Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 226, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1926 — Page 2

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LEGISLATURE EXPECTED TO BE ‘REGULAR’

STAGE HOLD-UP THIRD TIME AT FILLINGSTATION Robbery on North Side Brings Holiday Total to Five. A solitary bandit this morning held up the Standard Oil filling station at Twenty-Ninth St. and Capitol Ave., bringing the holiday weekend hold-up' total to five. In the other cases pedestrians were the victims. A small total of loot was gained by the bandits, the filling station netting the most cash, S3O to $35. It was the third time that this filling station had been held up recently. Rap at Door L. E. Fear, 1430 Finley Ave., attendant at the station, said he opened up and was fixing the fire when he heard a rap on the locked door. Inquiring as to what he wanted, he was told by the man outside that he "wanted in.” Once inside, the bandit, who had a nickel-plated gun, told Fear to open the safe. Fear told Lieut. O. D. Thomas he complied, and asked the bandit not to harm him as he had a wife and bqby at home. To this the i bandit replied, “That’s nothing, I \ have a wife and three kids, but this company has done me wrong.” Car Drove.ln Just then a car drove into the station, Fear said, and the bandit ordered him to go out, wait on the customer, but not to speak a word or make a false move. When the customer came into the station the bandit covered with his feet the cash which was on the floor.'’ After the customer left, Fear said the bandit asked for some of the $25 packets usually kept on a shelf in the safe and was surprised when Fear said he had none, since two collections had been made Sunday. Scooping up half-dollars and quarters, but leaving smaller money in the tray, the bandit took a few $1 bills from a f box in the safe and seven ones from a pocket in Fear’s overalls, and ordered the attendant into an adjoining room. He called him to back out to get him a cup of drinking water and then said: "Get back in there and don’t come out until I am gone.” He ran north on Capitol Ave.. Fear said. Only Three Pennies “Sorry to have to hold anybody up,” said a bandit as he got out of an auto alongside of Robert Fowler. 7 N. Eastern Ave., walking near Eastern Ave. and New York St., and stuck a gun in Fowler’s side. “Rut, you know I’ve got a wife and kids at home that need the dough,” he added and started through his victim’s pockets. He found but three pennies and ordered Fowler to walk on down the street. Two men Ip an auto drove up to Fred Stone, 129 Larch St., at New York St. and Bradley Ave. They covered Stone, the merchant policeman in that section, searched him and found no money, but took his $lO revolver and drove away. Thhe same two men are said by police to have driven to Brookside and Commerce Aves., where they met Mark Hafner, 242 S. Walcott St., walking along the street. Alighting from the auto they asked the direction to Tenth St. Hafner told police as he began walking one man pulled a revolver and took a purse and $2.80. Attacked by Two William Thompson, Negro, 4106 Cornelius Ave., told police he was attacked by two hold-up men at Fortieth St. and Boulevard PI., and thinks they struck him on the head with a lead pipe. He was felled and robbed of $6 he said. A shawl of foreign weave, valued at SSOO, was stolen from the thirteenth floor of the Severin where Miss Tessie Sllverstein, Charleston W. Va., the owner was attending a dinner dance Sunday night. Miss Sllverstein said she left the shawl on the back of her chair for a few minutes and on return, found it missing. Ward Clidisst, 1620 Sheldon St., reported to police that his home was entered Sunday and a radio set valued at SIOO taken.

Hoosier Briefs

McGrawsvllle experts to have a brighter News Year. The Peru Electric Light C6mpaiw is installing transformers to give tlie town electric lights. Birch Graves, Windfall, claims the Crosley Radio Corporation is using a radio device which he says he invented. Anderson firemen averaged more than a run a day during the year. A total of 385 alarms have been answered. Voyle Vandeventer’s home was the last one. Columbia City ,is getting foxy. Twenty pairs of 'foxes have been delivered to a ranch there. Evansville’s famous Black Annie, in service for eleven years, must go, Police Chief Harry Anderson has decreed. Anew police patrol has been ordered., BOAT CAPTAIN ILL Bu United Pm* JERSEY CITY, N. J„ Dec. 27. (John Rohweder, captain of the motor launch Linseed King, which sank In the Hudson River, Dec. 20, with a loss of life estimated at forty or more, was taken to a hospital today with pneumonia. Rohweder, who faces charges of negligence in connecion with the disaster, swam to safety through the icy water when the launch went under and was treated for submersion In a hospital at the time.

