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The Washington times., 1929-07-30
RAID ON HOUSE
NEAR COURT
Nets 8

Sergt. o. J.. Letterman. veteran
liquor raider. every day for several
weeks watched a house in the
shadow Of the Police Court Build
ing. which looked suspicious to
him,
The sergeant, who has spent an
aggregate Of hundreds Of hours out
side suspected speakeasies observing
the entrance and egress Of patrons
said he was unable to get buy
from this house.
Watched Yesterday
Yesterday he watched the place
from window of the office of Assis.
tant District Attorney David a. Hart.
on the third floor OF the Police
Court Building. and counted 10
thirsty looking individuals as they
entered, most Of them glancing
across the street at the court build
ing with amused looks on their
faces.
Letterman muttered under his
breath and decided to make another
try. It was successful, he reported.
A rookie policeman returned with
information that he had purchased
q drink at the house, and Letterman, |,
@. 9. McCarron. Richard Cox and
]. A. Mostyn. members of his squad,
hastily rushed across the street. as
soon as~they had secured warrant.
Mrs. Laura Effie Hanson. 50:
William James Kelly. 49,. and Louis
William Hellman. so. were arrested
and all charged with possession Of
liquor. Sixty-eight quarts of alleged
liquor was seized.
Accuse Woman
Mrs. Hanson was also charged
with saie and maintaining nui-
sance. She is said to have sold the
drink to the policeman.
The men whom Sergeant Letter
man saw enter the house were still
there. many of them drinking In a
front room, Letterman said The
house is in the 400 block of Sixth
st. n. W., directly west of the
Police Court Building across the
street.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
Boy Auto Victim Dies
After 1 600. Hour Fight

CEDAR RAPIDS. Iowa, July 30
iI.N.s1. Medical science lost a..
day battle against death yesterday
when Tommy McNulty, IL. died VI
injuries received when his fathers
automobile overturned.
Tommy had been kept alive sincs
june 1s by artificial FEEDING. Ills
body was completely paralyzsd and
his skull was fractured. Despite
the constant attention Of physI.
clans he gradually Rrew weaker.
Doctors said Il was the only
case on record where life had
been sustained for more tlian 200
hours.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
GLOVER | INNS
ALL AIR NAIL

with the increasing demand IN
every locality for air mall service
il is probable that within the near
future the Post office Department
win consider sending first class or
mail carrying two cent stamps, by
air mail, 1t was indicated BY w.
Irving Glover. Assistant Postmaster
General in charge OF the air mail.
& At the present time a. charge of
s cents n made for the first ounce
Of air mail with an additional charge
for each half ounce thereafter.
Glover would not elaborate on his
opinion that the twocent mail would
be carried by air except to tell OF
the demand for the service. Accord
ing to Glover there are numerous
requests made for extension OF
routes 30 that they will ihclude
cities not now served by the flying
postman."
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
Tourist Tide at Camp
Here Rises 40 Per Cent

An Increase OF 40 per cent in
visitors at the Washington tourist
camp was reported yesterday for
the fiscal year just closed by
F w. Hoover. general manager OF
the Welfare and Recreational AS.
sociation of Public Buildings and
Grounds, Inc.
The association will purchase
more tents to meet the demand,
one block of 80 tents having been
Installed. There are now ~ cabins
at the camp and "a more win. be
built before the fall,
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
Fall Through Window
Slashes WOman's Hand

Mrs. Jennie Drysdale, 10. of Az
x st. ". W., suffered a cut hand
when she fell through a window
at her home yesterday. Mrs. Drys-
dale was sprinkling the lawn when
the accident occurred. She was
treated at Casualty Hospital by
DR.. Louis Jimal.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
CONFEDERATE VET DIES

STAUNTON. Va, July 30.-John
Harvey sheetz. 81. died at his home
near Harrisonburg. va. He was a
Confederate veteran. and was d
member Of s. B. Gibbons Camp,
10. C. v.
One son, William L. Sheetz, with
whom the veteran lived, Is the only
survivor
The Washington times., 1929-07-30

Beat the fail apartment rush By rent
Ing one 0f the many attractive apart
aenta listed IN the rentRl columns %
tofmy'a Classified Ads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
The Stock Market

