Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1928 — Page 11

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WAR GUILT OF BERLIN DENIED BY EX-KAISER German Ruler Worked to Avert Conflict, Says His Aid. TELLS OF PEACE MOVES Risked Welfare of Army to Avert Strife, Jagow Claims. Kaiser Wilhelm has maintained silence since he went into exile in Holland, and the world has been unable to learn from him how he feels about the great war, or his story of the events that led to it. H. C. Buurman, United Press staff correspondent, has obtained from Dr. Kurt Jagow, master of the rolls of the ex-Kaiser’s household, a written statement which presents indirectly an outline of the ex-Kaiser's ideas regarding certain historical points connected with the outbreaks of the war. BY DR. KURT JAGOW Master of the Bolls of His Majesty, Wilhelm n (World Copyright by United Press) HIS MAJESTY’S RESIDENCE, HUIS DOORN, DOORN, Holland, Nov. 22.—We have fought ten years against the thesis laid down in article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, which we call the “war guilt lie.” The thesis that Germany alone was guilty is no longer acceptable The plea of guilty was extorted from us in 1919, in such a way that recently none other than Lord Grey of Falloden stigmatized it in his book “Recollections.” Documents published since 1919 from the German, Russian, Serbian and other archives have shown this undeniably. In the meantime, Germany has found defenders in all other countries. For instance, the American historians, William Langer and Barner and Fay, also the Canadian, Ewart, and many others. None of these accepted this thesis of Germany’s war guilt.

Documents are Discussed Os course, there are the important documents found in the German archives bearing marginal notes by the kaiser, which were published by Kautsky. We have to follow the main lines of history. Especially we must not put the differences between Austria and Serbia in the same category with the World war. How did matters develop? The murder at Serajevo was a doubly hard blow for his majesty. Not only did he lose a faithful ally but also a good personal friend. Cannot you understand thr.t it was immediately after this terrible affair that His Majesty gave his consent to Austria-Hungary to pro ceed strongly against Serbia? It involved the conservation of the power of the Danube monarchy against the subversive attempts by Serbia. The threads of the terrible affair (the assassination) led to Belgrade. These proceedings, it seemed, could lead at most to war between Austria and Serbia, but his majesty cherished the firm md not unfounded hope that the King of England and the czar would not give moral or material support to assassins of royalty. Memory of the night of assassination at Belgrade on June 11, 1903, had not faded, nor had the recollection that it was the King of England who then immediately recalled his ambassador from Belgrade.

No Thought of War His majesty, the kaiser, started his trip north on July 6, 1914, without taking any military precautions, which he would certainly have taken if Germany had planned a World war. When he returned July 27 the dice deflntely had been thrown by Russia for war, supported and pressed forward by France. Neither his majesty nor the German government had participated in composing the Austrian ultimatum and refusal to accept Serbia’s reply. Kautsky’s publications show in what sharp words his majesty condemned the refusal to accept Serbia’s reply. His majesty thereafter on July 28, in a letter to Secretary of State Von Jagow, openly gave his personal views, refusing to accept the idea of war. At the same time he formulated a far-reaching attempt at reconciliation by a proposal that Austria make a halt in Belgrade as a pledge for fulfillment by Serbia of the Austrian demands upon Serbia. There is another episode, very little known, but absolutely refuting the kaiser’s war guilt. On the afternoon of Aug. 1, when ahe German mobilization order had become necessary on account of Russia’s general mobilization, his majesty received word from London that there still was possibility of preserving peace. Army Near Chaos Therefore, His Majesty gave orders which brought despairing protests from the leaders of the general staff and which easily could have led to chaos in the German advance. So strong was his love for peace and so far went the kaiser’s personal feeling of responsibility that in face of the most terrible danger he even took the risk of a possible catastrophe to the army if peace could be kept. He believes that real peace In Europe and the world is possible only when, by revision of the reparation question, the world comer, back to stipuations laid down in the “pre-peace treaty” of Nov. 5, 1918. This preliminary treaty, based up on Wilson’s fourteen points and other principles propounded by Wilson, was broken. The peace that was made was not based upon Wilson’s program. It was dictated by brute force. His majesty holds that there can be no coniidence possible in Europe as long as this disgraceful Article 231 on the Treaty of Versailles is not annulled or withdrawn.

