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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30
Questions and
Answers

Could an alien seaman who de-
serted his ship in the United States
in 1924 become an American citizen?
He has no legal residence in this
country and must leave the United
states and re-enter legally before he
can be naturalized.
How many eyes has a flea?
Two simple eyes.
When was the silent version of
Edna Ferber's $50 Big" first pro-
duced, and who starred in the pic
ture?
First National produced it in 1925,
starring Colleen Moore.
What does the white band on
the arm of a sailors uniform
mean?
1t signifies that he is an appren-
tice seaman. The stripe is removed
when he receives rating.
Which states have the shortest
residence requirement for filing a
divorce suit?
Nevada requires six weeks; Idaho
and Arkansas both require ninety
days.
Was the former kaiser of Ger
many also emperor of Austria?
No.
Do participants in the Olympic
games receive any compensation?
They are strictly amateurs and
can not receive salaries or monetary
remuneration of any kind.
What is the highest score in runs
by a major league baseball team
during a single season?
The Boston Nationals scored 1921
In 1894,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30
RAYS of Radiun1

ID ALBUM, as every one knows,
N was discovered by the Curies.
But it was Lord Rutherford who
made the analysis of the mysterious
rays given off by radium.
He showed that these rays were
of three kinds The first three let
tiers of the Greek alphabet were
applied to them as names.
The first kind, the alpha rays,
were shown by Rutherford to be
electrified atoms of helium, or, as
they became known at a later date,
the nuclei of helium atoms.
The second kind, the beta rays,
were shown to be electrons. The
third kind, the gamma rays, we're
shown to be true rays, like X-rays,
only much shorter.
The alpha and beta rays, be-
cause of their nature, frequently
are referred to as alpha and beta
particles.
From his study of radium. Ruth
erford laid the foundations for the
theory that the atom consisted of
a central nucleus made up of pro-
tons and electrons around which
more electrons revolved. CThe pro-
ton is positive electron. Ordinary
electrons possess a negative cleo
trical charge)
The behavior of radium was seen
therefore as a disintegration of the
nucleus of the radium atom, the
alpha and beta particles being
erupted from the nucleus by the
disintegration
The gamma rays presented more
difficult problem, one which still
holds the attention of scientists.
1t is this question of the origin
OF the gamma rays which Ruther-
ford discussed before the Royal In
stitution in his recent address, as
already stated.
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No Basis for Idea

THE government seems to have
4 imagined that the bonus
marchers would leave Washington
when congress adjourned, though
why still is mystery. The bonus
marchers never said anything to
justify it,
On the other hand, they con-
stantly asserted that they would
remain until 1945, if that were nee
essary to get what they wanted.
All things considered, why
shouldn't they? In spite of their
sorry plight, most of them were
just as we'll off in Washington as
they would have been anywhere
else.
just before congress adjourned,
President Hoover asked for an ap-
preparation of $125OOO with which
to provide the bonus marchers
transportation back home. Some of
them took the money and used it
for that purpose.
Some of them took it and used
it for other purposes perfectly
logical incident in the farce.
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Times Readers Voice Their Views

