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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24

They will live on, it is expected,
a good deal longer than their
keepers, lizards, dragon or not,
being that way.
AS stable fellow as ever
grew up in town, DR.. Ditmars
thinks, is his one-horned Indian
rhinoceros, whose obsession is to
obliterate his outstanding feature,
the single horn by assiduously
keeping it worn to a stub.
He was a baby when Frank
Buck of Bring En- Back Alive"
fame found him in northern
India in 1922, and the park, re-
ceiving him with mighty &C
claim, since it had had no such
resident in years, valued him at
$4,000. Now. said DR.. Ditmars,
he has thriven so wonderously,
like mountain slowly coming in
to being, that he is worth $4,000.
Victoria, the parks two-horned
rhino, from Tanganyika terri
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BY ROBERT TALLEY
NEA Service Writer

BY ROBERT TALLEY
NEA Service Writer
COLUMBUS, O., June ga
~ half century ago boy whose
fathers business had been swept
away by the panic of 1873 sold
newspapers on the streets of Til
tusville, Pa.
A little later this boy put him
self through high school by work
ing after hours in a grocery store.
Next, he worked his way
through Princeton. He got $3.50
a year from home and worked
as a laborer on farms and in
lumber camps during vacations.
After graduation he took a job
as a bookkeeper-and got fired.
Unable to find work elsewhere, he
became a laborer in the Pennsyl-
vania oil fields.
Then, when he was 26, came the
great Alaskan gold rush of 1898.
With a pack of beans and bacon
on his back, he SHRUGGED through
Chilkoot Pass when it was 20 de-
grees below zero, stayed two years
in the north, made his stake and
came home. He settled down in
Marietta, o.
With his savings, he entered the
oil business and proSpered. Then
he branched out into law and poll
tics. He was elected to congress
for several terms and two years
ago he was elected Governor of
Ohio.
Now his state is offering him for
President and he enters the Demo-
cratic national convention at Chi
cago with Ohio's f1fty-two votes
pledged to his support.
Such is the From Newsboy to
Riches" story of Governor George
White of Ohio-and even Horatio
Alger never wrote a more colorful
one.
OK feet tall, raw-boned and
~ rugged, Governor White is as
hard as nails today, despite his go
years. He has a craggy chin and
deep-set blue eyes, a head that is
almost hairless and a mouth that
smiles on the slightest provoca-
ton.
AL his life he has been mans
man-but he knows how to wear
dinner clothes when the occasion
arises and he can find his way
around at social functions with
out embarrassment.
His chief claims to the nomina-
ton are that he has made a good
Governor for Ohio and that, as
chairman of the Democratic ma
tional committee in 1920, he met
and favorably impressed many Of
the western and southern party
leaders. His political acquaint-
anceship is indeed wide one.
He is dry, but reasonable"
one. Years ago he was the Anti
Saloon Leagues spokesman in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24

no specimen cost more than our
Giant Monitor he said.
It is not often that an actually
hitherto unidentified creature of
any size is discovered nowadays,
the eartI's jungle trails being the
highways that they are.
So when word came out of the
Island Of Kornodo in the Dutch
East Indies a few years ago that
dragons held carnival there pulses
of biologists moved up.
DOUGLAs BURDEN, veteran
- scientific explorer, sensed the
dragons lure. Heading an expedi-
ton to Komodo for the American
museum of natural history, he set
out ready to put $25 900 into the
search and when he came back he
presented to Bronx park the first
two specimens of the twelve-foot
dragon-lizard, Varanus komodoen-
sis, ever exhibited alive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24
AIMEE'S MATE IS
WORRIED AT TRIAL
Pretty Nurse Puts Dents in
Hutton'S Defense.

