Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1927 — Page 7

AUG. 18, 1927

NOVELIST WINS BRAINTOURNEV Alice Duer Miller First in Intelligence Test. NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Alice Duer Miller, fiction writer, is the smarest person in New York, according to Lucien Esty and Justin Spafford, the two men who set all Americans asking each other questoins. Esty and Spafford have just completed an “exam” of all the best known New Yorkers and the authoress is given first place in an account of the mental tests which will appear in the September American Magazine. Mrs. Miller and Prof. John Dewey of Columbia University stand in the highest class of smart New Yorkers. Second to them is 3 category of three persons, Prof. Holland Thompson, of the College of the City of New York, Prof, George M. Wicher, retired, of Hunter College, and Louis Marshall, New York lawyer. V In the third group of most intelligent citizens, the test shows, are Herbert Bayard Swope, of the New York World and Raymond Walters, dean of Swarthmore; Bruce Barton, author and journalist; Frank Sullivan, journalist and humorist; Ray Stannard Baker, author; Albert G. Rau, dean of Moravian College; Deems Taylor, composer and musical critic and Dr. Henry Noble MacCraken, president of Vassar, tie for fourth place among the Gothan intelligentsia. Dr. Frank Crane, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rupert Hughes, author, found themselves in the "ninety” class, which is as fa: down in the scale of smartness as the questioners went. Flier Lands In Street. NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—A leak in his water pump forced Irving J. McWilliams, commercial aviator, to make a spectacular landing under an arc light in the Bronx, after breaking the shingles off two houses and dusting light wires in the vicinity.

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Songs of Congo Will Be Heard at Negro Parley Bu United Press DENVER, Colo., Aug. 18.—Strident melodies and insistent rhythms of the Congo, softened through a long evolution wrought by years of chanting in the back woods of the South United States, will be heard in Denver, Sept. 7-14. " The occasion will be the National Baptists’ convention of America, which will bring approximately 3,000 Negro church leaders to the city. A series of cor certs, made up wholly of Negro songs, will comprise one of the principal features of the meeting. - Songs hitherto unknown outside the isolated groups worshipping in little pine churches on the edges of Alabama’s swamps, in the depths of Arkansas’ forests, and in the midst of Georgia’s cotton fields, will be sung for the first time before a representative audience. From the throats of 500 Negro choristers the plaintive spirituals will throb with religious fervor through Denver’s largest auditorium to make a definite contribution to America’s musical history. Skilled musicians will be present to set down upon paper the melodies as they issue forth from the choir. Lyricists, too, will attend, to interpret the almost spontaneous words into verses suitable for publication

SEEK TO SELL STOCK Winona and Crown Poinf Phone Companies Plan Deal Petition of the Northwestern Indiana Telephone Company, Valparaiso, to sell and the Winona Telephone Company, Knox, and the Crown Point, to buy capital stock and assqts of the Northwestern was filed today with the Public Service Commission. The Winona company would pay $370,500 and the Crown Point $195,00 for the Northwestern stock. The company serves Valparaiso, Chesterton, Wheeler and Knouts in Porter county, and Hobart in Lake County. Bitten by Rattlesnake Bu United Press AUBURN, Ind., Aug. 18.—Miss Vera Crabill, school teacher living near here, is in the Garrett hospital as a result of being bitten by a rattlesnake. Miss Crabill was working in a field when the snake sprang from some bushes and sank its fangs in her thumb. She is expected to recover. Men near there killed the snake, which had nine I rattles.

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MARRY TO KILL BLUES Bride of 72 Says Union Will Prevent Lonesomeness COMDEN, N. J., Aug. 18.—Mrs. James S. Angus, a bride of 72, who last week married an 82-year-old groom, urges women to wed so that they will not be lonesome in their old age. She points out thit relatives c' old folks usually are too busy with their own interests to pay attention to the elders. “But if two old people are married,” she concluded, “they have each other.” BURY HAAS IN WEST Funeral services for Dr. Homer C. Haas of Peru, brother of Schuyler Haas, Indianapolis city corporation counsel, who died at Palo Alto, California, Wednesday afternoon, will be held there Friday, according to word received here. Dr. Haas was well known in Republican circles and was a former member of the Indiana board of health. He died while visiting his son, Louis Haas.

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CHECK STATE MILK SUPPLY Move Made to Cut Typhoid Death Rate. Attributing Indiana's high typhoid death rate in large part to the milk supply, the State Health Board Wednesday passed a resolution demanding closer supervision of milk production and distribution. They will ask the State Budget Committe for one or more extra milk inspectors to cooperate with local health authorities. Indiana leads all northern states in high typhoid death rate, the resolution points out. It attributes this to local outbreaks, rather than any general epidemic, and asserts that it is largely attributable to infected milk. Water supply at Lawrenceburg and Washington received attention of the bo ird and they ordered several tourist camps closed until a pure water supply was obtainable. Tou.'ist camps closed are at Brazil, Evansville, New Harmony and Winchester. Salary adjustments for division heads were discussed and recommendations for increases, including that of Dr. William F. King, secretary, from $4,500 to $6,000 annually, will be made to the budget committee Miss Ella McNeill, Indianapolis, was appointed assistant director of public health nursing. PLANS FOR OIL SEARCH Fairmoun* Company Will Drill In Grant County. Bu Times Svecial MARION, Ind., Aug. 18.—Oil drilling operations on an extensive scale within the next three weeks are announced by the Fairmdunt Oil, Gas and Land Company, in the southern part of Fairmount township. Leases by the company on 568 acres of land have already been recorded in the office of the Grant County recorder and it is understood more are being taken.

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