Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1933 — Page 11

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CITY MARBLE STARS VIE FOR TITLEFRIDAY Times to Send Champion to World’s Fair at Chicago for Full Week. 17 IN FINAL ROUNDS Judges Are Chosen for Great Mibs Event at Willard Park. The world's fair, skyscrapers, Lake Michigan—Chicago itself, America’s second largest city—that’s the award to The Indianapolis Times city marble tournament winner, who will be crowned Friday. Final play will be held at the Willard park tennis courts at 9 Friday morning, and seventeen sectional winners will dream tonight, the eve of the final play, of how much of Chicago they will be able to see in a week’s stay, after they have won the city championship. Robert Noffke, 12, of 1972 North Keystone avenue, School 38 pupil, W'as one of the latest to win his way into the final play, when he won the sectional championship of Oak Hill playground Wednesday afternoon. Noffke went through his first game with ease, winning over three other boys, and then shot straight and hard to win two decisions over Rubin Davis, 12 of 2202 Roosevelt avenue, School 38, who also had won his earlier game. Last Sectional Today Noffke, by winning that sectional, brought the number who will play in the final up to sixteen. Last of the sectionals was to be played at 1:30 today at the Indianapolis Orphans’ home. Almost all the sectional winners showed marked ability in reaching the finals. All gained their positions only after hard play, possible fluke victories being eliminated this year through a change in rules. Billy Dyer, 14, of 957 West Thirtythird street, winner of last year’s city championship, and this year’s sectional at Riverside park, will be defending his crown. Billy is anxious to retain his crown, for the award to be made to the winner, a week's trip to Chicago and the world’s fair, with all expenses paid, exceeds that which Billy received last year. Leaves Here Sunday Winner of the championship will leave Indianapolis Sunday, June 25. j accompanied by a chaperon, provided by The Times, and after arriving there and making headquarters in one of the downtown hotels, Will start on his first sightseeing tour. - The Indianapolis winner will start play in the western divisional tournament Monday morning, and every morning until Thursday, unless eliminated early in play. Winner of the western divisional, and the Indianapolis champion will have a splendid chance, will leave Chicago by airplane Thursday for Atlantic City, N. J., where he will play the Eastern divisional champ an a nine-game set for the national mibs championship. During the stay at Chicago, the Indianapolis winner will make sightseeing tours, and visits to the fair, when he is not playing marbles. If the local player wins the western divisional he will be accompanied to Atlantic City by the same chaperon, and if he loses he will remain in Chicago until Sunday when he will leave for home. Play in Four Rings In Friday morning’s finals here, four boys will be placed in three rings, and five players will be placed in a fourth ring. The first boy in each ring to gain two decisions will be declared champion of his ring, leaving four players for the semifinals. The four ring champs then will be divided into two groups and each group will play a three-out-of-five set. Winners then will play the final game, which will be decided by victories in nine games. Officials for The Times finals will be H. W. Middlesworth, city recreation director; Bob Nipper and Clifford Courtney, supervisors of Indianapolis playgrounds; Sergeants Frank Owens and Tim McMahon of the police accident prevention bureau. and representatives of The Times. Sixteen Already Winners Winners of sectionals already played include: Rilev Playground—Dexter Duke, 10 of 924 River avenue. School 47. , p ll Creek Playground—Jack Nevitt, 11 of 526 East Fall Creek boulevard. School 70. Garfield Park—Billy Peed, 10, of 1128 Calhoun street. School 18. Park—Stanley Smith. 12, of 1017 Tecumseh street, School 53. E 1 v. nb . f !'' K <y, Park-Bill Shultz, il. of <34 North Colorado avenue. School 58 ,^5 UI 3 lclpal Gardens—Bill Johnson. 13, of 1261 King avenue. School 75. Hawthorne Playground—Jesse Culbertson. 12, of 65 South Mount street. School Riverside Park—Billy Dver. 14. of 957 street, Shortridge high Rliodius Park—Warren Fowler. 14, of 1110 Reisner street. School 49 Brightwood Playground—Lawrence Hes*'on. 10, ' 3631 Massachusetts avenue. s> Franc „ de Sales Catholic school. Christian Park—Kenneth Conowav, 11 of 4102 Spann avenue. School 82. Brpokslde Park—James Kleinhelder. 11. 0f „1 3 ,} 9 North Denny street. School 62 Willard Park—lrl Freeland. 12. of 213 South State avenue. School 39. American Settlement—Frank Stefanko. tti ■ i O3 . West Washington street. St. John s Catholic school. .Greer Street Playground—Joe Piccione. I't 0 / 622 Stevens street. Holv Rosarv. -Gak 14111 Plavground—Robert Noffke. 12, °‘ ' 9, 2 North Keystone avenue. School 38 Orphans Home—To be played at 1:30 today. UTILITY WINS BATTLE Declared Publicly Owned in Opinion From Attorney-General. Cloverdale Municipal Water and Power Company was declared to be a publicly owned utility in an opinion to tlie state auditor Wednesday from Attorney - General Philip Lutz Jr. He also cited the new law which permits municipally owned plants to extend electric service into the surrounding countryside. Way now is paved for the company to borrow $2,213,585 R. F. C. funds for plant construction, it was indicated.

