Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1932 — Page 2

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‘FOSSIL FALLS’ MAKE NIAGARA PUNY TRICKLE Place Where Tremendous Cataracts Roared Is Found in West. Bu Science Service CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—Two “fossil Niagaras" that would make the mightiest waterfall now on earth a puny trickle by comparison, once roared in the Grand Coulee, a deep, wide gorge that lies about halfway between Spokane and Seattle. These extinct cataracts, now represented only by lines of towering dry cliffs, have been studied by Professor J. Harlen Bretz of the University of Chicago, who has presented his report on them to the American Georgaphical Society. The water that fed these two great cataracts came from melting glaciers of the great ice age. Creeping down from the north, the ice for ages had blocked the course of the Columbia river. As the glaciers began to melt and retreat, they released immense quantities of water, which had to find anew watercourse. Os this necessity was born the Grand Coulee, whose bed, now dry except for a chain of small lakes, is 1,000 feet deep, with a width of a mile at its narrowest point. Fifty Miles in Length It has a total length of about fifty miles, with an interruption in the cliff walls somewhat more than half way down its course dividing it into an upper and a lower coulee. The bottom of the Grand Coulee is not a fairly even slope, as the bottom of an ordinary river valley would be. It has humps and irregularities, and in the rocky floor, there are enormous “potholes” a hundred feet deep. Potholes steep-sided, roundbottomed holes in solid rock—are formed in only one way; by the grinding and pounding of boulders kept in motion by the force of falling water. Bretz, therefore, looked for the remains of a waterfall that might have done such cyclopeah sculptoring. He found two, both of tremendous proportions. Six Times Niagara’s Size The lesser of the two falls was at the head of the lower coulee. It formed a group of cataracts, rather than a single fall; but when the enormous length of its great “horseshoe" and all the lesser bendings of the remaining cliffs are measured as a straight line, the total comes to some three and one-half miles, or nearly six times the straight-line width of Niagara Falls. This tremendous stream leaped from the crest of a 400-foot cliif, more than double the height of Niagara and substantially higher than Victoria Falls in Africa, the greatest known existing cataract. But mighty as these falls in the lower coulee were, they were surpassed by the Steamoboat cataract of the upper coulee. This feature gets its name from a high outstanding rock in front of the cliff. This once was an island, first on the brink, as Goat island stands on the brink of Niagara today, then left isolated as Goat island also would be if American and Horseshoe falls receded at equal rates. The steamboat cataract was a good mile wider than the falls system of the lower coulee, and more than twice as high. In the days of the late Pleistocene, the waters roared over its cliff in a plunge of 900 feet. Plan Irrigation Stream

All this super-Niagaran magnificence vanished when the receding glacial front retreated far enough for the water to flow down the present course of the Columbia river, leaving the upper end of the coulee high and dry. The head of Grand Coulee now stands about 500 feet above the water level of the river, and several miles removed from its course. Bret* tells of a project to put water into the cougee again, not the thundering post-glacial flood, but an irrigation stream that will bring green life to its present dry bottom, and change the farming basis of the region from dryland wheat to irrigated orchards and alfalfa fields. It is not expected to build a 500foot dam across the Columbia to do this; a 200-foot dam is expected to be sufficient. The apparent paradox of getting a 500-foot water lift from a 200foot dam is explained by the fact that a great pumping station will be installed, run on the 200-foot water head, to lift the irrigation water over the 300-foot “hump” to the head of Grand Coulee. COUNCIL PRESIDENT IS SILENT ON BUDGET Boeicher Says Department Heads Have Been Hard at Work. No detailed announcement regarding the 1933 budget for Marion county will be forthcoming until the regular meeting of tl\e county council. Sept. 20, Walter C. Boetcher, president, said today. For the last ten days the council has been considering the appropriation requests submitted by department heads. Each department head has been called into the sesssion and given definite instructions regarding reductions to be made by the council, Boetcher said. “I have absolutely nothing to say on the budget situation,” Botcher said. “At the time of the regular council meeting the budget will be ready. I can say that definitely—but that's all." Boetcher also refused to indicate whether the budget would be reduced, or whether levies would remain within the confines of the $1.50 limitation law.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobile* reported to police as having been stolen belong to: T. H. Winenow. 3234 Bellefontaine street. Ford sedan, 35-258. from garage In rear of home. Travis Polly, 3555 North Rural street. Ford roadster, 58-258. from parking lot on East fifteenth street, near Polks Milk Compiny. / Austin Alderson. 1533 South Meridian street, Chevrolet coach. 122-556, from in front of home. Rpy Zelgler, 2704 North Dale street, Ford aadan, from garage In rear of home. Car! Hoffman, R. R. 17, Box 58. Maxwell coupe, "3-809. from Massachusetts avenue and fit. Clair stmt.

