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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1939

MASS HYSTERIA Back-Seat Driving Really Tough

PERILS WORLD, REPORT CLAIMS

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‘Reason Is in Retreat,’ Says, Rockefeller Foundation | In Making Grants.

NEW YORK, March 31 (U. P.).—| Mass hysteria threatens to “com- | y pletely overwhelm” the world, the | § Rockefeller Foundation said today in the section of its annual report | dealing with international relations. | “To speak of research in the field of international relations in such an | anxious and disillusioned hour as)

“Facing Cultural Crisis”

“If there have always been wais| and rumors of wars, never before has there existed the possibility of such material havoc and culture! disintegration. “It may be, as a recent writer has said, that this arid period in which we are living is the watershed between two forms of civilization, and that the future beckons to a promised land more pleasing than we |§ dream. This optimism is creditable, |§ hut for the moment, at least, the world is facing a cultural crisis in which reason is everywhere in vetreat.”

$800.700 Granted

The report announced®that grants | of more than $800,000 had been | made to organizations working on he problem of international rela- | tions including the Institute of Pa- | cific Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Foreign Policy Association, the Geneva Graduate | Institute of International Studies and Centre d'Etudes de Politique Etrangere, Paris. “Never has there been a greater |

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POWER & LIGHT REVENUE SHOWS

need of intelligent understanding of | the social forces that are moulding | the future. Such an understanding | must be based on iealities, and not | on intuition or wishful thinking,” the report said.

U. S. INDICTS NINE IN COSTER FRAUD CASE

NEW YORK, March 31 (U. P).— Nine persons, including three directors of McKesson & Robbins, Inc.., were under indictment today after a three-months’ Federal Grand Jury study of the tangled affairs of F. Donald Coster-Musica, ex-convict president of the big drug firm The indictments, which named Coster-Musica’s three surviving brothers, twe brothers of his widow, and a suspected blackmailer in addition to the three directors, charged mail fraud, violation of the Securities & Exchange Aci, and conspiracy Each, if convincted on all 14 counts, would be liable to 58 years in prison and fine of $50,000.

CZECH SHOE LEADER MAY BUILD IN U. S.

NEW YORK, March 3! (U.P) .—/ Jan Bata, head of a $300,000,000 Czechoslovakian industrial empire, who voluntarily left the country! when it was occupied by Germany. may construct a shoe plant in the| United States, it was indicated todav John B.

Atkinson, North Amer-

the right side of the truck, he sig- is low, he's got to ‘nals Fireman Bortlein just as h

automobile, with Capt. A. R. Rose- turns correctly and just at the ri

When Truck Turns Right

Louis Bortlein, back-seai driver of the long hook and ladder truck

| at Fire Station 13. took time out from the checker hoard today long

enough to explain just how he does his job.

You've probably often wondered how he makes those grotesque turns —-

and what a dirty trick he could play on the other fellows aboard the truck if he got lost in thought instead of watching his job. Fred Pierson, who sits ih Ihe i——waas driver's seat—that is, the front one front driver steers left. the rear —was helpful, too. |driver steers right and vice versa. It's no easy job getting the un-, Firemen don’t know why the rearwieldy vehicle out of the station at teat driver is called - Hlermgn cu : "x {Bui everyone at each o e four Kentucky Ave. and Maryland St. | stations which have the big ladders with the streets at the front door |js schooled at driving in both the running every which way. The front and back seats. The student at drivers can’t get it to make a right the back seat gets his lessons on the hand turn to go southwest on Ken- | 2 home” from fires, not to them. wn DE 5 | The rear driver has a lot of probtucky. They've got to make that|lems. The ladder projects out about trip by going north on Capitol Ave. 12 feet over the chassis and if he and then backtracking. doesn't turn just right, he'd wipe Bul about the steers tout the parked automobiles or anyUf about the Sitcring ___|thing else in the path. Then when When Fireman Pierson turns the he goes under several overhead railfront steering wheel, which is on road crossings where the clearance jump out of his e seat and hang on the side. But what if he didn't make those ght

would if he were driving his own meyer, who sits on the left front time what would happen? seat, collaborating in the signalling., The firemen say “it would probThen when the rear of the truck |ably take the captain a couple hours reaches the exact point at which the 'to make out his report.”

Strand of Beads Keeps Woman's Throat Open

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 31 (U. P.). Ms. Agnes Gregory, 32. be-

ican representative of the Bata Shoe lieved today that she soon would be able io leave her hospital bed and go

wh : : | . i : > 1 . i ty Co. said upon his arrival from home to her family and she gave al the credit to a strand of

steel beads

Europe en route to Boston, that Mr, |3nd the staff physician who pus,

Bata was coming to the United them to a unique use States, probably in May, and that, Mrs, Gregory, afflicied with al

A factory may be established since throat constriction. had been able] the company owns 2600 acres of swallow only liquids and soft land on the Eastern Seaboard. . — i foods for more than five vears., When a baby, she had swallowed lye,

ACTOR ABSOLVED IN water and the threat tissues were |

LAFAYETTE, March 31 (U. —In the near future marital special-

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ATTACK ON ACTRESS badly burned. Growth of scar tis-

HOLLYWOOD, March 31 (U. P.)