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President-Elect Is Most Generous and Human Man He Ever Worked For, Declaration of John Dunn. BY Mil TON BRONNER NEA Service Writer LONDON, Nov. 22.—1 t may be true that no man is a hero to his valet. But Herbert Hoover was a hero to his butler. Take it from John Dunn—the President-elect of the United States is the kindest, most human, most generous and most democratic man that a fellow ever worked for. And John Dunn ought to know, because this gentle-voiced, bespectacled Englishman served Herbert Hoover for three years as butler when the Hoovers lived in London from 3911 to 1914. Dunn’s face beams as he talks about the good old days, the most pleasant ones he ever knew. Dunn is now a bank messenger for the National bank out King’s Cross way, London, and lives In a flat above the bank. One look at his little parlor shows he is Hoover’s kind of man—some nice pictures on the wall and a Holy Bible on the table. Sent Car for Butler’s Family “When I took service with Mr. Hoover,” said Dunn, "he had an office as a mining engineer down in the city, and a big house known as Red House of Campden Hill, where he lived. I never had a kinder or more considerate boss. This will give you nis measure: “While the house was being made ready, my wife and our three boys and three girls were living with my sister. As soon as our rooms were finished Mr. Hoover sent his own car to fetch my family. “But that’s not all. There was no side or swank to Mr. Hoover. He was a real democrat. My three boys played with his sons, Herbert Jr. and Allen. Often I have seen the five of them, each with a toy boat, off to Kensington Gardens to sail their vessels on the Round Point there. “And the youngsters were taken in on everything. Every Christmas he would give a big party for the servants and all the children. Mr.

NEW AUTO FUEL TO ‘CAIHNOCKS Great Advance Is Seen as Result of Research. By Science Service SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Nov. 22.Motor fuel that will prevent engine knocking and reduce the fire risk in automobile and airplane accidents is promised as the result of experiments by Dr. C. F. Kettering, director of the General Motors Research laboratories. Dr. Kettering’s researches demonstrated that the molecular structure of the fuel, which can be changed during refining, controls its knocking qualities. Only a fifth of the ordinary gasoline sold today needs to be “reformed” to make all motor fuel non-knocking. And that is a mere juggling of the molecules. Once this is accomplished generally, automobile manufacturers can equip their cars with more scientific engines that will get the most out of the fuel. Dr. Kettring’s discovery may make unnecessary the development of Diesel type engines for automobiles, airplanes and airships. Because Diesel engines use heavy oil that does not catch fire easily in case of accident, they are considered by some engineers to be the logical method removing the fire risk now present in gasoline-propolled cars and aircraft.

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With golden scissors of record size, pretty Miss Martha Hiden of Newport News, Va., is about to snip the ribbon officially opening the longest highway span in the east, an $8,000,000 bridge crossing the James river near Newport News, a distance of four and a half miles. Governor Harry Flood Byrd, who named her as “Miss Virginia,” and other chief executives were present for the celebration.

LET’S GET GOVERNOR’S PICTURE QUICK, IS PLEA Historical Bureau Chief Eager Painting Be'Made. Hoosier governors ought not to wait too long before they have their portraits painted, Director Christopher B. Coleman of the state historical bureau advises in his budget request of SSOO for such a portrait and $75 for a frame for it. It may be that the director feels that if the Governor waits too long the portrait may be made under some department’s auspices. Any way Coleman urges making it snappy In the following lines, lifted verbatim from the request on file today with the board of accounts. “The portrait of the incoming Governor should be painted during his term of office, the earlier the better.”