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Neville Chamberlain British chancellor of the exchequer, who may head commission to talk debt revision with the United States. He is known as a foe of payment.

DEBT FOE MAY HEAD MISSION Chamberlain Considered as Chief of British Group in U. S. Conference. BY FREDERICK KUH V’nitvd Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, June 15. Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, and in the past a bitter opponent of the war debt payments to the United States, is being considered as the head of a debt revision mission to be sent to Washington soon, the United Press learned today. The treasury confirmed reports that the $10,000,000 silver payment on the war debt annuity due today would be shipped to New York shortly. The treasury is negotiating for a ship and expected to complete transport arrangements today. Chamberlain’s appointment depends upon whether he will be acceptable to the United States government. If Washington prefers the British delegation to be led by a treasury expert, the choice probably will be Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, economic adviser to the government.

Grip of Death Snail Kills Snake in Odd Battle in lowa Garden Pool.

By United Prrsn Davenport, ia., June 15.— a nine-hour battle between a determined snail and a twentyinch garter snake came to an end in a garden pool here with the snail crushing its opponent to death. Early in the duel, tlv? snail seized the snake behind the head. The snake whipped and lashed at its little adversary, but the latter would not relinquish its death grip, gradually, it worked the snake’s head inside its shell and held on until the snake’s writhings grew feebler and feebler.

Prince Blacked Her Eye, Charges Singer in Suit

Mary McCormic Begins Court Action Against Mate for Separation. By United Press LOS ANGELES, June 15.—Love ended when Prince Serge M’Divani of the little principality of Georgia, blacked the eye of comely Mary McCormic, grand opera singer, Miss McCormic charged Wednesday in filing suit for separate maintenance against the former husband of Pola Negri. It was the third time within a week that the name M Divani had reached the headlines. Last week, Mae Murray, blond former Follies dancer and motion

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TRADE PARLEY FATE TO HINGE ON WARDEBTS .Showdown to Come Quickly as Result of British and U. S. Split. GULF GROWS WIDER No Definite Action Can Be Taken by Congress Before 1934. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, ScriDPS-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. June 15. A showdown at London, involving the life or death of the world economic conference, is imminent and inevitable as a result of the apparently irreconcilable views of Great Britain and America on war debts. The gulf between the views of the two key countries was revealed not only in the speeches before the conference itself, but in the exchange of notes between London and Washington concerning today’s $76,000,000 installment due from Britain. Formally and officially, the British insist that nothing of value can be accomplished at London unless accompanied by a final settlement of the entire $11,000,000,000 war debt problem. U. S. Stand Different Officially and formally, the position of the United States is that the main questions before the London conference have no vital connection with the war debts. And, without specific mention of the debts, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, chairman of the American delegation at London, warned that any efforts to block the progress of the conference by raising selfish interests would “merit the execration of mankind.” Even the payment of the June 15 installment of war debts, the British government declared in its note to this country Wednesday, “could not be made at this juncture without gravely imperiling the success of the conference and involving widespread political consequences of a most serious character.” To which President Roosevelt quickly replied, by note, that h* could by no means concede any such far-flung causes and effects, “especially insofar as they affect the economic conference.” Collision Is Inevitable Accordingly, at London, the American delegation has been instructed to press for immediate action. A head-on collision with the British, therefore, quickly will become inevitable, according to every indication, unless something very definite is done soon about war debts, and nothing definite can be done before 1934. This fact President Roosevelt made clear to the British Wednesday night. In reply to a request for early resumption of war debt negotiations, he told the British that such negotiations could begin at Washington “as soon as convenient,” but only congress could change the terms of the existing settlement. “Any results of such discussion of the debt question,” the President further indicated, “can be submitted for the information or the consideration of congress when it next meets.”