A middle-aged actor was absolved Was able to swallow liquids.

today in the clubbing of actress Delia Bogart, 17, latest victim in a series of attacks upon women.

The 43-year-old movie bit plaver a plan. He ordered a specially police structed strand of beads graduated

was brought into a room at headquarters, while through a peephole Laura Lee, young dancer. serutinized him, out with a golf club to drive off Miss Bogart’s attacker. “No, that's not the man—not tall] enough.” she said. | Miss Bogart's condition was improving,

PROFESSOR ATTACKS | COFFEE-LIQUOR IDEA

CHICAGO. March 31 (U. P).-A German physician discredited todav the assumption that the drinking of | coffee can abolish the effects of alcoholie beverages. Professor Mueller, director of the Tnstitute of Forensic Medicine of!

Heidelberg University, reported in| it the journal of the American Medi- each time.

cal Association that he had found

no change in the alcoholic content| of the blood of persons who drank!

substantial quantities of beer

then partook of very strong coffee. |

‘WHAT'S THE LATEST— HERE IT IS, YOU DOPE!

HASTINGS. Neb., March 31 (U. P.).—"What's the latest . . . dope?” passes for the ultra-modern, stream- | lined 1939 wisecrack. Mark Campbell, celebrating his 95th birthday today, recalled that! his grandmother, who was 12 when British forces under Gen. Cornwallis | surrendered to George Washington, | told him the favorite wisecrack of! her day was: “There ain't na more corn Wallis; Gen. Washington shelled it off.”

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sue gradually narrowed the passage until three weeks ago she no longer

from the size of a small pill to that Miss Lee had rusheq ©f 2 walnut,

string to swallow. string as a guide, he inserted a sieel [sonality traits and training have |

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cessful accuracy O. F. Hall. professor at Purdue University, told a group of senior Doctor Ovders Beads men and women at a marriage coaThen the staff physician outlined | ference, that by use of studies now con- | under way and some that have been completed, such predictions may

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marriage with reasonable

oon occur, { Nagging and unfaithfulness are |the greatest enemies of happy marsilken | Fiage, he said. Sex and money have been overemphasized as success factors, while background, per-

He gave Mrs. Gregory a Next, with the

wire into her throat and extended it been underrated.

; . otal { Selfishness, failure to show afIo her Siniiach: Probelling the beads, ction, inconsiderateness, extravaby a steel spring, the physician;

|gances, treatment of relatives and forced them down the wire one at ajuse of spare time ars other factors time. gradually increased the size of | Which cause marital unhappiness, the beads. he asserted.

Each opened her throat a little more and when the doctor pulled

the beads out the opening was] wider. :

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| Total revenue of the Indianapolis | Power & Light Co. dropped nearly | |2 per lent last year, despite a 10%; | per cent increase in residential elec- | [tricity consumption, it was reported | today | The company’s annual report, on| | tile today at the Public Service| | Commission offices, attributes the {revenue drop to rate reductions made last year. and to reduced in-/ dustrial and commercial sales aaily | last year.

Residential Usage Up

According to the report, residen[tial consumers paid only one-half {of 1 per cent more for the 10% perv |cent more current used. | Last vear, residential consumers | | paid $3,183,572 for 77,562,147 kilowati | lhours, while in 1937 they paid $3.166.444 for only 70,361,876 kwh. Total operating revenue

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|047.752.36, a decrease of $203,302.08 [under 1937. Decrease of $113,556.81 |

[in steam sales brought the total drop |

{in operating revenue to $316,858.89. Operating Costs Drop

Total operating expenses. taxes {and depreciation were $7,224,445.59, |a decrease of 4.39 per cent under the previous year. The company re{ported paying taxes of $1,492,717.98. | The report stated that the aver-| (age Indianapolis home used 834 kwh | [in 1938, compared to 763 in 1937, a [9.3 per cent increase. The average] [price per kwh paid by residential] customers in the city fell from 4.5] cents to 4.1 cents. The company also reported an in- | crease of 806 new customers during | | the year.

