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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
WOMAN EDITOR
SAYS She LIKES
TO RAISE HE'LL
That's Eleanor PatterSon'S
Secret of Success as
Capital Publisher.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Eleanol
Patterson had rather raise he'll
than raise vegetables" and that's
why she became the first woman
editor of large metropolitan daily
And that's why she's had lot
Of fun editing the Washington
Herald, Hearst newspaper, she con-
fessed after her first year Of edi-
torial prerogative Today was the
anniversary Of her venture.
The key to the varied and in
teresting career of his talented
newcomer to the editorial Offices
who has been known for a wit
that enlivened dinner converse
tons. for an individuality and
originality that has piqued Wash
ington society, for feud with Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, for an in
sight as a novelist of social and
political life, may be found in a
recent incident.
A very conservative member of
Washington society remarked to
her at dinner:
All Her Life
Well, I see you've started to
raise hell again. But you've raised
hell all your life"
Eyes, I'd rather raise hell than
vegetables" was the retort.
Mrs. Patterson discussed he1
newspaper experience with a whim-
steal twinkle in her eye.
when I walked into the city
room here just a year ago, it was
q shock and the men were abso-
lutely disguised. Me, woman, as
editor"
She smiled at the memory.
But we've gotten along all right
Mrs. Patterson has been a sue
cessful editor and she has been diff
ferent. For instance, those little
front page editorials about social
figures in Washington, including
Alice Roosevelt Longworth. They
set the capital, unused to such
things, to talking. Mrs. Patterson
meant they should provoke talk
That was part of her campaign. It
attracted attention to the paper.
I'm terribly ambitious for the
paper" she said.
Has Beautiful Office
No hard-boiled newspaper editor
ever had an office like hers, and il
was the talk of the town. There
are curtains at the windows, COM
Portable chairs of modernistic de-
sign. a luxurious and gayly-colored
divan, shelves and shelves of books
that one usually does not find in q
newspaper office.
She is unconventional as an edi-
tor. One night she left a dinner to
return to the office. Some one sug-
gested she would catch the train of
her evening gown in the presses,
and asked why she didn't have an
"office costume"
IAN office costume"-a ripping
Taught told her if 1 had an old
sweater and no stockings I'd go
down to work in that"
Uses Feminine Touch
Mrs. Patterson confesses to en-
ploying the feminine touch in her
dealings with heads of the various
departments.
When they get mad and get me
in corner-why just become the
bewildered female. 1t usually works.
She had lot to learn.
People can explain things to you
you know. But my regret is that ]
didn't start twenty-five years ago."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
RECOVER ESCAPE AUTO
Florida Car Used in Georgia Prison
Break Found in State.

State police today released to its
owner, A. w. Vannetta, Miami, Fla,
a car stolen by ten prisoners es-
Gaping from the Georgia state pris-
on, July Is. The car was recov-
cred at Metamora, Ind. 1t had been
stolen at Monticello, Ga, where
vannetta was on business at the
time.
Leland Harvey, called the al
Capone of Georgia" was leader of
the prison break. He was captured
in Chicago and is held there IN con-
nection with a kidnapping. accord
ing to Captain Howard Smith of
the state police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
SUSPECT AIRPLANE SPY
German Officials Charged with
Supplying Information to Ford.
United Pres

By United Press
BERLIN, Aug. 1.-Charges Of
supplying Henry Ford with conf
Dental information on the Junkers
works may result in dismissal of a
high government official, it was
learned today.
Emil Eberling, of the aronautic
division in the ministry of trans
portation, was summoned before the
disciplinary tribunal.
1t was recalled that Eberling for
merly was employed in the mixers
plant and that Ford, the American
automobile and airplan'e manufac-
turer, once was involved in legal
patent suit With mixers, charging
ford infringed on Germany copy
rights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
Wheat Prices High Abroad

PERU, Aug. 1.-Foreign wheat
prices are enormously high COM
pared with prices of the United
States, Representative Glenn Girls
void of Peru said after completing
a survey Of three countries. The
average price Of domestic wheat
in Berlin, during June, 1881 was
$1.76 a bushel, while in Paris 1t vas
$1.95 and London 81 cents, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
0. K. RAIL ABANDONMENT
Marion Bluffton Traction Line to
Quit Aug. Is for Bus.