picture actress, filed suit for divorce from Prince David M’Divani. The marriage of Prince Alexis M’Divani to Miss Bargara Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth five-and-ten millions, is to take place in Paris Thursday. Miss Murray joined with her sister-in-law, Miss McCormic, in filing affidavits which resulted in the appointment of a receiver for four oil companies owned by the brothers M’Divani. The move was to conserve assets of the firms, it was said. In the singer's complaint Wednesday, she claimed that “on an average of every three weeks” during the last twenty months, Prince Serge gave way to violent outbursts of temper. Not only did he use obscene language, but he threatened to “strike and mutilate” Miss McCormic, the complaint charged. The crowning outburst, Miss McCormic said, came last October, when Serge blackened her eye. She returned to him four days later, she admitted, when “he promised to mend his ways.” Miss McCormic asked for S6OO monthly for support, $7,500 for attorneys’ fees and an accounting of community property she valued at SIOO,OOO.

Help! Fire! —Sorry, We’ve Got a Customer Now!

BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer PINOCHLE games and occasional fire alarms do not occupy all the time of the boys stationed at Engine House 9 at 557 North Belle Vieu place. No, indeed. The firemen there are enterprising. Instead of “reversing” supreme court decisions, whittling, or just sitting around, the Engine House 9 boys have gone in for merchandising in a big way. Complaints from merchants to The Times, protesting the entrance of the firemen into the chain store business, resulted in a reporter being sent to the firehouse to observe the progress of a city-operated mart of trade. Things were slow, all the fires having been put out in the early morning. A dozen blue-shirted fire laddies lounged about in deck chairs. A foursome played a noisy

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933

WOMAN PLUMBS DEPTHS OF OCEAN

Gloria Hollister Walks on Sea Floor, Ignores Sharks

Earl Sparling adds a fourth article to this series of women who j .JES - im- ' m -t have encountered exciting experiences in strange places with an . ,'y] interview today with Miss Gloria Hollister, assistant to Dr. William j Beebe. Asa child she cut up snakes and toads to discover how life I 98-, flowed, and as a woman she has gone deeper into the ocean than any I || . || other of her sex. Mr. Sparling previously has interviewed Mrs. James I 9* J§| , 0 x - * L Clark. Miss Carlin? Singer and a group of airplane hostesses. j JilL '•% Y . ’lwv 9 Miss Hollister in her laboratory ... ■ 9 lister descended into waters known Iggfck y J 999. :¥ .£- mg to be shark infested to make exII ** - * - MjSamJm act scientific studies of the reef fflr fish—studies that won her a fel- ' * - y lowship in the New York Zoo’S Il I l0 & lcal Society. it. ' I sharks. Dr. Beebe has a theSafes,. ~ V T; - t v aua k u-^ •:jrisSSy Mb : h''. v the lic.-h of an arm •*.:# " As a matter of far;, in ail th< Y,:: times I have been down I've so/ 3 ‘■lily or.f shark, and !, m ~lt ' , j au ‘‘V- 1 scared the hie r :r 0 ■w m " ;* r : 4h‘h ' * him -" V ' Miss Hollister prefers to talk o: 9HjW: * > | - 39 k* f ihp scientific side of her worl ■■ 'vll|lSPpL 1 ‘.V ra'h'T than tin- advv:r un-sunn X „ aMplk?- . ■ Oiar’inc--11 : ' it 1! i-keieT sn.oh.nu w *■ ff. ' /' thtl ntvst erics of life as ;• 'ha: ij-’en lived these millions of year: 9WBII rioun in the dark fathomli-.-s‘dee| all hie such things are the salt of he;

