Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1930 — Page 6

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OLD YULE DAYS BEST, ‘AGELESS 1 EX-SLAVE SAYS Negro, 40 Years in Capital Post, Recalls Christmas on Virginia Plantations. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Pit** Staff Corrrsnondf nt WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Christmas in the old south, with lavish hospitality spread for the “white folks" at mansions for miles around, was recalled today by Harry Parker, the seemingly ageless Negro, who has sat for forty years outside the office of chairmen of the house ways and means committee, and attended to their odd jdbs. Harry, who has known and been known by congressional leaders since the time of McKinley, was reared near Mount Vernon, the George Washington estate, and his lather was for years the guard at the first President's tomb, a position now held by Harry's uncle. He looks back with a fond shake of his head upon Chirstmases of the past, when neighbors from miles around visited each other for the whole week, between Christmas and New Year’s to partake of hospitality, which always included a large bowl of eggnog. Has Happy Philosophy Harry has a happy philosophy, a happy outlook upon the world. His frequent “Yes sir. It’s a fine day, sir, yes sir,” to the members who pass by the door where he sits day in and day out somehow brightens hours when legislative problems become worrisome. It docs become a ‘fine day.” Harry smiles, a bit sheepishly, when asked his age. “I don’t know, sir. You know the iamilies who kept us kept account of that, and when they were gone, somehow we just lost track.” He spoke about the slaves of the early day. and proudly he traces his family back to the early Jamestown days. “They didn't care about age. They were just like the Indians—just loved the bright sunlight.” His face lighted up. Has Washington Relics “That, is lovely country down there in Virginia about Mt. Vernon. The slaves had a good time. They were treated fine.” Harry is familiar with the history of Mt. Vernon, which has been the home of his family for generations. He has two silver cups which he said are supposed to have belonged to George Washington and which were given to his family. He will leave them to the Mt. Vernon collection. He also has one of the first pictures ever made of Mt. Vernon, an early sketch, which hangs in the office of the ways and means committee chairman. First Worked for McKinley Harry is sorry that the late Representative Charles M. Stedman of North Carolina, the last Confederate In the house, never was able to carry out his desire to have a statue to the old Negro mammy placed here. “They were wonderful—those old mammies,” he said. “The young people coming up today laugh at them, but it’s too bad they didn’t get some of their goodness.” Harry first worked for McKinley when the Ohioan, who later became President, was chairman of the ways and means committee, and has sat outside the door as other distinguished men passed in and out of this important position. LONDON BANS DOBBIN DURING RUSH HOURS Traffic Official Issues Decree In Effort to End Congestion. By United Press LONDON. Dec. 25.—01d Dobbin, faithful but slow, soon is to be ruled off London’s busy thoroughfares. The decision to bar horse vehicles and delivery vans during rush hours was reached by Herbert Morrison, minister of transport, as part of a scheme to solve congested traffic difficulties which are becoming an increasingly serious -problem. Under the road traffic act drafted recently the country will be divided Into areas controlled, by traffic commissioners who will have jurisdiction over tramcars, omnibuses, taxicabs and motor coaches. * ‘ It is pointed out tramcars are even too slow and may be curtailed In number. LIKE ■ THEIR TEACHER None Ab*nl or Late in Fifteen Weeks, Report Reveals. FREEPORT. Maine. Dec. 25.—1 t takes more than head colds or sore thumbs to keep the thirteen pupils of Porter's Landing school from class. Teacher Fannie Mitchell’s quarterly report, showed that for the fifteen weeks constituting the fall ;erm none of the youngsters was absent. late, or dismissed early.

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Blondes, Pfd., is showing a steady gain on the Italian beauty market. For in a land most famous for its brunettes, fair Mafaida Mariottino, pictured above, has been proclaimed “Miss Italy of 1930.” She won a nation-wide beauty contest in competition with hundreds of other girls and is the daughter of a prominent Italian lawyer.

