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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
DEPRESSION is
TURNING MANY
TO INVENTING
Thousands More New De-
vices Are Registered Than
in Days Of Prosperity.
BY HARRY FERGUSON
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-Things
being the way they are these days,
more and more of our fellow coun-
trymen are turning to inventing.
Most Of them seem to be working
on bottle openers and indestructible
buttons, although baby carriages are
getting a good run.
The federal patent office reported
today that 1905 patents were issued
last month, and in 1881 a total of
51,766 applications we're granted.
That was an increase Of more
than 10000 over the days Of 1927,
when a fellow was busy clipping
coupons.
Musical Traffic Signal
Every year since the depression,
there has been an increasing num-
Der of patents granted.
1t is painful to report that most
Of our inventors are rank material
lists, interested only in perfecting
some device that will bring in
money.
An exception is the esthetic
dreamer who has patented a mu-
steal trsffical signal.
The bottle-openers kept abreast
OF the times. This is a political
year and a well-informed inventor
has turned out an opener that is an
elephant Republican symbol. His
tusks throw the cap off the bottle.
The sporting world is represented
by baseball, the cork core of which
is off-center. Throw it TO a friend
and it will dip, squirm and prob
ably hit him on the head.
Combination Brush-C Comb
Take the combination comb and
brush, for instance. Gone are the
days when you comb your hair, then
brush it, Some benefactor of the
human race has built a device
whereby you comb and brush at one
time.
Steel shirt buttons are advanced
as the solution TO the problem of
what to do when the button breaks.
They won't break, won't stain and
won't rip the shirt.
Smokers have not been neglected.
The problem of where to put
cigaret ashes has been with us since
Sir Walter Raleigh first inhaled.
We'll, an inventor solved it. On
the end of an ordinary cigaret hold
er he has attached a small, light
ash tray. Just nod your head
snappily and plump, into the tray
go the ashes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
Some Like Hoover'S Ideas,
and Others String
With Garner.

How many fish should fisher
man catch?
How should a fisherman dress
when he goes angling?
What kind of bait should he use?
President Hoover and Jack Gar
ner, Democratic vice-president
nominee, differ radically on these
questions. What's your candid
opinion, Mr.. indianapolis fisher
man?
Let's hear from you, The best
letter will win a prize that'n be use
full to any fisherman, Keep your
letter short and we'll print as many
of them as we can.
Here are the views Of three
anglers:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
WATSON WILL
STAY IN STATE
FOR CAMP AIGN
Old Supporters Missing at
G. O. P. Get Together
at Winona Lake.
BY BEN STERN

By BIN SIEkN
The king bee of Indiana politics
comes home Tuesday, to remain in
the state during the campaign.
Senator James E. Watson made a
flying visit into Hoosierland Friday,
when he attended the Second dis
trict Republican rally at Winona
Lake, but it was not "home-com-
ing, as of yore.
Republican politicians of the state
gave him a a welcome, but it was
not like old times, as the sena-
tor looked through the crowd and
failed to perceive NJ. Bert Thurman.
Plenty of Small-time politicians
were present, but none of the big
shots.
Thurman Is Absent
Thurman was at home in Inoian-
apolis nursing hurts received when
Watson double crossed him for the
Governor nomination.
Neither was Charles w. Jewett,
former mayor of Indianapolis. pres
ent, remembering that in 1928 some
one assured him that "Jim's going
down the line for you for the Gov
ernor nomination.
Nor was present Arthur Gilliom,
former encouragement, who
friends of Watson said in 1923
had chance to cop the senatorial
nomination from Arthur R. Rob-
inson.
Lieutenant Governor Edgar D.
Bush, also was among the absent.
Relying on the promise that Watson
would not interfere in the conven-
ton this year, Bush went in to make
his bid for Governor. He now be-
lieves that John Owen of Nobles-
vile, Watson's messenger boy, car
ried the word for Raymond S.
Springer.
Others Also Missing
Absent were the other Republican
leaders whose political bones mark
the road trod by Watson through
the many years he fought to return
to Capitol hill.
But among those who greeted the
senator effusively were E. E. Neal,
internal revenue collector, Robin
sons man; Oliver Loomis, United
States district attorney for northern
Indiana, Robinsons nan; Federal
Judge Thomas Slick, Robinson's
man; and a dozen or more others
who swear fealty to the junior SEN
ator
Henry Marshall, Lafayette pub
Usher, was there, but even the
most optimistic can not say that he
is Watson's friend. Many recalled
how, in 1928, Marshall wanted to be
national committeeman, and Watson
turned him down.
Thomas May Be Manager
Only one old-timer stood forth to
greet jim as pal-Ernest B.
Thomas of RushWlle-Who at Wat
sons solicittion several weeks ago
was appointed by President Hoover
to the federal farm board.
Thomas, for several ye4rs manager
of the federal farm loan board bank
in Puerto Rico, turned down the
new appointment because of illness
in his family.
Watson probably will announce
soon that Thomas will manage his
campaign
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
GUARD DEADLY STREETS
Forty Eight Unemployed Men En-
gagged for School Safety Program.