Abandonment of the Marion to
Bluffton interurban line has been
ordered by the public service COM
mission for Aug Is. The commission
has authorized Orville E. Thomas,
Marion, to operate a bus line be-
tween the two cities beginning
Aug. 10.
The interurban is InsulI-owned,
being operated by the Indiana Serv-
ice Corporation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
War Veteran, IS, Dies

By Times Special
LYNN, Ind, Aug. Lyman C..
ThurSton, 85, a veteran of the Civil
war, died at his home here. He
leaves his widow, four daughters,
four sons, thirty-two grandchildren
and twenty-one great-grandchil-
dren.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
ROTARY PLANS OUTING
Picnic Slated Aug. 6; Circus Talk
for Tuesday Meeting.

Rotary Club, at it's meeting Tues
day, Aug. 4, will hear Al Priddy,
circus humorist-philosopher talk
about "Circus Life" Priddy will
cover the general features of the
modern circus, its people, its busi-
ness organization, its animals and
their training.
An all-day outing at the La
fayette Country Club is planned for
Thursday, Aug. 6 for Rotarians and
their families.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
AUTO HITS WOMAN
STEPPING OFF CAR
POLAR SUB IN NORWAY
Nautilus to Be OverhauIed Before
Start of Arctic Cruise.

By United Press
BERGEN, Norway, Aug. 1.-The
submarine Nautilus, commanded by
Sir Hubert Wilkins, explorer, arrived
from England today on its way to-
ward the north pole.
The submarine, which originally
left the United States some weeks
ago, Is to be overhauled here and
loaded with fuel and supplies for
the northward cruise which is
planned to take Wilkins and his
crew under the Arctic ice to the
pole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
CAR EMPLO DYES LOSE
ARBITRATION POINT
Public Service Commission Strikes
Out Plea in Pending Petition.

: OuS TO" III II
Public service commissioners have
approved an order of Commission
er Frank Singleton striking from
the arbitration petition of employees
of the indianapolis Street Railway
Company the claus easking for an
arbitration board with employee
representation.
This action was taken upon mo-
ton of company attorneys. They
questioned the jurisdiction of the
commission in changing the arbitra-
ton method.
Hearing on the wage increase and
working conditions is scheduled by
Commissioner Singleton for Aug. 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
COMES TO MINERS AID
Wealthy New York Woman Posts
Bond for Evicted Strike Families.

Bond for Evicted Strike Families.
By United Press
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Aug. l.
Families of flfty-nine striking coal
miners were saved from eviction
today by the philanthropy OF a
wealthy New York woman, who
posted bonds totaling $3.50 to
guarantee payment Of their rent for
year.
The miners and their families
had been ordered from mine COM
pany-owned homes and were NOV
ing their furniture when Mrs. Ethel
Clyde posted the guarantee bonds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
PINCH WOMAN IN RAID
ON CIGAR STORE POOL
Miss Janey CoOmbs Charged With
Owning Lottery Tickets.

Owning Lottery Tickets.
Police Chief Michael Morrissey's
war against gambling finally ex-
tended its front to downtown cigar
stands Friday night, and as a result
police today were ready to charge
Miss Janey Coombs, SIS Brookville
road, with keeping gambling de-
vices and keeping a room for pool
selling.
In a cigar stand in the Majestic
building, Al South Pennsylvania
street, Sergeant Edwin Kruse's
squad conf1scated hundreds of va
rious lottery and baseball pool
tickets, together with record books
and winner sheets.
Mrs. Agnes Coombs, mother OF
Miss Coombs, was operating the
stand at the time, but told police
her daughter owned the tickets, and
the order for Miss Coombs' arrest
was given.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
Slain Girls Classmate

SULLIVAN. Ind, Aug. Miss
Ruth McNabb of Sullivan was a
classmate at Columbia university of
Miss Henrietta SCHNEIDER, slain in
an Arizona canyon week ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
Aged Woman Killed
BIZ United Press

III UHitfu I-Fttd
SULLIVAN, Ind, Aug. Mrs.
Stewart. Norris, 81. died in a local
hospital one hour after she was
struck by an automobile on State
Road 81. in front Of her home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
$4,000 BILL FOR FEES
Claims Against johnson Estate
Filed by Doctors and Lawyers.
By Times Specie

