Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 162, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1934 — Page 3

NOV. 16, 1934

STATE PIONEERS ARE LAUDED AT SCIENCE PARLEY Synthetic Rubber Practical, the Rev. Nieuwland Tells Delegates. Indian* men and women of science todav paused in their relentless .veareh for the hidden secret* of the universe to par tribute to illustrious names of scientific pioneers at the fiftieth annual meeting of the Indiana Aeademy of Science at Arthur Jordan Memorial hall at Butler university. More than 300 scientists from Indiana educational institutions and commercial laboratories heard Dr j Will F Fdington De Paum university describe the scientists of another era as giants among scientists'" and plead for an extension of scientific research that will justify such reference to present-day workers. This afternoon, the academy heard the Rev. J. A. Nieuwland. C S. C.. Notre Dame, its retiring president, assert that synthetic rubber, the fundamental compounds for which he discovered four years ago. has become commercially successful. Father Nieuwland Speaks At the executive committee meeting last night five scientists were elect ad fellows of the academy The five are Earl Brooks. Noblesville. Dr O. H. A Clowes, head research chemist of Eli Lilly Ac Cos ; Dr F C. Elliott, president of Purdue; Dr H. O. Day. Lafayette, and Dr L O Zerfas. Riley hospital. Addressing this afternoon's general meeting. Father Nieuwland. tracing the seventy-five years effort of scientists to provide a substitute for rubber, claimed the material I now produced on the basis of his discoveries possesses many of the virtues of natural rubber. He told the academy that the resistance of Duprene” as the synthetic rubber is called, to gasoline, kerosene, oils. air. ozone, acids, alkalis and other corrosives opens up many entirely new fields of rubber; technology. •'ln general” said Father Nieuwland. “the synthetic rubber is a better product than natural rubber. A sheet of duprene stretched 500 per rent gives an X-ray diffraction pattern which closely resembles that of | natural rubber under the same stress.” Charter Members Honored Charter members of the academv. honored at this morning s session during Dr. Edington's address, included : Dr. J. C. Arthur. Purdue: Dr. George W. Benton. New York City; J Dr William S. Blatehlev. Dr Amos W Butler. Dr. Stanley Coulter Dr ! Robert Header and Dr. A J. Ph;n- | ney. Indianapolis; Dr David M Mot tier. Indiana university. Bloomington; Dr William A. Noyes. Uni- | versify of Illinois; Dr J. B Burris. Cloverdale. and Dr Morton W. Fbrd- t ice. Russellville. Ind. Other charter members referred to bv Dr. Edington but who were hn- ! able to attend, are Dr. Lillian J. [ Martin. Ran Francisco; Dr Oliver P. Jenkins. Palo Alto. Cal.; Dr Henry A Huston. New York City, and Dr. j Joseph P. Naylor. Little Rock. Ark Officers for the year will be elect- j ed during the annual academv j banquet at the Claypool tonight, j At this meeting Dr Stanley Com- j ter. Indianapolis, will act as toast- j master.

Famed Scientists Recalled Among the scientists singled out bv Dr Edmgton todav was the late David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, educator and naturalist. Dr. Jordan was the first president of *he Indiana academy and in 1909 president of the Amrnean Association for the Advancement of Science. Among distinguished scientists attending the meetings is Dr. Henry Ward, permanent secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. During last evening's executive meeting recommendations wore made for the establishment of a strict editorial policy for academy publications. JOHN PAYTON TO OPEN PORTRAIT STUDIO HERE Prominent Photographer to Sperialin tn Children's Pictures. With six years experience in New York behind him. John Payton will open the Payton Portrait Studios on the second floor of the Occidental building within a few days, he announced today. Mr. Payton will specials in photographs of children and babies. He has won several national photographic prizes in competition with hundreds of other photographer? and has trained men in the work. Junior Chamber Dance Tonight The Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold a "hard times' dance at 9 tonight in the Stockman studio. Sixteenth and Illinois streets, it was announced today.

CONTAINS VITAMIN “D” HOW MUCH?

