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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02
BRING CHECK CHARGES

Before Monte Carlo Court.
By United Press
MONTE CARLO, Feb. 2-Gus-
tave Myers of New York was sum-
moned today to appear before the
Monte Carlo tribunal on Feb. II to
answer charges of issuing checks
for $4,000 which the bank refused
to honor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02
SHOCK FATAL TO WIFE
Succumbs to Heart Attack 8 Hours
After Husbands Death.

After Husbands Death.
BIZ United Press
WINTHROP, Mass, Feb. 2.-Less
than eight hours after her 86-year-
old husbands death of pneumonia,
Mrs. John coleman, II, suffered a
fatal heart attack. They had been
married fty-eight years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02
Jazz King and
Wife Separate
By United Press

NEW YORK, Feb. Paul
Whiteman, famous jazz leader,
and his second wife. Wanda
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02
FALL ON ICE FATAL
Henry NJ. Robertson, SIS, Succumbs
to Injuries Received Dec. "a.

Injuries received Dec. "a. when
he fell on ice proved fatal late
Sunday to Henry NJ. Robertson, SIS,
of 66 North Ritter avenue. He died
at city hospital.
Mr.. Robertson is survived by the
widow Mrs. Roseann Robertson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02

DON'T wear short and fiinasy
clothing ON cold days.
Dress for the weather and ward
off colds and flu Read what DR..
Morris Fishbein has to ten you
In The Times, starting Friday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02
Hourly Temperatures
A NDREw BROWN speaking,
n president of the Fresh-Air

4 n president Of the FreSh-Air
taxi Shot, Sho! i.
Lemme see :. =. The sliding rule
say ives eight minus OATS
a mess"
And sure enough Andrew
Brown" and all the other Browns
of the world are in a mess" today
and eight minus because Of a
news photo and the detection of
"RropEaie" Brown, fire-dog at NO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02
BOY DIES UNDER ICE
Father Saves Playmate, but Unable
to Rescue Own Son, 5.

By Lftted PTess
TOLEDO, Feb. 2.-David Brad
dock, IL, Perrysburg, o., rescued
William O'Brien, 7-year-old son Of
friend who was visiting him, from
beneath the ice CT the Maumee river
here, but was unable to save his own
son, Norman, 5. Two boys had ven
tured out on the ice in a toy auto.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02
BANK OFFICIAL. IS HELD

Arrested for Failure to Testify on
Gambling With Borrowed Cash.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Joseph
BrownStone, a director of the closed
Bank Of United States, was arrested
today when he refused to say before
the public hearing conducted by
Max Steuer, special deputy attor-
ney-general, whether he had gam
bled with money borrowed from the
bank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02

Mrs. Whiteman atrical cir
Giles, have parted amicably and
may attempt reconciliation in
a few weeks, it was said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02
Ex-STAR TO BE MOTHER
Child Expected in June by Esther
RaIstOn, Former Film Queen.

By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. Esther
Ralston, screen star of the silent"
days, admitted today that she is
expecting a child some time in June.
She and her husband, George Webb,
contemplate trip to Europe be-
fore then. They have been mar
ried five years and have no chill
dren.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02


Hof, stage
dancer, have
S e p a rated,
attorne ys
said today.
The couple,
long regard
ed as one of
the m os t
happily mar
ried in the
afripaT pir.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Frown on Lion Hunters
Killing From Airplanes

Hunting lions from airplanes is
distinctly out, in all parts of Africa
where the British writ rules. The
open veldt of the great African game
country offers great possibilities for
country cOursing in autOmO-
biles, and easy landing for airplanes.
Hence, sportsmen have been rather
overshOoting lions. This is regarded
as bad for several reasons. 1t threat
ems the sport with extinction, but
spOrtsmen are joined in their anXi-
ETY. by biologists, who do not wish
to see another splendid wild animal
added to the list of extinct species.
COnservatiOnists and animal ecolo-
giSts also see in the lion a useful
regulator for the numbers of ante
lOpe and other grazing animals,
which without some natural check
might increase too rapidly and over
Craze the range. Only in thickly
populated districts, where lions be-
come troublesome stock killers and
potential menaces to human life, is
eXterminative hunting tolerated.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18