Earl Sparling adds a fourth article to this series of women who have encountered exciting experiences in strange places with an interview today with Miss Gloria Hollister, assistant to Dr. William Beebe. Asa child she cut up snakes and toads to discover how life flowed, and as a woman she has gone deeper into the ocean than any other of her sex. Mr. Sparling previously has interviewed Mrs. James L. Clark, Miss Carline Singer, and a group of airplane hostesses.

Gloria Hollister beside Dr. Beebe’s Bathysphere, in which she has gone deeper in the ocean than any other woman.

BY EARL SPARLING Times Special W'riter NEW YORK, June 15.—“ Goodness, what a child,” they used to say when Gloria Hollister was growing up. Sometimes the complaint was more bitter: “Gloria, you take that dead snake right out of the house.” Gloria led them quite a life. Dolls and such like were not in her line. She preferred to trap rattlesnakes, copperheads, moles, toads. Having trapped same, she delighted to cut them up to see what made them work.” “Dear me. Dear me,” her mother said. She used to say it rather often. There was a stream through the family estate near Suffem, N. Y. —the Mahwah river. Gloria set herself the task of finding out what was at the bottom. She got a long glass tube, had her playmates rope a heavy rock around her waist and sank to the bottom. It was her plan to breathe through the tube. The first several times she neglected to keep the top end of the tube above the surface of the river. There was something of a problem getting her up each time, but each time as soon as she had her breath back she tried again. Eventually she learned how to keep the tube projecting above the surface —then discovered to her surprise that she could take air in through the tube, but against so much pressure could not expel it. She stayed down a considerable time wrestling with this scientific problem, and they got her up just in time. “Oh, dear . . sighed her mother. ‘The tube won’t work, darn it,” grumbled the little girl. “I have another idea.” The other idea involved a large oil can. Gloria had them tie rocks on to her again, then put the oil can over her head and went down. Success! She could stay down until the air inside the can was exhausted. It was grand, provided they got her up before all the air was gone. a it THE upshot of all tnis you might guess. When Gloria had grown up and was graduated from the Connecticut College for Women, where she specialized in zoology, there was nothing she wanted more than to use her scientific training and go deepsea diving with Dr. William Beebe, the zoologist explorer. Dr. Beebe had no opening in his department at the time, but he knew a matron, Mrs. S. Roger Mitchell, who was bored with the social rounds and wanted to go on a jungle expedition. A leader was needed. Dr. Beebe suggested Gloria Hollister.

game of pinochle in a corner of the big red brick firehouse. a tt a “T’D like to buy some rabbits,” A said the reporter. “All out of rabbits, buddy,” said one of the pinochle players, intent on his game. “But I was told you sold them here,” the reporter persisted. “Yell, we did,” said a short, redfaced fireman from the depths of a deck chair, “but the buck died a few weeks ago and we ain’t got none now.” The pinochle players were interested now. One of them offered the names of two places where rabbits could be bought. "Don’t pay any more than three for sl, the short fireman admonished. "That's what we sold ’em for and it’s a fair price. We sold lots of ’em for that, too.” In front of the firehouse, near the entrance door, a large red ice cooler was placed conspicuously.

