Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1936 — Page 12

500 SCIENTISTS EXPECTED HERE FOR CONCLAVE

American Bacteriologists’ Three-Day Convention To Open Monday.

More than 500 persons from United States and Canadian hospitals, universities and government health boards are expected to attend the thirty-eighth annual convention of the Society of American Bacteriologists to be held in the Hotel Lincoln. The three-day conclave opens Monday. The Indiana section is host for the conference Jamieson, of Eli Lill section chairman and Marion Sam Campbell, State Board of Health Member, is vice chairman The society is divided into three divisions-—general bacteriology, immunology and comparative pathology and agricultural and industrial bacteriolog

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Sessions are to be interested mn Purpose of the society is to stimulate scientific investigation and to promulgate results of research national president Dr Thomas M. Rivers, Rockefeller HosNew York City; vice presiDr. James M. Sherman, Coryell University, and secretary-treas-Dr. Ira L. Baldwin, University of Wisconsin Members of the state committee in charge of the convention are J. V. Adams, C. K, Calvert, C. G. Culbertson, V. K. Harvey, Edith Havnes. ¥. GG. Jones, L.. C. Morgan T. B. Rice Dorothy Stewart and P A. Te Indianapolis; C. A Rehrens, Purdue University: H. B. Meteall, Greenfield; P. S. Prickett, Evansville and S. H. Regenos, Zions-

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J mited Press HIGHLAND, Ti locotractors’—the latest in railroad eguipment—are being built to be used as switch engines bv an eastern railroad. The tractors are equipped with caterpillars, Diesel engines, front and rear drive as well as front and rear steering The be operated on either pneumatic tires or steel rails.

PUSH NEW INDUSTRY

By United Press ALBANY, Ore., Dec. 25.—Fish and pheasants will bring Oregon more income than lumbering, the state's No. 1 industry, predicts Lou Walwee. member of the state fish and game commission. He thinks it possible that sportsmen may add 8S much as $50,000,000 annually to the state income if lakes, streams and land are stocked properly.

SPENT ONLY 3 CENTS

Bw United Press FALL RIVER, Mass, Dec. 25.— Campaign expenses for Arthur Sunderland, unsuccessful candidate for | representative, totaled 3 cents. He explained that the sum represented the postage stamp used to mail his expenditures to the secretary of state

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Dy Unite COQUILLE, Ore, Dec. 25 — A wvmall bov came to the library desk »f Mrs. Pearl Ellingham and said "Mv mother wants that book called Forty ways to Amuse a Dog’.” The hbrarian sent the mother a current ke orite, “Forty Days of Musa agh.”

CHURCH RECEIVES GIFT

8 United Press PRINCETON, Ill, Dec. 25 and window and door frames in the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, which being rebuilt after being damaged by fire, are to be made from walunt. Eighty walnut trees were donated to the church by C. V. Field.

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SUFFERERS RELIEVED

B I mit dq Press BOSTON, Dec. 25—~Three hundred twelve of 1000 patients suffering from rheumatic heart disease at the House of Good Samaritan during the last 10 vears now show no trace of the ailment, according to Dr. T. Duckett Jones, research directon SIGNAL IS DISTRESSFUL I'nited Press BUTTE, Mont., Dec. -Albert Westrich fired a distress signal that was really distressing. Lost, while deer hunting, he fired a shot as a distress signal. The rifle explded, lacerating his hand, but the o:¥ginal purpose of the signal attained its

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SAVED AND STOLEN By United Press PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 25.—Mrs. Emelian Garcia is wondering if saving money in 25-cent pieces brings bad luck. In any event, a burglar took away her entire collection of $65, all in quarters.

CATS ARE INTOXICATED

By United Press LONDON, Dec. 25.—Scores of cats and dogs became drunk on Putney | Hill, Wandsworth, when a number of barrels of beer fell from a! brewer's lorry and burst. As the! beer went flowing down the hill, the cats and dogs lapped it up greedily. |

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CASES SOUGHT

Judge Slack Asks Showdown Between Divorce and

| Juvenile Courts. |

A legal showdown on a Qques- | tion of jurisdiction between divorce | and Juvenile Court orders for sup- | port of children is being sought by | Superior Judge L. Ert Slack.

| Divorce cases in which superior | courts order ex-husbands to pay

” , | weekly amounts for support of chil- | | dren often appear later in Juvenile |

Alva Davis finds fox hunting a profitable business. | this week, he took a .22-caliber rifie and got the

three you see here. Fox pelts bring about $5 each.

