroes meet here. Revolvers of thebe "rough and readies" atV being blotted with Ink on movie posters in Bwltxerland, lest the imagination of the youth be exalted unduly..

CONTRAST! THE STORY OF TWO FUNERALS

Mrs. Tony Feßg at the burial of Rosetta Bu NBA Service NEW YORK, Feb. 16. —This is the story of the death and burial of Rosetta Felig. e Rosetta died in the back room of a dingy apartment on Mulberry St. She was 11 years old.

Under nourishment caused her Aeath, and lack of sunshine and air. But the Fellgs could not afford to gcr to Florida. Rosetta was bright and smiling. Although she was dying, she cared for the other Felig children.

BRIDGE BIDS $21,000 LOW Fall Much Under Estimates of Engineers. Low bids opened today by the State highway commission on thirteen bridges in nine counties of the State, fell more than $21,000 under the estimated expense, an unofficial tabulation showed. Highway engineers had figured the total cost at $203,15 8 76. Low bids totaled $181,176.89. meaning a saving of $21,941.87 to the State. The bridegs are to be on State highways in Crawford, Orange, Scott,, Vigo, Fayette, Owen, La Grange, Putnam and Maron Counties. The three Marion County all along State Rd. 39, will cross Lick Creek, Grassy Creek and Little Brady Creek. Low bid of $22,092.92on these bridges was made by Kernodle & Fulwider , Lebanon, as against an engineer’s estirflate of $28,105.66. LYNCHING BILL IS UP Threat of World Court. Foes May Be Carried Out. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—As a direct aftermath of the bitter world court cloture fight, the Senate Judiciary committee today took up, the Dyer anti-lynchlng bill with a view to rej>ortlng It to the Senate. Threats were made by anti-world court factions when the cloture rule was Invoked recently with assistance ! of southern Democrats that reprisal would be sought on the anti-lynchlng bill if it came before the Senate this session. The bill has bfen held up I by the Democrats for years by fflii busterlng tactics and appeals were made by representatives of the colored race before the committee today to invoke the cloture and force the bill through Congress. MAY SEEK JUDGESHIP State Representative Mentioned— Justice Makes Announcement. State Representative Russell V. Duncan will run as a Republican candidate against Judge James M. Leathers for the Superior Court Judgeship nomination, one politician said today. Another political development was the announcement by Isidor Wulfson of his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Center -Township justice.of the peace. A recent law reduces the justices to one for each township. Wulfson was city weights and measures Inspector eight years and has been a justice of the peace seven years. RAY’S HAT TOSSED IN Former Councilman Enters Race for County Sheriff. Otto Ray, 1045 Marian St., former city councilman, today announced his candidacy for nomination in the spring primary for Marion County sheriff. Ray, a Democrat, was nominated In 1924 and defeated by Sheriff Omer Hawkins, Republican. Ray was councilman from 1922 to 1925. He Is president and manager of the Telesto Water Compamy. NEW COAL MINES / LONDON. Collieries In the Welsh anthracite district will spend more than $2,000,000 during the next three years in increasing production, it has been learned. At three new pits will be sunk and Improvements will be made In ,the present machinery. CONGO EVOLUTIONISTS LONDON. New evolutionists have been found in the Congo. Natives known as the Batagrji believe that apes are descended from disgraced men. “We are better and prouder than the apes, therefore we eat them," they told the Rev. H. C. Graham, a returned missionary.

By selecting the most Inexpensive coffin which the undertaker offered ind taking advantage of free burial privileges In one the lesser oemstaples the funeral expenses were kept down to $56. There were a few wilted flowers.

