davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
WEAk-MINDED
PUPILS FOUND
1872 in City Schools Can't
Get Admission to
Institutions.

At least 1872 feeble-ninded children
attending Indianapolis public schools
with normal pupils because there
is no place in the state to give them
special institutional care, 1t was dis
closed today. Some are of distress
ingly low mentality.
A survey by school officials in CO.
operation with the case conference
committee of the indianapolis
Council of Social Agencies brought
the situation to light.
A report presented to each state
legislator points out that application
for admission of twenty-seven of
the children to the state school for
the feeble minded at Fl. Wayne
are on file, one since December. 1924,
but the difficulty of gaining admis-
sion is so great that attempts to get
the others in have not been made.
Proposals for remedying the stu
alton at FIT. Wayne have been
before the assembly, but were de-
feated through efforts of James
Jackson, superintendent, brother of
former Governor Ed Jackson.
In seeking out the feeble minded
children in Indianapolis schools, the
officials used a grade of 90 as the
dividing line. Those below so were
graded as positively feeble-ninded.
The report shows seven children
with a grade of only 20; five be-
tween 20 and %: thirteen between
80 and SO; forty-Six between 40 and
40; 121 between SO and SO.
The report says the total "in-
cludes those cases that have be-
come difficult problems because of
low mentality. A complete check of
the schools would reveal many more
cases, who will, unless proper care
is provided, become problems of
society later. It is this group that
furnishes many of our derelicts and
adult dependents and commits
much of our crime. Every city in
this state has a similar problem"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
Speakers at Banquet of
Associated Employees 10
Reveal Story.
By EE4 Scrricc

How several attempts to start
"racEc,S' in a few lines OF business
in indianapolis have been stopped
and how Chicago has struck at the
racketeer will be among the dis
closures by speakers at the silver
anniversary meeting of the Associat-
ed Employers of indianapolis at the
Columbia Club Friday night.
George E. Q. Johnson. United
States district attorney, of Chicago,
will discuss the war on rackets in
his city. Officials of the employers
body will report on the local indus
trial situation, some reports embody-
ing the fact that dangerous rack
eteers from other cities have at
tempted to gain foothoid here.
More than $500 tickets have been
issued for the meeting, which will
begin at o'clock in the club ball
room. The association expects the
largest gathering of representative
Indianapolis citizens ever held.
Howard T. Griffith, retiring preSi-
dent, viii preside. Besides Griffith
and johnson, those at the speakers
table will be NJ. E. Foley. president
indianapolis Bar Association; Grim
inal Judge James A. Collins. Cover
nor Harry G. Leslie. Federal Judge
Robert c. Baltzell, District Attor-
ney Albert Ward, Attorney-Genera
James NJ. Ogden, A. j. Allen, Secre-
tary of the Associated Employers;
Mayor L. EIt Slack. Police Chief
Claude NJ. Worley, Prosecutor Jud-
son L. Stark, Marshall D. Lupton,
president indianapolis Church Fed
Grafton; Albert S. Goldstein, Merch-
ants Association president; Mark H.
Miller. board of trade president. and
Frank E. Gates, Chamber of Com
merce president.
Seats will not be reserved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. IA bill
which would give federal judges the
right to fine liquor law violatorS up
to $4,000 and give them up to five
years in jail will come before the
senate this week.
1t was introduced by Senator
Jones of Washington last spring.
Debate probably again will air the
whole prohibition question. as Sem
ator Bruce of Maryland. wet leader,
served notice today that ne would
oppose the bill. as will Senator
Blaine of Wisconsin.
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt,
assistant encouragement, in charge
of prohibition prosecutions, is In
favor al measure. as Is Prohi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
TO BOOST
BOOZE PENALTIES

bition Commissioner Doran. Dry or
CARNATIONS also favor it.
The bill diSplaces present maxi
mum penalties for first offenders
Gor manufacture and sale) Of 1000
fine and six months in Jail, and for
the second offenders of $4,000 and
five years. The judiciary subcom-
mittee, which reported it, declares
these penalties are adequate for or
binary offenders, but not for pro
feSsional bootleggerS and other
large-scale operators"
The point is also made that the
drastic sentences are provided only
for those offenseS specifically named
in the eighteenth amendment, man.
ufacture, sale, transportation, I'M
portation, and expectation Of liquor
Penalties for minor offenSeS would
remain UNCHANGED a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
First Working Girl of
City VIII Be Guest at
Community Fund Dinner
Mrs. F. F. MCCrea Started
on Insurance Position
Back in 1879

