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The Washington times., 1934-08-21
I 1uman Side Of the News - ByEdwn G. I'LL
Copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate. Incl

Copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Punishment, prosecution and
publicity do not appear to have
fully accomplished their pur-
pose of Kidding the United
States of the last form of witch
craft among its white inhab-
itantS.
1t exists in the mountains of
eastern Pennsylvania, brought
there by settlers from Germany
and handed down to their
descendants.
Two happenings make it
news of the day, one the COM
mutation of the life sentence
of a 19-year-old youth who, at
the age of IA, was convicted of
the murder Of a witch. The
other is the Staying of a g.
year-old woman by man of
%. who believed that she con-
jured a spirit to bedevil him.
This form of sorcery, called
HeXerei, is traced back to the
Middle Ages, to Albertus Mag
nus of fact and to the Fausts
and Merlins of legend. Thou
sands of persons in a half a
dozen counties of Pennsylvania
believe in it and in so doing
and practicing are not unlike
the Voodo worshippers of West
Africa and Haiti, the devil cult
of Tibet and the witch ridden
peasants of sections of eastern
Europe.
There is similarity among
them in spells. charms and in
carnations. When a hex" is
put upon person, it is his
immediate duty to consult a
"pow-Wow DOCTOR" of whom
there are many in the affected
districts. The doctor delves
into the bible of Hexerei,
book written 200 years ago,
and preScEibes the treatment.
In most cases the cure is
ludicrouS, in others it is grue-
some, and in still others it is
tragic. These "pow-WoW doc
tors" constitute a grave menace
to their communities in that
they substitute VoodooiSm for
scientific medical treatment in
the ordinary diseases, especially
among the children.
Not a few records tell of the
deaths of children whose par
ents followed such preScrip-
tionS from the pow-wows as
the following: For Whooping
cough: Drop the child in the
grain hopper at the mill.
For loss of weight: Boil an
egg in rain water which has
been obtained before sunrise,
pierce it with holes and per-
init the ants to eat it. This
charm will affect a cure. For
teething: Rub the gums with
the boiled brain of a rabbit.
The celebrated "hex" trial in
York, Pa, in 1929, resulted in
three convictions for murder
and served to attract general
attention to Malpractice.
The Washington times., 1934-08-21
The Greatest Shoe
On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

to farmers for contracts signed
in January and February are
still in the basket aWGiting Gp-
nrOnnL of contracts.
The Washington times., 1934-08-21
Life Begins at Seventy
Won Hindenburg Proved It

The late President Won Hindenburg of Germany was
retired and forgotten army officer nearly seventy
years DID, when the World War began. Thereafter he
became of Germanys greatest fighting soldiers,
victor the epocha battle of Tannenberg sponsor of the
famous "Hindenburg line and ralying point for his
broken and eaderess nation after the triumph of the
Allied and American forces
Won Hindenburg lived half dozen fetimes, any one
of which would have given him his place in history
AFTER his long "actve' career had been considered
ended.
It would be fauous indeed to attempt to draw moral
from his example
But many middleaged American, getting ready to
quit after years of mediocre achievement will find mat
ter for thought in -one thought being that races can
be won at the end well as at the beginning.
in
j. FhEI%tiCk
The Washington times., 1934-08-21
Local Jobs
Award Them Locally

The plan of Public Welfare Director Elwood Street for
the jobfndng campaign which about to be launched
has not been made public in detail yet but his
nouncement that the campaign will stress the employ
ment of bona fde citizens of Washington will receive
general approval
Thousands of jobs have been provided in Washington
in recent months but comparatively few of them have
gone to residents of the District
In far the Government persists in bringing
and here from other cities for short time employ
ment it is aiding in developing transient class with
which the relief organization is already struggling
MR.. STREETS IDEA OF GIVING WHATEVER
JOBS THE CAMPAIGN MAY UNCOVER TO WASH
INGToN1ANs WILL BE OF MATERIAL ASSIST
ANCE IN DISCOURAGING THE LARGE DRIFT OF
UNEMPLOYED TO THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
is unfortunate that many of the excellent jobs in
the District government departments those which
come directly under Mr. Street. should have been given
in recent months to those who by stretch of the
imagination could be called bona fide Washingtonians
It is also unfortunate that local charitable organza
tions supported and maintained by the gifts of Wash
ngtonians should import into the city persons from
other towns and give them jobs which could well be
the recent importation of a young from another
State who purposes to revise the local health and hos
pital situation.
It is going to be difficult to ask local business houses
to restrict their employment to local citizens long
the Government and public supported institutions go out
of their way to bring in outsiders
Mr. Streets desire to keep Washington jobs for Wash
ngtonian is highly to be commended and should receive
Citywide support
The Washington times., 1934-08-21