New Stars Twinkle on Broadway

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Three guesses—who is this attractive young ballroom dancer, latest of the stage dancing teams? Remember Blanche Sweet, way back when the movies first began? Well that’s she, and her dancing partner is Loe Lorraine. Miss Sweet is one of the new “road show" performers in an ex-

HALT ALLEGED PHONEPIRATING Service Commission Acts in Cicero Case. For the first time since its creation. the public service commission affirmed its right to regulate telephone service outside of municipalities, an order issued Friday demanding alleged pirating of phone patrons be halted in Cicero township, Tipton county. This order is expected to bring to an end the controversy between the Union Telephone Company and the Tipton Telephone Company, operating in that section. The alleged pirating started when Cicero township farmers were denied their petition to receive service from the Tipton company instead of the Union company. The commission refused the order on the grounds that the territory rightfully comes under the permit of the Union company. The farmers then built a “cooperative” line and were alleged to have used materials supplied by the Tipton company. One night, according to the complaint, a part-time employe of the Tipton company, aided by farmers, hooked the co-operative line to the Tipton company’s line In the order, the commission pointed out that the statutes, in setting up the body and permitting the issuance of indeterminate permits, did so in order to halt pirating competition.

Ohio’s Vote to Hoover, Pledge of P. O. Chief

Walter F. Brown Takes It on Self to Gather in Electoral Ballots. BY NED BROOKS Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Post-master-General Walter F. Brown personally has pledged himself to deliver Ohio’s twenty-six electoral votes to President Herbert Hoover in the November election, it was learned today. While retaining his leading role in the national strategy of the Republican campaign, Brown will concentrate on the task of winning his own state, regarded by leaders of both parties as one of the national election battlegrounds. Brown will follow his customary tactics of directing operations in Ohio from behind the scenes, avoiding the spotlight. Brown's attempt to repeat Hoover’s Ohio victory will take him on trequent trips to the Buckeye state. One is scheduled this week-end; he will visit leaders in Toledo, his home city. Despite Hoover's 760,000 margin over A1 Smith in 1928, Republican strategists are concerned over his chances for repeating. They are not discounting their reverses in 1930, when six Republican congressmen were deposed, and Democrat candidates won the senatorial and gubernatorial contests. Brown directed the Hoover offensive in Ohio four years ago.

Whose Brown Derby? What Indianapolis man will be crowned with the BROWN DERBY at the Indiana State Fair on Sept 8? What man will win the plaque that goes with the derby? Clip this coupon and mall or bring to The Indianapolis Times. Just write your choice on the dotted line. Vote early and often. OFFICIAL BROWN DERBY BALLOT Saturday, Sept. 3, 1932 To the Editor of The Times: Please crown _____________________ __________________ with th* 9rown Darby aa Indianapolis' moat distinguished citisen.

periment which will take short versions of successful Broadway music shows over the nation. Tanzi (right, above) is a prima donna who will sing in “The Desert Song.’ And Jessie Royce Landis is starred in Broadway’s first play of the new season, “Domino.”