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Big Reduction in Deaths Is Shown in State Over 16-Year Period. By Scripps-ll mcard Keicspainer Alliatide' SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25.—California has proved that health is a purchasable commodity by a winning fight against the white plague that for spectacular achievement passes that of any state. In 1914, California led the United States in its death from tuberculosis. Then 189 persons out of every 100,000 population were dying each year from this disease. A few shacks at county poor houses were the only institutions caring for sufferers that were increasing at an alarming rate. A young woman,' named Mrs. Edythe Tate Thompson, appealed to Hiram Johnson, then Governor, and the next year Governor. Johnson, pushed through the legislature the first state subsidy. *• The state offered to spend $3 per bed and -the counties -were enoouraged to erect hospitals. Mrs. Thompson was appointed head of the tuberculosis division of the state board of health and the crusade began. Figures soon will be announced showing that the death rate for this year has been driven down to 106.8. By spending $33,000,000 the state and counties have reduced the rate 83 per 100.000. Translated into actual lives saved this means that California has in sixteen years saved 29,000 lives. In fourteen years more at this rate, tuberculosis in California will be negligible. Instead of a few shacks that used to house the tubercular sufferers, California now maintains eight great and twelve preventoriums. Children are being educated in diet and other preventive Measures. Even in face of the great number of veteran tuberculosis sufferers and the large number of easterners coming to the state for cure, tuberculosis in California steadily is being pushed to the wall. gorilla: is like man Foot Resembles Human Being’s More Than Any Other Primate. Ri/ Science Service BALTIMORE, Dec. 25. The gorilla has a foot more like man's than have any of the other primates, Dr. William L. Straus Jr. -of the Johns Hopkins university, has reported as a result of extensive studies. Both muscles and bones of the gorilla's foot are more like those found in men than are the chimpanzee's feet. Dr. Straus attributed this greater similarity to the gorilla’s way of living. Chimpanzees and the other great apes live much more in trees, but the gorilla, because he is so large, lives chiefly on the ground as man does. Consequently he uses his feet more like man than do the other primates, and the bones and muscles' have developed accordingly.

OPEN HOUSE ARRANGED Orchestra Will Play for Meeting of Y. M. C. A. The Big Meeting orchestra, under direction of Louis A. VonStaden, will appear at the open house program of the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A., New Year’s day, it was announced today. The concert will start at p. m. At 8 the same evening the full junior orchestra of the “Y” will appear under the direction of L. C. Troutman.

RECORD SET IN YULE CHARITY More People Reached This Year Than Ever Before. ’ Charity in Tndiana'poiis was more widespread and reached more people this Christmas than ever before in the history of the city, it was agreed today by social workers. Declaration was made on all sides that there probably was not. a family in the city without food today. More than 6,000 Christmas baskets, of which the Christmas Clearing House has direct knowledge w£re distributed, while private organizations and groups distributed hundreds without any record being turned in, according to Herbert S. King, chairman. More than 150 lodges, clubs, organizations and groups co-operated with the clearing house in spreading good cheer and happiness.

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Fewer Than Thousand Now Are Registered as Unemployed. Bu United Press PARIS, Dec. 25.—France alone, of the principal countries of the world, is not troubled by the unemployment problem. Fewer than a thousand -men' and women in the entire nation are registered as unemployed. On July 1 a system of social insurance went into effect, designed to protect workers against the hazards of sickness, accident and death, against loss of time due to maternity, and against poverty in old age. Eight million men and women already, are inscribed for benefits under this system. The problems other countries have dealt with piecemeal, with workmen’s compensation laws, oldage pensions, and protective legislation for women. France has lumped together, and although the government has spent two years studying and perfecting the insurance law r . the reaction to it, in these first weeks of operation, has been discontent on the part of the worker. Two hundred thousand men and women are on strike against some of the provisions of the law, and the number has been increasing almost daily. Workers are required to pay 4 per cent of several categories of salaries into an insurance fund. Employers are required to match this with another 4 per cent. Tire government pays to the fund certain amounts to care for farmers, and for its own employes. . For workers receiving less than 15.000 francs .($600) p, year, participation in the insurance plan is compulsory. Workers in large cities must participate, if they earn as much as 18.000 francs, and married men with three children? or more must participate unless they earn more than 25.000 <sl,ooo> francs a year. Former Judge Dies By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 25. Frank Gilmer, 38, former city court judge and a Democratic leader, is dead after a she** illness.

