Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1930 — Page 9

OCT/ T,' 193d.

WOMAN'S LIFE CHANCE BETTER, AVERS EXPERT Weaker Sex Beginning to Live Longer Than Men, Survey Shows. BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Prr SUB Correnondent CHICAGO, Oct. I.—ls you’re a middle aged woman, whether you admit It or not, you stand a much better chance to live to a ripe old age than a man of similar years, the experts on sUch things agreed tonight. Wendell P. Coler of Bt. Louis, who spends most of his waking hours studying life charts and making graphs for 136 Insurance companies so that they may govern their rates accordingly, explained the situation for about 500 representatives of those companies. Coler, of studious mein and somber clothes as befits a man who tuggles the life and death prospects of the human race, said that America apparently is becoming a nation of older people. Jump of Ten Years "The general life expectancy of all Americans seems to have gone up in the last score or so of years from about 48 to 58," he said. ‘‘This is due mostly to the smaller number of babies who die today. When it comes to those of mature age. the life expectancy of women appears to be Increasing, while that of men seems to be breaking down." Coler Intimated that women take more Interest in their figures and hence In their diets than do men. Women, furthermore, have more leisure, usually get more rest and have more absorbing interests and hobbies than their husbands, he explained. . The latter spend so much time grubbing for a living and, then worrying about It that Coler s statistics show they die somewhat younger than their wives.

Woman Nearly Sure Bet “A woman of say 45 to 50 In good health is almost a sure bet to outlive a man of the same age and same apparent health,” he continued. "Women’s situation is improving steadily. Women are having fewer children and there are less deaths during child birth. Women as a whole are having an easier life, less drudgery, better care and are improving in health. “Men apparently are finding business competition too great a strain and they are dying consequently more often of heart disease in the fifties and sixties.” Over Period of Years Coler's complicated schedules, compiled over a long period of years, revealed with mathematical certainty that forty-eight- men out of every 100 alive at 25 will live to be 70. And if they survive the rigors of life until they become more or less bald at 50, then fiftysix out of every 100 will live until 70. “1 -,e proportion of old people will ’ontinue to increase In this cout try,” Coler concluded. Decreajed immigration, declining birth rate and lower infant mortality will bring it about. Asa nation. we shall becone more conservative. There will be fewer ‘boy wonders’ in business and the arts.” VETERAN BANKER SEES PROSPEROUS ERA SOON Chicago Man Predicts Depression Will End in Few Months. By United Press CHICAGO. Oct. I.—George M. Reynolds today celebrated fifty continuous years in the banking business by predicting that within a few months, America not only will be fully recovered from its business depression, but will be enjoying a period of "startling prosperity.” Reynolds, oldest banker in point of service in Chicago, began as a clerk in a country bank fifty years ago and now is chairman of the executive committee of the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: C. R. Marcum. 939 Congress avenue. Packard sedan. 51-649. from Fortv-Pourth street and Cold Springs road.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobile* recovered by police Pontiac sedan, 33-638. found at Kessler boulevard and Illinois street. Building Permits Alden Cote. dwelling and garage. 712 East Fifty-Third. *3.500. Coleman Queen, dwelling. 901-03 Park. *'lC 00 8oBln. addition and remodeled. 92830 South Meridian. $2,000. J C. Duncan, dwelling and garage. 5840 North Delaware. $12,500. Tom Lambert, dwelling and garage. 1726 3har.-n. $4,000. P. J. Deutscher. alterations and repairs. 314 North Delaware. $3.000.

Immediate J|| Relief for pW| INDIGESTION SH I What most people call indiges- in acid. The <sfr tion is usually excess acid in the results are stomach. Food has soured. The immediate with no harmful afterinstant remedy is an alkali which effects. neutralizes acids. But don’t use Once you learn this perfect way crude helps. Use what your doctor you’ll never deal in any other would advise. manner with the headaches, gas. The best help is Phillips’ Milk bloating, nausea, dizziness, inof Magnesia. For the 50 years digestion, biliousness, etc., due since its invention, it has remained to an over-acid stomach and bowels, standard with physicians. You will Be sure to get genuine Phillips’, find nothing else so quick in its It is always a liquid; never made in effect, so harmless, so efficient. tablet form. Look for the name One tasteless spoonful in water Phillips on the bottle. All drugneutralises many times its volume stores —25c and 50c.

