Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1940 — Page 21

FRIDAY, DEC. 13, 1940

School News—

WAGE WAR ON FRACTIONS AT : oe i

For Winner.

Cia ‘By EARL HOFF At ‘Crispus Attucks" High Sehool, it’s - “Students vs. Mathematies,” with blue ribbons, a title and possibly:. free basketball game ‘tickets at stake, The title - is “Super Solver,” and

it will be split 10 ways next Tues-|-

day by ihe Attucks pupils with the sharpest. pentils and the keenest minds for fractions.

The blue ribbons will be awarded|

in the spring on Achievement Day honors are passed out for the —gehool year The pe are -still* ‘in the talked=gzbout stage, but the mathematics department faculty is set on : the idea that some sort of award shauld he made right at the close of the school-wide: contest. 1400 Take Examination THe contest .got off to a flying stert Nov. 26 when more than 1400. pupils took the first -20-minute examination. “Two hundred’ “Top Notchers” survived the first elimination. Last Tuesday 40 “Tip Toppers”. won the second tound. ' Now they're practicing ‘up on their mathematics with their eyes on the title, ribbons and ducats. Fraction tournaments are not new ir Indianapolis high schools, but this is the first time the idea has been. worked on a school-wide besis, i , Everyone Talks About It Frederiek A. Parker, head of the Crispus Attueks smathematics department, is in charge. His office is stacked with test sheets penciled + by the pupils. The contest is only two- thirds over, Mr. Parker §aid, but already results are visible. The contest is the main conversational tepic of the school. Some pupils have even brushed up on their mathematics outside of class after learning their standing in the first round of the contess, There was not so much chagrin among pupils who lost out as there was surprise among many who won, Mr. Parker said. This was beeause nearly . a- fourth of the’ first-round

By HARRY MORRISON.

Meet Judge Dan-V, White, whe has been a Municipal Court Judge longer than anyone else in Marion County and can play “Turkey in the ‘Straw” .and “Cotton-Eye Joe” on the fiddle, He was first appointed a Municipal Court judge in 1924 and Has been re-appointed by each -Governor since that time. He was born at Hazel Dell in 1883 in a log cabin near Windfall in Tipton County. He got his first urge to play the violin ‘by. attending darices. He remembers the fiddler.

He Collected Bills

He once drove 'a stagecoach for ahout two years in Colorado where he had gone for his health. He had asthma until he was 28. He didn’t get rid of it until four years after

‘he came to Indianapolis in 1907 to

study law. He worked his way through law school as a bill collector, His first law work in the firm of McDonald & White, was collecting bills. He isn’t a “tough” judge. He

winners were freshmen, who eliminated upper classmen, !

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Judge Dan V. White . he oan play «Turkey the Straw” on nde. Veteran Municipal Jurist - Once Drove a Stagecoach

in court. It's 8 pretty safe bet that as a judge he has no enemies, “Cracking down in: likely to make clients: think their attorney is a bad one,” he says, “I take the lawyer

into my chambers afterward and

give it to him good.” Youpg lawyers, most of whom get their start in Municipal Court, get especially kind treatment from Judge White. He is their counsellor. Mis life is centered upon his home at 32- N. Arlington Ave. and his wife, to whom he says he owes everything. - Likes Auto Trips

He likes to take automobile trips. He and his wife have explored almost all of the Smokies, “because only there can you meet the true Anglo-Saxon.” Ele remembers a home where the only signs of civilization were an old Seth Thomas clock and a banjo. He played the banjo and “we were great friends from that time on.” He smokes cigars, likes ‘to hunt and reads magazines, law reviews and three .newspapers. His other hobbies are astronomy and talking. He owns a French telescope he hought 30 years age on time payments. He talks about hunting and the law, international affairs and politics and “even life

. |after death.”

7 Liked Dog Case Best

A dog figures in the case he liked hest. - It was a suit for possession and he gave the dog to the defend=

ant; who already had possession of

the dog.. He met the plaintiff a couple of

weeks later on the street. : “You know, Judge,” the plaintiff

seid. hought you were all wrong about that dog. But now I know you were right. My own dog came home last night.”

