Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1932 — Page 2

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LADDER OF 25 ' STEPS IS BUILT FOR MAN'S RISE New Evolutionary Outline Revealed at Convention by Anthropologist. By Science Sen ice ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 31. —A new evolutionary ladder of twen->ty-Ave steps, up which the human race ascended from the lowest known type of backboned animals, was outlined here Friday by Professor William K. Gregory of the American Museum, of Natural History, in his address as vice-presi-dent of the anthropological section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The first complete ladder of this kind. Professor Gregory said, was constructed by the German zoologist, Haeckel. But because certain of Haeckel’s view's have fallen into disfavor with the present generation of biologists, the entire scheme of descent which he Tfriginated is morp or less neglected. The “new anthropogeny” proposed by Professor Gregory, takes advantage of data discovered since Haeckel was active, and leaves out some steps he considered important in favor of others which now appear more in keeping with the facts. The speaker emphasized, however, that the new evolutionary ladder also is considered liable to revision. ‘Pre-Fish’ Was Lowest The lowpst step on the new anthropogenetic ladder was a “preAsh" stage, represented by the now extinct line of ostracoderms, which were mighty in the seas from a half-billion to a third of a billion years ago. These had certain structures, especially in brain and cranial nerves, fundamentally Identical with those of the younger stages of the lamprey or hagfish of today. From this stage, the descent envisioned by Professor Gregory proceeded through primitive sharklike and Ash-like animals, through amphibians of the Coal Age, and reptiles that followed them, to “near-mammalian’’ reptiles that lived In South Africa when dinosaurs roamed the earth. From such stage, transition to the reptile-like, egg-laying animals, such as the duckbill and the echidna, still living in Australia, is not too grave a leap for the scientlAc imagination. The more direct ancestry of man j and his simian cousins can be traced ] through creatures grading from opossum-like animals to the treeshrew type, Professor Gregory holds. The earliest primates probably were j something like the modern tarsiers, but less specialized. Monkey Branch Develops From these the old-world monkey stem developed, which in turn gave rise to more truly anthropoid forms, of which the recently discovered Australopithecus skeleton of South Africa is a striking example. Truly human forms of early date are exempliAed in Professor Gregory’s scheme of descent by the Javanese Pithecanthropus and the Peking Man of China. True man, Homo sapiens, originated during the Ice Age. His brain, Professor Gregory said, retains many unmistakable marks of derivation from an anthropoid stage, but show’s progressive development of centers and areas associated with speech and verbalized thinking. “As to the possible future of mankind,” he concluded, “to judge from the history of many other new groups (not species) and in consideration of his cosmopolitan distribution, mankind should be a ‘good risk’ for survival for an indeAnite period.” HURLEY WILL RETURN j TO PRACTICE OF LAW Secretary of War to Have Offices In Tulsa and Washington. By Scrippe-Howard- Kctcepaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Secretary of War Hurley is making preparations to re-enter the practice of law’ when he retires from the cabinet March 4. He will reopen his office in Tulsa, and also will open an office here, probably in the Shoreham building, one of the Washington properties in which he is interested heavily. "I shall not practice before any department or before any congressional committee,” Hurley said today. Hurley, contrary to popular impression. has no investments in oil, . The basis of his wealth, which he places at a modest Agure, was real ! estate, in which he invested his earnings as an attorney. FUNERAL RITES HELD HERE FOR DR. ELLIS Flanner and Buchanan Mortuary Scene of Services for Educator. Funeral services for Dr. Horace Ellis, 71, former state superintendent of public instruction and father of Howell Ellis, public service commissioner, were held today in Flanner and Buchanan mortuary. Dr. Ellis died Friday at his home in Chicago after an illness of two weeks. He had been associated with the Chicago headquarters of the Republican national committee as director of the western area. Services were conducted by Dr. Abram’ S. Woodward, pastor of the Meridian Street M. E. church. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Jesse Merchant. 2250 North Rural street. Chevrolet sedan, 59-061. from garage in rear ol that address. Leo Evans. 1907 North New Jersey street. Fora coupe. 123-906. from 345 North Addison street. Marvin C, Kuhn. 2332 College avenue. Maxwell coach. 15-191. from Gray and Washington streets. Noble Dav .1817 Woodlawn avenue. Chevrolet coupe. 64-754. from Pennsylvania and Washington streets. Tom Moore. 2606 Brookslde avenue. Plymouth sedan taxi. 101-025. cab No. 5. from 2354 Pierson street.

