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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
News Item Not So Elusive,
Touring Reporter Learns
Yarns ApIenty Appear After
He Takes Oath to Shun
Typewriter.
BY III. ALLEN SMITH
limited Press Staf Corresponeent

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-A New
York reporter, under oath TO stay
away from all typewriters for a
period of two weeks, returned from
his vacation today with various
things to report about the state
Of the nation.
News items, it may be said. pre-
vail throughout the United States,
and it frequently was trying TO the
touring reporter, especially when he
found telegraph offices on all sides.
There was the case of the man
who swallowed the bedspring, the
arrival Of fifty turtles in an Indi-
ana town, the story of the man with
five sets of twins, and the drinking
habits of the Hoosiers. There won't
be room to set 1t all down.
A state trooper in Havre De
Grace, Md. told about the bed
spring incident. and his recital
needs no dressing up:
Across the Susquehanna river
from Havre De Grace is govern
ment hospital for mental cases.
Has "SwaIlering" Epidemic
They had got" said the trooper,
IAN epidemic of swallering. 1t all
started when one of the patients got
in the habit of eating everything he
could lay his hands on.
He swallered nails and tinfoil and
bolts, and everything but razor
blades.
Then the other day patient
came to the doctor, and said he had
just swallered a teaspoon. The doc
tor said that was impossible, but
took an x-ray and sure enough,
there was the teaspoon. They had
to operate.
We'll, the very next day another
patient swallered whole bedSpring.
They had one hell of a time getting
it out of him."
In Huntington, Ind, where en-
thusiasm for NRA is rampant, the
publisher Of the Herald-P Press was
in sweat because some man in
Oaklahoma had shipped fifty turtles
to the newspaper.
The Oklahoma man attached no
explanation and the publisher, called
upon this correspondent for infor-
nation as to the feeding habits of
turtles.
Capitalizes On Family
The only suggestion that was
made was that they be given all
bran in the morning and steak
sandwiches in the evening. If they
are still alive at this writing. the
publisher is to be congratulated.
In the same town there is a
man who has five sets of twins
and one odd child. All of the twins
are boys, save one. and the odd
child is boy.
The father is unemployed, and is
thinking about capitalizing on his
family. He thinks it would be best.
however, to have all the twin boys,
so he is taking the odd child and
working him in as a twin in place
of the girl.
This sounds very complicated but
he assured the travelling reporter
that it would work out all right
when he gets uniforms on all the
kids.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
JESSE JAMES TACTICS
USED IN BUS ROBBERIES
Bandits in West Steal Baggage
While Vehicle Is in Motion.

Bandits in West Steal Baggage
While Vehicle Is in Motion.
By United Press
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. Is.
With nerve rivaling that CT the
notorious Jesse James, bandits have
attacked several Omaha Rapid
Transit BUSES, bound to Denver
from Salt Lake City, stealing
baggage on the roof of the buses
while they were in motion.
o. NJ. Harvey, manager, reported
TO police in the same manner twice
during the past few weeks. APP
proximateiy $1,000 worth of baggage
was taken in one loot, he said.
The bandits drove alongside the
bus as it travelled at a rate of 10
miles per hour. A man standing on
the running board of the robbers
car, extended a board from the roof
Of the coach to their machine. Then
he crawled to the bus and tossed
baggage into the outlaw car.
The company recently stationed a
man with the baggage. When the
bandits attempted to make the con-
nection, he struck them down with
a club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
II Suffered 10 Years
With Itching Eczema

and after spending hundreds
of dollars to clear it up, tried Zemo
and got relief" writes c. c. c.. OF
Texas. Soothing and cooling zemo
relieves itching in five seconds be-
cause of its rare ingredients not
used in other remedies. Also Won
derful for clearing Rash, Pimples.
Ringworm and other irritations.
Zemo is worth the price because you
get relief. All druggists 35c, COO, 81.
Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
WATER YIELD OF LAND
RAISED BY DECREASING
Opposing View to Accepted Belief
Result of Tests by Engineers.

