Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1930 — Page 9

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Coney Isle Mourns at Hard Times

BY GILBERT SWAN NEV/ YORK. July 31—Coney Island, which becomes the capital of the freak show world in summer time, complains that this is the

worst of all possible seasons. The old time ba 11 y h oo men with their trick vests and souther n colonel beards sit mournfully contemplating the future and predict in g that, from the standpoint of the colorful and raucaus carnival attractions. Coney

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Is passing. Hundreds of thousands troop down upon a Sunday, stroll up and down Surf avenue, up and down • the board walk and up and down the beach sands, but they no longer appear to be possessed of that play-day spirit that turns the circus belt into a perpetual Mardi Gras. Far too little of their mo :y goes over the box office counters to please the concessionaires. n u n T* HE crowds, they say, go to the beach front and stay there. After a time, some rush up to a hot dog counter or a pop stand, make H small purchase and after a while change from their bathing suits and go home. This is all accomplished with an expenditure of a ' few dimes.

Scores of the attractions have been playing brief stands and only the new “Lindy loop” and the “Bertha bump” appear to be among the big money getters of the new * rides.” Listen in on any two of the veteran spielers as they gather at Joe’s or near the hotel and you'll hear the whisper that something is wrong With the whole show business. They recognize that times are a bit tougher and that amusements are considered a luxury—but still and all they wonder if that part of Coney that went in for noise and freak shows and pitch rackets hasn t seen its peak and started downward. Be all this as it may. I came upon a peculiarly funny wail. A fellow with a trained animal show had put up his tents in the place of an attraction that had mixed with city ordinances and had temporarily closed. a a a HE had. among his attractions, a “talking mule.” And a pig that could do a high dive. And a bear that took on all wrestling partners, to say nothing of doing odd tricks. He had played to a half dozen people In a few days and. hoping to get a quick turnover, had rushed one show after another. Finally, after about % week, he closed up and quit. “And d'ye know,” he remarked, “We'd been bringing the acts on so fast for a turnover that when we closed up the mule was talking in her sleep. The bear had sprained a couple of muscles and the pig was suffering from diver's blindness.” a a a IN a place like Coney, the particularly heavy' freak attractions are honored with the slang show-world title of “blow-off." / A “blow-off” in tent-showdom is an attraction within an attraction.

It’s the headliner for which an extra fee is charged, once the cash customers are gathered within. And Coney's two {outstanding “blowoff” attractions are “the elephant girl,” who needs no introduction, and “the human fountain.” The “human fountain” is a gent who wears the cos-

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tume of an Indian rajah and who has several wound holes in his hands and feet. His story is that he was a German soldier, captured and given the "spread eagle,” which means that he was tied to a cannon wheel and literally crucified with ten-penny nails. However he came upon the convenient wound holes, however the slick showmen appear to have run little pipes, or tubes or something to the holes and when the water is turned on he presents a most lountainesque appearance. (Copyright. 1930. by NEA Service. Inc.)

FUNERAL FRIDAY FOR MRS. SARAH LEMEN City Resident Since 1878 Dies; Rites to Be Held at Home. Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Jane Lemen, 79, of 2731 North Illinois street, who died Wednesday at her home, will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the North Illinois street address. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Lemen was bom in Greenville. 0., but lived in Indianapolis since. 1878. Survivors are: A brother. Benjamin H. Obrist, Bridgeport, 111.; two nieces, Martha Jane Obrist, Indianapolis. and Mrs. O. H. Gray, San Luis Obispo, Cal., and a nephew, John W. Obrist of Bridgeport, 111. ‘PURPLE' THUG*S NABBED Cleveland Cops Hold Two in Death of Alleged Rum Lords. CLEVELAND, July 31—Two Detroit gangsters, reputed members of the notorious “purple gangT gifnmen and extortionists, were held here today in connection with the murders of the Porello brothers, alleged alcohol ring heads. Police have expressed the theory that gunmen were imported from out of town to shoot down James Porello as he stood in a grocery store last Saturday morning. It is the first time that gangsters from other cities have been arrested in connection with the murders, _

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AUTOISTS PAY $400,000 FOR USELESS JOOS Thirty-£)ne Oil Inspectors, Politically RewarJed, Pile Up Costs. TEST IS CALLED JOKE Antiquated System Used to Tell If Gasoline Will Explode. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Hoosier motorists are- paying about $400,000 a year to support thirty-one politically picked oil inspectors, who unearth the practically useless knowledge that the gasoline they are using in motor cars would explode if put into a coal oil lamp. 1 is statement of the case was admitted today by I. N. Miller, state food and drug commissioner, under whom the oil inspection department functions. “I agree, that as at present constituted, the inspection standards are designed for the old kerosene lamp days, and that the largest contribution being made by the deno’v is the returning of some $300,000 annually to the general fund,” Miller declared.

