Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 75, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1932 — Page 3

AUG. 6, 1032

INDIAN PRIESTS PREPARE FOR SNAKE RITUAL Annual Hopi Celebration to Be Held on Plains of Arizona. BV VINCENT MAHONEY United Trent BUff Correnpondent FLAGSTAFF. Ariz., Aur. 6.—An hour's automobile ride from paved streets, underground chambers hummed today with preparations for a ceremonial that would appear wild and strange if witnessed in deepest Africa. It is the annual snake dance of the Hopi Indians. At sunrise on the first day of the nine-day ceremony, a priest posts the nacti—two eagle feathers tied to a stick—on the door of the main kiva, or underground chamber. The head priest then mixes the sacred medicine by which venomous snakes are to be rendered harmless, according to the Indian belief. Snakes Placed in Jars Another priest constructs the sand painting, a landscape whose pigments are colored sands. Since the entire ceremonial is a prayer for rain, bright sands depict the orange lightning and purple rain clouds. The snakes have been gathered from the six directors of the Indian astronomy and placed in .jars underground. On the final day they are “purified.” The final ritual begins with brightly-garbed priests and warriors dancing on the plain. The snake priests arrange themselves in groups of three —carriers, buggers and gatherers. Puts Snake in Mouth Bach carrier kneels before a jar of snakes and draws out one He places the writhing reptile in his mouth, holding the body near the middle and allowing the two ends to swing free a great contempt is felt by seasoned carriers for some tribes, whose priests carry the snakes by the necks or hold the loose ends with their hands). The gatherers start the cremonial circuit of the plaza, each carrier with a hugger at his back. The hugger has his left arm about the carrier's neck, and in his right hand he carries a feathered wand, which he constantly brushes across the reptile's face, presumably to distract his angered attention from the carrier. Hurl Them in Ring When the circuit of the plaza has been completed, the high priests make a ring of corn meal with radial lines extending in the six directions. At a signal, the carriers dash toward the ring and hurl the snakes into it. Acolyltes boat back with their feathered whips any snakes that stray toward the outer edge of the circle. Suddenly, all rush toward the writhing, rattling mass. Each priest grasps as many snakes as he can hold. They dash off in the six directions and throw the snakes out into the plain. Two extraordinary things about the snake dance baffle the uninitiated. The fact that the priests are not bitten fatally and the curious circumstances that it usually rains before the ceremonial day is over. Offer Several Theories Ethnologists have several theories. The most widely accepted is that the priests are excellent amateur meteorologists and time the ceremonial to coincide with rain. They set a different, date each year, waiting until a few days beforehand to make it knowti. As to the absence of fatalities, there are several explanations. One is that, a snake will not strike while uncoiled. Another is that the Indians have developed an immunity to the venom through countless bitings. A third is that the rattler is a coward and will not strike when handled as aggressively and confident ]y as in the ceremonial. The Indians do not seem to concern themselves with the danger at a" They believe the sacred liquid readers the snakes quite harmless, and they handle them as though they were pet kittens. Sediment so discolors the Amazon river that its waters can be detected for more than 300 miles out at sea. The sediment runs the course of the river, and the waters are clear only in tributary streams.

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Drastic Reorganization Is Proposed for Alabama

Plan Would Group All Branches Under Direct Control of Governor. By Brripps-Howarrt y rtrxpaper AUinnrr WASHINGTON. Aug. 6.—A state reorganization more drastic than any yet proposed has been urged upon Alabama by the Institute of Government Research of Brookings Institution here, following a survey requested by Governor B. M. Miller and the Alabama legislature. The central idea is to group all executive and administrative functions under the Governor. The Governor is to be made a state general manager, in direct charge of nineteen appointive administrative departments. The experts proposed: The only elective administrative officers would be the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. Executive budget system, giving the Governor power to allot appropriations if incomes fall below estimates. A small, one-chamber legislature. Integration of ail state courts into a single unitary court. Budget system for all counties to be prepared for them by the state department of local government; uniform county accounting. Abolition of special funds; all moneys in general fund. Abolition of special school taxing units; all school administration under the state boar dos education. New emergency taxing system, ineluding income, estate and luxury excise taxqes. Abolitio nos special boards and commissions, regrouping functions under the various executive departments.