Far and Near

NEW Y r OßK—Steve Netucka, an Eskimo acrobat, slipped on the ley sidewalk and was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. MINEOLA, N. Y.—Mrs. Edna Dolan, 19, mother of a 15-months* old baby, drank shoe polish and died on Christmas day. Police said she committed suicido to avoid meeting her husband, who wrote from Detroit that he was coming to spend Christmas with her, OSSINING, N. Y—The sixteen men In the death cells at Sing, whose days aro numbered, Wore made happy on Christmas day by a special chicken dinner and u distribution of tobacco, fruit and candy. NEW YORK.—Mrs. Pauline Hargett of Steubenville, Ohio, left a Christmas . dinner at the apartment .of a friend and leaped eleven stories to death. She was suffering from melancholia. It was said she had been divorced recently. MARSHALL, Mich.—ln honor of Mrs. Sarah May Williams’ one-hun-dredth birthday, which fell on Christmas day, ninety-two descendants paid her a yuletide visit, including three daughters, two sons, thirty-two grandchildren, forty greatgrandchildren and twelve great-great-grandchildren. A five-genera-tions picture was taken. NEW YORK.—The Rev. Gustav Carstensen, 76, who has retired as pastor of Holy Rood Church after fifty years In the ministry, said he hopes to take a forty-mile walk on his seventy-seventh birthday next June. CHlCAGO.—Traffic Officer Fred Kilroy put out ills right hand to stop traffic. A limousine whisked by and lilt it. Kilroy was taken to a hospital, his hand severely cut. SACRAMENTO, Cal—Mrs. Bentrice Seydel believes she has a right to kiss her poodle. In fact, she thinks she should get a divorce from her husband because he upbraided her when she kissed the pet. "Extreme cruelty,” she called it, in her divorce suit filed here. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla—The city dog catcher here was belter paid than the mayor in 1926. T. 11. . Terrill collected $2,648.80 on dog license fees, besides an additional $1,160.80 on fees paid directly to the city treasurer. He received $1,605.50 for clogs be destroyed, bringing his income for the year to $4,410.10, Mayor O. A. Cangill’s salary is $4,000, while the city commissioners get $3,500 each. NEW YORK.—Too much seal in tirying up her cabin before she disembarked from the liner Arabic kept Mary Kalacek a prisoner on L’llis Island. She had thrown her passport into the sea with litter from her cabin. DETROIT—Mino Orameno and Alit Zenal are perhaps the most enthusiastic naturalized Americans in forty-eight States. An official “invitation” from Albania, their homeland, to return and be shot as communist plotters has been emphatically declined by both. WLUSHING, L. I.—While coast guard crews were out looking for rum runners, two policemen manned a rowboat and turned coastguard to pilot a ship in distress to a haven in Long Island Sound and rescue her crew of 20. The steamer Gaston from Newark to Boston with a hole stove in her bow was sinking when the officers boarded her. WASHINGTON The body of Horace H. Smith, prominent Department of Justice attorney, who was found dead in his cellar with a revolver beside him. was taken today to Plainfield, N. J., for burial. Associates of Smith indicated overwork had brought on nervous trouble. WASHINGTON Mrs. Blanche Long Clark. 47, formerly of Kent, Ohio, committed suicide here Christmas day by taking poison. She was the wife of Shreve Clark, engineer for the Virginia State highway commission, formerly of Akron, Ohio. Reasons for her deed were unknown. LONDON—Nine roiiples were married simultaneously by the vicar of St. George the Martyr when the Christinas rusli for matrimony threatened to become more than lie could handle. BELGRADE—NikoIa T. Uzunovitch, former minister of public works, has formed a Jugo-Slav cabi net to succeed that of the late Nikola Pasitch. OSAKA. Japan—Fire which .destroyed several of the Koyasan group of temples here, including the national treasury of the order, was estimated to have done about $1,500,000 damage. SAINTE ETIENNE, France.— Farm hands are scarce in this district, where the annual farm labor market developed bidding aas high as 6,000 ranes for male workers. A 14-year-old shepherd girl was “rented” to a farmer for 2,000 francs plus food, lodging and two dresses. LONDON. —Twenty-four members of the crew of the French barkentine, Eugene Schneider, were reported lost by Lloyds in a collision with the Liverpool steamer Burutu, thirty miles west of the Isle of Wight. Four of the barkentine’s crew were rescued by the Bufutb. BUENOS AIRES.—LoyaI Brazilian troops were reported to be marching on the rebel stronghold at Pancho Verde, State of Rio Grande Do Sul. The garrison at San Pedrito was reported to have joined the rebels.

