Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1940 — Page 36
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VARIETY CLUB SIGNS FOLLIES
London Troupe Will Fill Half Of Lyric Bill May 29 For Benefit Show.
The Egvptian Follies, a stage show which ran for five months in London and is on a cosst-t0-coast tour, has been signed for half of the performance to be given at
midnight May 29 in the Lyric The-|
ater. The show is being sponsored by the Variety Club of nn and the proceeds will go to the purchase of medical and therapeutical supplies for underprivileged Indianapolis children. The Egyptian Follies is an Elbern Calvert production and is done in|
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City Marbles Tournament Really Got Its
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Start 25,000 Years Ago, Science Reveals SMOKE VIEWS
The 1940 Citv marbles tourna-) ment really got its start 25000 years
i | City Marbles Tourney ~~ |St Louis
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It might have been in the dimlylighted foreground of a cave in a hill in Central Europe, or a sandy | [plain just beyond a village of huts in Asia Minor. Or, perhaps, a space | cleared in a prairie on prehistoric | America } aaivinine Archeologists, the men who find lout the things for the history books, | Address ian agree that practically everybody |
? everywhere played marbles not only | SCHOOL LL LGh hha 'in ancient, but in prehistoric times.
Mayor Warns inois Miners “We Don't Want Your Dirt.)
WASHINGTON, May 10 (U, P) Mayor Bernard Dickmann of $t Louis told Illinois coal producers vesterday that St. Louls does not
want to discriminate against them » . e but “we do not want your smoke and dirt.”
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And the came these dim and ais- || Community Center Nearest You hh “St. Louls demands an Immediate
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'tant ancestors played was not very | Mail this entry blank to H. {different from Ringer, the marbles Director, at ‘City Hall, or sigh up tournament game.
Origin Is Uncertain sent to the Marbles Editor of The
W. Middlesworth, City Recreation | solution of smoke conditions one at your public school, community | Way or another.” Mr, Dickmann said
center, or through the C. Y, O. Cadet Division, Entries may aiso be | Al A hearing at which Director How
ard A, Gray of the Bituminous Coal Commission presided. The hearing was {o acquaint
Indianapolis Times,
Nobody really knows how marbles
three scenes, with 33 performers SO Started. A guess is that Some gy ropean castles who were in trainand 11 tons of scenery. Broadway | Prenistoric man started to play With yo co ynignthood played marbles
stage critics said it was a daring | departure from the routine unit-| revue type of stage show which has been dominant in recent seasons. | Among the featured performers! is Florence Bogar, movie swimming star, who will be seen in person as Cleopatra in the Follies. | Charles Olson, Lyric Theater own- | er, soon will announce his program | for the week of the Variety Club! charity show, and has promised to furnish a major portion of it for the midnight show, Tickets for this“show now can be bought for immediate delivery through the Variety or can be reserved by calling Lincoln 0945, Lintel 7568, Lincoln 7569 or Lincoln 1000,
SETTLE HARLAN DISPUTES HARLAN, Ky, Mav 10 (U. P.) — Settlement of two disputes involving about 1100 coal miners in “bloody Harlan” County was announced yesterday after walkouts had kept the men idle for a week.
[round stones. Maybe he was wait-
ing for the rain to stop and his behind the moat when their masters cave home didn't offer any other weren't looking. In England, the kind of entertainment. [game was popular in 1600. Stone age remains in Europe, Asia| An anonymous poem written at and Africa have vielded marbles that time refers to a mibster who made of clay or crudely chipped was “a dunce at syntax, but a dab from stones. In the earthen monu- at taw.” ments of the mound-builders, the, Marbles were called “taw” In
mystery race which lived in Amer- those days because they were made |
ica before the Indians, carved flint of alabaster. Little children who dnd clay marbles have been found. couldn’t pronounce the word said In fact, marbles were used ex- “alley tor,” and later shortened it tensively by Egyptian and Roman to “taw.” children. The Romans got the game Here's what Daniel Defoe, who from the Greeks who got it from wrote “Robinson Crusoe,” said about the Cretans who got it from the marbles in 1720: Egyptians “Marbles which ‘he used to call PT a . |ehildren’s playing at howls, vielded Found in Roman Ruins him a nightly diversion. and he was | Delicately carved marbles have so dexterous an artist at shooting been found in the pyramids, the [that little alabaster globe from beEgyptian tombs, buried beside the tween the end of his forefinger and children of the nobilitv. They were knuckle of his thumb that he selfound in the ruins of Rome after [dom missed hitting plumb, as the the great fire, during which Nero is boys call it, the marble he aimed at, supposed to have fiddled. ‘though at a distance of two or three | In the 12th century, pages in yards.”
