Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1939 — Page 19

DATA ON STREET LIGHTING TODAY Veteran Editor Quit Law

To Become Reporter

Information to Be Studied In Cleveland.

In Effort to Obtain SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 (NEA). HD —“What's all the fuss about?” Lower Rate.

blusters “Uncle Bob” Paine. “I decided I wanted to go to work for E. W. Scripps. I wrote him a letter. Data for use in preparing & NeW me. hired me as a reporter—and I street lighting contract probably haven't missed a pay check since. will be submitted today to City offi- Lois of Yther newspapermen in the cials by the Indianapolis Power & SR as iies Pale, However. has Light Co. City Engineer M. G.inelq his job a little longer than the Johnson said. {average newspaperman. It was The information, requested by the just 60 years ago yesterday since he City two weeks ago during prelim-| went to work as a reporter on the inary conferences on a new long ,14 penny Press in Cleveland, O. term contract, will determine . . whether a substantial saving in the Quit Law Practice City’s light bill can be effected | py. Paine was a young lawyer through changes in specifications. about the time the Penny Press A six-month extension to the/gia eq in 1879. But he decided that former contract, signed in 1925, ex- the aims and policies of the Penny pires April 15. . Press were more to his liking than Mayor Sullivan and - Louis C. law.

Brandt, Works Board president, oa ; I had the waterfront beat—five have indicated that they desire a fos of levees HW gy

lower street-lighting rate. At pres- oN a ent, the City's average monthly light tough joints to cover every ig bill is about $27,400. he says. “The day was i2 or 1 It is understood that from the hours long, and there were no teleengineering reports to be submitted Phones, no trolleys or taxis. No rewrites, either—you got around and

by the company, the City also will , ibili ing its own got your story, and then you came study feasibility of erecting 1 DO a=

wer plant to supply street lightoh re He liked this, but he felt it real If the City fails to reach an agree- promotion when he went to the

ment by April 15, when the con-|city hall beat, where reporters rode tract extension expires, it is under-jaround on fire engines and patrol stood that the City will ask the wagons. His city hall service led to company to continue present rates|the editorship of the Press, where pending negotiations without sign- his vigorous leadership guided that ing a new six months’ extension. paper upward for many years. He still is its editor emeritus.

Helped Found Papers TUCKER T0 SEEK But the Cleveland Press editorship was just one of his jobs. He helped in the founding of other E. § § |W. Scripps newspapers. He bound together two or three small telegraphic news services as the nucleus

{of what now is the United Press | Association. He was first president

Meets Townsend on Monday and general manager of NEA Serv-

iCe. For ‘Showdown’ in Miss Ellen Scripps, sister of E. Montgomery Case.

W., was on the Press staff. She turned in feature articles of varying length, with unusual sidelights on events of the time. After prais-

Secretary of State James M. Tucker today said he will meet with Governor Townsend Monday for a final “showdown” on his demand that the Governor remove Chester R. Montgomery as Indiana Securities Commissioner. Mr. Tucker, the only Republican elected to a state office in the November election, asked Mr. Montgomery’s removal three weeks ago for what he described as “an act of insubordination.” The demand followed Mr. Montgomery’s reinstatement of an investment firm during Mr. Tucker's absence. The reinstatement was ordered rescinded by the Governor and later the firm was reinstated by Mr. Tucker upon the posting of a bond to protect investors. The securities office is operated directly under Mr. Tucker.

PATENTS WATER-LYE AUTO CARBURETOR

DALLAS, Tex. April 7 (U. P.).— Henry Garrett, 76, an electrician and inventor of some note, supervisor of the municipal signal system,

ing this material and its possibilities to Mr. Scripps, the editor was ordered to spend part of the editorial budget developing the idea for all the Scripps papers. And from

TY DUE 0 BET| Uncle Bob Paine Completes 60 On Newspaper

Years

and Works on at 83

Still in the journalistic saddle at 83, “Uncle Bob” Paine works at

his desk in the San Francisco News.

this came NEA—world’s greatest newspaper feature service. When fire and earthquake razed San Francisco in April, 1906, Mr. Paine was in Sacramento. He walked most of the way back and helped his boys in reopening the first newspaper plant, using a livery stable in Oakland.

Still on the Job

He set up various other Scripps enterprises, announced his retirement several times. But he’s still on the job. He's 83 now. He maintains his office in the San Francisco News editorial quarters, where he’s in contact with the staff and with world affairs. He contributes editorials and editorial page material to the News and other Scripps-How-ard newspapers.

