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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-14
PL0W CONTEST SLATED
Farmers Will Meet at NobIesviIIe
for Demonstrations.

Indiana farmers who have power
and labor problems, will throng to
the multiple-hitch demonstration
which will feature the big team
blowing contest on the Floyd NC
Donald farm, one mile east of
Noblesville, next Tuesday.
Keen interest is being shown by
state farmers in this system of
working more horses in bigger units.
Size Of the team is in relation to
the amount of land under cultiva-
ton. Teams will pillow on the aver
age of about an acre a horse daily,
originators of the idea say.
Evening star., 1932-05-22
C0untry Club Bridge

The advent of the golf season and the ap-
proach of Summer brings news of country
clubs in all parts of the land making plans
for Summer bridge tournaments. There will
be many more this year than ever before In
most cases there will be play on some one eve
ming each week, usually on Friday or Saturday,
which will be known bridge night" at the
club Generally a bridge teacher other
professional of standing in the community is
in charge of the arrangements, under direc-
ton Of bridge committee. In some cases the
play is preceded by a brief talk on some phase
of the game, bidding. play, laws. ethics or
What-not
Enlarged interest in contract is not the sole
reason for the increase in these events. An
other factor in many cases is the financial
concern of the club whose income is gen.
orally somewhat less than in boom times. The
bridge tournaments the members to come
to the club oftener and use the dining and
other facilities. In most selected non
members are invited to play as part of the
clubs membership building program. 1t has
been found by large number of clubs that
the bridge tournaments have way of getting
the wives of members more interested in the
club. Plenty of the new women golfers of the
next few seasons will be those who were first
lured to their husbands favorite Fairgrounds
by the appeal of bridge.
Evening star., 1932-05-22
Tie BRIDGE Forum

the trick, select the surplus card and restore
it TO the player who is short; but this does not
change the ownership Of the trick. The player
who is short is answerable for any revoke, as
if the missing card has been in his hand con-
tinuously.
Should the side in whose tricks the sur.
plus card is found have failed to keep its
tricks properly segregated, either opponent Of
such side may select card from the tricks
improperly gathered and restore such card to
the player who is short"
In this case, either adversary may face all
Of declarer's tricks, select any card he desires
and give it to the declarer. If prior to then
he had failed to follow suit in the suit of that
card each failure to follow suit would be
penalized as revoke If there was no such
failure to follow in the suit of that card, no
penalty for revoke could be extracted. In
either event, play goes forward in the usual
way from that point.
Declarer, playing sloaCly, leads but holds to
the corner OF his card as it lies on the center
OF the table. Both adUerSdries. assuming that
the card had been played, play quickly. Declaref
decides to take 1t back and leads different
card maintaining his right to do this. HoU does
the latc gopern this?
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Just PLAIN Cheating

I'm a recent tournament" says William ].
Huske "a certain player whom 1 intend to
watch closely hereafter did thing against two
good players who lacked tournament expert
ence which I consider just plain cheating. The
deciarer having led a certain suit, this man
pulled one card from his hand, studied a bit,
pulled out another, then eventually decided to
play still different one. The one he actually
played was really a singleton. His actions were
deliberately intended to mislead the declarer.
If he does that when am at the table in any
Evening star., 1932-05-22
NORTH

Mr.. Lewis who sat in the South, is one OF
those players who is not "a slave to the book,
but will use unusual measures in unusual situ-
ations. So he began with bid of one diamond
instead of making book" pass because OF
lack of two and half high card tricks. Had
he opened with spade, the ensuing pyrotech-
MICS would have been about the same.
After that he and East did all the bidding,
with West and North always saying no"
Easts first sally was a double whereupon Me.
Lewis made sure of game bid and COM
manded his partner to choose the declaration
with four spades. Four no trump East's
next call, followed by five spades from Mr..
Lewis five no trumps by East, then six spades
from Mr. Lewis as an intended sacrifice, which
East of course, doubled.
Vests lead of small heart was trumped
diamond ruff put dummy in to lead for the
spade double finesse, which was virtually sure
to win in view of EastS high no trump bids.
Another diamond ruff finished chance to take
the queen finesSe. The spade ace dropped
Easts last trump and Mr. Lewis hand was
now set up for grand slam. What East said
about it should not be quoted in a family
newspaper.
Legal training apparently has a stimulating
mind judging from the evidence furnished by
B. j. Funke chief clerk of the County Court of
Queens County, New York, in connection with
the following hand. Sitting in the East, he bid
and played the hand to the maximum, as will
be told next week. How do you think it should
be done?
Evening star., 1932-05-22