HOSIERY MILL WAGE ——- * DEMANDS OUTLINED U- S: LAUNCHES DRIVE

10 ON SWEEPSTAKES

WASHINGTON. March 31 (U. P). Wage-Hour Administrator Andrews today received a report from a special advisory committee recom- | mending minimum wages of 40 cents-an-hour for workers making full-fashioned hosiery and 32!5 cents! (for those in plants manufacturing! {seamless hose. | Professor George N. Taylor of the

10-STATE WELFARE PARLEY OPENS MAY 6

Preparations were started today ‘for a 10-state conference on inter{state problems in public welfare to he held May 6 and 7 at the Claypool Frank Finney, chairman of the {Indiana Commission on Interstate | Co-operation, said uniform agree/ments on such problems as transfer |of dependents from one state to an-

LOS ANGELES, March 31 (U.P.). —The Government opened a drive today to abolish the sale of Irish Sweepstakes tickets. United States Attorney Benjamin Harrison said it was directed at the “Sweepstakes machine,” large importers of tickets and not at “small fry” sellers. As his first step in the drive, Mr. | Harrison subpenaed before a Fed- | University of Pennsylvania, chair-!eral Grand Jury 72 ticketholders {man of tite Hosiery Industry Com- | Who won prizes in the March sweeps | resi . ir i mittee, estimated that the new pay!of from $500 to $2000 each. They | Series Bit i 8 i {schedule, if approved by Mr. An- Will be asked upon appearance next | investigation reports, will be sought |drews, would mean raises for em the identity of persons|at the meeting, ® workers. The raises would affect|from whom they purchased the! ill "Tr i 130,000 in the seamless division and | tickets. CII Bay. Indians

J | Commission executive secretary, said 116,000 in the full-fashioned group. Indiana's residence requirement is Professor Taylor said the commit-

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FISHERMEN CAN GET ih thee ates. oi . ([1L was increased by the 1 egisla[mous. Mr, Andrews will hold pub-| BAIT WORMS IN CANS | ture to three years, whereas rg of |lic hearings on the proposed scales. a most other states in this region is | EE, — a IARTLARD, Wis., March 31 (U.| only one year, | |P.).—A can opener in every fishing Y ‘OVERSEA AIRLINES [tackle box is the goal of Leslie HEARING DATE SCT [Baume 45. who has announced he| \ lis ready to flood the bait market | SANE with canned WASHINGTON, March 31 (U, P.). worms, The conference will be addressed —The Civil Aeronautics Authority; He developed his new product hy Frank Bane, Chicago, executive (today consolidated all applications |from three water worms from South |director of the Council of State involving Pan-American Airways’ |America, which were given to him |Governments. Atlantic services and set April 10'by friends several years ago. He|- — as the date for joint hearing. | first bred them as a hobby then At that time the Authority will [gave them to his friends for bait. hear evidence on the company’s pe- |Next he developed the canning titions for a certificate authorizing process. Each can will be dated

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SURVEY SHOWS

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| families increased their total net | worth by $30,200, or an average of 1$237.79 for each family." | Pointing out that raising their own food is one of the primary aims, the survey showed that the [127 families had stored 27,100 quarts |of fruits and vegetables last year. |an average annual increase of 128 | quarts per family.

More Meat for Home Use

| Meat production for home use in- | creased 28,304 pounds annually, or

Net Worth of 127 Families | In Two Districts Increased 223 pounds per family and the aver-

age increase in egg production for $63,871 by Loans.

home consumption was 41 dozens

FSA IS HELPING HOOSIER FARMER

per family. Milk production increased an ave | Times Special |erage of 191 gallons annually, or a WASHINGTON, March 31.—Farm | total of 24,256 gallons. ‘Security ~~ Administration loans, FoA debt adjustment committees ti { 91.96185 1 b {helped 37 tarm families in the 11th |amounting to $91,961.85 have been! gicirict, to scale down a debt load ‘made to 198 farmers in the 11th of $111,198 to $92,701, a total reland 12th Congressional districts of | duction of $18,497 or 16.6 per cent. (Indiana, Rep. William H. Larrabee! “As a direct result of these adjustwas notified today. iments,” the survey continues, “a | A survey completed by Dr. Will total of $802 in back taxes was paid |H. Alexander, FSA Administrator, to local governmental agencies.” shows that the average FSA loan In fostering better land tenure, to farmers in the two districis has|FSA aided 80 tenants in the two dis‘been $464.45 per family and that tricts to obtain written instead of $24,079.30 had been repaid up to oral leases and advanced 13 from a Jan. 1. 1939. on loans made since sharecropper to a tenant status.

July, 1935. Some of the sums paid | PERMANENT

would not be due for four or five | Complete Hairent.

vears. Families Add to Wealth Shampoo, Set Special Oil Wave

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vey of the progress made by a group of typical rehabilitation borrowers as of Jan. 1,” Dr. Alexander reported. “This survey, covering 127 families in the 11th and 12th Dis- | tricts, showed they had increased Work GUARANTEED by CLXPERTS | their total net worth since coming (onto the program from $132.429 to DELUXE PERMANENTS | $196,300 at the end of the ys crop GENUINE OIL WAVES jear—over and above all debts. SI, 2. $2.50, $3. $4 and i families, therefore, had ALL, WAVES GUARANTRLD added a total of $63,871 to the CENTRAL BEAUTY | wealth of their communities, or an ! | average of $502.92 per family. Dur- 209 Odi Ee, LEE: ling the last crop year alone, these

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