Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 133, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1933 — Page 3

OCT. 13, 1933.

FATE DEFIED BY ANTI-JINX CLUB ON FRIDAY, 13TH Break Mirrors, Spill Salt, Insult Cats, Inviting •Bad Luck.’ By 1 nihil Press CHICAGO, Oct. 13.—0f course, it s only a superstition, but— Today is Friday the thirteenth. While others avoided black cats, stayed away from mirrors and handled salt carefully, the thirteen members of the Anti-Superstition Society defied all the jinxes and invited bad luck. Wirt Morton, a charter member, chose today as his wedding day. Other members broke mirrors and threw salt over their shoulders before attending the marriage of Morton and Mrs. Margaret Budd Osborne, Dubuque, la. The Morton family fortune was made in salt. Walk Under Ladders The Anti-Superstition Society, organized last winter, flaunted every superstition suggested. They walked under ladders, lit three cigurets from one match, broke mirrors and insulted every cat they saw. "If there is any hard luck to be had by breaking popular bugaboos and superstititions we intend to j have it,” Sidney R. Strotz—thirteen j letters in his name—society president said. Shortly after organization of the club members defied all the superstititions they could think of on Friday, Jan. 13, with dire consequences. This time they repeated all the old ones and tried several new ones. Whistle on Stage A climax of the experiment will be the revival tonight of the play "Ten Nights in a Barroom.” The cast has been reduced to thirteen and the thirteen members of the Anti-Superstition Society will occupy seats numbered 13 at the initial performance. Sneezing will be encouraged on the stage and each member of the cast will break a mirror. Actors and actresses will whistle on the stage and will rehearse last lines, a sure "sign” of bad luck, before the play opens. TRAFFIC LIGHT TIMES DANISH LEGISLATORS Red Light Flashes When Period Ends, Halting Orations at Once. B,y Scirnce Service COPENHAGEN, Oct. 13.—A "stop” and "go” signal light system has been installed in the Danish Folketing or lower house of the national legislature to check undue verbosity. No longer can members run over time allotted for speeches. A little box on the platform-desk contains a green and red light. The green flashes on warningly for one minute before the red ‘signal, and when the red lights, the politician must stop talking at once, no matter what heights of rhetoric the man has achieved up to this point. No extra minutes are allowe^. The idea has been adopted -from the street traffic system. EXTERMINATE SKUNKS ON GOVERNMENT BAN 7,500 Woods Pussies Sacrificed to Relieve Situation. gj/ Science Service, OTTAWA, Oct., 13.—Skunks have been having a hard time of it this year on Prince Edward island, which iies at the southern edge of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, off the coasts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. A few years ago the animals were raised for their fur and highly prized. Then the market broke, and the neglected animals increased out of all bounds. The situation got so bad that the government laid a bounty on them. In the year and a half since it was put into effect, over 7,500 of the poor woods-pussies have laid down their scented lives. CARICATURES SNAPPED BY NEW CAMERA LENS Device Producing Distorted Photos Invented by Explorer. B.y Science Sen ice LONDON, Oct. 13.—Caricature can now be done with the still or motion picture camera. H. G. Ponting, official photographer to the Scott expedition to the south pole, has devised an auxiliary lens that allows the making of distorted photographs. with the "variable controllable distortograph” fitted on the front of an ordinary camera lens. The device allows the making of motion pictures from a still photograph. STEVEDORES KEPT BUSY Every Idle Dock Hand at Everett Gets a Job. By United Press EVERETT, Wash., Oct. 10.—Long shoremen had their day here when more of them worked in a three-day stretch than they had at any time in the last three years. Five large boats docked at ports here and every idle stevedore, including those in nearby districts, was given work. U. S. MAY BUILD LAKES Considers Flooding of 16,000 Acres by Damming Mississippi. By United Press ALTON, 111., Oct. 13.—Approximately 16,000 acres of land in Missouri and Illinois is to be flooded, forming two lakes, under present plans which call for construction of a $10,000,000 dam and locks in the upper Mississippi river, proposed by the federal government.