With neither side vulnerable West made
second hand opening bid of diamond. North
doubled, East passed. South responded with
two clubs and West bid two spades. This sec
ondary bid of higher ranking suit proclaimed
that 1t was of only four cards and the lower
one bid first was longer. North. with both of
his opponents suits almost surely stopped, plus
the clubs that should solidify his partners suit
for q run of it, called two no trump.
Now came the all-revealing opponents bid.
When East called three diamonds after having
passed on the first round, it was virtual cer-
tai.lty that he had good distributional support,
but high card weakness North. reading East
now for four diamonds and West for five. had
of the suit. When his partner rebid the clubs.
at four, he was eager to bid the game. which
he did after Vests pass When this got
around to West. he doubled.
North new made the most confident kind
of a redouble From Vests double plus his
other bidding he could feel sure of catching
sitting over it. He did not fear any losers in
diamonds, knowing his partner was practically
bound to be blank in the suit. No losses were
in sight in spades except the ace, with the
chances that there would be only one in hearts,
since South's voluntary four-club call after the
diamond bid indicated he must have at least
some strength in the smaller honor cards. AS
it turned out the jack of hearts was enough
to make North's reading perfectly safe, and
the redoubled contract was made easily after
the lead Of the diamond king.
If East had not put in that bid OF three
diamonds North could not have bid the five
clubs and redoubled with anything like the
same prospects of success.
Evening star., 1932-05-22
Origin of Thug

THE modern thug can trace the in-repute
| which follows his calling back to peculiar
religious sect of India which in by-gone days
was source of terror to all honest travellers.
The Indian thugs usually gathered together
in bands of from 10 to 20 and were well organ
lied There was a leader, teacher, entrap-
rers, murderers and grave diggers who made
systematic business of tricking hapless strang-
ers who fell into their hands.
The usual system employed by the thugs
was to pass along the road with full travelling
equipment Of an ordinary body of merchant
men. Catching up with stranger or being
overtaken by one. they would invite him to
join their company for mutual protection
against thieves. When the proper point In the
journey was reached, they would set upon the
new companion, rob him and then strangle him.
1t then became the duty of the grave diggers
to dispose Of the body in some out-of-the-way
spot where it would be unlikely to be found
Evening star., 1932-05-22
Continued from Sirth Page

and G streets where met Harmony Lodge, No.
9, and Union Lodge, No. IL. Eastern Lodge,
No. 7, met in Masonic Hall.
THE Marine Barracks, which occupy eight
square acres lying between Eighth and
Ninth and and G streets and the Navy Yard
to the SOUTH were prime factors in building
up this section of the city 1t is said these
barracks occupy ground used as a cavalry camp
for the first colonial troops while our country
was still under His Majesty King George III.
1t was established as Marine barracks early in
the administration of Thomas jefferson, and, in
1904, we find the commandant in accordance
with the act of January 81, 1904, which appro-
priated $3,584.72, completing the Marine Bar
racks at Washington, an appropriation of $4,000
being also made in 1906 for a similar purpose
Maj. Edwin N. Mcclellan. U. S. M c., stated:
The commandant carefully supervised the
construction of the Washington Barracks and
also of his own quarters that were to serve as
the home of every commandant from then until
this day. In 1905 the mechanics carpenters
and brickayers' who were all Marines, were
constantly working on the barracks and the
commandments house. 1t was hoped that when
the north wing of the barracks and the COM
mandants house are finished which would
be accomplished at the close of the year the
need for these workmen would cease and
soldiers enlisted in their places. He never
allowed to the carpenters for their services
other mechanics than the armourers-any
extra pay Sometimes. and particularly in
building his own quarters and barracks at
Washington, and quarters at other posts they
were allowed some extra drink but the COM
mandant always viewed it optional with them
to work as mechanics or not, and, therefore
viewing it matter of indulgence, being exempt
from their military duty he never allowed
anything extra, they content with the
additional gill per day"
During the Civil War the Navy Yard, in
common with the Old Brick Capitol, Carroll
Row and other places served a prison for
distinguished Confederate prisoners, and here
Admiral Raphael Sernmes was confined fol-
lowing the destruction of his ship the Alabama
by the U. S. S. Kearsarge off Cherbourg June
49, 1864
The Alabama was built at Birkenhead to
act a privateer in the service of the Con-
federate States. She received her armament
and stores at the Azores and proceeded to do
much destructive work until she met the
Kearsarge. For permitting the boat to sail
from a British port under the circumstances
a claim was filed by the United States against
England for damages done by the Alabama to
the shipping Of the Northern States, and $15,-
100000 obtained in the final settlement of
the controversy by court Of arbitration. After
all awards were made to private claimants
Evening star., 1932-05-22