Texas Skies Blue Again; Cotton Price Is Climbing

Crop Now Bringing 9 Cents a Pound; Means Money in Farm Pockets. BY LEO R. SACK Time, Staff Writer SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 3.—Texas skies are blue again, and the folks are singing "Happy Days Are Here Again,” just as if they believed it. Many of them do belieeve it. Nine-cent-a-pound cotton is the chief reason. This is far above the 5-cent cotton of September, 1931, and the 5cent cotton of a few months ago. It means money in the farmers’ pockets, reduction of his debts at the bank and at the country store, new shoes for the children, new clothes for mother and, in many instances, anew automobile. Cotton is the money crop oi Texas. Joy and sorrow follow its price movements. Right now it is moving upward, and many Texans think it is going higher. Unlike the eastern industrial centers, where continuously increasing unemployment figures belie the high hopes stimulated by rising stock market prices, the increase in cotton is not something to anticipate—it is a reality. The 1932 Texas cotton crop is just 3,826,000 bales, according to the last estimate of the department of agri-

QUALIFY FOR RACE 12 Pushmobile Drivers to Compete at Fair. The Wonder Bread Special, piloted by Russell Schmoe, 2050 North Keystone avenue, speeded around the pushmobile course in the qualification tests at the state fairground Friday to gain the pole position in the finals of the Indiana Pushmobile Association sweepstakes to be held at the fair Tuesday. Twelve of the sixteen cars which entered the qualifications will face the starter. Buddy Downey of 3502 West Morris street, drove his Beanblossom Special No. 7 fast enough to gain second position. Beyond him will be Frank Northern of 504 Livingston street. Jack Carr Special; Billy Demare, 1936 Parker avenue. Grim Special; Raymond Calhoun, 1242 Dukane parkway, Polar Ice Special; John Moore, 924 Arbor avenue, Beanblossom Special No. 11; Bowes Seal Fast Special No. 40; Duesenberg Special; Bowes Seal Fast Special No. 1; Emrich Hardware Special; U. S. Tire Special, and Lenox Silver Hawk from Lebanon. The Lebanon car, driven by Eugene Bowers, was the last car to attempt the qualifications. The judges had to wait more than an hour for its arrival, as it had competed in a race at Lebanon earlier in the afternoon. Eleven of the United States Presidents were sworn in by Catholics.

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culture, out of a nation-wide estimated total of 11,306,000. The Texas decrease is 1,344,000 bales from the 1931 crop of 5,270,000 bales, while the nation-wide estimate is 5,612,000 bales less than the 1931 crop of 16,918,000 bales. Insect damage, reduced acreage, lack of money to buy fertilizer, which resulted in lowered yield per acre, and weather conditions are contributory causes to the reduced production. Texans believe the Sept. 8 estimate of agriculture will show a still greater decrease. This, they think, will send cotton permanently above the 10-cent mark.

Wikoff’s Place on Ticket Goes to Ralph Green

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Selection of Ralph Green, Indianapolis attorney, as the Liberty party's candidate for United States senator was announced today. Green was selected by unanimous vote of the central committee of the party Thursday. He will fill the post vacated by the death of Dr. C. S. Wikoff, who was struck by an auto Saturday night. Green, a native of Bicknell, Ind., came to Indianapolis more than two years ago. He has practiced law since admission to the bar in Lawrence county in 1927. Green is former vice-national commander of the United American Veterans, Inc., a nonpartisan, exservice men’s organization. He is married and lives at 335 South Oakland avenue.

VALLEES SEPARATED Formal Pact Reached by Crooner and Wife. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept 3.—Rudy Vallee, crooner and his wife, Fay Webb, daughter of the police chief of Santa Monica. Cal., have concluded a formal agreement of separation, Vallee's attorney, Hyman Bushel, announced today. He said he was not at liberty to disclose terms of their agreement, Mrs. Vallee and her parents will leave this afternoon for Chicago. Elevators in Carlsbad Caverns, N. M., are the second largest in the world, descending 754 feet.

