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The Washington times., 1933-09-15
j. s. MAP SHOWS
SKYLINE DRIVE

Persons planning motor trips to
the Shenandoah Valley from
Washington and over the new
Skyline Drive when it is opened I'd
the public will be interested in 3
new Typographical map published
this week by the Geological Survey
office Of the Interior Department
The map shows an area Of 233
square miles, including the heart
of the proposed Shenandoah Ma
tional Park, the caverns of LuraJ
and a short stretch of Massanutten
Mountain.
It also shows about half tho
length of Skyline Drive, Appala
chan Mountain Club trails and
other highways and roads within
the area. The surface of the land
is indicated by fine contour lines
drawn at vertical intervals Of Sd
feet in the mountains and 20 feet
in the valleys. 1t is distributed BY
the Government for 10 cents.
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THE VOICE OF Broadway

the Sanchez brothers who you
stumble into at almost every
place you visit. Never together.
George and his pretty wife,
Brownie" are usually su--
rounded by half a dozen beauti-
full girls and occasionally an
odd man or two. Hulio and his
pretty wife are usually sur
rounded by half a f:ozen hand
some men and occasionally an
odd girl or two. You'll see
them at o'clock in the morn
ing, at 2, at 3, at 4, and If you
stay up that late, at S.
You see them at almost every
cocktail part.' you attend. The
boys are Cuban sugar Million
aires, reported to have fabulous
fortunes. They were educated
in this country and at one time
Hulio was a famous runner and
champion amateur golfer. He's
the chap who, when the super
intendent of his plantation
came running up to him, terror
stricken, with the news that the
Machado dynasty had fallen
and that a bloody revolution
was bursting about their ears,
reached for a fishing pole AMI
went fishing. A third brother,
Marcel, came in from Cuba yes.
terday. He was still at the Ha-
Aa Club at S in the morning
when left. He will probably
become a part of our night life.
I am very fond Of the San
chezeS. They never let me pay
q check. George is especially
agreeable. Two weeks ago, OBJ
sell ing that / was tired, almost
ready to drop from lack of sleep,
he suggested, gently, that he
would drive home with me. He
did. He brought five or six of
his friends along to keep US
company. He saw me to my
door and entered with me as
did the st. It was $3.50 in the
morning, with the sun stream
ing in through the open win.
dOwS, before George and his
friends started to leave. Louie
is very tired" m u r muir ed
George, 81 think we ought to
make him 60 to bed" So they
had four more rounds of drinks
and then accompanied me to
the office and watched me write
q column. 1t was then / D. m.!!
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Telegraph and Plane Bills
Fret Farley, Eastman

Postmaster General Farley had
to remind the young go-getters
that there is such a thing as the
mail service.
Now it looks as though Joseph
B. Eastman might have to re-
mind them that there is such a
thing as train service.
The enterprising executives of
the NRA Swamped the telegraph
companies with messages and ran
up amazing telephone bills when
they went on the job, so much
SO that Farley looked into the
case.
He found that a good many
of the kilograms might as well
have gone by mail, and that some
might very we'll have gone by
freight or not at all.
Consequently he reminded them
that the mails are still operating,
and that they had better be
used unless the Government
would actually save money by
using kilograms or the telephone.
Thereupon the bright young
men of the NRA discovered the
airplane, and they have been
barging about the country like
mad aboard flying machines. The
NRA is beginning to discover that
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Such turs as Japanese mink, squirrel, beaver,
Persian lamb, Kolinsky and fox-in huge face
framing collars, ascot ties, epaulets-the new
wider-shoulder, slimmer-sleeve, longer-length
silhouette-the rich browns, burnt orange,
green shades of this Fall and Winter. An
outstanding collection of coats-for $79.75.
Sizes IA to 20, and SO to A.
COATS, THIRD FLOOR
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BY Louis SObOl.
BROADWAY MERRY-Co-RoUND!