Called Only a Joke “There are two schools of thought in regard to this matter. One would abolish oil inspection entirely and the other would set up standards for gasoline inspection similar to our pure food law’s. “As it is, the kerosene tests probably save several lives in the state each year.” Miller admitted that many oil dealers look upon the antiquated inspection by a “flash test” as a joke, which is not taken seriously by certain of the oil inspectors themselves. Certain oil men frankly admit that they have given the oil inspectors bottles of water or other liquids and have been given perfect scores 3hd paid the inspection fee. All of which means, according to Miller, that no test was made. *■ Rules Called Loose The law merely requires that kerosene not flash at less than 120 degrees Fahrenheit, since, if it did, it might explode in a lamp. Law’rence F. Orr, chief examiner of the. state board of accounts, who has unearthed numerous alleged shortages in oil inspectors’ accounts, Admits that the rules governing this department are extremely loose. Where shortages have been discovered, it Is on the figures of the inspectors’ themselves, there being no other check. All an inspector is required to do is to make sufficient tests\to cover collection of his $125 monthly salary. According to the annual departmental report, compiled by James I. Inlow, chief clerk, the inspection fees amounted to $369,422.51 in 1929, this cost being passed on, largely, to the motorists. Leslie Does Nothing There were 1,011,029 barrels of kerosene tested and 8.328,179 barrels of gasoline, the latter meaning nothing, since there are no standards for passing the test. The inspectors merely determined the specific gravity of the gasoline, or at least collected fees for doing so. It cost $83,348.81 to operate the department in 1929 and gave the state a net profit of $286,073.70, Governor Harry G. Leslie has had Orr's reports on inspectors’ shortages for several months, but has done nothing about them. He stated recently that he is “studying the entire matter and may make recommendations to the legislature.”

FEAR MOB VIOLENCE Politician Is Hidden After Shooting Enemy’s Son. Bu United Press WILBURTON. Okla., July St.John C. Callahan, fiery Latimer county politician, was held in the state penitentiary at McAlester for safe keeping today charged with shooting the son of his political enemy. Frank Briggs, 18-year-old son of Claud Briggs, candidate for the state senate, was shot after an argument over his father’s nomination which Callahan opposed bitterly. Briggs was not wounded seriously but the shooting created such excitement that officers feared vio-_ lence. • Charges of assault with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons were filed against Callahan here. Westfield Woman Dies Bu Times Special WESTFIELD, Ind., July 31. Mrs. Tille Cook Smith, 55, is dead at her home here. She leaves the following brothers and sisters: Harley Cook of McMendville, Tenn., and Joseph, Virgil and William Cook of Westfield, and Mrs. Clara Chance of Sheridan.

ADVISES DELAY IN , CHURCH REMOVAL

Recommendation that county commissioners delay purchase of the two churches on the Indiana war memorial plaza until financial conditions are stabilized was made today in a letter to the board by Linton A. Cox. attorney and Republican candidate for state senator. Referring to the $1,200,000 price fixed on the two edifices, the Second Presbyterian and the First Baptist churches, as & “great expenditure,” Cox wrote that a purchase of the churches by the county “must strike praogcally the whole public as a not (

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Famous Beauty to Be Bride of Marshall Field

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Here is Mrs. Dudley Coates, famous beauty of New York and London society, who, according to reports, is to become the bride of Marshall Field 111, Chicago merchant prince, soon after Field’s present wife obtains a divorce for which she has applied at Reno, Neb. Mrs. Coates is the daughter of Mrs. Willie James, prominent London society matron, and had King Edward VII for a godfather.