Her Knees Were Perfect She Takes Beauty Prize

Audrey Admits Her Face Is No ‘Knockout’ —Judges Different Now. ILEVELAND, Ohio. Feb. 18.— Because Audrey Clapp, 20, a l—J telephone operator of Cleveland, was attached to a pair of ’ perfect knees.” she won a recent Cleveland beauty contest In which thousands of girls with beautiful faces Competed. Audrey herself says that her face, while nq knock-out, Is the best face she’s got, and she admits, moreover, that when they tmd her she’d won the contest by a knee she forgot to tell thirteen that the 11ns was busy. So comes an innovation In the beauty contest realm. Artist judges have turned like the proverbial worm! No more shall alabaster brows and Illy throats and ruby lips and Grecian proboscl be rated above beautiful knee caps and in time, sundry feminine appurtenances. Cutie after cutle had shaken her boyish bob before the Cleveland Judges, of pulchritude before Audrey and her knees came along. Looking for ’Em A. G. Wars haws ky, famous painter of pudes, an authority in anatomy, and the dean of American artists In Paris, saw them first! The contest was over so far as this Judge was concerned! "There they are! She's got them!" he almost shrieked, explaining to hla Judicial colleagues that ffir many a long and weary year he hul sought perfect knees. "Somebody told me about the bee's knees,” said Warshawaky, "butt they didn’t seem so good t 6 me. I decided that the average girl’s khees were a total wreck, a misspent life, and that all lovers of beauty should rise up against this HE’LL GO TO PRISON Supreme Court Confirms Liquor Violation Term. Th- oft-repeated admonition of justice, that lgoranoe of the law is no excuse, was voiced today by State Supreme Court In affirming the conviction of Lorenz Zakmsek of Elkhart, convicted of possessing thirty gallons of liquor, was sentenced to prison. Zakrasek, appealing, said the 1925 Legislature, if it had Intended for persons owning liquor to destroy it, would have made some provision for doing go. He said he did not know It was illegal to possess Intoxicating liquor. BAD FLUE CAUSES FIRE Ben Davis Home Loss Estimated at $5,000 —Firemen Handicapped. Home of Arthur Wade at Ben Davis was destroyed today by a fire said to have started from a defective flue. Damage to the twostory frame dwelling, was estimated at $5,000. Company 19 and Squad 2 made the run, but lack of water connections, handicapped them. TICKET SALE CHARGED Pete Miller, 38, Negro, 938 Indiana Ave., was arrested today on charges of keeping a gaming device and resisting an officer. He was arrested, police said, at the Klngan Company plant today where he had hi en selling baseball pool tickets. BLAMES BUSINESS MEN NEW YORK —Business men who fall to take jury duty seriously handicap efforts to combat the •crime wave! Judge Cornelius Collins of the General Sessions declared. Fifty men. called for Jury duty, failed to respond, •‘ailing forth his speech. The men were ordered held for contempt of court.

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Mrs. S, Mead at tl>e burial of I’ing Pong.

Bu NBA Sereios NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—This is the story of the death and burial of Piitg Pong. Ping Pong aied down in Sunny Florida. The end came at 11 years, a ripe age for a Pekinese.

When Ping Pong became 111, his devoted mistress Mrs. S. Mead, wealthy New York society woman took him to a hospital for an operation; then rented a fashionable hotel room at sls a day so Ping Pong might have rest and quiet.