Gloria was 20. What she did not know about leading a field expedition would have filled a large book. She was introduced to the older woman at sea. Something in the way she said, “I am sure I can do it,” was convincing. And so a slip of a girl, with a woman considerably older, started forth for the jungles of British Guiana. There was drought that year. In Georgetown, where they outfitted, the Governor was threatening a $25 fine for anybody W'ho took a bath. Out in the jungles fire was raging—so widely that a constant smoke haze hung in the air. tt tt tt THE threatened restriction on tub bathing frightened the young explorer more than the distant forest fires. She hastened the outfitting and was off to the safety of the jungle interior. Despite the smoke haze they got many valuable photographs. They got also hundreds of specimens and returned to the coast with twenty live animals, including a capybara, a sort of over-stuffed guinea pig ten times the usual size. Several months later, feeling like a veteran, the girl stopped off at Trinidad, en route home, and captured the first live guacharo bird ever brought to the United States or seen in any zoo —a feat which won her immediate membership in the Society of Woman Geographers. Back in New' York, Miss Hollister refused to rest on her laurels and take life easy. Instead she plunged into the job of getting a master’s degree in zoology at Columbia in a year’s time. There was still no opening jn Dr. Beebe’s departmnet. She wanted something difficult. She applied for a place as laboratory technician under Dr. Alexis Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. How the noted Dr. Carrel tested her out is illuminating. “I expected him to ask me about my school work and scientific training. He surprised me by producing a needle and a sheet of thin stiff paper. ‘lnsert the needle into the edge of the paper,’ he instructed. That w'as to test the steadiness of my hand. I had several tense moments. Some way I did it, got the needle into the paper without its coming out on either side.” o tt a SO for two years the girl who had gone diving in an oil can played trained nurse to Dr. Carrel’s cultures, including the famous bit of chicken heart (known in the laboratory as “The Old Strain”), which is alive twenty-tw'o years after it w r as removed from a chick —many times longer than any chicken has ever lived. Miss Hollister can tell laboratory

“I’d like to buy a bottle of pop,” the reporter announced. “Sure thing, bud,” said a beaming fireman-merchant, “just help yourself.” The reporter put down a dime and got his nickel change. a a a BESIDE the cooler he saw a large glass cabinet containing candy, peanuts, and several brands of cigarets. A big padlock fastened the cabinet. “Guess I need some cigarets, too,” he remarked. “Hey, Morrie,” yelled a fireman, “customer for cigarets. Morrie slid down the pole from the upper regions before you could say three-alarm. He handed over the change briskly. “We’ve got just about everything here,” he smiled. One of the firemen had gone to a phone to call up a rabbit dealer.

stories as exciting as anything that has happened to her deep in the jungle or the sea. Her two years under Dr. Carrel gave her a rigorous training that was to be of enormous value in her later work. Finally, in 1928, came the opportunity. Dr. Beebe was going down to Nonsuch Island off Bermuda on an oceanographic expedition under auspices of the New York Zoological Society. He had a place open. Would Miss Hollister care to go along as research associate? And so, almost before she realized it, the girl who had tried diving w'it-h an oil can over her head was walking casually on the sea floor twenty to forty feet below surface and studying the intimate manners of shallow water fish. There, under the sea, she worked with the same scientific precision that had won Dr. Carrel’s commendation in a laboratory. This was before Otis Barton had built the celebrated Bathysphere used in the 1930 and 1932 expeditions for observation of deep sea life. Under-water observation in shallow water wa§ done with a copper helmet and an air hose. The only other equipment was a bathing suit, a regulation diving suit being considered unnecessary. Thus outfitted, Miss Hoi-

Ralston Monument Fund Stays for Years in Bank

Model for City Planner’s Statue Rejected, Money Remains ‘Buried.’ BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer A monument that never was built —at least $325 toward it has lain in the Fletcher American National bank for forty-three years, waiting for someone to do honor to the man who planned Indianapolis—Alexander Ralston. And now bank officials wouldn’t know to whom the $325 rightfully should be paid. The money on trust in the bank, without interest, is listed as the Ralston Monument Fund. It was raised in 1890 by citizens of Indianapolis, including E. F. Claypool and E. B. Martindale, now deceased, to erect a statue to Ralston, a Scotch surveyor, who platted the town in 1820. “We’ve got the fund, but there’s no signature card of a treasurer of the account and we don’t know who would have the right to draw it out,” Fletcher bank officials say. According to Dunn’s history of In-

“Man here wants to buy some rabbits,” he was saying over the phone, “and w'e’re in the market for another buck. What you got?” Everything was just like that, brisk and businesslike. a a a WHEN the city fathers framed the fire department regulations. they did not anticipate a school of modern merchandising. There is nothing in the book of rules to say that a fireman can not compete with the local merchants or sell livestock in the firehouse. But Article 21, Section 4, of the general rules of the fire department says: “Every member of the fire department shall devote his time to the business of the department and expressly is prohibited from being employed in, or giving his personal attention to any other business.”

