Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1940 — Page 12

WEST SIDE ASKS WING BE ADDED -T0 HIGH SCHOOL

Citizens Group Describes Overcrowded Condition At Washington.

The School Board had before it today a request of West Side citizens to build a new wing to Washington High School in 1941. The citizens’ delegation appeared Lefore the Board last night and urged construction of the wing on the ground that the present building, designed for 1800 students, is housing 2500 students. According to the Rev. Clarence G. Baker, Hawthorne Community Center superintendent, who was spokes“man for the group, there is not adequate place now for the teaching of industrial classes or domestic science classes.

Cites Class Room Shortage He said that the West Side is growing in importance as an industrial center and that shop facilities should be made available in the

school.

The school now is operating on a

nine-period schedule instead of an eight-period schedule, Rev. Mr. Baker said was a hardship on both students and teachers.

Mrs. Emma Pope, 1026 N. Missouri

St., president of School 23 P.-T. A,

asked for improvements at that The school is situated at Missourl and 13th Sts. and contains

school.

six grades. Mrs. Pope said the school has no

auditorium and thus no place for

the pupils to be gathered in one group for safety and citizenship training;

after physical education classes; no lunchroom, and no plafe to prepare hot noon luncheons for the pupils.

Accepts Bid on Loan

The luncheons are especially necessary, she said, since the parents of many of the pupils work. She stressed the fact that the P.-T. A.

was not asking for elaborate new

equipment. The Board accepted the bid of five Indianapolis banks to provide a temporary loan of $600,000 to the Board at three-tenths of 1 per cent interest and a premium of $54, one of the lowest rates ever offered the Board. The successful bidders were the Union Trust Co. the Indiana National Bank, the Merchants National Bank, the American National Bank and the Indiana Trust Co.

Other Bids Received

Two other bids were for threeeighths of 1 per cent and no premium, and three-fourths of 1 per cent and a $50 premium. The issuance of time warrants for an additional loan of $700,000 was approved and bids for this will be opened March 26. Bids for an acoustical ceiling in the Shortridge High School cafeteria, a cork floor at Central Library, and a composition floor at the Spades Park library branch -were referred to a special committee.

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The “Indianapolis,” new Amer= ican Airlines flagship, arrived here today from California. The name plate was affixed at Chicago, where

Stewardness | Joan Waltermire took part in the ceremonies. She is a native of Scipio, Ind., and

Tomorrow is “leap day.” It got that way from a combination of Babylonian night travelers,

Roman politics and superstitions, Augustaus Caesar’s egoism, and the movements of ‘the solar system. According to the Public Library, the Babylonians liked to travel during the full moon. They thought it circled the earth in 30 days. Actually it makes the round-trip in 29 days 12 hours and 44 minutes plus. The Babylonian mofiths began to

slip. The “plowing month” came at the wrong season for plowing, and the “month in which the brick is laid in the mold” arrived at the time “for sending young goats to pasture.” To correct this mess, the priests worked out leap year scheme. They just threw in an extra month in the year when it was needed. This was pretty clumsy but even the Greeks didn’t: improve it much. Then the Romans straightened them both out. At first, though, they had their troubles. Politics reared its ugly head. In order to keep an unpopular official from holding a 13-month term, the priests held out the extra month when it was needed or added another month to ‘keep “a favored politico 'in office.

And They Were Superstitious

Their troubles increased because they were superstitious. They didn’t like a 30-day month. So four

ject of police search today after months had 31 days; seven had 29;

he abandoned his car. on the West ' Side yesterday when a detective fired a shot into one of the tires during a chase of several blocks. A quantity of whisky, reported to have been stdlen from a truck in S. Capitol Ave., 600 block, was found in the man’s automobile after it! crashed into a parked car at West and St. Clair Sts., police said. Detective Sergeant Howard Sand-! ers pursued the car after hearing, a broadcast of the theft. The man

and a companion fled, police said. | a {short-changed ?