modern freedom of the knees which the average girl enjoys.” The artist explained that as beauty after beauty pranced by him he grew madder and madder at their knees until he oiuld hardly contain his Ire! High Heels Did It “High heels have murdered beautiful knees," he said. "They cause the girl In walking to put most of her weight upon her knees instead of dividing the weight between calf, thight and knee, as It should be. "This weight upon the knees enlarges the knees, widens them, and rulas the shape of the knee cap. They look more like hard-boiled eggs or mustache cups than knees!" The Irate artist asked Miss Audrey, his balm In Gilead, to toll the sisterhood never to wear high heeled shoes again! "But I always do," said Miss Audrey, "I got my knees that way by sitting down all day long on a telephone exchange stooL” This almost knocked out Warshawsky, but with the air of an entomologist finding the world's rarest horned beetle he continued to shout huzzas to the spedes kneeus lovelicanus, which was not bom to blush unseen, but which won a beauty contest for a plain little girl! DARROW BARRED AT EVANSVILLE Noted Lawyer’s Speech on Evolution Barred. Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Feb. 16. Clarence Darrowy noted criminal lawyer win not give his lecture here March 4 on his mechanistic theory of evolution. He had been invited by the men’s club of the Washington Ave. Jewish Temple to discuss his theory before a meeting In Central High School. Vehement protests filled the newspapers, and such pressure was brought to bear on the temple members that Rabbi Jack Skireall yesterday withdrew the Invitation. FIRM INCORPORATES Concrete Forms Company to Take Over Old Equipment. Incorporation papers for the Baker Forms Company, Indianapolis, manufacturers of reinforced concrete building forms, were filed today at the Statehouse, capital stock being listed at $50,000. Purpose of the new corporation Is to take over equipment formerly used by the Rath Construction Company. Incorporators are Hugh J. Baker, J, R. Fenstermaker, 11. D. Fatout, C. W, Steeg and Herman Rath. TAX REFUND SOUGHT Opening Arguments in Salt of Pump Company Heard. Opening arguments in the suit) of the P. H. & F. M. Roots Company, Connersvillel, pump manufacturers, against the Government for SB,800.42, which the firm alleges was collected as taxes by the Government without cause, were heard by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today. • The company avres that it was. forced to pay taxes on certain nontaxable assets. BUY TELEPHONE FIRM Sale of the Earl Park Telephone Company to Frank and Barbara E. I Grames for SIB,OOO was approved today by the public service commission. Charles BJ. Hatch and Nellie Woodruff are present owner* of the

But Ping Pong died and Mrs. Mead brought his body back to New York. He was burled In an expensive coffin with a grave blanketed with flowers. A tomb stone will be erected. In all Mrs. Meade spent $1,500.

WABASH RIVER LEVEE ORDERED Judge Approves Southern Indiana Project. Bu United Press PRINCETON, Ind., Feb. 16. After litigation which has dragged on for more than seven years the Wabash-Patoka levee project today became an assurred fact. Judge B. F. Carr of Monticella, I Ind., sitting as special judge in the | Gibson Circuit Court here unden a commission Issued by former Governor Warren T. McCray ruled that "this levee Is going to work and the land effected by It will be benefltted." The levee construction, which will involve practically eleven of southwestern Indiana, will cost several million dollars and Is said to be one of the largest projects of Its kind over attempted in the Middle West. THEY’LL ‘FIGHT’ FIRES Headquarters Company Members to Don the Gloves. There’s to be punch In future Are fighting. v Headquarters company members are preparing a gymnasium on the third floor of their building at New York and Alabama Sts., and boxing Is to be the chief article on the sporting menu. Today Assistant Fire Chief Kenneth Burns and Recreation Director Jesse B. McClure obtained donations of sporting goods from Smith, Hasaler & Sturm,, and Spalding’s. They include two spring exercises, twelve Indian clubs and two pairs of boxing gloves. FREE TO RUPTURED MEN AND WOMEN All ruptured men and women who are fortunate enough to see this announcement will welcome the glad news that a representative of the world-famoun Capt. Collings System for rupture Is coming to Indianapolis, Ind., to personally explain and give every ruptured person who applies 9. trial of the Collings System, absolutely without a penny in advance. You are allowed to test It out and prove Its genuine worth—then if you want it, the cost is only a trifle. Why wear trusses the rest of your life? What yeu want Is to be relieved of your rupture so you can | throw your truss away. You are I given an opportunity to find out how you can do this by accepting our Free Trial Plan. We want a chance to prove to you that the Callings System for rupture is a real, genuine means of relief from gouging, cutting, chafing spring trusses. Ws want you to try this treatment at our expense, and send our representative to personally explain and apply It to your Individual case. Remember it costa you no money to give this System a trial, and you should be anxious to find out what can be done for you. I An expert representing Capt. W. A. Collings, Inc., Watertown, N. Y., will *be at the New Colonial Hotel, Indianapolis. Ind., Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 17 and 18. Hours; 9 to 12 a. m., 2 to 5 p. m.,- and 7 to 9 evening. Cut out this announcement and bring It to the Hotel for a free trial.—Advertisement.

