Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 157, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1928 — Page 3

NOV. 21,1928.

AGE-OLD TRACES OF MAN FOUND IN GOBHIESERT Roy Chapman Andrews Is Successful in Search for Evidence. BY CLIFFORD L. DAY United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 21.—Evidence that human beings lived in the Gobi desert 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 years ago was described today by Roy Chapman Andrews, noted American explorer. Andrews described in a press interview the wonders discovered by the joint British-American expedition to Mongolia, which he headed. Andrews, on his way to the United States, said the expedition spent eight years in the Gobi desert proving that Mongolia was the great center of distribution for the animal and reptile life of prehistoric ages. Finds Stone Age Traces In addition to remains of marvelous animals of prodigious size, the expedition found traces of human habitation in the stone age, Andrews said. Evidence indicated, he revealed, that Stone Age men densely inhabited parts of the desert. They subsisted chiefly on birds and frogs. No human bones were discovered, but many implements of the Stone Age were found. They included bone scrapers, spearheads, jasper and stone knives, arrowheads, and pieces of crudely decorated pottery. Andrews said he believed the earliest human evolution occurred in Mongolia. ' The expedition penetrated the waterless, trackless desert of Central Asia in motor cars, working in a district a thousand miles west of Pekin.

Mastodon Is Found Among the great finds was the remains of a mastodon dating back probably 6,000,000 years. Andrews described the discdVery of the skeleton of a huge animal of terrifying appearance, 25 feet long, 14 feet high at the shoulder, and with a 12-foot neck. The mastodon’s jawbones were eight to nine feet long, shaped like a huge coal scoop. The beast had two flat plates of teeth within the jaws and a tremendous skull. It was equipped with two lower jaws, i The expedition discovered the remains of a titano there resembling a rhinoceros, with a skull shaped like the cantle of an American pack-saddle. The nose was upturned in the form of a trumpet. Andrews said he found dinosaureggs in which the embryonic skeletons of prehistoric monsters could be distinguished. Andrews said he hoped to have enough mastodon bones to present a complete skeleton to the New York Museum of,Natural History. He will sail for the United States tomorrow aboard the Leviathan.

SPIDERS ARE AVIATORS Hurricanes Help Insects to Fly Across Sea. By Sc fence Service SCHENECTADY. N. Y., Nov. 21. The spiders of some of the islands of the West Indies have been long distance aviators for ages, according to Professor Alexander Petrunkevitch of Yale university. And hurricanes have helped their flights instead of hindering them. , Professor Petrunkevitch has been making a study of the distribution of spider species in the tropical islands, and finds that in the western group, or Greater Antilles, they apparently were pedestrians, crossing from the South American main--land over a land connection long since sunk into the sea. Along the Greater Antilles to the east, however, they give evidence of having traveled by air, the lines of distrbution lying approximately in the direction of the most frequent * hurricanes. NAB ALLEGED POISONER Terre Haute Authorities Arrest Man Wanted in Illinois. By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Nov. 21. John D. Toney, 57, blind, alleged fugitive from Paris, 111., was arrested here and later released to Roscoe Rivers, sheriff of Edgar county, Illinois. Rivers said Toney is wanted in Paris on a charge of attempting to poison his family last July. He is alleged to have made a cake which was eaten by his wife and eight children, after which they all became seriously ill. None died. He was indicted several weeks ago by the Edgar county grand jury. SEE CUT IN ESTATE Allison Properties Believed to Be Under $3,000,000. Indications the James A. Allison estate would be below the three million dollar mark were seen Tuesday, when an appraisal of the late financier’s personal property was set at $1,136,028, in inventory papers filed in probate court. The Fletcher American National bank and Ray H. Briggs, adminis trstors, filed the appraisal. It had been believed the estate which includes large property hold ings in Indianapolis and Miami, Fla., would total $5,000,000.

EMPEROR’S RICHES LOST Common Law Wife Refused “Sahara Chieftain’s” Estate. Bit United Press PARIS. Nov. 2J. —The court of appeals ruled today that the commonlaw wife of the late Jacques Lebaudy, known as “Emperor of the Sahara,” is not recognized under French law and, therefore, is not entitled to the emperor's possessions in France. A child born of the union also was declared ineligible to inherit the estate.

Star to Bea Bride

Dolores Costello, who’ll wed John Barrymore. Both are film stars.