Adoption of a more comprehensive
school safety program was seen to-
day with announcement by the
Chamber OF Commerce made work
committee and school officials of
employment of forty-eight men to
guard dangerous street crossings.
Under the plan TO become effective
with opening of schools Sept. 6, the
Jobless men will cooperate with
police to protect lives of school
pupils.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
HEARINGS ON POWER
WILL BE RESUMED
Federal Trade Commission to Go
on With Gas, Electric Probe.

By Scripps-HOIc0rd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2s.-The
federal trade commission will be-
gin what may be its last year of
hearings in the probe of electric
and gas utilities on Sept. Is.
Two months ago hearings were
suspended for the summer while
accountants should continue their
work of examining utility company
books.
This work has been slowed down
by decreased appropria-
tons for the commission, but of
flcials still hope it can be COM
pleted by the end of the fiscal year,
June 30.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
By NEA Servfce

By NEA SerUfco
THE woman who %SS hailed a
Il few years ago as the most
beautiful blond in the movies"
today stands accused as a love
pirate" faced by suit for $780,
600 by the wife of the man whose
affections she is alleged to have
stolen.
Whether Claire Windsor, film
star whose graceful beauty once
captiyated millions of movie-goers,
must pay this price to Mrs. Mar
ian Y. Read for the lost love of
her husband, Alfred G. Read Jr.
is a question pending before the
courts of Oakland, Cal, where
Mrs. Reads alienation suit is on
file.
Moreover, Mrs. Read has sued
her husband for divorce, naming
Miss Windsor as correspondent,
The former movie queen, the
29-year-old San Francisco stock
broker, and his socially prominent
wife form the three points in this
Pacific coast love triangle" inter
est in which has been revived by
the Libby Holman Smith Reyn-
olds- Alb" Walker drama in North
Carolina.
CLAIRE WINDSOR'S famous
~ beauty-hair like golden sun
shine, eyes of deepest blue and
features like those of a Dresden
china doll-had been pretty we'll
forgotten until last March when
Mrs. Read filed her 100000 suit.
Then those whose memory goes
back to the days of the silenJ
films remembered Miss Windsor
for her successful roles in such
bygone pictures as Fools First,
Brothers Under the Skin" Cap
tain Lash" and "Midstream.
They remembered, too, that she
had been the wife of Bert Lytell,
that she and Lytell had eloped to
Mexico in 1925 and that about a
couple of years later this union
had come to the parting of the
ways, as so many movie marriages
do.
Then Claire had faded out of
the picture into the forgotten lin
DO of ex-stars.
CUDDENLY Claire Windsor's
~ name came back in to the
news. She was playing in Al
Jolson's Wonder Bar at San
Francisco when officers served on
her the papers in Mrs. Reads
100000 suit.
Mrs. Read charged that the IA
nous blond beauty stole the af-
fections of Mr.. Read, prominent
stock broker and former Univer-
Sity of California athlete.
Mrs. Read charged that her
husband was constantly in the
company" of Miss Windsor when
he was in Los Angeles, ''suppo-
Sedly on business"
She declared the actress had
pursued "a course of conduct CAL
culated to win his love" Almost
simultaneously, she filed the di-
vorce suit naming Miss Windsor
as correspondent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
STEAMERS DESTROYED
Loss Is 100000 as Flames Sweep
Waterfront.
By United Press