for relatively small areas. In the
days Of Ptolemy the geOgrapher, in
the Second century A. D., longitude
was reckOned from Rhodes, logically
enough, for that island of the east
ern Mediterranean had been the
commercial and maritime center of
the world for centuries. Paris and
other capital cities marked the zero
meridian for their own countries for
long time, but slowly the use of
Greenwich spread, and has now be-
come practically world wide.
American longitude was ex-
pressed in terms of degrees east or
west of Washington until after the
laying of the transatlantic cables.
Until electrical signals could be
sent from Greenwich to the New
world it was impossible to tie the
longitude of European points and
American points together with alb
sOlute accuracy. While Washing
ton served as the American zero
meridian, many of the western state
boundaries were established. 1t is
for this reason that the boundary
lines between Colorado and Utah,
and between Wyoming, Idaho and
Oregon will be seen on a map of
the United States to fail by small
distance to coincide with the merid-
ian lines west of Greenwich"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
HOLD
ON EASTERN MIND

Astrology, which is as clearly one
of the oldest of superstitions as as
tronomy is the Oldest of the sciences,
appears to have reached it's climax
in the West in the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth centuries, when its posi-
tiOn was one of great honor and i'm
pOrtance in the courts of Europe.
But the combined effect of the Co
pernican astronomy, the RefOrma-
tion, and the Renaissance was to
sap its foundations, and after the
middle of the Seventeenth century it's
decline was rapid and unchecked.
In the East, however, which was
its real home, and where Copernicus
counted for little and Luther for
nothing, it has had a far longer life
and a far stronger hold, and doubt
less has wide vogue still. In Egypt,
India, China, and Chaldea it was the
subject of elaborate study and high
honor almost from the dawn of his
tory.
The special eminence of Chaldea
in this department Is attested by the
Bible when it tells US of Daniels
appointment by Nebuchadnezzar as
master of the magicians, astrolo-
gers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers."
And it is a probable conjecture that
the wise men from the East VIII, fol-
lowed the star to Bethlehem some
five centuries later were magi and
astrologers from Chaldea.
If, after the lapse of 10 more cen
turies this strange hybrid of science
and superstition which flourished so
vigorously under the clear skies of
the plains of Shinar still retains
much of it's ancient power, the fact
is not to be attributed solely to the
conservatism of what till the last
few years really was an unchanging
East. While in the West religion has
helped science to discredit astrology,
its hold upon the East has appar-
emily been strengthened by the great
religious reformation which now
claims more than 2OO,0OO,OOO adher-
ents.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
SLOW TO CHANGE
NAMES OF CITIES
Americans Not Prone to Make
Alterations.

Since the nonstop aviators from
this country landed by the Golden
Horn it has dawned ~ most of US
for the first time that the Turks have
been changing the name of their
great metropolis. We may have
heard of Stamboul, but never
dreamed we would have to say
Istanbul. We learned of it as Con-
stantinople, the name the Romans
gave to what the Greeks called By
zantium, and in our secret thoughts
it probably always will be COnstan-
tinOple.
After the fall. of the Russian mon
archy st. Petersburg became Petro-
grad, only to be later sovietized as
Leningrad, all of which was to be
expected from the mania of the Boil
sheviks for uprOOting everything
connected with the old regime.
Then the Norwegians changed the
name of Christiania to Oslo, that of
the old national capital across the
bay. China followed the fashion,
and when the capital of the repub-
lie was transferred to Marking, Pc
king became Peiping.
In spite of our reputation for
change the United States has dis
played a surprising permanence in
this respect. Our urban nOmencla-
ture, derived not only from the Eng
lish, the French, the Spanish and
the Indians, but from the classics
and any other stray books that
might have been read by our more
lettered city founders, has persisted
with little modification. Sometimes
the names were difficult of pronoun-
citation or Calculated to inspire lev
ity, but the original christening has
generally held. We might have re-
named New Orleans for Thomas
Jefferson or st. Augustine for An
drew Jackson, as the English altered
the name of New Amsterdam to New
York when they drove out the Dutch.
During the war we even resisted the
patriotic pressure to give the capital
of North Dakota name less sug-
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18

gestive of Germanism, though we
yielded on the point of sauerkraut, at
least for the duration of hOstilities.
But Bismarck remained Bismarck.
and sauerkraut again became sauer-
kraut after a spell as liberty cab
oage." However it may satisfy the eX-
igencies Of natiOnalism or local poll
tics, we hope for the sake of our
hard-learned store of geographical
knowledge that other countries. too,
will leave their city names as they
are.-New York Herald Tribune.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Americans Murder for
Gain, Says Criminologist