By ntted Press
LOS ANGELE, June "a. = The
nimble -witted Myrtle Hazel Joan
st. Pierre has brought a cloud to
the broad. brown brow of pudgy
David L. Hutton Jr., baritone choir
leader.
The usually smiling and COM
placent husband of Aimee SempIe
Mcpherson frankly was worried to-
day, as his chief counsel, Mark
Jones. had lost argument after
argument with the attractive young
therapeutic nurse, who is suing
Hutton for 100000 heart balm.
Hutton confded to reporters:
II haven't been making any
money lately, and it's a cinch that
Aimee is not going to pay her of. +"
Mrs. st. Pierre was asked why
she so often went to her bungalow
in West Hollywood. when she had
rooms in Pasadena hotel.
Did you go there just 10 sit on
the divan with Mr.. Hutton?" At
torney Mark Jones asked.
i went there to see my dog, she
responded. The audience A,oared.
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stirred by the arrival in the tenn
perate zone of any other strange
creature in recent times, DR.. Dit
mars said. AS rare quadruped
as ever came to New York, after
all was said and done, he could
be called only a dog.
With a. vast variety of other
alien animals he was shipped up
from the Amazon valley and he
defied Identification as the almost
unknown Icticyon venaticus, Bra
lillian bush dog, until after he had
been studied as though he came
from Mars.
He was the size of a dachs-
hund, but he had short ears, a.
massive head and a tail only an
inch and a half long. He liked
f1attery and plump pullets.
Chief Keeper John Toomey
knows about that. He used to
shake Vasco gently to wake him,
then offer him freshly killed
pullet. VaSco would gobble it and
look around for more. Four made
fair meal.
But he. could not survive. He
went on into geological history
to head the list of his kind known
to man.
Il
THE only others of his species
i of which there is a record are
the short-lived one which the
London ZOO had in 1879, another
the Amsterdam zoo kept func-
tioning a little while in 1914 and
the one that Peter Wilhelm Lund,
Danish naturalist, said he heard a
cry in a voice midway between a
weaSers and a parakeet's in the
Brazilian Businesses in 1912.
1t is lore such as this that DR..
Ditmars will get into his new
animal book to be published with
in the next year by Macmillan.
AS for money value, probably
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24
MAP LOYALTY CRUSADE
Pastors Meet to Discuss Church
Event TO Be Held in FAN.

Plans for the church loyalty cru
SADIE, to be held in Indianapolis Oct.
30 to Dec. IL, we're outlined Thurs
day by DR.. Geoge G. Downey Of
Los Angeles, at a meeting Of pastors
in the Roberts Park Methodist
church.
The meeting was held under the
auspices Of the evangelistic COM
mittee Of the Church Federation Of
Indianapolis. The Rev. W. W.
Want, pastor of the North Meth
odist church, presided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24

Keepers Not Satisfied E1eu With All Their STRANGE Deuigeus

For thirtv-three years Raymond L, Dit
mars has lived among wild animals. not
IN the Jungle but in the midst Of the
CITY. During that time he has been
Curator Of Reptiles and Mammals at
Bronx Park. This is one series re-
counting his adventures. which are no
less exciting because thew did not take
place in the heart Of Africa.
BY WILLIAM ENGLE
Times STAFF Writer
Copyright 1882. by The New York World
Telegram Corp
RI was Janet Penserosa's day. No
Il other rarity of Bronx Park
not even Romeo and Juliet. the ro-
mantle CRATES, nor the guIlible
one-horned rhinoceros the size of
a Iocomotive-vied today for APP
probation with the somber.
motherless little gorilla, one of
only eight to survive the rigors of
the American scene. And she
played up to the occasion.
1t was the third anniversary.
last fall, Of the day she and Ellen
Allegro, her chimpanzee compan-
ION, came in on the Olympic. sick
and terrified and wishing for
west Africa again.
So the table was set. and there
were three candles. Jane and FL
len sat, childlike, in chairs. and
they dined from plates with
knives and forks. It was a feast
day.
Daintily, the small gorilla peeled
an unripe banana and ate the
skin. With fnesse she plucked
the raisins from the rice pudding,
Sunflower seeds were a salad.
and for desert there we're green
leaves, chocolate, buds and the
tender bark of wild cherry and
sweet gum trees.
CHE did not once lose her
~ aplomb nor the shadow of
Mona Lisa in her eyes; even when
Ellen Allegro cut up, even when
Ellen, abruptly reverting to type.
raced all over the place, swept the
plates off the table and threw
straw at the visitors, Janet sat
complacent.
She was affected apparently
only by a gentle melancholy aris-
ing from the raffish didoes of her
friend.
1t pleased her mentor, DR..
Charles V. Noback, head of the
Department of Comparative
Medicine, and her other human
associates. They have set great
store by her and now she is re-
warding confidence.
They think. at the park. that
she is going to thrive even though
the parks first gorilla. costing
$4,000, died twelve days after it
arrived and before it got a name,
and even though Dinah, the
second, lived only few months.
They think she is the most
gifted simian in captivity and
they say that within ten years she
will be the most celebrated gorilla
in the world.
RUT,' said DR.. Raymond L.
IL Ditmars, there aren't many
geological park rarities that show
up so we'll. Take Vasco da Cana"
Vasco created a sensation among
biologists unequaled by that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24
R0BS STEPM0THER;
GETS TODAY TERM
Man Who Broke Into Fathers Home
Given Long Sentence on Farm.


