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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
JEWS FIX JUBILEE DATE
Congregation Sharah Tefilla Will
Hold Celebration March Is.

Virtually every Jewish leader in
Indianapolis Will take part in the
golden jubilee celebration of The
Congregation Sharah Teflla on
Sunday, March Is.
Principal speakers will be Louis
j. Borinstein, chairman; Rabbi Mil
ton Steinberg of Temple Rsth-El;
Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht of the
indianapolis Hebrew congregation,
Rabbi Samuel Katz and Rabbi Ben
jamin Cohen.
After starting in a small upstairs
room at the corner of Norwood and
Capitol avenues, the congregation In
1910 built the present synagog at
Merrill and Meridian streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
COPS DEC0Y PACKAGE
BRINGS TRIO INTO NET

Bundle Answering ExtOrtiOn Note
Gets One Catch in Three Bites
~ United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. 30. - Curiosity
led three persons into difficulty with
police who placed a decoy pack
age on the windowsill of a build
ing at a busy westside intersection
in response to an extortion note.
First, Joseph Wool, 81, picked up
the package and was seized by off,
GERS. He was released and an I'M
identified youth tried to open it
up. He, too, was sent on his way.
Finally Jacob S~chandling, As, took
the package and officers, more
hopeful this time, arrested and held
him for questioning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
TELLS COPS HE
LOST STOLEN MONEY
'nfesses Looting Coal Company's
Cash Register. Police Claim.

Confesses Looting Coal COmpany's
Cash Register, Police Claim.
Ben Bell, II, of 934 Edgemont
avenue, is singing 1.-THE Hole in the
Pocket Blues at city prison today.
Detectives declare Bell told them
that part of the $12 he stole was lost
through a hole in a pocket of his
clothing after he looted a cash reg
ister in the Office of the Horace
Page Coal Company, Dec. %.
He entered the Office again Feb.
IS but obtained nothing, police said.
Later, the statement said, he n
tered the home of Horace Page at
1910 Burdsal parkway, but did not
take anything.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
Mrs. Gandhi Leaves Prison

By United Press
BOMBAY. India, Feb. 29.-Mrs
M. K. Gandhi, wife of the Indian
Nationalist leader, was released
from prison at Ahmedahad today
after completing a sentence for Ma
tionalist activities contrary to the
recent emergency DEGREES.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
Hangs Self in Asylum

By United Press
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Feb. o.
James Briley, Lake county, IS, a
patient in the Loansport state hos
pital for insane, hanged himself
with a towel Sunday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
vIGo co. TO GET FISH
Spawning Pond VIII Be Constructed
in Terre Haute Park.

By United Press
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 90
A spawning pond for restocking
Vigo county streams with game fish
will be constructed at Deming park.
through the cooperation of the city
park board and the Izaak Walton
League.
The new pond will be used for
keeping of smaller fish to prevent
their being destroyed by the large
fish with which the Walton leagues
pond here is stocked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
aBlind Nam Deaf instead; Freed

By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 29.-Louis
Caller walked into court with an
L am blind" sign pegged on his
hat. Police charged he want
blind, and was begging on the sub
ways. Charges were dismissed when
It was revealed Caller was a deaf
mute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
LEAP DAY PUT
IN CALENDAR BY
EGYPT PRIESTS
But Problem Still Puzzles
Scientists After Centuries
of Research.