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OOUZENS PUTS BUNK LABEL ON ‘THIRD PARTY' Michigan Senator Says He Will Stay With G. 0. P. to Reform It. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Senator Japies Couzens, Michigan Republican who amassed a fortune in the Ford Motor Company and then entered politics, told the United Press today that “all this talk of a third party is bunk.” . Couzens’ views on the matter were sought because before the 1924 election he tentatively undertook to finance Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, as a candidate for the Republican presidential nominations. The wealthy Michigan senator often votes with the insurgent Republican group, but prefers to consider himself an independent. Some such fortune as his probably would be necessary to underwrite any third party movement. There has been some speculation regarding the possibility of a third party developing in 1932. Will Stay With G. O. P. Third party gossip centered around the dispute between executive director Lucas of the Republican national committee and Senator George W. Norris. Lucas frankly asserts his desire to drive Norris from the party, but insists his opposition is directed at no other of the insurgent Republicans. But insurgents have refused any such peace pact with Lucas. Loudly they demand his resignation or dismissal. “I am going to remain in the Republican party to reform it,” Couzens told the United Press. His intimates know that by reform, Couzens means first of all removal from the cabinet of Secretary of Treasury Mellon. It largely was on the Mellon issue that Couzens contemplated supplying Borah with a political war chest. Tells of 1893 Panic The Mellon issue, as Couzens sees it, raises the question “whether the working man should be content with crumbs from the rich man’s table.” “I don’t believe that is right,” Couzens said. “There must be a more equitable distribution of wealth in this country. I have seen other depressions. Always it is the working man who suffers. “I remember when I was a car ; checker in Detroit railway shops during the panic of 1893. I saw men about me making 80 cents a day while the homes of the owners of those shops were the showplaces of Detroit and to we workmen they represented luxury in all its forms.” EXPANSION IS PLANNED Bowers Envelope Company Heads at Dinner for Employes. Enlargement of the Bowers Envelope and Lithograph Company plant, 937 West Michigan street, to handle increased business assured for 1931 was predicted by Clyde A. Bowers, president of the company, at a Christmas dinner given employes at the plant Wednesday. W, M. Yorger, secretary and treasurer, and Frank Delano, plant superintendent, made congratulatory speeches. A Christmas tree and gift exchange were features of the program. Three of Family Hurt By Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., Dec. 25. Three members of one family are in a hospital here with injuries received when their automobile turned oyer near Royal Center. Lawrence Nice, 36, and his- wife, are believed to have suffered skull fractures. A son Keith, 4, was injured on the head and a hip. Five other children in the car were not hurt.

PHEASANTS FREEZE: DIE Hundreds of Birds, Roosting, Unable to Rise From Earth. By United Press NORTH TONAWANDA. N. Y. Dec. 25.—Hundred of pheasants, died in this section because of a recent sleet storm. Their tails had frozen to the ground and they were unable to free themselves. The ice provided an added hardship in that it deprived birds of food. The birds w r ere stuck to the ice during the night when they were roosting or crouching on the ground. GANGSTER IS ‘VAGGED’ Former Lieutenant of Beer Baron to Face Charges. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 25.—Pat Sullivan, known in Chicago's underworld as “Big Head Patty,” a former lieutenant of Joe Saltis, beer baron, was arrested and jailed on a charge of vagrancy Wednesday. Sullivan is one of the Chicago crime commission’s listed “public enemies.” Robbers Get SI,OOO By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., Dec. 25. Total loot of SI,OOO was obtained by bandits on Christmas eve. Two youthful robbers took S3OO from the office of the Wyman department store, but missed $5,000. The Davis Laundry’ Company office was robbed of SSOO. 4nd the Lontz Brothers Coal Company of SSO and a filling station of $l5O. Boy Killed by Auto By Times Special WASHINGTON. Ind., Dec. 25. Injuries suffered by Lawrence Mehne, 8. when struck by an automobile driven by Holland Fegan of Loogootee, caused death in a hospital. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mehne, Jasper county residents.

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Mapping a course of action to combat wet sentiment in congress, members of the executive committee of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals are pictured above as they; assembled in Washington. Left to right, in the front row, are Dr. A. J. Barton; Mrs. Ella B. Boole, head of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union; F. Scott Mcßride, president of the Anti-Saloon League, and Canon W. S. Chase. In the rear tow, left to right; Dr. B. Colvin, Dr. Oliver N. Stewart and Dr. Eugene L. Crawford.