SERVE BEER, PEANUTS IN BEAUTY SALONS Latest Idea in Efficiency Is Adopted by Master Worker. By T'nitrd Press PARIS, Aug. 6.—Beer, ice cream, and peanuts served while beauty is being applied in a more or less painless manner, is the latest idea in efficiency adopted by the master beautician here—Antoine. * Fifty women representing the cream of aristocracy and monetary success, lined up in a long salon, back to back, with their heads encased in white K. K. K. coverings. They sippped mugs of foaming beer and became comfortably drowsy while the last word in waves was compressed into all shades of hair—including pink and mauve—by tubular heat released from fifty shining spigots poised over each head. Tea for the dow-agers and coektials for the debutante daughters are drunk while the last coat of crimson enamel is being applied to the fingertips, or the last lash to the eyelid that has been shadowed and perfumed with the secrets of the Nile.

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■ closed every legal path to his for- : mer w’ife. The bulk of the estate w’as willed i to a nephew, Thomas Ew’ing Jr., who will receive about $20,000,000. A $300,000 trust fund was estabI lished for Walska by Cochran at j the time of their parting in 1922, j and she still will receive payment I under its provisions.

Hard-y Times Hundreds Fewer Die This Year in City Than in Prosperous Days.

i)ERIODS of economic depression have their advantages, as well as disadvantages, it was revealed today by perusal of health board records. In the first seven months this year, the board's records show, there have been 362 fewer deaths in Indianapolis than occurred in the same period the preceding year. This is a decrease of more than fifty deaths a month, equal to nearly 9 per cent. The reason advanced by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, for the decrease is more conservative living on the part of most citizens, less gastornomic excesses and a more leisurely life, due to the depression. The total number of deaths this year up tuo Aug. 1 was 2,850, compared with 3,212 for the first seven months of 1931. Fewer deaths occurred in July, 335, than in any other month this year. Greatest number of deaths occurred in March, 485. “There is nothing new in the situation,” Dr, Morgan said, “as history reveals that health conditions always are better in times of economic depression.

BRITISH POSTMEN ARE DENIED UNDRESS RIGHT Postmaster-General Thinks Ties Should Not Be Doffed. By United Press LONDON. Aug. 6.—Pity the poor, perspiring postman! Here, right in the middle of one of the warmest summers in a generation the postmaster-general flatly has rejected a proposal to let the mail carriers discard their ties and w r ear open-neck shirts. In a letter printed in The Post, the department's magazine, the chief says that his conscience will not allow him to endanger “that smartness of appearance which is always associated in the public mind with efficiency.” Even a clean shirt, he says, would look incongruous without a cravat; what a somewhat-less-fresh shirt would look like he leaves to British moral judgment. ‘BOOER’ GETS 30 DAYS Baseball Game Disturber Given Jail Sentence at Utica. By 7 nited Press UTICA. N. Y„ Aug. 6.—Alexander Barkey didn’t like a certain player on the House of David baseball team when that team played a recent game here. He began to ' boo” the particular player. Patrolman Arcuri noticed the booing and told Barkey to stop it. Barkey refused, and a fight started during which a spectator tripped the policeman causing him to fall on top of Barkey. Barkey was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. He was given a sentence of thirty days in jail.

TREASURE HOUSE BARED Aged Man’s Home Reveals Hidden Fortune to Searchers. By I'nited Press WARREN. 0.. Aug. 6.—The home of Henry I. Leeper, 86, near here, was a veritable treasure house. Two deputy sheriffs searched the house recently upon request of relatives, who had obtained a guardian for the aged man. They found $5,800 in old style bills of small denominations; $3,700 in uncashed pension checks and SIOO in gold coins in tin containers. a trunk, under a loose floor board, and in a cupboard. They a’so tound campaign cards for every presidential election from Lincoln's on down.

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COUNCIL PLAN IS ADOPTED DT TRAM WORKERS Employes Will Meet With Management on Street Railway Problems. BY J. J. BEDLOW Employes and management of the Indianapolis Railways have completed an employes’ representation plan that is expected to be helpful in the efforts of the company and its workers to give improved transportation here. The plan was drawn up by a committee of eleven representing the employes of different departments and a committee of equal numbers representing the management, and adopted by a vote of 841 to 305.