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BAD ACCIDENTS SERIOUSLY HURT AUTOISTS HERE Eight-Inch Piece of Glass Removed From Throat of Truck Driver. A truck driver from whose neck an eight-inch piece of windshield glass was removed, and a victim of a hit-and-run driver are in critical condition today at 6ity hospital. The glass injured Cecil Ludlow, 27, R. R. 7, Box 42, driver of a National Bread Company truck, which ran into a truck and trailer parked in the 1200 block West Morris street. The truck is owned by the AkronKansas City Motor Freight Company, and was in charge of Dwight Mills, 26, Akron, O. Rain on the windshield is believed to have blinded Ludlow. A compound skull fracture was incurred by Wilbur McDonald, 28, of 375 South Illinois street when he was struck by the truck of a hit and run driver at Kentucky avenue and Drover street. Less serious injuries were suffered by Elmer Benson, 52, of 350 Beauty avenue, a deaf mute, also a hit and run driver’s victim. Victim of Hit-Run Driver Bleeding from lacerations on his head, Benson was found lying in weeds at the end of the New York street bridge over White river. Benson wrote details of the accident for police, stating he was hurled twenty feet when struck by the automobile. Charges were filed against Miss Clarabelle Lykens, 22, Sixty-seventh and Ferguson streets, after a car she was driving collided with one driven by Alvin Cauldwell, 28, of 1435 North Meridian street in the 4800 block Washington boulevard. Her mother, Mrs. Edna Cauldwell, was injured. Car Over Embankment Three persons were treated at city hospital shortly after midnight as a result of injuries incurred when an automobile in which they were riding plunged down an eighteenfoot embankment on the Bluff road near Exchange. The injured are Mrs. Bessie Bryant, 35, Ben Davis, whose condition is serious; William Maxie, 38, of 1227 Madison avenue, and his wife, Mrs. Della Maxie, whose injuries are not serious. GARNERS OPPOSE - lACK Michigan Branch of Family Is All Republican. By United Press DETROIT, Sept. 3.—The family of Joseph C. Garner, a total of five votes, will not vote for John Nance Garner, Democratic nominee for Vice-President, even though he is a distant relative. The Michigan Garners have been Republicans for generations, according to Joseph.

Rain Insurance Spurned by Officials of Fair

THE board of agriculture of the Indiana state fair is down to a man on a “longshot.” They’re banking on Sultan Sol to keep his harem of sunshine beauty rays going throughout fair week against threats of Jupiter Pluvius, superior mudhorse. And they haven’t purchased

Bare Escape “Judgment withheld,” spoken by Russell Newgent, juvenile court referee, was a welcome anouncement to two boys, 12 and 13 years old, who wrote an extortion note to Guy Montani, a grocer, 2640 North Meridian street. The note, scrawled on rough paper, had first been written as a demand for $50,000, but these figures were marked over and SI,OOO written. Newgent ordered that in future the boys refrain from associating with each other.

STATE MINERS VOTEjeOLT By United Press ' . , GILLESPIE, 111., Sept. 3.—Miners of Illinois and Indiana, attending a conference to determine a future policy in the Illinois protest movement against a recently signed wage scale contract, voted unanimously here Friday to withdraw from the present United Mine Workers of America, and to set up anew union of their own. CARDS BOOST RESORT Business Club Tries New Wrinkle in Advertising. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Sept. 3. Something new in resort advertising is planned by the Young Men’s Business Club here. The club will buy thousands of post cards bearing scenes in and around Spring - field and will distribute them through Missouri, counting on Missourians to write to other people on the cards.

Call the Doctor — Quick!

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No doubt many formerly well persons in Austria develop “heart trouble" when blond Dr. Maria Ehrenstein (above) appears on the case. She’s equally famed as a beauty and as a physician.

Cut Rate Airplane Rides Offered Times Readers

Hoosier Airport Trips Will Start Sunday, Continue Through Sept. 11.

Hundreds of Times readers are expected to take advantage of the opportunity for airplane rides at half price at*Hoosier airport Sunday, if weather permits. Airport officials have arranged to give Times readers regular $1.50 airplane rides for 75 cents and a coupon, printed herewith, starting Sunday and continuing until Sunday, Sept. 11. The only requirement is to clip the coupon and present it with 75 cents at the airport, Kessler boulevard and Lafaqyette road, any time between now and 5 p. m., Sept. 11. Only government inspected and licensed planes, flown by licensed pilots, will be used.

insurance against Pluvius winning the one week Weather Handicap. Odds on the mudlark god's chances to hit at the fair’s attendance dropped today with a weather forecast of probably showers Saturday, opening day of the fair. The habit of hedging weather bets with insurance was dropped by fair officials in 1931. ARREST MANY IN MINE AREA Oklahoma Situation Is Held ‘Fraught With Danger/ By United Pres* M’ALESTER, Okla., Sept. 3. Wholesale arrest of strikers accused of intimidating miners attempting to return to work in the troubled southern Oklahoma coal fields began Friday. Peace officers described the situation as tense and “fraught with danger.”