~ science SeFrfcc
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Strip-
ping off the forest cover does not
decrease the water which can be
obtained from a given area of land;
contrary to widely accepted beliefs,
it actually increases the water yield.
This disagreement with orthodox
forestry creed is presented by w. G..
Hoyt and H. G. Troxel, hydraulic
engineers of the United States
geological survey, as the result of
experiments which have been con-
Quoted in two typical watersheds in
the west. one of which was deliber-
ately deforested, while the other lost
chaparral cover accidentally
through fire.
BY measuring the water yields
before the forest cover was removed,
Immediately afterward while the
ground was still bare, and through
several subsequent years while the
areas were growing UP in brush, a
considerable mass Of comparative
data was accumulated.
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end in Washington comforting with
national NRA officers. joined Louis
j. Borinstein, chairman of the gen.
eral recovery committee. in express
ing an opinion that violators imme-
diately will comply with their cove
nants or cease TO display the blue
eagle.
Chase and Borinstein agreed that
many cases of alleged violations are
due to ignorance or failure to tn
derstand obligations assumed by
signing the code. Chase said that
in his opinion most violators will
remove the blue eagle voluntarily
when violations are brought to their
attention.
InduStrialists who have signed the
agreement and continued to operate
as in the past while waiting for per-
manent codes of their industries TO
be approved have failed to under
stand that once having signed the
agreement they are obligated to live
up to the terms of the blanket code
pending approval of the code affect
ing their own industry. Chase said.
Additional information concern
ing the group agreements of mer-
chants to shorten hours was re-
ceived by Wells from Washington
Monday.
The instructions from the national
recovery administrator stated that
any such group agreements on linn
iting hours were in direct conflict
with the Presidents covenant.
Mrs. Lenore Bussel of Greenfield
was named state chairwoman of the
NRA program in Indiana by Gov
ernor Paul v. McNutt Monday. Mrs.
Bussel will appoint county chair
women in each of the ninety-two In
diana counties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
HOME LOAN OFFICES
TO OPEN WEDNESDAY
Six Branches in Various Parts OF
state to Be Ready.

Coincident with the opening of
the Indianapolis office of the Home
Owners Loan Corporation in the
old Farmers Trust Company at $40
Wednesday morning, branches in six
other state cities also will be ready
for business.
E. Kirk Mckinney, state man.
ager, was to return from Washing
ton tonight to handle opening OF
the offices.
1t is expected that large crowd
will be on hand. seeking federal aid
The policy of the institution will be
to aid only those persons in distress
who are in danger of losing their
homes, due to financial difficulties
Other offices will open at TT.
Wayne, Evansville, South Bend, Ga
ry, Richmond and Terre Haute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
ELEVEN ARE PAROLEO
BY CLEMENCY BOARD
Case of Miami Man Accused in
Swine Theft Decided.