DR. C. M. WILDER Registered Podiatrist Announces the Removal of His Office from L. S. Ayres & Cos. to 706 STATE LIFE BLDG. Telephone, Rllev 3717. DR. J. E. WILDER Registered Podiatrist—Lady Associate

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HOSPITAL GROUP PICKS OFFICERS Catholic Association Names St. Vincent Sister on State Board. By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 13.—The Indiana conference of the Catholic Hospital Association re-elected the following officers at the close' of its eleventh annual convention here yesterday. State director, the Rev. J. M. Nickels. SS. Peter and Paul rectory, Turkey Creek; president, Venerable Sister M. Geginald, R. N., St. Mercy sanitarium, Hammond; vicepresident, Venerable Sister M. Odilo, R. N., St. Catherine’s hospital, East Chicago; secretary-treasurer, Venerable Sister M. Fiorina, R. N., St. Margaret’s hospital, Hammond. Executive board, Venerable Sister Mary Rose, R. N„ St. Vincent's hospital, Indianapolis, new member; Venterable Sister M. Palycarp, R. N., St. Joseph’s hospital, Ft. Wayne, and Sister Mary Berchman, Good Samaritan hospital, Kokomo, new member. PARIS BAR TO OPEN NEAR 0. S. EMBASSY Liquor Room Designed to Be Best in Capital. By United Press PARIS, Oct. 13.—Whether it was a frank compliment to the American thirst, or a commemorative gesture to the new constitutional amendment, it doesn't matter; the fact is this—the longest bar here soon w'ill be opened for business directly opposite the new American Embassy. The Hotel Crillon, present home of General Pershing and past headquarters of the American peace delegation after the war, got so thoroughly imbued with the American spirit that aside from its regular and very select hotel bar, it has opened a regulation bar, the longest and biggest and best, in the flank of the hotel facing the Rue Boissy ’Anglais, and almost opposite the Embassy, where are housed the consulate, chancellory, commercial attache and other government offices in Paris. The Crillon Bar is most pretentious and its future is brilliant. On entering one is confronted by the most intriguing brass rali, and rising in grand mahogany and walnut is the long facade of this most gorgeous bar. There are comfortable benches. There w’ill be a grill room in one end and business men’s lunches will be served. BEATINGS CAUSE RIFT Ohio Woman Sues for Divorce After Third Abuse. By United Press ST. CLAIRSVILLE, 0., Oct. 13. Twenty-four years ago her husband gave her a beating, a St. Clairsville woman contended in a suit filed here. He repeated the process twelve years later. And when another dozen years had passed and the husband beat her again on Sept. 14 of this year, she filed suit for divorce. LUNAR RAINBOW SEEN Silver Arc Sighted by Residents of Washington Sector. By United Press ABERDEEN, 'Wash., Oct. 13.—A “once-in-a-lifetime” event. Grays Harborites saw a lunar rainbow’ one night recently. The rarely seen silver arc, circled the southern horizon under perfect night conditions. SMACKS GIVEN CO-EDS Upperclassmen Wield Paddles on Freshmen Girls. By United Press PHOENIX, Ariz.. Oct. 13.—Upperclass co-eds are wielding paddles to discipline freshmen women students at Phoenix Junior college this year. Some claimed the paddling was effective and others disagreed.

INVENT CAMERA TO AID METAL HEAT-TREATING Device Records ‘Critical Temperature’ In Structure Changes. By United Press HOUGHTON, Mich., Oct. 13. A camera developed at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology is expected to aid the metal heattreating process by recording the “critical temperature” at which a metal changes its structure due to heat. WASHINGTON" ON CITY AIRJOUTE Direct Service Provided by New Extension. Direct airline service from Indianapolis to Washington, in about four and one-half elapsed flying time, was inaugurated today by American Airways. The new airline follows the company's present passenger and mail route from Chicago through Indianapolis to Cincinnati and thence to Charleston and Washington. Trimotored planes with a crew of two pilots and accommodations for eleven passengers will be used over the new route. According to Lester D. Seymour, company president, the new route not only will open a fast airline from Indianapolis to the east, but will provide air service to a section in and about Charleston never before served by a major air transport. GREAT LAKES CAPTAIN HOLDS COVETED MEDAL Veteran Sailor Has Rescued 27 During His Career. By United Press SUPERIOR, Wis„ Oct. 13.—Captain Charles H. Mohr, who has rescued twenty-seven persons in his lifetime of sailing on the Great Lakes, is as modest as Captain George Freid, who is famed for his rescues on the Atlantic. "Sailing’s a great life,” he says. “There isn’t a captain on the lakes who hasn’t faced death at least once.” Captain Mohr was awarded the congressional medal of honor for his rescue of the crew of seven of Aur Son, last commercial sailing schooner on the lakes, on Lake Michigan in 1930. He is the only Great Lakes captain to hold the medal. More than 235,000.000 persons attended outdoor playgrounds in 516 of our cities in 1932.