A few days
ago a con-
tract was held
up after pass
ing an audit
clerk and a
reviewer. The
clerk allowed
t he farmer
$3.50. T h e
reviewer gave
him $95. He
should have
received $3.50.
Administra-
tor Chester c..
Evening star., 1934-09-14

Honolulu, was the victim, police said
of the forgery Of four checks, totaling
$1,000.
This become known with the arrest
of Philip Longo, now held on a charge
of suspicion of forgery.
Longo, police say, was connected
with cabaret visited by Kennedy
in July, at which time Kennedy drew
check covering his nights enter
tainment. The next day Kennedy
withdrew $1,500 from a local bank
went to the cabaret and paid his bill
in cash, believing the check to be
destroyed. Four checks signed with
his name and totaling $4,000 have
Evening star., 1934-09-14
PRINTERS ASK QUIZ.
OF NEWS MERGERS
Union Also Urges U. S. to
Declare Newspapers
a Public Utility.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 14-Gov-
eminent investigation of newspaper
mergers was asked today by the In
ternational Typographical Union,
which proposed that news gathering
be declared public utility IF in the
public interest"
1t requested the newly created Fed
eral Communications Commission to
Investigate this evil" and instructed
I. T. U. delegates to bring the subject
up in the Forthcoming convention of
the American Federation of Labor.
Another resolution pledged the
unions moral support to the American
Newspaper Guild, composed of edito-
rial workers.
A proposal to indorse the second
United States Congress Against War
and Fascism, to be held in Chicago
this month, was lost
The Government was asked to hold
back so per cent of all radio wave
lengths, this half to be reserved for
labor, farm, educational, religious and
other national bodies.
The convention heard a telegraphed
plea from the Charlotte, N. c., local
for financial aid for the Carolina
textile workers, but took no action.
The convention was on record for a
permanent 40-hour work week today.
Breaking long deadlock, President
Charles P. Howard of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union cast his
vote in favor of the arrangement
whereby the work week may consist
of a Six-day week of 62a hours daily,
or fve-day week not to exceed 8
hours daily.
The plan adopted, but which later
will be submitted to a referendum
vote, was substitute for the rejected
proposal of the New York local, call
ing for a six-hour five-day week.
Evening star., 1934-09-14
Air Police for London.

London will have regular air po-
lice force If present tests with an auto
gyro prove successful. It's duties at
first will be to observe traffic. A ma
chine of similar type has been used
for the observation of traffic on such
occasions as Derby day. and the pres
ent tests are to ascertain whether a
regular air force would be useful
Evening star., 1934-09-14

clothes-line attached to the dwell
ing and dissolved the cable in a
shower Of sparks that leaped as feet
into the air.
The first concern of Mrs. william
Han. seriously i'll in the bed room, was
for the safety of her daughter, Ruth
Coraine. 8, asleep in her crib next to
the mothers bed.
Evening star., 1934-09-14
BABY SLEEPS AS BOLT
CRASHES INTO ROOM
Oklahoma Mother, Ill, Unframed
by Lightning Which Knocks
Hole in Wall.

BY the Associated Press.
SHAWNEE. Okla. September IA
A bolt of lightning knocked hole in
the wall of a sick mothers bed room
here yesterday and splintered portions
of her baby's crib, but didn't even
wake the baby.
The lightning, said a witness, struck
Evening star., 1934-09-14
Card Party Planned.

BRANCHVILLE. Md. September
IA (SpeciaD.-A card party for the
benefit Of the Ladies Auxiliary Of
the Branchville Volunteer Fire De-
partment will be given at the Fire
Hall Monday night.
Evening star., 1934-09-14

the expenses of trip he had planned
to the South. He declared the cab
aret bill was small.
He said since the incident he had
made trip to Honolulu and returned.
Evening star., 1934-09-14
POLLARD NAMED
Appointed Member Of Board oi
William and Mary.