The state clemency commission
today granted eleven paroles. denied
sixteen. communted one sentence
and continued one case.
Among the cases decided was one
involving Leroy Burdine. who was
sentenced in Miami county on
Feb. for one to five years for
stealing three shoats, which weighed
rs pounds each.
Burdine was convicted of taking
the shoats home and butchering
them for food. The Miami county
prosecutor informed the clemency
board that Burdine's family is in
serious financial straits, and that
his help is needed in supporting
the home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
TWO YOUTHS TO
Be MASTERS OF
HUGE FORTUNES
Lives of Young Vanderbilt
and Astor Parallel in
Many Ways.
BY III. ALLEN SMITH
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-The wheel
Of time turns this summer to bring
two American boys. scions Of this
country's front line aristocracy. into
fortunes which were accumulated as
the nation developed.
John Jacob Aston III became 81
Monday, and now assumes control of
immense wealth.
His friend, Alfred Gwynne Van
derbilt Jr., will not reach his ma
jority until Sept %, when he, too,
comes into a fortune.
The coincidence of their ages is
by no means the only parallel in
their lives.
Each lost his father in a major
marine disaster. Jacks father. John
Jacob Aston. died when the Titanic
sank in 1912. and Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt ST.. met death in 1915,
when German submarine topedoed
the Cunard liner Lusitania off the
Irish coast.
The wealth of the elder Aston,
who died some four months before
the birth of mis- son, was estimated
two years after his death at $751;
2l8,79l. OF this sum, Vincent Astor,
half brother of Jack, received
500 100000.
Drawn Before Disaster
In one of the few instances of
its nature on record, the elder
Aston made provision in his will for
the unborn child, having drawn up
the testament a short time before
he sailed on the Titanic.
The Aston millions came mainly
from real estate in New York. after
old John Jacob, the immigrant from
Waldorf, had established its founda-
tions in the fur trade.
Young Vanderbilt, in September,
inherits share in SIT, $50 ,522 for
tune. The Vanderbilt wealth, which
came principally from railroads, was
merged with the Emerson Bromo
Settler fortune when Alfred
Gwynne's father married into the
Emerson family.
Neither of these two young heirs
has attended college. They have
led sheltered lives, stunning all
manner of publicity. They are not
known to the hot spots of Broad
way, and they remain pretty much
in seclusion.
Doubts College Value
Jack Astor. when he returned
last winter from world cruise, de-
scribed his trip as being the equiva-
lent of university training. Il be-
gin to doubt" he told ship news re-
porters, "the value of wasting time
in college"
He lives with his aunt, Mrs.
Lorillard Spencer. at Newport, R. l.,
and is of athletic bent, going in for
races, hunts, tennis and other
sports.
His mother, the former Madeline
Talmadge Force, was his fathers
second wife.
In June, 1916, Mrs. Aston married
William K. Dick, and by the terms
of the Aston will relinquished
100000 and the palatial home on
Fifth avenue.
Recently she divorced Dick and
there has been some talk of a ro-
nance with a prize fighter, EMO
Fiermonte, who once was hired to
give young Jack instructions in self
defense.
Young Vanderbilt at present is en-
gaging himself racing a stable of
horses at Saratoga.
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ernor told Wells that he and Sen
ator Frederick VanNuys will con-
tact President Roosevelt and Gen
eral Hugh S. johnson. national re-
eovery administrator. today.
Johnson TO Be Invited
McNutt and VanNuys either will
talk on the long distance telephone
to Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. johnson
or send long telegram urging them
to cooperate in the Indianapolis
celebration The President will De
asked to broadcast a message and
johnson will be invited 10 visit the
city personally.
A feature Of Recovery day parade
will be a contingent OF women on
horseback representing the Indiana
branch of the National Woman's
Party. IL was announced at recov-
cry headquarters today.
Mrs. Hereford Dugan. legislative
chairman of the organization. said
that one of the horsewomen will be
dressed in shining armor. TO repre-
sent st. Joan OF Arc.
Recruits Are Enlisted
The Federation Of Jewish Women
will hold two meetings Wednesday
and Thursday TO enlist recruits for
the parade and the work of survey
ing the city for unemployment and
investigation Of violations of the
NRA. Mrs. Emma Kominers and
Mrs. John L. Goodwin will have
charge of the meetings.
More than $50 floats will take part
In the parade.
John B. Hudson of Lafayette, re-
covery chairman for Tippecanoe
county. announced that a large
delegation-three blocks long
would represent his county in the
parade
Letters were received today from
Danville. Columbus, Michigan City
and Lafayette. announcing cooper
alton with floats and delegates for
the big event.
Meeting Is Called
McNutt called a meeting of men,
berS Of the state recovery board for
10 o'clock Thursday morning at his
offices.
He sent kilograms to Daniel
Wertz. Evansville; Adolph Fritz,
Indianapolis. Rudolph Leeds. Rich
mond; Joseph NJ. Cravens. Madison;
M. M. Dunbar. indianapolis; G.. M.
Leslie, FIT Wayne; Frederick Kro-
ger, Anderson, and Charles Temple
ton. Terre Haute.
From Washington Monday came
instructions 70 report Immediately
detailed information concerning in
fractions and violations of the NRA
code here.
At the same time Charles w.
Chase. president Of the Indianapolis
Railways. Inc, and general of the
local recovery forces, said that the
Indianapolis recovery committee on
code compliance would call upon
persons who have signed agreements
and have failed to live up to the
terms of the covenant.
Chase who spent the last week
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
CIRCUS FAM INJURED
Boy, IA, on Way to Grounds, Hurt
in Fall Off Truck.

