Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1933 — Page 3

FEB. 23, 1933

ONE IS KILLED. TWO SERIOUSLY HURT IN CRASH Auto Smashes Into Tree, Overturns in West Side Tragedy. One man is dead and two are in city hospital with critical injuries as a result of an automobile accident in the 5000 block. West Tenth street Friday afternoon. Jam-s Roe, 31. of 435 North Warman avenue, died today after in-

curring a fractured skull and other injuries when the car overturned after striking a tree. His death brought the total in Marion county from

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traffic accidents to seventeen since Jan. 1. Fractured skulls also were incurred by Roy Flack, 29. of 3445 West Michigan street .and Charles E. Edwards, 43, of 262 Bellevieu place. Slight Injuries were suffered by Glenn Meloy. 38. of 604 North Tibb's avenue, a city fireman, driver of the ear, and Harold Schumate, 24 of 3015 West Michigan street. Loses Control of Car Meloy told police he lost control of the car after it skidded on w'et pavement. The automobile left the road and smashed into a tree. Roe and Flack were riding in the rumble seat. Tn an accident near Plainfield j Friday afternoon, Lloyd Henning, j of R. R. 16, Box 177, was injured 1 seriously and was taken to odist hospital. Several bones w r ere j broken, phvsicians said. James Guy, 38, passenger in an j automobile driven by Clarence j Waddell. 28, of 2185 North Rural j street, received head and nose in- | juries when the car struck a utility j pole after a collision with an auto- j mobile driven by Mildred White, 17, of 2252 North La Salle street, at Thirtieth and Wood streets. Two Others Injured Two passengers in the automobile of George Madden 19, of 5218 East Walnut street, were injured when the car skidded and struck a utility pole in the 1800 block, West Washington street. Madden was uninjured except for a finger cut. Wallace Quinn, 18. of 1104 North DeQuincy street, and Miss Mary McKidden, 18, of 549 North Emerson avenue, were taken to city hospital for treatment of bruises.

EYES RETAIN COLOR DURING POLAR NIGHT Theory That All Turn Blue Is Denied by Explorers. 841 Science Service NEW YORK. Feb. 25.—Brown eyes do not turn blue during the long nights of the polar regions. This is asserted by the noted Arctic explorer. Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, in a communication to the editor of Science, following the publication in another magazine of the statement that “after a prolonged absence of sunlight, men on polar expeditions find that their eyes, irrespective of previous color, have J,urned blue." Dr. Stefansson. in all his long Experience in the lands of long ;nights, could not recall having observed this phenomenon. The statement was alleged to have been in.spired by an entry in thee journal of Captain Scott, British explorer, who perished after having reached the south pole. But inquiries addressed to Captain Scott's companions and collaborators not only failed to bring conTirmation for this claim, but pro--duced statements to the opposite cf.fect Dark-eyed men see the sun return at the end of a polar night •with eyes that still are dark. HONOR TO.SLAIN GUARDS 4>’ Memorial to Men Killed in Colorado Prison Riot Is rianned. 1 H}> 1 nit at I*res* CANON CITY. Colo.. Feb. 25.—A memorial to guards who lostt their lives in the Colorado prison riot in October, 1929. will be erected in State park here, within the shadow •of the institution for which the men .gave their lives. Prisoners are engraving the monument. a huge rock hewn from the prison quarries. At the head of the stone is the :Colorado seal. Below is engraved the inscription: "Peace to the Officers Who Fell in Line of Duty. October 2. 1929.' _ In panels below the inscription '•are names of the eight who died and those who were wounded. LANDOWNERS ARE AIDED Easy Term Plan of Tax Payments Extended in Covington, Ky. • />/ l nited Pre ait . COVINGTON. Tenn., Feb. 25. The easy term plan of payment has •been extended to- property owners of Covington. The taxpayers can pay their taxes on just about their own terms. Under anew system, taxes may be paid in advance, paid in installments Tor liquidated monthly. There is even a cash discount of 1 per cent for those who pay them in advance. . The installment plan permits the taxes to be paid in four installments. Under the liquidation plan, 10 per •cent is paid over a period of ten months. HARMONICA 'IN STYLE - It's "Unofficial Official" Instrument of Los Angeles High Schools. "fill I nited Pro* : LOS ANGELES. Feb. 25.—The lowly harmonica, hitherto associated with wharf darkies, has been reclognized as the "unofficial official” .instrument of Los Angeles high schools. There are 185 bands in the city .schools, showing that the small, instrument has replaced such •grandiose affairs as the trombone and tuba in the aspirations of small boys. * A harmonica band program is broadcast every Sunday morning. ; Pharmacists' records show that, she first store dealing exclusively in drugs was opened in Wetzler, Germany, in 1233.