The surgeon is not most popular at the mon1en6
he is sticking his knife into you and neither Is the
federal reserve board That at any rate, must ne the
feeling today of the big and little spectators trying
tn recover from the boards slash at brokers' loans
It probably isn't even any consolation to them
that most of the leading private bankers OF the coun-
try repeatedly had diagnosed dangerous credit con-
eition long before the surgeon began to operate
But the malady had become so serious that even
1svrnan could recognize it. New York brokers loans
from reserve banks had risen $1100Oo0Oo in the last
week to the staggering total of $5,66soOOooO' COM
pared with $685. 100000 year ago.
Added to the loss to the country of about $780,
ooooOp of gold this wholesale draining of national saw
ines by the stock market has created shortage OF
industrial credit The cost of industrial credit ad-
yanced from to IL per cent. Hence the boards
warning:
"rhe matter is pne that concerns every section OF
the country ard every business interest as an ag-
urayaton of these conditions may be expected to
have detrimental effects on business and may I'M
pair its future
The financial and industrial structure OF the con-
try should be strengthened by liberation of needed
credit for productive industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
The Servant" Problem

Rare courage inspires the Woman's Bureau OF the
United States Department of Labor to attack the
servant problem" meaning, of course, the domestic
servant problem.
The first conclusion reached by the bureau Is that
the word servant" must be discarded. Also maid"
he mistress maid relationship" it says, must give
way to the employer-employe relationship"
Which sounds fair enough. There no longer are
any serfs slaves or thras. The term and the rela-
tionship are out Of date.
Then it is suggested that the forty-eight hour week
be adopted with time and half for overtime organi-
cation of employer and employed and contracts with
minimum standards.
Which sounds well for folks with big incomes and
smooth running establishments. But how about the
girl for general housework2" With the modern home
located in an apartment is she to Five in?" And If
not who is TO say what time she arrives, what she
takes from the ice box and whether she will show up
the day after the wages paid?
On the other hand. one might inquire whether
there is to survive any considerable number of the
servant class" Higher rents and smaller dwelling
spaces almost have done away with that rare thing
known as privacy and incidentally with the hiring of
servants.
No matter how cherished servant-employe-m
be- or what her color, there are times when nothing
wiz suffice but that old-fashioned three-story and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08

famous astronomer of the Cambridge observatory,
England estimates the temperature of the center of
the sun at 100000 degrees
If earth suddenly were thrust into the sun,
it would last about as long snowflake in red
hot furnace.
The force of gravity, due to the great size of the
sun, would be almost twentyeght times as great on
the surface of the as it is on the earth. body
which weighed 100 pounds on the earth would weigh
almost $500 pounds On the sun.
1t is approximately 100000 miles from the earth
to the sun. That is, the earth revoves around the
sun an orbit whose approximate radius is 100000
miles,
Owing to the fact that the earth's orbit is not
perfect circle but is f1attened circle elpse the
earth is closer to the times than at others
It is closest to the in January and farthest from
it in July The earth 100000 miles closer to the
sun in January than in July.
A railroad train travelling at the rate of a mile a
minute would take ITS years to go from the earth
the sum- and the fare one way at the customary rate
of 4 cents mile would be S3,720.000.
But light which travels at the tremendous speed Of
$4,000 miles second, takes only eight and onethird
minutes to make the journey from the sun to the
earth.
But though the sun is 93000.000 miles away, as
tronomers have gathered remarkable fund of infor-
nation about it. The accompanying illustration shows
the 150-foot tower telescope at Mt Wilson which has
been instrumental in advancing knowledge Of the
sun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
The Indian Investigation