LESLIE IS MUM ON HIS APPOINTMENTS

QUAKE IN CHILE CAUSES PANIC; HOUSES FALL Nitrate Region Shaken by Severe Temblors. By United Press ANTOFOGASTA, Chile, Nov. 21. A strong earthquake was registered here Tuesday at 4:30 p. m., the entire population was thrown into momentary panic. No castualties were reported. The tremor was felt throughout the nitrate region. Many walls were shaken down. In Pampaunion, in the interior, several houses were reported destroyed. OIL CONTRACT PROBEJjRGED Quiz of Renewal by Work Sought by Walsh. Biy United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—An investigation of former Secretary of Interiors Work's renewal of an oil contract with the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company, .was advocated here today by Senator Walsh of Montana. The contract, negotiated in 1922 between former Secretary of Interior Fall and Harry Sinclair, was renewed last spring by Work, but the renewal recently was declared void by the justice department and the contract was cancelled by the interior department. Walsh said he wanted to find out why Work renewed the contract, and he intends to seek authorization for an investigation of the affair at the December session of congress. At the time the contract was declared void. Work, now chairman of the Republican national committee, said the interior department legal staff investigated and recommended renewal. Calls for Oil Bids By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Secretary of Interior West issued a call today for bids on sale of government royalty oil from the Cat Creek, Mont., oil field. The contract will extend over a three-year period from Feb. 1, 1929. A contract for sale of oil from j the Cat Creek field held by the j Lewiscown Oil and Refining Com- | pany recently was cancelled because of a secret renewal clause inserted in the contract by former Secretary Albert B. Fall in 1922. This action followed voiding of another contract covering oil from the Salt Creek, Wyo., field. LUDLOW TO CAPITAL Congressman-Elect to Leave on Trip to Washington. Congressman-elect Louis Ludlow will start on a round-about return trip to Washington tonight. Mrs. Ludlow left for Washington Tuesday night. Ludlow will attend to private business in Columbus, 0., Thursday and then go to Cleveland, 0., for a brief visit with his daughter, before going on to Washington to prepare for the congressional session opening early in December. The Ludlows have been living at the Spink-Arms. CRITICISES IMMIGRATION Authority on Orient Says Chinese Sore on U. S. “Closed Door” Policy. China, under her new nationalistic policy, gives indication of making far greater progress in the next fifty years than Japan has made in the last fifty, said Upton Close (Josef Washington Hall), authority on oriental problems, at the Rotary Club luncheon at the Claypool, Tuesday. Close declared that America will be the greatest beneficiary of the Chinese development program, but criticised the American immigration policy, which he said causes ill feeling among the proud orientals.

Refuses to Give Views on County Situation, as He Visits Here. Harry G. Leslie, Governor-elect, brought his automobile to Indianapolis from Lafayette for repairs today and spent his hours of waiting in conference with such Republican political leaders and job seekers as discovered he was at the Claypool. Leslie refused to discuss appointments he will make after he takes office in January, and smilingly disclaimed the statement, credited to him by gloomy courthouse politicians, that he was going to ignore the Marion county Republican organization in passing out patronage. Leslie declared he had said nothing about the Marion county situation, although he believed "the outcome in Marion county must be interesting to my opponents, who were declaring that I was the choice of George V. Coffin.” The Governor-elect referred to the fact that Frank C. Dailey, his Democratic opponent, carried Marion county by 21,000 votes in the Nov. 6 election. Reasserting his determination to stay out of the fight for the speakership of the state house of representatives, Leslie said, “there are eight candidates now and if I should push any one of them I would have seven bitter enemies.” Leslie was the Speaker in the last two sessions. Asked if Governor Ed Jackson had consulted him before appointing Jackson’s secretary, Pliny Wolfard, to the state tax board for four years, Leslie said: “I have not talked with Governor Jackson nor seen him since the election.” Politcians commented at the time of Wolfard’s appointment last week upon the fact that most of Wolfard’s term will be during Leslie’s incumbency.