Housewives Make Bridge Tables Give Way to Art of Oil Painting

iasels Pushing Easy Aces Out of the Lives of > Tv Some Indiana Women. Easy aens are being eased out of \ , N be life of many Indiana housewives .J gabble of \ aL V T ; being traded for thp oil on can- 5... ' VT - ■*" .J# W fa* ifa as. Yesterday's golf bunker is now >1 • Y. ® model for a first-class hill in a W • < jBP 5 ergaitcn davs of women to be able A | > paint pictures is being given it.s “ M | In good American, the studio on jpF if nation where a tyro, n woman * j? ho never has painted anything ex- \ f- # 'Pt her cheeks, may learn to pat * r ftfeSf4./ f 2 I ils on canvas without cost. ' . W j f Y ' Instruction is Free * t Instruction is ffee under the j ' £ *'*s ’bool's head, Mrs. Bertha Drake.: i . i; J. F nd onlv the canvas and oil iispd ‘

Easels Pushing Easy Aces Out of the Lives of Some Indiana Women. Easy aces are being eased out of J the life of many Indiana housewives by easels. Thp oily gabble of the bridge table is being traded for the oil on can- , vas. Yesterday's golf bunker is now' a model for a first-class hill in a forest scene. And the desire of the crayon kindergarten days of women to be able to paint pictures is being given its outlet at the Escuela De Artes, Room 1. 40 West Ohio street. In good American, the studio on West Ohio, is the “School of Arts.’’ but it is one of the few' schools in the nation w'here a tyro, a woman who never has painted anything except her cheeks, may learn to pat oils on canvas without cost. Instruction Is Free Instruction is ffee under the school's head, Mrs. Bertha Drake, and only the canvas and oil used is paid for by the student. Approximately sixty-five women of Indianapolis and the vicinity have sworn off card parties, sewing circles and golf tourneys to permit their artistic talents free rein. The fruit bowl of the dining room comes to life on canvas as the students are permitted to choose the subjects of the pictures they learn to paint. Mrs. Duke sketches in the scene they desire to reproduce. She instructs them in applying the oil. When the product is complete they may have it framed and hung in their home for grandchildren to point at and say, “grandma painted that.” ✓ “Always Liked to Paint” Almost without exception the housewives who attend the school of art are answering an urge that was strong in childhood, but wiped out by the routine of living. “I alw'ays liked to paint as a girl, but I never had the time for it. Now, my children are growing up and don’t need me so much, and I’ve got a chance to do what I’ve wanted to do.’ they say. The school is a “clubby” .sort of affair. No rules. They work as long as they wish. If they've just got to get home to bake a cake for supper, they leave their canvas until another day. One 76-year-old woman comes from Jeffersonville to receive instructions. Off and on through life she's painted, but now' in her winter years she feels the need stronger. Lot Better Than Slam She has no desire of being a Gauguin, a Corot, nor does Mrs. Emmett Ralston, wife of the vicepresident of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, or Mrs. Charles Miller of Anderson, v hose husband is with the Miller Tire and Rubber Company. Mrs. William F. Gansberg, 2468 North Meridian street, also is a member of the group. But they are painting things that will live at least in the minds and hearts of their friends and families. “And that's a lot better than making a grand slam at bridge,” they say as they hurry from kitchen aprons or house frocks into painting smocks.