Six decades have shown Editor

Paine a vast change in newspapers —mostly for the better, he says. “They are more diversified than in the old days. They provide interest for the whole family. Pictorial news coverage adds much to the modern newspaper—and pictures are due for even greater use.” He sees a steady procession of youngsters starting in the game, or just pining for a chance to get started. Looking back te his waterfront days in Cleveland—the burly battles without benefit of telephones, radio, planes, fast-working cameramen, or pictures by wire—Uncle Bob feels pity for them. “There's no fun in it now, compéred to when I started—no thrill of riding a careening fire engine as its horses galloped, no pulling a rowboat if necessary. But I guess to the newcomers it does seem as glamorous as ever.”

Another Popular Legend Exploded— Ostrich Doesn't Bury Head in Sand

LOS ANGELES, April 7 (U.P) — Dr. Raymond B. Cowles, assistant professor of biology at the University of California, has created for himself an avocational chair of debunking the American public on animal stories that have come to be popularly accepted as facts. : Here is a partial list of the things that he thinks the public ought to know about animals—popular legends to the contrary: Ostrichs do not bury their heads

in the ground. If they want to]

hide, they lie down and stretch their necks out on the ground with their eyes wide open. Bats are not attracted to the hair. As this creature feeds on insects, it has no interest in the modern coiffure.

said today he had patented an au-| Snakes have no power of hypno-

tomobile carburetor which would | mmm permit the use of water and ordi-|E nary lye as motor fuel. E “The only adjustment necessary |S in present automobiles,” he said, “will be to adapt the piston chambers to the more powerful explesion. One gallon of water mixed with a can of ordinary lye, sodium | hydroxide, will, with my carburetor, |

tism. Some birds and animals “freeze” when danger is near, but they do so to hide and avoid attention. A bird fluttering on the ground in front of a snake is trying to lure it from the nest containing eggs or young birds. Salamanders cannot live in extreme heat. They can survive air temperatures somewhat over 70 degrees, but their surroundings must be moist, as they cannot stand dry heat. There is no such thing as a “glass snake,” the parts of which are supposed to have the power to break up and reunite. There are, however, certain species of legless lizards which have the power to drop off their tails in emergencies, but reunion is impossible. The porcupine cannot “throw”

do the work of 2000 gallons of gasoline.” The carburetor, he said, breaks) the water into explosive hydrogen | and oxygen gases eight times niore|

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its quills. It does raise them when angry just as a dog raises its hair on the back of the neck. The only protection against rattlesnakes given by a horsehair rope stretched around a campsite is that it has the odor of human skin on it. A barricade of human shirts and socks would serve as well—if not better.

CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR

LOUISVILLE, Ky. April 7 (U. P.) —Former Congressman John Y. rown, C. I. O. attorney, last night announced his candidacy for Kentucky’s Democratic gubernatorial

nomination. He made a formal announcement in a radio address outlining a nine-point campaign platform.

powerful than the vapors con-| a y fg "KIND OF WATCH

densed from gasoline in orthodox

carburetors. Its operation, he Said | + ARE VALUE YOU'VE

is simple. When the water is re-| duced to hydrogen, it is carried into! the intake manifold, thence to the | piston chamber where it is ignited by the spark plugs. { Mr. Garrett said “several firms” | were negotiating for commercial rignts.

ASK PLEA BY POPE ON LOVALISTS' BEHALF

| WASHINGTON, April 7 (U. P).| —A Good Friday petition signed by | 450 leading Protestants urging Pope |E Pius XII to prevail upon Gen. |S Franco to stop the threatened re- |= prisals against Spanish Loyalists, |S was presented today to the Most |S Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, |= apostolic delegate to the United States. |= “It is not alone Gen. Franco = whom the world watches today but | the Catholic Church itself, and the Christianity common to all of us |S which is undergoing the crucial S test,” the petition said. “We can-| not but feel that the persecution |§ by an avowed Christian and Catho- | lic government of a minority sepa-' rated neither by race nor religion, | whose only chargeable crime is a| difference of political opinion, is an | offense that cries out to the most high.” NN Among the signers were 41 Protes- | tant Episcopal and Methodist Epis- | copal bishops. i

DETROIT LEADER TO SPEAK TERRE HAUTE, April 7 (U. P) —| Dr. Edgar De Witt Jones of Detroit, |3 noted clergyman and journalist, will | address the 69th commencement ex- | ercises at Indiana State Teachers | College on June 8, President Ralph = N. Tiery announced today.

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