BB United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.-If
something isn't done about this
leap year business within the next
100000 years, Christmas will come
sometime about the middle of the
summer.
Although the outlook is not star
Ting to the layman, the problem of
trying to make the calendar year
and the solar year jibe has worried
scientists since the time Of the
Pharaohs.
Omar Khayyam worried about it
when he wasn't singing about bread,
wine and beauty. Today scientists
are still trying to figure it out.
For even under our present Gre
gogrian calendar the computation is
twenty-siX seconds off. In 1923
years the total is one day.
When the ancient Egyptians built
their pyramids. they designed them
so the high priests, custodians OF
the calendar, could use them in
their solar observations.
Calculated by Priests
This was determined recently in
researches made by Moses B. Cots
worth Of the international Fixed
Calendar League. Cottswort found
chat the great pyramid with a
% degrees slant was the answer to
a series of efforts to get the noon
day shadow to fall at the baseline
where it easily could be measured.
BY involved calculations, Cots
worth learned that the priests by
these calculations, learned to insert
the leap day into their calendar.
But the trick was kept a great
secret from the public. Photo
graphs to be made today at the
great pyramid are expected to bear
out these theories.
julius Caesar won the Egyptians
secret from the priests and made
use of it when he reformed the
calendar. The seasons at that time
we're very confusing. Autumn was
coming in the summer and winter
in the autumn.
Rearranged Whole Calendar
Pontiffs who previously had been
allowed to insert the extra days in
every now and then had abused the
right in order to hasten or post
pone elections.
Caesar ~rearranged the whole bust
ness and inserted an extra Feb. "a
every four years. Even this was not
exact. When the Gregorian calen-
dar was established leap year was
omitted in three out of every four
years, making ninety-seven every
four centuries. The year 1000 will
be aleap year under this rule.
But even this arrangement still
leaves those twenty-siX seconds to
worry about.
Contrary to popular belief, the
year does not take it's name from
the privilege maiden ladies have of
on the unwary male. No
one knows where that quaint prac-
tice originated.
Proposals Cost Canny Scots
1t was once a law, though, first
promulgated in Scotland in 1928.
According to the statute her blissit
megeste'' allowed "mayden ladies' of
both high and lowe estate" to be
We man she likes"
And if he refused a penalty was
provided that he shall be mulcted
in We sum ane pound or less" unless
he could prove he was betrothed to
another.
This law proved so popular that
it was later introduced in France.
Florence and Genoa adopted it in
the fifteenth century.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
TROOPS RULE LISBON
Military in Control on Anticipation
of Revolutionary Strike.
United Press

By Un9teG Press
LISBON, Feb. 29.-Lisbon was I'M
der control of the local military
commander today in anticipation of
a revolutionary general strike.
The city government was handed
over to the military. All measures
considered necessary for quick in
t%ervention were taken. Troops and
police were ready for action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
WORLD COURT TARGET

Senate IrrecOnciliables Claim
Enough Votes to Defeat 1t.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.-The old
irreconciable bloc conducted a care
full secret poll of the senate last
week and now claims enough votes
to defeat the world court.
The poll showed thirty-three
pledged votes against the court, the
United Press learned from an au-
thoritative source. This is a single
vote more than one-third necessary
to wreck the Root-Hurst formula.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
FL|ERS TO AID CHINA
Detroit Group Seeks Chance
to Battle Japan.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
DETROIT, Feb. 29.-Led by
George Murphy, a pilot and brother
of Mayor Frank Murphy, forty fiiers
and mechanics here have offered
their services to China against
Japan'S army at Shanghai.
The fiers, including several World
war veterans and army and navy
trained pilots, made their offer at
a mass meeting of the Chinese
Patriotic League. Murphy, acting
as spokesman for the group, told
Chinese leaders that his men were
willing to fight or train pilots to
fly against the Japanese.
Detroit Chinese were to telegraph
the offer to DR.. Zip Ko Ling,
Chinese consul of the middle west
area, with offices in Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
By United Press

MARSEILLES, Feb. 29.-Jules
Ferrand, a native of Boston, with
flying experience in the World war
and in Africa against the Riffs, was
en- route to Shanghai today to join
the Chinese air forces.
Ferrand shot down three German
planes during the World war and
was a member of the Flench air
force during the African campaign.
He is SO years old.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
REFERENDUM VOTE, 90
California Towns Election Leaves
Annexation Move Undecided.

