Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 180, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1927 — Page 2

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SANTA PLEAM AT ARRIVAL OF FILMSJN CITY Urges Every Boy and Girl to See Movies of His Home at North Pole. This is another story from Holly Berry, special Times corespondent, ac companyma The Times-Kleinschmidt ■ polar expedition which found the home of Santa Claus and took movies of the Christmas patron which are now being shown in Indianapolis theaters. By HOLLY BERRY NORTH POLEVILLE, Eskimoland, Dec. 6—(By Radio).—l received your radiogram today In which you said that the Santa Claus movies arrived in Indianapolis on scheduled time, and that they are now being shown in neighborhood movie theaters. Santa Claus smiled all over when I told him that the films arrived safely. He said that every boy and girl in Indianapolis, who possibly could should see these pictures. “Just ask those Indianapolis children if they would like to see pictures of me surrounded by my toys or catching my wild reindeers for the long trip around the world,” Santa Claus said. We spent the day today in taking a final turn around Santa’s palace before starting for civilization. We expect to start tomorrow if the weather permits. Santa Is Very Busy Santa told us he was sorry to see us leave, but he is to busy this time of year—and getting busier every day as Christmas draws closer—that we don’t like to take up any more of the kindly old fellow’s time. We are expecting the letters which children readers of The Times wrote on “Why I Like Santa Claus” to arrive tomorrow. The aviator took the Santa Claus films to Alaska, ■•where they were picked up by Lieut. C. Earl Halstead, who took them to Indianapolis in his plane, is expected to bring these letters with him. His return from Alaska was delayed by the great Polar storm which raged a couple of days ago. Santa Claus has promised to take as much time off as necessary to judge these letters and to award the prizes as fairly as he possibly can. - Local Names in Book When I first told him about it, he was a little sorry that a prize could not be given to every boy and girl, but of course this is hardly possible so he promised to do his best in picking the winners. Here are some more names from the books in which Santa keeps the name and record of every boy and girl In the world: Joseph Galvin, Elie Young, Paul Rice, Jack and Edward Jones, Betty Merz, Dorothy Jeanette Jones, Glenna May Jones, John George Herzberger, Bobby Knott, Norman Ewing, Marjorie Gardner, George Holle, Pat Cunningham, Donald Tullsen, Caroline and Jacqueline Lapp, Betty May Howard, George Preston Howard, Sarah Bartle, Dorothy Shafer, Jean Northway, Joseph Raub Jr., Mary Jean Raub, Phillip Von Von Blon, Ann and Patricia Bishop.

NEGRO ROBS GROCERY Holds Up Manager After Making 10-Cent Purchase. A 10-cent sale was the ruse used by a Negro bandit to loot the Standard grocery, 803 N. Senate Ave., late Monday. The Negro ordered a box of matches, tendered a dime in payment and when Paul Graham, manager, opened the cash register, pointed a guirat the grocer. After searching Graham and taking $8 from the cash register the Negro fled. One Cent a Day Brings SIOO a Month Thousands Taking Advantage of Liberal Insurance Offer. Policy Sent Free for Inspection. Accident insurance at a cost of one cent a day is being featured in a policy issued by the National Protective Insurance Association. The benefits are SIOO a month for 12 months —$1,200 to SI,BOO at death. The premium Is only $3.65 a year or exactly one cent a day. Os the thousands of applications received many have come from the agents and executives of other insurance companies. The offer Is limited to 100,000 policies. Women and children over 10 are eligible. No medical examination is required. SEND NO MONEY To secure 10 days’ free inspection of policy send no money. Mail to tjie National Protective Insurance Association, 1246 Scarritt Bldg., Kansas City, Mo., the following information. Name, age, address, beneficiary’s name and relationship. After reading the policy you may either return it without obligation or send $3.65 to put policy in force.— Advertisement. All the Credit You Want at Cash Prices PENNSYLVANIA TIRES Consumers Tire Cos. SOI N. Delaware St.

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The first step to bring to order the confused status of the Fall-Sin-clair Teapot Dome case and subsequent jury-tampering charges has been started by the Government. The defendants are before Justice Siddons at Washington “to show cause why they should not be cited for contempt of court.” They are Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil man; William J. Burns, head of the Bums Detective Agency, and his son, W. Sherman Burns; Henry Mason Day, alleged “liason man” between Sinclair and detectives shadowing the Fall-Sinclair jury, and Sheldon Clark, right-hand man of Sinclair.