of these heads who are to remain
to do the work actually do some
work other than exchanging politi-
cal gossip, the shock will be greater
than some will be allie to bear.
have assembled these remarks
with the idea of bringing them to
the readers of your paper so that
they might form their own opinion
of the manner in which the secre-
tary of states Office has gone about
reducing their tax.
1 also have set them down with
the hope that such a gross injustice
might be rectified. We taxpayers
should be able to make use of a
saving effected by extending that
two week lay-off to include all
employees of the secretary of states
Office, regardless of what they earn.
We know we can use the addition
al revenue. Furthermore, let's have
Democrats in the statehouse be
democratic.
WILBUR SHANTY.
Editor Times-Congress has evap-
grated. and, as should have been
expected, its campaign promises for
relief have all gone up in mist.
Instead of giving relief to the
hungry millions, it sought only to
more firmly fasten the strangle-
hold of the big capitalists, who have
already brought this country to its
knees.
But it did another thing for GER
tain. It either proved its inability
to handle the depressed condition,
or is bent on driving this country
into reign of terror. 1t is true
that a so-called relief measure was
passed, but it also is true that glar-
ing deception was passed for the
sole purpose of preventing the voters
from starving to death before tn.
election.
After the election of either Hoo
yer or Roosevelt. we will find our
selves in a worse condition than
were the chattel slaves in this coun-
try in 1860
For don't forget this. There has
not been. in forty years. presi-
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'campesino" has been awarded a
life pension and a medal for his
persistence.
A Death Defying Stunt-Martin
Barcaittegui, famous in taurom-
achy under his boyhood name of
Martincho, acquired undying fame
by incredible feats of temerity in
the bull ring A favorite stunt of
his was to await the rushing bull
while seated in a chair, and to
dispatch it in the same position
while his feet were shackled with
leg irons that prevented his
slightest movement.
The Spanish painter Goya i'm
mortalized one of those moments
in his famous painting of mar
tincho in the ring.
MOnday-"The Mysterious Roll
ing Tombstone"
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Following is the explanation of
Ripley's Believe It or Not" which
appeared in Fridays Times.
The Duke of Alba-The present
Duke of Alba, most blue-blooded
member of the aristocracy of
Spain, was born in 1878. In adj
dition to all his titles of nobility,
he is an attorney-at-law, former
senator by right of birth, and the
owner of many baronies and
extensive estates, as we'll as the
holder of the most exclusive
decorations by the governments of
Europe.
The Duke has inherited all his
titles by right of being descended
from fourteen grandees of Spain.
A BurrOwed Castle in Spain
Twenty-Five years ago, Limo
Bueno, whom the inhabitants of
Alcolea del Pinar affectionately
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ,

Conservation of Energy Lai0
May Be Tossed OUerboard
by Scientists.
CCIENCE may have to throw
~ overheard the law Of conserva-
ton OF energy. This suggestion,
contained in an address before the
Royal Institution of London by
Lord Rutherford, director of the
Cavendish laboratory of the Uni
versity of Cambridge, is the most
radical pronouncement that has hit
science in the twentieth century.
If scientists find it necessary to
do what Rutherford suggests, rev.
olution far greater than any caused
by the Einstein theory of relatively
will have taken place in the world
of science.
For after all the changes occa-
stoned in modern thinking by devel-
opment of relatively, a few foun-
dalton stones we're left more secure
than ever Among them was this
law of conservation of energy.
This law held that there was a
total amount of energy in the uni
verse and that in all the activities
of the universe energy merely
changed from one form to another
The law held that energy neither
could be created nor destroyed.
Recent experiments have led
Rutherford to this new view The
address which Rutherford delivered
before the Royal Institution was
titled THE Origin of the Gamma
Rays"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hvgeia, the
Health Magazine,

DIAGNOSIS at the earliest pos
~ sible moment is important, not
because much can be done for null
tiple sclerosis, but because relief
might be given if some of the other
diseases which resemble multiple
sclerosis happen to be responsible
for the symptoms.
Thus the presence Of a definite
infection in the central nervous sys-
tenn or tumor of the brain may be
determined by scientific medical
methods.
Moreover, there are certain cases
of hysteria in which there is no &C
tual destruction of tissue present, in
which mental treatment may be of
value; yet these cases of hySteria
may resemble multiple Sclerosis.
Recently, investigators in the Neu-
rologic Institute in New York have
been studying the effect of quinine
on such cases.
Use of the quinine was based on
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Here's Funny Part of 1t

mere S FUNNY FdfI OF II
ITS apologists say that the gov
l. eminent has been very patient,
and maybe they are right. Any
way. the government waited six
weeks after getting the tranSporta-
ton fund and then called out the
regulars.
1t needed the old abandoned
buildings and shacks which the bo-
nus marchers were occupying. They
had to be torn down to prepare the
way for new structures.
Allowing them to remain would
interfere with relief of unemploy-
ment through public work. 1t
sounds all right, but why didn't
somebody think of it before?
Well, the bonus marchers are
scattering, just as you and I would
in the face of bayonets-some of
them for home; some of them for
anywhere.
But here's the funny part of it.
They are being met and turned back
by police patrols at the borders of
neighboring states, which shows
what might have been done when
they started for the national capital,
but what ought not to be done when
they are trying to get away.
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Daily Thought