OLD DAYS RECALLED Talcs of Lurid West Related by Pioneer of Montana. Hu 1 nited Pre** WHITEFISH. Mont., Feb. 25. The tales of the old and lurid west, when cattlemen and rustlers fought their battles on Montana's plains, were told at a meeting here recently bv police chief C. W. Powell, pioneer and old-time cow-puncher. Powell recalled the hectic days of 1878, when the cattlemen hired "invaders'' to come into Montana to clean out the rustlers. The “invaders" were paid $5 a day and SSO for every dead rustler. "There were quite a few dead ones,” Powell cryptically admitted. Powell's father, a bull team freighter, helped drive herds of 38.000 from Texas to Miles City, Mont.

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Upper Left—The only touch, the flick of a brush, in the free art school where housewives are made fii painters without cost. Miss Bernice Tearney, assistant to Mrs. Bertha Duke, the teacher, is shown with poised brush. Upper Right—Miss Dorothy Youngholm, 4025 Washington boulevard. a new' student, learning the proper amount of oil to squeeze on her pallette. Lower—Mrs. Duke instructing Mrs. C. L. Striker of Anderson, how to make her brushes bow to her color desire.

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Protection of Fruit by Smudges Is Old Custom

Californians Use Methods Once Employed in Peru Valleys. By Science Service LOS ANGELES, Feb. The I modern method of protecting orange and lemon groves from frost damage by orchard firing on cold nights, is not so new, after all, archeologists point out. California groves are piotected by thousands of pots burning a heavy | crude oil. Long ago. in Cuzco. Peru, where the climate was very cold because of the high altitude, Indian i farmers used a similar device on | frosty nights. Record of this Indian invention is : found in the writings of Garcilaso de la Vega, who lived in Peru in the days of the Spanish conquest and claimed to be descendant of the Incan Indians. Garcilaso writes that on clear ! nights the valleys near Cuzco froze at any time of year. So. on a clear : evening the Indians, fearing frost, would set fire to their rubbish heaps. Each individual tried to make a ! smoke in his corral, for it was said j that frost was prevented by the : smoke because it served as a blan- : ket, like the clouds. It recently has been learned that not the smoke, but the warmed air itself, is the frost preventive; but until this discovery was made, modern orchardists shared with ancient Indians a belief in the frost-stop-ping. efficacy of smoke. From ancient times, the Indians i of Peru under Incan rule celebrated an annual ceremony to the sun when the corn began to sprout. With offerings of sheep they implored the sun to prevent injury of the com by frost, for corn, which is sensitive to cold, formed their main sustenance. Indians of ancient Mexico visualized a god of the Cold very much like our own Jack Frost. He was garbed in unspun white cotton with long white ear ornaments, and adorned with banners and other devices of white paper. His face was masked and on his head he wore a white wig. above which was a peaked cap adorned with a row of spikes. White sandals were on his feet. He was posed half kneeling, with one hand raised and the- other holding a bunch of driedup plants.

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FAMILY ‘RUNS’ TOWN Husband and Wife Hold All of Public Offices. By United Pre** SAVOY. Mass., Feb. 25.—The town government of Savoy is, in a broad sense, the Barber family. Here's why: E. A. Barber is town moderator, selectman, member of the board of public welfare, and member of the board of health. His wife is town clerk, town treisurer, and a member of the school committee. The town incidentally, has no debt. FREE RIDES FOR DOGS Canine Guides for Blind Must Be Carried Without Pay in California. I!;i United Pre** SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 25.—Dogs used to guide blind persons in this state now are permitted free transportation on trains, street cars and other public conveyances, following a state railroad commission ruling to that effect. The commission adopted the ruling to supersede the general law prohibiting dogs from conveyances unless they are muzzled or in crates. SELF JUDGE TOO HARSH Jurist Cuts Food Thief’s Own Sentence One-Half. By United Press • BOSTON, Feb. 25.—James M. Downey, 23, judges himself too harshly. Asked by Juige Harold P. Williams to dispose of his own case when he was arraigned for stealing • SI 1 worth of groceries, Downey said: “Well, your honor. I wouldn't want to go unpunished for this break. I think six months would be enough.” The judge cut the sentence in half.

