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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
FINLAND REJECTS PROHIBITION BY THREE TO ONE VOTE
ADD TO COAST
GUARD DEFENSE
Britain to Strengthen Bar
rier Against SmuggIerS.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
LONDON, Jan. 2.-The coast
guard defense against Smugglers is
to be strengthened around Britain's
5000 miles Of sea coast.
Following recent inquiries, It has
been decided to bring the coast
guards unit up to full strength.
The present coast guard staff of
1000 men is likely to be added TO
by the appointment of senior Of
ficerS, many of whom will be ex-
officers of the navy, or officers on
half pay.
Modern methods of transportation
and communication have made the
work of the coast watchers a much
easier task than it was a few wears
ago.
In the old days, when inland reve-
nue. cutters were under sail. the
coast guards had little chance of
catching smugglers.
Today, speedy motor launches at
sea are able to maintain contact
with the short stations by wireless
They also are able to overhaul any
suspicious vessel and demand an
explanation of her movements
On land, the coast guard now
rides motorcycles and can. if neces-
sary, travel at more than seventy
miles an hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
WORKERS GIVEN
SHORTER HOURS
Pennsylvania Store Keeps
Wages Up, However.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2-Women
employees of Pomeroy'S, Inc, Penn
sylvania, department store organ
ization with 1900 employees in Har-
risburg, Pottsville, Wilkes-Barre
and Reading, are enjoying a five
day working week with no less pay,
and two and a half less working
hours each week, according to a re-
port of the woman's bureau of the
labor department.
The department also announced
that in Georgia 40 per cent of the
employees of textile and allied in
dustries are women, four-fifthS of
whom are employed in cotton and
silk mills.
The average wage of women over
16 in cotton and silk mills is from
ST to SIS. 1t is estimated that
less than one-tenth of the women
wage earners belong to national
trade union organizations that are
affiliated with the International
Federation of trade unions.
From a survey of New York ho-
tells, it is estimated that 5000 for
mer hotel workers have been
thrown back on the labor market,
and employees holding their jobs
now are doing more work for less
pay, and working more hours each
week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
MCDONALD ASKS
AID OF NATION
Pleads for Full Support of
Government.
BY w. G. QUISENBERRY
United Press staff CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, Jan. Prime Min
lister j. Ramsay Macdonald ap-
pealed to the nation in New
Years message Thursday to give
the national coalition government
complete understanding and sup
port" in its struggle with British
financial problems.
1.-THE year we just have rung out
has not been one we shall dwell on
gladly in our memories the prime
minister said in a statement issued
shortly before the kings New Year
honor list was published.
"It has been year Of crisis and
a hard struggle which has borne
heavily on all sections of the COM
munity. The one distinguishing
feature has been the determined
and gallant way in which the great
mass Of people recognized the
difficulties and braced themselves
TO face them.
I'VE must bind ourselves to keep
that spirit alive and it will win
through to better times. The gov
eminent faces the new year de-
ternined to act in a manner worthy
of the confidence of the nation"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
Drunkenness and Gas
Booze PinCheS Mounted in
81, Police Records Show.

Indianapolis may join the nation
this month in celebrating prohibit
tons twelfth birthday, but sur
vey of police records for 1881 will
dispel beliefs the law makes any
difference to the populace.
In the last twelve months arrests
for violation of the prohibition law
in the three forms covered by city
and state statutes have increased.
Based on figures for 1880, last
years increase was 355 in blind tiger
arrests; increase of 1875 for operating
autos while drunk and SIT more
DRINKS were nabbed by officers.
1890 Drunk Arrests
Total arrests in 1881 for blind
tiger were 1872 as compared with
1,488 the previous year; operating
autos while drunk, 1888 compared
with 500 in 1880, and 1920 for
drunkenness as compared to 3,703 in
1880.
Arrests on the charge of vagrancy,
which has brought criticism many
times from Indianapolis attorneys,
dropped in 1881. There were 1898
less arrests in 1881 when 1882 per-
sons were slated as compared to 1880
when 5000 were charged with
vagrancy.
Total number of persons arrested
in 1881 was 32,987 as compared to
1852 in 1880, an increase of 1875.
Auto Thefts Drop
Other arrest figures and charges
for 1881: Burglary, 300; robbery,
142; vehicle taking, 246; homicide,
81; miscellaneous felonies, 66e; auto
banditry, So; grand larceny, 28O;
petit larceny, 1856; assault and bat
terry, 1924; carrying concealed
weapons, 275; drawing deadly weap-
ons. 173; gaming, 1853; keeping
gaming house, BOT; speeding, zoos;
reckless driving, CAT; other traffic
offenses, 5,825, and other misde-
meanors, 5,102.
Theft of automobiles dropped 421
last year as compared with the pre-
viouS year. Police said 2,528 autos
were stolen in 1881. Of this number,
1920 were recovered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
PROGRESS MADE IN
WAR ON MENINGITIS
Every One Exposed to
Dread Disease, Many
Build ImmunitieS.
nv limited press