COLLECTORS IN RUSH FOR AIR MAIL STAMPS More Than 400 Self-Addressed Letters Here for Opening Day. Inauguration of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Chicago air mail route Dec. 17 is being awaited by stamp collectors in all parts of the country, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson said today. Bryson said collectors have sent nearly 400 letters here addressed to themselves, in order to obtain the cancelled stamps. The postoffice will use a special cancellation stamp to commemorate the first flight. READY FOR BIG POWER WFBM Wattage to Be Increased from 250 to 1,000. Preparation for the first use of 1,000 watts of power by WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company radio station, is nearing completion. The new power arrangement probably will be in effect late this week or early next week. The station was granted an Increase of power from the present 250 waats to 1,000 watts by the Federal Radio Commission Oct. 15, effective when the power plant is moved from within the city limits. The new transmitter is being completed at a point about ten miles south of the city on the Three Notch Rd. The power plant is in a remodeled school building. CHOLERA IS SPREADING All Northern Indiar ' Threatened by , Dread Disease. , Bu United Frees KARACHI, India, Dec. 6.—Spread of the disastrous cholera epidemic toall of northern India was feared today. Western Bengal was worst affected and the frequency of travel in that section, combined with the. density of population in the north, caused authorities to view the situation with increased alarm.

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Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Rollie Townsend, R. R. M, Box 197, Ford, 15-300, from Maryland and Illinois Sts. Harry Hamilton, 1019 E. Ohio St., Ford, 543-332, from Meridian and New York Sts. Karl F. Wacker, 3204 Graceland Ave, Ford, 10-001,/from Marylana and Meridian Sts. A. Lorber, 1012 Virginia Ave., Ford, 545-269, from in front of that address. R. J. Owen, 1415 N. Jefferson Ave., Reo, 2-003, from 1120 E. TwentyThird St. Harold Schaffner, 1339 W. ThirtyFourth St., Essex, 515-798, from Shelby and Harrison Sts. Dale Sharer, Lebanon, Ford, 405932, from Senate Ave. and Washington St. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Louis Whitaker, R. R. 1, Box 467, Chevrolet, found at 309 W. Maryland St. William Kimbro, 1130 N. Illinois St,. Ford, found at 227 N. Senate Ave. Harry Goldberg, 1168 N. Pennsylvania St., Pontiac, found at Meridian and Ohio Sts. Heart Ruptured; Lives 18 Hours Bn United Preas WORCESTER, MasS., Dec. 6. Thomas W. Cook, 63, lived for eighteen hours after his heart had been ruptured, a post-mortem examination disclosed here.

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DISCUSS PAY ROLLS C. of C. Meeting Hears Plans for Increased Employment. How Indianapolis pay rolls may enlarged was discussed at the Chamber of Commerce good will Monday night, attended by business and professional men and women representing East and West Washington St., and N. Pennsylvania St. C. L.- Harrod, industrial commissioner and general manager, and Edward W. Hunter, secretary, spoke. President Dick Miller presided. STABBED BY NEGRO GIRL ‘T Hope He Dies,” She Tells Police; Victim in Hospital. “Sure, I stabbed him and I hope he dies,” said Ethel Drake, Negro, 19, of 408 N. West St., when police questioned her after finding Garfield Smith, 26, Negro, 226 W. Eleventh St., at the city hospital seeking treatment for knife wound. She was slated at the city prison on charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. TARKINGTON MAID HURT ' ■ ... . s Broker Water Bottle Cuts Author’s Servant on Arm. When a large water bottle she was cleaning at the home of Booth Tarkington, author, 4270 N. Meridian St., broke, Mrs. Bertha Caldwell, 45, Negro, a maid, was cut on the arm, according to a report to police. The glass severed an artery, according to Dr. C. A. Tolies, who treated her and sent her to city hospital. SAVED BY BIG SPLASH Noise Made by Intoxicated! Negro Falling in Canal Brings Rescue. A big splash attracted Lieut. Walter Claffey and Sergt. Charles Hodges as they walked over the canal bridge at Indiana Ave. Investigation disclosed John Smith, Negro, 323 W. Vermont St., had fallen in. The officers dragged Smith, out and charged him with intoxication. Radio Worker Killed EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 6.—Ervin J. Folz, 26, is dead, first radio accident victim here. He met instant death when an aerial wire on which he was working came into contact with a high tension power line, sending 22,000 volt3 of electricity through his bod;