Employed members of the committee which drew up the plan were Herman Campton, McLean barn; ; R. Deakyne, power department; Joseph Doyle, track department; Rudolph Geisler, Louisiana barn; j James Green. West Washington barn; Thomas Griffing, general office; Joseph Morsch, Highland barn; J. Merl, bus mechanics; i Clyde Murphy, inspection department; Dorsey Primm, bus drivers, and William Russell, shops. The plan provides for a series of councils, one for each department, with equal representation of the employes and the management, and a general council constituted the same way. Regular meetings will be held, in which whatever pertains to the good of the men or of the company will be open to discussion. The plan provides for discussion and settlement of all working conditions, hours and wage rates, in which agreements will be sought in the councils, with an appeal to arbitration if that should be necessary. Comprehensive in its scope, the plan should do much to enlist the combined efforts of all connected with the system in bettering both the service and the working conditions, and in the by-laws governing the plan provision seems to have been made for the amicable settlements of all difficulties and for a clearer understanding of all problems of operation.

Ben Hur Association in Drive for New Members

Many Given Opportunity to Win Honor in Campaign This Month. One of the main sources of growth in a fraternal life insurance organization like the Ben Hur Life Association of Crawfordsville, is assistance of its own members in securing new members. Belonging to local lodges in their own cotnmunities, where they find opportunity for social contact, they naturally want their friends to be with them. To give proper recognition to those members who thus are active in building their lodges, the Ben Hur Life Association just has announced what is to be known as “The President's Club,” admission to which will be the highest honor open to the member. To qualify for tthe President's club, a member will secure at least one new adult member in each of six successive months. If at the end of the six-month period all these new members still are in good standing, the one securing them, or assisting the field representative to do so, will be awarded the handsome gold emblem of the club indicative of the service rendered the society. August is a most appropriate month in which to start this club, because it is the birth month of President John C. Snyder and all over the country members and field workers are joining forces to secure an extra large amount of new life insurance and as many new members as possible. They are expecting to break rec-

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Franck and Son Point Out Freedom From Accident, Good Service. Many of the large commercial fleets of cars in Indianapolis use Fisk tires. According to Charles H. Franck of Charles H. Franck & Son, 543 East Washington street, distributor for Fisk tires, this is due to the safety and economy of the Fisk. He has been in business in this location for almost twenty years, and, being an observant man, has studied particular points of Fisk tires to his satisfaction. One of them is the freedom from accident, due to the design of the tire. All members so are placed in Fisk tires that the full width of the tread, even to the outermost buttressed edges, exerts a uniform pressure intensity against the road. The entire tread design of a Fisk tire grips the road all times. A second point, Franck believes, adds much to the superiority of this tire. It is the all cord process, in which each cord' is surrounded by rubber. Reduction of internal friction and greater strength in the carcass are accomplished by this. Width of the tread is a powerful against skidding and a great aid to traction. Strength of the carcass prevents road injury and blowouts. These are good reasons for Fisk, no doubt. But at the heart of the matter is the service Franck and his son Bill give to patrons. On the job regularly, giving close attention to details, both of the Francks are wel liked by both the commercial and passenger trade, and in either the wholesaling of Fisk tires over the counties surrounding Indianapolis or the retailing, customers receive prompt, courteous and efficient attention at all times and under all circumstances. Bees’ Wax Holds Up Train Bn United Press OMAK, Wash., Aug. 6.—Bees stored wax on a valve controlling the airbrakes of a train. The engine stalled for hours before officials found the trouble.

ords i nthis respect. Indianapolis members will take part in the campaign and do their full part, as they always do when opportunities of this kind are presented. JOIN THIS CONTEST Chance to Win Vacations Given Times Readers. All pictures of stars and players in The Times-Circle $3,000 vacation contest have been published. All entries must be in the hands of the vacation editor at The Times by midnight Friday, Aug. 12. One of the determining factors will be the novel manner in which the entries are presented, as many people have them all right, or just a few, as last year. The rules state that the pictures are to be identified by number, but as the pictures were not numbered when published, it is suggested that the pictures be cut out and the players named in some manner.

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Stick-Up There! By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—Three bandits worked anew trick in robbing the Mid-City Grocery, Inc., today when they forced twelve employes and customers into an elevator, and ordered the elevator pilot to “go up and stay up.” The bandits fled with $2,000 they had taken from Mary Volie, cashier.

AUTOISTS SAVE IN REPAIRS AT DON HERR CO, Work on Cars Is Done in Well-Equipped Shop, by Capable Men. Motorists—some of them, at least —have learned economy in motor repairs in the last two years. The old idea of tearing down a car to make a certain repair, restoring it, and then driving a block away for another repair, where the same process was gone through, has proved too costly for modern conditions. When a car needs repair, the idea of sending it to a shop where all the necessary work can be made by expert mechanics does save time and money.

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