IVTFtTt 7 TV0N
SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. %
More than twenty river steamers
were destroyed at their docks Sun
day in a spectacular fire that swept
more than four blocks along the
waterfront.
Damage was estimated at more
than 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
Kills Self in Hospital
By United Press

bt Jhued PfesS
LEBANON. Ind. Aug. 29.-Albert
D. Telon, so. committed suicide by
drinking poison in his room at a
hospital here during the absence of
his nurse. He had struggled the
poison into the hospital after a trip
to Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
TEXT BOOKS PRICES ARE
SLASHED AT BUTLER
Students to Benefit by Cut of 10
Per Cent.

Butter university students will
save several thousand dollars dur
ing the coming school year by cut
of 10 per cent in text book prices
announced today by c. w. Wilson,
university secretary.
In addition, Wilson announced
that the university bookstore will
open a department for secondhand
books which will mean more saving
for the students.
Last year, Butler students spent
$4,000 for books. Saving to the
students from the 10 per cent cut
will be $500, Wilson said Saving
from the purchase of secondhand
books can not be estimated.
In another report, Wilson stated
the university spent $6O7,911 during
the fiscal year, ending July l. More
than 90 per cent of that amount
was spent locally.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29

"Why, the very ideal" exclaimed
Claire. Il never lured any man
away from his wife and never eX-
pect to.
"Of course, know Mr.. Read;
I was introduced to him by Louis
Epstein, AL Jolson's manager, but
I don't know why all this fuss
should be made over my know
ing him.
Honestly I don't know what
it is all about; it has me f1abber-
gasted or f1oundered, or some
thing like that"
VERY adroitly, Mrs. Read OBJ
' tanned letters that Claire had
written to her husband and
pictures showing them in friendly
poses. She submitted the pictures
as proof of her contentious.
And so, in July, when Claire
Windsor was called upon to make
a deposition under oath, it is said
she admitted she had loved" Mr..
Read, but denied alternating his
affections.
Roy Hudson, attorney for Mrs.
Read, said that Claire admitted
writing the letters and quoted her
as having said in the deposition
Eyes, I wrote those letters. I
was very fond of Mr.. Read then.
In fact, you might say loved him.
But I had no idea I was coming
between him and his wife.
I had no desire to break up
anybody's home. I thought Mr..
Read and his wife had separated,
and he led me to believe that"
Whereupon Mrs. Read COM
mented. Miss Windsor has adj
mitted just exactly what have
said in my suit"
MIDWAY between the filling of
1V1 the suit and Claires deposit
ton came an exciting episode.
In May, Mrs. Read had her hus-
band arrested on a charge that he
had kidnapped her at the point Of
a gun.
She told Oklahoma police that
he had abducted her from the
home of friends and, with several
accomplices, driven her to a lone
ly spot in a forest thirty miles
away.
She said she obtained her car
keys and escaped when her hus-
band fell asleep beside the road.
One report had it that recon-
Citation was the purpose of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
SUICIDE POTION FATAL
Mrs. Sarah L. Brit, I, Succumbs
at st. Francis Hospital.