PHlLLlPS’magnesia

Aged Poor Live in Firetrap

I? 7 I 7' ' JudrSt i-i JjH^g

POSTAL PROBE IS IN PROSPECT Deficit Reduction Efforts Quiz Is Demanded. WASHINGTON, Oct. I.—Attempts of Postmaster-General Walter D. Brown to reduce the postal deficit by reorganizing mail handling systems in many large cities, probably will lead to a congressional probe of the postal systems. Two Pennsylvania congressmen, Representative Clyde Kelly of Pittsburgh and Representative Samuel A. Kendall of Meyersdale, today advocated a probe of recent service changes as soon as congress reconvenes in December. According to complaints reaching both congressmen, widespread dissatisfaction exists in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and other cities where mail handling changes have been put into effect following recommendations of a corps of postal inspectors. Although the postoffice department insists no regular employes have lost their positions as the result of new methods of delivery and collection of mail, Representative Kelly says the changed system will deprive many substitute carriers of needed employment. Representative Kendall contends Postmaster-General Brown is placing undue emphasis on the postal deficit, while the public’s chief demand is for service.

EMPIRE PROBLEMS UP Imperial British Conference ‘ Opens in London. Bu United Press , LONDON, Oct. I.—The growing agitation for empire free trade and the recent unrest in India, Egypt and Palestine appeared to be among the most Important discussions confronting the imperial conference which opened here today. Considerable importance has been attached to the forthcoming deliberations by reason of the economic problems that have arisen since the last conference in 1926, and also for the first time plans will be considered for treating the empire as an economic unit.

In a brick building, condemned by state fire marshals, 370 aged male inmates of the Marion county poor farm bed down nightly on straw ticks or iron cots in narrow rooms and hallways. The farm’s overcrowded condition is such that cots are placed end to end, to give sleeping quarters for the aged men. A Times photographer snapped the accompanying views in the men’s building at the infirmary: Top—Ticks and cots in a hall on the second floor of the farm. Those living in rooms are forced in some instances to step over mattresses t:. leave their rooms. Center (left) —Exterior ,of fivestory structure, three top floors of which previously were condemned. Center (right)—A hallway with four beds. Lower (right)—Jefferson Peck, 70, is looking out of a poor farm window and ruminating on a civilization that permits its poor to sleep on straw mattresses in a firctrap building.

SLAYER PLACED IN DEATH CELL California Boy-Killer to Be Hanged Thursday. Bu United Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal., Oct. I.—ln the cell whose walls bear the farewell messages of William Edward Hickman and other famous California killers, Gordon Stewart Northcott, convicted slayer of boys, today awaited death on the gallows. He must stay in the ‘death cell” until Thursday at 10 a. m. when he will be taken into the gallows room, fifty feet away, and hanged. Northcott was visited Tuesday by Mrs. Christine Collins of Los Angeles who came here in an effort to determine if the youth murdered her small son. Mrs. Collins was kept waiting several hours. Northcott told her: "I am facing certain death and that within two days. How could I lie at such a time. I never killed your son.”