STREETS BEING CLEARED: MORE SNOWFORECAST May Have Rain Tonight, Weather Bureau Says— City Uses Trucks. The Christmas week-end over, Indianapolis today settled down to getting the snow cleared from its streets and establishing "trnfflo ns usual.” Mostly cloudy weather will prevail tonight and Tuesday, with a likelihood of snow or rain, the United States weather bureau said, predicting a slight rise in temperature for the evening. Lowest temperature during the -night is expected to be about 80. But little melting of snow Is anticipated before Tuesday, at the earliest. Temperature at 7 tills morning was 22 or 7 below normal.' Fifteen large city trucks this morning were being used to carry away snow and Ice from the streets downtown. Crews, with the trucks, started work Saturday night and continued on Sunday. Heaviest Since 1916 It was the heaviest Christmas snow which Indianapolis has had since 1916. the bureau stated. The fall on Saturday totaled 4.3 Inches, but this settled to 3 Inches this morning. In 1916 4.3 Inches fell on Christmas day, and the fall on Dec. 25 1919, was 6.5 Inches. The white blanket started descending about noon Saturday and continued till night. Snow was general over Indiana, except In the extreme southern portion, where there was some rain. Wires Broken White Christmas brought woe to the traction companies throughout the State. Heavy sleet broke wires by its weight and. in some instances, poles were pulled down. The Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company was the heaviest sufferer. In the Greensburg section, numerous polos were severed and wires broken. \, Traffic was tied up for several hours until repairs could be made. The Interstate Public Service Company reported broken wires and attended delays. The Union Traction had no trouble. Train schedule was maintained, although their busses were heavy sufferers from the snow, four being sent to the repair shop as result of heavy snow bucking. Bus travel was demoralized for a time. SNOW BOUND IN OHIO Christmas Celebrants Held Up By Snow and Sleet Storm. % Bu United Breen COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dee. 27. Hundreds of Christmas celebrants were storm-bound throughout Ohio today as a result of one of the worst sleet and snow storms in years. Highways in many sections were impassable under huge drifts of snow and electric railways were seribusly handicapped while steam roads were running behind schedule. Communication was badly impaired, the heavy sleet fall snapping wires on more than 2,000 poles in Central Ohio and doing considerable other damage. Traffic accidents were numerous, but only two deaths directly attributed to the storm was reported.

TWO DEAD IN NEW YORK Many Others Hurt in Accidents on Ice-Coated Streets. Bu United Prexx NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—New York was coated with ice today and traffic moved slowly along the dangerously slippery streets after a storm that caused two deaths and many injuries. One death was due to a fall on the ice and another to an auto accident caused by the slippery going. Four persons were severely injured by falls on ice and three men were taken to hospitals suffering from exposure. The storm started witli rain that turned to ice as it fell, followed by snow. The city was a beautiful spec tacle when the snow stopped yesterday afternoon und the sun came out, turning every tree into a flashing, diamond-coated creation of lace. Thousands turned out in the parks with cameras to record the unusual spectacle. PROPOSE HANGING THREE Officials Announce Plans in Case Against Man and Two Women. Bu United Prcxs CHICAGO, Dec. 27. —State's attorneys today prepared to ask the death penalty for three persons in connection with the murder of John Llndstrom, 51, here Dec. 7. Until a confession was obtained yesterday it had been believed that Llndstrom had slipped and struck his head on the pavement. Doren Patrick, a former inmate of the county jail confessed tha> he clubbed Lindstrom over the head in payment of a debt to Mill. Lillian Fraser, a friend who got him out of jail by paying a fine of $137.50. Mrs. Katerine Cassler, Hebron, Ind., suggested his name to Mrs. Fraser, he said. Mrs. Fraser, who had been living with Lindstrom, wanted him killed for SI,OOO life insurance, Patrick said. She also wished to return to her husband, from whom she had been estranged four years. MINERS AID BLAST VICTIM Itii Timex Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Dec. 27. Dependants of the victims in the Francisco mine disaster received $11.25 apiece when employes of the Gray stripping mines here gave their wages as a Christmas present. A total of $1,525 was contributed.