Given Long Sentence on Farm.
Dave Shapiro, 20, who broke into
the home Of his father, Abe Shapiro.
at 1881 South Meridian street, and
stole $3.50 from purse belonging
to his stepmother, was fined 81 and
sentenced to 100 days at the state
farm by Municipal Judge William
H. Sheaffer Thursday.
Two typewriter pages detailing
the youths police record were pre-
sented in court by detectives. The
record includes an eight months
term in Los Angeles for auto theft.
Released on bond May 30. after
breaking into his fathers home.
Shapiro was caught when he slipped
into the Speedway to witness the
annual Memorial day race, and as
result, served a thirteen-day Jail
term imposed by justice of the
peace
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24
TO CHANGE RULE. SIG.
cor So short)

DOUBTFUL. 81.
MicbiSan ........ IS Philippines ..... s
Mississippi $500. 20
Twice in twenty years-19l2 and
1924-the rule almost wrecked the
party.
But it gave the nation Woodrow
Wilson, and often has prevented
northern Republican states from
naming a Democratic candidate un-
acceptable TO the once-solid Demo-
cratic south.
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Woman. 1O5. Raps Modern Dress

BIZ DHifed Press
DOVER, N. j., June 24.-Mrs. Jane
Thorne was los years old Thursday,
and she celebrated the event by dis
cussing current history. Young
women, she declared. were all right
in every respect 2 sept the kind
OF clothes they r."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24

The Pilgrims and the Maydower
ere Of chief interest in we Be-
gin by Helen Grace Carlisle.
This is the July choice Of the
Book League OF America, She
states that "in order TO under
stand my Pilgrim friends I had
TO 90 10 their source Of all con-
duct, the Bible, the Old Tesla
ment."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24

Pigmy hippOpotami, highly
priced inmates of Bronx ZOO, and
at left, an armadillo, lust as
valuable as he is tough, which is
very tough indeed.
tory, near Lake Victoria Nyanza.
VINO comes of a species far more
common, should be jealous of his
prestige, but is not; she is con-
tent with her reputation as one Of
the most docile and plessahtest
OF park citizens.
Gle, you see, doesn't have
~ anything to do with rarity.
For example, there are the hip
popotami"
A hippopotamus, tons of it. is
no marvel to biologists, said DR..
Ditmars. They are used to it.
Even Peter Great, twenty-eight
years old now, and such an ag-
greeable fellow that he will open
his cavernous mouth upon re-
quest, is of the not uncommon
species still numbering along lakes
and big rivers of central East
Africa.
But distinction graces the
pygny hippopotami. They are.
DR.. Ditmars thinks, close to the
top of the list of ZOO prizes.
So when pair we're captured
by natives in Liberia in 1912,
Unanswered into great baskets
and slung under poles to be car
rled through the forest to the
nearest river transportation. the
park set out to procure them.
They cost $4,000, but were a
good investment.
They never have missed a. meal.
never been i'll, and the lady is as
idyllic mother as dwells in the
Bronx.
nut of that far polar waste of
~ Greenland above Franz Jo-
SET Fiord the parks first pair Of
musk-oxen came in 1923, and in
1925 the first musk-ox ever bred
in captivity was born. 1t lived
four days, for its mother was too
weak.
That mother though, and other
muSk-oxen at the park now are
thriving; if pneumonia. their
nemesis in this land that is tropic
for them, spares them they will
do better by and by.
OF DR.. DitmarS' rare eccentrics.
the giant armadillo has no peer.
and even in his rich book.
Strange Animals I Have Met"
no animal is stranger. When
William Beebe asked native hunt
ers in British New Guineau to
try to get him one of these
"Mowoorimah' for New York
they thought he TESTED and they
laughed.
Catch two tiger, alive, per-
haps, but no Mowoorimah," the
chief hunter told him.
The native knew the armadil-
10, cornered or wounded, is a foe
puma, and legends of his race told
him of CHASTITY encounters as far
back as prehistoric days when the
creature preserved in fosiD grew
seven feet long.
Today's armadillo is a whippet
tank and comes four and a half
feet long. Though he is classed
as edentate, or toothless one, he
has sixty-eight well-formed teeth
more than any other mammal
but the whale-besides an esti-
mated 100000 auxiliary teeth that
cover his entire tongue. Beebe
and the natives finally got one for
the park.
Yet with such as these the 20
ologists are not satisfied. There
still are strange denizens of the
planet that evade them.
"THERE isn't a zooman in the
l. world who wouldn't give his
soul for an African okapi," Dit
mars said. A tolerable price, it
seems, since the okapi is no more
than a kind of small, duel zebra
and giraffe, with repressions.
I'D like white rhinoceros, too,
and an earthworm, one of the
Australian giant earthworns that
grow six feet long"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24
GOLD RUSH HERO IS CANDIDATE ::