ITALY IMPOSES BAN ON JEWRY MARCH 1

ROME, Feb. 28 (U. P.. —Ttaly’s racial law against Jews will become effective on March 1, it was announced officially today. The law, passed on June 29, 1939, stipulates that Jews may not hold public office, serve on public foundations or associations and commit‘tees and wear the national military uniforms. Under the law no Jew may be called for service in any branch of the armed forces.

while February—the last regular. month-~had only 28. In a few hun- | dred years the winter months were: autumnal and the summer months were pushed back into spring. Then Julius Caesar worked on

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the problem. His chief adviser,! {Sosigenes, advised Caesar to use a ‘calendar of 365% days, saving the. fraction of a day for four years to, make a leap year with 366 days. | This is called the “Julian” calendar | and went into effect Jan. 1, 46 B. C.! But what about February being | In arranging the months Caesar forgot the moon.| He decided to make every other imonth have 31 days. There were only -enough days to have five 31day months if other months were to have 30 days. To make a sixth | month, he took a day from Feb-! ruary-—probably because it was the last month of the old Roman cal-' endar.

So Augustus Took a Hand

This would have been fine, except for Augustus Caesar, Julius’ successor. The month named for! Augustus only had 30 days. So he. took another: day from February. | Then there were three 31-day | months in a row—July, August and | Septeinber. To fix this, the 31st day of September was given to October | and the 31st day of November sid to December, Things ran smoothly for about | 1600 years. Then it was found Ju-| lius had made a mistake. | Caesar’s year was about 11 min-| utes and a few seconds too long. That was so small it was unnoticed' for hundreds of years. But | after 16 centuries the. error amounted to several days. This up-| set certain important church fes-. tivals. So Pope Gregory XIII reformed Caesar's calendar. He had an Italian astronomer work out the sys- | tem ‘we now use. It works this way: Every year number which can be divided evenly by four is a leap

year, unless the number can be di-

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Tomorrow Is 'Leap Day —

And Here's the Reason Why

vided evenly by 100 but cannot be divided evenly by 400. For instance, 1930 was not a leap year. The number 1930 cannot be divided ' evenly by four. The year 1928 was a leap year; the number can be divided evenly by four but not by 100. The year 1900 was not a leap year. That number can be divided evenly by 100 but not by 400. The year 2000 will—oh, well, you get the idea.

HEART ATTACK FATAL AS SON'S TEAM WINS

ROCHESTER, Ind. Feb. 28 (U. P.).—As the basketball team of Talma, grade school in New Castle Township, eked out a last minute 20-to-17 victory over Reiters to win the Fulton County Grade School

tournament, John B. Haimbaugh, 65, trustee of New Castle Township,

suffered a heart attack and died. The Talma team was coached by his son, Omer.

FIVE PLANETS

TONIGHT TO SET

HISTORY IN SKY,

‘Celestial Necklace’ May Not ]

~ Occur Again for. 14, 000 Years. The celestial spectacle of five

planets suspended in the south-

eastern sky like a crooked, string of lanterns tonight = reaches its peak. But cloudy skies may prevent the spectacle from being seen here. It is the first time the fiery display has been witnessed in the course of recorded human history. Nothing similar may occur again for 14,000 years, according to Bassford C. Getchell, Butler University astronomy teacher and mathematics professor. Shortly before sunset, swift-mov-

grees above the horizon, the closest it will be to the four other planets in the configuration and at the highest peint it will soar above the sun, Tomorrow it will begin rushing faster and faster toward the sun. The other planets also will disband, their beautiful * symmetry broken. ' The quintet is strung like diamonds on a celestial necklace.

Venus Is Brightest

« Venus, the brightest: and most celebrated evening star, glows in the center. Higher toward the zenith hangs Saturn with its girdle of “star dust’ and perhaps, appropriately now, orange-red Mars. Between Venus and the horizon are Jupiter and Mercury; Jupiter, the giant planet, named by the Romans after their king of the heavens; Mercury, the elusive planet which few persons ever have seen, because it is often invisible in the twilight as an “evening star” and usually is lost in the dawn. The configuration will include all the planets known to man before 1781 when Uranus was discovered. Uranus, too, will have its role in the sky-stage but it is on the fringe of the solar system, too distant to be seen without a telescope. Such a glass will show the four moons of

the Jovian satellite system and the.

belt of Saturn’s rings. Explains Configuration

Any possible. planetary configuration has recurred and will recur again, Prof. Getchell said, but calculation of the time of the recurrence of any particular star-pattern is very complicated, All the planets race at different speeds through the starry band of the zodiac. The time required for any planet to return to a position where it is in a straight line with the sun and the earth is called the synodic period. Thus, the quintet will be strung out together again in the number of years which is the least common multiple of their synodic periods. Tonight's configuration is astronomical history.