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A friendly contest In The Times started by publication In Hposier Briefs of nn Klwood woman’s claim to the oldest school book in the State has disclosed what is probably one of the oldest school books in the country—a Episcopalean catechism. shown above, printed In 1860, In England protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. The book is owned by Felix N. Rutter, 1158 S. Sherman Dr., and has been in his

PYGMIES’ WOMEN REMAIN IN HIDING Dr. Matthew W. Stirling, Leader of Expedition Into New Guinea, Describes Race of Little People.

Times Washinoton Bureau, IStH Sew York Avenue WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—A letter from a lost world. In the heart of wild Dutch New Guinea It was written, by Dr. Matthew W. Stirling, to Inform civilization of a strange race of pygmies studied there by the American explorer and his Dutch associates. Posted months ago, the letter was delivered to the Smithsonian Institution In Washington with the Christmas mail, arriving Just about the time Dr. Stirling was beginning the long trek back to the outer world. The explorer is expected to land in the United States in the late spring. The Stirling expedition plunged into New Guinea’s island jungle early this year, determined to find the little baby men alleged to inhabit the almost Inaccessible inland nqcnin. tains. The New Guinea pygmies had been seen by earlier explorers, notably by Capt. C. G. Rawlings, an Englishman in 1910, but hardly anything was known of their racial history. Four months the present expedition struggled inland through the coastal jungle and outer mountains before finding a pygmy village, according to Dr. Stirling’s letter. "We traveled,” he writes, “for ten days through a belt of no man’s land, a rough, mountainous country with no sign of human or animal occupation, no sign of birds and but few insects. About a day below this point we reached a large tributary river with a fairly gentle sloping valley and the life zone suddenly recommenced. Use Stone Axes "We found traces of human occupation in the shape of a faint trail along the river, trees which had been cut down by Rtone axes and finally a bark shelter which had been built on the edge of a bluff. The next day was reached a point where the main river entered a gorge with vertical cliffs on either side. The gorge was very narrow, probably about forty yards, and a well-made rattan suspension bridge crossed the river from cliff to cliff at the entrance." Four hours’ climbing and the explorers were in their first pygmy village. Os the pygmies themselves Dr. Stirling tells little in this, his first message, bus much of their habits and general life is already known as a %esult of the Rawlings expedition. Though the English captain probably did not visit the same villages as the present explorers, his pygmies living In the same mountains, were of the same race, and Dr. Stirling is expected to substantiate the earlier reports. These little men, according to Rawlings, are about four feet tall and of milk chocolate hue. They

ROUMANIA SEEKS U. S. FRIENDSHIP Society of Friends to Be Formed as Aftermath of Visit of Queen Marie —Local Meeting After Jan. 1.

Interest in the Society of Friends of Roumania aroused as an aftermath of Queen Marie’s visit here, has become wide-spread, according to Alic J. Lupear, who was chairman of the Roumanian State committee for the reception of the Queen in Indianapolis. Several hundred letters have been circulated inviting membership in the organization, which has for its purpose “the perpetuating and development of the existing friendship between the peoples of the Kingdom of Roumania and of the United States of American by promoting mutual knowledge and apprecation with regard to their respective historiee, literature, art, language, conditions and achievements, and, generally, by the acquisition and dissemination of information concerning the two countries," as outlined in the certificate of incorporation of the organization. “Industrial relations can be har-

family since American Revolutionary days, being used in school by his ancestors. The book Is printed from wood blocks, including the above illustration of the burning at stake of John Rogers, "Minister of the Gospel and the first martyr in Queen Mary’s reign, 1654.” H. A. Hanson, 3026 Broadway, assistant pastor at the All Saints Episcopal Cathedral, verifies the authenticity of the book's age.