Beneficial Amount Added to ORBIT Gum

If vou were to cut a pound loaf of 245-unit Vitamin "D” bread into 16 thick slices, you would have to eat S slices to get as much of this food element a? is in a package of ORBIT Gum. This 5c package contains more of the sunshine vitamin than a whole pint of fresh itamin "D" milk having 135 units per quart. According to government standards of measurement, each package of ORBIT Gum con-

Loyal Girl Who Wed, Her Foster Father Now Is Oklahoma's New First Lady

Lydic Roberts Marland, Wife of Governor-Elect, Just ‘Spectator/ Bjf SKA A>r irm PONCA CITY Okl*.. Nov. 16 —A Mav-and-December romance that weathered the storms of adversity will make Lydie Roberts Marland the new first lady of Oklahoma in January. She came into the life of E W. Marland. Democratic Governor-elect, as his young adopted daughter, the niece of his wife. her aunt died she came into his heart as the second Mrs. Marland. And now. six years later, because she stood by him when his S3O- - oil fortune was swept away, she stands at the threshold of the cxeci.tive mansion ready to step into a role as the state s youngest, perhaps its prettiest, first lady. For most of her 34 years. Mrs Marland has lived a quiet, sequestered life. Shuns the Spotlight On the public stage now r for the first time, she shuns the spotlight that her romantic story arouses the story of a child.from a middleclass. relatively poor Pennsylvania family adopted by wealthy western relatives, suddenly becoming the mistress of the fleeting Marland millions, and now rejoicing in his spectacular comeback in the field of politics. Loyalty and adulation, rather than counsel and suggestion, have been her contribution to the success of her fiO-year-old husband whose star is rising again in the southwest.! While he campaigned for election. ! she visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs George F. Roberts, at Flour- 1 town. Pa. a Philadelphia suburb. Prefers Romp With Setters Unlike the wife of Oklahoma's first Governor, the late C. N. Haskell, Mrs. Marland does not sit at the elbow of her husband, advising his decisions, helping with his speeches, steering his course of action. She prefers to frolic with her Irish setters, a canter along the bridle paths of the baronial Mar-

MONKEY SERUM BANS PARALYSIS

Medical World Rejoices; New York Children to Be Treated. H*f t Hftffi Ptese NEW YORK. Nov. 16.—New York children will be inoculated against infantile paralysis as quickly as a new serum, lately proven effective, can be produced. Dr. William H. Park director of the city health department's experimental laboratories. announced today. Dr. Park startled the medical world yesterday by announcing that he had definite proof that children could be immunized against infantile paralysis. Twenty-five received the vaccine and developed immunity. The serum is developed from the spine of Rhesus monkeys, inoculated with virus. The spinal cord is ground up in a solution of formalin whieh kills the virus without destroying immunizing qualities. At present the cost of the vaccine is approximately $1 a dose. Rhesus monkeys cost $9 each and one monkey produces enough vaccine to inoculate twelve children. Dr. Park said the city health department was considering a plan of having monkeys inoculated with the virus in India, where they would be killed. Then the spinal cords only could be shipped to New York, thereby lowering the eosts materially. Dr. Park said he and his assistants immediately would begin inoculating fifty children. Then the serum will be given as fast as it is produced. It takes about two months for the serum to achieve its effect. Dr. Park said children already inoculated would be tested twice a year to determine the degree of permanence. He said he believed the immunity would be 'more or less" permanent. Quezon Leaves Hospital Ay In tint prrm BALTIMORE Nov. 16—Manuel L. Quezon, president of the Philippine senate, was discharged today from Johns Hopkins hospital, recovered from the operation for a kidney stone which he underwent three weeks ago. Hindu-American Dinner Tomorrow A Hindu-American dinner and dance will be given by the Self-Fel-lowship group tomorrow night in the Castle Hall building. 230 East Ohio street. Dinner will be served at 6:30. Noted Sculptor Found Dead Ajf t ttitrti Prrs LONDON. Nov. 16. —Charles Sergeant Jagger. 49. sculptor, was found dead in bed today. One of his best known works was the royal artillery memorial in Hyde Park.

tains no less than 75 units of Vitamin "D* (U. S. P.-X-1934). Furthermore, there is some evidence that itamin "D” in this gum is more effective, unit for unit, than in many other forms because of its gradual release during mastication and its thorough salivation. For pleasure and health chew a package every day. Mlfc Vitamin "D" Gum is on sale everywhere at 5c a package.