OF the $50 or more persons who
will attend the ninth annual dinner
meeting of the Indianapolis Com
munity Fund the night of Feb. 20, at
the Claypool hotel, none, perhaps
will be interested more keenly in
the affair than Mrs. Frank F. Nc
Crea, 1913 Ashland avenue.
Mrs. McCrea was the first preSi-
dent of the Y, w. c. A., founded
here in 1895, which is a member
agency of the Community Fund.
It was shortly after the founding
of the Y. u. G. A., Mrs. McCrea
recalls, that the first monday meal
was served to some 240 girls and
young women-at an actual cost a
person of II cents! And that, :"
Mrs. McCrea points out, included
dessert"
Was First Working Girl
Incidentally, Mrs. McCres, then
Miss Ella Falls, was the first In
dianapolis woman to work in an
Office. That was back in 1878.
THE working girl of that period, %
Mrs. McCrea says, faced rather
cold, narroW-minded world She
was able to obtain a position In an
''7~''rance Office, but not before her
employer thought it necessary to call
a meeting of the board of directors
as to the propriety of a woman in
an Office.
Il felt at first like a museum
object" Mrs. McCrea says. people
stared at me in amazement.
Mrs. McCrea, though she has not
enjoyed good health for more than
a year, hopes that she will be pres
ent at the annual meeting, espe-
cially to view the pageant which will
feature. 1t is planned to depict the
growth IS ~" social agency move
ment in Indianapolis in terms OF
years in which member organiZa-
lions came into existence locally.
All Agencies Represented
Each of the thirty-seven agencies
of the fund will be represented by
one person. Mrs. Eugene Fife, in
StrUctor of dramaticS at Butler Uni
verSity, is directing.
Other features of the annual
meeting will include the naming OF
this years honorary member to the
indianapolis Community Fund, a
report by Homer w. Borst, execu-
tive secretary. and the election OF
eight directors to the board Of di-
reCtors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14

News of the haunt mean
while had circulated ali over
town and finally reached the ears
of Clifford Himoe, former radio
operator with the RaWson- Mac
MILAN Arctic expedition, and now
attached to the NBC plant at
Bellmore. With two ''WatsonS,"
Arthur Gannmateo and George H.
Ellis, Himoe decided to play Sher-
lock.
Not without quallns and quak-
ings, they moved into Mrs. Green
mayors house for a short stay
But even the presence of radio
engineers didn't stop the phantom
from performing, and he did so
with such loud noises that the
three were unable to sleep.
Next morning they began a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
MOTOR CLUB
PUSHES WAR
ON SHYSTERS
Determined Drive Launched
10 Smash Ambulance
Chaser Evil.
FATTEN ON MISFORTUNE
Shady Lawyers United With
9ondSmen to Fleece
Injured Persons.