smoke eigarets, live in primitive apartment houses, affect hair dye and wigs in old age, practice matrim< nlal fidelity, are afraid of mirrors, but not of fellow men almost twice their Rie. Dr. Stiriling reports: “They are energetic agriculturists and there are big clearings around their small villages. They raise a kind of white sweet potato, which is excellent eating, and their staple product; also a kind of taroroot, sugar cane, raspberries, tobacco and many other plants I do not recognize. They also raise j>igs in considerable numbers and huve dogs. "One of their curious customs,” he writes, “is that certain groups cannot speak to other groups. To get around this difficulty they have an elaborate sign language by which they carry on conversation.” This custom is believed to lie responsible for the earlier report that the boy men spoke only in whispers. Women Hide Smithsonian scientists are hoping that Dr. Stirling won the friendship of the pygmies sufficiently to be shown their women folk. Rawlings, try as he would, was unable during his visit to even catch sight of a woman. As the white men came the women fled, and their husbands, despite what to them must have been unbelievable bribes, refused to betray the hiding place. Dr. Stirling fails to mention the women in his letter, but does report that the pygmies, in general, “are very mild mannered, quiet and unobtrusive, and not in the least timid, seeming to trust thoroughly our good Intentions.” The great scientific questions Dr. Stirling hopes to throw light upon is where the New Guinea pygmies came from. An answer may give science a much better idea of man's beginnings. The pygmies of the world, according to Dr. H. S. Harrison, an internationally known expert, are divided Into two great groups, the Negrillos of Central Africa and the Negritoes of the East Indies, including the New Guinea tribes. One theory is that the two groups are related, that the pygmy race originated in Africa and was there ahead 'of the later black men. Harassed by these stronger invaders, some of the little men are supposed to have retreated to the center of Africa, while others, in frail, toy boats, ventured along strange coasts into unknown seas, eventually reaching New Guinea, the largest island in the world, equaling both France and Great Britain combined, and called by Captain Rawlings “the least known and the most savage land on the surface of the globe Here also they were forced inland by new “giant” invaders, being found today only in the bleakest, harshest and most inaccessible regions.

moniously established through the organization,” Lupear said today, “as well as the sentimental exchange of cordiality. “A like organization called the Society of Friends of the United States was organized in Roumania a year igo. Since that time, thirty-five Roumanian professors have made a tour of the United States to study and exchange educational problems and solutions, largely through the efforts of that organization.” A meeting of Indianapolis people interested in the organization will bo held after Jan. I, according to Wallace O. Lee. chairman of the city reception committee for the queen. “The organization is good.” Lee declared. “Its purpose is ideal and tends to bind the two countries even closer together.” Headquarters of^the organization nr* at 3? W. Forty-Fourth St., New Toric City. . Ljsixsj

BE BETTER AND HAPPIER IS WISH OF LOCAL PASTOR Dr. Wicks States How One May Hope to Gain Next Year. A program of better living for next year is given by Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks of All Souls Unitarian Church. This is stated in the current issue of the Indianapolis Unitarian Bulletin. Dr. Wicks gives his program for 1927 as follows: "As you face anew year I would bid you gather in one sheaf your memories of the past year; your recollections of Joy and sorrow, of success and failure. Fix in your minds as permanent possessions, your experiences of happiness. Take, as well those experlnces of sorrow. Transmute them, as by a kind of spiritual alchemy, into memories from which you would not part because they enshrine love; because they urge you to be active in good deeds In memory of what you have lost. “Take even your mistakes, your errors, your sins, and remember them just long enough to distill wisdom from them; then bury them deep under your present better and wiser living. “This done, I would have you take the forward look, and paint the future bright with the colors of hope. I would have you face the future with a courage that defies any storm that may blow; with confidence that good things are in store for you; the trust that the end of next year will find yourself a better and happier man. “Without this hope we will start the New Year with leaden feet, defeated at the first step.”

2,500 VETERANS IN INDIANA AIDED Report on Legion Rehabilitation Work Given. Some 2,500 disabled Indiana veterans of tlie World War and dependent families of veterans were benefited to the extent of more than $300,000 during the past year by the direct rehabilitation service of the Indiana department of the American Legion, according to a summary of the year’s work made public here today by Department Adjutant J. 11. Klinger. Os this number 2.500 received major benefits In claims for compensation of various types, hospitalization, Insurance, burial allowances and direct relief in the way of food, clothing and the like. The work was directed by the department of rehabilitation committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Charles R. Bird of Greensburg. Mrs. Ethel L. Tierney, Indianapolis, is State Service officer, actively in charge. The United States Veterans’ Bureau, created at the demand of the Legion and supported in its work by the Legion, paid nearly $4,000,000 to Indiana men in compensation claims during the past year. John H. Ale, regional manager of the bureau, with offices here, stated that $994,791.40 in compensation Is paid out by his office to Indiana men each quarter. Ale stated that 8,216 veterans are drawing compensation in Indiana. An average of 2,582 treatments is givhn by the bureau to 707 claimants each month.