U. S. ‘Beetles’ American Women Flayed as,,.‘lmpossible’ by British Writer.

LONDON, Oct. I.—American clubwomen have been linked to a “swarm of beetles,” by William A. Gerhardi, the British novelist, who just has returned from a speaking tour of the United States, and who has aired his views in the English press in no uncertain terms. “Lecturing, you feel that you had spilled some kind of savory and swarms of beetles had come on the spot, American women are alike because of their uniform desire to be different.'’ “Women's clubs in the United States.” Gedhardi declared, “are appalling examples of the mass eagerness of America's women for culture swallowed in tabloid form.” The sex problem, high-minded-ness, and their demoralization by being worshiped by men. instead of discreetly loved, all tend to make American women “impossible,” Gerhardi assorted.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BRANCH LIBRARY IS AOTHORIZED Broad Ripple Service to Start Nov. 1. On recommendation of Luther L. Dickerson, city librarian, the school board Tuesday night authorized installation of a Broad Ripple branch library at 910-912 East Sixty-third street, Nov. 1. It is estimated the branch will serve 20,000 persons in northeastern Indianapolis. The board approved discontinuing the McCarty branch located at 415 McCarty street effective today because the building is unfit for occupation and repairs would be prohibitively costly. Deposit stations will be established in the neighboring school. Summer schedule of three days a week will be maintained by- the South Grove branch library, Twentieth street and Sugar Grove avenue, the board decided. Repair projects in several buildings, to cost $12,064, were approved by the board. They include: Installation of partitions in rooms No. 147, 149 and 155 of Arsenal Technical high school, 6500; Installation of domestic science department at school No. 2. 710 North Delaware street, $1,751; installation of drinking fountains on the second floor of school No. 44. Twenty-first street and Sugar Grove avenue. $185; installation of a thermostatic heating control system at school JTo. 57. Washington street and Ritter avenue. $400; radiatlonal equipment at school No. 91. 4601 North Keystone avenue. $218; painting and varnishing at school No. 14. 1229 East Ohio street, $7,510.50. and construction of a fireproof vault in the buildings and grounds department. SSOO. BAN DIT ”sHOT~BY“COPS Wounded in Pistol Duel After Drug Store Robbery. By United Press DETROIT, Oct. I.—Less than fifteen minutes after they robbed a drug store of SBO, two youthful bandits were shot down on the street early today after a closerange pistol battle with two scout car patrolmen. One of the holdup men is expected to die. The wounded thugs are Lawrence Mcßride, 26, Detroit, and Larry Kelly, 24. Buffalo.

jT-%. Will Purchase One of Our ETiIOAIIUmJM and 69° S-Hi-E- Egyptian Ring or Face Powder niLC. v:lh Each Bottle of Perfume This advertisement and rLn I UIYI L 69c entitles the bearer to I.i Tefldl EITHER LADIES’ OK FLESH. WHITE OR one^ufi I S’box^f*LeGENTLEMEN’S BRUNETTE TON Face Pow der in yS3HI FINEST QCALIIX fKRFLMES your favorite shade. '***' \ \ §§j?|f Ouf perfumes are the very finest quality. They are D.iL Articles made with the finest oils imported from France. n V The fragrances are superbly delicate. Rarely will for Only 69c you find such exquisite perfumes with such true wantage of thi* ' fresh flower character. londerlul offer today. This sale is made possible by the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, are Terj . fortunate to be importer and manufacturer stand- Saturday and Monday able to offer this wonderful }of ThlVwm W Mall Orders 11c Extra . ..r f customer, at - Limit 3 Sets to & Customer Roesch’s* Drag Store Ferger Terminal Drug Store oiive L?™!! thßr * Cor. fetation St. St Roosevelt Ave. Illinois and Market Street* Oliver Ave Indianapolis Indianapolis Indiana ■■— noth I hone.

N.Y. GOVERNOR BATTLED ODDS TO GAIN FAME Roosevelt, ‘Man Who Came Back,’ Gamely Beat Physical Handicaps. Bu United Pres* NEW YORK, Oct. I.—Franklin D. Roosevelt, who rose to the highest position his state offers, desoite physical handicap, might best be described as "the man who came back.” Tuesday he was nominated by New York Democrats to succeed himself for Governor and his candidacy for the presidency launched. A distant relative of Theodore Roosevelt, the fighting President, Franklin D. Roosevelt shows the family strain. Asa youngster at Harvard, from which he was graduated in 1904, Roosevelt excelled in physical prowess. He was a star football player. In the summer of 1924, he was stricken with infantile paralysis. The disease left him paralyzed from the waist down. In a few weeks he was bereft of the use of his legs and little hope, held that he ever would walk again. Overcome Paralysis As helpless as an infant, he had to be propped up in bed. His family told him he was going to be all right. There may have been doubt in the minds of family, friends and medical men about this but there was none in the mind of Roosevelt. He himself to win back the use of his legs. They did not respond to treatment at Roosevelt hospital here, but continued to waste away. But Roosevelt vowed he would get well. Soon reports were heard that he was improving. Then he was seen motoring and finally there came a time when with the use of light but strong iron braces and crutches, he swung himself along and kicked his legs. Today he walks with the aid of strong canes. Nominated Smith

