Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1928 — Page 5

AUG. 7, 1928.

RATE 1928 JULY AMONG HOTTEST U. S. HASKNOWN Above Normal Temperatures Are Reported From All Parts of Nation, BY KENNETH WATSON WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Last month will go down as one of the hottest Julys in history. Records being received at the United States weather bureau from cities in all sections of the country, with but few exceptions, show average, temperatures were anywhere from 1 to 2 degrees above normal. Practically the only large cities where such was not the case were Cincinnati, where the temperature last month was four-tenths of a degree below normal for July; Pittsburgh, which was a degree and a half below normal, and Birmingham, which was three-tenths of a degree cooler than ordinarily. Hottest in East Cities in the East showed the highest temperatures for the month because a prevailing high pressure area existed in the south Atlantic section which caused southerly winds to sweep the territory. Asa result Baltimore last month registered mean temperatures 2 degrees above normal; the average temperature standing at 79.2. This temperature, however, was below the July heat record of 81.5 for Baltimore. which was established in 1872. Washington last month had a mean temperature of 78 degrees, which was 2 degrees above the temperature for, July, 1927, and a degree and a half above the normal July temperature. Like Baltimore, owever, even this terrific spell failed to approach the 1872 record of 81 degrees. In NSw York the average temperature last month was 75 degrees as compared with a normal of 73.8 degrees. This was 2 degrees warmer than July, 1927, but 3 degrees be-: low the New York City maximum for July, registered in the the years 1901 and 1910. Changes Are Swift Detroit had a temperature a degree and a half above normal; Peoria, 111., about half a degree above normal and Atlanta and Galveston about the same above normal. The effect the high pressure areas have on the temperatures is strikingly illustrated by what happened in Boston during the last few days. On Saturday, when Boston was being swept by southerly winds, the temperature stood at 94. The sudden appearances of anew high pressure area north of Maine, however, sent north winds through New England and Boston’s temperature dropped to 62 degrees within forty-eight hours. Volcano, Tidal Wave Kills Many P-y United Press \ AMSTERDAM. Aug. 7.—Many persons were killed or injured and heavy damage was caused by a volcanic eruption and tidal wave at Paleweh. Dutch East Indies, a dispatch from Koepang said today.

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Young Mothers’ Convictions Borne Out by Tests of Learned Psychologists. Bit Science Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—The young mother’s conviction that baby shows intelligence when he puts a pink celluloid ring into his mouth, or when he solemnly says, “Ooh!” is quite justified, for this is just the sort of mental alertness test that psychologists are giving to infants. A test intended to measure the mental development of babies one month of age up to one year has been developed by H. E. Linfert and H. M. Hierholtber, of the Catholic University of America. To find out what the average babj can do at different ages, the psychologists first tested normal babies with a large number of situations. At 1 month of age, almost twothirds of the babies would grasp a bright pink ring placed at their finger tips. By 4 months, 98 per cent of the babies responded to this test of their mental aleffness. None of the 1-month-old babies tried to put the pink ring into his mouth. At 2 months. 2 per cent o$ the babies already had discovered "that this would be a good idea, and at 4 months of age, 30 per cent of the babies knew that putting the pink ring into their mouths was a pleasing amusement. Because of the rapid mental progress of babies, two separate sets of tests wero necessary. One set measures babies up to 4 months, and another set measures babies from 6 to 12 months. The difference in mental ability between a baby 1 month old and a baby 12 months old is probably as great as the difference between a fir&t grader at school and a university student, the psychologists state. I

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WRECK JOLL IS 8 Open Preliminary Inquest in Train Crash. Bn United Press MOUNDS. 111., Aug. 7.—Preliminary inquest opened today, following the wreck of two fast Illinois Central passenger trains here Monday with a death toll of eight and injury of more than sixty. Four identified dead were: Lewis A. Drennan, Mattoon, 111.; Mrs. Bud Snider, West Orange, N. J.; Joe Secinch, here brother. West Orange, and William Douglas, Negro porter. There were four unidentified bodies of Negro women. Dr. O. T. Hudson, coroner of Mounds and district surgeon for the Illinois Central, announced Monday night that final search of all wreckage established the fact that a human arm originally believed attached to a body was a portion of a body already recovered. The two trains Involved in the wreck were the Memphis-to-St. Louis “ChickasawV’ and the Chicago- to-New Orleans, No. 3. FINE FUNERAL DISGRACE Lady Astor Wants Modes! Burial When She Dies. fill Uni!ed, Press LONDON, Aug. 6.—Lady Astor has told her husband she doesn’t want him to spend a lot of money on her burial. “Anything Lord Astor has to spend he must spend while I am living, not when I am dead,” she told a Plymouth audience recently. She added she would consider it a positive disgrace to have a fine funeral. The corner stape of the original United States Capitol building was laid by President Washington Sept. 18, 1793.