Indianapolis motorists we're ap-
pealed TO today by Duane DUNCAN,
Hoosier Motor Club president, to
join in the nationwide campaign
against ambulance chasing" being
Waged by the American Automobile
Association.
Police Chief Claude M. Worley
and Lieutenant Frank Owen, police
accident prevention bureau head,
Joined in the appeal, declaring there
is 'lots of ambulance chasing" in
indianapolis.
1.-THE Hoosier Motor Club stands
firmly with national headquarters of
the American Automobile ASsocia-
ton in this battle against an evil
which has settled itself upon the
ranks Of motordom and which for
years has exacted heavy toll, -
DUNCAN said.
THE ambulance chaser lives off
the misfortune of motorists, and
preys upon their lack of informa-
ton, or their feeling of helplessnesS
in time of trouble. A survey by the
A. A. A. has showed, sadly enough,
that there is a circle made up of
shady lawyers, physicians, hospital
attendants, and even mortuary as
SistantS. 1t is true that their num-
Der is small in comparison to the
great number of honorable practi-
TONERS of these professions. but the
moral of the one rotten apple holds
trHTn mol &c oil
Shysters Cause Trouble
Everywhere public opinion is be-
ing stimulated to an understanding
of the gravity of the present situa-
ton, But the drive really has just
begun. What We need now is the
full cooperation of every motor car
owner to the end that his enemy,
the ambulance chaser. may go down
to ignominicus defeat
Lieutenant owen cited instances
where shySter lawyers or their run
ners have reached the home of per-
SOUS injured in accidents before po-
lice have arrived to report the cir
cumStanceS to relatives.
w llAlC bllC lCldl1lCO dlC loOO4 hAE
under excitement. the ambulance
chaSers sign them to contracts Civ
ing the shysters large share of
anything which may be paid In
settlement of the crash damages"
he said.
Chief Worley advised any one in
jured in an accident or the relatives
of any one hurt and killed to take
time to select a lawyer and then to
pick a reputable attorney.
Hard to Pin Down
The ambulance chaser is the
hardest type of lawyer to CATCH
he said. 1--WE are doing our best to
curb their activities.
Some of the professional bonds
men work with lawyers Of doubt
fui reputation and extend their &C
tivitieS to damage suits as we'll as
criminal cases. The bondsmen watch
police reports and newspapers for
news of accidents and notify the
lawyers. who rush to the homes or
send runners.
I'VE do not permit Shysters to
loaf in the Railways at police head
quarters, in an effort to keep them
from obtaining information. Off
GERS are stationed night and day to
keep them from the corridors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
WATCHMAN BREAKS HIP,
TRAPPED BY FLAMES
Atkins Esnp!oye Disabled Running
to Put Out Fire,

Disabled by a fall which broke his
hip. Harry tastes, Sc, of the Stub
bins hotel, night Waterman, was
rescue& from a blazing shed in the
rear of the E. C. Atkins saw works,
4l6 South Illinois street, by two
members OF the fire underwriters
salvage corps.
EasteS was running to turn on the
automatic sprinkler system in the
basement of the shed when he
slipped in a pool of water and fell
Lying helpless as fire swept the
building, ne was rescued by Will
liam M. Sullivan and Charles ".
RalSton.
The blaze. of undetermined ORR
gin. did severe damage to the
building.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
NATIONS RACE
FOR SEA TRADE
Giant Liners Being Built by
Three Countries for
Early Service.

DU / ttt6 Dptttut
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-Great
ocean liners 1000 feet and more in
length and travelling faster than
tWenty-Seven knots an hour are the
next development in north Atlantic
steamship service, the senate COM
merce committee just has been in
formed.
Germany is building two such
ships, England two, and France one.
All are to be placed in service in the
next year or two.
Two are proposed for the United
States in event the committee ap-
proves sale of the U. S. lines to D. G.
Chapman & Co. for $16,000,000 and
advances rs per cent of the cost of
the proposed liners.
The Chapman bid is being
threshed out before the committee,
which today is expected to approve
the offer and to permit the shipping
board to close the deal.
William F. Gibbs, a New York
snip architect. yesterday informed
the committee that he believed the
Chapman bid would prove a f1nan-
cial failure. He predicted the COM
pany would go broke and that the
government would have to take over
the lines again.
1.-THE government will mot lose in
the long run, except in prestige, -
Gibbs said.
"It will obtain two new ocean
liners, each larger than the Levia-
than at IS per cent of their cost"
r. Y. O'Connor, chairman of the
shipping board, said that while he
believed the Chapman project would
succeed. in event it failed the gov
eminent would obtain two liners at
the same price it would cost to con-
StruCt them abroad,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14

several weeks ago, despite efforts
Of Jones to make a living, the ST
job was all he could get.
Discouraged by their battle
against poverty, the couple brought
the baby here and placing it in a
basket filled with clothing, aban-
doned it on the doorstep of a
home.
The baby was taken to a hospital.
Fatherly love caused Jones to
linger about the building. Police
arrested him on a lettering charge.
He told his story and was given
job and the baby was returned
to him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
OFFERS INSANITY PLEA

Briggs Murder Defense on at FOw-
Ter; Jury May Get Case Saturday.
BIZ Times Special
FOWLER, Ind, Feb. 1.-THE case
of Clarence B. Briggs, on trial in
Benton circuit court here accused of
the first degree murder of his uncle,
Victor M. Briggs, will probably be
in the jury's hands by Saturday.
Defense testimony which opened
Wednesday continuing today. A
plea of insanity is being made and
several witnesses have testified in
support of theory that Briggs has
been of unsound mind since suffer-
ing from scarlet fever. In rebuttal,
several state witnesses have declared
he is sane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
DISCUSS PLANS FOR
DISCIPLES CONVENTION
Leaders Make Arrangements for
Meeting in August.