Three years after he was stricken, Roosevelt headed the movement to nominate the then Governor Alfred E. Smith for President of the United States. He was at the Smith headquarters early and late, conferring with Democrats from other states, deciding questions of policy and looking for strategic advantages. Roosevelt presented the name of Alfred E. Smith to the Democratic convention as candidate for President. It was a dramatic moment in political history, when he made his way with difficulty from the floor to the platform and made a speech i regarded as a political masterpiece. Shortly thereafter, Roosevelt was nominated for the office which Governor Smith vacated and subsequently was elected Governor of the state of New York. Roosevelt was bom in the ancestral home at Hyde Park, N. Y., Jan. 30, 1882. He holds an M. A. degree from Harvard and LL. B. degree from Columbia. In war days, Roosevelt was assistant secretary of navy. As Governor he has been confronted recently with two important decisions —what path to follow on the prohibition question and what stand to take toward exposures of corruption in Tammany-controlled New York. In the first instance, Roosevelt decided upon favoring repeal of the eighteenth amendment, with a proviso that states should determine their own liquor problems except that no state should have the right to restore the old-time saloon. Roosevelt, risking the possible wrath of the powerful New York city machine, ordered an investigation of charges of barter of magistrates’ offices in New York and since has bestowed power to extend the original inquiry. His latest move in this particular situation was a demand upon Tammany leaders to abandon their refusals to waive immunity which had been holding up efforts to get these men’s testimony. Shells of the sea creatures known as Tridacnae grow to a huge size. They can only be detached from rocks by cutting their cable with an ax, and one usually is a sufficient meal for twenty persons.

WHY NOT FIND OUT for yourself just how much the numerous extra features recently added will increase your satisfaction in GEM Wet Wash services. WET WASH Thursday.. .Friday.. .Saturday 4c per pound. Flat Work Ironed 3c additional per pound. Men's Shirts Ironed ... 10c Each r G^m LI 1

Jack Donahue, Star of Musical Comedy, Dies

J. . : ' jHjißßr .T *

Jack Donahue

TWO MEN KILLED IN RAIL MISHAPS

Inmate of Poor Farm Dies Under Train; Brakeman Slain; One Hurt. Two men were killed and a third injured seriously late Tuesday in three rail tragedies. Edward Achgill, 48, of 1839 Prospect street, brakeman for the Belt Railroad, died after he was crushed beneath a freight car at East street and the Belt railroad. Achgill was pinned beneath the car more than an hour before it was lifted. He died shortly after he was removed. Thomas Jones, 60, inmate of the county poor farm, was killed when he ran in front of a passenger tram nn tracks that pass through the infirmary property. J.■ .®; 1529 Hoyt avenue, engineer of th Big Four train said he belie Jones attempted to heat the trato. as he started runninng toward the tracks as the train approached. As he drove a hed of cattle across the tracks, Lewis Bramlett, 5 , R. R. 15, Box 699, was struck by a trac tion car Tuesday night at Thirty eShth street and Ritter avenue City hospital physicians today said his condition is serious The car was on the U n ™ T ' ia tion line and did not stop afte £ accident. Crew of the car was being sought today for statements in connection with the accident.

FUNGUS CAUSES ASTHMA Strange Case, Reported to Medical Body, Is Investigated. Bu Science Service NEW YORK, Oct. '.—A strange case of asthma, in which the patient suffered severe attacks when he was in a musty atmosphere, such as is found in damp old houses, musty store rooms or trunk rooms, antique shops and the like, has been reported to the American Medical Association by Dr. J. G. Hopkins, Dr. Beatrice M. Kesten and Rhoda W. Benham of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The cause of the asthmatic attacks finally was discovered to be a certain kind of fungus. This fungus was found in the air of certain rooms and houses in which the patient had had attacks, and caused the mustiness of the atmosphere which the patient had associated with his attacks.

Bu United Prem NEW YORK. Oct. 1.-Jack Donahue, a leading star of the musical comedy stage, died at his home here today of heart disease. Although he had stopped work a week ago on adviceof his physicians, death came unexpectedly. Donahue was appearing in Cincinnati with his latest show, "Sons of Guns” when he was forced to leave the cast because of his heart. After returning here he appeared cheerful and said he thought he would be well again after a rest. His condition, it was said, had been induced by overwork. Donahue was one of Broadway’s most popular stars, and had been featured in many of the most successful musical shows since he reached the top of his career several years ago. Many critics called him the best dancer in musical comedy. He had been on the stage ever since he was a boy, making his way upward from small-time vaudeville. In his most successful appearances he played opposite Marilyn Miller and Lily Damita.