Old Black Joes and Mammies Recall Yuletides of Long Ago

By United Press

ATLANTA, Ga. Dec. 25 Numbering but 25, a little band of ex-slaves

met here for a Christmas party.

Their woolly cotton-wihte heads, shaky with the unsteadiness of ape, nodded and bobbed with pleasure as they swapped stories of the

past

It was the twenty-first annual convention of the Ex-Slaves Association, begun and sponsored by a Negro preacher, the Rev. R. B. Holmes,

who heads Holmes

BID VETERANS 10 GCC POSTS

Officials Announce Preferred | Status to Fill 100 Vacancies.

One hundred war veterans are to be selected for enrollment as replacements in the Civilian Conservation Corps, Jan. 1 to 20, J. H. Ale, Veterans Administration Fa- | cility manager, anhounced today. Relief requirements and certifica- | tion have been waived for this enrollment period, Mr. Ale said. However, preference will be given vet. erans having a relief status. Such applicants must secure the certification of the county senior visitor, Governor's Commission on Unemployment Relief. Veterans honorably discharged from prior CCC service are ineligible for re-enrollment for =a year following the date of dis-| charge. Eligible veterans urged to avail themselves of this opportunity at once, Mr. Ale said. | Application forms are to be] furnished only upon request to the administration office.

PNEUMONIA CAUSES HEAVY TOLL, REPORT

Disease Most Prevalent in Winter, Bulletin Says. |

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Pneumonia causes more deahts in | Indiana during winter and early | spring than any other sickness ex- |

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NIGHT WATCHMAN | FRUSTRATES THEFT

Firing fcur shots at a fleeing man, & night watchman early today frustrated burglary at the Fairbarks & Morse Co, 2100 North-western-av, police learned. Holly French, 34, of 2309 N, Hard-ing-st, told officers he discovered & man putting radios through =a shipping department window. He opened fire on the man who esgaped over a fence near the | building, Mr. French said. Police | said they found four radios out- | side the building.

DIES OF FRIGHT, BELIEF

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Institute, a Negro charitable organization.

Every year the Rev. Mr. Holmes sends out his invitations to the fastdwindling group cf freed slaves. And each vear as many of them as possible make the journey. They once numbered hundreds at their annual Christmas party, but today scarcely more than a score were able to leave rambling shanties. Today's meeting was like a chap-

| ter from “Gone With The Wind.” | Many of them claiming to be more

than 100 vears old, the darkies told

how they had labored for their masters in the days “befo’ de war.” They told of kindnesses shown them at Christmas time by their masters—and occasionally of an injustice done them by “po’ white trash.” Led by a large Negro mammy at

| the piano, they sang “Swing Low | Sweet Chariot,” and intoned weird

unnamed Negro spirituals, chants

| that once rang through the cotton

fields of the Old South. Paying tribute to the season, thev sang a few of the better known Christmas carols. They ate a Christmas dinner spread for them by the association. The poor received gifts in the form of needy supplies, and bits of Negroloved luxuries, such as plugs of chewing tobacco and cans of snuff. After the dinner, they gathered about the fire and told stories. Uncle Ben, who used to belong to the whites, down in Wilkes County,

| told of the Christmasses he could

remember before the war, Then he told of the contrast that existed in

| the sadness that marked the Yule-

tide season while the white men of the South and the white men of the North fought each other, Uncle Sam, who says he is 110 vears old, led the assembly in a rev. erent nrayer for their “departed friends.” Then they left for their homes, and another, perhaps the last, exslaves Christmas party was over,

FLYING SCHOOLS ARE CROWDED, VIDAL SAYS

Ry United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 So many persons want to learn to fly,

STAFF NAMED FOR YEAR BOOK

‘Martin Clinton Editor of Hoosier Athletic Club Book.