AAHieAdLiOn MOVE Undecided.
By United Press
MILL VALLEY, Cal, Feb. 90
Voters of Mill Valley held an cleo
ton Saturday on the question of
annexing a tract Of land to the city.
Results tabulated today showed:
For annexation, O., again o.
Even election officials confessed
they hadn't bothered to mark their
ballots.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29

Alfalfa Bills transforming
trip through Indiana to make
political hay somehow seems to
have gone to straw.
$12-a-week waitress in
Iowa who inherited fortune
divorced husband on grounds
she no longer has need for
former meal ticket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29
ART SAYS:

When t h e
b a tie for
t h e basket
BALL crown
g e t S under
way, ne W S
from the Ash
attic front will
be a total loss
so far as In
diana is con-
cerned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24
GH0ULS START NEW
CHICAGO RACKET
Strip Graves of Floral Pieces to Get
Wire Frames.

strip Graves OF Floral Pieces TO Get
Wire Frames.
By United Prose
CHICAGO, June PA new and
ghoulish racket was disclosed today
by police after investigation OF the
gun battle fought over the grave of
George (RedD Barker, himself q
slain racketeer.
Officers said organized gangs
were invading cemeteries and
stripping newly made graves Of
floral pieces in order to sell the wire
frames TO florists
1t was disclosed the men who
were driven from Barkers grave by
a caretaker would have been unable
to steal the gangster's coffin as it is
inclosed in a cement vault.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24

contributing cause in several deaths.
Cities listed as having exhausted,
or nearly expended relief funds IN
clude New York, Chicago, st. Louis,
Baltimore, Kansas City, Pittsburgh,
and Birmingham.
In several Of these cities the
money exhausted is that raised by
public subscription, which in normal
times adequately meet all needs. =.
The Pennsylvania legislature
meets in special session Monday
night at which time it may provide
relief program for the state.
Philadelphia with relief funds ex-
hausted, places its only hope in pre-
venting suffering on action by the
legislature.
Congress dealt its blow to cities
in need of relief funds when the
senate voted down an amendment
to the unemployment relief bill,
which would have permitted loans
to states so advances could be made
to cities where employees were I'M
paid
The amendment was introduced
| by Senator J. Hamilton Lewis,
Dem, nl), who had the plight of
Chicago school teachers in mind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24
HUNGER CRISIS
FACED BY CITIES
OF OUR NATION
Congress- Denial of Loans
Puts Relief Problem in
Foreground.
lcoD7riEht. 1882. bv United pressl

tCopFtl8nt. 1891 DY united PreSsl
American cities, denied loans for
expense funds by congressional &C
ton, must adopt drastically curtailed
unemployment relief programs be-
cause of lack of funds, and despite
the growing burden forced on them
by the jobless, a country wide
United Press survey reveals.
A growing possibility that multi
tudes in the larger communities will
90 hungry this summer and next
winter unless present conditions are
changed radically is shown.
Funds voted for the jobless are
exhausted or nearly exhausted in
many cities. In several of these
municipalities officials see no way
to get additional funds
Acute suffering so far apparently
has been confined to isolated cases.
st. Louis reported starvation a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-26
YOUNG WIFE is
BEATEN; COPS
HUNT HUSBAND
Attacked When Found With
Another Man, Is Story
to Police.

Mrs. Louise Whitley, %, of 493
South Luett avenue, is in a serious
condition at city hospital as result
of being beaten early today when
found by her husband in company
of another man.
Suffering from a possible skull
fracture and badly bruised lips and
eyes, the woman was found by po-
lice at her home where she had been
taken by the husband, George
Whitley, IS.
According to information given
police, Whitley found his wife and
an unnamed man as they were driv-
ing near Eagle creek and Six
tenth street shortly after midnight
in Whitley's car.
Driving the auto of a friend
Whitley ordered his wife to stop the
car, but she refused, police were
told. A chase ensued and ended
when Mrs. Whitley wrecked the car
against utility pole.
Police said the skull fracture
may have resulted from the acct
dent, although it was believed the
additional injuries were received
from being beaten. Whitley is
sought by police for questioning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-26
PRETTY MAID
is FOUND SLAIN
9-Year-0Id Girls Body Is
Tossed Into Ditch by
Killers.