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M’NUTT HEEDS FEENETS PLEA Backs Fund Transfer to Equip State Cops. Governor Paul V. McNutt today indorsed the plan of Al. G. Feeney, state safety director, to transfer $6,000 in idle money from the state athletic fund to buy equipment for the state police. Feeney’s suggestion, prompted by the escape of ten convicts from the Indiana state prison and their later escape from state police at Ben Davis where police said they could not follow them because of inadequate automobiles, will be given attention, the Governor promised. The suggestion will be referred by Governor McNutt to William Storen, state treasurer, and Floyd Williamson, who with the. Governor form the state finance committee. With the Governor’s backing the plan practically was certain of adoption, it was said at the statehouse. With the funds Feeney said he would purchase ten new automobiles equipped with sirens, eight red lights for signaling, ten shotguns and two automatic rifles. RATTLESNAKE SCARE KILLS GOLD SEEKER Prospector Dies of Fright in Isolated Desert Land. By United Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Oct. 13. A gold hunting expedition in the isolated country along the Colorado river near the Arizona-Utah border ended in death from fright of Francis C. Cochrane, 43, of Los Angeles, records showed. Cochrane, according to his companion, Gordon Smith, suddenly came upon a rattlesnake while walking along Kaibab creek, sixty miles south of Fredonia. The snake struck at the two men, Smith said, but missed. As they started to walk away Cochrane collapsed and died a few minutes later, the companion reported to Fredonia authorities. Covering Cochrane's body with dirt and sand, Smith walked twelve miles under a burning desert sun to a ranch where he obtained a horse and then rode into Fredonia, the nearest outpost, for aid. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m: Northeast wind, 7 miles an hour; temperature, 48; barometric pressure, 30.31 at sea level; general conditions, high broken clouds, smoky; ceiling unlimited; visibility, 1 mile.

WATER SYSTEM EXCAVATED IN ITALIAN RUINS _____________ Plumbing Solves Problem of 'Bonus Army’ for Roman Empire. pjl Science Service PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.—Archeologists excavating the ruins of Minturno. Italy, have dug up relics of evidence showing how the Roman empire solved one "bonus army” problem. The evidence is found in the city’s water pipe system which has been investigated by the University of Pennsylvania museum expedition to Minturno, led by Dr. Jotham Johnson. Dr. Johnson, w r ho just has re-? turned to this city, said that a length of lead water pipe was found bearing the name of the slave who made it. It dates back to a period in the career of Augustus between 40 B. C. and 14 A. D. The Emperor Augustus had sent some returned soldiers, “bonus army” men as it were, to the vicinity of Minturno, about 100 miles south of Rome. This aroused the people of Minturno to great discord and dissatisfaction. To appease the city, the emperor presented it with an aqueduct and theater. The city thus acquired "modern” plumbing, with water under pressure in the pipes. Dr. Johnson remarks that it is significant that the wells previously used were filled in. The lead pipes were made from sheets folded over and clamped. The lengths as originally found varied from six to twenty feet, according to diameter. About eighteen tons of this ancient pipe was excavated by peasants during the World war and sold as scrap metal. When Minturno acquired its improved water system, it had already had a most elaborate system of sewers for about a hundred years. So extensive and complete w r as this sewer system, says Mr. Johnson, that the expedition could survey much of the city from beneath the ground by setting up surveying instruments inside the big sewers. In this way, surveying of Minturno has been completed long before the ruins all are uncovered. The expedition expects to return next season for further excavations. BONNIE FARWELL IS” NEW D. A. R. REGENT Indiana Society Elects Officers at Turkey Run Meeting. By United Press " TURKEY RUN STATE PARK, Ind., Oct. 13.—Miss Bonnie Farwell, Terre Haute, was elected state regent of the Indiana Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution at conclusion of the annual convention here yesterday. Mrs. Wilbur Johnson, Indianapolis, was elected vice-regent; Mrs. William H. Schlosser, Franklin, chaplain; Mrs. Joseph E. Brown, Crown Point recording secretary; Mrs. G. Edwin Johnston, Connersville, registrar; Miss Mary Hostetter, Roachdale, historian; Mrs. Fred Beal, Lagrange, northern director, and Mrs. James Riggs, Sullivan, southern director. FINDS SPAWNING FISH RETURN TO BIRTHPLACE Habits of Salmon Are Traced at Oregon Hatchery. By United Press PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 13.—Proof that salmon return to their birthplaces to spawn was found when 1,000 big Royal Chinook salmon returned to the Booneville state hatchery. The fish average thirty pounds. When released in the Columbia river four years ago they were but two and one-half inches long. An acute taste of water, rather than eyesight, or a geographic sense, led the big fish back to their birthplaces, accordinf to Hugh C. Mitchell, gsh culture director of the state game commission.