HOOVER OUTLINES PROSPERITY PLAN

Plan to Assure Work in Hard Times Suggested to Governors. By United Press NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 21.—Governor Ralph C. Brewster of Maine presented to the conference of Governors here today proposals for stabilizing prosperity, which he said had been authorized by Presidentelect Herbert Hoover “as an exposition of a portion of his program.” Governor Brewster said that, summed up, the plan, in effect, means “prepare in prosperous times for the rainy day to come.” It embodied a proposal for a centralized body to index construction projects and seek co-operation of business in tiding over some of these projects in periods of great prosperity so they could be started in dull times. Measures for Crisis “Picture the approach of an economic crisis with unemployment threat ending on every hand,” Brewster said. "The release of three billions in construction contracts by public and quasi-public authority would remedy and ameliorate the situation in the twinkling of an eye.” “America emulates Tantalus of old,” Brewster went on, “threatened by a flood of plenty, men are doomed to want. “Recommendation of a 10 per cent voluntary curtailment in production often results in a 10 per cent increase as each producer seeks to bootleg on the trade. Government restriction, America is not yet ready to consider, although the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution finally may be found the key. No Limit to Wants “So much for supply. Demand is a bird of another feather. There is almost no limit to our wants. Purchasing power thus far has been Lhe only limit on American demand. Unemployment at times has meant a decline of five billion dollars in the capacity of the American people to buy. No one wants this. No one profits by its operation.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BARRYMORE TO WED DAUGHTER OF JO STAR Dolores Costello to Be Bride of IVoted Film Headliner. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Nov. 21. Romance today had claimed two of the movie colony's most popular members. Arm in arm Dolores Costello, 21-year-old daughter of the pioneer of the screen, Maurice Costello, and John Barrymore appeared at the Los Angeles county license bureau yesterday to file notice of intention to marry. Miss Costello, who attained screen fame under the tutelage of he; fiance, was content to smile while Barrymore did the talking. He said he was 41, and had been married three times. Miss Costello said she was 21 and never had been wed. Under the laws of California, the two cannot marry until Saturday, but friends revealed the marriage probably would take place on that day or soon afterwards. Hadn’t Heard of Divorce The news of the announcement caused considerable comment in the movie colony, where it was believed Barrymore still was married to the former Mrs. Leonard Thomas, novelist, who writes under the name of “Michael Strange.” The novelist recently left New York for Europe. Her departure was followed by a statement from Barrymore, denying that there had been a divorce. Yesterday, however, Barrymore with Miss Costello, gave out the following statement: “Miss Dolores Costello and Mr. John Barrymore have applied for a license to marry. The former Mrs. John Barrymore, who now is abroad, has been separated from her husband for several years and recently obtained a divorce from him.” Starred Together Friends here believed the Barrymores might have been divorced secretly in Mexico. The announcement brought to a climax reports that had circulated ever since Barrymore, as a star, took Miss Costello, and elevated her along with himself to considerable fame in the picture, “The Sea Beast..’’ Following that success, Barrymore insisted upon having the blonde Mis.-, Costello as his partner in a succession of other films. ‘GAS HAWK* SOUGHT Attempt to Lure Small Girls Into Car, Reported. A “gas hawk” who attempted to lure two little girls into his automobile at Delaware and St. Clair street Tuesday afternoon was sought by police today. Mrs. Martha Wood, living in an apartment building at Ft. Wayne avenue and New Jersey street, watched from her window and called police. She gave them the license number of the car. COP —SHOT —DOES DUTY Wounded by Own Gun He Forces Prisoners to Carry Him to Hospital. CLEVELAND. 0., Nov. 21.—Pursuing two traffic violators here Tuesday night, Patrolman Steve Hendricks was accidentally shot in the leg when the trigger of his own gun caught in his holster. Clinging to the running board of the violators' car, Hendricks ordered the driver to take him to a hospital. From there the men were taken to police station by another officer.

Brewster then explained the index solution. It would allow enough stabilization to eliminate periodic losses from unemployment and over-production, he said. Co-operation of states and individuals was seen as a necessity If the plan was to be successful. The Maine Governor in presenting the proposals, said they were given “at the request of Herbert Hoover.” M ETEOR TER RORIZES Ball of Fire Falls From Heavens in Philippines. By United Press BOHOL, Philippines, Nov. 21. A huge meteor roaring through the heavens by night and exploding with a tremendous detonation terrorized the inhabitants of Bohol. Following the explqsion. which was like a tremendous thunderclap, the entire province was lighted up by a great flare. The meteor fell behind some mountains and searching parties have started to look for the exact spot. This was the third meteor whose fall in the Philippines has been recorded. LIFE IS SAVED BY DOG Pet Chases Away Bull After Man Is Trampled. United Press RHINELANDER, Wis., Nov. 21. A dog saved the life of George Badzek, an employe on an Oneida county farm, recently. An enraged bull knockea Bazdek down and trampled him several times before the dog came to Badzek’s rescue and chased away the animal. The man suffered several broken ribs and numerous cuts and bruises, but will recover. Missing Man Reported to Police Gus Schrader, 48, of 608 North Highland avenue, was reported missing from his home today. Roscoe Tanner, same address, notified police and said Schrader had been missing since Monday.

A Democratic Game of Golf in Dixie

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Accepting the invitation of the state, Governor A1 Smith of New York, defeated Democratic presidential candidate, went to Biloxi, Miss., for a couple of weeks of golf and rest following his vigorous campaign, Here is Governor Smith just after hitting one down the fairway. Campaign Manager John .T. Raskob (left) and Senator Pat Harrson are in the group with the caddy.

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Royal Allowance Cut AMSTERDAM, Nov. 21.—Premier D. J. De Geer announced in the chamber that the queen mother and Princess Juliana had accepted a 10 per cent decrease in their royal allowances for 1929.

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RIVERS RECEDE * IN FLOOD AREA; HELPSTRAINS Death Toll in Kansas and Missouri Remains at Fourteen. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Nov. 21.—Marauding rivers of the southwest were receding rapidly today and forecasts of continued fair weather and rising temperatures indicated relief from disastrous floods of last week Only in sections of Missouri, where the Missouri river still was belching the overflow waters of its tributaries, did conditions remain above normal. The situation there, however, was not considered grave. Butler. Mo., Isolated for almost five days, had restored railroad service today and the first mail since Friday was brought to that town. Crippled train service was being restored rapidly in Kansas and Missouri and train official declared the cisis of the worst tie-up in history in this section had been reached. Highways that had stood under water for several days were being opened. The death toll of the floods remained at fourteen. In the valley of the Blue river, near Kansas City, where 1,000 were driven from their homes, precautions were taken against disease. Vaccinating and other methods of immunization against disease were urged. The first innoculations of serum to prevent typhoid fever were administered to 150 persons. Approximately 175 families in this district will need aid to recover their flood losses, a survey by the Provident Association revealed.

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