By United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-The body Of
an attractive, authenticated girl
shot to death Christmas morning
and abandoned on lonely country
road was identified by neighbor
today as that of Gertrude ModroW
19-year-old maid in a west side
suburban home.
The girl had been shot through
the head and back and left face
downward in a Du Page county
ditch, twenty miles west of here
Police said she was the victim of a
typical gang ride"
Ernest Doweidt of Bellwood, who
identified the woman, said she for
merly had lived in a house across
the street from his, and that more
recently she had worked as maid
in an Oak Park home. He said he
knew of no motive for the staying
Three bullets had entered her
body, two through the back Of the
head and the third through the
back.
Authorities believed the girls as
sailant had pushed her from an
automobile after firing one shot
into her body, and then, standing
with one foot in the road and one
still on the running board, fired
twice more before casting it into
the muddy ditch.
A milk driver discovered the body
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-26
Convict :Sleepiest Boy
Faces Life Prison Term

relief when the verdict. was re-
turned, rested his head on his arm
and fell sound asleep. The trial
had bothered him because all dur
ing it people kept waking him up
to ask him questions.
Judge John Jeffries said he would
demand Carls presence in court
Tuesday, and would pronounce SEN
tence at that time. 1t was under
stood the youth would he sent to
prison for life. The state did not
ask the death penalty, and the YER
dict was for second degree murder.
Carl's brother was killed last July
% by shotgun charge. A short
time later Carl was captured"
sound asleep on a bench in a news
paper office. He told police he
killed Louis in self defense. Later
he repudiated the confession. ex-
planning that he remembered moth
ing after Louis death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-26

South, the dealer, opened with
one club. West bid one spade,
North bid two hearts, East passed.
South jumped to four hearts. This
is a mild slam try.
North now reasoned that his part
ner must have control of the spade
suit, and of course his bid of clubs
undoubtedly showed contract of
that suit.
Therefore. North jumped to five
hearts and South now carried the
contract to six.
The Play
EaSt'S opening lead was the jack
Of spades, which was won in dummy
with the ace. The queen of hearts
was played from dummy, followed
by a small heart, which North, the
declarer, won with the ace.
The ace and then a small dia-
mond were played by the declarer,
the second diamond being won in
dummy with the king,
The declarer proceeded to
eliminate the diamonds from both
hands by playing a diamond from
dummy and trumping in his own
hand with the three of hearts.
To make his contract, the de-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-26
CIVILIZATION Is SEEN
AGAIN AFTER % YEARS
Woman Thrilled by Sight of First
Auto; Rides in It.
By United Press

By United Press
ABERDEEN, Wash, Dec 26.-
Mrs. John Huelsdonk, who settled in
the upper Hob river valley as a
young bride in 1892, came out to
civilization recently for the second
time in, forty years, saw her first
automobile and was thrilled by a
ride in it.
The wife of the "Iron Man of
the Hon." went outside" twenty
three years ago to attend the Alas
Yukon exposition in Seattle. She
returned to her wilderness, vowing
never to go "out again.
She was prevailed upon to leave
her mountain fastness this time by
her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Fetch
er, who lives on the lower Hob past
whose home runs the Olympic
highway
Mrs. Huelsdonk, suffering from a
sprained ankle, was unable to ride
a horse to the highway SO her hus-
band rugged up rough sled upon
which the pioneer woman sat and
was dragged over mountain trails by
a horse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-26
r. F. 6. to Rule Soon on
Public Utility Projects

The decision Jan. 6 concerns the
application of the Los Angeles
Bureau of Power and Light for pur-
chase Of its bonds to the extent of
$22 100000. The bureau intends to
spend this money and $4,000 900
more constructing power trans
mission lines from Boulder Dam to
the city.
If the government takes the bonds
and permits work to start, $11,400,-
900 will be spent in eastern states
within the first three months of
1888, the bureau of Power and Light
has calculated. This is its answer to
contentious that California already
has received too great a share of at
tention from the R. F. G.
The Southern California Edison
Company, private competitor of the
cityS public power project, not
openly is opposing the financing
plan. However, in the absence of
any open opposition to the project,
one delay after another has been
placed in its way. The application
Of the bureau was one of the first
filed under the self-liquidating sec
ton Of the R. F. G. act.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-26
HOLIDAY TAKES
DEATH TOLL OF
MORE THAN 200
Violence Flares Throughout
Nation as YuIetide Is
Celebrated.