ever arise.
A CCORDING to an early account, Admiral
n Semmes was confined in the attic of
the Center House. "and made noise enough to
be heard all over the place. He was an inter-
esting old chap looked like Andrew Jackson
and had the old Andrew Jackson temper, too"
Here President johnson frequently visited
during his administration to watch the drill
and, no doubt, to listen to the music, as did
Gen. Grant and Nellie Grant attended here
all the dances with Lizzie Porter and the Bean
girls, and here Miss Grant first met her future
husband Mr.. Sartoris.
It is interesting to look at an old city direc-
tory which lists the names of some of Wash
ington's earliest families Our ancestors were
not all judges, preachers, lawyers, statesmen
or diplomats Indeed some of them were like
Lincon's parents, Just plain, humble toilers-
farmers, mechanics and the like, but neverthe-
less honorable, reliable, worthy citizens. And so
when we look into one of these old books and
find an ancestor listed as a blacksmith, a
cooper of a WheelSmith we should rather be
glad he was not recorded as gentleman as
is frequently the case for then we do not know
whether he was a card, shark or just what his
"gentlemanly occupation" if any, might have
been.
directory for 1846 which the writer has
before him and which gives the names of those
residing in the eastern division of the city at
that time, and here find Wallace Acton,
blacksmith, living on I street between Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets southeast; Elijah Acton,
maybe brother to Wallace, was Just laborer
"a word with very wide range of meaning,
almost as broad as the word gentleman"
No doubt many Of the families living on the
Navy Yard will be able to trace relation
ship to some of the names of the people here
given.
Addison g. Cockrel had grocery and -four
store Eleventh street near the Eastern
Branch Bridge. Hezekiah Anderson, a block
maker, is mentioned as are William C. Apple
at the Capitol; Thomas Bryne, shoe store,
Eighth street between and K; Richard Barry.
rol-caller, Navy Yard; Rev. Mr.. Bean, pastor
Christ Church Thomas Blagden then lived
on New Jersey avenue between I and K streets
in a house afterward said to be haunted by a
well known Washington family q member of
which passed the story on to the writer Just
whether any one ever saw ghost there or came
in contact with one cannot be definitely stated,
though it may be taken for granted that the
Spook had two perfectly good legs and in all
other respects was thoroughly normal person.
John Bohlayer, jr., butcher, lived in the
southeast section and his father was also a
Continued Fifteenth Page.
Evening star., 1932-05-22

the dummy and dduerSarieS each had four cards
unpluyed. 1t toas agreed that declarer had
played tho cards on OF the tricks taken
earlier, but since his book OF sir tricks had
been gathered together, it toGs impossible 10
recognize the extra card or trick. What is the
ldiD governing this?
The law says that whenever it is suspected
that one of the quilted tricks contain more
than four cards, any player may count them
face downward. If any be found to contain a
surplus card. and any player be short, either
opponent of the player who is short may face
Evening star., 1932-05-22
Il Real Yarb0r0ugh

People who like sympathy for the "Yar-
boroughs' they hold-those hands without
even a single honor, which should come to
player once in 1928 deals-should consider
hand received recently by DR.. George F. Laza-
rus. The average player will not see one with
as low high cards in an entire lifetime of
bridge Here it is:
Evening star., 1932-05-22

and G streets, where met Harmony Lodge, No.
9. and Union Lodge, No. IL. Eastern Lodge,
No. T. met in Masonic Hall.
Evening star., 1932-05-22

~ ROPER bidding of many hands would be
\ impossible without considering the facts
II revealed by opponents bids. Whenever
one member OF pair makes declara-
ticn indicating what he believes he and
his partner can accomplish, he also gives
information which helps the other side esti-
mate what it can do Therefore, the player
who pays heed to nothing but his own and
his partners bids cannot be accurate in decid-
ing what is the best contract for his own side.
most striking of this sort Of deduction
came recently on the following deal:
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a 8 6 So
~ 10 z 4
O None
p 9 7 5 3 2
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Il Lac, a Week