Staff members for the fifty-eighth odition of the Hoosier Athletic (Club's year book, to be issued to |imembers Jan. 2, were named today ‘by Dr. Emil C. Kernel, club presi- | dent, | They are Martin M. Clinton, edi|tor; Alvin Romeiser, Mrs. Flora | Kinder, Albert Herrmann, Mrs. Paul |M. Cook, Marcia B. Kinder, Thomas W. Kercheval, Robert Allison, Wil {liam Wertz, Virgin Rupp, Thomas Welch and Dr. Kyle B. Mayhall. | Dr. Paul Kernel, William Shreve, [Russell Fletcher, Wilbur L. Noll,

George Wagner, Paul Blackburn Donald C. Wharton. Members of the editorial advisory | committee are: Robert Barnes, Ben Barker, Charles Bishop, Nick Connor, Joe Calbert, William Chance, Perry Courtney, D. T. Diebel, James 1. Liebert, Ray A. Luley, A. W. Leib, George Sauer, Howard Phillips, L. M. Fehrenbach, Harold J. Hampton, Jack Hunt, J. Forrest Davis and Thomas Welch. Joseph Kirkhoff, Frank McCarthy, Ray Weldon, Ray Thompson Jr. Hugh O'Connell, Fonnie Snyder, James Marshall, Tom Quinn, Clarence Schneider, Horace Riggs and Frank P. Huse.

$20,000,000 SLASH IN RELIEF COST SEEN

By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. The Federal government will save approximately $20,000,000 by transfering 250,000 drought-improverished farmers from WPA rolls to the Resettlement Administration, officials’ statistics indicated today. The savings will be effected because of the difference between

—-approximately $40 per month— and average RA grants in the same | regions--about $22 per month, STORES TO BE OPEN Murray H. Morris, Merchants Association manager, today said that association stores will be open tomorrow for business, contrary to rumors that they would be closed until Monday.

| John Sauer, Thomas Theard, Mrs. |

average WPA wages in rural areas |

| Court | cases, | “There has been some confusion | ih enforcement of divorce court or-

in criminal

child neglect

| ders when the same husband is | | convicted on child neglect charges | {and is ordered to pay support in . | Juvenile Court,” Judge Slack said. | “I'm going to look up some Su- | | preme Court cases on the matter |

| to determine the exact status of | jurisdiction in these cases,” he said.

| Juvenile Court Fined {

Judge John Geckler said Juvenile Court has final jurisdiction in all | cases involving child neglect. | “If I find an order has been made |against a husband in a divorce | court, I hear evidence of child neglect. Tf I find the amount or|cient I raise the amount,” Judge Geckler said. Superior Judge Joseph tion in support cases in his court has been handled on a co-opera-tion basis. “I try to co-operate with Juvenile he said. “Usually the first court port, assumes jurisdiction in ens forcement of orders.”

IRRITATION OF CELL

Doctors Base Conclusions on Animal Study.

By Seience Service NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Any cell in the living body can become a cancer if it is irritated sufficiently. This is the latest scientific conclusion from studies upon mice and rats by Dr. W. F, Dunning, Dr. M. R. Curtis and Dr. F. D. Bullock of Columbia University’s Institute of Cancer Research.

irritation is one of the best methods of cancer prevention is upheld in their report in the American Journal of Cancer. Neither age, sex nor heredity had any effect on the development of cancers following Injection of two cancer-causing chemicals, dibenzanthracene and benzpyrene. Cancer developed, instead, by the chance exposure to these chemical irritants of various types of body cells.

POST TO ENTERTAIN NORTH SIDE CHILDREN

A Christmas tree party is to be given by the Tillman H. Harpole Post, American Legion, in the post home, 2026 Northwestern-av, at 3:30 p. m. Sunday. All children of exservice men and needy children of the North Side are to be entertained. Women of the post will have a Christmas dinner at 6 p. m. Monday. Open house is to be observed by the post New Year's afternoon.

Air Commerce Director Eugene L. | Vidal said today, that many avia- | tion schools have had to establish |

waiting lists. Mr. Vidal viewed 1936 as the best

year of advancement in the history |

of civil aeronautics.

“Public interest.” he said, "is tak- |

ing the concrete form of enrollment for aviation instruction and purchase of airplanes.”