'•a .. m/. .' ¥ Jjr ~ < / /

Lydie Roberts Marland . . . “an interested spectator.” land estate here, a cool plunge, or a quipt, visit with friends in Washington. When Lydie and George Roberts left their drab Pennsylvania surroundings twenty years ago to visit their rich aunt and uncle here, they stepped into anew world. Mrs. Marland wanted to adopt George: "E. W.” wanted to adopt Lydie. two years younger. Happy to see them provided with luxury and opportunity, the Roberts consented to the adoption, performed in a: Pennsylvania court two years later. A gav, light-hearted child, Lydie attended exclusive eastern girls’ schools while George went off to college, training for an executive job in his foster father’s $150,000,000 oil concern. Mrs. Marland. an invalid in her

Proclamation Stresses U. S. ‘Social Justice’ H’l Cmtrft Prt.tt WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—President Roosevelt in an official proclamation today called on the nation to observe Thanksgiving day. The proclamation: "I. FYanklin D. Roosevelt. President of the United States of America, hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November, 1934. as a day of Thanksgiving for the people of the nation. “Thus to set aside in the autumn of each year a day on wmich to give thanks to Almighty God for the blessings of life is a wise and reverent custom, long cherished by our people. It is fitting that w r e should again observe this custom. During the last year we have been given courage and fortitude to meet the problems which have confronted us in our national life. Our sense of social justice has deepened. We have been given vision to make new provisions for human welfare and happiness, and in a spirit of mutual helpfulness w r e have co-operated to translate vision into reality. “More greatly have we turned our hearts and minds to things spiritual. We can truly say. ‘What profiteth it a nation if it gain the whole world and lose its own soul?’ "With gratitude in our hearts for w'hat has already been achieved, may we. with the help of God. dedicate ourselves anew to work for the betterment of mankind.”

International Air Show Opens PARIS. Nov. 16.—President Albert Lebrun today inaugurated the great-

I h L/^/m akthislaw possible I | buying II \ mokes it possible for us to give you these genuine hond picked furs II \ . . . these silk linings ond worm infar-linmgs, these extro quolity f I \ fabrics ond super-fine workmanship . . . oil at this extraordinary I * \'Xce of $12.95. We’re out to moke coot history ond this special v J The FURS The FABRICS The MODELS \ I • Vicuna • Bark Weaves • For School \ l • French Beaver • Nvbby Tweeds • For Sports • Manchurian Wolf • Soft Crepes • For Town • Sealine • Rough Woolens • For Dress • Dymkc Fox SIZES U to 20 —36 to 44 GSM BETTY GAY SHOP

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Stuck to Husband When 111 Luck Struck Him Down. later years, died in 1926. Meanwhile Lydie became an increasingly important part of the Marland household. The Croesus of the oil independents was treading unsuspectingly on the brink of financial disaster when, in 1928 he and Lydie were married. First the adoption was annulled in Philadelphia. They started for a California honeymoon after a quiet ceremony at the Flourtown home of the bride s parents. Meanwhile Marland's vast oil empire was crashing. Millions borrowed for expansion gave New York bankers control. Gradually he was eased out. His huge fortune was gone. Shortly, the newlyweds found it necessary to move out of their palatial $3,000,000 mansion with its rich tapestries and paintings, which cost $2,500 a month to operate. They moved to a smaller studio on the estate, where they live now. Lydie Marland took it unflinchingly, cheerfully, with no rankling resentment. She learned for the first time to cook. They were far from poverty-stricken 'Marland's recent federal income tax rebates amounted to hundreds of thousands), but she learned to use sparingly their available cash during the lean years. After Marland won a congress seat in 1932, they lived conservatively, taking no part in the capital social whirl. A lithe, slender, girl-like figure, Mrs. Marland busied herself with piano lessons, outdoor sports, and studying French, while her husband talked flood control and oil legislation in house committees. As when financial disaster overtook them she said nothing when a last-minute tirade on their private life was used to try to block Marland's nomination for the governorship. She remains, as she says, “only an interested spectator of politics.”

est aviation show seen in Europe—the fourteenth international aviation exposition.