STUDY TRAFFIC CODEREVISION Committee Seeks Data on Congested Area. Study of traffic in the downtown congested area has been begun by the city traffic committee working on revision of the traffic code, Todd Stdbps, chairman, and Hoosier Motor Club manager, said today. The committee believes that sufficient facts are not available on the percentage of motor traffic and street car patrons of downtown stores. The committee proposed a count of downtoym stores to obtain adidtional information.' Herbert Spencer, former city prosecutor, proposed to the committee that the ordinance be revised to provide that police make arrests for traffic violations committed in their presence, giving stickers only in cases not witnessed by policemen. Another suggestion was to make it unlawful for a motorist to enter a street intei section when the “change” or “caution” light is showing. DISTILLER IS SLAIN i Killers Escape in Traffic Near Chicago Loop. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 30 —Two men m a small automobile clattered up to a dark passageway Wednesday night, sent a volley of bullets into the body of Gus Gusatteri and sped away into heavy traffic not far from, Chicago’s busy loop. Gusatteri. said by police to be an illicit distiller, died instantly. _ His assailants did their work so efficiently and so rapidly that witnesses were unable to describe them or their car.

JEERS ARRESTING COP. CHASED AND JAILED William Dozier Held After Hurling Taunt, Passing Scene. “Get that thing off the street, you’re more trouble than you’re worth,” w T as the cry of William Dozier, 23, of 3015 North Meridian street, to Motorcycle Officer David Huggins as the officer was writing out a ticket for a motorist who had disobeyed a trafflte light at Meridian street and Fall Creek boulevard Wednesday night. Dozier was passing in his car and the officer says he leaned out to call out the words. The officer gave chase, caught Dozier and locked him up on charges of interfering with an officer. Health Officer Appointed Bu Times Soecial MARION Ind., July 31.—Appointment of Di L. E. Eshleman as city tealth officer has been announced by Mayor Jack Edwards. He will succeed Dr. Neal Loomis, who resigned io accept a position in a military hospital a2 Swatelle, Cal.

unreasonable cause for the purchase to be deferred.” Local posts of the American Legion have urged removal of the edifices before the 1933 national convention which probably will be held here. Cox urged the Legion to approve a delay in view of general conditions. “It does not appear wise at this moment for the county to plunge into such an expenditure for the purpose of destmying the churches and adding to the open space on which they stand to the Plaza,” Cox wrote.

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SCHWAB’S PAY IS FAR BELOW PUBUCBELIEF Bethlehem Board Chairman Gets Only $150,000 as Yearly Salary. GRACE 'IS PAID HIGHLY Steel Company President Given 1929 Bonus of $1,600,000. Bu United Press YOUNGSTOWN, 0., July 31. Charles M. Schwab, veteran chair‘man of the board of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, has received a salary of $150,000 a year since 1925, it was brought out today in Cyrus S. Eaton’s suit to block merger of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company with Bethlehem' The veteran steel man’s salary was revealed in a list of salaries and bonuses paid by Bethlehem since 1925 and submitted to the court at the insistence of Eaton’s attorneys. The figure was a complete surprise. It had been supposed that Schwab was receiving an annual salary variously estimated at between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. Grice Gets $1,600,000 In earlier testimony, it was brought out that Etfgene G. Grace, president of Bethlehem, receives an annual salary of $12,000, but this is only supplementary to annual “incentive bonuses.” His “incentive bonus” last year, it was testified, was more than $1,600,000. It was stated definitely that Schwab receives no bonus. On this basis, and according to previous testimony, lesser executives, as beneficiaries of the bonus plan, receive more annually from Bethlehem than does Schwab. Not Aware of Bonus Eaton attorneys, in bringing out existence of the “incentive bonus” system, also revealed that Sheet and Tube officials sponsoring the merger were not advised of its existence in early negotiations with Bethlehem. Eaton, dominant Sheet and Tube shareholder, and his allies, are opposing the merger -on the ground that Bethlehem’s terms “are unfair andVinged with fraud.” Their attorneys laid a careful groundwork for introduction of evidence bearing on Bethlehem salaries and bonuses, in an avowed attempt to reveal Grace’s and Schwab’s earnings.

$400,000 LOSS IN CHURCH FIRE St. Benedict’s Destroyed at Terre Haute. Bai Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 31.-* Despite efforts of, every firemen here, St. Benedict’s Catholic church is in ruins today, following a fire w’hich raged for several hours Wednesday afternoon. The loss is $400,000. Blow torches workmen were using in the,dome of the church are believed to have started the fire. The point at which the flames were first discovered was so high that firemen were unable to play water on them until fifteen minutes after arrival. A residence three blocks from the church was destroyed, having been ignited by spark^ Neal Murtaugh, fire captain, escaped injury after a thrilling episode when he was trapped on a ledge at the front of the building, flames pouring from windows on either side of him.