Scientists of America and Canada,
through pooling of their research,
have reported Roadway in efforts
to end spinal meningitis epidemics.
Other scientists discussed subjects
ranging from radio advertising to
democracy.
Belief that spinal meningitis is
acquired through the nose and the
fact that virtually every one has
been exposed to it at some time
were expressed at the meeting of
the Society of American Bacteri-
ologists at Baltimore.
Research by DR.. Simon Flexner
of the Rockefeller institute, through
experiments with monkeys, indi-
Gated the meningitis virus can en-
ter the respiratory tract and move
along the nerve f1bers to the olfac-
tory lobe of the brain. Then it
spreads throughout the nervous
system, often causing death, DR..
Flexner contends.
DR.. Maurice Brodie of McGill
university, Montreal, concludes
from experiments that the blood of
most normal persons contains the
same anti-bodies against poliome-
litis that are found in those con-
valescing from the disease.
Upon this fact he based belief
that growth of these anti-bodies in
the blood has resulted from ex-
posure to the germ, it being ma
lures way of protection.
DR.. Brodie believes serum from
the average person would be as
effective as that from convalescents,
thus overcoming the present OBJ
stacle of serum scarcity in treat
ing meningitis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
HiStOSic LeabS

If indianapolis girls require
historical precedent for pop
ping the question" during the
Leap Year, they will find his
tory Astounding with such in
cidents.
Among the best known cases
is that of Priscilla, the Puritan
maiden, who didn't put the
question directly, although
young Alden would have been
a Ounce. indeed, if he had not
known what she meant when
she said, why don't you speak
for yourself, John?"
Another incident in which
an indirect proposal is recorded
is that of the late Adelina
Patti, opera singer.
When the man who later be-
came her husband told her that
all Paris was saying they were
engaged, she is reported as
saying, well, why not? I sure
we will be happy"
Queen Victoria invited a
young man to be her escort and
later made him her Prince Al
bert.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
Psychic Phenomena

It's long the sisters their table rappng
investigation spriualsc
psychic psychca
research
human mind had earliest times intrigued with
the problem possible survival Of human ngences after death
problems psychca difficult the
fraud and fakery connected with the subject
Washington bureau has ready for comprehensive
interesting bulletin the pychcal
history of the
velopment spirualic phenomena enjoy
reading Fill out the below and mail directed
Department 1877 washington Bureau indianapolis Times
1922 New avenue Washington, D. c.
Of bulletin incloSe
with cents postage
stamps 20 return postage and handling costs
State
/ am reader of Indianapolis Code Nol
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02