Following is the second in a series of
five articles on favorite sons who will
figure in the Democratic national con-
VpntiOn
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The manuscript OF Lady Eleanor
Smiths new novel, "Ballerina," has
been received by the Bobbs-Merrin
Company. 1t is being prepared for
publication early in July and will be
the first novel by Lady Eleanor
Smith to be brought out in this
country before it is published in
England
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RUT,' said DR.. Raymond L.
ID Ditmars, there aren't many
geological park rarities that show
up so we'll. Take Vasco da Cana. 8"
Vasco created a sensation among
biologists unequaled by that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24

"A Fable for Wives" written by
Robert Mcclure and published by
Doubleday, Doran ($2), is "a fable
for those pretty. clever, disconnected
Young wives and brisk young Amer
loan husbands, who danced and
golfed and loved in those halcyon
years when money came easily and
went fast-before the market
rashed y
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24

The rule can be changed by a
mere majority, SIS, if it is recon-
mended by the rules committee at
the start of the convention.
After the convention has got
under way, however, any change
must command a two-thirds vote.
An unofficial canvass as of to-
day-and not allowing for last
minute shifts under pressure
showed that the lineup is as fol-
lows:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-08
Class Chanticleer
AS Public Enemy

Chicago, Sept. 8.-(ReGang-
land activities In Chicago having
subsidized, the police were looking
today for a new public enemy.
It's a rooster.
Eleven letters and eighty-seven
telephone complaints about the
boisterous voice Of the bird were
received from residents Of the
neighborhood in which the roost-
er does his Growing.
Hes been keeping babies,
nervous women, and strong men
awake" said one complainant.
We'll get that bird" said De-
tective Earl Flannery. IF we have
to pursue him from Chicago to
Evanston. He's a public enemy"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-08
DEMOCRATS SPEAK
i FROM TRAIN HERE
Boston Mayor and Massachu-
sets Congressman Cam.
paign For Roosevelt

A meeting Of r. B. Murphy. North
Dakota candidate for congress, and
James M. Curley, Boston mayor, here
Wednesday evening led to q brief
Democratic rally.
Mayor Curley and his companion,
Congressman Conroy of Massachu-
sets. were induced by Murphy to give
short talks from the platform of their
coach.
A crowd Of several hundred per-
sons, who had gathered at the depot
to greet the American Legion special
train from Minnesota, heard the
speeches, which were short since the
train stopped here only q few min
utes.
Farm relief will be Forthcoming
only after Franklin D. Roosevelt Is
elected president, the speakers said,
declaring that Herbert Hoover has
failed to effect the relief he promised
in his 1928 campaign.
Say Roosevelt Gaining
Roosevelt IS gaining popularity
steady in Massachusetts, at this time.
they said, and his prospects for VIC
tory In that state were described as
bright.
The speakers urged the election Of
Murphy to congress from North Da-
kota.
The fasteners are on their way to
the Pacific coast, where Mayor Curley
expects to spend a month campaign
ing in behalf Of Roosevelt. With the
NJ oil
Jr. the mayors son.
In q five-minute talk from the rear
of his train at Fargo Wednesday at
ternoon. Curley held Hoover's admin
istration responsible for the current
economic ills of America and the re-
sultant widespread unemployment,
and declared this situation will re-
suit in Hoover's defeat in November.
Curley gave credit for building the
recent period of prosperity to Wood
row Wilson and gave Calvin Coolidge
credit for conserving TT
win Garry Message
Il have been assigned to carry the
message of Franklin D. Roosevelts
candidacy for the presidency to the
cities along the northern section of
the nation and on the Pacific Coast"
said Curiey.
In every section visited I have
found the people almost of one mind
in favor Of the return of Hoover to
private life.
while I was in Chicago 1t was an
nounced the Illinois governor has
called q special session Of the legisla-
ture to find means of raising money
to save zoo, 900 people In the state from
starvation this winter.
isn't it an extraordinary situation
where Republican governor in a Re-
publican state must call special ses-
sion Of the legislature go days before
the national presidential election, to
prevent starvation of hundreds of
thousands of persons this winter, be-
cause public and private relief funds
are exhausted?"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-08
Wilton Resident Is
Sentenced to Jail