WOMAN SEEKS CIRCUIT COURT JURY POSITION

Lack of Accommodations and Lawyer Prejudices Against Her. BY ARCH STEINEL Times SUff Writer A vanity dresser, perhaps a chaise lounge, and probably a few nifty curtains, stand in the way of Mrs. Orah Privett, 2037 North Alabama street, becoming the first woman juror trying a case in circuit court. But circuit court attaches hope ;by the old wheeze of, "If at first | you don't succeed, try, try, again,” ! to overcome not only the appointments necessary for having a special room for women jurists, but also to overcome lawyer prejudices and place Mrs. Privett on a jury today. Failure of the courthouse to have accommodations for women jurors and the deep-seated prejudice of attorneys for plaintiffs and defendants has prevented Mrs. Privett at- | taining a permanent seat in the jury box after two unsuccessful attempts Tuesday and yesterday. Called in a venire to try damage ; suits, Mrs. Privett was challenged [ by attorneys Tuesday and excused from service. Excused Without Cause Wednesday. Bailiff Merle Alta was jubilant and had high hopes of Mrs. Privett earning her jury pay but an attorney for the Indianapolis Railways Company excused Mrs. Privett without cause. If Mrs. Privett, who will be proffered as juror today can overcome the prejudices of barristers and their oft-repeated plaint of, “But the Marion county courts haven't any accommodations for a woman in the trial of a long-drawn out case,” she will be the first woman to hear evidence in the history of the county's superior and circuit courts. Mrs. Privett is willing. “I don’t mind,” she says. The court attaches are willing but lawyers without benefit of law are arraigned against her. Marion county has had women jurors and all-feminine juries. But only in the fad days after the women's suffrage amendment was passed by congress. Maholm Set Pace T. Ernest Maholm. attorney and justice of peace of Center township, 1914 to 1922, set the pace for feminine juries in his justice court, but women never have been called to try the more weighty matters in superior and circuit courts. Mr. Maholm formed the first all Negro women jury in his justice court and adds today, “And do you know they brought in a verdict in favor of a white man against a man of their own race.” With women's suffrage passing the stage of front page news and corner drugstore comment, the mode in feminine juries ended. At least it ended until this week when circuit court attaches sought to upset precedent and lack of vanity dressers for accommodating a feminine venire by placing Mrs. Privett in the jury box. Five Holdups Net sls Robert Ireland. 30, alias Carl Jackson, told police yesterday, they claim, that in five holdups of taxicab drivers he used a toy pistol and obtained only sls.

NUN WEDS FELLOW CONVICT

! ' ? a Jr R* "laP^ B

A romance that bloomed under the watchful eyes of guards who prevent them from escaping from exile on Tres Marias island, the political colony off the coast of Mexico, reached its climax in the marriage of “Mother Conchita” (right), the nun convicted of implication in the assassination of President-elect Obregon in 1928, and Carlos Castre. Baida (left), sentenced for bombing the chamber of deputies. Mother Conchita's is one of the rare cases of a nun retracting her vows to marry.

WORKER WINS NRA PAY TEST

Ne{jro Gets $386 Verdict in Superior Court Action. In the first test case in Marion county circuit or superior courts under the President's re-employ-ment agreement, J. B. Hammings, judge pro tern in superior court one, ruled today that the plaintiff, Lee Davis, Negro, 901 South Pennsylvania street, was entitled to $386 in back wages. The $386 represented back wages due Davis plus a penalty provided by the Indiana statute calling for the payment of double wages for back pay due. The attorney fees and court costs, Judge Hammings ruled, must be borne by the defendant. The Indiana statute was invoked for the first time. Davis, through his attorney. Herman Ridenour, had alleged that he worked for Harry Goldberg, owner of a cooperage at 615 Russell street, and that from Aug. 12, 1933, until March 3, 1934. he worked fifty-seven hours a week for $10.50 a week. Under the President’s agreement, he contended, he should have been paid $22.80 a week and was owed back wages of $329.88. The defense attorney denied Davis’ allegations and said that Mr. Goldberg, although he had applied for one never had received his NRA Blue Eagle. He also said that Davis had been paid $14.50 a week for a