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CHARGES FLIER CRUEL Former Kokomo Woman Asks Divorce for War Aviation Ace. By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Nov. 22.—Suit for divorce has been filed at Chicago by Mrs. Sarah Hannah Stevens of Kokomo against Wynne F. Stevens, Canadian aviation ace during the World war, said to be a descendant of Edward Plantagenet, first Duke of York. She alleges cruelty. The couple was married here after the World war, Stevens being employed at the time as a pilot for a Kokomo aviation company. They lived in Indianapolis and Miami, Fla., before taking up residence in Chicago. WORK FOR HOSPITAL City Must Ask Authority to Donate Site. Authority for the city to donate a site for a $3,000,000 veterans’ hospital here may be asked of the coming session of the state legislature, it was indicated today when city officials pointed to the ordinance stipulating that city-owned land can be transferred only by sale after appraisal and with council approval. Land owned by the health board adjoining city hospital would be well suited to the requirements of the veterans’ hospital, according to Dr. George W. Bowman, Seventh district commander of the American Legion which is sponsoring the project. Recommonda lions that the hospital be located here were contained in resolutions adopted at the state convention of the Legion at Lafayette last August and at the national convention. Park board property may be sought in the event the tract near city hospital is not forthcoming. Congress will be asked tc appropriate a sum for construction of the hospital, Dr. Bowman said. CIVIC CLUB “ELECTS Howard Danner Heads Group on South Meridian. Howard Danner was elected president of the South Meridian Street Civic Club Wednesday night at an organization meeting of 1701 South Meridian street. Other officers are: John Kirk, vice-president; Albert Zins, secretary: Edward Schlanzer, assistant secretary, and Henry Brinkman, treasurer. A. J. Voigt addressed the meeting. Forty south side business men became charter members of the club. O. K. Whipping With Hose By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. Mildred Rice, Gymnasium instructor at Franklin square school, Nassau county, was upheld in her action In using a rubber hose to flog two of her pupils. Parents of the children charged Miss Rice beat them when she lost her temper, but the board of trustees of the school approved the whipping.

CLOAK MODEL’S TALE OF BOOZE PARTY SPURS SEARCH FOR MURDER KEY MAN

BY MAX BUCKINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—There waj a party on the night of Nov 4 at the Park Central hotel—a party : that was in keeping with night life I of the “incandescent belt.” Cocktails and highballs were served abundantly. Mrs. Ruth Keyes was invited in by someone she really never knew before. Someone asked her if she had a girl friend. She answered yes, for her modeling hai given her many New York acquaint ances, although she was the wife of a Chicago railroad brakeman. She went to look for the girl friend. While she was gone, Arnold Roth stein was invited to the room and fatally shot. These facts developed today as

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Message Wins Praise of Federation Leaders at Convention. By United Press NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 22. The five-day week will be championed by the American Federation of Labor. A resolution indorsing the fiveday week, and instructing the executive committee to work toward that end. was adopted Wednesday night at the federation convention. Another resolution, urging that federal employes be reclassified to bring them under the eight-hour day also was adopted, and the eight-hour day for firefighters was urged. The federation was to resume its convention at 9:30 a. m. today. Considerable pleasure was expressed by leaders of the federation at Herbert Hoover's message to the conference of Governors, also in session here, which was read by Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine, Wednesday. Called Indorsement John P. Frey, secretary of the metal trades department of the federation, termed the message "an indorsement by the President-elect of the United States of the policies of the American Federation of Labor.” Hoover’s message suggested the same unemployment remedy urged by the federation—creation of a construction reserve in times of plenty to take care of less prosperous years. The message was read before the A. F. of L. convention Wednesday and entered in the records. "We have been the pioneers in interpreting what was transpiring through the application of fundamentally sound economic thought,” Frey said. “Time has demonstrated the soundness of our economic policies, even though at times the recognition may be somewhat delayed.” Frey said Hoover’s message was the first indor *"ient of the federation’s policies by a chief executive of the nation and heads of the states Held Highly Significant “Os greater significance than the approval of this address by the Governors’ conference was the fact that President-elect Hoover authorized Governor Brewster to make the statement,” Frey said. “The economic understanding of the relationship of wages to the prosperity of industry and commerce which we expressed at Atlantic City has now received the authorized approval of the Presidentelect of the United States/’ Frey added that Governor Brewster had indorsed his statement to the federation, thereby joining the federation and' the conference of Governors on the employment question. noosier in lowa Jail B, Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind., Nov. 22.—Earl C. White, Seymour, and Walter L. Hall, Ponca City, Okla., are working out fines of S4OO each at lowa City, la., for driving an automobile while drunk. They are reducing the fines at the rate of $3.33 daily each.

police started searching in a numbe* - of cities for Jack ‘ Legs” Diamond a gunman about town, who is believed by them to be the man who actually killed Bothstein because the famous gambler refused to pay a number of I. O. U.’s which totaled approximately $300,000. Diamond, they believe, was one of the group who gathered in room 349 that Sunday afternoon to in dulge in New York’s great Sunday afternoon entertainment—a cocktail party. He has been a gunman for years and so far as the underworld is concerned might be considered a Horatio Alger success. He started on Avenue A, which is on the east side. He was just one of those youngsters referred to as a "punk 1 '

