Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1926 — Page 7

NOV. 1, 1926

HOUDINI, FAMOUS HANDCUFFING, MAGICIAN, DIES Body to Be Taken to New York —Apple Pies Started Him on Career. Bu United Press DETROIT, Nov. I.—ln a bronze, air-tight coffin recently constructed for one of his myriad tricks, the body of Harry Houdini, America’s great est magician, will leave here tonight for New York. The handcuff king, world known, died here Sunday afternoon a little more than a after he became 111 with appendicitis from which developed peritonitis. He was 52 years old. Until the end, Houdini believed he would “get out of this the way I get ouf'of everything else.” Minister’s Son Harry Houdini was born at Appleton, Wis., as Eric Weiss, son of a pastor. Fondness for apple pies started him on his career as a magician. His mother was one of the best cooks in Appleton. On baking days she would lock her delicacies in a cupboard.' To get at the pies, Eric picked the locks. When 5, Eric witnessed a magician’s act at a circus. By accident he saw through one of the tricks and from then on there was no magical Santa Claus for Harry. Started When Only 8 At the age of- 8, Young Houdini joined a traveling circus and became known as "Eric, Prince of the Air.” He was a contortionist, wire walker, acrobat and slight of hand performer. One of his tricks was to bend backward and pick up a needle In the skin of his eyes. Later he allowed himself to be bound hand and foot and then would free himself from a cabinet. One night in Coffeyville, Kan., a sheriff while tying him up suddenly snapped a pair of handcuffs on his wrists. It was the first pair of handcuffs Houdini had ever seen,

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but he freed himself in eleven minutes. From then on it was as a handcuff expert that Houdini was Tfnown. He toured this country and Europe. Some of His Stunts Here are some of his stunts: He broke out of the dread Siberian prison van in Moscow. ' He leaped, heavily handcuffed, from a Detroit* Bridge into Icy waters and released himself. He jumped into San Francisco bay with more, than seventy-five pounds of ball and* chain locked to his body and his hands _ cuffed behind his back. . He escaped from a plate glass box in Boston and did not scratch the box. He emerged smilingly from the murderers’ cell in the United States jail at Washington which confined Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield. He escaped from a packing box, to which was attached 200 pounds of iron “weights, in New York Bay. His Most Famous Tricks Two of his stage “mysteries’' never have been explained. In one, Houdini apparently swallowed 100 needles and twenty yards of thread and brought up the needles neatly threaded from his mouth. In the other he caused a five-ton elephant apparently to vanish in the full glare of a spotlight. Os late years Houdini became interested in alleged spirit manifestations, and set jout to prove that mediums and 1 ' their wares were “faked.” He offered a standing reward of SIO,OOO to any medium who could produce a phenomenon that he could not produce naturally if he Watched it three times. reward was never claimed. LIQUOR TAX TRIAUS SET Case of the United States Government against \) r . P. Squibb and Company and the American Surety Company to recover $350,000 tax on liquor alleged to have been taken out of the Lawrenceburg distillery under false pretense by George Remus, Cincinnati bootleg king, and others, will be heard early in January. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell set the case for trial today. United States Attorney Albert Ward and Attorney George Rhiner agreed to waive a jury trial. GAS. FUMES KILL MAN Bu Unite(t Press GARY, Ind , Nov. 1. —Carbon monoxide fumes from a gas heater today were blamed for the death of Joe Burns, 57, who was found dead in his room here by friends. ' SUPREME COURT RECESSES Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—The United States Supreme Court today recessed until Nov. 22. INDIANA ROBBER CAUGHT Bu United Press CHICAGO, Nov. I.—J. E. Wilkinson, sought for two years as the man who twice held up the p#stoffice at Perth, Ind., was arrested by special Government agents here today, and confessed to the crime.