WIND LEVELS TREE OF TRAGIC ROMANCE

Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 31.--This city’s most historic tree, an old oak, at the home of Mrs. Jessie F. Croan, has fallen, a storm victim. Oldest residents here say the tree always has been the largest in Anderson. Men and women, now old, BANS ROAD CLOSING Highway Chief Warns Towns Against Carnivals. State highway commissioners will oppose all blocking of state highways in small towns by street carnivals, bandstands and similar obstructions, it was announced today by Director John J. Brown of the state highway department. Many small towns close their Main street for a week or ten days for entertainment purposes and force through traffic on state roads to detour, he explained. The most recent example was Paoli, jvhere dozens of letters of protest were sent to the commission because of a street fair blocking traffic on both United States 150 and State Road 56, according to Brown. CHILD BURNED FATALLY Father Rescues Three Others, but Collapses Braving Flames. Bu United Press DELPHOS, 0., July 31.—Julia Anee Redd, 6, was fatally burned in a fire which destroyed hek home near here today. The child’s father successfully rescued three other children from the flames, but collapsed after three futile attempts to make his way into the burning house for the remaining-girl.

R-100 Outstrips Air Rivals

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The top picture, scaled to proper proportions, shows how the British dirigible R-100 is larger than Germany’s famous Graf Zeppelin and the United States navy’s Los Angeles. Though the R-100 is shorter than the Graf Zep, It is bigger in girth and has a gas capacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet as compared with the Graf’s capacity of 3,700,000 feet and the Los Angeles’ gas capacity of 2,470,000 feet. At the left is the huge pooling mast built for the

TONG WAR OVER OPIUM DEAL FLARES IN GOTJHAM

One Man Slain in New York and Another in Boston. Bu United Press NEW YORK. July 31.—A new tong war over opium flared in Chinatown today. One man was dead and another injured probably fatally, and reports of another tong killing in Boston led police to believe the hostilities might become country-wide. Ling Nott, driver for the Sun Chung Yuen Company, importers, was killed Wednesday night as he stood behind the counter of the company’s shop at 4 Mott street by an assassin, who fired five bullets into his body. Almost simulaneously, another volley broke out a few doors further

TREASURY REOPENS RUSSIA TRADE CASE

Bu United. Press WASHINGTON, July 31. —Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lowman reopened the Russian pulpwood embargo case today by granting representatives of the Amtorg Trading Corporation and American interests who protested the ban, an opportunity to present new evidence. He granted permission for anew hearing at a conference at the treasury today. Meanwhile, he said the embargo placed on pulpwood on the ground it was produced by convict labor

played in a swing hung from its branches. When excavation was made for construction of Mrs. Croan’s home, a man’s skeleton was dug up near the t*ee. Identity never was established. The tree is on the site of the Myers family homestead and was the meeting place for Will Myers, who later became secretary of state and a representative in congress, and another young man, when they ran away with a circus which appeared here. Beneath the oak’s branches a romance, which had a tragic ending, was started. It was during the Civil war that Carolyn Myers, 16, was courted by Captain H. J. Vandevender of the Union army. Finally they eloped to Cincinnati. A few months later he was killed in the l Battle of Vicksburg. The widow died a few years later.. BARK HUGGER STICKS Linger Longer Is Motto of Champ Limb Loiterer. Palmer McCloskey, 328 North Temple avenue, sat on a branch of a tree near his home today and counted four hundred and some hours spent in the popular pastime of limb-sitting, which he claims is the present nondrop record. Several other lads still are in their trees, trying to equal his record. Eight Escape in Fire BRUCEVILLE, Ind., :uly 31.—Mr. and Mrs. Byron Riddle and six children barely escaped from their burning home near here, after the crying of ft baby awoke them. ■•v

R-100 at St. Hubert airport near Montreal, to provide an “anchor” at the end of its trans-Atlantic flight. Westward over the Atlantic by way of Ireland, Scotland, Greenland and Labrador, the huge dirigible followed the route indicated on the map on its maiden flight to America. Starting from Cardington. England, the giant ship would cover 3,385 miles to Montreal.