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FLU EPIDEMIC SWEEPSjTATE Spinal Meningitis Also Is Raging in Idaho. Bu United Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Nov. 22. —At least five deaths and more than one thousand cases of illness from epidemics of influenza, spinal meningitis and scarlet fever were reported today by scattered cities of Utah and Idaho. At Idaho Falls five members of the family of Jacob Mouslin were put under quarantine, suspected of being human carriers of spinal meningitis responsible for an outbreak of the disease at Twin Falls, where three deaths occurred. Twin Falls also reported upward of three hundred cases of influenza, with two deaths. Schools there have been closed for a week. Three cases of scarlet fever caused the closing of the schools at Fairviews Utah. In Salt Lake City 16C Latter Day Saints college students were afflicted with influenza and 289 absentees from East high school were ascribed to the malady. Boise and Pocatello, Idaho, also reported widespread suffering from influenza. SUBMITTED State Conservation Director Hands in Estimate. Director Richard Lieber of the state conservation department presented a $1,676,305 biennial budget to the state board of accounts Wednesday. The budget will require approval of the legislature. Lieber estimated that revenue's from the department the next two years will be approximately SBOO,OOO. This will be turned over to the state for reapportioning. In a statement accompanying the budget the book value of real estate and improvements w’as set out at $? 046,052.50, earnings and contributions since th'’ ~of the department nearly ten years ago, $2,375,845.50 and money from taxes $1,833.75. Included in improvements asked for the next two years is a $55,000 swimming pool for Turkey Run park and the same amount for a similar project at Clifty Falls. A $2,000 request is made for development of the cabin layout at M:scatatuck State park; SIO,OOO for each of the two years for road development at McCormick’s Creek canyon and $30,000 for completion of Potowatomie Inn, Pokogan state park. One of the largest items is $250,000 for further development of the Indiana Dunes state park. SPEAKS ON HEREDITY Every Man Responsible for His Descendants, Says Pastor. “Each man is held directly accountable for his descendants, whereas he need not be accountable for his ancestors,” declared the Rev. H. T. Wilson, pastor of the Wallace Street Presbyterian church, /in an address of “Blood Streamers of Your Grandfather, or Misbehavior From Heridity,” at the meeting of the Bible Investigation Club of the Y. M. C. A. Wednesday night.

by the boys who hung around the corner saloon and decided su premacy by the fist or the knife. But Diamond, police records show, was a success. He became a member of various groups. Not long ago he was the closest friend of “Little Augie,” a name at that time feared as much as “Scarface Al” is feared in Chicago. Little Augie got killed and Diamond continued on. He was shot in one fracas and for weeks was in Bellevue, but recovered. More recently he has been a prominent figure on Broadway and has been prominent in the company of New York gamblers, a company for which he was paid because of the dexterity with which he flashed a gun.

Ex-Employe Tells How “Boss” Rolled Up Sleeves and Helped Carry Dinner Table Out to Lawn. “But he gave us all a real surprise our first Easter. I understand it's i regular thing in America, but we never had seen it before. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover boiled a lot of eggs and dyed them all kinds of fancy colors. “Then on Saturday night they slipped out in the garden and hid the eggs in all sorts of odd places. Easter Sunday morning, his children and mine were told to go out and find where the rabbits laid the eggs. He gave a prize to the one finding the most. It was great fun, I tell you. “Mr. Hoover was always doing nice things. One summer he came to me and handed me a ten-pound note. That was almost SSO in American money. ‘Be off with you, John,’ he said. ‘You take the missus and the kids and go to the seashore for a little holiday.’ ” Hoover Preferred American Guests One of the things that still looms large in John Dunn’s memory is what used to happen sometimes on hot summer evenings. Mr. Hoover would decide it was too warm to eat inside and that it was Just right for a meal out on the lawn. “He’d shuck his coat,” declared Dunn, “roll up his shirt sleeves and give me a hand carrying the big table out. Nothing proud or stuck up about him! “One of the things that made me mad was to read in the papers the way the political enemies attacked him, called him ‘Sir ’Erbert’ and said he had gone British. \ “Now I am a good Englishman, but I am here to tell you that Mr. Hoover was always a good American. Most of the guests he liked best to entertain were Americans like Ambassador Page, the American consul general, and big American business men. "I remember one Fourth of July he gave a big party on the lawn and how he and Mrs. Hoover led the guests in singing all your American patriotic songs. “Have I written him congratulating him because the American people were sensible enough to elect him by such a big majority? Os course I did. And. I’d love to see him inaugurated.”