RICHMOND, Va, September IA
P.-Gov. Peery yesterday named
former Gov. John Garland Pollard as
a member of the College of William
and Mary Board.
Gov. Pollard now is in the employ
of the Federal Government as chair
man of the Veterans Appeal Board,
in Washington.
Evening star., 1934-09-14
S0ftens Corn
Out Comes Core

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quid known as E-Z Korn Remover
gets rid of soreness-eases pain
softens up toughest skin-kills core
and peels away hardest eorns
Easy-safe. Seldom fails. Smothers
pain. 35c at drug stores. (adv)
Evening star., 1934-09-14
NAVIGATION HEAD
VICTIM OF FORGERY
Stanley C. Kennedy, Now Here,
Reported Loser Of $4,000
to Cabaret Aide.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 14.-Stan-
ley c. Kennedy. president of the In
er-Island Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.
Evening star., 1934-09-14
since been drawn against his New
York bank account, say police.
Kennedy is now in washington.
but was in New York early this Sum-
mer.

Kennedy, who is stopping at the
Mayflower Hotel, said he had been
informed of the arrest of Philip
Longo by his New York banker. He
declared he did not know Longo or
that he was connected with the
cabaret.
Kennedy also pointed out that the
1900 he withdrew from the bank
was not for the purpose of paying
the bill at the cabaret, but to defray
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
New Leader
of Council
Opens Term
Installation Held for Mrs,
c.. w. Toltz and
Aids.

Mrs. c. w. Foltz was installed as
president of the Indianapolis Coun-
ell of Women at luncheon meeting
yesterday at the Broadway Baptist
church.
Others taking office we're Mrs
Charles Smith, first vice-president;
Mrs. D. o. Wilmeth, second vice
president; Mrs. Frank E. Weimer
recording secretary; Mrs. Walter
Geisel, treasurer, and Mrs. Edna E.
Pauley, corresponding secretary, and
directors, Mesdames j. A. Thorn
burg, j. H. Arlington, George L..
Bradshaw and w. H. Hodgeson.
Holdover directors are MesdameS
B. P. Macdonald, Alex Goodwin, L..
E. Schultz and D. T. Weir. Mrs. Al
len T. Fleming, parliamentarian, was
installing officer.
Leo E. George, washington. preSi-
dent of the National Federation of
Postoffice Clerks, addressed the
group and Dudley Smith, Statistician
III tAIe PuDA4C oCA FANC COAAAAAAA''oAOA''
explained gas, water and light meter
reading.
Mrs. M. D. Didway played the or
gan and Mrs. John Hermann SANG
during the luncheon. one hundred
and fifty attended.
The group Endorsed the Sweeney
bill in favor of no more furloughs il
the postal system, and Moore-Jen
kins immigration bill. A resolution
was passed to ask the Marion count,
commissioners to provide a traineC
teacher for the detention home.
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PARTY ARRANGED
WITH MUSICALE

Final arrangements have been
made for a card party and musi-
Gale to be held at the Columbia
Club tomorrow afternoon and night
by the Daughters of Isabella with
Mrs. Arthur Schulmeyer, general
chairman.
Assisting will be Mesdames Ray
mond Kunz, Adar Kruger, Leonard
Bagnoli, Anna Conner, E. H. Arsz-
man, Walter Nolte, Davis Crawford,
Marie Pyle, w. w. Drake, Kathrine
Mailman, Charles B. Lines, Nell
Kirkhoff, B. Jerry Berry, Charles
Kirkhoff, John OBrien, Frank
Kirkhof and j. B. Mentzer; Misses
Eugenia Bossong, Josephine Os-
theimer. Anna Hurley, Helen Hur-
ley, Marie Scotland, Margareth
Kretzer, Mary Clingfeel, Marie
Lenahan, Rosemary and Frances
Seyfried, Laura and Ernestine Fuss,
Mary T. Lehman, Josephine Busald,
Ann Cary, Mary Urbancic, Irene
Gallagher, Sara Stricken, Agnes
Mahoney, Betty Finnegan and
Helen Costello.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
20 WILL GRADUATE
AT LAWRENCE HIGH
J. Malcolm Dunn to Present
Diplomas Tonight.

Twenty members of the senior
class of Lawrence high school will
receive diplomas at commencement
exercises at the school tonight. Pre-
sentation of the diplomas will be
made by J. Malcolm Dunn, county
schools superintendent.
Barry Foster will act as Saluta
torian, Grace Morgan as valedic-
torian, and Esther Mae Carpenter
will give an essay.
The graduates are william Hop
kins, Donald White. Esther Mae
Carpenter, Edith Davenport, Pauline
Barco, Norman Hart, James Gates,
Barry Foster. Grace Morgan. Roy
Alexander. Elizabeth Davis, Louise
Cook, Esther Ehinger. Harold Slo-
cum, Dorothy White, Ruby Phillips
Velma Weaver. Nadine Peters. Mary
McAfee and Wilma Hathaway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
MAY QUEEN is HONORED
Miss Dolores Settle Named by City
BARRIERS.