Lure of the circus brought injuries
today to George Beweley. IA, of $50
North Belmont avenue.
He hoped ride on a truck to
carry him to the site on South Bel
mont avenue, where the Ringing
Brothers show is unloading. En-
route, the truck struck a bump,
llurling the boy to the pavement.
He incurred bruises.
Charles E. Dixie, Al. of Princeton,
driver, said he was not aware that
the boy had boarded the truck.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
POLICEMAN GETS FINE
Failure to Garry Shotgun In Cruiser
Draws Chiefs Ire.
By United Pre-,

FRESNO. Cal, Aug. 15.-From
now on, Patrolman G. NJ. Kemble
probably will carry a shotgun in
his radio police car. He was fined
SIS by Police Chief Frank Truax
for failure TO have the weapon In
the cruiser one night when a burg
lar escaped his revolver shots.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
Paving Contract Awarded

The state highway commission to-
cay awarded a contract TO Roger
Daust. Defiance, o.. for the paving
CT State Road "a. west Of Logans-
port, 81 miles Of concrete. The
contract price was slo3.S6o.22.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
C0R0NER'S OFFICE IS
SETTING FOR WEDDING
Location Is Chosen as Only Avail
able Place in Courthouse.

E@VN"tfUH ~ NHUStII % ONlIy hVdI-
able Place in Courthouse.
Grim shadows Of tragedy were
routed Monday at the coronerss Of
flee and romance came into the
room where grief is the everyday
setting.
With no other quiet place in the
courthouse for their wedding, Will
liam Goodall and Mary Scoggins,
Negroes. found a haven III the cor
oner's office and were married there,
with the Rev. A. NJ. Moses OF Zion
Baptist church. officiating.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
CHERRY LEAF
BABY TEST IN
HIGH DISFAvOR
Artificial Reproduction of
Human Beings FIouted
by Biologists.
gN Scicnce Scrrice


WASHINGTON. Aug. I5.-Biolo-
gists. skeptical TO the last degree Of
the effort OF Earl E. budding OF
Huntington. w Va. TO produce a
child by injecting a cherry leaf
extract into his wife's blood stream.
see in his project merely a pseudo
scientific attempt 10 bring about in
a human being an event that IL
fairly common among certain lower
organiSms-the type Of birth known
as parthenogeneSiS.
ParthenogeneSiS, or the produc-
ton of young by minated females.
never has been known to occur in
human beings or among the higher
backboned animals. including all
mammals, birds and reptiles.
Frogs Without Fathers
It has been artificially provoked
In unfertilized frogs eggs by slim
ulating them with chemicals. cleo
trict current and needle pricks:
full-grown frogs have been thus
produced. But natural partheno-
genesis is unknown even among
frogs.
ParthenogeneSiS is exceedingly
common among certain groups of
insects, notably the aphids or plant
lice II also occurs among bees
when all the droneS or male bees
have by some mischance been killed
off. It is common among numerous
type of marine animals, including
some of the tunicates, which are
degenerate relatives of the lowest
backboneed animals-what might be
called spineless vertebrates.
Common Progress in Plants
A process analogous TO partheno-
genesis is also found in plants, and
among the highest forms of plants
at that
But in spite Of all these well
known examples of birth without
natural fatherhood in which the
lower world Of life abounds, there
is no case Of parthenogensis. either
natural or scientifically induced.
among human beings. Even should
Mrs. budding give birth to a child
in October. as predicted by her hus-
band. biologists Will insist on re-
, garding him, and not a cherry tree,
as its father
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MRS. H. F. FORMER
Is TAKEN BY DEATH
Wife Of Shell Petroleum Co. Man.
ager Succumbs After Illness.

ager SuccumbS After Illness.
Mrs. Helen F. Fortner, 80, OF 4721
Park avenue, died today at Metho-
dist hospital following a weeks ILL
ness which had developed into pneu-
monia.
Mrs. Fortner was the wife of
Joseph A. Fortner. district manager
of the Shell Petroleum corporation.
Formerly Of Bartlesville, Okla, they
moved to Indianapolis in January,
1892.
Survivors are the husband, two
children, Joan, IL, and Mary Mar
garet, Z. and the parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. j. G. Prescott. Springfield, Mo.
Burial will be Thursday at the
home OF the parents in Springfield.
Mrs. Fortner was member Of the
Baptist church.
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The north magnetic pole Of the
earth is in northern Canada, 1,400
miles from the north pole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-15
AlRMEN WILL
HELP IN STATE
NRA CAMP ICN
Blue Eagle viii Be Taken
by Plane to 27 Cities
in Indiana.
CONTINUED From Page One)