With the double holiday only half
over, United Press survey revealed
today that approximately 200 per-
sons lost their lives in Christmas
explosions, auto accidents and
drownings in the United States.
Heading the roll Of holiday nor
ror was the Moweaqua H., coal
mine disaster in which ffty-four
miners we're almost certain to have
met death after an underground eX-
plosion The first bodies recovered
we're burned so badly no hope was
held for the remainder.
Eight persons were killed and 216
more hurt in Los Angeles traffic ac-
cidents, an all time record. Eight
persons also died Of accident in
juries in Kansas City. One was g.
year-old Antonino Fiorita, killed by
a hit-and-run motorist as she ran
from confession to buy her widowed
mother a Christmas present.
Poison Liquor Toll
Bellvue hospital in New York
City reported six men dead from
poison liquor and more than a
score Of holiday drinkers under
treatment.
-Four persons going to a holiday
party were drowned near Hot
Springs, Ark, when their automo-
bile plunged off a bridge partly I'M
der water.
A boy skater fell through the thin
ice Of Harlem river and was
drowned Mrs. Julia Carr, mother
Of five, was drowned near Parsons,
w. Va, when a bridge collapsed as
she was walking home from a party.
Claude and Wayne Bowling,
orothers, and their cousin, Bernice
Bowling, were burned to death near
Pound, Ga, when the gasoline tank
of their automobile exploded
Children Left Orphans
Two children we're left parentless
by the fatal injury in a Whitehall
(Mont) carbide plant explosion Of
Edward d. Miller exactly seven
years after his wifes death.
Jose Reyes, IS, and his wife were
burned to death at Corpus Christi,
Tex, in a fire believed started by a
pet dog knocking over a kerosene
lamp.
Walter Koska, "a, Reno, New, was
killed in Fairfield (Cal) crash
while driving to San Francisco to
spend Christmas
John A. Smith, Albany, Ga, mid
shipman at Annapolis, died in a
crash near Wren, Ga, on his way
home.
Five Georgia classmates were
hurt Mrs. Anna Ferguson was
killed when a car overturned on
the way to a Christmas church
service m Washington, D. G.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-26
Decision to Be Made on
Funds for Competing
With Private Firms.
Tax on beer,
s. barrel
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-One of
the most important decisions yet
made by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation is due Jan. 6. 1t will
clarity the attitude of the corpora
ton toward publicly-owned utility
projects.
So far the corporation has made
no loans to important public power
projects.
Though no announcement has
been made on the subject, it has
been charged here that the board
is determined to make no loans to
public enterprises in competition
with private ones.
1t has been charged, also, that
private utility companies, not
entitled to loans under the R. F. c.
act, are forming finance companies
in the hope Of thus Oh aning funds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-26
Contract Bridge

clarer now must find West with one
club. He led a small club and won
in dummy with the ace.
His next play was a small spade,
and now, regardless of which hand
won, he was bound to make his
contract.
If West goes right up with the
queen, he now must lead a spade
on which the declarer can discard
a club and ruff in dummy, a low
spade is played by West, and East
wins with the ten of spades, East
must lead club away from his
queen, which the declarer will allow
to ride to his jack.
Thereby, with the aid of an
elimination play, declarer has sue
cessfully made his contract of six
hearts.
Copyright, 1892, NEA Service, Inc,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-26
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NBC-Kassers orchestra to
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dance orchestra.
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NBC-Fisher's orchestra to
WEAF.
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kemp'S orchestras.
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chestra.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-26
Jury Finds Him Guilty of
Staying His Only
Brother.

BIZ United Press
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 90
Carl Romoser slept peacefully Sun
day night in Jail cell, happy APP
parently in the realization that I'M
interrupted sleep practically is
guaranteed him for the rest of his
life.
Carl, who calls himself the sleep
lest boy in the world" whenever he
stays awake long enough to talk
that much, was found guilty late
Saturday of numbering his only
brother, Louis
The 17-year-old youth SIGHED with