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Gray with the air pollution condi
1 Maybe the experts who are enyb I fon in St. Louis, considered to be
rolling in the 1940 tournament this ! [week can top that performance of [two centuries ago. But they'll have to prove it,
[the country, Mr, Gray emphasized (that the division can take no action in the matter and the only possible connection he might have with the
BOYS CONFESSED, Posing minimum soft coal prices | that might ke it possible for St. PROSECUTOR SAYS Lots to ontein ATKRESS - which 10 (yu, Produces less smoke at a price lower ‘than that posted now, Miners Threatened Boycott
St. Louis authorities complained that Illinois coal is an especially
COVINGTON, Ind. May P.) Prosecutor Roy Fenters of Fountain County revealed today that Thomas A. Boys, convicted At-
tica slayer, made a complete conte: “bad smoke offending fuel. When sion to the killing of 11-year-old the city threatened to stop using Elizabeth DeBruicker before he WAS qyyi0ic” oonl, ‘miners in that state taken to the State Penitentiary AL threatened to hoyeott St. Louis mers Michigan City to begin & life prison vic who sell these miners-about term. £50.000.000 worth of goods annually Boys was found guilt) of the St. Louis has earranged tn buy crime in Montgomery Circuit Court qu nkeloss” coal from Arkansas at Crawfordsville last week, HIS hace producers arranged to sell it case had been ‘moved to Mont - for $2 a ton and for reduced freight gomery County on a change of ois: with the Frisco Railroad venue, Mr, TFenters sald BOYS 6 R ‘Tucker, smoke commissioner statement confirmed virtually all or 81 Louis, asked Federal assistance [facts brought out at his trial, in meeting the smoke problem. "By ameliorating or softening minimum prices to help us achieve our objective." Miner Charges Unfairness
representing southern Illinois units of the United Mine Workers said that Mr. Dick mann holds a threat "over miners
and their wives and children.” “It isn’t fair to Illinois miners to
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tion." Arkansas producers requested the meeting to clarify the effect propozed minimum prices will have on thelr arrangements with St, Louis, Cieorge Reeves of Pt, Smith safd Arkansas producers have formulated prices for certain coal classifications which they will submit Clarence V. Beck, general chaire man of the Coal Trade Committee of St. Louis, sald that Mr. Dickmann and Mr. Tucker “overdraw the picture.” St. Louis, he said, Is often clear He objects to having the blame placed “at the door of coal men." He said that the smoke does not affect the general health of St Louis to an unusual degree. He sad that Washington was a higher annual death rate from pulmonary diseases than does St. Louis
JOB PLACEMENTS IN APRIL SET RECORD
An April record for placement of workers in private employment was established iast month by the Indiana State Employment Service. During the month, employers in private business and industry hired Emplovment Service applicants for 971 jobs, the third highest monthix total since the service was begun in 1933, J. Bradley Halght, assistant director of the Unemployment Compensation Division in charge of emplovment offices, said toda: Last September and October were the onl: higher months, Mr Haight said. The April placement total was 24 per cent higher than the 1939 total for the month and 17 per cent above March of this year The Service also gave limited assistance to employers in filling 903 other private jobs and made 269 placements in public employment, A total of 15,120 new work applications was received during the month,
4 TEAMS WILL VEE FOR 1. 0. 0. F. HONORS
Four degree teams of the Indiana Independent Order of Odd Fellows, selected as the best in the state at a series of elimination contests, will compete a week from tomorrow at Tomlinson Hall for the honor of I. O. O. F. best degree team in Indiana. A total of 500 persons will receive [the degree of the Order at the com{petition. Teams in the finals are [Pride of Boone Lodge 782, Terhune; Maxinkuckee Lodge 373, Maxin[kuckee; Shiloh Lodge 486, Ireland, and Johnson Lodge 76, Franklin, | There will be an afternoon meet|ing at 2 p. m, and another meeting at 7:30 p. m, Philoxenian Lodge 44 lof Indianapolis will officiate at the [opening and closing of both sesI'sions. | Fred Major of Hartford City, |Grand Lodge of Indiana grand mas|ter, will speak and will award the (winning team a trophy presented by Ralph S. Deupree, Indiana I. O. [O. F. Bulletin editor, | Judges will be Henry E. Roesener, | Indianapolis, grand secretary; Paul |W. Ferguson, Lebanon, grand war-| den, and Webster Pickerell, Trafalgar, development and extension di-
or. About 5000 Odd Yellows are ex[pected to attend the event, among (them Dawson Smith, deputy grand master, of Madison, and past grand | officers.
GROUP INITIATES | 8 FROM FRANKLIN
FRANKLIN, Ind, May 10.—Eight college journalists from Pranklin College have been initiated into Alpha Phi Gamma, national coed- | ucational journalistic fraternity. Dr Willlam Gear Spencer, presifient of the school, was guest at the initiation banquet. Those initiated were Yarwell Rhodes, French Lick; Robert Janes, | Pt. Wayne; Carolyn Mann, Ham- | mond; Georgia Jean Dolen, Edin- { burg; George Rinker, Anderson; Mary Lee Cory, Greensburg; Betty | | E. Brown, ;Kokomo, and Dolores| Keith, Franklin,
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