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FARMERS FACING PAYOFFTO U, S. More Than Half Million Must Pay Loans. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—More than half a million farmers in all parts of the country are preparing now to discharge their direct debts to the federal government. From the government, 507,635 of them have borrowed $64,202,204.50, through the department of agriculture and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. All loans are due Nov. 30. Meanwhile, the government still is collecting on its 1931 feed, seed and fertilizer loans, the repayment to date totaling approximately 60 per cent of the total outlay last year. The agriculture department also is making up its mind about what to do with the 250,000 odd bales of cot- j ton it accepted as collateral for last year’s loans at 8 cents a pound. Agriculture department officials evidently expect all borrowers to be j prepared to meet their debts on Nov. I 30, and no plans for extensions are under consideration. New loans to farmers will be handled through the agricultural credit corporations, recently designated by the R. F. C., and about to start operation. 2,300 SEEK OFFICES By United Press BOSTON, Sept. 3.—Business depression apparently whets public interest in politics. No less than 2,300 | persons have filed nomination papers for public offices in the state primary to be held Sept. 20. This is the greatest number in, state history.

JSEPT. 3, 1932

EARLY DRAMA—INDIANS AVENGE WHITEJTRADER Jimmy Hays, First Resident of Race in Pikes Peak Region, Thrilling Episode. By United Press COLORADO SPRINGS. Sept. 3 The name of Jimmy Hays—soms say it was Jimmy Daugherty—trader and first white resident of the Pikes Peak region, definitely is linked with the early history of El Paso county. Hays came to the new country back in the early '4os, or thereabouts. He established a camp site that Is known today as Jimmy's camp—where later a camp for cattlemen was maintained. The youthful trader for the Astor Fur Company provided one of the most exciting stories of early Colorado history. Where his bones may be—the legend tells that Indians buried his body beneath his old cabin—is a matter of conjecture. Trade Medium of Indians It is fairly certain that his camp was eleven miles east of Colorado Springs. There was a spring surrounded by cottonwoods. Hays served as a trade medium for the Utes and Arapahoes of the region. The Indians brought their pelts to the cabin. Hays then made a trip into St. Louis, to the Astor post, and disposed of the furs. He returned to Colorado with his pack horses laden with treasures for the Indians—beads, toys, axes, firearms, and most of all, “firewater." When he arrived at the camp site. Hays would build a huge fire on the mesa. It was the signal to the Indians* that he had returned. They mounted their small ponies and cantered across the plains and hills to the cabin for their trinkets. Horrified at Slaying For several seasons, the trader lived at the camp. Indians brought him water, and brought him corn. He found plenty of small game to satisfy his needs. One evening, a band of Utes. believing it was about time for Ha vs to have returned from the St. Louis trip, rode down to his cabin. There had been no bright fires on the mesa, and they investigated. When they rode up to the rude adobe hut. they saw the lifeless body of Hays stretched across the cabin door sill. .The Indians were horrified. Not only had they lost a friend, but their nearest contact for barter and trade, which enabled them to dispose of their furs, was stolen from them.

Eleven Assassins Hanged Fresh tracks led from the cabin. The Indians followed the assassins* trail. Near dusk, the Indians approached the juncture of the sandy creek, and saw a group of Mexican guerillas seated around a fire. In the glow of the campfire, they saw piled the lgpt taken from Jimmy Hays—to them proof of their guilt. The Indians waited until dark then descended upon the ersWhen they departed, eleven Mexicans were hanging by their toes from eleven branches of a single cottonwood—grim testimony to the Indians' friendship for Jimmy Hays. G4RHEB TO INDIAHA Nominee to Make Several Talks in State. John N. Garner, Democratic vicepresidential candidate, will make several addresses in Indiana during the campaign. R. Earl Peters, state chairman, announced today. James I. Farley, national committee chairman, also has notified Peters that he will speak in Terre Haute during October. Police Refused Her a Drink ] By United Press WICHITA, Kan.. Sept. 3.—Mrs. Harriet Dearing, 40, bitterly criticised police methods here after she was arrested on -a liquor charge. “They wouldn’t even let me take a little drink before they took me to jail,” she complained.