Decldrer tOds apparently making his contract
OF three trump phcn he discopered he had
only three cards remaining in his hand, ,olaae
Evening star., 1932-05-22
Unusual Results

No convict ever made little ones out OF
big cnes" any more effectively than Alvin Lewis
with this hand in the way that he rendered
Easts collection of aces and kings null and
void. F. Dudley Courtney was witness to
the debacle, and vouches for it,
Evening star., 1932-05-22
The Macy Yard Section

there was still surplus Of $4,000 900 in the
Treasury, subject TO further claims should they
ever arise.
The Washington times., 1932-07-11
FUNDSFOR PARK
WORK URGED
Times Staff Photo
HAVENNER

A suggestion that funds appro-
priated by Congress to relieve
District unemployed might be
used to advantage in the develop
ment and improvement of Wash
ington's neighborhood cen terS,
was made today by Lieut.. Col.
U. S. Grant Sd, director of pub
lie buildings and parks.
Although highway projects and
the construction of large build
ingS aid many industries they re-
quire months of painstaking plan
ming before actual construction
work can be started, Colonel
Grant pointed out.
Park authorities, not only in
the District but throughout the
country, are always prepared to
commence improvement projects,
having their plans laid well in
advance. Release of funds to
them means creation of immedi-
ate jobs, he. said.
The Washington times., 1932-07-11
MRS, RHEEM OFF.
To RENO 5.

Off for Reno and freedom from
her marital bonds, Mrs. Alice
Wardman Rheem. wife of Ed
mund B. Rheem, former head of
the now defunct company OF
Swartzell, Rheem and Hensey,
declares that the divorce was an
"amicable" one.
Her husband, now serving a
seven year term at the Lorton
Reformatory, she declared, had
agreed to the divorce and when
she last saw him wished her
luck.
Mrs. Rheem, the former Alice
Wardman, daughter of Harry
Wardman, remained loyal to her
husband throughout his trial and
convictions. The couple, how
ever, had been understood by
their intimate circle to be on
the point of parting for some
years.
Rheem was understood. to be
the prominent Washington club
man" mentioned as correspondent
in the divorce trial of a pretty
Washington society matron in
the Midwest some years ago.
The Washington times., 1932-07-11
MANAGER HELD
IN THEFT QUIZ

Paul Alexander, 81, of 1T East
Bradley Lane, Chevy Chase, Md,
manager of a gasoline station at
Connecticut Avenue and Yuma
Street Northwest, was arrested to-
day for investigation in connec'
ton with the robbery of the sta
ton last night. ..t
Early today Alexander reported
to police that burglars had en-
tered the filling station through
a window, and .usin ga duplicate
Key, had robbed the safe of $3.50
in cash and $40 in credit slips
They also took two cartons OF
cigarettes and even packages OF
razor blades, he said.
Details leading up to Alexan
der's arrest in connection with
the robbery were not made known
by police.
The Washington times., 1932-07-11
Apartment Assault Tip
Wins $40 Prize

Early information on the as
sault on Michael Tilkin in his
apartment on Sixteenth Street
Northwest, a short distance from
where Milton w. "Milsey" Henry,
racketeer, was shot and killed,
won the grand prize of $40 in
this weeks Washington Times
newstip contest.
To the Lorton (VaO woman,
who reported on two stories, The
Times awards the second prize
of $40. The two stories were
the capture of an escaped con.
vict at Clifton Station. Va, and
the holdup of a 79-year-old man
at Fairfax, Va. The man, Noah
Kitson, was bound and gagged
and robbed of $100.
The third prize of $5 is awarded
for the automobile crash at War
renton, Va, in which two men
were killed.
The tip on the story of Fred
j, Balduc, who was found at his
home in Glen Echo, Md, with
his throat slaShed, wins the
fourth prize of 50.
Six So awards are made for
the following stories: The efforts
of the Red Cross to locate the
families of veterans; installation
of a new tear gas system at the
Washington Savings Bank; fire
In the stables at the Bowie race
track: damage on the farm OF
The Washington times., 1932-07-11
z YOUTHS HELD
IN ROBBER|ES
IN COUNTY
Kensington and Silver Spring
Men HoIdup Victims in
Same Neighborhood