Miss Dolores Settle was crowned
May queen in contest held last
night at the ball sponsored by the
Master BARRIERS and Journeymen
BARRIERS Associations in the Athe-
naeum.
Miss Settle won over dozen
other contestants, The grand March
was led by Shirley Hunsacker, vice.
president of the master BARRIERS, and
Mrs. HunSacker. About 200 at
tended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
STUDENT AID FUND
TO BE BENEFITED

Parent Teacher Association of
George Washington high school will
sponsor a program at 2 Friday
night in the school auditorium for
the benefit of the student aid fund
The program will be presented
by the Olive Killer student orches-
ira from the State Institute for the
Blind and washington school CO.
lonial chorus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
Solution to PreUiOus
Contract Problem
BY w. E. M'KENNEY
Secretary American Bridge League

Secretary American Bridge League
NEVER take anything for granted
~ at bridge. Don't assume, just
because you hold three honors in a
suit, that the outstanding honors
should be split.
Always try to provide for the
outstanding cards being in the worst
possible position for you and then
see if you can find a way to make
your contract.
Don't resort to a finesse unless
you know there is no other course
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
Announcements

Yo-Yo Club will hold an all-day
meeting tomorrow with Mrs
Alethea Curlee, 1103 East Michigan
street.
Mu chapter Omega Phi Delta
fraternity, will meet at 9 tonight
with Francis Schneider, "a West
Nineteenth street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
ELKS PLAN DISTRICT
MEETING AT BRAZIL
South Central Group to Discuss
State Convention

Spring meeting of the South Cen
trail District Associat ton, Benevolent
and Protective Association Of Elks.
Will be held Sunday a, Brazil. Will
liam j. Fahey, president, will pre-
side.
Chief business of the day will be
preparations for the state conven-
ton in Anderson in June and degree
work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
Concert Scheduled

Jed Pearson, president of the Phi
Delta Theta fraternity of De Paw
university, and members of the or
ganization will attend a concert to
be presented by Walter Vassar,
baritone, Sunday night at the Sphinx
Arms. The concert is open to the
public.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
Wedding Date Marked

Fifty-fourth wedding anniversary
was celebrated by Mr. and Mrs.
Paris Ben StinSon, 70 Schiller street,
with a reception last night for rel
atives and friends Mrs Stinson was
a classmate of former President
William Howard Taft in the public,
schools of Cincinnati, o.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02

bennett Circle, Ladies of the G
A. r.. will meet for a noon dinner
tomorrow at the hall, 512 North
LIMOS street. A business meeting
WlII follow. The dinner is open to
the public. ~
A. W. I. Pocahontas Embroidery
Clun viii hold an all-day meeting
tomorrow with Mrs Edith Huckle-
perry $50 North Lyons avenue,
Connie and his band will provide
music Tor dance to be held Sat,r-
Gay night at the Antlers bv the
american Legion auxiliary drum
and bugle corps. '''
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
Standing at
Bar Custom
Lacks Lure
Women Never Could See
Why Drinking Should
Be Uncomfortable.
BY GRETTA PALMER
Timea SPECIAL Mrltsr

NEW YORK. May News that
4 it will soon be legal to stand
right up to the bar while you down
your Clover Club is not apt 70
cause any great quickening Of the
feminine pulses. For it has always
been mystery to women why men
would prefer 10 cross one ankle
over The other. in a tortuouslv I'M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
EIizdbetBdRS to Meet

Mrs. Alice Bidwell Wesenberg will
read poetry before members of the
Elizabethans, women'S organization
of All Souls Unitarian church. to-
morrow at the home of Mrs. Charles
Lewis in Brendonwood
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
Contract Bridge