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PATMAN MAPS NEW PLAN FOR PAYING BONUS Expands Currency and at Same Time Cuts U. S. Expenses, Is Claim. BY MARSHALL McNEIL Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Representative Wright Patman <Dem„ Tex.) has anew bill for pre-pay-ment of the bonus, which- he believes will result not only in an expartsion of the currency under complete control, but also reduce federal expenditures by $112,000,000 annually. Under his proposal, the treasury would issue currency in the sum of $2,200,000,000 to pay the bonus to more than three and one-half million ex-soldiers. Patman will “insist,” he said, on the passage of his bill at the impending special session of congress. “The money issued,” the Texan said, “will not be fiat money, as it will have sufficient gold coverage. The plan will not violate the currency planks of either the Democratic or Republican platforms.” Saving Method Described The saving in federal expenditures involved would be accomplished, Representative Patman explained, by liquidating the sinking fund set up in the adjusted compensation act, and by eliminating the annual appropriation made to it. This yearly payment is $112,000,000. Five ways are set out in the new Patman bill to contract the currency “in the event of danger of inflation.” These arc: “1. National banks under the Glass-Borah amendment to the home loan bank act are permitted to deposit United States bonds with j the secretary of the treasury and have issued to them currency—new money—in return. This privilege is permitted to the extent of about one billion dollars and the rate of interest on the bonds may be 3% per cent. A possible bonus to the bankers of $33,750,000 annually, the banks using the money and getting interest on the bonds deposited. If contraction is necessary, a portion or all of these bonds may be returned and that amount of money cancelled.

How to Contract Currency “2. National banks, under the old law', have placed with the Secretary of the treasury about $700,000,000 in United States government bonds and have had issued to them $700,000,000 in currency. They are getting the use of the currency and receiving 2 per cent interest from the government on the bonds. A $14,000,000 annual bonus to bankers. If further contraction of the currency is desired, the secretary of the treasury may return these bonds, and receive the money issued on them and cancel it. “3. Under the Glass-Steagall act, the banks are permitted to deposit United States government bonclis with the federal reserve agent and receive in return therefor federal reserve notes—new money—issued upon the credit of the nation. These bonds may be returned and the money cancelled if further contraction is desired. Justified By Need, Is Claim “4. Federal reserve notes are issued on gold only. Further contraction may be had by limiting the use of this privilege. • “5. If further contraction is desired, all federal reserve notes that are not issued in benefit of commerce, industry and farming may be retired.” Patman, how'ever, believes that it will not be necessary to invoke any of his suggested plans for contracting the currency, for he is convinced that the “increase in our population, national w'ealth, national income and monetary gold stock during the last fifty years justifies the suggested increase in circulating medium.” Peasants of Japan and China, who fermented their rice cakes in the sun centuries ago, used an industrial alcohol process w'hich now is coming into its own.

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4-Year-Old Lad Is Saved From Death in Cesspool

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Timber in Pueblo Ruin Is Traced Back to 708 A. D.

American History Is Pushed Back 76 Years by Arizona Find. By Science Service FLAGSTAFF. Ariz., Feb. 'A— Archeologists have pushed United States history back 76 years. In a ruined dwedding of Pueblo Indians, in Arizona, has been found timber cut about the year 708 A. D. Harold S. Colton, director of the museum of northern Arizona, announced the discovery. The building of this Indian home now' is the oldest date in United States history. The earliest date heretofore established was 784 A. D„ found in another Indian pithouse by the same museum. The house was built, Dr. Colton reports, in the earliest period w'hen Pueblo Indians inhabited the southw'est. The period is called “Pueblo One” by pre-historians. Earlier than the Pueblos in the southw'est were Basket Maker Indians w'ho lived there long before the Christian era. The important piece of timber was dated by matching its annual rings