apolis.
Bachelors, beware! Or, be glad!
For 1882, leap year, is here, and
it's the open season for dragging
bashful bachelors from their COM
Portable dens into the matrimonial
mart.
No longer need maiden ladies
anxiously await a proposal, while
the timid males stutter, stammer,
fldget and then postpone popping
the question that's in their minds.
In the words Of the popular song,
"Now'S the Time to Fall in Love-"
if the price of setting up house
keeping has delayed the visit to the
marriage license bureau.
For not in many years have young
couples had such golden oppor-
tunity to start married life at so
little cost.
Groceries Down One Fourth
The old saying, two can live as
cheap as one,' never was so nearly
true as it is today, judging from
prices quoted by local stores.
Two really can live almost as
cheaply in 1882 as could one four
or five years ago, merchants de-
clare.
Prices of food, clothing, furniture,
rent-in fact, everything but the
marriage license itself-are far be-
low the levels of four, three and
even one year ago.
Groceries, an important item in
the budget of every neWly-wed cou-
pie, are from 20 to Is per cent
cheaper than year or two ago, and
probably IS per cent less than four
years ago.
| Furniture inexpensive
Furniture costs only half as much
as few years ago, while the brides
trouSseaus can be obtained prob
ably 20 or 80 per cent cheaper than
a year ago.
Store managers quote the price of
linens as ''pitifully low" while
prices on women'S ready-to-
clothes are down from 20 to so per
cent.
A few years ago store clerks smiled
pityingly when asked to show silks
costing only 81 or $3.50, but today
excellent silk can be obtained for as
low as SO Gets, one store official
pointed out.
DraperieS of the finest materials
and in any styles can be purchased
already made up more cheaply now
than the materials cost not so long
ago.
Scots Started Custom
To julius and Augustus Caesar
belongs the credit, or blame, for add
ing Feb. 20 to the calendar every
fourth year.
But hopeful members of the fair
sex have members of the Scottish
parliament in the thirteenth century
to thank for originating the leap
year custom.
In the year 1888, the Scottish par
lament decreed that the man suffi-
GENTLY ungallant to refuse maid
ems proposal of wedlock must pay
her 1000 pounds sterling, unless he
could prove he was betrothed to an
other.
"Speak Ye Mon She Likes"
The original decree stated that
during We reign of Margaret, ilk
maiden ladie, of both high and low
estait, shall have hbertie to speak
We mon she likes.
eff he refuse her to his wife, he
shall be mulct of one hundred
pounds, or less, as his estait may
be, except and always if he can
make it appear that he is betrothet
to another woman, then he shall
be free"
Whether the ancient law ever
was enforced is not recorded, but
from that time on women have been
given special matrimonial privileges
every four years until today, Leap
year is recognized in many coun-
tries
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
COURTHOUSE IS SOLD
Public Building at OroviIIe, Cal.
Figures in Queen Deal.

d y UWFItu TTcSS
OROVILLE, Cal, Jan. Butte
county'S courthouse, placed errone-
ously on the assessment rolls, has
been sold for delinquent taxes by
the city of Oroville, bought in by
the city and given back to the
county. Now the county turned the
tables and presented a tax bill to
the city for county owned land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
SAVED BY SKIN SURGERY
New York Girl Helps Scalped Sister
to Cheat Death.

By United Press
FALL RIVER, Mass, Jan. O.
A year ago surgeons said Catherine
Zombric, Is, could not live. She
had been scalped by the whirring
wheels of a textile factory where
she was employed.
Today, recently discharged from
st. Anne's hospital, she is recuper-
ating at her home. A sister, Mary,
20, came here from New York and
underwent an operation in which
$50 pieces of skin were grated from
her body to GATHERINGS head.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
MOVIE ACTOR ARRESTED
Kenneth Harlan Charged With
Drunken Driving.
By United Press

by UHtItu TTtSS
HOLLYWOOD, CAL, Jan. a.
Kenneth Harlan, motion picture
actor, was arrested today and
charged with drunken driving after
a traffic accident. Hollywood police
said an automobile driven by the
actor and a milk wagon collided.
Harlan and a passenger were in
iured SLIGHTLY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
John Vinson Is Not Negro

: John vinson, Sc, of 1926 West
Twenty-sixth street, victim of
holdup Dec. 81, is not Negro, as
stated in The Times. Monday. The
error was due to a mistake in
police report.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
DRY LAW ARRESTS
ON INCREASE HERE
Holiday ChOre
By United Press

DU UWttBU I7TtS8
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-Charles
Heath, for thirty-four years a
resident of Chicago, rolled up
his sleeves and moved his
front lawn New Years day.
The grass is growing as
in summer, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
Public card party will be given /

Public card party will be given by
the ladies' club camp of Marion
camp, No. 1858, Modern Woodmen
of America, Sunday night at $3.50 in
Woodmen hall, 322 East New York
street. Mrs. w. ]. Kirsch and Mrs.
Elmer Carlson are in charge of ar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
4oSaAS '.'So'@oo'ASo' 'oA @"'"'o'oN''"OO
BINDS STORE MANAGER,
WAITS ON CUSTOMER
Detroit Bandit Keeps Cool Till
FURRY of Business Ends.