Pittsburgh. = Native-born Ameri-
can whites murder for money; ne
groes for jealousy; Latin country
immigrants for revenge or because
of alcoholism, says DR.. Giovanni
Giardini, lecturer at the University
of Pittsburgh.
Doctor Giardini, a noted crimiriol-
ogist, has just completed a psyche
logical study of killers in Western
penitentiary here. He has been i'm
pressed by the trivial motives for
many murders.
Mental states. superinduced by
disease. especially by epilepsy, can
frequently be blamed for murders
where the apparent motive is sur
prisingly petty. he says.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Powerful Guns Shoot Is Miles

of the battleship California % miles
away.
A development of the 1920 army
gun and the old navy 14-inch rail-
way gun that was used in France
during the World war, the new piece
of artillery weighs 10000 pounds
with carriage, has a maximum range
of 1900 yards with an initial We
locity of 1900 feet a second, and
maximum elevation of so degrees,
as compared with about 81 degrees
in the old gun.
The new gun traverses without
moving its carriage, whereas the old
pieces had to be mounted on
curved track and swung around to
change direction.
Each Shot Costs $500.
Using a projectile weighing 1900
pounds, it costs $500 every time
one of these giants is fired. Built
in the carriage is power plant,
consisting of a 125-horse power en-
gine directly coupled to a 50-kilo-
watt generator, which furnishes
power for motors that raise and
lower the mount, operate power and
shot cranes, elevate and depress the
gun, turn the mount around on it's
base, and furnish air for closing the
breech and for blowing out bases
after firing.
Because Of its heavy weight in
travelling the gun and locomotive
must be separated by three to eight
gondola cars to prevent the two
heaviest weights crossing a bridge
at the same time.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
The Election Bet

Former Mayor Thompson was talk
ing to a Chicago reporter about the
city's empty treasury.
Its unique" he said "The rich
city of Chicago is in as queer a fix
as the chap in the hatter's.
"a chap in a hatter's, after he'd
tried on nearly every hat in the
place, said he wanted a finer, softer
quality of felt.
"'But this line the halter said, is
really very superior, sir You really
can't do better than this
"The chap examined the hat again.
"'No,' he said. It's not tender
enough. You see. I've got to eat
it. Detroit Free Press.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
n nTFkRT0 Booklet free. Highest references
DM HIM " Best results. Promptness as
IN sured. WATSON K. COLEMAN Patent
@ASb ~ Lawyer, 724 9th st.. Washington d. c,
Telling the Neighbors

The Browns had had their house
painted and reshingled. Mrs. Brown,
on the receipt of the bill, remarked
to a neighbOr: every time wish we
were going away for the summer 1
walk around my house and this is
my vacation"
Sometime later six-year-old Joan
was overheard eXcitedly telling her
younger brother:
do you know where we're going
this summer? We're gonna walk
around our house in a circle and
look at it. That's our vacation.
Mother said so."-Chicago Tribune.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Million Dollar Note to Bear
Crawford's Portrait.

Washington. - The portrait and
name Of William H. Crawford will
soon appear on the 'most valuable
steel engravings the world has ever
seen or probably ever will see.
The engravings will be limited
distribution. They are being pre-
pared by the bureau of engraving
and printing of the United States
treasury.
For those who may not recognize
the name of William H. Crawford
1t may be stated that he was Sec
retary of the treasury in the last
year James Madison was President
and remained over for service un-
der James Monroe.
Monroe, in fact, barely defeated
him in the congressional caucus to
nominate a Presidential candidate.
Born in Virginia but reared in Geor-
gia, Crawford was a leading figure
in national affairs when they were
things of great spirit. Besides be-
ing a senator, secretary of war and
the treasury and envoy to several
foreign countries he found time to
engage in personal and political
disputes which led to at least two
deulS, in one of which he killed
his opponent and in the other of
which bn u-oS
Above the portrait and signature
of Crawford on the certificate there
will appear these words: This GER
titles that there has been deposited
in the treasury of the United
States of America" and off to the
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Short Note Arrives
Late for Romance