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EUROPE ARMED GAMP ALL SET FORJONFLICT Writer Pictures Nations Talking Peace, Ready for Greatest War. This Is the third in a series of six articles by Milton Bronner, foreign correspondent for The Times and NEA Service, discussing the situation In Europe today. BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Writer (CopvriffhtJ*l927. NEA Service. Inc.) LONDON, Dec. 6.—A great race in armaments preceded the World War. Today, with" that war nine yearr back in history, another race in armaments is on. All Europe is arming. Hammers clang and forges glow in the shipyards where cruisers and submarines are taking form. Munitions factories have found prosperity returning. The bark of the drill sergeant is heard in Army cantonments from the Volga River to the English Channel, and epauletted generals study maps in every capital of Europe. Improve Killing In the sky is the whirr of thousands of motors as air fleets take wing. Laboratories hide chemists, working over test tubes that contain samples of new explosives and new gasses for the next war. Everywhere, with the exception of the Scandinavian countries, perhaps, there is preparation for fighting. France has the greatest, most powerful army on earth. She also has the world’s finest fighting air force. She refused to participate in the Geneva naval disarmament conference last summer because she intends to build all the cruisers and submarines she pleases. Italy has an army second only to the French. Her air fleet is growing; likewise her submarine flotillas. Italy*eyes France with an unconcealed suspicion that France openly returns. Fleet Biggest on Earth England’s army, as before the war, is a skeleton. But she keeps her fleet the biggest on earth. She refused to abide by America’s cruiser limitation suggestions at the Geneva naval conference, insisting that she i must have plenty of cruisers to protect her commerce. England’s publicists cry that war with America or France—the only two nations at this writing that could give her a real fight—is “unthinkable,” but the arming process goes on unabated. And Germany? The treaty of Versailles put the limit of Germany’s army at 100,000 men, prohibited any military air force and slashed her navy to a mere squadron. Sharp eyes keep watch to see that the treaty is not violated. Offhand, it would seem that Germany was hamstrung. But is she? Germany No Weakling There are indications that she is not. The army stays within the 100,000 limit; but the number of officers is out of all proportion to its size. A framework that could be filled in quickly is being built up, with all the traditonal German efficiency and thoroughness. In the navy, officers constitute nearly 50 per cent of the total force. Germany has no military air force, to be sure; but she has the best commercial aviation service in the world, and a commercial plane, with its trained pilot, can become a first-class fighting plane over night. The government-subsidized Lufthansa, or air trust, has created an amazingly efficient air fleet that would be an extremely valuable weapon in case of need. In addition, there are disquieting rumors, never substantiated, of German munition factories in Russia

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When 13-year-old Bethel Pugh of Pueblo, Colo., heard about the national essay contest on safety conducted by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, she took pen ih hand. Her essay won and she was given a trip to Washington and- shook the hand of President Coolidge. More than 400,000 entered the contest. that are turning out ammunition and guns in vast quantities, to be delivered when called for. Russia, of course, is heavily armed. The bolsheviks have acquired a sizeable fleet of Germanbuilt airplanes, and are beginning to learn how to use it. Poland, lying between Russia and Germany, has a huge army, trained by crack French officers, and its staff has worked out detailed plans for campaigns against either neighbor. Jugo-Slavia is building an army and planning for the day when it will be as big as Italy’s. Czechoslovakia is building a large army; Rumania has one out of all proportion to Rumania’s relative size. Even Spain, formerly considered a third-rate military power, is getting together a very respectable army and is assembling a fleet of several hundred airplanes. Next: The League of Nations’ Record. When You Feel a Cold Coming On Take Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets to work off the Cold ami to fortify the system against Grip or Influenza. A Safe and Proven Remedy. Look for signature of E. W. Grove on the box. 30c.—Advertisement.