Plans for the International
Disciples of Christ convention to be
held at Seattle, Wash. Aug. TIA,
we're discussed Wednesday at a
meeting OF the program and az
rangementS committee at the Sew
erin.
Harry H. Rogers, Tulsa, Okla.
former international Rotary Club
president, who is to be convention
president, attended Others in at
tendance: DR.. II. o. Pritchard, In
dianapolis, chairman of the pro-
gram committee; DR.. Graham
Frank. Dallas, Tex. convention
secretary; DR.. H c. Armstrong, In
dianapoliS, of the Association for
Christian Unity; the Rev. James
Crane, Indianapolis. of the board
of temperance and social welfare;
F. E. Smith, indianapolis, repre-
senting the pension fund OF
Disciples e. Christ; =. NJ. Yocum
and Miss Alma E. Moore, Indian
spolis. representing the United
Christian Missionary Society.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
ST. A WEEK DADDY
Better Job Brings Baby Back

last CHICAGO, Ind, Feb. IA.
~ Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Jones, who felt it was better to
abandon their baby than to try
to live on 81 week as wages,
have their baby back today and
Jones is working at a better pay
ing job.
The family came to Chicago
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
ASKS $45,000 DAMAGES
Man Sues Butler for Injuries Sus-
tanned in Building.

A damage ing $4,000 for
personal injurie, .fed last winter
in the constructiCn of the new But
Ter university fieldhouse was fled
against the university physical edu-
cation department and the Marion
County Construction Company by
Leander F. Kimberlin, SOIL East
Washington street, a carpenter.
Kimberlin alleges his sight was
impaired and he was unable to work
for three months after a dynamite
blast had injured him. He was not
warned of the explosion. he said.
Kimberlin was employed by the
construction company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
JUDGES FOR REALTY
POSTER CONTEST NAMED
Indiana Artists and Students May
Compete for Prizes,

Names of judges for the annual
home show poster contest of the In
dianapolis Real Estate Board were
announced today by John G. Barn
hill, poster contest chairman.
The judges will be Miss Anna
HasSelman, curator John Heron
Art institute; Charles H. Kuhn,
cartoonist, Indianapolis News; Leon
ard Shick, display artist, Indian
apolis Star, and Walter Hickman,
dramatic editor, Indianapolis Times;
Merle Sidener of Sidener, Van Ripper.
Keeling, advertising agency, and
Carl H. Lieber, H. Lieber Company.
The contest is open to all Indiana
artists and art students. The win
ming poster will be used to adver-
tise the annual realtors home show
at the state Playground, April to
13. Complete rules for the contest
may be obtained at the Office of the
Real Estate Board, $40 Lemcke
building. The contest will close
Feb. Is. Prizes offered are: First,
$50: second, S25, and third $40.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
PAINT HOOVER PORTRAIT

President Elect Posing for New
York Artist.
BR United PreSs
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, FEB. IA
President-Elect Hoover began to
pose for a portrait today, the first
since his election to the presidency
He sat for some time in the sun
parlor of the J. c. Penney home
for George B. Torrey, New York
artist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
SaOed by Radio
By NEA Service

By NE4 SerUice
LONDON. Feb. 14.-While on
his way from New York to
Vienna with a consignment of
reptiles, a copperhead snake
escaped. and bit Professor
Shiffman.
A wireless message was sent
from the ship. the Cunard
liner Berengaria. TO Professor
Dittmar of Bronx Zoo in New
York.
Dittmer wireleSSed his advice
for treatment of the bite, and
saved the victims life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
Two Held After Drinker Dies

BIZ Times Special
La PORTE, Ind, Feb. 14.-G. r
Sharp, Pinola, and William Fosdick,
La Porte, are in custody here
charged with selling liquor to Harry
Reed, local taxi driver, shortly be-
fore he died from a cerebral hemor-
rhage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
PERIL
NIPPED IN BUD BY
CITY'.S VIGILANCE
POPE WILL VISIT KING
PreIate and Victor Emanuel Will
Exchange Visits in June.