BIZ Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Aug. 1.-Two
physicians and an attorney have
filed claims for a total of $43, 900
against the estate of E. Mead john
son Jr., food manufacturer.
Attorney Daniel Ortmeyer asks
$4,000; DR.. S. w. Wishart, $500
and DR.. w. r. Hurst, $500.
Total of all claims was $154,000,
leaving a net estate of Sl,361 900
for the widow. Mrs. Charlotte F.
johnson.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
World Very Partial to
"Eccentricities" of Rich

New York society enjoyed
hearty laugh when certain very
wealthy woman was held up by the
customs authorities on the charge
of attempting to smuggle in over
million dollars worth of jewelry.
The laugh came in when the jew
els turned out to be limitations, in
stead of the real thing.
"Well," remarked Senator Moses,
'it just goes to show that a rich
woman can wear fake jewelry and
people will think its real, while
poor woman could wear genuine
diamonds and folks would think
they were paste. 1t reminds me
Of the man who was eating with
his knife, much to the disgust Of
other patrons of the select cafe.
"T shouldn't think you'd let
man like that in here one dis
gruntled patron complained to the
manager. His table manners are
the limit
"'But he's a millionaire, SIR
protested the manager.
"'Oh, l see,' replied the patron,
instantly Modified It's just &C.
centricity.'"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
Many Splendid Copies
of Old Books of Hours

A Book Of Hours dating from
1903 may be seen at the Metropol-
itan Museum of Art, New York,
purchased in Paris for $4,000.
Such books have become biblio-
graphical curiosities. Few copies
Of the many early editions have
survived the constant use to
which they were put; some have
even become unique; and many are
famous for the lavish beauty Of
their workmanship.
The Book of Hours saw constant
service, since 1t contained the
prayers which were to be said each
day at the seven canonical hours,
from mathis through vespers to
compline, and therefore, unlike
many medieval books, it was made
small enough to be carried around
conveniently and to be held in the
hand while 1t was being read. And
because it was so constantly used
it seems to have become a particu-
lar treasure. Wealthy owners
spared no pains to adOrn their cop
les with miniatures and decora-
tions in gold, blue and vermiliOn
paints and with embroidered or
tooled bindings-the work of IA
nous craftsmen.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
Pins Once Well Worth
STOPPING to Pick Up

A man who has been making a
study of the common pin says that
the dislike so many persons today
show of passing pin without
STOPPING to pick it up is due to
ancient custom. What was once a
justifiable economy is now a mere
superstitution. Recently this OBJ
server came across an old-fash-
ioned brass pin made of two pieces
of wire, the head twisted firmly
around the top of the pin proper.
1t was holding together the pages
Of a diary dated 1897.
Up to the time Of the Revolution
ary war pins Of this kind were
made in England. To encourage
the manufacture in this country
the Provincial congress in the fall
Of 1775 offered ESQ for the first
twenty-dozen pins of domestic
make equal to those imported.
The conclusion is that when pins
were so scarce the habit of pick
ing them up was formed. Cheap
and plentiful as they are today,
one finds young and old STOPPING to
recover them.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10

According to an article by DR..
Harold Jackson of the geological
department of London university,
lobster is not hurt by throwing it
into boiling water, any more than
a telephone instrument is panied
by being banged on the floor. He
claims that pain is an entirely rela-
tive term and except for ourselves,
our near relatives, and possibly the
most artificial domestic animals, it
does not exist in the meaning we
give the word. pain in most low
er animals acts as a sort Of bur-
glar alarm, which has no feeling
of itself, but gives notice that
something definite is wrong and
can probably be set right by GER
tain standardized actions. If ami
mails really had the sensitive feel
ings that are sometimes attributed
to them, what horrible agony life
in natural conditions would be for
them. What nonsense it is to talk
about the agony of a lobster being
plunged alive into boiling water"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
Old Myth Realistic in the Telling
of Animals Stealing Fire From Pines