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SAN FRANCISCO, KANSAS CITY IN CONCLAVE LEAD Poll of Republicans Lets Detroit, Chicago and Others Out. BY RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Kansas City and San Francisco are overwhelming favorites as the Republican convention city for 1928, it was disclosed today by an informal poll among members of the Repeublican national committee. Two days ago Detroit and San Francisco were running neck-and-neck battle, but when Senator Butler of Massachusetts, committee chairman, proposed Kansas City, he won many of the ninety-six delegates away from Detroit. The first poll of the ninety-six committee members gave the following result: San Francisco, 41 votes; Kansas City, 32; Detroit, 9; Chicago, 4; Philadelphia, 2. Ballot Soon The votes of delegates who have not yet arrived and of southern members, who are said to favor a less distant city than the Golden Gate, will probably decide the contest. Final balloting may take place at today’s meeting, though it is more probable that It will be put off until tomorrow. Growing resentment against Butler’s regime broke out when he virtually 'demanded that the committee members ’ine up for Kansas City. But eventually even the critics of the National Chairman recognized the point in his suggestion, which is designed to placate discontented Middle West farmers. “Dry G. O. P.” There was less disedssion of candidates, but sentiment for renomination of President Coolidge is still strong. Among those who declared they would stand by Coolidge until he entered a positive refusal to run again were Hamilton K. Kean, New Jersey, and J. Henry Roraback, Connecticut. The liquor question threatens to influence tjieLOhoice of a convention city. Detroit’s early lead was cut down when women members of the committee expressed their choice. They declared that Detroit’s proximity to Canada and its reputation for wetness made it highly undesirable to hold the convention of the dry Republican party in that city.

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Rolling up a handsome majority in every precinct, Sadie Dyson was elected by popular vote the prettiest girl in the Hawaiian Islands. Here’s Sadie, diminutive blue-eyed blond, as she arrived in Los Angeles to begin an extensive tour of the United States.

EX-CITY TEACHER DIES Mrs. Roxie Litz Coleman Was 111 for Ten Days. Mrs. Roxie Litz Coleman, 4539 Winthrop Ave., died today at Methodist Hospital following a ten-day illness. Mrs. Coleman was a former Indianapolis school teacher, having taught at School 67 for three years. Previously she taught at New Augusta, Ind. She was active in work of the Third Christian Church, where funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday with the Rev. T. W. Grafton officiating. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Survivors are her husband, William O. Coleman, a ten days old daughter, Brnita Ellen; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Litz, and one sister and spur brothers, all of Indianapolis.

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RADIO BRIDGE 1 , PLAYERS HEAR ’ GAME TONIGHT WFBWI to BroadcavSt Sixth' of Series; Advance Hands Are Given Out. The sixth of a series of twenty radio auction bridge games will be broadcast from WFBM, Tuesday at 8:30 p. m. under auspices of The Times. Each game of the series features Milton C. Work and Wilbur C. Whitehead, New York experts, in association with players from other cities in America and Canada. The listenr rs-in are urged to have four players roady with cards and to follow the game bid by bid and play by play with the experts. The contestants in the sixth game are Joseph W. Evans of Houston, Texas, Mrs. E. L. Bradbury of Dallas, and Work and Whitehead, widely known as writers, teachers and experts on the game. Following are the advance hand* for game six: Joseph W. Evans of Houston, Texas. “South,” the dealer, holds: Spades—A, 7, 6. Hearts—A, J, 8 spot, 5, S. . Diamonds—9. I Clubs—J 6,3, 2. ] Wilbur C. Whitehead, New York. “West,” holds: Spades—K, Q, 10, 5, 4. Hearts—9, 7, 6. Diamonds—Q, 8 spot. Clubs—K, 10, 5. Milton C. Work, New York, “North,” holds: Spades—J, 9, 8 spot, 3. Hearts—Q, 2. Diamonds—lo, 7,6, 5, 2. Clubs—9, 8 spot. Mrs. E. L. Bradbury of Dallas, Texas, “East,” holds: Spades—2. > Hearts—K, 10, 4. j Diamonds—A, K, J, 4,3. Clubs—A, Q, 7, 4.

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