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Miss Hollister in her laboratory lister descended into waters known to be shark infested to make exact scientific studies of the reef fish—studies that won her a fellowship in the New York Zoological Society. tt tt u “T DIDN’T worry about the -I- sharks. Dr. Beebe has a theory that sharks will attack a human being only on the surface. They attack then only because they see the flesh of an arm or leg. “Asa matter of fact, in all the times I have been down I’ve seiyo only one shark, and he scuttled away. I scared the life out of him.” Miss Hollister prefers to talk of the scientific side of her work rather than the adventuresome side. Charting the evolution of fish by their skeletons, studying the mysteries of life as it has been lived these millions of years down in the dark fathomless deep of the sea wTiere all life began—such things are the salt of her life. 'Tt is an adventure to study the digestive system of a fish.” it really sounds like an adventure when she says it. Among her scientific achievements was the perfection of an old German formula by which the body of a fish is made transparent and the skeleton stained a bright red. This allows study of the skeleton without dissection. In the laboratory at the Zoological park there are 3,000 specimens of deep water and shallow water fish which she has prepared in this way during the last four years and which are the materials for an intensive study of skeleton systems on which she is now working. tt tt tt THERE have been other adventures too, nevertheless. Twice while Miss Hollister was down the anchors slipped and unexpected currents carried the boat away above. She tells of these episodes as some other young woman would tell of a shopping trip. What she describes as “the strangest and most desirable birthday present in the world” was the opportunity to go down herself in the Bathysphere and see living deep-sea fish, so many hundreds of which she had studied in the laboratory. And, accompanied by Mr. Tee Van, she was lowered to a depth of 410 feet, deeper than any other woman ever had been.

dianapolis in 1907, Claypool and Martindale, two of the contributors to the fund, went to the city park board and offered the money to the city if it would add $675 for erection of a statue to Ralston. It was suggested that the statue be placed in University Square. The square’s name had been a matter of contest among early settlers, for they always thought it should have been called Ralston park. Model Was Rejected Claypool and Martindale had a model for a statue made by Rudolph Schwartz, one of the sculptors who worked on the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument. The model was criticised because its general dress was not in keeping with the mode of Ralston’s day. The park board declined the $325 gift, on the ground that the face was not a good likeness of Ralston. The park board suggested, as an alternative, Dunn’s history says, a tablet of bronze with a memorial fountain honoring Ralston’s platting of the city to resemble Washington, D. C. The fountain never was built. Fund Left Stationary Failure to place the fund out on interest kept it from multiplying, for the original $325 would be $4,129 in 1933, compounded semiannually at 6 per cent. In 1890 banks did not have trust departments and many funds accepted in this manner were for the major part recorded on the “cuff’* or in the note book of the executives of banks. Court action would be necessary to release the money, it is said. Ralston's body is buried in Crown Hill cemetery. CLUBWOMAN IS KILLED Mrs. M. E. Leliter Loses Life in Railroad Crossing Crash. By United Press LA PORTE. Ind., June 15.—Mrs. M. E. Leliter, 50, was killed instantly near here late Wednesday when she drove her automobile into the path of a Baltimore & Ohio freight train. She was a prominent northern Indiana clubwoman and was elected vice-president of the Thirteenth district Indiana Federation of Clubs recently at a convention In South Bend.