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Stoltn automobile* recovered bv notice belong to: Rov McClain, 1218 Sterling street, found at Sixteenth street and Ritter avenue, stripped of three wire wheels au<t tires. Oldsniobile coach, motor No. F-6C212. frund at New York street and Tacem* * enue license 120-667. on car issued to O L Rich. 1438 South Richland avenue, lor Ford coupe- No certificate o l tula.

SARANOFF’S REVUE WILL FEATURE BALLROOM FROLIC NEW YEAR’S EVE

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Old Men’s Clubhouse at Kokomo Built for $l5O Dedicate Fine New Structure; Idea Worked Up by Retired Man Who Defied Idleness. By United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 31.—The’ Old Men’s Benevolent Association, conceived by a fireman v.’ho refused to be idle after being placed on pension, dedicated its new club house Friday night. Constructed at a cost of $l5O by members of this remarkable organization, the clubhouse is 32x80 feet and has 2,600 feet of flobr space. When the basement is finished it will contain a kitchen, dining room, barber shop, shoe repair shop, fruit and vegetable storehouse, beds for unemployed, and club rooms for the members.

It was four years ago that Clinton Draper was retired, after serving nearly thirty years on the Kokomo fire department. He resented the fact that he should become inactive. About him then he gathered a group of old men w r ho felt that they, too, w’ere being discriminated against in finding work. The organization was loosely connected at first until a political campaign bound members together, and they became a pow’er in local affairs. James Robert Mcßeynolds was elected president. One night he had a dream which gave him the

Cools Off on Pipes Police Captain Goes In for Cigars After Heated Celluloid Comb Experience. Captain Lewis Johnson of the police traffic department explained today why he is smoking cigars instead of the customary pipe. It is because of a small but very personal fire which Johnson experienced Thursday. An automobile insurance company distributed celluloid combs Thursday bearing its advertisement. Johnson obtained one to carry in the right-hand pocket of his coat.

Called to the office of the chief during the day, Johnson w’aited on some other callers to leave. He thought he thoroughly had shaken out a pipe he was smoking before placing it in the pocket with the comb. But he hadn’t. Shortly an odor like camphor permeated the air near Johnson. He noticed it, as did patrolman Otto Fulton, standing beside him. Soon Johnson found the source. He has a heated spot on the right side and began unloading the pocket, from which the bottom had been burned and the coat around it was smoldering. “The worst of it is that I was wearing anew uniform on account of holiday week,”’ Johnson mourned today as he puffed a cigar. DUSTS ARE DANGEROUS Experimental Explosions Show Some Are Highly Destructive. By United Press ARLINGTON. Va., Dec. 31.—Dust may be just something to wipe off to some people, but to researchers at the department of agriculture experimental farm it’s quite different. They have staged twelve experimental dust explosions and have found that some dusts have highly destructive powers.

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idea of building a clubhouse. Original working capital was 2 cents; J. E. Frederick, Kokomo capitalist, donated bricks. Someone else furnished a lot and work on the clubhouse started. It Is estimated that about SBS more cash will be needed to complete the building. Membership is limited '"■only to those aged men who Eye willing to work. “Loafers” are not tolerated. Last summer the old men tended nearly eighty-five acres of gardens in Kokomo. Their relief work has been extensive.

STATE MINE ACCIDENT RATE SHOWS DECREASE Fatal Mishaps, However, Increase in 1931, Report Reveals. The coal mine accident rate in Indiana for 1931 dropped to 133 from 146 for the previous year per million-man hours of exposure, a bulletin of the United States bureau of mines received here today showed. Fatal accidents, however, increased to 3.71 from 1.95 in 1930, on the same basis. The fatality rate’s increase was due to the Linton mine disaster in January, 1931, when twenty-eight men lost their lives. The decrease in accidents was registered, however, despite the disaster. Mining deaths in 1931 totaled fifty-seven in the state with 1,989 men injured to the extent that at least one day’s work was lost. A total of 12,311 men were employed in 1931 to produce 14,295,165 tons of coal in 168 active mines.. The fifty-seven deaths by* counties were: Daviess, Greene and Warrick, 1 each; Gibson and Vermillion, 2 each; Vigo 7; Knox, 10, and Sullivan, 33.