Arthur R. Baxter . , , Council ; president,

Indiana Leaders to Meet on. ing Mercury will be riding 16 de-|

Monday "to Discuss Problems. Indiana Boy Scout officials will

1meet Monday at the Hotel Lincoln

for a one-day “threshing out” session on regional Scouting problems. Heads of local committees will attend roundup meetings on organization and extension, leadership training, camping and activities, health and safety, advancement and finance. 0 The meetings will be conducted by Scout officials from New York and Chicago.

A general session will be held at 10 a. m. presided over by Sheldon Clark of Chicago, volunteer regional chairman. Guest speakers will be Arthur R.- Baxter, Indianapolis and Central Indiana Council president, and C. J. Carlson of Chicago, regional Scout executive.

Dr. Ray O. Wyland of New York will speak on “Our Greatest Need” at luncheon, and A. A. Schuck of New York will speak on “Scouting= Democracy’s Insurance,” at a banquet which will close the session.

SHORTRIDGE BOY 1ST IN DRAMA CONTEST

Eugene Weathers of Shortridge High School, Indianapolis, has been chosen as the outstanding individual high school actor in the southern division contest of the State Speech Arts Festival held in Terre Haute over the week-end. Weathers played the leading role in the Shortridge production “Juliet and ' Romeo” - directed by Miss Eleanor De Theek, which was given a ‘“superior” rating among the plays presented. Manual Training High School of Indianapolis, presenting “Peace I Give Unto You,” directed by Edward Green, won an ‘‘excellent” rating, as did Ben Davis High School of Indianapolis with “The Happy Journey” directed by Elsie Hall. The northern division contests will be held here,Friday and Saturday with Howe High School of

Indianapolis among the entries,

"PREVENTION AT SESSION. HERE

{Experts Address dress Inspection

- School Condticted for : Indiana Cities.

.-More that 300 firemen and factory, insurance and REA inspectors from various Indiana cities attended the opening session today ‘of a two-day inspection school at the State Fair Grounds. The program, which included addresses by a number of outstanding fire prevention experts, is under joint sponsorship of the Indiana Fire Marshal's office, the Indiana Inspection Bureau and the Purdue University Engineering Extension Department. The school, Fire Marshal Clem Smith explained, was arranged to

present in practical form the latest

information on inspections, building construction, codes and other problems facing fire departments, and to unify their inspection efforts.

Insulation Is Discussed

Speakers on the morning program were Chris Williams, Cincinnati assistant fire chief, on “Correct Inspection Procedure,” and Clyde W. Smith, Standard Oil Co. engineer, on “Volatile and Inflammable Liquids.” Bert J. Westover, Chicago, sectetary of the Insulation Board Institute and a former Indianapolis building commissioner, addressed the school this afternoon on the various types of insulating materials used in building. “Building insulation is one of the best - investments the home owner can make,” he said. “By all means insulate. Use enough insulation, but don’t ovér-insulate, because more than ‘enough’ is a waste of money.” Others seheduled on the afternoon program were J. Burr Taylor; Chicago, Western Actuarial Bureau, and Harry Rogers, chief engineer of the bureau. Educators to Speak

Round table ‘discussions were to be held tonight on such subjects as theater inspections, sprinkling sys-

tems, electrical hazards, institutions,

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GARNER IN N. Y. RACE

NEW YORK, Feb. 28 (U. P.).— Vice President John N. Garner entered the battle for New York state delegates to the Democratic National Convention last night, filing delegate slates in New York and upstate congressional districts just before the midnight deadline.

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