Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1934 — Page 6

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CAROL MARMON AND GEORGIAN PRINCEJO WED Motor Magnate’s Daughter Announces Betrothal in Pasadena. By United pr'st PASADENA. Cal., Feb 21—The secret engagement of Miss Carol Marmon. only daughter of Howard C. Marmon, automobile magnate, and Prince Nicholas Tehkotoua of the former kingdom of Georgia was announced here yesterday. Miss Marmon said that they planned a church wedding March 16 and that Serge Mdivani, also a Georgian prince and a distant relative of Tehkotoua. would be best man at the wedding. “I'm so utterly in love with ‘Nicky’ that I would want to marry him even if he were a ditch-digger,” the 26-year-old heiress said. She is prominent in Pasadena society. Her fiance came to Hollywood eight months ago. He is writing a book based upon his native land and the "assassination of his family by Bolsheviks in 1924.” Miss Marmon said that her father was not aware of her engagement. He is spending the winter at Pineola, N. C Howard C. Marmon was vicepresident of the old Marmon Motor Car Company here. Miss Carol Marmon has not resided in Indianapolis for a number of years

SAVED OFFICER’S LIFE: $250,000 HIS REWARD Soldier Says He’ll Sail in Summer to Claim Fortune. By Unit'd Press MONTEAGLE VALLEY. Ontario, Feb. 21.—Sergeant William Mintz, who carried a wounded Scottish officer from a shell hole in France to a dressing station, saving the officer’s life, will sail for Scotland next summer to receive a reward of $250,000. The officer, whom Sergeant Mintz saved, and whose name he refuses to divulge, “until after I get the money,” was said to have invited Mr. Mintz to visit him in Scotland on many occasions while he was on leave and for a considerable time after the war. News of the reward which Mr. Mintz will receive, reached the sergeant a few weeks ago, and since that time he has been in constant communication for further details. He refused to make known in what form his reward would come. 4,587 IS CANADIAN PRISON POPULATION Os the Total, 286 Are Citizens of the United States. By Unit'd Press OTTAWA, Ontario. Feb 21.—The prison population of Canada at the beginning of the current year numbered 4,587. according to Hon. Hugh Guthrie, minister of justice. Os these a total of 2,976 were Canadians, 288 were citizens of the United States and 446 were Russians.

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THE ARMY RISES TO MEET AIR MAIL EMERGENCY

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Undaunted by the magnitude of its new task, the army quietly is taking over the business of flying the air mail, as a result of the cancellation oi commercial contracts. Here you see one of the giant amphibian planes at Rockwell field, San Diego, “absorbing” a load of gasoline in preparation for the takeoff. with officers and personnel determined the mail wull go through on schedule.

Art Ape-Preciation Two Educated Chimpanzees Turn Volunteer CWA Painters, Decorate Zoo and Spectators.

By f nited Press ST. LOUIS, Feb. 26.—Two educated chimpanzees who decided to volunteer as substitute CWA painters at the zoo here, today watched the regular painters remove the results of their “monkey business.” When CWA painters started working near the cage of Sammy and Billy, the animals watched every stroke of the brush intently. But the real fun came when the painters left the monkey house for fifteen minutes.

The painters laid down their brushes. Sammy and Billy shook their cage bars. One came loose. Sammy and Billy climbed out and headed toward the paint cans. Ten spectators were in the monkey house but kept their distance as Sammy grabbed a paint brush and started to imitate the painters. He painted the floors, the railings and started on the wall. Occasionally stopping to view the spectators, Sammy held the brush in his mouth, paint dripping over his body. Billy stood by Sammy's side and consequently got paint in his fur. THEN the chimps decided to have additional fun at the expense of the ten spectators. Sammy laid the dripping paint brush on the floor at the feet of a spectator. As the man stooped to pick it up, Sammy grabbed it and scampered away. He repeated the "game” several times. In the meantime, Billy selected Henry Hartman of Cedar Rapids, la., as his victim for his pranks. While Mr. Hartman amusedly watched Sammy, Billy bounded across the room, grabbed Hartman's hand, using it for a swing. Billy’s weight spun Mr. Hartman around. “I feel like a human merry-go-round.” Mr. Hartman said later.

Before a keeper arrived, Billy sneaked through the crowd and kicked a few other spectators and Sammy slapped several. When keeper Max Mall appeared on the scene Sammy drew back his hairy arms and let the brush fly. It narrowly missed the keeper, who started in hot pursuit of the fleeing chimpanzee. Up a stairway and around a balcony Sammy and Billy wefe cornered. But keeper Mall was well splotched with paint when he returned with a monk under each arm. A good scrubbing before being locked back in their cages left Sammy and Billy docile again and they went about their usual tricks as though nothing had happened. BUTLER EXAMINER TO TALK TO MEN’S CLUB North M. E. Church Group Will Hear Dr. Bowman. Findings in industrial and education guidance work wil lform the basis for a talk to be given tomorrow night by Dr. Ernest L. Bowman, Butler university registrar and examiner. The lecture will be given at the dinner of the Men’s Club of the North M. E. church.