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Willie, through his paper route, Has saved, and now he’s glad. He’ll do his shopping early, Name Address Here’s your chance to show your poetic talent. Just write one line to complete this jingle, and if yours is one of the best three you’ll get a pair tickets to the Indiana theater next week. The attraction there will be Billie Dove in “Adoration.” Send your line in to The Times Jingle Editor. The winner of today’s contest will be announced next Wednesday. And watch for the fourth jingle in Friday’s Times. If you don’t win today, you may tomorrow. DISCUSS PLAN TO STOP POLLUTION OF STREAMS Strawboard Manufacturers and Health Board Confer. Representatives of the various strawboard manufacturers throughout the state met with Dr. William F. King and members of the state board of health to discuss a plan of halting stream pollution from straw board plants. This is the second meeting held and Dr. King declared that the manufacturers are working cooperatively with the state board in solving the problem. Lewis S. Finch, sanitary engineer of the state health department, explained methods used in Ohio in preventing stream pollution from strawboard plants. He recently surveyed the situation in that state. Dr. King said that the next group to be called for a similar conference will be the canners.

Police say that Mrs. Keyes was invited to the cocktail party by “Honest George” McManus, the well-known gambler, who unfortunately got connected with the case because he left his coat in room 349. McManus, they believe, was nothing but a witness. The two gunmen who were in the room are believed by the authorities to be the actual slayers of Rothstein, the strange little gambler who was willing to bet on anything, but who hated like mischief to pay his losses. The 60,000 letters gathered from McManus’ private safe proved another water haul, just as did the safe in the home.

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Passengers on Craft That Rescued Survivors Tell Graphic Tale. “Schreklich,” says pretty 21-year-old Lena Hagemeier of Lemford, Prussia. “Horrible,” echoes Miss Bertha Thormeyer, her interpreter. And that one word in English and in German sums up the impressions which four German persons, who just have come to Indianapolis, retain of w’iiat they saw aboard the Berlin, one of the ships which participated in the rescue of persons cast into the raging Atlantic from the liner Vestris, Nov. 3. The Germans are Miss Hagemeier, Mr. and Mrs. John Habert, and Martin Veile. Miss Hagemeier is making her home with an uncle, William Brehob. R. R. 4; Veile is visiting a relative, Chris Yebe, R R. 4, and Mr. and Mrs. Habert are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew Brintmeyer, R. R. 4. All have enrolled in the English class at Manual Training night school. Sbjp Steam to Rescue On the morning of Nov. 13, after radio messages had flashed through the night asking all ships in the neighborhood to “standby” in th p stricken zone, the Berlin steamed into the narrow strip of ocean in which 327 men, w'omen, and children were reported tossing about in open boats, on boards, and tied to spars, said Miss Hagemeier., Lena talked through her teacher and interpreter, Miss Bertha Thormeyer. "The waves were high and w : c could hear our big ship creaking and groaning as we steamed slow'ly bacic and forth in the neighborhood of w'here the Vestris was reported to have gone down,” she said. “Soon we saw bits of wreckage and then something dark and indistinct—a body. Then another, and another. “The waves got higher and the ship's officers were forced to cover the waves with oil, w’hich helped greatly. Speck Moves Out of Gloom . “Suddenly from out of the rain a larger black speck moved toward us. Then came a very faint cry. “More oil was thrown upon the water and a boat left the Berlin and pulled for the large speck. “In a half hour the boat returned with another, rowed by sailers from the Berlin, in its wake. “The large speck turned out to be a lifeboat from the Vestris with twenty-two persons in ic. There were five white people including a woman; and the other seventeen were Negroes. “Oh, how tired and drawn they looked, but after they were put into dry clothing and given hot food, they felt better and moved about on deck. What stories of hardship they told. “They had been in the water twenty-five hours. “A few minutes later a sound came from a black speck bobbing up and down. We steamed closer and a man came out of the water and without any help climbed the ladder. One Carries Money “He had been in the water for twenty-two hours and still had strength to go unaided to the hospital. He gave his name as Smith. “We steamed about in the vicinity until noon, when we continued to New York, arriving there the next day, and we came to Indianapolis on Thursday.” The Haberts told how the survivors of the open boat pulled their most treasured possessions from undershirts and caps. “One man pulled a soggy mass from his shirt, which, when dried out, proved to be $2,000 in currency,” they said. Gets Letter for Hoover Poem By United Press BALTIMORE, Nov. 22.—Sallie Mae Brittingham, 14, was busy today showing a highly prized letter to her school friends. The letter was from President-elect Herbert Hoover, and thanked her for some verses she wrote in favor of him before election day. __ t