/ said in mine heart, Go to
now, / will prove thee with mirth,
therefore enjoy pleasure; and, be-
hold, this also is vanity.-Ecclesi-
astes I'll.
Every mans vanity ought to be
his greatest shame-Quarles.
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Your Questions Answered

You can get an answer to
any answerable question of
fact or information by writing
to Frederick M. Kerby, CUES
ton Editor, indianapolis Times
Washington Bureau, 1922 New
York avenue, Washington. en-
closing cents in coin or post
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and legal advice can not be
given, nor can extended re-
search be made. All other
questions will receive a per-
sonal reply.
All letters are confidential.
You are cordially invited to
make use of this free service as
often as you please. Let our
Washington Bureau help with
your problems.
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Experts

These be hard times for all of us, but particu-
larly the expert He was the first thing hquidated
after the depression hit And now everybody is TAX
ing kick at him.
When times are good, the expert thrives because
lot of the good news is credited to him, though
he doesn't play any personal part in creating it, All
he has to do is to draw lot of graphs and charts,
to cite lot of figures and predict that we are in a
new era, and ride the wave.
But when things turn the other way and his pre-
dctions fail to pan out the expert soon is knocked
from his pedestal
Peter Witt, long famous in the politics of Cleve-
land, defined expert a who is hundred
miles away from home and gets a hundred dollars
a day.
And now Senator Borah, advocating his world con-
ference on war debts has this to say about the
pert:
ct would exclude all experts; at least would put
them on the other end of the long-distance tele-
phone They far have been detrimental to every
conference which they have dominated. They would
sterilize the humanitarian impulses of the angels
A butcher will be the principal witness in a New
England murder case. And when he gets through
testifyng the defense will probably claim it is just
lot of bologney.
Now Ireland is about to start tariff war with
England. Some of De Valeras kinsmen here
could give him few facts about how often tariff
backf1res.
One great advantage to loving in December as you
did in May is that the sun tan will be gone by De-
cember
Things aren't so bad as they might be, after all
Just imagine that instead of wheat surplus had
too much spinach.
Among other false rumors heard Immediately
after the conventions the one saying that the Re
publicans going to end the depression for
paign purposes.
member of the Explorers Club claims that he
never has tried to find anything without being
cessfuL How about sending him around that corner
to hunt prosperity?
One unusual thing about hot weather is that we
never seem to mind until the health department
starts giving out advice about how to keep COOL
There are two kinds of gangsters. The quck-on-
the-trigger and the dead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30

Now Ireland is about to start tariff war with
England Some of De Valera's kinsmen over here
could give him few facts about how often tariff
war backfres
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30

One great advantage to loving in December as yol
did in May is that the sun tan will be gone by De
cember.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30

butcher will be the principal witness in New
England murder And when he gets through
testifyng the defense will probably claim it is just
lot of bologney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30

Things aren't so bad they might be, after all
Just imagine that instead of wheat surplus We hat
too much spinach.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30
Early Diagnosis Needed in Sclerosis

This is the second of two articles by
DR.. Fishbein on multiple sclerosis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30

Among other false rumors heard Immediately
after the conventions the saying that the Re
pubcans were going to end the depression for cam
paign purposes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30

There are two kinds of gangsters The quick-on-
the-trigger and the dead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30

One unusual thing about hot weather is that We
never seem to mind until the health department
starts giving out advice about how to keep cool.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-30

A member of the Explorers Club claims that he
never has tried to find anything without being sue
cessful. How about sending him around that corner
to hunt prosperity?
The Washington times., 1932-10-27
:SHAD INCREASE,
PRICE DROPS

The catch of shad in the Po-
tomac River in 1882 was the third
largest in history, the Bureau Of
Fisheries made known today. The
catch this year included 352,74S
roes and 422,711 bucks, totaling
2,264,168 pounds valued at $173,-
353 to the fishermen. The catch
of alewives for the season
amounted to 17,109,533 fish, with
a total weight of 6,844,613 pounds
valued at $24,041.
These figures indicate an in
crease of 10 per cent in the vol.
ume of shad taken in the Poto-
mac, and a decrease of 10 per
cent in the value of the shad
catch as compared to 1881. The
catch of alewives decreased z
per cent in volume and 81 per
cent in value.
The average value Of shad to
fishermen now is TT, as com.
pared to 9.4 cents a pound in
1881, while .alewives are worth
$1.41 a thousand now as COM
pared to $3.02 last year.
The Washington times., 1932-10-27
c. v. j. SPURNS
APPEAL BY
LIBERALS
RadicaIism Raped as Board
Bans League Activities
As Tradition Menace