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FOUNDER OF CHAIN GROCERY SUCCUMBS James Butler Was Leading Horse Racing Figure. By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 21. James Butler, 79, leading figure in horse racing and founder of the grocery store chain which bears his name, doed last night. Mr. Butler entered the grocery business in 1882 when he staked a former newspaper man to $2,000 to open a grocery store on Second avenue, under the name of P. J. O'Connor & Cos. Two years later he bought out his partner and incorporated the James Butler Grocery Company. In 1909 he controlled 200 stores in New York, and forty-three in Cleveland, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Five years ago his fortune was estimated to be in excess of $30,000,000. Mr. Butler built the Empire City track in Yonkers ,in 1898. Later he gained control of the Laurel track in Maryland and an interest in the Juarez track, in Mexico. Among his thoroughbreds was the famous Questionaire. ODD RECORD REVEALED Foreman ‘’Served’* Eighteen Years in Prison, but as Employe. By United Press FOND DU LAC, Wis., Feb. 23. L. B. Daniels, Fond du Lac, has spent eighteen years in prisons, but he never has been a prisoner or a guard. He started at Sing Sing prison, New York, as foreman in a contract shop and later obtained similar positions at other state prisons.

PARIS AVERAGES ONE BOTTLE OF WINE_APERSON Daily Figures Include Men, Women and Children in Capital. By United Press PARIS, Feb. 21— A bottle of wine a day is proving bad news for the general practitioner, who has fewer ailments to cure, because Parisians have learned the efficacy of moderate bibulation. Men, women and children of the French capital average one good bottle of wine a day, according to statistics just revealed by tax receipts. Within the past two months Paris has consumed 5.700,000 liters more wine than during the corresponding period last season. The Paris population is estimated at 4.628,637, with an unestimated number of transients, and records reveal a consumption of 336.939.250 bottles of wine (269.551,400 liters) during October and November, or 5.615,654 bottles per day. During the same months of 1932 the wine bill was for 329,769.125 bottles. The annual consumption of wine for the 1932-33 season was 950,575 quarts. This was somewhat under the previous year, but the first two months of the current season, during which a “drink more wine” campaign was waged, brought the figure higher. Wine drunk in moderation and continuously is an excellent preservative of health, according to the doctors, whose profession it tends, therefore, to curb.

Not Cagey Scissors Wounds Negro in Court Game.

r T'HE next time Isaiah Burse, 16, Negro, 2005 Cornell avenue, plays basketball, he probably will search his opposing players, as a matter of safety. Late yesterday, the youth was sent to city hospital for treatment for a cut on the leg received during a basketball game at the J. T. V. Hill community center from a pair of scissors in the pocket of Webster Peterson, 14, Negro, 1605 Cornell avenue. The two were jumping for the ball when the accident occurred. POVERTY IS DISPROVED Woman Who Couldn’t ‘Afford’ Radio Left $15,000 Estate. By United Press ONEIDA. N. Y„ Feb. 23. Mrs. Lillian Smith, 64. who complained to a neighbor recently that she “couldn’t afford a radio” to break the monotony of her secluded life, left an estate of $15,000, it was learned two months after her death. The name of cognac is applied to any French brandy; it originally belonged to liquor distilled from wine produced around Cognac on the Charente, in France.

.‘Alice in Wonderland’ Essays Still Received MANY boys and girls now going to public, parochial, high school, and private schools are writing essays on “Alice in Wonderland.” . . , The writers in their essays may take any phase of the book or the picture, although it is not necessary to see the Paramount production of “Alice In Wonderland” now at the Apollo. The essays must not he more than 250 words in length. They reallv do not have to be that long. Tell what you think about the story- That is easy after reading either “Alice in Wonderland” or “Through the Looking Glass.” A total of $75 will be given to the best essays judged by three persons to be selected by The Indianapolis Times. The verdict of the judges will be final. No one employed by The Times, the Apollo theater, the Paramound exchange, or who is a member of the families of the judges, will be eligible. a * n THE name of the child, age. school and grade must be plainly written on each entry. Children will be placed on their honor to receive no aid in writing their essays. For the ten best essays in the final opinion of the judges. $5 each will be given. For the second ten best, each child will receive $2.50. For the third ten best, each child will receive anew photoplay edition of ' Alice in Wonderland," autographed by Charlotte Henry. There also will be an additional grand prize, the book containing the Hollywood autographs while Miss Henry was making the movie. Thus book will go to the child writing the best essay and of course will be one in the first ten best list. It is on display in L. S. Ayres & Cos. window. Address all essays to the Alice in Wonderland Editor of The Indianapolis Times. All essaps must reach The Times not later than midnight Saturday, Feb. 24.