THREE BANDITS BEAT VICTIM $35 and Watch Is Taken From Injured Man. One man was beaten brutally by three bandits who robbed him in one of a series of crimes committed Wednesday night and early today. Hugh Coffman, 1646 Albany street, told police a bandit trio beat him at Meridian and South streets, and stole $35 and a watch valued at $65. George Moore, White Castle restaurant employe, struck a Negro bandit with a milk bottle early today. The Negro fled without loot. C. W. Haine, attendant at the Linco filling station, 5704 West Washington street, was robbed of SSO Wednesday night by a middleaged bandit wearing spats, a Chesterfield overcoat and a derby. A masked bandit Wednesday night obtained sl4l when he held up employes and robbed the safe of the West Side Ice Company, 233 North Lynn street. Other robberies reported: Albert H. Goetz. 4639 College avenue. Insurance collector, $45: Charles Stevens, 2831 West Tenth street. SB4: or. A. G. Ford Pasadena, Cal., clothing and medical equipment. $75: Mrs. Verna Jones. 810 Indiana avenue, clothing. SSO: D. S. Davis, 3074 North Pennsylvania street, jewelry, S2O: Thomas C. Osborne. 411 Poplar road, clothing, S4O. and Miss Mabel Goddard, 5461 Pleasant Run boulevard, house ransacked. no loot obtained. DEATH LAID TO KENTUCKY FEUD Farmer Near Versailles Slain in Shooting. By United Press VERSAILLES. Ind.. Dee. 25—A shooting, believed the culmination of a Kentucky feud, cost the life of Lee Hall, a farmer living near here. Doris Lindon, 22, is held in jail pending outcome of an investigation of the tragedy. Lindon surrendered to Sheriff Albert Pelsor following the shooting and said he had gone to the Hall farm to buy fodder. He waited two hours, he said, and then was ordered from the farm when Hall arrived. The latter was said to have been armed. Procuring a revolver, Lindon said he returned to the farm and Hall opened fire on him. Lindon said he returned the fire: The two men came here from Kentucky several years ago. Sheriff Pelsor believes their enmity was of long standing. Hall’s farm is the one on which Zell Brown and his wife were slain in 1916.

1,300 PENNIES USED TO PAY TRAFFIC FINE Justice of Peace, Defendants Both Count ’Em; Takes Hour. Bu Times Special PHOENIX, Pa.. Dec. 25.—Vernon Deery had the court a bit peeved here when he attempted to pay a fine of sl3 for speeding with 1,300 pennies. When he deposited them before the justice of peace, that gentleman demanded that Deery count them. To make sure the count was correct, the justice counted them himself. The transaction took over an hour. TIRES EASY ON ROAD Tests Revealed Balloons Do Not Roughen Highway Surfaces. Bu Science Service PULLMAN, Wash., Dec. 25.—The corrugated surface of gravel and dirt highways is produced by small, highpressure tires, while balloon tires cause no appreciable roughening of the surface. This conclusion has been reached following road tests carried on during the last two years at the state college here. The faster the car travels, the sooner the corrugation will appear, it was found. Shock absorbers, however, delay their formation. Rotarian Diplomacy By Times Special WA3 ASH. Ind., Dec. 25.—Wabash Rotary Club members exercised diplomacy in a contest at their Christmas party. It was announced the most beautiful woman would be selected, but prize ribbons were given to all the 125 women present. Dr. James Wilson, former mayor, was adjudged the most handsome man.

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BUSY YULETIDE EVE SPENT BY EINSTEIN