This myth goes back for its be-
ginningS to time when there
were no people in the world. Ami
mails and trees talked and walked
about just as men do now. But
there were CALLING monOpolies even
in those days. Pine trees had all
the fire there was. The animals
stood it as best they could, until
one long, cold winter when they al
most froze to death. Then they
called a council and planned to
steal fire from the pines.
Word came of a council of pine
trees on the banks of the Grande
Ronde river, where they had built
great fire to warm themselves.
So a beaver swan over there and
hid under the bank where tie
guards could not see him. After
long time a live coal left the
fire and rolled down the bank
where it was caught by the beaver,
who hid it in his breast. Then there
was a merry chase. The beaver
ran very fast, dOdging this way
and that. Pine trees nearly
caught him. Finally the larger and
older trees grew tired and stopped
on the river bank, where they are
so thick that even now it is diff
cult to find a way through them,
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
Old Washington Cemetery

John Clagett Proctor In Wash
ington, Past and Present." says
Land was donated for Rock Creek
church in 1920, and there was suf-
ficient ground around the church
for the cemetery. which has re-
ceived the dead for over 200 years.
Richard Queen also provided land
for Roman Catholic chapel near
Langdon, and burials were no
doubt made thereat in due time.
These two places are, therefore,
the earliest places of interment in
the District of Columbia, and the
custom of providing sites for
graves was thus started, and con-
tinued around the early churches
Of the Federal city.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
The Language Grows

Who says the English language
does not grow? One might ask,
Does it do anything else? In one
short half-column in a recent New
York newspaper are the following
expressions: "CIOver-kicking con-
stables" "great bank robbisters,"
"hickaboola whistle-stops," "clay-
pigeoned by the village barber"
and clowns and weedbenders. All
these, though startling, seem intel
ligible except "hickadoola whistle
stops" What are they? A weed
bender must be a hick. "Robbister"
for robber-if that is what it means
seems to be intended to promote
the thief to a higher social guide
something new and newly honor
able in the predatory hierarchy
Boston Transcript.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10

The practice Of beginning the
civil day at midnight dates back to
Roman times, both the Romans and
the Egyptians having this custom.
The Babylonians began the day at
sunrise, the Jews and the Greeks
at sunset. With the growth of the
Roman empire the Roman day be-
came almost universal. The period
known as the Ozark ages" prob
ably because it was Overshadowed
by the splendOr of the Roman EN-
pire preceding it and by the learn
ing of the Renaissance period fol-
lowing it, began with the fall of
the Roman empire, in 475 A. D.,
and ended with the discovery of
the Pandects, or compilation of Ro-
man laws, at Amalfi, in 1877. Some
writer's extend the Dark ages or
the Middle ages to about the 1850.
Thousands of copies of William
Tyndale's English translation of
the New Testament wsre burned
by the ecclesiastical authorities in
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10

where the banners OF Guienne fut-
tered on the ridge.
Tartans waved and bagpipes
screamed defiance as Montcalm
waited for reinforcements which
never came, and the bushes and
knOlls and cornfields were taken
by fifteen hundred Canadians and
Indians whose guns answered with
a roar. Back and forth the battle
ragged, and France began to
crumble.
Then came ten o'clock.
Something must have broken in
Montcalm'S heart. His judgment
wavered, and he gave the fatal
command which raised England to
the supremacy of the world.
The French had formed with
bayonets fixed in five short, thick
lines. four white and one blue; the
English stood with double-shotted
guns in a long, siX-iOinted thin red
line. Level ground lay between.
Had England advanced, history
might have written itself different
ly. But England waited France
advanced.
Jeems went with her. He was
already hit. a shot had caught
him in the shoulder, and blood
ran down his arm and dripped
from his fingers. He felt no pain,
but a sIumberous feeling was
creeping over him as he staggered
on with the lines. He saw. Mont
calm ride along the front of his
men, cheering them on to victory;
he noted the gOld-embroidered
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
Crowded China

The area of the whole territory
of the republic of China is 4,277,-
600 square miles, with a population
of 4OO,SOO,OOO, giving the popula-
ton per square mile about 80.
However, this is hardly an indica-
ton of the great density of popu-
lation in some parts of China prop
er. For instance, the province of
Kiangsu, with 33,7OO,0O0 people in
an area of $4,000 square miles, has
density of 874 persons to a square
mile and is the most densely popu-
lated political unit in the world.
japan with an area of 1896
square miles and a population OF
approximately 62,940,O0O has a
density of population of 423 per-
sons per square mile.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
Father of Canning"