THEIR MARITAL HARMONY HITS BLUE NOTE

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U. S. Navy Lags Behind Japanese, Warns Writer

Quotes. Roy W. Howard in Urging Increase as Peace Insurance. By Scripps-lloicard Newspaper Alliance NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—Compared to the Japanese, the United States navy shows up in a pretty poor light, according to William G. Shepherd in "Collier’s Weekly,” out today. Quoting Roy W. Howard, of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, who returned recently from an extensive survey of the Orient, Mr. Shepherd indicates that an adequate navy is distinctly a move in the direction of peace for this country. In America, Mr. Shepherd quotes Mr. Howard as saying, public opinion makes governmental policies. In Japan governmental policies make public opinion. Militarists in Saddle Today public opinion in Japan has been tw’isted around by the militarists who are in the saddle until it is ready for war upon the slightest provocation or affront. “Altogether the picture they (the Japanese) have of us is a very dangerous one,” Mr. Howard is quoted as saying. "It is a picture that easily might lead to war conditions.” The Japanese have received the impression that Americans are pacifists and unwilling to defend themselves, the article suggests, partly because the country has permitted its navy to fall behind. The Washington treaty calls for a 5-to--3 ratio between American and Japanese navies. At present the ratio is more nearly equal. Many Tons Over Age "Japan,” says Shepherd, has 756.000 tons in existence and 129,000 building or projected. But they are ‘good tons,’ new tons, in the form of new and modern shipar Only 102,000 tons of them are over age. "The American tonnage is disCHURCH TO HOLD OUTING Campers’ Reunion Set for Tonight at Old Augusta Cabin. Campers’ reunion of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church will be held tonight at the Wolf Club cabin at Old Augusta. Those desiring to attend have been asked to be at the church, Thirty-fourth street and Central avenue, at 4 today.

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DOLLFUSS ACTS TO PUT FASCIST RULEJOWORK Chancellor Moves Swiftly Toward Organization of System. By United Press VIENNA, Austria, Oct. 13.—Chancellor Engelbert Doll fuss moved swiftly today toward the organization of a thoroughly Fascist-type system of government in Austria. This was the interpretation generally placed upon his appointment yesterday of Prince Ernst Von Starhembcrg. head of the powerful Heimwehr (home guards) organization. as “vice-leader of the fatherland front.” Simultaneously, the little chancellor announced the incorporation of the entire Heimwehr of some 100,000 veil-trained men into the same national "front.” The term “front” implies a political organization in Austria, under its present usage. Tire chancellor was believed prepared to set up a Fascist regime based chiefly upon the Italian pattern of Benito Mussolini, with whom he and Von Starhemberg are in close touch. Furthermore, the plans of former Empress Zita to place her son, the young Archduke Otto, on the Austrian throne and marry him to Princess Maria of -Italy were generally regarded as furthering the Italo-Austrian Fascist alliance.