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Shown above are 25 Christmas

food baskets to be distributed to-

| morrow by members of Indianapolis Post 4, American Legion Auxiliary,

to needy families.

Left to right are Mrs. Lee Ingling, welfare chair

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mittee; George Swaim, post service | commander,

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arly Church Records Ditfer | On Date for Birth of Christ

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Dec. 25 —Today is not Christmas! { Dr. John P. Harrington of the Smithsonian Institution revealed | that early church records lend little evidence to support celebration of

authentic, he said. After long study of rare old docu- | ments dealing with the early Christian church, Dr. Harrington found that various groups of early Christian church members celebrated Christ's birthday on seven dates before Dec. 25 was accepted generally late in the fourth century. Dec. 26 was not celebrated as | Christmas until after 350 A. D. Records show that Jan. 6 was being celebrated as the fete day at that time. In 386 A. D. St. Chrysostom, the Golden Mouthed, a Greek church father, said in a sermon that Dec. 25 was being celebrated in Rome at that time. An imperial edict from Rome in 400 A. D. finally established Dec, 25 as a holiday.

Attempt to Erase Records

Christians during early days made special efforts to erase all clues that might indicate when Christ was born. St. Clement of Alexandria {said about 200 A. D. that speculations as to the date of Christmas were superstitions in which good churchmen should not indulge. Origen, an important Greek theologian at Alexandria, wrote about 245 A. D. in a book called “Homily VIII on Leviticus” that to celebrate the birthday of Christ was to treat the Lord as if he was a “Pharaoh King.” In the time of Pope Liberius, who reigned from 352 to 356 A. D., St. Ambrose said in a book “De Virgenibus” or “Concerning Virgins” that the Italian Christian church cele- | brated Jan. 6 as a triple fete day. | The feasts were the birth of Christ, | the marriage of Cana at which the (water was turned into wine and the feeding of the multitude after the sermon on the mount.

Celebrated on Jan, 8

The Eastern church at this time also celebrated Jan. 8 as the birthday of Christ and continued that

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Court in cases involving children,” | Dec. 26 as the anniversary of the birth of Christ. At least two other dates—Jan. 6 and March 28--appear to be more % Sold

date for its feasts long after the Italian church had officially gon» over to Dec. 25. Eastern Christians opposed Dec. 25 on the ground that it had been arbitrarily fixed by the disciples of Carinthus, a Greek father of the early church. The date of March 28 was supported in a book “De Pascha” or “Concerning the Passover,” written in Egypt in 243 A. D, The Greek church in Egypt celebrated the birth of Christ on March 28 for decades. St. Clement said that according to sources which are no longer in existence, various Christian groups had set Christmas on April 19, April 20 and May 20, but that personally he felt that Nov. 17 had the best grounds, Some students believe that Dec. 25 was set because it was the feast day of the Mithra religion, which had a powerful hold on thousands in the Orient, Greece and Italy at the time Christianity came, Adoption of Dec. 25 also tended to detract from the traditional Roman New Year celebration and thus make Christmas—only a week earlier—more important than New Year's, Dr. Harrington said.

CHRISTMAS MENUS SERVED TO PATIENTS

Special Christmas menus were provided for Methodist Hospital pa~tients today. A three-course turkey dinner was to be served at noon with trozen desserts molded in the shape of a Christmas tree. Favors, made by the Clara Barton White Cross Guild, are to be served with supper trays. All hospital employes were entertained with a Christmas party last night in the auditorium of the nurses’ home,

1391 PUPILS AT TECHNICAL ARE ON HONOR ROLL

30 Students Make Straight A Plus for Second Grade Period.

A total of 1391 pupils at Arsenal Technical High School are on the honor roll for the second grade period with 30 students making straight A plus cards. Following are A plus students:

s an post-granduates: Kenneth Armel GuyCarpenter Janice Commons, Betty Baker, Raymond Cradick, Kenneth Gilliland, Glenn Fritzlen, Helen Ruegamer, Stephen Rudolph, Earl Lawhead, Dorothy Nichols, Dorothy Paul and Frances Per-