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MINE DISASTER SHOWNIN FILM Appalling Scenes in Reel; Eievator Fire Features. Striking scenes of the appalling mine disaster which orphaned hundreds of youngsters Christmas eve at Mow’eaqua, 111., and of the spectacular Chicago w’ater-front fire which took two lives and resulted in almost $1,000,000 damage, in destroyed grain elevators and their contents, are shown in the current issue of The Indianapolis TimesUniversal Newsreel. Graham McNamee, world famous radio announcer, and the screen’s Talking Reporter, vividly describes the two catastrophes. McNamee reports many other important and interesting events in the reel, including a riotous hockey game, punctuated by frequent fist fights, . between the New York Americans and the Toronto Maple Leafs; the remarkable ice jam in the Columbia riyer at The Dalles, Ore.; the early and spectacular freezing of Niagara falls, and the freeing of 200 “prohibition” prisoners by Governor James Rolph Jr. of California as a result of that state's repudiation of its “dry” law. A children’s art school in Vienna, where real juvenile genius is discovered and developed; a giant trans-oceanic plane, now used as a roadside gas filling station for auto tourists, and a baby monkey being raised in an incubator, are interesting additions to the reel. GEORGE SNIDER ENDS ID YEARS OF SERVICE Marker to Take' Commission Post Jan. 1. George Snider. Republican, retiring county commissioner, ended ten years of continuous service in public office today. He will be succeeded as Second district commissioner by Ernest K. Marker, Democrat, Jan. 1. Snider served six years as commissioner and was sheriff four years. Complexion of the board will be entirely Democratic in 1933. Despite a rumor the board will divide into two rival factions of the same political faith, Don W. Vorhies and Thomas Ellis, holdover members, predict harmony on all major board policies in 1933. Ellis is slated for board president next year, succeeding Vorhies. Only one appointment of major importance awaits the 1933 board. This is selection of a president of the board of managers of the county tuberculosis hospital at Sunnyside to succeed Dr. Alfred Henry, lung specialist, who died Dec. 12. Other institution heads are expected to remain in office. U. S."DRY _ )NCE before, • AT CLOSE OF ICE AGE Drought Was Climatological, Then, Not Political. V. Science Service ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 31. —America went dry once before. But it was long before Volstead or any other prohibitionist was born, and the drought was climatological, not political. Evidence presented at the meeting of the Eciological Society of America here today by Professor Paul B. Sears of the University of Oklahoma indicates that between the close of the great Ice Age and tlje present time there was a prolonged dry spell. At first it was dry and cold, later it turned warm, but still was dry. Buried in peat bogs all across the continent are vast quantities of pollen grains and other plant remains that have built themselves up. layer on layer, ever since the glacial sheet melted away. These give to the trained botanist a succession of pictures of the kinds of plants that grew in the locality. These strata of bog remains, together with other data, indicate to Professor Sears that the climax of the warm, dry epoch occurred between 1000 and 2000 B. C.

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PRESS BILL TO SAN CONGRESS FUNERAL TRIPS Costly Tributes Paid to Deceased Members Held ‘Unfair.’ BY RAYMOND CLAPPER (Copyright. 1932. by United Press) United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—An effort to compel congress to abolish its expensive official funerals for deceased members is being pressed by Chairman H. W. Sumners of the house judiciary committee. He has just sent a letter to Chairman J. N. Sandlin of the house legislative appropriations subcommittee, condemning congressional funerals, and urging that congress take action now forbidding further expenditures for this purpose. . Representative Sumners in his letter called attention to a recent United Press dispatch which reported on the basis of the latest unpublished accounts of the clerk of the house that train fares for the funeral of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth amounted to $6,422.20. Sumners said he knew Mr. Longworth would have disapproved of that. The Texas representative has introduced several bills and resolutions to end this source of expense which averages about $1,500 per funeral. No Longer Necessary Sumners reiterated what he said when he offered his first anti-fu-neral bill: “In the days when popular respect for government was held largely through the awe which pomp and splendor and pageantly attached to official personages and positions, there may have been some real justification for this sort of thing, but among a people who are supposed to follow principles as distinguished from persons and where public officials are merely private persons temporarily called to the public service, the expenditure of public funds in connection with congressional funerals can not be justified. * “Besides, the custom makes necessary that members of congress abandon the discharge of public duties while they go possibly thousands of miles to be present at these funerals. “I believe most everybody now recognizes it is not a proper method of showing respect for a deceased member. It is not a proper expenditure of public funds. Custom Held Unfair It is not a proper use of the time of members of congress. ‘‘This custom is unfair both to the deceased, in whose honor it is supposed to be observed, and of the living to continue it. “The majority of the members of congress w r ant to abolish this custom. The difficulty is that it is a thing which is established, and when a member dies the customary resolution is brought in as a matter of routine. “To defeat such a resolution carrying out a custom older than the government would be an overt act of disrespect shown in the presence of death. Nobody wants to do that. “In order to avoid that and to bring the matter to an end when nothing of that sort would be involved, I have introduced this resolution which gives the house an opportunity to determine the matter of policy free from any possible application to an individual case.” RETIRED POLICEMAN IS TAKEN BY DEATH William Wheeler, 77, Served as Chauffeur for 25 Years. William Wheeler, 77, Negro, retired policeman, who served as chauffeur of police patrols for twenty-five years, died Friday at his home, 641 Blake street, after a lingering illness. A member of the force for thirtysix years, Wheeler was retired on Sept. 20, 1927. He became ill in October and had been confined to bed since. Wheeler was made a chauffeur when the department first became motorized. Prior to that time he was employed in the police barns. His son, Charles Wheeler, now is assistant custodian at police headquarters. Survivors are the widow, the son and a daughter living in Detroit. Arrangements for the funeral have not been made.