down the street and Bock Lin Soo, waiting on two tourists in the shop of Kong Sun Chong, slumped to the floor with ten bullets in his body. He is not expected to live. Two bus loads of sightseers were in the street at the time, the guides pointing out a joss house across the street from where Ling was shot. With the firing they slid down in their seats for protection. The two tourists on whom Bock was waiting when he was shot were C. T. Melande, Chicago, and Miss Marie Stone, Chattanooga, Tenn. Melander suffered slight powder bums. The warfare is attributed by police to the alleged failure of Hung Wafi Hong, slain leader of the Tong On group, to deliver a $140,000 opium shipment to On Leongs members. The Hip Sings, traditional enemies of the On Leongs, apparently are

and thus violated the tariff act would be continued. n He gave no indication the treasury was considering an extension of the effective date of the recent treasury embargo order. Lowman said he would withhold further action in the case until the new hearing. He was not advised, he said, when the Amtorg Corporation would be ready to present its further evidence. Request for anew hearing was made by M. S. Makadzub, vicepresident of the Amtorg corporation, and Kenneth Gardner of the Spanish-American steamship line, both o/'whom appeared at the first hearing recently. Amtorg corporation officials, It is understood, are obtaining additional data from Russia on methods of woodpulp production in an attempt to refute ftie treasury’s contention that convict labor is employed. At, the first hearing they presented cablegrams from Exportles, the Soviet export agency, denying that convict labor is employed in woodpulp production. Father of Six Dies B<u Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., July 31Henry Warner, 70, died suddenly at his home in East Columbus of heart disease. He had been ill but a few hours. Mr. Warner was born and reared in Union township and had spent his life there until a few years ago wnten the familly moved to East Columbus. He was a member of the Methodist church. He leaves his widow, six children and a brother, Michael Warner, this city.

RECORD SET FOR PLANE OPERATION

WASHINGTON* July 31.—What undoubtedly is a world record for operating an airplane without motor failure came to an end at 3:41 Wednesday afternoon, when Pilot Larry Pabst set his heavily loaded mail plane down undamaged in a tulip patch ten miles east of Camden, N. J. A stripped cam gear stopped Pabst’s Wright J-5 motor when he was 1,900 feet in the air. It was the first motor failure on the New York-Miami air mail line of Eastern Air Transport in fifteen months. And during that time, the line’s planes have flown exactly 1,954,344 miles. Postoffice department officials. after a £asty glance over

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not involved in this conflict. Hip Sing and On Leong leaders recently signed a “permanent peace pact.” Jarg Tuck was arrested and charged with Ling's murder, and Ly Hung and Sing. Say, the latter giving his address as Tong On headquarters, were held in the shooting of Bock. Hung, the slain Tong On leader, was. shot, in the People’s theater, on the Bowery, during the closing scenes of “The Robber’s Mistake,” July 9. He was asserted to have contracted with On Leong members to deliver the opium shipment, but to have been double-cross by smugglers whom he hired to get the opium from a boat at sea. Hung was unable to explain satisfactorily to the On Leongs, according to the story, and was given a year to make restitution. Failing this, he was shot. On Guard in Boston Bu United Press • BOSTON, July 31—A squad of seventy-five extra policemen strolled the streets of Boston’s Chinatown today to guard against possible outbreak of Tong warfare as the result of the murder of Leong Toon, 30, member of the On Leong faction. The Chinese, an unemployed restaurant worker, was found in a dark alleyway Wednesday night with several bullets in his body and slashes which appeared to have been inflicted with a hatehet or other sharp instrumentPolice feared the Hip Sing and On Leong Tongs, ancient and bitter rivals, had declared war again. THREE DIEJN FIRE Two Women, Girl Trapped in Flaming Home. Bu United Press M’PHERSON, Kan., July 31. Trapped by the falling walls of their home, two women and a girl were burned to death today, the girl dying in an attempt to rescue her mother. The dead were Mrs. Mary Kasparek and her daughter, Anna Grace, 15, and an aunt of the former, Mrs. Ann E. Socha of Durant, Kan. The girl looked back at the flaming house, screamed “mother is in there!” and ran into a bedroom just as the walls cqjlapsed, burying her with the others. Second Oldest Woman Dies B.ii Times Special SHERIDAN, Ind., JulJ 31.—Mrs. Francis Wells, 93, is dead at her home here. She was the second oldest woman in Hamilton county. She leaves a daughter, Mrs, Ella Shew.

operating records last night, said they believed that no other line had even approached such a record. The last previous engine failure on Eastern Air Transport’s line was on the night of April 25, 1929, when Pilot Verne Treat’s motor blew up over the Potomac river between Washington and Alexandria, Va. Treat wrecked the ship in landing, but he was unhurt. When Pabst’s motor quit near Riverton, N. J., he looked around for a place to land and picked out what he thought was a potato patch. However, it turned out to be a rough tulip field, but Pabst put the plane down without hurting either it or himself.