M. E. Tracy Says—

IT is difficult to imagine Ogden L. Mills as Republican candidate for the presidency in 1936. It is even more difficult to imagine the Republican party adopting a low-tariff platform. Still this is an age of surprise and paradox. Here is the Democratic party, for instance, the party of Jefferson and state rights, indorsing a program of centralization and bureaucracy. While some Democrats merely tolerate the program as an emergency measure, others accept it as permanent. Os equal significance, Hiram Johnson, Progressive-Republican of California, will probably be supported by the Democrats when he runs for re-election next fall, while David I. Walsh, Democrat of Massachusetts, may be supported by the Republicans. ‘ We are doing a lot of things and thinking a lot of things right now which we did not expect to be doing or thinking ten or even five year ago. The new deal bears little resemblance to Wilson's new freedom, and the prevalent attitude toward banking bears less resemblance to what it was in 1928. Four years ago Herbert Hoover was still a popular idol, while eight years ago there wasn't a man in the country who could have beaten Coolidge. We are not only swapping leaders but ideas at a tremendous rate. If the process continues who can pick the idols or obsessions that will be in vogue a decade hence? 000 THE very absence of deep convictions suggests that we are milling like scared cattle rather than staging a well-considered revolution, as many seem to think. Unless all signs fail, this just is a fluid season in our national life, with emotional hunger for recovery at any price as the driving force. Whatever works is acceptable. Whether it will be acceptable next year, even if it works, is another story.

Just before the armistice was signed we thought we wanted a league of nations. It was not long afterward that we made up our minds we didn't. For twelve years we maintained the prohibition farce. Now we wonder why. Unless future historians are kinder than those of today, they will write down this epoch of intellectual floundering as a sad commentary on higher education. We can’t seem to hit on an idea that is worth retaining, or if it is, we can’t seem to resist the temptation of shelving it for anew one. Thinking, like travel, appears to have become a matter of speed rather than dependability. Well, it can’t go on forever because of the overhead. We'll soon run out of taxes, even if we do not run out of ideas. Our one hope consists of converting some of those ideas into bread and meat. We have displayed plenty of imagination when it comes to setting up administrative agencies, but very little in the field of new and constructive projects. What this country needs is enterprises that will create new outlets for capital and labor—something like the steamship, railroad or automobile era, something that will force all of us to relocate, rebuild and reshape our habits of life. This country never can find prosperity through doing old things in a bigger, better way. Its future, like its past, hinges on its power to conceive and carry out original undertakings. MAILMAN FOOLS COLD By United Press CHARLTON, Mass., Feb. 23. When a mail truck broke down near here James Lally, the driver, saved his life by burying himself under a pile of mail pouches until he was rescued.

.TEB. 21, 1934

AUTOCRACY IS DOOMED. SAYS DE PAUWHEAD Democracy Will Take Its Place. Oxnam Claims; NRA Praised. The NRA has gone too far in some respects, and not far enough in others, according to Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam. president of De Pauw university. In spite of these difficulties. Dr. Oxnam pointed out that the NRA is a step toward development of a social environment in which cooperative service will displace personal profit. “Democracy will take the place of autocracy,” he said, speaking last night before members of the Short - ridge high school Parent-Teacher Association in Caleb Mills hall. Dr. Oxnam spoke on “simultaneous learning," expressing the belief that a teacher's attitude in class taught personal habits. “A teacher who is brutal in his classes may teach brutality; one who is slovenly may teach slovenliness, and a teacher with a strident voice may teach nervousness," he said.

MEXICO TO SEIZE CHURCH PROPERTY Nationalization Will Be Completed Soon. By United Press MEXICO CITY. Feb. 21.—Attor-ney-General Emilio Portes Gil issued a decree today that was regained as foreshadowing the early complete nationalization of church property of all sorts and denominations. Church edifices, residences, schools convents, asylums and any other buildings used directly or indirectly in religious teaching were covered by the decree. It was held that many churches had transferred property to groups and individuals who held title under dummy sales, and that the church remained the real owner. Therefore, Attorney Portes Gil said, the government intended to force transfer of such property to the government in addition to that owned directly by religious denominations. INSURANCE ASSETS (3AIN John Hancock Mutual Life Company Releases Favorable Report. Annual report of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, showed an increase in assets during the year amounting to $16,208,674. and a gain in safety fund totaling $1,582,680, according to a statement released today. The company has a general surplus and contingency reserve I amounting to over $59,000,000, out of total assets amounting to $655,664.366. Both local offices closed 1933 with good production records. Substantial increases over 1932 of life insurance and annuities sold, were reported by general agent Dan W. Flickinger.