hear she's been offered all sorts
of fabulous sums for personal
appearances. They tell me
she's the subject of half a
dozen songs. I learn she's to
be the central figure of half a
dozen novels. The country's
become Mae West CONSCIOUS
and can't for the life Of me
understand it but I do admire
her for putting herself over
and 1 will say for her that
there's nobody in the country
at present who's presenting a
bigger front. C'mon up and
see muh sometime, babee!
Strange about the moody
melancholy Baby" number.
Just the other night, / heard
what is purpOrted to be the
true story behind it. The COM
poser, q fellow named Burnett,
then playing the Orpheum cir
cult had taken i'll in Kansas
City and while he was laid up,
news carr to him that his wife
with whom he was madly in
love, had divorced him. That
night-New Years Eve, 1913,
incidentally taccOrding to the
story he got out Of bed and
wandered into q small base
ment cafe where among others
were seated Billy Williams, a
Missouri newspaper man and q
fellow named Bill Lengel.
Burnett, a friend of the or
chestra leader, during lull
sat down at the piano and
began lingering the keys idly.
The door opened and in en-
tered a gay party. Burnett
paled for among the party
was his wife. With his eyes
burning into her, he started
to play and the plaintive mel
ody resolved itself into what
was later known as "Melan-
choly Baby" Sometime later,
Lengel, who is now associate
editor of Cosmopolitan used
the incident as the basis of a
rattling swell fiction yarn
tagged, 1.-THE Song of His
Soul"
Attracting attention these
nights at all the hot-spots are
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Worlds First Steamboat
License Found Here

The first steamboat license ever
issued in the world has just been
brought to light here.
1t was just 126 years ago last
month that Robert Fulton sue
cessfully piloted his little Cler-
mont up the Hudson River from
New York to Albany.
That voyage revolutionized the
shipping industry of the world.
The vessel, the first steamship
to operate, carried a Government
license, and that license has just
been discovered among the an
cient records of the Bureau of
Navigation and Steamboat InSpec-
ton.
Harry e. Reisberg, chief Of the
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tonnage division of the bureau,
discovered the license in going
through the 1S1 boxes in which
old records are kept.
Another discovery he made
was that Of the first license ever
issued for a motor yacht. The
license was made out to James
Roosevelt, of Hyde Park, N. Y,
father Of the President.
The yacht, the Half Moon,
was built in 1891, and was 37.5
feet in length, 1914 beam and
ST. draft. Weighing gross tons.
the yacht had one deck and one
mast.
Mr.. Reisberg had a photostat
made Of this license, which he
presented to the President.
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BY QUENTIN REYNOLDS