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Ruling on State Sinking Fund Sought in Court

Suit Filed by Sexton Against Long List of Defendants. Suit seeking a ruling on the constitutionality of the statute creating a state sinking fund passed at the special session of the legislature this year, was filed Friday in Superior court four by Timothy P. Sexton, Marion county treasurer, against a long list of defendants. NEW STDTZ TO~ BE SHOWN HERE Hoosiers Will Be First to See 1933 Car at Open House. Hoosiers will be the first to see the 1933 Stutz. The cars are being shown for the first time today and Sunday at open house in the Stutz factory, Eleventh street and Capitol avenue. The new models will not be shown to the public officially until Thursday when they will be presented by Charles M. Schwab, largest stockholder of the company, in the New York showroom. Besides the passenger cars, the showing will include the Pak-Age-Car, new Stutz product, designed for house-to-house delivery service. The factory will be open Saturday and Sunday from 8 in the morning until 9 at night. TRACTOR CRANKS PLANE Chicago Aviator Against Starting Motors by Hand. By United Press CHICAGO. Dec. 31.—Ralph Caffarello doesn’t believe in starting airplanes by hand. At the municipal airport here he has rigged up a tractor to do the cranking for him. The power takeoff cf the tractor is hooked up to the starting mechanism of the plane.

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Complaint in the suit, an action for a declaratory judgment was prepared by Frederick E. Matson of the law firm of Matson, Ross, McCord and Clifford, with which is associated in the case the firm of Jones, Hammond and Buschmann, general counsel for the Indiana Bankers’ Association. The sinking fund statute, it is averred is in violation of both the federal and state constitutions. It directs that interest from all public funds on deposit, regardless of nature, shall be placed in the hands of the state terasurer until a fund of $3,000,000 is created. Sexton’s suit is particularly concerned as to whether interest on several special funds is within provisions of the sinking fund law. These special funds include the Barrett law fund, public improvement, school and park bonds. Defendants include William P. Storen, treasurer of state; the state board of finance; trustees of Indiana university; James M. Ogden, attorney-general; couhty commissioners and council members; city of Indianapolis; the city’s sinking fund, sanitary and park commissioners; Pike towship; town of Speedway; Gavin L. Payne, Grain Dealers National Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Indiana Lumbermen’s Mutual Insurance Company, A. Otto Abel and Frank W. Abel.

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COUNTY LETS > CONTRACTS ON 1933 SUPPLIES SIOO,OOO Gravel Road, and. $70,000 Printing Items Are Largest. Contracts were awarded Friday by county commissioners for various supplies for use during 1933, the largest items being for gravel roads, approximately SIOO,OOO, and printing. $70,000. Successful bidders for road supply contracts included the J. p. . Johnson Company, asphalt; bridge supplies, Republic Creosoting Company; culvert pipe. W'. J, O’Neall; lumber. Republic Creosoting Company and Van Natta Lumber Company; drain tile. Frank M. Bell Company, and crushed stone, OhioIndiana Stone Company. Sand and gravel contracts were awarded Omer Zook and the following companies: American Aggregates, Brown-. Hunstater, Fall Creek, Speedway, Glenn s Valley, Indiana, Keystone. and Indianapolis. The Capitol Dairies was a warded a contract for milk and cream. Next year’s supply of drinking water in the courthouse will be provided by the Cartersburg Water Company, on a bid of 7’a cents a gallon against 10 cents bid by the Crystal Springs Water Company, which held the contract this year. The W. H. Burford Company was awarded the printing contract, which it also held this year. Contracts for tires and tubes were awarded to the Federal Tire Company and E. B. Oscar. The Standard Oil Company will provide gasoline and oil for county institutions, its bid being 4.75 cents off the current market price at time of purchase. The Campbell Oil Company obtained an oil and grease contract on a bid of 4 cents off, . and the Ferine Oil Company will' supply gasoline at the county garage at 4.25 cents off.

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