6 RESERVE OFFICERS ORDERED TO SERVICE

Six more Indianapolis reserve officers have been ordered by the War Department to extended active duty with the U. S. Army.

LA PORTE, Ind, Dec. 13 (U. P)— The incorporated town of .Kingsbury, near: the site of the Gevern-|iag ment’s ordnance plant, acted today to control housing, building and

~| other prehlems created by the influx ‘lof construction workers for the de_|fense project.

Officials said a petition would be presented fo the La Perte County

{commissioners asking for a -survey|.

of the village and adjacent areas and a planning program. They said their action had the ap-

-|proval of the State Defense Council and the censtrueting Suartermagter

at the ordnance plant. NYA TO OUTLINE The STUDENT PROJECTS

“The NYA student work advisory council will meet tomorrow at the Indianapolis Athletic Club to consider projects for the coming semester. The council will plan questionnaires to be sent te high school principals to obtdin data for use in formulating the projects, E. A. Spaulding, Emerson School -in Gary, Ind., is council chairman. ‘More than 9000

NYA work.

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principal of|

secondary school pupils in Indiana} ‘now are employed on part-time

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life and epinien.”

about ‘and doing.

A poll published recently,” Br.

Eaton said, ‘reve that

| favor: of “double ‘movie features. Junior Call A few of day et which Dr. Eagle

10,000 themes: are as follows: lar education. ing.

eral in its © religious - views, church-gaing is declining. Taste in interior decorating

{decidedly improving.

PASADENA, Cal., Dec, 13 (U.P). mination of 10,000 English t themes: of Junior College studt has convinced Dr, Harvey Eagleson of the California Institute

of. Technology, that they constitute an “amaging and unutilized source of information on American home

For him: they are the “poll of all 1s” op what Mr, ano Mrs. John Mtizen of the U. S. A. are thinking

‘majority -of Americans Bre not in

+I knew that gs gh established {fact two Joars ago from reading a test things.”

about gent) ht and trend lished ‘from his di of the

The radio has become the chief source of entertainment. and popu-

The family income is inadequate for comfortable and civilized liv-|{;

The American . public is becoming increasingly ‘tolerant and libbut

increasing.

ually is ‘home, °

wives are: becoming -

all classes that the he

charging forgery. jury returned a no Bradshaw in Ft.

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hattery . charge, will be

There is .a hopeful that a better knowledge ‘of child training, based on the best prineiples 2 modern psychology, gradpenetrating the American’

Dr. Eagleson said the themes reveal that the reason why house- |} increasingly bored is that the medern -household devices have sa: speeded and simplified housework : and : have been so widely disseminated among

ousewife has hours of leisure for which she has a not been educated or prepared;

WOMAN IS DETAINED ON FORGERY CHARGE

' MARION, Ind, Dec, 13 (U, P)— Martha. Duckworth, 33, was held today following arrest in Terre Haute yesterday on a County Grand Jury indictment

Before adjourning yesterday, the ‘bill in conneetion with the death of Mrs. Grace Wayne Sunday: She was alleged to have died of imjuries received here Nov. 12 in a beating by her husband, Reginald

is| Bradshaw, held on an assault and be released.

Bored Housewives Analyzed Tr Through Student Themes

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DANCE BAND SUES FOR LOSSES IN FIRE

NEW CASTLE, Ind. Dec. 13 (U. P.).—Carl| Neble of Muncie and the members of his orchestra today had [filed & suit here asking $1500 damages of George M. Sweigart, owner of a dance hall. The suit charged Sweigart with | | negligenee in connection with a fire Nov, 23 that leyeled the dance pavilion and caused damage to the orchestra’s; instruments and musie library. The suit alleged that a rear door eof the dance hall was] blocked, ' preventing . the: orchestra members from salvaging their instruments and music. |

FT, WAYNE GETS FUND Times Special . WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (U. PJ). |—The Federal Priorities Board has approved $631,000 construdtion and ‘improvement project for the Ft, Wayne Airport, one of 200 airports in the country and the enly ene in. Indiana.to receive such approval at this time.

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