Wells announced today. The Gov
ernor told Wells that he and Sen
ator Frederick VanNuys will con-
tact President Roosevelt and Cen
eral Hugh S. Johnson. national re-
covery administrator. today.
The Washington times., 1933-06-12

commercial and industrial I'M
porters.
But we can't release our minds
from the misfortune of the ten
million and more workleSS Amer
ican men and women and their
thirty million and more depend
entS.
want to believe that this
peace conference" is destined to
bring them some relief, directly or
indirectly, not only in furtherance
Of the right to the full enjoyment
of life, liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness, but in a too-long de-
ferred relief to the overburdened
taxpayer.
If the leading statesmen and
the economic and financial ex-
perts in convention assembled
cannot devise ways and means
for the necessary relief, where
shall we look?
War Efforts Recalled
In 1917, the United States Of
America sent over a million and
a half of it's best young blood
and 100000 of them never re-
turned-to make the world safe
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THEFTS BLAMED.
On 8 YOUTHS

A little target practice led to
the arrest yesterday of three
minors on charges of larceny.
The boys are James Robertson,
16, and Richard Robertson, II,
brothers, who live in the First
block of Flower Ave, Takoma
Park, and Hugh Wright, 16, Park
Avenue. Each was released on
$500 bond and will be heard to-
night before Justice of the Peace
A. L. Wilson on a charge Of un-
lawfully discharging guns.
Later this week they will be
tried for larceny of about 5000
worth of tools, auto accessories
and medical supplies, said to have
been taken from the Washington
Sanitarium, Chillum Manor and
from several autos and houses.
Three guns were found among
the loot.
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for democracy. For that purpose
more than $15,0OO,O0O,OO0 was
Spent during and after the war and
all America asked for was a recog-
milton of the principles contained
in the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
And that's all it got-if it got
that.
For, inspite of it all, the coun-
try has since undergone it's most
terrible blow. People have known
more widespread hardship than
at any period of it's history.
Now, 16 years later, half a
dozen distinguished Americans
have come to London to take
their places in a peace confer
ence, to war against depression
and misfortune and make the
world safe for humanity, which
is after all in the American opin-
ion about the same thing.
There is no reason why this
should not be done if the pur-
pose is approached in a sylnpa-
thetic, unSelfish, humanitarian
way, with the So cards all placed
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am intensely interested and
enthusiastically hopeful tn t
some benefit will enure to hu-
manity, irrespective of race.
creed, or color, as a result Of the
deliberations carried on in these
meetings.
However, 1 don't hear any ear
splitting cheers or optimism, but
there is no scarcity Of poker
faces all made up for a session
Of watchful waiting in spite Of
the worlds greatest and widest
depression, with its resultant un-
employment, unstabilized curren.
cies and depleted industrial and
commercial activity.
There is one group that has
definite idea with no false mod
esty about telling it. It's made up
of Americans abroad who want
the well.known dollar, which had
fallen to doughnutS, hydrauliced
back to its position where it was
all dough.
Worth Only 80 Cents
You can better understand their
anxiety if you realize that when
a dollar gets you 100 cents in
America, the same dollar is worth
80 cents over here. OF course, no
one will run a temperature worry
ing about the good-time Charleys
travelling abroad, but it's matter
of Importance, with which we may
have to deal later, to the large
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face upward and the joker thrown
away.
Not Merely Match of Wits
II 1t is not merely a match
Of wits, If it Is not a contest Of
oratory, If 1t is not for the per-
centage purse, if they come to
lash the bricks Of a new eco
nomic civilization and not to
throw them, if they come to wash
up the mistakes Of the past and
not to clean their dirty linen
the world will be the better for it..
If they have come to help and
not to hinder, If they have come
to cooperate and suggest, it
should be the beginning of a
new day.
But on the contrary, if they
have come with a "come on and
show me" expression or an "eat
your cake and have it" purpose,
then the conference might as
we'll have been held at the Great
Wall of China.
Today the last of the 1853 dele
gates convoked by the Council
of the League of Nations, rep
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Church Celebrates
69th AnniDerSnru

Rehoboth Baptist Church of
South West Washington opened a
weeks celebration in honor of
its sixty-ninth anniversary yester-
day. Sermons were delivered by
the Rev. E. M. Tyre, pastor, and
the Rev. John Richards, a former
pastor.
Tonight the Rev. B. H. Whit
ing, pastor of Friendship Baptist
Church will preach.