BY QUENTIN REYNOLDS
SALzBURG, Austria, Sept. Is
u.N.S0.-High above. overhang-
Ing cliff, the Mirabelle Castle
looks down upon Salzburg and the
lights of the city twinkle back
merrily and are ref, ,cted in the
slow-moving waters of the Sal,
zach River.
Salzburg in this time of the
year is perhaps the gayest city in
the world-for depression, unenl-
ployment, and poverty are un-
known here, the summer musical
capital Of the world.
U. S, Tourists, Too
The musical world of London
and Paris comes to Salzburg these
days, and some American tourists,
too, find their way to this birth
place of Mozart which nestles al
the foot of the Tyrolean Alps.
This year the musical carnival,
which ended the last week in
August. was not a bit affected by
worldwide economic conditions
nor hurt by the $500 visa fee
which Germans have to pay now
to enter Austria.
Every man, woman, and child
In SalzbIlrg lives music from
birth, and every one is connected
In one way or another with the
opera, the Serenades. the concerts
or the dramas performed in Salz-
burg.
They are musicians, costume
designers, Stage-hands, actors, or
singers, and each of them makes
his livelihood from music.
Laugh at Politics
Politics. the present conflict
between Hitler and Dollfuss for
the leadership of Austria, and
kindred subjects are mere non
sense to be laughed at by Salz-
burg.
The Austrian, French, or Eng
hsh visitor can have music with
all his meals. awaken to music,
60 to sleep with music, and of
course drink to music all day long.
He will have lunch at any one
Of 80 open air cafes and listen to
real music played by first rate
erchestras. In the afternoon there
will be another concert and at S,
the opera begins in the Festspiel-
hauS.
A. Even Jazz, if You Like
Kids crowd the lobby of the
opera house trying to sneak in,
just as kids in New York or Chi
cago try to sneak into ball park.
After the opera the visitor can
dance at one of a dozen places
to orchestras that play American
jazz a bit contemptuously, con.
descending to American tourists,
but who then play the waltzes
Of Vienna as they are written by
the masters.
For it is gay city, a happy
city. It thinks all things outside
good music are silly, frivolous,
and utterly beyond human under
standing.
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Reluctantly I leap upon the
band wagon ana shout hozan-
mas for the busteous and blonde
Mae West. bow from the
waist down in humble salute.
She's certainly putting it over
and I'm all for her. Frankly
I can name at least half a
dozen ladies of the stage and
screen whom I consider Supe-
rior actresses. I can name half
a dozen otherS-even a dozen
who SurpaSS her in pulchritude.
But I can't name a single one
who's better show woman
and that includes Aimee Sem
pie Mcpherson and Texas Gui-
nan, who rank high. My ad-
miration for the husky-voiced
Mae isn't predicated on her
screen or stage performances
but for the amazing pertinaciUy
and self-created personality OF
the woman.
Because I knew her when.
met her on the night her
play, Sex" opened in Water
bury, Conn. I had never before
seen a play so outSpoken, or to
my mind so salacious-it stun
ned my provincial mind and al
though it wasn't my assign
ment I went back stage, never
theleSS, and got into her dress
ing room for an interview.
Naively I told her I thought
the play was filthier than some
of the burlesque shows that
came to town and asked her
whether she thought she could
get away with it in New York.
I told her aside from that it
wasn't even a good play.
Miss West wasn't Overim-
pressed with the importance of
a Small-tOwn reporter. She
was even less impressed with
a Small-tOwn reporters view
points. I can't print verbatim
what she said but the meat of
it was Broadway would love
"Sex"-the play would run and
run-and if the police inter-
ferred, all the better. Shed be
made. Well, Sex" did all right
but Mae sank lower and
lower in the matter of prestige
and her subsequent plays
those preceding Diamond Lii"
didn't lift her. There was some
police interference-there were
those 10 days at Blackwell's-
a big black smudge against
Mae West.
BY this time I was part and
parcel of the Broadway scene
and I knew what Broadway
thought of Mae West, her act
ing and her plays and her
private life. ! even wrote
paragraph or two lambasting
the stuffings out of her type
Of plays and her type of roles.
But somehow Madame West
kept her name in print and in
conversation. And in the past
seven or eight months I haven't
been able to pick up a maga-
zine, a newspaper. pass bill
board or get together with three
or four people without seeing
or hearing the name of Mae
West.
-! hear she's the greatest
thing in Hollywood these days.
hear her name is mentioned
twice to the once of Greta
Carlo or Marlene Dietrich. I
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they are so eager to fly that they
waste q lot of time when they
might be travelling by train.
In fact, the story was being
recounted today with considerable
gusto of a moderately big shot
who waited two days for flying
weather, apparently never having
allowed the thought to enter his
mind that he might take a train.
The Department Of Commerce
announced today that 100 charm
ing young women are acting as
hoStesses on air lines. Maybe
that has something to do with
the fad for flying.
Or maybe the railroads should
have hostesses too. The sugges-
ton is advanced gratis to the
coordinator,
The Washington times., 1933-09-15
SWEATSHOPS HIT

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. IS
U.N.S0.-As the first move to
combat sweatshop labor in Ohio
under provisions of a new law, a
Statewide survey to fix a fair
and living wage" for the women
Of industry is soon to be launched
by Mrs. Josephine MCGOWAN, di-
rector Of the new minimum wage
division
The Washington times., 1933-09-15
Library Resumes
Its ReqlILar Hours

The central building of the
Public Library at Eighth and K
SITS. N. w. will resume it's regu-
lar hours tomorrow by opening
its doors at 9 a. m. and closing
at 9 p. m. On Fridays the Ii
brary will close at / p, m.
Beginning Sunday, the library
will be open for reading from 2
to 6 p. m.
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SALZBURG CAY;
: MUCH TOO CAY
FOR POLITICS

Quentin Reynolds, staff CORE.
epondent OF International News
SerDtce, is surveying conditions in
southern Germany and Austria in
O series OF articles, reporting the
reaction in those regions to Hitler.
tsnG. The fifth and final article
JolloWS::
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Phone DISTRICT $500

pounds Our Delicious Assorted Dark Chocolates, S5c
Chocolate Covered NOugats, pound. .45c
CANDIES. AISLE H. FIRST FLOOR
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
Extension Of Housing
Project Aids Builders