Woman Doctor Who Lived as Man Has Cancer Cure

Scores Tell of Remedy She Used —May Die and Take Secret With Her. Ru NBA Service M” ->ENA, Ark., Feb. 16.—Did Dr. M. V. Mayfield, the mysterious old woman, who came to this little Arkansas tdwn more than a decade ago to live her life as a man, possess the secret that learned physicians have sought fruitlessly for scores of years—the cure for cancer? ✓ Her patients assert ’she did. There are any number of people In this neighborhood, who are ready to step forward and swear that she cured them of malignantj cases of the • baffling malady. A strange sort of paste, or salve, the formula for which was known only to herself, made up- her ' remedy. Doctors scoff at the notion that she had a genuine cancer cure, but many people in Mena are fully convinced. The story of her work and her alleged cure Is being told here now, while the aged woman lies helpless, sick with what probably will prove her last illness, In a room provided by charity. No Solution in Sight It Is Just one more mystery added to the tangled tale of her life —a tale that probably never will be straightened out. Indeed. If Dr. Mayfield had not been a drug addict. It is likely that she would have lived her life through without anyone here sus-

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peering that she was not what she pretended to be —a simple, garrulous old man, practicing medicine modestly In a little Arkansas town. Several months ago she met financial reverses. She could not keep up her supply of drugs. Deprived of them, she became 111, a physician was summoned —and her secret was discovered. She is now being cared for in a home of a woman who says that I>. Mayfield cured her of a cancer years ago. It was about twelve” years ago that Dr. Mayfield came here. She got off an early morning train from the north, dressed as a man, carrying a suit case in one hand and a crate full of live bantam chickens in the other. She found a place to live and began her work as a physician. The “cancer cure” became famous in this part of the country. She had a salve which she applied to cancers and which, she asserted, drew the poison out of the sore. The cures effected were considered marvelous. Hundreds of persons will testify that she relieved them of cancers. Aside from her possession of this cure, If it was a cure, she did nothing to attract notice. Never did anyone suspect she was a woman. She smoked an old black pipe, chewed tobacco occasionally like any good I Arkansan and loafed in corner resI taurants and cigar stores with the j other “boys.” To be sure, it was noticed that she never swore and would not listen to shady stories — but nobody thought anything about it. Wealth Is Fictitious She had been twice married, she told her friends, and one wife was

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by rled In Y ashlngton. * She spoke of having property In other State and was generally reputed to be wealthy.. But when she became ill and her secret was exposed, It was found that this talk of property wn* only talk. There came reports from a olty In lowa, telling how she had lived there as a man and had been engaged to a girl—but nothing moro to shed light on her post. She says she was horn In England £.nd started living o a boy at the age of two. But her talk la contra, dlctory and confused and no connected story of her life can to pieced together. If she dies In her present illness it is probable that her ooncer “cure” will die with her, as the formula Is known only to her. START WORK ON TWOBUILDINGf Merchants Heat, Light Cos. to Spend SIIB,OOO. Construction of two buildings hv the Merchants Heat and LlgYt Company, to cost SIIB,OOO, wilVbe started immediately. They will be at Cruse and Daly Sts. and Pine and Daly Sts. One of the structures will be used for a garage with a capacity of 200 automobiles. The other will he for the storage of records and docti ments. ' The buildings will be erected by the Curry Construction Company. Plans are being drawn by Charles Brossman, architect. The compaijy will vacate the garage which has been used at 303 N. Senate Ave.