To an Italian priest, Father Spal-
lanzani, goes credit for first an
nouncing the principle of preserv-
ing foods by using heat, DR.. Henry
NJ. LOomis, research director of
the National Gamers association,
said not long ago.
A Frenchman, Nicholas Appert,
first employed the heat process in
1895. The true father of the can
ming industry, however, was the
French physicist, Louis Pasteur,
according to Doctor LoOmis. Pas.
tours pioneer work in bacteriology
laid the foundation for all modern
canning fOrmulas.-Detroit News.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10

green coat he wore, the polished
cuirass at his breast, the white
linen of his wristband, and he
heard his voice as he asked, Don't
you want little rest before you
begin?" The answer, Were never
tired before a battle !" rose about
him. Jeems lips framed the words
which were repeated like increas-
ing blasts in storm. But the
sun was growing less bright to his
eyes.
An advance of forty or fifty
PAGES, then pause, another ad-
vance, another pause, in the way
regulars fought at that time on fiat
and open battlefields, and Jeems
measured the distance between
himself and the red line of the
British. At each halt he fired with
his comrades, then loaded and ad-
vanced. The red line had broken
precedent. 1t made no move to
play its part in the prescribed rou-
tine of war, and continued TO stand
like a wall. Openings came in it
where crimson blOtches sank to
the ground, but those who re-
mained were unmOved and stead
fast as they waited with their
double-shOtted guns. A tremor ran
through the French, thickening
of mems breaths, a quickening of
their heartbeats, a crumbling un-
der strain, while the melody of the
bell stole softly over the Plains
of Abraham.
They halted again less than a
hundred PAGES away, and still Eng
lands thinning line did not fire.
A man close to Jeems laughed as
if nerves had cracked inside his
head. Another gasped as if he had
been struck. Jeems tried to hold
himself erect. The weird sensa-
tion came over him that the
armies were not going to fight
after all
Then he heard his name. 1t was
his mother calling him. He an
swered with a cry and would have
swayed toward her If hands had
not dragged him back. "Madw he
heard a voice say. He dropped
his gun as he tried to wipe the
blindness from his eyes. Things
cleared. There were the red line.
the open space, sunlight-some-
thing passing. Those who lived
did not forget what they saw. Eng
land took the story home with her,
France gave it a little place in
her history. For a few seconds
men were not looking at death but
at dog. An old, decrepit dog
who limped as he walked, a dog
with one foot missing.
Jeems made an effort to call.
"Odd-Odd-"
Then came Montcalm's command
FORWARD -
He marched with the others in
to the jaws of death, blind, CROP
ing, straining to make the dog hear
words which never passed his lips.
There was no longer a day. No
sun. No red wall before him. But
his ears still caught the tramp of
feet and the melody of the bell.
These died in roar, the roar of
dOuble-shotted guns. England fired
at forty PAGES, and France went
down in a shapeless mass of dead.
With the front line fell ,Jeems.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
Provide for the Birds

Pheasants and other birds do not
attack melons, tomatoes and ber-
ries because they have a particular
liking for them, but because fruits
and vegetables contain water which
slakes their thirst, California game
officials have discovered 1t is not
necessary to use rifle or shotgun to
keep the birds away from fruit and
vegetable crops if containers with
water are placed at convenient
points where pheasants and other
feathered species are found in
abundance. the officials report.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
Nickname That Stuck

In about 1881 President Garfield
appointed a man by the name of
Robertson as collector of the port
of New York At that time there
were two factions in the Republi-
can party, and one of these fac
tions opposed the appointment of
this man. Roscoe Conkling and
Thomas H. Platt were both sena-
tors from New York. Senator
Conkling protested and fought
against this appointment. Senator
Platt merely agreed with his col
league. Thomas Mast, who was
famous cartoonist at that time, in
his cartoons labeled Senator Platt
as "Me Too" The nickname stuck.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
Calls for Careful Planning

The problem of launching a great
modern ship is no mean problem,
consisting in shifting a weight of
some thousands of tons down to
the water over a length of several
hundred feet by means of innumer-
able pieces of wood and some hun.
dredweights of soft soap and tai.
low
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
Custom of Beginning Day at Midnight
Goes Back to Romans and Egyptians

England and Scotland between the
years 1926, and 1886. The bishop
of London burned some of these
at st. Paul's. The reason assigned
was Tyndale's heretical opinions.
Tyndale himself, often called the
"Father of the King James Ver-
sion of the Bible" was burned as a
hereto in 1536.-Detroit News.