One reason we want to see the senate Indian
investigation proceed is because of the membership
of the committee conducting the inquiry
The chairman is Senator Frazier, Republican, OF
North Dakota, who is also chairman of TIE senate
Indian affairs committee and thoroughly familiar
with Indian affairs.
Frazier is a progressive and is not the type of
senator to be intmidated if the testimony happens
to involve officials step upon the toes of prominent
party workers.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, is the
ranking representative Of his party on the commit
tee. Wheeler also is progressive having been vice.
presidential candidate the La Toilette ticket four
years ago. He has taken leading part in the Sin
clair-Doheny oil Investigations and knows how to
run down corruption in any government department.
Senator La Toilette, Republican, Of Wisconsin, son
of the famous Fighting Bob" and himself pro-
gressive leader of ability is third member.
Senator Pine, Republican, Of Oklahoma, who has
been of the prime movers, is determined to clean
up Indian affairs in his own state, as well as the
remainder Of the country
Senator Thomas Democrat, of Oklahoma, has
favored the Indian bureau and Indian Commissioner
Burke but is to mistreatnent of the Indians
While Frazier, Pine and Wheeler have done the
major part of the work, the whole investigation is
organized thoroughly than is customary in
senate inquiries. =
L. G. Claws lawyer and expert investigator, has
been employed and Sits all evidence in advance
thereby eliminating many pages of useless testimony
The committee has $50 witnesses waiting to ap-
pear and contemplates hearings in every state in
which there Indians.
Apparently for political reasons or to assist the
Indian bureau an effort is being made to suppress
the inquiry.
It seems certain effort will be made to deny
the committee further appropriations and also to
block its continuation after this congress adourns
March 4.
The senate must forestan this attempt to close
the Indian investigation. 1t is the Indians helated
chance to get relief from the government and fur
thermore it is doubtful whether as thorough COM
nlittee again can be obtained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
THE HUMAN BODY AND ITS CARE mo.
Hygiene, Sanitation Le11gthe11 Life Span

eases are thus SO intricate that it
is doubtful whether any writer for
the public has been able to explain
these mechanisms in language Suffi-
GENTLY nontechnical to be under
stood by the average man. In these
processes, physics, chemistry, physi-
ology, biology, bacteriology and i'm
munology are merely a few Of the
sciences involved.
Moreover, evidence is quite sufh-
Gent to prove that the habits of life,
such as diet, bathing, exercise, rest,
fatigue and everything included I'M
der personal hygiene bear an init
mate relationship to the ability of a
human being to resist disease.
The very air one breathes and
which surrounds the body in daily
life has something quite definite to
do with. ones physical state.
Whether the air is hot or cold,
dry or moist, still or moving, seem
to be matters of the greatest sig
nificance.
More and more human beings are
attempting to control the control
liable factors concerned with resist
ance to disease.
AS they control these factors, life
expectancy will be still further in
creased, because the present opinion
is that the conditions which now
carry off human beings are largely
associated with bad habits of living.
NEXT: Preparing for after
Forty Five
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08

In fact, by such methods Gen
William G. Gorgas, who cleaned up
Panama and who was surgeon gen
eral of our army during the World
War, was able to eliminate yellow
fever from the entire civilized world
so that today it is found only in a
few places in South America and in
Africa.
Another accomplishments of sci
ence has been to raise the resist
ance of the individual to certain in
fictitious diseases by inoculating him
with mild forms of the disease or by
transferring to him the resistance
against the diseases. built up in the
body of an animal or in the body of
another man.
For instance, vaccination against
smallpox, typhoid fever, diphtheria
and scarlet fever is today fully es-
tablished as a means of raising spe-
cific resistance. In some cases, as in
that of smallpox, the individual is
inoculated with a mild form of the
disease.
In the cases of diphtheria, he is
injected with a preparation which
causes his blood to form anti-sub-
stances against these diseases.
In measles and in infantile para
lysis, prevention is aided by the in
lection of blood taken from a per-
son who recently has recovered from
these diseases and who has built up
in his own blood resistance against
them.
The mechanisrns by which the
human body reSists infectious dis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
EXT eIIer's Case