In a joint statement issued by
Messrs. Fox and Lutz, they said:
The proposed building project
will mean that many of our people
can be taken off poor relief rolls 70
ease the burden of our social agen-
cies. The public should realize that
" hile industry as whole is operat-
ing at 70 per cent of normal, the
building industry in Indianapolis is
operating at only 14.9 per cent OF
normal.
Proof of this statement may be
found in building permits statistics
which show that in 1892 building
totaled only S3,200,0O0, compared
with s23,OO0O 1000 in 1928. The pro-
posed project will give 1000 men
work over a period of at least a year,
and produce labor pay roll Of at
least S2.500,000."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
FOUNDERS OF
HOSPITAL ARE
PAID TRIBUTE
Exercises Held at Methodist;
The Rev. 0. w. Fifer
Gives Address.

Tribute to the founders Of Meth
odist hospital was paid yesterday by
speakers at exercises held at the
hospital to observe Founders and
Benefactors' day.
Arthur V. Brown. chairman Of the
board Of trustees, presided and the
Rev. o. W FIfer delivered the
principal address.
DR.. John @. Benson, superinten-
dent of the indianapolis hospital
and executive secretary of the state
association, presented in his report
the five-year new DEAL program
which has been planned to remove
capital indebtedness from the foul
institutions, and thereby reduce
hospital costs.
The most striking thing to be
said about the current operative
situation Of the four hospitals said
DR.. Benson, is that they all are OPP
Grating in the black.
In spite Of serious hindrances,
the Methodist hospitals of Indiana
have survived, paid their running
expenses and carried on twice as
much charity as usual, at an aggre-
gate cost of more than 100000 an
nually," he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
Boon to City Industry, Is
View of Labor Union
Leaders Here.

Extension Of time until Dec. in
which 10 complete the application
of the Indianapolis Community
Housing project, has proved boon
to local builders. according TO Rob
ert c. Fox. Central Labor Union
president. and Charles Lutz, Marion
County Building Trades Council
president.
In letter to Mayor Reginald H.
Sullivan. the two labor leaders
stated that laboring groups Of all
classes are solidly behind the move
ment because it will mean the re-
vival Of interest in building and give
those groups employment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
LEADER FLAYS
WORK OF CITY
BASKET MEN
Results Unsatisfactory Is
View of Daniel Luten,
Chairman Here.

Results obtained from employ
ment of basket men on city prof.
ects we're termed very unsatisfac-
tory" by Daniel B. Luten, chairman
Of the city "made-work" committee,
in an address yesterday at the week
ly luncheon of the indianapolis En-
cheering Society in the Board of
Trade.
contractors on city, county and
state projects do not want to use
the general run of unemployed men
assigned to them by public officials
in charge Of poor relief MI Luten
declared.
And you can not blame the con-
tractors, for most of them have
found such help unsatisfactory. The
men who have been given food bas-
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kets and assigned to public jobs will
not work, or, at any rate, foremen
of the city seem unable to get them
to work
1t seems that the unemployed
feel that they must be fed, some
how, and consequently, lie down on
the job
In the round-table discussion
which followed Mr.. Lutens speech.
Fred c. Atkinson suggested that the
railroad elevation project could be
performed with made work" labor.
thus enabling the city to realize a
benefit from poor relief expend-
itures.
Mr.. Luten objected on the grounds
that total cost of the undertaking
would be much more than poor re-
lief costs, without helping the sit
uation.'
Emmett G. Fowler, club presi-
dent. announced that next weeks
meeting would be devoted to discus
sion Of community housing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
IRA News item: New
80 mirror reflects per-
sons real image.
- You can't fool the
20 oO''A" old ones either.

n
Take advantage of our free
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test the cells, clan the cables
and terminals, remove cOrro-
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Just a good viii service of the
Rose Tire Company.
LO, the poor buffalo! He is
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ada that you'll be able to ex-
change a few of your buffalo
for a real buffalo
steak this winter.
Make the Rose Tire Company
your "winterizing" headquarters
for anti-freeze, winter oil and
fabrication, auto heaters, bat
terry recharging, floor mats,
radiator cleaner, radiator hose,
top dressing, radiator solder,
and new EXTRA SAFE Miller
Geared- to the Road Tires. Pay
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Rose Tire Company will be glad
to ride" along with you.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10

suggested that watermelon, buried
under the snow, had colored and
favored it. .-.
Then park officials came forward
with the answer. A minute plant
of the old family, which some one
described as the Eskimo of the plant
kingdom, is present in such quanti-
ties as to color and flavor the snow.
For the benefit of thse interested in
scientific names, it is called Proto-
coccus nivalis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10