FURRY of Business Ends.
By United Press
DETROIT, Jan. 2.-Something
in the demeanor of q the strange
grocery store clerk" aroused Mrs.
Matte Scrimshire's suspicious.
st want to see the manager" she
said.
She was told the manager was
"out."
Then" she said, "I'll wait"
While she waited the "clerk"
served seven other customers. Then,
he left to find the manager"
It was Mrs. Scrimshire, however,
who found the manager-bound
and gagged in rear room.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
OREGON COED AT IS
Girl Goes Through Grade and High
Schools in 81 Years.
By United Press

ID y 2 TIttttt I Tt0o
EUGENE, Ore, Jan. 2.-Eleanot
Staten, Is, is the youngest freshman
at the University of oregon. Eleanor
went through grade and high
schools in only eight and one-half
years and took six months post
graduate course before enrolling at
the university this year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
MOTOR LAWS UNIFORM
Model Ordinance Adopted by Al
Cities in United States.
By United Press

By United Press
SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. g.
California cities are gradually
working their way toward uniform
motor vehicle laws. a survey shows.
This tendency also is being fol-
lowed in cities throughout the
country, and a model ordinance,
drafted by the conference on
street and highway safety. has been
adopted by forty-one cities in the
United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
PASTOR FOR 62 YEARS
49, Year-Old Priest Was Ordained
in Baltimore in 1866.

ID JNIftU 7 Ito3
SOMMERVILLE, Mass, Jan. O.
Monsignor Christopher T. McGrath,
SO, has begun his sixty-third year
as pastor of st. Joseph's church.
He was ordained to the priesthood
in Baltimore in 1865.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
RIDES HIS HOBBY HARD

Wife Says Mate Spent $50 for
Stamp; Daughter Needed Clothing.
ByNEA Service
SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. Com
plant that her husband, Phillip.
had spent $50 for one Cancelled
postage stamp to add to his COL
lection on the same day he refused
a few dollars for clothing for their
19-year-old daughter, featured Mrs
Roe M. Smiths suit for divorce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
PIGSKIN SPORT BARRED
Nevada Prison Can't Make GridirOn
Out of Quarry.

CARSON CITY, New, Jan. e.
There are no plans for a football
team at Nevada state prison. This
states prison yard was cut from a
quarry and solid rock does not a
good gridiron make, officials say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02

A cat owned by G. w. Spence Of
Camden, Tenn, has features resem-
bling those of kangaroo. 1t has
rear feet larger and longer than its
fore feet, leaps like kangaroo, ana
uses its short, heavy tail for a
balance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02

1t is estimated that there still
are about 100000 slaves in the
world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
EUGENE STARTS THINGS
Woman ReSents Taxi Drivers Sassy
Remark; Cops Called.
By United Press

By United Press
COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia, Jan. 2.
1T was his sassy remark about
my Empress Eugene hat that hurt"
Mrs. Oscar Koenig explained, when
police had to settle an alteration
between her and an Omaha taxi
driVex
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
BURGLAR CAUSES FIRE
Lights Matches to See in Closet.
House Damaged $1,000.

HOUSE Damaged SI,O0O.
By United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. a.
Matches lighted by a burglar to ex-
plore a closet in the apartment of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Harrison here
were blamed for fire which caused
$1,000 damage.
The couple was away from home
when the fire started, but it was
found that a window had been pried
open and watch had been stolen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02

This is the first Of series Of stories
on what Lean Year means to Indian
apolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02

totals -. SO, 28O. 1913, 781 $685., O27, 6s6
Evening star., 1932-01-24
The Edelo0eiss Of Loue