Poison taken last week proved IA
tai TO Mrs. Sarah l.. Brit, 81, of
1458 Union street, resident of the
city all her life, who died early to-
day at st. Francis hospital, Beech
Grove.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 Wednesday at the Lauck fu-
neral home, 1853 South Meridian
street. Place of burial was not an
nounced.
Survivors, in addition to the huS-
band, George Brit, are two sisters
and four brothers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
SoUEALS ARE TIP0FF
Only Native Girls Open Oysters for
Fearls; Can't Keep Still

BV United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. %
Women largely are responsible for
the success of Victor Berge, pearl
baron" of the South seas, he admit
ted during a visit here while EN-
route to Paris.
Only native girls are employed by
Berge to open oysters.
They squeal with delight when
they find a valuable pearl, and that
prevents many priceless pearls from
mysteriously disappearing" he ex-
planned. The squeal is a sure
tipoff."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29

pair event and the contest was
played in three rounds. During the
three sessions every pair met every
other pair.
Charles Lochridge of New York
was the declarer in today's hand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
REAL ESTATE MEN TO
HOLD CELEBRATION

Smoker TO Honor Home Loan Bill
Passage and Minimum Tax Rate.
Passage of the home loan bank
bill in congress and the $3.50 maxi
mum tax rate by the Indiana gen.
eral assembly will be celebrated by
the Indianapolis Real Estate board
tonight at buffet supper and
smoker in the Washington.
Speakers will include Monte L.
Mum, sales manager of the Ogle
Coal Company, and Merritt Fields,
manager of the indianapolis Asso-
citation Of Credit Men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-25
Socialists Plan International Camp
To Create FrancO.Cerman Peace

PARIS.-Latest Of internationalist
ideas is the notion that getting French
and German children together for the
Summer holidays will create genera
ton in which mutual affection will re-
place suspicion and hatred. The
French and German Socialist parties
have built camp near Paris, at Juvisy,
where children of both nationalities
have been hobnobbing for a month
The results, the organizers say. are 20
encouraging that next year there will
be many similar camps on both sides
of the Rhine.
The French do not take readily to
camping, having an Unborn dread Of
Juvisy experiment. though conducted
within half an hour of Paris, attracted
TOO German children and only 200
French. This result somewhat upset
the plans of the organizers, who fully
expected that the French would out
number the Germans.
The prime mover in the scheme was
ex-Deputy Calomon Grumbach. an
Alsatian who served in the German
Reichstag before the war and was
elected to the Chamber Of Deputies
after AlSace was returned to France.
After consultation with German So
cialist leaders Grumbach and his wife
raised fund among the French work.
ers to pay the railroad fares Of the
German workers children to Juvisy.
They leased a plot of ground, set up
tents and provided board at the nomi-
nal price of 40 cents a day.
The Germans came in droves. but 1t
was hard work drumming up French
boarders Grumbach had figured that
there would be great French ma
jority, and that consequently the Ian
guage of the camp would be French.
The German kids were promised
an opportunity to learn the French
language. AS it turned out, however,
the Germans were so much more nu-
merous that their language dominated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-25

and It was the French children who
got the 1ingualistic advantages.
There was at the beginning. for few
days at least. a certain standofishness
as between the two nationalities. but
propinquity soon did its work and fra
termination was the order of the day
as soon as the shyness wore of. The
ages ranged from 10 to IS. with a
sprinkling of elders acting as scout
masters. Before the month was out
most of the French youngsters had q
good working knowledge of German
and the more determined Germans had
a smattering of French.
Without being nudist colony the
camp laid emphasis on simplicity in
dress. Bathing suits were the most
popular costume. Boys as a rule wore
a pair of trunks. girls were dressed in
material. For the most part the Ger
man visitors were sons and daughters
of unemployed workmen who, consider
ing the free railroad transportation and
low price Of board, were able to give
their children a holiday abroad and still
save money.
Citizen Grumbach is already at work
on plans for next year when he hopes
to get enough French children enlisted
to set up several camps in which the
French will be in the majority. His
colleagues in Germany meanwhile are
preparing to offer similar advantages
to French children who want to spend
month in Germany and learn the
language.
Though organized by Socialists and
almost entirely limited to workers chill
dren. the camp does not go in for
political propaganda. M. Grumbach
believes that children are not interested
in politics, particularly at vacation time
But he believes that mingling the chill
dren of the two nations will help to
prevent international misunderstand-
ings and wars in the future.
(Cnnvripht lo2o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-25
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.