R. F. C. LOANS SIO,OOO EVERY MINUTE IN DAY Giant Corporation Expands Its Already Mammoth Operations. FAR-FLUNG AID GIVEN Farmer in Alabama. Coolie in China Helped With Relief Funds. This is the first of two articles on ths Reconstruction Finance Corporation, whose activities touch cities, citizens, and pocketboolcs—to sav nothins of ths stomachs of Chinese coolies—quite intimately. The R. F C. apparently is entering upon anew and more vigorous phase of its tremendous operation; two new members of its board have been appointed. By Serippu-llntcaril Xctcspapcr Allianrt WASHINGTON, June l i—Bigger than the House of Morgan, more powerful and affecting more directly the people and their pocketbcoks is the government’s great bank, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, now apparently entering upon a new and more vigorous phase of its tremendous operations. The R. F. C. just has announced that it henceforth will assume control over the salaries of borrowing concerns, and wdiile this is but a detail alongside the fact that the corporation has authorized loans of more than $2,000,000,000, it indicates for the first time the effect of the new deal on this institution. Meanwhile, the corporation continues to shovel out money at the rate of about SIO,OOO every minute of every eight-hour day. In some respects it has become the source of federal funds, supplanting the treasury itself. Two Billions Loaned Within the last thirteen months other banks have closed their doors, voluntarily or otherwise; insurance companies and railroads, building and loan associations and farmers, cattle raisers and trust companies have had hard sledding. But the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has been lending money. Since February, 1932, it has loaned $2,000000,000. This is a sum not easily understood; it is a cold astronomical figure. And yet there is in the disbursement of this towering total of dollars the deepest of human interest. | A cotton farmer down in Alabama needed funds to buy seed and feed and fertilizer this year. Last year’s crops had yielded so little, his debts were so large, that the meager returns were eaten up before any profit appeared to carry him over into another planting season. R. F. C. to the Rescue But in Washington was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and by congressional order it turned some $60,000,000 over to the department of agriculture, which through its red-taped channels finally loaned the Alabama cotton grower $35 or S4O or SIOO to make his crop. In Chicago v/as a bank about to close its doors. Its failure would have added to the growing distress of a city already plagued with financial problems; the effect would have been felt throughout the wide ramifications of the bank’s correspondent banks all over that region. The R. F. C. put up $80,000,000 and the bank stayed open. In China, puzzled coolies starve as their disorganized nation fights or fails to fight the insatiable Japanese. In Washington the R. F C. lends $50,000,000 to buy wheat and cotton to feed and clothe some of the Chinese millions. In the east and the west and the north and south thousands of American unemployed have been put to work, fed, sheltered and clothed by R. F. C. millions. Every minute of every eight-hour day since February, 1932, the R. F. C. has passed out about SIO,OOO. About half has gone to banks and trust companies; approximately 15 per cent to railroads; almost the same proportion has been distributed to the states for work and unemployment relief. MILDRED ARNOLD WINS Named “Miss Indianapolis’’ for Century of Progress Trip. Miss Mildred Arnold is “Miss Indianapolis” chosen in a contest conducted by the Indiana School of Music. She was a representative of Jones & Maley, Inc. She will represent the city at the Century of Progress fair in Chicago, making the trip to the fair by plane. Second place was won by Miss Lois Woolen, Murphy store candidate; third, Miss Betty Worden, Red Cab Company, and fourth, Miss Marion Anding, Johnson-Chevrolet Company. RECOVER ROBBERY LOOT Confession Is Obtained, Say Police; Negro Held in Jail. Detectives today said they have obtained a confession and recovered most of the loot in the $250 robbery of the home of Remstcf Bingham, 4014 North Pennsylvania street, attorney. Rudolph Buchanan, alias Marcus Johnson, Negro, 114 Douglas street, is charged with burglary and grand larceny. He is alleged to have pawmed most of the articles taken, which included a home motion picture camera, clothing, and jewelry. MISS BOOZE GETS" JOB And in the Excise Department, Too, Dealing in Whisky. “Hello, yes, this is the excise department, Miss Booze speaking.” “Ow! Quit kiddin’.” These excerpts are from a telephone conversation at the Statehouse today. There is no kidding about it. Paul Fry, state excise director, has placed Miss Bernice Booze, Bloomfield, in charge of the information desk in his office. The excise department deals in permits for whisky, wine and beer.