IA /HEN the young man of Switzerland de-
w sires to show his sweetheart that he loves
her, he has traditional way that saves MIN
all the embarrassment Of declaring his love In
romantic phrases
Growing high among the rocks In inaccessible
places beautiful white flower, the edelweiss,
offers the young swain the love-token that all
recognize as proffer of marriage when offered
to the young lady of his fancy
The blossom of the edelweiss is a star-shsped
whita flower which has a cottony appearance
when seen closely. The root growth of the
plant is remarkably out of proportion to the
surface parts. The necessity of preserving ito
life among the steep rocky hillSides brings
about the root growth which seems to send the
little rootlets through cracks in the rock almost
unbelieyably small.
The edelwess Is not confined TO the nnoun~
tains of Switzerland, for it Is also commonly
found in the PyreneeS. ~.sIss.s8
Evening star., 1932-01-24

w may be no need of cellar, especially
where there is never extreme cold. The old
style plastering still in vogue will no longer be
used. Walls will be plain, enameled, or painted,
or perhaps covered with canvas or airplane
cloth.
"Such equipment as the refrigerator, washing
machine, radio and incnerator will be built-in.
Radiators will also disappear between walls
There will be plenty of cheap electricity so that
all sorts of electrical equipment will be run at
little cost
"'Save kitchen mileage will be one important
keynote of this house. The kitchen will be
oblong instead of square, and the prepara-
tion Of meals will proceed from one end to
another, just as automobiles are put together
on progressive assembly line.
within 20 years believe, most towns now
having a population of 5000 to $4,000 will
double in size and many new communities
of 10000 to 10000 will spring up. Most peo-
pie who once live in city go back to the
country only to watch the green grass grow
to breathe air free of city dust smoke and
automobile fumes and to show the children
what an neutrality-suspicious. COW looks like.
uCCONOMISTS tell us the big cities win
- begin reaching the limit of their growth
about 1850. Even today many cities are larger
than they should be, economically speaking
because they haven't the natural facilities re-
quired for huge concentrations of population.
THAT is why these cities will experience
faster decrease in population growth than the
cities equipped by nature to be vast urban CEN
ters-New York, Chicago, New Orleans Seattle,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Baltimore, Duluth and Norfolk
Twenty years from now New York should
just about double its population increasing the
number of people in its metropolitan area from
its present 5000 900 to about IT 600 900. There
Is no economic necessity or Justification for
this growth 1t would be better for New York
If the city never reached that gargantuan size
But the human elements, rather than the
laws of economics or the natural facilities, will
assure the continuance Of the citys growth for
many years to come But can, you know,
Evening star., 1932-01-24

The man tOho fovesees revolution in
the matter of house design and other
living conditions, Norman Bel Ceddes.
will hold only so many sardines. Unless miss
my guess about 1850 the great magnet that is
New York should begin losing its power to pull
out-of- -towners into its mist"
Mr.. Geddes himself found New York a mag
net to which he gravitated as if by instinct.
He was born 80 years ago In Adrian, Mich. Of
American born parents.
| IE built his first shelter In a neighbor's barn
| ] at the age of o, got into trouble in high
school with too realistic cartoons Of the princi-
pal and several teachers quit school when IA to
help support his mother bell-hop ON q
Great Lake steamer, and later, after a short
try as a small time vaudeville magician, at
tended art schools for less than year in Cleve-
land and Chicago.
At the suggestion of Henrik Lund Scan
Evening star., 1932-01-24

COMMISSIONS began piling up fast. For
~ the stage alone he has designed hundreds
of articles of furniture and thousands of COS
tunes
Continuing his forecast of life in 1850, he says:
THE big city apartment house will provide the
same sort of conveniences that will make the
mass production private house such livable
home. These apartment houses will be built in
tremendous units in extensive open spaces, with
gymnasium, swimming pool, garage, theater
and other accessories as part of each develop
ment.
These theaters will have the stage in one
corner for greater intimacy, twice the floor
area per person as now, no curtains or pro-
scenium arch, no aisles, entrance and exits
on the sides instead of the back, and plenty Of
space between the rows. The revolving stage
will be raised and lowered by hydraulic plungers
so that between act changes will be made In 10
or II seconds
"In 1850 there will be thousands of mass pro-
duction airplanes in daily use. They will be as
easily handled as the automobile of today and
priced low enough to be out of the luxury class
"n you were astonished by the size of the
German DO-X and think that 1t expressed the
limit of airplane construction, assure you that
the size and feature of the airlines of 1850 are
beyond present day Imagination. My Office Is
already planning flying ship with wing
spread Of 500 feet that will be able to hop
from the Great Lakes to Southampton in 20
hours, with a thousand passengers eating
sleeping and lounging in luxurious comfort
Such ships will be common eventually"