Radicalism and academic
freedom for students and in
structors" have been given
the official "thumbs down"
at George Washington Univer-
sity.
A petition of the National Stu
dents League, an organization
with branches in so prominent
universities, for university recog-
milton has been refused by the
board of trustees in a letter signed
by its secretary, Harry c. Davis.
The league, which advocates
abolition of compulsory military
training and favors recognition OF
Soviet Russia, is officially recog.
nized at several universities, in
Guiding Columbia, the University
of Chicago, and the City College
of New York.
Counter to Tradition
The letter from the board OF
trustees bases it's refusal on the
ground that it cannot recognize
an organization which has for
it's objective type of activity not
in accord with the academic ira.
dition Of the university"
During the past summer, Ed
mund Stevens, and Gabriel Car.
rit, graduate of oxford Univer-
sity, England, who is doing
graduate work at Columbia,
came to washington as organizers
of the local branch.
Carrit is also a member of the
national executive committee Of
the league.
Kentucky Probe Recalled
The organization gained ma
tional fame when it sponsored a
student tour to investigate con-
ditions in the mining sections OF
Kentucky and later when it par
ticipated in the student strike at
Columbia University over the eX-
pulSion of Reed Harris, editor Of
student publication.
It is planned to send a letter
to DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, presi-
dent of George Washington Uni
vresity, to obtain an interview.
The organization is composed Of
students from George Washing
ton, Wilson Teachers College,
Benjamin Franklin University,
Howard University, and Miner
Teachers College.
The Washington times., 1932-10-27
PER|LS
/, To BOYSC|TED

Need of stricted supervision of
dance halls, poolrooms and "all-
night" shows in these times Of
economic distress when young boys
are more susceptible to physical
and moral hazards" was empha-
sized today by Miss Aida Bowler,
of the Federal Children's Bureau.
Addressing the Regional Con-
ference on Social Hygiene at the
Washington Hotel, Miss Bowler
urged renewed zeal" in social
hygiene activities to ward off dan
gers incident to the present crisis.
Budget Slashing in communities
throughout the nation has caused
a curtailment in law enforcement
activities and the definite need
now is for increased supervision
of places, attractive to adolescent
boys, she said.
The Washington times., 1932-10-27
BUS TAX. BEGINS
SATURDAY

With the new mileage tax on
all classes Of busses scheduled
to go into effect Saturday, the
Public. Utilities Commission today
began collecting statistics designed
to show the effect the new tax
will have.
Under the new law, busses are
taxed eight-tenths of a cent a
mile. Figures collected by the
Commission reveal busses oper-
ated approximately 5,803,OO0 miles
on District streets during the last
year. This operation means a
tax Of approximately $46,5OO.
This mileage does not include
operation of busses through park
areas which are under the juris-
diction of the Office of Public
Buildings and Public Parks. Sta
tistics relative to the park mile
age operation are now being pre-
pared by the various companies.
In addition to the mileage tax,
the new law provides a license
fee of 500 each on all SightSee-
ing buSSes. The Commission fixed
the number of these busSes at 81.
The Washington times., 1932-10-27
WOMAN GAGGED
AND ROBBED IN:
APARTMENT
Four HoIdups at Pistol Point,
35 BurgIaries Reported
in 24-Hour Period