sell. Underclassmen: Mary Jane Anderson, James Berling, Grace M. Curry, Wilma Grabhorn, Carolyn Heller, Jean Anne Jones, Glen Malcolm, Helen Ruth McFar"Robert Moran, Max Norris, Anthony 0, Frances Risk, Mary Schienck, Albery J . Opal Soltau, May Sprauer and Frances Trueblood : Others, making 12 or more honor points,

are: "John Goddard, James Collins, Jean Anne Jones, Grace M, Curry, Mary Jane Harper, Thelina Kasting, Carrie Huffman, Vina McKay, Eleanor Morris, Jo Anne Pierpont and Marian L. Smith Kenneth Armel, Dorothy Nichols, Mary Anderson, James Berling, Margaret Pargo, Carlyn Meller, Mary Edith Kitts | Glen Malcolm, Dorothy McFarland, Fre Albert J. Smith, Opal Soltau and elchons, - Laglar, Hazel Wurster, Hauser, Genevieve Lee, Fernande Levier, Flovd MeGrath, Geraldine Pugh, Evelyn Pyle, Margaret Schmidt, Ruthanna Wolfgang and Betty June Tice.

Others Are Listed

Davidson, Louise Doty, Byes Enjupes DE aon, Ronen wih Hott. irginia Moore, bert isten, Jose Phine hy Marjorie Butts, Francis Dona= hue, Baward Eberhardt, John Ferguson, Jacqueline Kelly, James Kirkhoft, ars baraeila Kirsch, Frieda bLichtehberg, Chars lotte Mass, Kenneth Mansfeld, arcells Manis, Norma McClintock, Dorothy Mitch ell, Herman Rach, Betty Robison, Alice Rutherford and George Hellmer Albert Lane, Vivian Mackey, Ruth Bell, Eskew, Maribelle Foster, Mary Havely, Eileen Holieman, Beity Mueller, Richard Roberts and Ethel Smiley. Julia Buckner, Ceanne Golbert, Mary Haynes, Suzanne Mouron, Helen Pennak, Earl Short, Beity Westlund, Louise Brandi, Viola Burleson, Eloise Cristman, Thomas Fitzgibbon, Marillia Friszelle, Robert Gass per, Myron Hawkins, Mary Heavin, Roses mary Hodson, Oliver Lawhead, Marie Love, glien O'Drain, Lorena Phemister, Eleanor Ray, Aldrey Roach, Bette Smith and Virs ginia Mae omas,

Also on Honor Roll

Raymond Boerenberg, Donald Chass, Bileen Coan, William Burden, Gilbert Bare ker, Mary Crago, Katherine Graham, Alice Hankins, Dorisann Johnson, Anna Parker, Mary Louise Mitchell, Raymond Mock, Vivian Slinkard, Elizabeth Ziegner, Warren Burre, Robert C, Campbell, Ades laide Carter, Regina Charpie, Henty Gens dron, Betty Jane Gregory, Frank Kottiows ski, Harriet Mangin, Harriette MeCline tock, Russell Mewlin. Jonnie Pucket, Eve erett Randall, Carol Ransey, Jessie 8Scoll, Fileen Smallwood, Donald Shepp, Robert Turner and Gladyr Willis Martha Beem, Eilene Belcher, Raymond Brinkman, Alma Fisher, Mary Evelyn Huff- , Kathleen MePFarling, Ruth Meredith, Mary Kenneth Schneider, Laws rence Shipman, Charlotte Smartz, Mary Weber, Paul Willman, Philip Wolverton, Francis Balcom, Ruth Beineke, Rulh Blackwell, Eldeen Blair, Arthur Broecker, Olivine Buenaman, Emalou Burton, Alma Jean Coffey and Lloyd Crews. Madge Dillard, Jeanne Glascock, Vora Jean reen, Anne Hawkins, Mary Lou Hummel, Eleanor Hawks, Gilford Hennegar, James Hunt, Jo Ann Jackson, Betty June Keske, Charles G, Knowles, Edward Mads inger, Bruce Mayhew, Joe MeGuire Fil liam Moore Jr.. Ralph Mullinnix, Pitschke, Jack Pollock, Josephine Schlenck, James Shepherd, June Sides, Walter Sale mon, Mary Strain, Marjorie Sweany, Hows ard Symons, Edith Tate, Marvin J. Tays Jor, Geneva Wilkinx and Irene Wurster,

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