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INJUNCTION REQUEST Street Railway Asks That Temporary Order Be Made Permanent. Will Latta, Indianapolis Street Railway Company attorney, before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today, moved that the temporary injunction restraining Robert B. Armstrong and John M. Parker, union organizers, from interfering with the operation of the local cars, be made a permanent injunction. Judge Baltzell ordered that the defendants be notified. Date for a hearing was not set. The restraining order was granted before the street railway employes’ s.trike last July. Parker and Armstong are at liberty on bond, pend ing an appeal on a sentence for con tempt for violation of the order. BROTHER TAKES A~HAND Will Try to Make McDermott Talk to Save Self. Bu United Press CANTON, Ohio, Nov. I.—Convinced that Pat McDermott did not fire the shot that killed Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher, Thomas McDermott, his brother, today to his cell and expected to convince Pat he can save himself by making a statement. “If Tom isn’t able to do anything with him, it is extremely doubtful if he ever will talk,” Prosecutor McClintock said today denying again that McDermott had made a confession. BIG BOND ISSUE IS UP Council Will Consider War Plaza Debt Refunding. City council tonight will consider one of the largest bond issues in its history, when authorization for issuance of $1,600,000 in bonds to provMe for funding and refunding indebtedness on the city’s share of the War Memorial Plaza will be introduced. City Clerk William A. Boyce/Jr., explained that the ordinance was designed to allow refunding of an original loan at 6 per cent interest the city made to obtain ready cash in 1921 for the Plaza payment. He said the city proposes now to reduce the interest rate to from 6 to 4 or 4% per cent, through refunding of the bond issue. Colds Four helps combined One tablet does all a cold demands. Tt combines the four best helps men know. It is so efficient, so quick and complete that we paid $1,000,000 for It. That way is HILI/S. It stops the cold in 24 hours, checks the fever, opens the bowels, then tones the entire system. Millions have proved it the ideal help for colds. You will be glad to know tt. Start it now and watch the change tomorrow. Be Sure Its Price 30c CASCARA % QUININE Red Bax W with portrai t

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OBJECT TO BUS CHANGE Petitions Oppose Street Railway on Capitol Ave. Feeder. Formal protest against the proposed change in the Indianapolis Street Railway Company’s -Capitol Ave. feeder bus route, signed by nearly 150 persons living along the present route, was filed today with the public service commission. In the protest, filed by Arthur A. Stettler, attorney for objectors, the commission is asked to permit the group to oppose the change formally' and to present and question witnesses. The complainants live north of Buckingham Dr. and west of Illinois© St. The street railway petition, designed to accommodate patrons from the Fairview addition, will be heard*soon by the commission. APPROVES STOCK ISSUE Commission Gives Permit to Indiana Hydro-Electric Power Company. An order was passed by the publicservice commission today authorizing the Indiana Hydro-Electric Power Company to issue and sell $307, 500 of its 7 per cent preferred stock to complete two new high-power plants near Monticello. Os the proceeds, $264,957.10 will be used to pay for completed additions to the plant for which securities have not been issued and $19,500 for additions necessary to complete the projects. Approximately $4,500,000 has been spent on the two projects this far. SSOO FIRE LOSS AT HOME Fire of unknown origin caused a SSOO loss at the home of John Hickey, 3400 Bethel Ave., Sunday. The first was extinguished before it reached the lower portion of the house, but water damage to the upper story was heavy.

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What Net Earnings Mean The money which railroads have left after paying operating expenses and taxes is classified under the accounting regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission as net operating income and is commonly known as net earnings. Not all of net earnings, however, is available for dividends to railway owners. For example, it will take all the net earnings realized in the first half of 1926 by the railroads of the country as a whole to pay the full year’s interest charges on their borrowed money. , The ratio of net earnings to property investment is commotily accepted as the yardstick measuring the financial results of railway Such measurement shows that there has been a fairlv steady improvement in the financial results of railway operation in recent years. The net earnings realized by the railroads of the country 's a whole for of investment in railway property were $2.92 in 1921, $3.61 in 1922, $4.48 in 1923, $4.33 in 1924 and $4.83 in 1925. For the first eight months of 1926 net earnings were realized at the annual rate of $5.13 for each SIOO of investment in railway property. This improvement in the financial results of railway operation is well deserved, because it is the result of greater economy and efficiency in handling increased traffic. However, the ratio of net earnings to property investment is even yet less than it should be, especially when we consider that railway traffic has been breaking all records this year. Few others businesses could manage to get along at so low a rate, and the railroads themselves have earned more in the past. In 1916, for example, their net carnintrs were $5.94 for every SIOO of property investment at that time, and, when the difference in the purchasing power of money is considered, a good many other years yielded earnings that meant more to the railroads than those being received today. The present railway efficiency, which is so productive of good in every line of business, is largely the result of the substantial investments in improvements which the railroads have made in recent years in the hope of improved earnings. The continued efficiency of the railroads depends to the same large extent upon their ability to obtain funds for further expansion to keep pace with the increased demaifds for their services which the future is ccrtain v to bring. Railway credit, therefore, must be safeguarded. We believe that railway patrons, realizing this situation, will look with favor upon further improvement in the rate of railway net earniners. • The value of good railway service is bevond estimation. Good service is the kind the railroads want to continue to provide. All they ask is that the public encourage them to do so. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. L. A. DOWNS, President Illinois Central System. CHICAGO, November 1, 1926.

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