WIZARD WILL RUN TROLLEY CARBYRADIO Tram to Be Moved Through Business Area Without Motorman. OTHER FEATS PROMISED Noted Engineer to Show Many Wonders of Ether Science. ' The first street car ever operated by radio control in this city, or section, will be directed by wireless waves, without motorman, conductor, or touch of human hands, through the heart of the business district next Tuesday at 12:15 p. m. The street car will weigh more than 50,000 pounds. The radio control apparatus will weigh exactly three and one-half pounds. The feat will be performed by Maurice J. Franciil, world-renowned electrical engineer and inventor, under auspices of The Indianapolis Times. It will be made possible through co-operation of officials of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, in their desire to lend every helpful assistance to the advancement of science. Franciil will be in Indianapolis all next week. He will present a series of wireless wonders, which, many times, have been called the riddles of radio and which scientists have described as among the wonders of the modern world. Among other things, he will be the supreme attraction at the Lyric theater, appearing on the stage at that playhouse at every perfow* mance for seven days, starting Suae day matinee.

Autos Controlled by Radio On the Lyric stage, at every appearance, Franciil will operate one, or more, standard, stock model Hudson-Essex automobiles entirely by radio control and without drivers, or touch of human hand upon the cars. Through the sole medium of his radio, or electro-magnetic impulses, he will perform with the autos virtually every operation that chauffeurs behind the w’heels could accomplish. He will start and stop the motors, sound and silence horns, regulate electrical windshield wipers. flash the various lights, etc. Franciil selected Hudson-Essex cars for his Indianapolis engagement because of ease and flexibility of engine movement and other mechanical refinements. What he accomplishes with the cars he uses he can duplicate with any other machines of that make, because, ho says, all such cars are uniform of performance. The autos he uses will be supplied through courtesy of the R. V. Law Motor Sales Company, 1212 N. Meridian street, and associate dealers of that concern. The cars will be rio different from any other machines of that make and will not be altered, or prepared, mechanically, in any way. Operates Battleships Also, on the stage of the Lyric at each performance next week, Franciil will operate a wireless-con-trolled miniature battleship fourteen feet long. The battleship will fire cannon singly, or In volley, will flash searchlights, raise flags and pennants, release toy balloons and do virtually everything a real man-of-war can do. This little ship has been proclaimed a marvel of radiocontrol perfection. Under auspices of The Times, Franciil will give several other public exhibitions of his wireless wizardry, in addition to operation of the radio-controlled street car. It is planned for him to appear before faculties and student bodies of city high schools and of Butler university and there to give demonstrations of fakery and deception practiced by fraudulent spiritualistic mediums and clairvoyants. To the school faculties and students, the wizard will expose methods pursued by the fakers and then will show how science not only can reproduce every feat of the socalled supernatural they display, but can go them even many times better by presenting wonders they cannot duplicate.

Plans Open Air Exhibition Also, it is planned for the wizard to give among his public exhibitions at least one open-air demonstration of his radio controlled automobiles. On this occasion, he probably will control at least two automobiles at the same time by his wireless waves and also will steer a third car in any direction he desires, or that spectators may request. In controlling two or more cars at one time. Francill will use only one broadcast station, or transmitter, one wave length and one electro-magnetic impulse at a time. This is a feat that no other man has been able to accomplish. With a single wave, he will produce eithsr the identical, or different, operations of the cars, singly, in unison, or in any combination of numbers he desires. It also is intended that the wizard shall operate one or more industrial plants by radio control. Details of his remarkable experiments will be published daily, exclusively in the columns of The Times. The exhibitions he will give under auspices of this newspaper will be free. The public is invited to attend them. They are declared to be worth traveling many miles to behold. ’ ■ •■ ’ ~ ' “ i