in the hand and that it is the safest
play.
Todays hand, while not difficult,
has several stumbling blocks for the
careless declarer to trip over.
North'S jump to three hearts is
Just little optimistic. While he
does have two aces and four trump
to the queen, he has a three
three-three distribution and moth
ing to establiSh-no ruffing values.
With this type of hand 1 believe it
safer just to bid two hearts, rather
than give your partner game
force
In today's hand we find South.
after the jump to three hearts, 60
ing to four hearts on a four-card
suit. The only reason he does
that is because of his 100 honors.
A tour-card suit, headed by A K
j TO- with support from partner, is
as good as five-card suit.
INVESTS opening lead is the
king of diamonds. Before
playing to the first trick, declarer
must stop to count. He has two
losing diamonds and, if the king and
queen of spades are in the West
hand, he may lose two spade tricks.
He can see that it will be posi-
pie to pick up the OUTSTANDING
trump, strip the hand of clubs and
II ne can throw West in the lead
he can prevent the loss of the two
space tricks. His best play, then. is
10 refuse to win the first diamond
trick. ''i''1N
West should continue with the
JACK of diamonds-not the queen
When holding the K-Q-J. lead the
KING first and then the lack. This
t[lcK Is won by the declarer with
the ace. Three rounds of hearts
are taken, which pick up the out
SVahding trump, and then three
rounds of clubs.
The declarer now can lead the
ten OF diamonds, as he knows West
VIII be forced to win with the queen
West is helpless.
II ne leads a diamond, the de-
CARER can discard spade from one
mana and ruff in the other. While
Il ne leads the king of spades. the
uecIarer Will win with the ace and
lose only one spade trick.
IL the declarer had taken the
space hnesse earlier in the hand
oeIore stripping the hand of clubs
feated. -"
Copyright, 1884, by NEA Service 1ncl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
MEDICAL DEAN WILL
SPEAK BEFORE CHURCH
DR.. Charles p. Emerson to Address
Fellowship Dinner.

THE Missionary Transition" will
be the topic Of DR.. Charles P. EN-
erson. dean emeritus of the Indiana
university school of Medicine. at
the weekly fellowship dinner meet
ing of the Northwood Christian
church tomorrow night. Musical
selections and devotional services
will follow.
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comfortable posi-
ton. rather than
to sit down at 2
nice. topped
table. where their
conversation need
not be oyerh card
S o m e women.
demons for the
equality Of the
sexes, used to try
the m a S culin c
drinking position
during the speak
easy days. They
were out to show
that they could do
what the men did
and like it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02

Prospect Auxiliary. o. E. S. will
hold a business meeting at Friday
afternoon at the Masonic hall. Pros
pect and State streets. Dinner will
be served.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02
Penal Officials Mother Dead

By United Press
ROCHESTER. Ind, May 2. =
Hannah Denniston, 81, mother of
Roy Denniston. production man
ager of Indiana penal institution
factories, died here yesterday after
long illness.
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they could. all right, but that they
didn't like it bit Kindly proprie-
tors soon installed bar-high stools
so that the women customers might
enjoy the illusion of standing at the
bar while they rested their feet on
the rungs.
This strange masculine preference
for standing up does not extend to
other phases Of mems lives. In the
average subway car, for instance
YOU will find no voluntary strap
hangers. Indeed, the men, with
their superior training in scrim-
IMAGES at school. are usually the
first seated.
A little research into the causes
of this disparity between the tastes
OF the sexes in the saloon has led
to the discovery that in one stage
of the pre-prohibition era it was
illegal to have tables in bars. The
theory was that if you let man
sit down in comfort he might stay
all day, spending the rent money.
If you forced him to stand he would
get tired after a drink or SO and go
on home.
Forgetful of Darwin
The legislators of that remote
time forgot about their Darwin.
Through the process of adaptation
to environment the men of the ma
ton soon got so conditioned to
drinking on their feet that they
growled and snarled when the pre-
sent legislature, earlier in the year,
ordered them away from the bar.
Women, having experienced no
such early training, never could see
the sense in this stubborn resistance
to comfort.
But there is another and perhaps
more trenchant reason why men re-
sisted TIE courts order that they
TO revive a phrase-go way back
and sit down.
"Bartenders, ministers and psy-
a man told me. are
the three most valuable classes of
people there are. You can tell them
all your troubles"
No Help to Women
He sketched a touching picture of
mine hoSt-a sympathetic, white
aproned figure, tossing ingredients
together and lending an ear to the
of a whole row of
customers. A kind of
verbal dispenser Of advice to the
lovelorn.
In spite of this strong argument
in favor of standing up to the bar,
it seems unlikely that women are
apt to go in droves into the prac-
tica of vertical drinking. For one
thing, they are almost always &C
companied by some man when they
enter a liquor dispensary-a man
before whom they are not eager tc
bare their life'S secrets.
And you could hardly expect the
most sympathetic male bartender to
hand out the classic words Of COM
fort, We'll, that's the way men are.
old girl"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-02

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