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SCHOOL BOARD FIRM AGAINST BUILDING SALE Administration Structure Deal Is Frowned on by Directors. School administration -building, Meridian and Ohio Sts., probably will remain in hands of the school city some time, as result of the chilly reception board members accorded real estate agents, suggestion that it be sold “to permit development of the vicinity.” Albert F. Walsman, business director, presented the proposal. “I promised I would mention it and' I have kept my promise and will sit down,” he said. “You probably will make that report a good many times in the future before I vote to sell the building,” President Theodore F. Vonnegut, said. Cites Shortridge Sale ! “We are not going to sell this building as Shortridge was sold. Why shouldn’t we keep it and make money for the school city, instead of permitting a real estate company to get the profit. Look at Shortridge. We are paying back all the profit in rent. We have paid back about $70,000 as rent already. Commissioner Fred Kepner backed Vonnegut's stand. Commissioner Charles. W. Kern declared: “I look at it 'just as I do at my home. If someone offered me my price for my home, he would own it befoae he got away from me.” Walsman was authorized to lease one of two proposed sites for two portables for School 42 at 1004 W. Twenty-Fifth St. One site is at Indianapolis Ave. and TwentyFourth St., and the other at Paris Ave. and Twenty-Fourth St. Seeks Sites for Portables Because of difficulty in finding a reasonably priced site for anew grade school in the vicinity of FiftySecond St. and Capitol Ave., the board decided to seek a lease on suitable property for temporary location of portables. Necessary alterations in two “ground floor” or basement rooms at School 67 for class rooms, to eliminate proposed partables, were ordered. Because the local representative of thfe Woodstock Typewriter Company was not notified of bids for about forty school typewriters, although legal notice of the bids was carried in the Indiana Journal and Commercial, the board rejected all bids and decided to readvertise. RACES SHERIFF: FINED S \ Fun-Loving Motorist Comes to Grief in Court. By United Press NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., Aug. 7. —Racing with another car along a side street may seem a harmless bit of fun, but it cost "Bri''k” Dunn of this city $lO and costs In police court recently. The men he was racing happened to be the county sheriff, who, of course, won.

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Irene Bordoni By United Press PARIS. Aug. 7.—lrene Bordoni, prominent vaudeville and comedy star, was operated on after a sudden attack of appendicitis. Her husband, Ray Goetz, is at her bedside. At the American Hospital it was said she was in a favorable condition. PHILOSOPHER WILL TEACH BY ‘TALKIES’ Will Durant to Make Lectures Through Movies. By United Press NORTH ADAMS, Mass.. Aug. 7. Will. Durant plans to teach people the subject of philosophy through the medium of the talking movie. On a visit to his former home here, the author disclosed that he is now negotiating with a moving picture firm to “do philosophy for the talkies.” His general idea is that he shall write a history of several great philosophers, each of which he will deliver as a lecture. The film, he declared, would open with Durant in the role of a lecturer fater which it would pick up the story of the philosopher with his voice synchronized.