_ m i REPEATED FOR SATURDAY! M I ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL! ' New 1935 FIB| Crosley Fiver Ml Radio MHI Complete With Table j id” ble purpose tube which increases its efficiency I I to that of an ordinary 6-tube set! Receptio; I'll you can always depend on, together with 4 marvelous selectivity and tone quality! a * Economical to operate! Seldom is such a lf iruly fine radio obtainable at Inis price! Convenient terms. Small carrying charge. CROSLEY FIVER Gets All Short Waves Up to 5,000 K. C. 5-Tube superhet. with 2 double purpose tubes, givinj 1-tube JL performance. In beautiful lowbev cabinet as illustrated B SI DEPOSIT DELIVERS j |Jj I I jpO vour CROSLEY on Block's Home Trial Plan. M ' play, $19.99 to S99JW. Crosley Radios—Fifth Floor 30-Day Exchange Privilege TRADE IN YOUR OLD RADIO ON A NEW CROSLEY!

-it 'j, - J ' | pHi k k-1 'j \ kkktk % 'r i mw ■- I m jui

NOVELTY BAND TO PLAY Youthful Musician* to Entertain Tonight at Church. The novelty band of School 37. at 2471 East Twenty-fifth street, will give a musical program at the Barnes M. E. church, 957 West Twentieth street, at 8 tonight. Some twenty-five pupils of the school will play on homemade instruments instruments under the direction of their principal, Mrs. Hazel Hendricks. NEW YORK CANTOR HERE Samuel Goldberg to Sing Tomorrow and Sunday. Cantor Samuel Goldberg of New York city will sing at 9 and 5:30 tomorrow at the United Hebrew synagogue. 601 Union street. Sunday night, the Cantor will give a song recital of Hebrew and other compositions drawn from grand opera. thirty-flve-hour week at 35 cents an hour.' Colonel C. H. Tucker, Indiana NRA compliance officer, testified that Davis had not brought his case to the attention of NRA officials here.

SOLD OIL STOCK HE DIDN'T OWN. SUSPECT BARES

City Priest Accuses Denver Man of Swindling $17,000. Under stiff cross-examination \ District Attorney Val Nolan. John\ La Shar. Denver, who is charge with using the mails to defraud in selling fake oil well stock to ten Indianapolis residents, today admitted j that he owned but one share in the Longview well. i La Sha r is alleged to have repre- ! sented himself to the plaintiffs as * the sole trustee for the Dixie Oil syndicate, owners of the profitable Longview well in Gregg county, Texas. It has been the governments contention that this was not true. The prosecution, headed by Mr. Nolan, finished its case this mom- ; ing. Defense attornuey John Royse has indicated that the defendant | will be his only witness The first state’s witness yesterday was white-haired Father Joseph Weber, pastor of the Assumption Roman Catholic church on the west side. Bitterly, he charged that he had paid La Shar $17,000 for stock in the Dixie Oil Syndicate. So vigorous m his denunciation was F’ather Weber that Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell reprimanded him and ordered him to repeat only known facts. The priest tcld ; the court that he had met La Shar on a railroad trip and the acquaint* ance became a friendship. Other Witnesses Testify The second witness was Father John Reidlinger, assistant pastor at the Assumption church, who charged that he had bought SSOO worth of j stock. Other witnesses who had bought stock were John Goedecker. 1841 Jones stret, a city fireman; his father. Nace Goedecker, and his two brothers, Leo and Lawrence Goedecker; Mr. and Mrs. Emil Clausa, 1240 Reisner street; Mrs. Mary Sullivan, 645 Birch avenue, and Misa Mary Deter. 1341 West Ray street. T. J. Kelly, Advance Paint Company president, and his son, Robert E. Kelly, claimed that Le Shar had attempted to sell them stock, but that, when they asked him pertinent questions, he left the city. A similar experience was cited by Michael J. (Mike) Hanrahan. operator of the Pennhoff Grill. Mr. Royse is Mr. Hanrahan's attorney in the by-the-drink liquor case now pending in municipal court. Defense Outlines Case Walter S. Marx, Auburn, N. Y., executive secretary of the Marlin Oil Syndicate, controllers of the Longview well, testified that La Shar never owned more than one unit of stock in the Marlin syndicate. La Shar, slightly bald and quietly dressed, sat with his attorney and his attractive, red-haired wife. Although the cross-examination often became heated, he never changed i his expression.

PAGE 3