England is building special sets
of perches on lighthouses at six
points where feathered visitors cross
her shore so they may pause and
rest. It is estimated that they will
save the lives of thousands of birds
every year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
SNOW OF WATERMELON
PINK AND TASTE FOUND
Tiny Plant Accounts Of Discovery
on Lassen Peak.
Pu Science Serrice

n NCIfHFf NFTI1FF
MINERAL, Cal, Nov Water
melon-pink snow. in a drift high on
Lassen Peak. the dormant volcano
around which the LaSsen Volcanic
National Park Of California was
created, greatly interested recent
mixers up the mountain. 1t not only
was watermelon pink. but it smelled
like watermelon and even tasted like
watermelon.
Speculation as to he why and
wherefore of the strange snow were
rife. and explanations we're many
and far-fetched One visitor even
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10

A German architects solution for
the transport problem was a de-
sign for a house, built in the shape
of a ball, about 30 feet in diane
ter and standing on a base Is feet
square. He claims his design leaves
much more room in the street
around it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10

Arrangements are being made in
New Orleans to accommodate hun
dreds of out-of-state tourists in
February, at which time the double
attraction of the Mardi Gras and
the dedication of the Shushan air
port takes place.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-11-17
Legion's Welfare Head
Attacks Economy Act
Protest Registered Against
Law Which DepriVeS
Orphans.

Milt D. Campbell, chairman of the
national child welfare committee of
the American Legion, today protest.
ed against the terms of the national
economy act which, he said, de-
prives the dependent orphans of
war veterans of their compenSations
and pensions.
In an address before the annual
conference of department COM
manderS and adjutants in session
at the American Legion headqUar-
ters, Mr.. Campbell pleaded for a
change in the present veterans
regulation.
These children are now receiv-
ing only board, clothing and irSti-
tutional care" he declared. "At
the age of 18 they will be thrown
upon their own resources, without
a decent start"
Mr.. Campbell asked each depart
ment commander to investigate i'm
mediately the cases in his own de-
partment and support the action for
a correction of conditions.
In an address on national defense,
James P. Ringley, national executive
committeeman OF Illinois, declared
that it is entirely indefenSible that
national defense should be q matter
of casual change by the transcient
political power or economical ex-
pertinent.
Our national defense provides
the fundamental protection for the
proper functioning of our ConStitu-
tiOn," he said.
I'm time Of national crisis, our
defensive system becomes of para
mount Importance, certainly equal
to that of the Constitution itself"
Mr. Ringley asked that the people
be educated as to the minimum de-
fensive requirements. He stated
that it is the American LegionS re-
sponsibility to see that educational
pamphlets are given wide distribu-
ton, so that the people can inform
their congressman how to vote on
the issue.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-11-17
BAR MAY BUY
BUILDING FOR
HEADQUARTERS
Stokes Structure Considered
at Price of $4,000,
LAWYERS Reveal.

Purchase Of the Stokes building.
224-226 North Meridian street, for
$4,000 as headquarters for the In
dianapOlis Bar Association, will be
proposed at meeting of the build
ing committee at the Columbia Club
next Wednesday.
Committee members have decided
unanimously on the Stokes build
ing. after more than four years
consideration of various sites. it
was learned. Purchase of the prop
erty can not be made until a ma
jority of the members of the asso-
citation approve the purchase.
Money for the building will come
from bequests left the association
by the wills of Mrs. Susan B. Butler.
widow of John NJ Butler. Indian
apOliS attorney, and Mrs. Margaret
Butler Snow, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Butler. The sum, originally
$4,000, has grown to about S13O, 900.
The money was left expressly for
the erection of building in memory
of Mr.. Butler.
The Stokes building is owned by
the Stokes Realty Company and ne
gotiations for the sale are being
made by Arnold G.. Davis and Robert
P. Norman, realtors, Hume-Man-
sur building.
One floor of the five-story build
ing, according to tentative plans, will
be used for the library and meeting
room for members. Spending of
$4,000 for remodeling the interior
and sand-blasting the exterior is
contemplated in the plans.
Income from the remainder Of
the building to be let out as offices
will be sufficient to maintain and
operate the entire building, it is
believed