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ATHEIST DEATH CASE PROMISES BITTER BATTLE Alabama in Furore Over Murder Mixup, Baffling , . Legal Problem. Bey United Press BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 7.—The ageold question as to whether the wor\ of an atheist is to be believed in a court of law promises to afford one of the bitterest legal battle since the Scopes’ evolutioin trial in Tennessee. Forerunner of the legal tussle Is seen in local reports that the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism intends to take part In the “infidel death-bed statement” case at Decatur, Ala. If the association does act, there is possibility that Clarence Darrow. internationally known attorney and achetist, and Arthur Carfield Hayes, associated with him in the Tennessee “monkey trial,” may appear as counsel. The Decatur case grows out ol the murder of a man named Marshall, who lived near that Alaama, community. Marshall on his death-bed accused his wife of the slaying. She was charged with murder, tried and convicted. After numerous trials and retrials, the case finally reached the State Supreme Court, where it now awaits decision. J. N. Powell of Decatur, Mrs. Marshall’s at.torriey, has based his appeal on the contention that arshall did not believe in punishment in the hereafter, and that therefore his deathbed statement ought to tbe ignored. The Atheism association* is attempting to intervene in the case on the side of the prosecution, to answer this allegation. Permission has been asked of Attorney General C. C. McCall for the association’s attorney to submit a brief McCall is expected to in a few days. VARE STILL IN DANGER Slight Improvement Noted in Condition of Senator-Elect. Bv United Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 7. “Slight improvement” was noted early today in the condition of Sen-ator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, who suffered a paralytic stroke last Wednesday, but he is “not yet out of danger.” He is conscious but dangerously weak, his physicians said. Senator Charles Waterman of Colorado, chairman of the subcommittee investigating campaign funds and elections has been asked by Francis S. Brown, Vare’s counsel, to postpone the hearing set for Aug. 15, at Pittsburgh, where Vare was scheduled to appear.

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—Photo by Moorefleld. Dr. Walter F. Kelly, 239 S. Aububon Rd., Democrat, was named a member of the city health board by Mayor L. Ert Slack to complete the tem of Dr. A. E. Guedel, who resigned. BEGIN BUDGET STUDY Council Will Set Date for Public Hearing, Date of public hearing on the proposed 1929 city budget and tax levy of $1.15, which is 12*6 cents higher than that now in effect, will be set tonight at a recess session of city council. The council plans several meetings within the next ten days to consider, in detail, the budget that has met the approval of Mayor Slack. Meanwhile, Chamber of Commerce budget committee members, headed by William H. Book, also were preparing to go into the proposed expenditures for the coming year. Book said the Chamber so far has approved nothing but the city sinking funds and will make a detailed check of the appropriation requests. ! “We will study every item in the budget, in hope of being able to suggest some decreases,” Book said. “However, if we find the increases are necessary we will be the first to approve them." Members of the special budget sub-committee that will consider the city budget include Dwight S. Ritter, T. R. Ratcliff, H. S. Morse, George T. Whelden, Frank B. Fowler and Lawrence V. Sheridan. It is planned to raise about $400,000 more under the new rate than under the present schedule of $1,025.

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RECORD WHEAT CROP IN CANADA Harvest to Be Well Under Way This Month. By Times Special WINNIPEG, Manitoba. Aug. 7. Harvest in western Canada, which is expected to be well under way by the middle of August, according to the latest crop reports of the Canadian National Railways, confronts Canadian railroads with what Is declared to be the greatest task of its kind in the world. This season’s, crop, it is predicted, will be one of the heaviest in the history of the West, and from now until the end of November and the closing of navigation on the Great Lakes, the railroads will be taxed to their utmost In carrying grain, destined to the far comers of the globe, to the eastern —and also the western—seaboards. For it shandling the equipment of the Canadian National system on the prairies will be increased by 20 per cent. Usually, on all Canadian roads, there are 100,000 box cars and corresponding motive power concentrated between the Great Lakes and the mountains by Aug. 15, as compared to the 40,000 or 50,000 in service in that region the year around. In July the number gradually is increased, with reserve cars “spotted” at various strategic points to expedite the grain movement. At present shop forces axe working overtime to piepare both locomotives and cars. Radium Is Restoring Health To Thousands The wonderful curative power of Radium has been known for years. However. the benefits of this precious healthgiving substance have in the past been only within the means of persons of wealth. Since the invention of Degnen’s Radio-Active Solar Pad, any man or woman, poor or rich, can afford this treatment which offers so much relief from suffering and disease. Degnen’s Uadlo-Acfive Solar I’ad is worn next to the body day and night. It pours a constant stream of radioactive energy into the system while you work, play or sleep, helping to build up weakened nerves and tissues to a strong, healthy condition. It creates a vigorous circulation of blood, thus removing congestion, which is the real cause of most diseases. To prove just what this remarkable treatment can do for you, we will send our appliance on trial with the understanding that we will not charge you a cent if it fails to give satisfactory results. This offer is open to any person who has pain of any kind, nerve weakness, high blood pressure, stomach, kidney, liver or bladder trouble. No matter what your ailment or how long you have had It, we will gladly let you try the appliance at our risk. Write today for free literature, giving complete information. Radium Appliance Cos., 2592 Bradbury Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif.—Advertisement.