Gentle Jetta Bn Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Oct. I. Tetta Goudal is a much misonderstood young woman, her

fiance, Harold Grieve, will have you know. Grieve and Jetta, who w f as ousted from the talkies as "too s entimcntal,” are visiting the home of John Gilbert here. Cecil B. DeMille last year called Jetta a "French

R II

Miss Goudal

cocktail of emotions." "She isn’t temperamental at all," says Grieve. "She merely won’t do anything unless she can take time to do it right, and that’s what they call temperament in the studio.”

SEEKS DOCTOR DEGREE Tech High Graduate Returns to University of Cincinnati. Msis Alice Phillips, Technical hteh school graduate in 1924, has returned to the University of Cincinnati on a teaching fellowship to

work toward her doctor’s degree in science. She completed her master's degree last year. Miss Phillips entered the university on a Baldwin fellowship In biology, received from Butler university in 1929. While at Butler she was active in journalism and club work. During her high school career at Tech she was business manager of

Miss Phillips

the Arsenal Cannon, prophet of of her class and school reporter for The Times, She is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Phillips, 4906 West Sixteenth street.

Taking A Hill on High It takes lots of power and a good start to climb a hill without shifting gears. Get a good start for the hills of the day’s work by eating a breakfast of Shredded Wheat and milk. There is * a quick “get-away” in this delicious, whole wheat food. No need for shifting gears in the middle of the hill—just go right on up with increased energy and power. And Shredded Wheat is in such a delicious, easily 4 digestible form. , M SHREDDEr gjjgWHEA l|§p!|p|§J OF THE WHOLE W®H|

PAGE 9

FORT TO STEERT CLEAR OF RUM ISSUE INJALKS Hoover Spokesmen Intends to Dwell on Economic Policies. BY BEN STERN Economic policies of the Hoover administration, including tariff, drough relief, business depression and the long time business stabilisation will be the themes of addresses to be delivered in Indiana by Franklin Fort of New Jersey, former secretary of the O. O. P. national committee, who will be the President's spokesman in the midwest area. Fort, who was snowed under by Dwight Morrow in the New Jersey senatorial primaries, because of his defense of Anti-Saloon League tactics, will not touch upon the topic of prohibition, it was indicated, but he will be the "envoy without portfolio’' of the President to the central area. Importance of Fort’s proposed utterances in Indiana may be gauged from the fact that before leaving Washington Monday for Chicago to arrange his itinerary, he conferred with Hoover at the White House. Refuses to Comment Following his conference, Fort refused to discuss the conversation, but White House officials indicated the meeting had been arranged so the President might outline his views on economic policies. In that e 1 ent. Fort’s Indiana speeches closely would reflect the major strategy of the national campaign. Tentative program for Fort in Indiana calls from him to speak in the steel mill area in Lake county Thursday, in the Thirteenth district Friday and be the principal orator at a Republican barbecue and poleraising at Oswego in the Thirteenth district Saturday. Failing health of Senator James E. Watson, who planned to make thirteen addresses in Indiana in the campaign has caused the Republican national committee to send to this state some of its own high powered orators, for the congressional fight here is being carefully watched.

Treasure' to Speak Among the orators scheduled are: W. O. Woods, treasurer of the United States, whose itinerary will begin FYiday afternoon at South Bend, that night at Elkhart, and Saturday at Logansport. During the following week he will speak at Bedford. Richmond and Centerville, and will deliver an address over WKBF. Monday noon he will appear at the Sclentech Club. Representative Royal C. Johnson of South Dakota, chairman of the committee on World veterans’ legislation, will speak at Frankfort Friday. OIL REPORTS ORDERED All Projects Must Be Listed With State Geologist. Beginning today, it will be necessary for all oil and gas development projects in Indiana to be reported to the state geologist, Dr. W. N. Logan, in the department of conservation, before drilling starts. This rule was made, effective with the signature of GovernetuHa Leslie.

ES. :ACH A WHOLE-MILK CHEESE FOOD