TTOAGSBURG, a former bank
l. Il clerk, is treating San Fran
cisco to something of a sensation
Charged with falsifying the records
of the institution where he was en-
ployed, he pleaded guilty when the
case came to trial, though in re-
turn for promise of immunity, as
he asserts. Instead of immunity, he
drew a stiff prison term. Now, he
says he was double-croSsed and is
seeking a new trial.
Hoagsburg says that he did only
what he was told, that if crime was
committed those above were to
blame, that he got nothing out of
the transaction for himself, that if
given new trial, he is willing to
tell all he knows.
Though the bank in question ap-
pears to have lost an enormous sum
it treated Hoagsburg with peculiar
generosity, not only obtaining a
good position for him before his trial
came off, but requesting the court
to put him on probation.
Agents of the department of JUS
tice now are on their way from
Washington to investigate the case,
while the local United States at
torney, as well as Hoagsburg's own
counsel, are making a beWildering
number of legal moves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
GOOD WORK, SENATE
g @ g
GREECE MAKES LOAN
REAL BIG BUSINESS

EINSTEIN declares that only a
- dozen men can understand his
latest proposition, but any American
who has struggled through an in
come tax report should find the
Einstein thing mere by-play.
Since Premier Poincare spoke
three days on the Abstain question,
he could probably talk for several
years on the question Of the French
debt.
There never will be a war between
the United States and Great Britain
unless it be caused by the endless,
needless snarling on the part Of the
distinguished world statesmen of
the two countries.
There was not half the official
bully-ragging between Germans and
Great Britain before the World war
that we have had with John Bull
the last few years.
Both countries should cut it out.
y II
The natives of Africa have an
nounced that the prince of Wales is
their God and that their lives now
will be happy, because they have
seen him, all of which proves that
these natives must be first cousins
to our own social leaders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health MapaZine

Editor journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
One of the effects of the reforms
in hygiene and sanitation and of the
highly advanced state of medical
knowledge has been to increase the
expectancy of life of child born
in the United States from IS to So
years. This is near to the 10 years
which biblical legend describes as
the trem of man.
BY sthe application of the knowl-
edge discovered relative. to the
spread of disease by germs and by
the insects that carry the germs,
disease is today controlled largely on
community scale.
Investigations which showed that
the mosquito transmitted yellow
fever and malaria permitted sani-
tarians to discover means for elm
mating and controlling the mos
quito.
The oiling of swalnps in which
mosquitoes breed, the use of screens
which prevented their entrance into
the homes, and the isolation of per-
sons with these diseases SO that they
could not be bitten by mosquitoes
lowered greatly the incidence of
these diseases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
References Required

THERE should be only one mas
Il ter in each house. but I'm not
entirely certain that the mantle falls
on me. Still, now that I own a
high hat, I ought to sleep In a
masters bedroom. With such a
background I would have civil
word for no man.
The trouble is that can see no
easy way to distinguish masters
bedroom from the maids room
which might lead to unfortunate
complications. The only system
would be to take cat around with
you. In the maids room. as rule.
you cannot swing a cat. In mas
ter'S bedroom you can, after a little
practice.
AS matter of fact I ought to
take Captain Flagg, the Airedale,
with me on these inspection tours.
There is no way Of telling in ad-
vance whether they allow dogs and
they say, eyes. if they're well be-
haved."
/ can't answer for Flagg in adj
vance, for If he doesn't like the cur
rent skyline he is sure to bark at it.
My inclination goes toward a pent
house. One Of the indications that
man grows wiser lies in the utiliza-
ton which New York has at least
begun to make use of its rooftops.
Within ten years the citizens Of
Manhattan have learned that there
is such a thing as sunlight and
that it can be endured in modera-
ton.
Iwant place where can put on
sweatshirt and get my waistline back
and I have hopes that there may
be some spot upon this island where
man can shadow-box with SINGER
ity and not have all the neighbors
leaning out to shout encouragement
and make ribald comments.
In my present homeless state I
feel a right to saunter into the
most swagger premises. I've looked
at suites which could pay for only
by the expedient Of working ninety
two weeks in every year. But there
is an old adage which says, gwen
a columist can look at q masters
bedroom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
Fate of Honest Man
MAN still is his worst enemy. He