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street, was playing in rear yard with Mrs. Corbin’s daughter, Catherine. 11. Bobby stepped on the wood covering of the cesspool and dropped into the W'ater as the lid turned. Catherine screamed as Bobby sank, attracting Garrett Goins, 59. an uncle. As the elder Goins fell to the ground the lad's hand pierced the surface of the water. Goins grabbed the hand and pulled the child to safety. “I wasn't afraid,” Bobby said, “but I sure wouldn’t want to do it again.” He was treated at city hospital against possible infection and taken to his home.

with an unbroken series of tree rings from present date extending back more than 1.200 years. Despite the charred condition of the wood, the tree rings could be matched with rings dated 623 A. D. to 708 A. D. Colton said that a few additional outer rings might have been destroyed. The house was excavated under direction of Lyndon L. Hargrave and the timber was dated by John C. McGregor of the museum staff. Dr. A. E. Douglass, outstanding authority on the tree ring method of dating southwestern ruins, reviewed the date. DOCTOR SPURNS SOCKS Wears Only Shoes W’ith Smooth Linings for Foot Comfort. WEBSTER, Mass., Feb. 25.—At 72 years of age, Dr. Edward M. Frissell believes he has discovered the secret of foot comfort. He purchases shoes with smooth linings and wears them without seeks. On cold days he wears spats to keep his ankles warm.

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LEGISLATION ON RAILWAY RELIEF TO BE DELAYED Bankruptcy Action to Be Limited to Individual Debtors' Aid. BY BI Til FINNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Feb 25.—Opposition in both parties to consideration of railroad reorganization in the closing days of the session threatened today to limit bankruptcy legislation now pending to provide for relief of indivdual debtors and farmers. Senator D. O. Hastings, sponsor of the bankruptcy bill, has served notice that he will offer a plan for railroad reorganization different from any yet proposed, but according to present indications it will be refused consideration. The senate judiciary committee has given no attention whatever to the subject of railroad reorganization. and action on the floor under these circumstances is unprecedented. Both liberals and conservatives protested when Senator Hastings announced his intention. Blaine Denounces Bill The Hastings amendment would take from the interstate commerce commission the right to name either a trustee to take charge of railroad properties during reorganization, or a panel from w'hich a trustee would be chosen. So far little opposition to provisions simplifying relief procedure for individuals has been evident, though Senator John J. Blaine i ßep.. Wfc.) denounced the bill as a “gesture, an unfair joke on the farmer, full of foolish, silly provisions that can not possibly bring any relief.” Senator Hastings told the senate in explaining the measure that the bill will “do nothing miraculous for debtors,” although its title has “misled people to believe it will.” Power Given to Courts As it stands the bill gives the federal courts power to approve compositions or extensions of debts both secured and unsecured, where a majority of the creditors consent. It omits a provision included in the house bill permitting a judge to grant extensions whether creditors agree or not. For farmers, it provides similar procedure except that concilation commissioners may be appointed in each county wTiere fifteen farmers request, to help work out an agreement between creditors and debtors. The senate agreed to a large number of technical amendments Friday, and may conclude consideration of the bill today. It must then go to conference w’ith a committee of the house before final pasprocedure except that conciliation

LASH IS URGED FOR LIQUOR VIOLATORS Oklahoma Federal Judge Wants Drastic Measure Invoked. By United Pre** MUSKOGEE. Okla.. Feb. 25.—Ten lashes on the bare back, instead of prison sentences, will be given liquor law offenders in Oklahoma if Federal Judge Robert L. Williams had his way. The former Governor, noted for harshness to bootleggers, believes that the Indian system of curbing law violations, in force 100 years ago, would be more effectve than the penitentiaries of the white man. "First offenders on any charge were given twenty-five lashes, second offenders fifty lashes, third offenders 100 lashes, and for fourth offender?, death was the penalty,” he explained. In the steel industry it is found that workers subjected to extreme heat and humidity have higher death rates from pneumonia than the other workers.