Princeton, Ind.-A romance which
had its beginning during the World
war brought its first result recently,
but faded almost as rapidly as it
came to light.
When Miss Anna May Miller was
employed in the Jeffersonville Ond.)
government quartermaster depot,
she wrote her name and address on
a slip of paper and pinned it to a
shirt which she had made.
Recently letter came from a SOL
dier stationed in Hawaii, who had
received the shirt, answering her
letter. But it's writer is now Mrs.
Harvey Deering and mother of three
children.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Zero Mile Post Is at Greenwich

1t is no longer used as a hospital,
but serves now as the Royal Naval
college where Britain's naval officers
are trained.
"Greenwich was once even more
famous than Westminster and Win
sor are today as the home of Brit
ish royalty. On parts of the sites
of the Naval college and school was
situated 'Placentia,' the favorite pal
ace of British kings during the lat
ter part of the Fifteenth century,
the Sixteenth, and half of the Sew
enteenth.
The Greenwich observatory was
established in 1878 under Charles
ii and placed in the old palace
grounds, now Greenwich park.
Greenwich observatory now com
bines some of the functions of the
American Naval observatory, bureau
of standards and weather bureau
1t is responsible for the correction
of British time. Each day at one
O'Clock p. m. the time ball falls from
a staff on the observatory, and cleo
trio signals are sent out by tele-
graph and wireless.
Zero Post Since 1884.
Greenwich has been the worlds
official marking point for the zero
meridian of longitude only since
1884 as a result of the Washington
meridian conference. Since longi-
tUde was invented numerous zero
meridians have been in use, usually
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Precision of Rifle.
Try to Cash One of These Bills if You Can

side and below the portrait will be
the awe-inspiring words lone mil
lion dollars"
That's the trick in the small and
exclusive distribution of the engrav-
ings. There will be only 500 of them
engraved and issued, but their total
$500, 900, 0,0O0-would be a stagger-
ing amount for Crawford or Madi-
son or Monroe to contemplate.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Grasshopper Mummies
Found in Yellowstone

Observation-Disclosures older than
those of the Pharaohs are to be
found in great numbers near Yel-
lOwstOne park, it was revealed by
acting director Cammerer of the ma
tional park service. Instead of be-
ing the remains of kings, however,
they are the bodies of swarms of
grasshopperS that were buried in
the snow before the glaciers were
formed in that region. The insects,
are perfectly preserved.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Ohio Lake Resort
Boasts of Monster

Canton, Ohio.-Congress lake, a
resort near here, claims a water
monster called "Amphibio." which
has eluded capture efforts for many
years.
Residents near the lake say "Am-
phibio" is an ancient and monster
turtle which at times browses among
the lily pads near the shore and
again is seen swimming vigorously
to the center of the lake.
Several times he has been caught
by fishermen, but each time he has
freed himself. Some have ventured
that "Amphibio' weighs as much as
100 pounds. He is said to have been
in the little lake almost $50 years.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
New u. S. Artillery for
Panama Canal Defense.

WaShington.-A battery of IA
inch railway guns capable of scor-
ing hits on moving vessels % miles
away and said to be the most pow
erful artillery yet developed for
American armed forces is now an eff
fective part of the defense of the
Panama canal, supplementing the
fixed 16-inch guns there.
The guns are so mounted they
may be hauled from one side of the
isthmus to the other, set up and
made ready for firing within six
hours. Heretofore the 14-inch guns
at the canal have not been NOV
able.
Precision of Rifle.
Outranging the longest 16-inch
battleship guns in the world by six
miles, the new railway gun fires with
the precision of a rifle. In recent
practice out of II shots fired the
battery scored a hit on the forward
turret of moving target the size
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Center for Figuring Longi-
tude Since 1884.