H. G. Anderson, Wilton, was SEN
fenced to 30 days in jail and fined
500 and costs here Wednesday after
he pleaded guilty to q charge of oper-
ating a motor vehicle without IL
tence.
Justice r. H. Crane imposed SEN
fenced.
Anderson was arrested by William
Franklin, representative Of the state
motor vehicle department. Anderson
later win face a charge Of stealing q
set Of license plates from an automo-
bile belonging to Bismarck woman,
Franklin said.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-08
Resume Harvesting
In Western Canada

Ottawa, Ont, Sept. 8.-(P)-After a
halt last week, occasioned by wet
weather. harvesting is general once
more in the Prairie Provinces, the
Dominion bureau Of statistics report
ed in the last of a series Of is weekly
Geographic reports Wednesday.
The rainy weather has caused con-
siderable discoloring and bleaching,
but sprouting was limited by low tenn
peratures. Some loss of grade is re-
ported In southern Alberta.
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for the extension Of airway westward
from Bismarck, completing a north
ern transcontinental line, was ex-
pressed here Wednesday night by
Senator Gerald P. Nye, speaking be-
fore q gathering Of civic organiza-
lions.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-08

Vatican City, Sept. 8.-(P)-Mon-
signor Francis ]. Spellman Of Whit
man, Mass, only American prelate at
the Vatican, was consecrated auxi-
liary bishop at Boston at st. Peters
Thursday by Cardinal Eugenio Pa
celli, papal secretary Of state.
1t was the first time an American
bishop has been consecrated in the
great Basilica, which is the center of
the Catholic faith throughout the
world.
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Nye Confident of
Airline Extension

Dickinson, N. D., Sept. e.-(R)-Con-
fidence that the next session Of con-
gress would provide an appropriation
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Evening star., 1932-04-06

The "gyrotiller," machine for pull
verizing and aerating the soil through
the operation of two rotating steel rings
to which are attached IL plow arms,
has been invented In England.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
SELECTION OF CHAIRMAN
WILL WAIT, SAYS BURKE
q. o. p. Counsel Asserts Party viii
Not Make Mistake" of
Democrats.

James Francis Burke, counsel for the
Republican National Committee ex-
pressed the opinion today that the Re-
publicans would not make the mistake
the Democrats did In selecting q per-
manent convention chairman in ad-
vance. The committee in charge Of the
meeting in Chicago on April l6, he
said. would select "a fine slate" but do
nothing about a permanent chairman.
Burke said he was surprised" that
the recent meeting of the Democratic
Arrangements Committee had selected
a permanent chairman as well as a
keynoter. contending this was vio-
lation of customary practice.
The committee counsel conferred with
President Hoover during the afternoon,
saying afterward he had talked over
general political conditions"
Evening star., 1932-04-06
SALMON FOR C0UGHLIN
Second Bangor Pool Fish to Honor
Priest for Radio Talks.

BANGOR, Me, April [P.-When
the second Penobscot salmon Of the
season was landed from the Bangor
pool Monday at the end Of line
manipulated by DR.. John Thomas Of
Rockland. it Travelled the first lap OF a
journey to Michigan.
DR.. Thomas said he Intends to ship
his l7-pound speckled prize to Rev
Father Charles Coughlip. pastor of the
Little Flower Mission at Royal Oak.
Mich, in appreciation OF Father Cough
Inns radio broadcasts.
The first salmon. caught Saturday.
was shipped yesterday 70 President
Hoover.
Evening star., 1932-04-06

One shoemaker and one sailor are
among the signers Of the Declaration OF
Independence.
Evening star., 1932-04-06

Miss Wynona Riley and Mrs. M. r.
Clayton of Spartanburg, S. c., are at
the Dodge for several days.