BN United Press
ROME, Feb. liking Victor
Emanuel of Italy, and Pope Plus
XII probably will exchange visits in
June, it was learned today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14
Enters Marion MAYOR Race

MARION, Ind. Feb. 14.-George
NJ. Coon. attorney, today had the
distinction of being the first aSpir-
ant to announce his candidacy for
the Republican mayoralty nomina-
ton at the May primary election
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14

tour of examination. Every pos
sible nook and Granny was In
vestigated. The only clew found
was that the loudest noise came
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-14

Ellsworth, radio operator, and J.
j. Beloungy, chief engineer.
Months of investigation by
these two experts failed to locate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
Spanish Commission Studying Important
Documents Recently offered as Cou0mcing
PtoofzhatBithplace ofAmerica 'SReputed
DiNoverpr Mas Under CaniIan F1ag
And the First Ne7O Wmld Voyuge Mas
Made in the Ycur1477Inaeadof1422.

islands indicated on the chart were really a
part of the Occident rather than of the Orient.
Moreover, in the archives Of Aragon, in Bar
celona, there is a text of the capitulation,
signed by Columbus and the King of Spain, in
the village of Santa Fe Vega de Granada, on
April II, 1492-four months before Columbus
departure from Palos. This document clearly
states that Columbus was allowed the conces-
sions written therein as a reward de 10 que
ha descubierto en- los mares ocenos e del vlaje
que ahora con la ayuda de Dios ha de hacer
por elias (for what he has discovered in the
ocean seas and of the voyage that now with
the help Of God he has to do for them). This
clearly indicates that his voyage of 1892 was
not the first on which he had gone exploring
in behalf of the Spanish King 1t, therefore,
seems incumbent on the scholars of today to
uncover whatever truth might be found in these
and other documents lest history be perpet-
uated in error.
The name of Columbus was originally Cata-
lonian name, Colon, which means pigeon. In
CASTLE 1t was pronounced Colon and in Genoa,
Colombo. Columbus had two brothers, Diego,
a priest, and Bartholomew skilled mariner.
According to MUIR, the English publisher of
the voyages of Hakluyt. ON the 18th of Febru-
ary 1488 Bartholomew Columbus offered to
the King of England, Henry VII, map of the
world, telling him that his country was Genua
de Ia Terra Rubra. This inscription on the
document was afterward translated by Ferdi-
nand Columbus, son of Christopher, and by
Father Las Casas. This translation, the orig
inal of which is lost, causes the deduction that
the birthplace of the family of Columbus was
Genoa of the Reddish Land. Regarding his
translation, Father Las Casas says: 1.-THE in
scription was written in bad and corrupted
letters" This statement caused the noted PERU
Wan professor, Senior Luis Ulloa, an authority
on this subject, to believe that the inscription
had been purposely scratched and altered, ex-
cept the signature. Since the word Genua in
the translation is partly effaced, it has been
suggested that it might originally have been
the word Corona, the name of province in
Catalonia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

A N incident which happened during Column
bus young manhood seems to diSprove all
contentious that he was a native of Genoa.
According to reliable records, when he called
at the Convent Of La Rabida his Language could
be scarcely understood; he seemed foreigner
to them AS the inmates of the convent were
thoroughly conversant with Italian and Cas-
lillian, it is obvious that Columbus must have
spoken some other language or a dialect so
different from either Of the pure tongues that
it was not recognizable. In those days Cata-
lonians were considered strangers in CASTLE.
Furthermore, there are of the coast Of Cata-
lonia two small isles Medas and Gala Raja
(reddish), which might have been referred to
as the Reddish Lands mentioned above.
The election Of Ferdinand as King of Aragon,
against the will Of the Catalonians, was the
cause Of much unrest, which terminated In a
rebellion in Catalonia aided by the French.