Police have been instructed
to be on the alert more than
ever because of the fact that
thugs are becoming more dar-
ing and are now, according to
police reports, entering private
homes and holding up their vic
Tins at points Of pistols.
Police reports show four hold
ups at pistol point and 35 burg
laries in the District during the
24-hour period ending at 8 a. m.
today.
The loot obtained was valued
at approximately $1,000.
Mrs. Lottie Gold, 40, was held
up, bound and gagged by a white
man in her apartment in the 1400
block Park Rd. N. W., yesterday
and robbed of $500.
Another Similar Case
A short time later three armed
men made a similar entry to the
apartment of Arthur C. Storke, in
the 800 block Tenth st. N. w.
They rang the bell, as they did
in the Gold case, and when
Storke answered he was forced
into the room by the thugs, who
told him to hand over his money.
Storke said one of the men
pointed pistol at his chest and
commanded him to keep quiet.
Disregarding the order, Storke
yelled, whereupon the three men
ran from the apartment without
getting anything.
Police have not as yet captured
those robbers nor the two armed
men who esterday morning, over.
powered, bound and gagged DR..
Leo F. F. Diegelman, in his drug
store in tho 1900 block New
Hampshire Avenue Northwest.
Held Up and Robbed
Elmer KEN, said that while
he was walking at Third and H
Streets NORTH west, last night, two
colored men held him UP at pistol
point and robbed him Of $1.5O.
He lives in the 900 block Third
Street Northeast.
A colored mali entered the fill.
ing station at Ninth and Penn
sylvania Avenue Southeast, short,
" after 8 a. IN. today and after
asking Walter Peteet, the man.
ager, for a match pulled a pistol
from his pocket, raj from the
station. Police believe the man
planned a robbery but lost his
nerve.
Lynch D. Waller said someone
entered his home in the 100
block Columbia Rd. N. w., last
night by means of a duplicate
key and took clothing and jewelry
valued at $210.
Joseph A. Mullen, Philadelphia
salesman, reported samples Of
clothing and rugs valued at $195
were stolen from his automobile
parked at Seventh and E Streets
| Northwest,
The Washington times., 1932-10-27
DAY.
FETE TONIGHT
GALA AFFAIR
Marchers Hope RainIess Skies
Will Favor Parade
Along Avenue

Hoping for clearing skies,
10000 members of local and
out-of-town fraternal, patriotic
and military groups are pre-
pared to march tonight in the
Fraternal Day pageant-parade
sponsored by the District BIZ
centennial Commission.
Forming near the Peace Monu-
ment, the first of the more than
100 marching units will start the
procession westward on Pennsyl-
vania Avenue at 1880 o'clock. The
column will turn left into Fiji
teenth Street and pass in review
at Constitution Avenue and Six
teenth Street.
General Malone To Lead
Composed of eight divisions,
the procession, under the COM
mand of Maj. Gen. Paul B. Ma
lone, grand marshal, includes 20
bands and a score of floats, the
costumes and decorations tellNg
the story of growth of frater-
nalism in the United States.
Following is the marching or
der:
FIRST DIVISION
Platoon of Washington Police, Mai.
zen. Paul B. Malone, U. S. A., and
Staff, distinguished guests (members
OF the Washington BicentenniaI Com
mlssion(, in automobiles. Army Band,
Capt; William J. stannard. leader;
dhtrd Battalion, Twelfth Infantry,
First Battalion, Sixteenth Field Ar
tiIiery. Third Cavalry Band, Second
Squadron, Third Cavalry.
SECOND DIVISION
Fox Fox Theater Cadet Band. Supreme
Knights of Pythias in automobiles,
Uniform Rank, Major General Tugrle,
commanding; Hanover, Pa, Knights of
Pythias Band, Subordinate Lodges,
Knights of Pythias in order of SEN
lorlty OF initiation, Knights of Khoras-
san' Supreme Temple and Grand Tenn
pie officers, Pyehian Sisters in automo-
6iies. Westminster (Md.) Bugls and
Drum Corps, Pythian Sisters.
THIRD DIVISION
Improved Order Of Red Men, D, C.,
Odd Fellows Band, marchers in uni
form; Improved Order of Red Men of
Grams of Foreign Wars Band, Degree
Of Pocahontas, Float (ths rescue Of
Capt. John Smith by Pocahontas); Or
der Of Eastern Star.
FOURTH DIVISION
Alexandria Post Drum Corps, Junior
Order of United American Mechanics.
Daughters of America in uniform, float
(Littls Red Schoolhouse), Elks Boys
Band, B. P. o. e. marchers, Sons and
Daughters Of Liberty.
FIFTH DIVISION
Washington Boys Independent Band,
Royal Arcanum and Loyal Ladies of
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