49 ‘HOPEFULS’ WRESTLE WITH EDISOH’S QUIZ r •Brightest Boy of 1930’ to Be Selected Following Examination Today. COMMON SENSE TESTED Ethics, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics Form Question Bases. BY PAUL W. WHITE United Press Staff Correspondent WEST ORANGE, N. J., July 31. -Forty-nine youths, hopeful of winning the title of Thomas A. Edison’s brightest boy of 1930, sat down today to puzzle over an examination that carried them from Egyptian deserts to Manchurian kitchens, from Tamerlane to Henry Ford, and from Avogrado’s hypothesis to the co-efficienl of a microfarad. This examination was something more than a test of knowledge of mathematical and chemical formulae; it w’as a test of common sense and ethics. For example, after the boys had spent two hours and a half on purely scientific questions, they found themselves faced with this nice problem of human behavior: “You are the head of an expedition which has come to grief in the desert. There is enough food and water left to enable three people to get to the nearest outpost of clvilizftion. The rest must perish. Who Should Die? ~“ Your companions are: A brilliant scientist, 60 years old; two halfbreed guides, 58 and 32; the scientist’s wife, interested mainly in society manners, age 39; her little son, age 6; the girl you are engaged to marry; your best friend, a young man of your own age, who has shown great promise in the field of science. “Which would you choose to live and which to die? Give your reasons. The examination was divided in four parts. The most lengthy being confined to questions in chemistry, mathematics and physics. “State Avogrado’s hypothesis and show how it is used by chemists in determination of molecular weight,” was the first of six questions relating to chemistry. The boys n!ust answer five out of the six. Quizzed in Math A typical mathematical question was the following: “The base of a pyramid is a square, each side of which is twelve inches long. Each of the other edges is twenty inches. Find the altitude and volume of the pyramid.” In physics, among other tilings, the boys were asked to define the coefficient of friction, of dyne, and of micro-farad. The so-called “humanities” entered largely into the second section of the test, the first question bidding the boys solemnly to say “when you look back on your life from your deathbed, by what facts will you determine whether you have succeeded or failed?” The rather delicate question about the stranded desert party followed, and after that the question: “In the year 1900, how would you have gotten the first cable of a suspension bridge-across an impassable gorge one-half a mile wide?” Communism Touch On The final question of Part 2 asked the boys to state briefly “how you think Communistic propaganda should be dealt with.” Part 4, the concluding section of the quiz, dealt with history and current events. It asked for approximate dates on the battle of Gettysburg and the reign of Solomon, not to mention the probable birthday of one or two of the dawn-of-history men like Pithecanthropus and Eoanthropus. Edison also sought to gain some knowledge of the boys’ ideas of values—and ethics—in the following question: “If you owned the following items, set down the approximate price in dollars and cents for which you would sell them, and the sort of purchaser you would select: “(a) Ford coupe which has run 5,000 miles. “(b) Basic patent which will reduce cost of manufacturing shoes 20 cents a pair. “(c) Secret process of manufacturing a drug which definitely will cure cancer. “(d) Ten acres of land in a good farming section of lowa., “(£> Trade information which will enable one competitive firm to take $1,000,000 worth of net profits away from another. “(f) The secret of anew poison gas which will make any nation supreme in war ” RITES SLATED FRIDAY FOR MRS. MORRISON Indianapolis Clubwoman Dies on Visit to Son in Minnesota. Last rites for Mrs. Celestia Alice Morrison, 73, Indianapolis clubwoman who died Monday while visiting a son at Minneapolis, will be held at 1 p. m. Friday at the Irvington Presbyterian church. Burial will be in Beck cemetery, three miles north of Lebanon. Mrs. Morrison was the mother of George Beck Morrision, president of the Indiana Office Furniture Company, and resided at 426 North Emerson _>venue. She was a member of the W. C. T. U„ Rebekah lodge and Cedars of Lebanon. Survivors are two sons, John T. Morrison, at whose home she died: George Beck Morrison, Indianapo-, lis; two daughters. Mrs. J. J. Welsh, Superior, Mont., and Mrs. Ruba I. Bennett, Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Charles Hall of Lebanon, and two brothers, Dr. William Beck, Indianapolis, and Beecher Beck of Lebanon..- \