WashingtOn.-Gr2e observa-
tory, England, most widely known
of the worlds stations for observ-
ing the stars and marking out time,
is TO have a large new telescope
that will put it more nearly on a
par with its less famous but more
efficient competitors, according to
news dispatches from London.
Greenwich is an unpretentious
borough patch of London" says a
bulletin from the. National Geo
graphic society, but it has world
Importance in spite Of itself. On
practically every map and globe
that is published the longitude
lines conspire to bring into prom
inence this community on the south
bank of the Thames, two and a
half miles below London bridge.
Nearly every country in the world,
and practically every ship that sails
the seas describes its position as so
many degrees east or west of Green
wich; for though the center of the
dome Of Greenwich observatory
runs the worlds generally accepted
zero meridian.
Her Nautical Flavor.
Fronting the deep waters of the
lower Thames, Greenwich has al
ways had a nautical flavor. AS early
as 1011 an invading Danish fleet
made its base at Grenevic, as the
place was then called. Through the
centuries it has become more and
more associated with British naval
affairs. The towns outstanding
building is the great Naval hospital
designed by Sir Christopher Wren,
and considered one of the finest
creations of that famous architect.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Veteran Smithy Adds
Garage to His Shop

East Kingston, n. H.-With the
rise of motor vehicle popularity in
recent years, many village smithy
has gone out of business. But Joe
Lawrence seems to have solved this
problem very nicely. For many
years a blacksmith, he now op-
crates a combination garage and
blacksmith shop, catering to both
motorists and horsemen as they
come along.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
Deaf Mute Invents
Devices to Aid Others

Cambridge, Mass.-William E.
Shaw, himself deaf mute, has in
vented "a devices intended to make
life easier for those who cannot see
or hear.
Among his inventions is a "talk-
les" telephone, noiseless doorbell,
a silent alarm clock and a type
writer which spells words in electric
lights.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
This Machine Age

Studies of how machinery causes
unemployment by replacing man pow
er have been made from time to
time during the past fifty years. The
latest study of this kind, made for
Golfers Weekly, reveals a razor
blade machine which takes the place
of 800 men, and a railroad switch
ing device which supersedes 16S
men. Machines have now displaced
o out of 10 shoe workers, it is
shown.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
More Than a Hint

81 think the radio is lots of COM
pany," declared the auditors wife.
YES" nodded the tired hostess,
sand you don't find it standing in
the doorway an hour before saying
goodnight, either"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18

There are no new dances If there
were, they would appear in the
movies,
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18

Youth thinks it can always easily
make new friends, and later finds
out differently.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-18
"Painless Extraction"
Applied to Dentist

New York.-Bending over a
youthful patient and exam
ming a tooth preparatory to
extracting it, DR.. NJ. V. Sach-
aroff found himself looking
down the muzzle of a revOl-
yer. Meanwhile the youths
assistant extracted" S21 in
cash and S13O in jewelry and
dental gold from Doctor Sach-
aroff's office.
painless extraction, eh,
Doc?" the boys said as they
left.
I.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-29
Crash of Airplane
Causes Revelation
Nearing Wedding
Miss Alicia Patterson,
Daughter Of Publisher,
Lent Fiance Her Ship.
ny shs Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press
NEW YORK, October 2e.--Tbe crash
Of Miss Alicia Patterson's airplane near
South Bend. Ind. yesterday while II
vas being plI0ted by Joseph W. Brooks
OF New York led today TO the revelation
that Miss Patterson and Brooks are
engaged. and are % Be- married this
Winter "
Miss Patterson Ii touring Europe in
company with Mrs. Alton A. Brody,
daughter Of Irwin O. Gpbb.. Brooks has
been using her plans while she y away.
Re was bound Tor New YORK from Chi
caro- vestsrtay wiaen he was forced
down by motor failure near Metre Dame
University A gust Of wind tossed the
plane against tree a. hMaiAnded. and
the craft caught fire. Brooks was hurt
slightly.
Miss Patters0nss plane lee 20 inquiries
which were followed early today by an
nouncenent I'm the New York Daily
News-publisfed by Joseph Medfll Pat
terson. the young womanis father-of
the engagement.
Miss Patterson and Jarnss Simpson,
jr.-son OF the president Of Marshall
Field g. Co. Of Chicago--were divorced
last year.
Brooks was college track. hockey,
tennis and foot ball star about "a years
ago, the News said He played tackle
on the williams and Colgate teams.
During the war he was captain OF the
i05th Machine Gun Company Of the
42d Division, seeing active service In
France.
Miss Patterson and Brooks met at
Roosevelt Field, Long Island, finding q
mutual interest in aviation.