Lawson Combs, II, and
Daniel l.. Leatherman, 81, both
of 1421 Twelfth st. N. W., are
held in the Bethesda substa-
ton of the Montgomery county
police, charged with hold-up
and robbery, following their
arrest early this morning by
Policemen Frank Soper and
Webb Hersperger.
A Kensington man, Stephen
Lohr, was held up at pistol point
off Connecticut Avenue near
Jones Bridge Road and robbed
of So. He said so cents was re.
turned him so he wouldn't be
broke"
Shortly afterwards, Ashby
Grant, of Silver Spring, was
being held up in Beech Drive in
Rock Creek Park His automo-
bile keys were taken from him
so he could not pursue the men.
According to police, Grants
keys were found on the two sus-
poets who believe committed two
holdups in the same neighbor
hood.
The Washington times., 1932-07-11
Fisherman, 20, Held
For SLnUinq BOu, Is

Otto VogleSang, 70-year-old fish
erman, was held for the grand
jury under his personal bond to.
day by the Alexandria Police
Court on a charge of felonious
assault preferred by William Har-
rison, Is. who charged that Vogle-
sang shot him with a shotgun.
Voglesang denied having fired
the gun, although admitting that
he had chased the boy and three
companions from his ark when
they threw rocks at his dog. The
boy exhibited several slight abra-
sions claimed to have been made
by shot.
The Washington times., 1932-07-11
SENATE, HOUSE
VETS To PRESS
LAW CHANGE
Bingham Says He Plans
To Reoffer Amendment
To Home Loan Bill

The campaign for beer will
be continued until the final
gavel falls on the present ses-
sion of Congress. This was the
notice served today by adamant
vets in both Senate and House,
where all efforts thus far to
obtain Immediate modiflca-
ton" of the VOlstead act have
been thwarted.
The movement is being carried
on chiefly by Republican vets
in an effort to Smoke out"
Southern drys. 1t also is an
other phase of the campaign of
the "beer bloc" to seize every
opportunity for action until they
reach their goal.
Bingham Marks Time
Senator Bingham (RD of Con-
necticut, who demanded a vote
on beer after the Democratic ma
tional convention declared for
immediate modification" of the
Volstead act" was biding his time
today, awaiting another oppor-
tunity for action.
Although Bingham withdrew
his amendment to the home loan
bank bill in the Senate when ap-
parently it was to be submerged
in the initiation amendment OF
Senator Borah (R.) of Idaho, he
said he would reoffer it when
Borah's amendment has been
voted upon. Bingham said:
81 shall reOffer the beer
amendment as a rider to the
home loan banking bill just as
soon as the Senate diSpOSeS OF
the currency expansion rider.
anticipate that some of the
wet Democrats will join the
effort to avoid a direct vote,
thus forcing the amendment
back into committee.
"A vote to recOmmit the beer
proposal should count as a vote
again it,"
The Republican wet bloc" of
the House. having presented to
Speaker Garner a petition signed
by II vets asking for a vote on
beer, planned to lay siege to the
Judiciary Committee. This body,
to whom the petition to Garner
was referred, is headed by Repre-
sentative Summers CD of Texas.
a dry.
Plea In Elections
The Republican platform has
declared for reSubmission with a
proposed revision, while the Dem
ocratic national convention de-
clared for outright repeal.
Some of the Republican strate-
gists argue that immediate re-
submission would transfer the
prohibition fight to the individual
senatorial and congressional elec-
tionS.
Comparatively few "conver-
sionS" have been announced since
the national conventions.
The battle for beer and resub-
mission, in the opinion of the
vets, will at least serve to force
all candidates for Congress into
the open early in their cam
paignS.
The Washington times., 1932-07-11
CentenarianS ShOw
Decrease in Ranks
During Decade

The saying that the first
hundred years are hardest is
increasingly true nowadays, to
judge from a Census Bureau re-
port released yesterday.
In 1880, the bureau an
nounced, 1864 persons claimed
to have passed the ripe old
age of 100, as compared with
4.267 who made such allega-
tions in 1920. Either figure
may well be taken with a grain
of salt, a comment on the re-
port states, as many elderly
persons exaggerate their age or
not knowing exactly, guess at
it. Only zoos persons returned
their ages as exactly 80.
The Washington times., 1932-07-11
Woman Gets Broken
Nose in Auto Crash

Mrs. J. Q. Peterson, SO. of 3700
Massachusetts, Ave. N. w., received
broken nose and decorations on
the chin and knee when a car
in which she was riding Collided
with a parked car.
Raymond B. Roberts, 1900 Con.
necticut Ave-, had been instruct
ing Mrs. Peterson to drive. but
had taken over the wheel when
the accident occurred.