TWO DRUG STORES SCENE OF BLAZE Fire thought to have started from a discarded cigaret stub in the women s dressing room at the Hook Drug Store. Pennsylvania and Ohio Sts., caused a lohs amounting to between three and four thousand dollars from smoke and fire at 4 a. m. today. It was with difficulty that firemen reached the flames in the the heat and smoke . blocking the stairs. Holes were battered in the glass in the sidewalk, and water poured in. The Bankers Trust Bldg., was filled with smoke. The basement of the drug store was used as a stock room, according to 11. G. Kennedy, manager. Fire of unknown origin caused a $550 damage at the Johnson Pharmacy, 1101 W. Thirtieth St., at 7 a. m. today. Unable to Pick Out Home; He Rides Car He was loquacious though disheveled. A select wardrobe showed indications of an all night out. He knew not that his sympathetic listener Christmas morning on the College Ave. street car was a reporter as he told his tale of woe. ' “Sure, I went home,” he said, "but it didn’t do me any good. There are six of those blankety houses just alike and I live in one of ’em. How in the thunder could I tell which one at 3 a. m.? “Well, sir, I know I tried all of ’em and they chased me away every time. I sat down on the curb to wait until it was light enough to find my own house and a darned cop told me to move along. I moved, but got tired moving, so I crawled on this car to keep warm, and here I stay until it is light enough to find my house. Gee, won’t the boss raise the devil:"

Nedjl Due to Have Majority Support for Senafe Leadership. EXPENSE CUT UNLIKELY -i Public Service Commission Change Seen. That Senator James J. Nedjl, Whiting, will have majority support aa a candidate for president pro tern, of the Senate at the coming session of the Indiana Legislature Is Indicated from the fact that he already has conferred with Lieutenant Governor F. Harold Van Orman and assisted in framing the Senate committee slate. Pro tem, presidency carries with it floor leadership of the majority faction in the Senate, and the berth was being sought by Senator Denver Harlan, Wayne County. If present plans are carried out by the majority faction, there will be slight chance for any so-called “Bolshevik” legislation and the session will be marked by "regularity.” Democratic attempts to foster any Job-abolishing legislation will be effectively blocked, it is indicated. Just Like Others Political observers predict that the sessiqjj will fellow the footsteps of those of the past where there always has been much talk of cutting expenditures and doing away with pork barrel positions, but the final result Invariably has been an Increase of sinecures. Last year the total cost to Hoosiers for their State government amounted to more than $40,000,000, and the huge Republican majority in both houses can meet, if not exceed, this mark, it is felt. Budget committee members already have reported that their work will result in a budget that will be "bigger and better than ever.” Although as far back as 1915 talk of abolition of the public service commission has been heard before every legislative sessison, this year the agitation has 'reached a more concrete stage and it is felt that the effort will he more concerted. Actual abolition scarcely can be looked for, but effective changes In laws governing the commission’s functions seem not unlikely. Foremost among the changes being anticipated are the following: 1. Rate making to he based on actual Investment. 2. Holding companies be brought within the commission's Jurisdiction. 3. Legislation to permit appeal of commission decisions to the State courts. On Worth of Properties On the first count a change would be effected by basing the rates on the worth int the properties involved as they at the time of the hearing. rather than basing of rates on replacement value, with all material quoted at present market prices, as Is now the rule. A measure to bring holding companies within the commission’s power was one of those introduced in the commission’s bill at the last Legislature session, when the bill was lost. This would permit rulings on matters involving such companies as the American Telephone and Tele graph Company, which owns all of the Bell line3 in the State, and of dozens of other similar utilities that now are owned outside of the State but operated within it. Placing power of appeal In the State courts would eliminate the present plan of utilities taking their cause to the Federal courts, where tEiany rulings have resulted in increased rates, notably in the case of the Indianapolis telephone and water companies. In the water case the Supreme Court at Washington ruled what this city should pay for water.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles repoHpd stolen to police belong to; Raymond Miller, 2719 Roosevelt Ave.; Ford, 511-796, from East and Michigan Sts. Lee Sinclair, Crawfordsville, Ind.; Chevrolet, from Capitol Ave. and Market St. Harry Snider, New Augusta, Ind.; Ford.. 10-878-27, from Capitol Ave and Market St. Harry E. Willett, 5627 . Winthrop Ave.; Chevrolet, 6485-27, from Ohio St. and Capitol Ave. Calvin H. Baker, English Hotel; Essex, 638-860, from Ohio and Illinois Sts. Harold C. Springer, New Bethel, Ind.: Chrysler, 501-401, from Pennsylvania and Maryland Sts., • Dr. Forrest Odell, 3406 Roosevelt Ave.; Chevrolet, 683-704, from New York and Pennsylvania Sts. Michaal Smith, 1218 Wright St.; Ford, 590-240, from 1835 Barth Ave. LAD, PARALYZED. DIES Bu Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Dec. 27. Funeral services were held here today for Martin Mohr, 15, who died here from injuries received last September In an auto acccident. He had been totally paralyzed since the accident.