MHAN StllI is MS worst enemy. He
1v1 finds it easier to conquer ma
ture than his own peculiarities.
When all is said and done, greed,
self1shnesS, ignorance and perverted
desire still are the worst stumbling
blocks to peace and poise.
The good book certainly is right
in declaring that "he that ruleth
his spirit is greater than he that
taketh city,
This age of nlaterialis'n, however,
about which so many complain, is
not without its spiritual effect.
Slowly, but steadily, we are grow
ing to understand that we can not
injured eac h other too severely
without loss to ourselves or go to
one extreme without making an
other. inevitable In the opposite di-
rection. =
The great defect in our teaching
of idealism has been failure to point
out its practical advantages.
Too much have we been trained
to believe that justice and virtue
do not bring material reward; that
the honest man is bound to die
poor; that self-control is just an
other name for repression; that
loyalty to a cause or a friend is
stupid, and that the peacefully in
clined nation is headed for deStruc-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
SLUMP in Stocks

THE slump of stocks on Wall
y Street found a quick ref1ec-
ton in San Francisco. There was
no alarm, but increased impulse to
be cautious. That impulse is grow
ing nationwide.
People are beginning to realize
that the pastime of making paper
fortunes can be carried too far.
Everywhere one goes there is a
disposition to quit the gambling be-
fore it is too late, before too much
water has been forced into the
capital investment of large and
important industries.
This, after all, is the best guar
antee we have against panics. The
American people are learning that
prosperity is not a matter of gam
bling.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
Hot and Cold Climates

Ultimate is not wholly matter
~ of latitude. If it were, London
would be colder than Quebec, while
New York would be warmer than
Rome.
Portland, Ore, is 100 miles far
ther north than Portland Me-, yet
look at the difference. The former
reyels in roses, while the latter is
shoveling snow.
Ocean currents, some carrying
warm water from the equator and
some cold water from polar seas,
account for this condition.
If Bafin strait were damned,
cutting off the frigid current, which
now flows between the Gulf stream
and the New England coast, the
climate of Maine and Massachu-
sets would become much like that
Of northern California.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
NJ. e.
TRACY
SAYS:
"The American People
Are Learning That Pros
perity Is Not a Matter of
Gambling"

GAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. g.
- The thermometer went down
to IS above zero Thursday morning.
One would think the Pacific ocean
had frozen over to hear San Fran
cisco talk. Every paper in town
announced it was the coolest Feb
ruary day since 1899.
Outsiders have the impression
that San Francisco is cool. It is
in the sense that it never gets hot.
It is not in the sense that it never
gets cold.
Though in about the same Iati-
tude as Denver, Columbus, or Wash
ington, D. c., San Francisco does
not know what real ice looks like.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
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By
Frederick
lands

CT. JOHN IRVINE, English play
- wright, claims that the theater
in America has been ruined by the
women who are identified with it.
He is absolutely wrong. 1t has
been ruined by the depraved pro-
ducers who have turned the stage
into a sewer.
Il n
Whenever several corporations
consolidate, pump lake or two into
their capitalization and increase
their charges to the ultimate con-
sumner, it is called big Business"
But those surgeons down in New
York did much bigger business
when they performed an operation
and enabled girl to walk after
seventeen years Of helplesSneSs, due
to infantile paralysis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
Croton Cocktails

MOREOVER, 1 have no desire to
Ava make insinuations which can't
be proved, but somebody used to
take the gin out of the bottles and
Ill them up with water.
The night of the big New Year
eve party I lost a lot of friends by
serving them, in all good faith,
drinks which turned out to be di-
luted orange juice. Some of them
were sick for week and many are
still angry.
And so took revenge on Joe by
selling the house and now that I'm
out of his power am preparing
speech for the day move away. I
plan to tell him that he's bum
furnace man and that 1 don't like
Mussolini either.
Still 1 hope that nobody calls this
column to his attention before that
time, for it can be very, bitter here
abouts in February and March.
With the house sold am mon
arch of the entire city. For the
first time in seven years money jim
gle, in my pocket, and if the mar
ket would only start to crunble
might support it.
In fact, can live anywhere upon
the entire length of Manhattan
island. Even in my widest dreams
l do not think of Brooklyn or the
Bronx Scores of apartments I
have seen already and great is my
sense Of Importance, for superin-
tendents always treat you very we'll
up to the time you sign the lease.
The jargon of the real estate men
begins to be almost ineligible, but
I am still puzzled when they ask
me, How many master bedrooms
do you want?"