- ENEVA.-The time Is rapidly
approaching when the League
T of Nations must take some
~ action in the Far Eastern
crisis.
The report submitted by the Leagues
Commission on the Manchurian issue,
headed by the Earl of Lytton of Great
Britain, is being printed and will be
published on October /. Its contents
reason to believe that it tends to dem
onstrate that Chinese sovereignty over
Manchuria has been violated and
should be restored
In any case, the great powers OF the
League, like Great Britain. can no
longer assert in meetings here that the
smaller powers, which want to main
tain the Leagues principles. are not
all informed regarding the situation in
the Far East, for the Lytton report will
place the facts at everybodys disposal.
If for no other reason than that the
League seemingly will soon be forced
to make up its mind.
1t is now virtually certain that
the American non-recognition policy
whereby territory acquired in viola
ton of treaties will not be recognized)
will be reaffirmed in some way. 1t is
doubtful if in the present circum-
stances any state. except possibly
Russia, will follow Japans lead In rec
ognizing Manchukuo.
Expulsion Is Possibility.
According to one trend Of opinion
here, the combination of non-recogni-
ton and Of prolonged procedure of
not forcing the issue to the breaking
point, but never dropping it, will in the
end either bring Japan to terms or, &C
cording to another belief, cause Japan
to refuse final discussion on the grounds
that the League is incompetent to treat
with this question and thus withdraw
from the League.
But there is still third trend The
suggestion is now being made for the
first time that, rather than prolong the
procedure Indefinitely without result,
rather than wait for Japan to resign
from the League, the best course might
be to invoke the last paragraph of Arti-
Gle XVI of the Covenant and expel ia
pan from the League on the grounds
that it had broken Article x of the
Covenant.
This last trend seems today to be
gaining ground even in unexpected
quarters, for it would relieve certain
powers of heavy responsibilities as well
as at the same time partially restoring
the Leagues lost prestige.
The Lytton report will be handed to
China and Japan at the same time that
it is published. The League Council
meanwhile must deal with China's pro-
test against Japan's recognition Of
Manchukuo and with Japan's request
that, after the report is published, six
weeks shall be allowed to elapse for
study of it before discussion begins.
Will Act on November IA.
Japan, it is intimated, will doubtless
desire to present certain comments and
make certain reservations. To meet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-25
Only 20,925 College Students in China
Out of Supposed 400, 1000 Population

SHANGHAI.-Only about one per-
son out Of $4,000 is receiving q college
education in China today, according to
figures compiled by the Ministry of
Education, which reveal that there are
at present 2o,s25 university students
among this nations alleged 400 millions
OF that number 1874 are man STU
dents, with only 2,161 women.
Tibet and inner Mongolia contribute
only one student each, while Sinkiang,
China's far Turkestan province, has but
two youths receiving advanced educa-
ton. other distant provinces near the
frontiers and lacking modern means Of
transportation are scarcely better repre-
scented. Yunnan, with population of
10 ,O0O, 900, has but "a collegians; Hell
lunkiang, with 100000, has 81;
Kansu, censused as having 100000,
sends only one Of every 100000 Of them
to universities.
Kiangsu, where Shanghai Is located,
is the most advanced, with an enroll
ment of 3,723 college students, and
Kwangtung, led by its progressive capt.
| tai, Canton, Is second, with 3,423.
Women constitute less than IL per cent
of the Chinese college student body.
OF the total number of undergrads In
China 1896 per cent of them are re-
ceiving their training in private insti-
buttons, including mission colleges,
which give facilities to more than 80
per cent. The others are studying In
provincial colleges or national univer-
stiles.
More than a third Of the students
are studying law. while only IL per cent
are in schools of engineering. mechan-
les or industrial training. Only in
Is studies medicine, while, less than 4