After the “Flu” is over —you need a Tonic

Help Is Needed to Restore Your Wasted Strength and Energy “Flu” leaves the body weakened and rundown. In such cases, a tonic is clearly indicated. Restore the appetite and rid yourself of that letdown feeling. "Flu" is a very enervating disease. It leaves its victims so weak and debilitated that there is as much danger from the after-effects as from the disease itself. In other words, after an attack of the “flu, , ’ you need a selective tonic to rebuild the system so that you may have your

DEC. 27, 1928

PROFESSOR, 55T' LONELY, TAKES 1 HISJJFE HERE University of Louisville; Mathematician Had Spent Christmas Alone. Apparently despondent after spend* ing Christmas alone, Professor Louis B. Biff, 65, head of the University off Louisville mathematics department, committed suicide by slashing his throat and both wrists with a razor Sunday morning in his room here at the Severin, Liberty Bonds totaling $28,000 and $1,172.13 in cash found in the dead man’s pockets precluded any theory of murder, police who investigated said. Coroner Paul F. Robinson started a formal Inquest today, prior to sending the body to Louisville for burial. No Close Friends Professor Sift was was said at Louisville, his connection with the University for eighteen years, had formed no close friends. He roomed at the home of Leo Sandman, an attorney, who said he knew but little of Professor Sift’s private life. He was not known to have any enemies, however. The body was found by a Negro maid, who entered to clean the room about 1 p. in., Sunday. Professor Silt registered Christmas morning on his stop-over here to Chicago, where he was said to have planned to attend a mathematics convention. Made Will According to word from Louisville, lie designated Professor Warwick Anderson, dean of the university’s college of liberal arts, executor of a will made a few days ago, giving his estate to the university. Anderson said he would take charge of funeral arrangements. The professor was fully clothed when found, and his bed showed he evidently had not slept in It all night. Among his effects were found citizenship papers. He was the son of an Austrian scholar, and taught at the University of Nebraska and the University of Maine before going to Louisville. Professor Siff had been a singer •i* the Metropolitan Opera House In New York City at one time, It was said by one of his associates. The. man was eccentric, it is understood,! and led a lonelv life, associating wbth no one. The body was taken to the Kirk & Moore undertaking 2530 Station St. {* to Itart agitation W'ilco A. A. Wants A. A. U. Registra-, tion Committee Appointive. I Bu Times Special M NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The WllcJ A. A., led by President Hugh Hir-1 shon, will start agitation to the registration committee of ttfl A. A. U. appointive instead of ti%’e at the next quarterly meeting of the A. A. U. BARBER KILLS SELF Bu Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 27.—A widow and two children today survived Everett Root, 42, barber, who shot himself to death. Despondency over his defeat as a candidate for countv recorder was blamed. BEWARE THE ’ COUGH OR COLD THAT HANGS OK, Persistent coughs and cold* lead to serious I rouble. You can atop them now with Creomulslon, an emulsified creosote that is pleasant to take. Creomulslou is n new medical discovery with two-foid action; it soothes and heals the inflamed membranes Inhibits germ growh. Os all known drugs, creosote is recognized by high medical authorities aa one of the greatest healing agencies for persistent coughs and colds and other forms of throat troubles. Creomulslon contains. In addition to creosote, other healing elements which soothe and heal the infected membranes and stop the Irritation and Inflammation, while the creosote goes on to the stomach, is absorbed Into the blood, attacks the seat of the trouble and cheeks the growth of the germs. Creomulslon is guaranteed satisfactory In the treatment of persistent coughs and colds, bronchial asthma, bronchitis and other forms of respiratory diseases, and is excellent for building up the system after colds or flu. Money refunded if any rough or cold is not relieved after taking according to directions. Ask your druggist.—Ad. vertlsement.

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