Scientist Broadcasts and Plays Violin on Ship in Pacific. By United Press ABOARD S. S. BELGENLAND, Dec. 25.—Professor Einstein, famous German scientist, en route to Mt. Wilson observatory in California, spent Christmas Eve by broadcasting a speech and playing solos on the violin. Off Costa Rica, in the Pacific ocean, Einstein sat in his cabin aboard the Belgenland and wished a radio audience a Merry Christmas, broadcast over two national radio networks in the United States. Einstein said that the Panama canal, through which the Belgenland passed Monday, was one of man’s greatest achievements, a triumph of peaceful progress through labor and community spirit. In the evening, the professor played four violin numbers at the ship’s Christmas Eve concert. ASKS WHEAT EMBARGO Legge Suggests Temporary Ban on Imports to Improve Situation. By United Press . ; WASHINGTON, Dee. 25.—Chairman Alexander Legge of the federal farm board has suggested a temporary embargo on wheat imports to meet a situation which, he said, “seems to be getting worse every day.” Legge made the suggestion in a letter to Senator Arthur Capper (ttep., Kan.). The latter agreed with the proposal and announced he would introduce a resolution declaring the embargo. He said he felt it would be passed if need for the protection remained. Cattle Expert Dies By United Press ROSSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 25.—William W.. Rose, 39, considered one of the best shorthorn cattle breeders in the country, is dead at his home here. He was a member of the Indiana house of representatives in 1913 and 1929 and long an officer a the Bank of Rossville. He leaves his widow, three daughters and two sons. Christmas Greeter Killed By Times Special H.-’MMOND, Ind., Dec. 25. Struck by an automobile as he walked across a street to give Christmas greetings to a friend, Alex Hardie, 38, was killed. Dr, C, W. Dayel, driver of the car, is held under SB,OOO bond pending the coroner’s investigation.

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YULE CLEMENCY GIVEN Four Sentenced to Death Will Serve Life Terms. By United Press FRANKFORT, Ky., Dec. 25. Four Negro murderers and a white criminal attacker received their lives Wednesday as Christmas gifts from Governor Flem D. Sampson. The governor, who commuted to life imprisonment *the four Negro death sentences, also granted a full pardon to Roy Y. Miller, former prohibition agent, serving a twoyear sentence for murder. HOSPITALSGET HOLIDAY CHEER Carols Are Sung, Presents Are Given. A varied yuletide entertainment program was observed for ali Indianapolis hospitals today. Carols were sung during the morning at all of the hospitals. Student nurses sang at city hospital and a present was given to every patient by St. Margaret’s Guild, which also placed a tree in every ward. A quartet sang this morning at the Methodist hospital, and another was heard at the Indiana Christian hospital. Midnight mass marked the beginning of the observance at St. Vincent’s and a group of Camp Fire girls appeared at St. Francis hospital early this morning. A gift was given to each patient at William H. Coleman hospital. Distribution was made by student nurses. An elaborate Christmas program was presented at the Central hospital, in which the employes and patients participated. The program was climaxed with a talking picture. Slaying Probe Adjourns B.y Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Dec. 25. Following adjournment of a Hamilton county grand jury which investigated the slaying of Owen Crickmore, filling station attendant in a robbery, authorities refused to disclose what action was taken in the case. Charles McCammon, Indianapolis, arrested in connection with the case, was a witness before the jury for two hours.

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EUROPE'S AIM i IS PEACE era; SAYS KELLOGG War Talk Is Irresponsible, Declares Winner of Nobel Prize. By United Press CHICAGO. Dec. 25.—The world's statesmen are intent on an era of peace, said Frank B. Kellogg, winner of the Nobel peace prize, in a Christmas Eve interview here Wednesday night. Kellogg, 74-year-old former &c----retary of state, was en route to his home in St. Paul, to celebrate Christmas. Talk of another war “is irresponsible,” he said, while the idea that war would relieve unfmployment is "mistaken.” “Many of the ills we now are suffering,” he added, “are incident to the last war. In fact, lam very doubtful whether western civilization would survive another such calamity. “Unemployment is naturally incident to these economic periods of depression, but we have absolute confidence that the industry and the genius of the peoples of thfe world will work these problems out. “In Europe I found much unrest and sueli as exists in other parts of the world. I think it is due largely to the hard times through which the peoples are passing. But I don’t think that the present unrest in Europe or other parts of the world indicates war. . “In fact, the responsible statesmen, many of whom I talked with in Europe, are not talking war. They are, in my opinion, intent on working out their problems by peaceful means.” ; ,<• Hit and Run Driver Kills B.y Times Special KENTLAND, Ind., Dec. 25.—The frozen body of Fred Couch, 25, Kentland, was found beside a road six miles north of Chicago. He had been struck by the automobile of a hit-and-run driver.

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