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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ .

THE cosmis time scale will be one of the chief
l. concerns of astronomers in 1884. 1t is the
biggest stumbling block in the otherwise fairly
smooth path of the theory of the expanding uni
verse.
Until this theory came along, scientists had
agreed reasonably well upon scale for the uni
verse. The age of our earth was placed at two bill
lion years.
It was assumed, on the basis of the Chamberin-
Moulton theory, that our earth and the other
planets came into existence two billion years ago
the result of accident to the sun passing
star was supposed to have pulled the material out
of the sun which formed the solar system
The age of the sun, the basis of various con-
sideratons, chiefly the basis of what was thought
to be the rate of stellar evolution given about
fifteen trillion years.
Various estimates were given for the age of the
universe itself. Sir James Jeans suggested maxi
limit of 200 trillon years. Sir Jeans also sug
gested attractive picture of the beginning of the
universe. He imagined all the material con-
sodated into the spiral nebulae and the stars scat
tered through space in a uniform cloud. Then he
imagined the cloud disturbed.
The initial disturbance set in motion the play Of
gravitation forces which carved out the galaxies
know them.
What this initial disturbance was he did not I'M
dertake to say, though he added that it might be
thought of as the finger Of God"
A LII this, however, had to be changed with the
N advent of the theory of the expanding uni
verse. And almost at once, astronomers found them
selves faced with difficult contradiction. 1t seemed
that the rate Of expansion Of the universe such
that the universe could not be much than
billion years old.
This was startling state of affairs for there
the best of evidence that earth itself was two
billion years old. Most scientists felt that mini
mum figure Of two billion years for the age of the
universe would have to be found somehow.
Fortunately the situation was made easier during
1888 by DR.. Harlow Shapley. who pointed out at the
November meeting Of the National Academy of Sci
ences that new determinations of the distances Of
the spiral nebulae gave age Of five billion years
for the universe, an age more than double that of
the earth.
DR.. shapley showed that the distant spirals were
farther away than was formerly thought. This
meant that expansion had been going on longer
time.
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house had better watch their step.
Mr.. Kidney, it might be revealed
here, has a glaring weakness. He
has a penchant for perfume.
He purchased for Mrs. Kidney a
bottle of perfume for Christmas.
New Years day Mrs. Kidney looked
for the perfume. None was left.
Mr.. Kidney had finished the bot
tie, quite apparently on his hand
kerchiefs.
Again, Daniels cynical i'm
pulses sometimes get the best of
him. One of his ideas of good,
clean fun was conceived only this
last Christmas day when he spent
the afternoon diligently coaching
Daniel Junior, now two and
half years old, to say:
Santa Claus, Big Bumw
Mrs. Kidney entered the scene
just as little Dan was reaching
success.
1t took her twice as long to
"unlearn" little Dan, but only
about ohe-tenth as long to con-
vince Big Dan that he is a bet
ter reporter than a home teacher.
Daniel Junior was taught to say
Santa Claus, Nice Man" upon
the warning that he might lose
his toys, but that didn't help
Daniel Senior.
= Il
nAN KIDNEY wasn't out of
~ high school but a few weeks
when President Wilson said go.
Daniel enlisted two weeks later.
He went overseas as line sergeant
in the A. E. F. He was assigned
to the One hundred eighth bat
terry of trench mortars in both
the st. Mihiel and Meuse-Ar-
gonne drives.
"Mortars," explains Dan, "are
six-inch guns and as much pro-
lection to a fellows life as a Sling
shot"
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preliminaries of any kind The tall, gaunt man
with deep sunken eyes began by asking: Now when
do I get the list?"
I've heard so much about red tape and bureau
cracy that I didn't suppose he meant Immediately
1T will take little time 1 told him. I'VE have
Mt got a very big clerical force much office space
and of course John Eddy will have to check up on
the names for you Let me see-thiS is Thursday
suppose we get you that list week from Saturday
and then on Monday really begin to get to
work it,"
He indicated Impotence THAT won't do at ALL"
he said You don't understand This is rush job
Every day counts Can't you let me have part of the
list Gay after tomorrow? This ought to be done right
away Can't you call me on the phone tonight?"
Where can get you after dinner?" asked.
Right here
How late?"
Il can't tell. I'll be here until I finish"
Travis Whitney made good that promise. He
worked all day, and he worked all night. He knew
he critically i'll when he took the appointment.
Doctors had told him of the necessity OF rest and
probably of operation. L think can last" was
his rejoinder.
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money in so long a time that
there are at present no facilities
for keeping track of a saving.
This may require the establish
ment of a new bureau in the
treasury department. complete
with an under-secretary and
staff and possibly a new build
ing. And, of course, there would
have to be the customary pic
turesque and deserving Demo-
crat of the bar-f1y type to clip
newspaper items and paste them
in a Scrap-book at a salary of
500 week for four years. In
government. it costs money even
to save money and this prob
ably is one of the reasons why
the new deal has been averse to
unbridled thrift. Under a pro-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12

This was something new for
residents of the community, who
are not unaccustomed to strife,
but whose battles in the past have
been confined largely to political
trays.
Visioning visit by John Dill
niger and his terror mob, hurry
up call for police was sounded.
Three squads of police under
SergeantS Claude Kinder, William
Purcell and Edwin Kruse, and
state policeman Milton Keller
roared to the scene, where they
found dozens of empty machine
gun shells and tear gas bombs
near cottage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
One Against Death

A ND he set himself to win that race Two hundred
L N thousand Jobs before the end came. think it
Lord Nelson who had ensign lash him to a
mast at the battle of Trafalgar. Whitneys courage
was better than that. He chained himself to his
desk by sheer act of will.
The people around could him grow dead gray
in the late hours. Almost you could hear the step
of his adversary advancing. But all he said was
I'VE must hurry" He felt not only the pangs of his
physical torture but the bite of the wind upon
the bodies of men who walked the streets without
shelter.
I don't know what the economic philosophy of
Travis Whitney may have been. He didn't have
time to talk about it. Some day. just couldn't fit
into his scheme of things. His thought was of
100000 jobs which must be made and handed out
without delay He had the harassed look of flap
jack cook in a lumber camp. Right away rang in
his ears like a trumpet call Maybe somebody came
and said to him: But don't you realize that you're
not solving anything? This is just a temporary
expedient. When the revolution comes"
And I imagine Travis Whitney turned deaf ear
and only said: Two hundred thousand jobs and
this has got to be now
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He also covered the police and
fire departments, the courthouse,
the city hall, and did book re-
views in his spare time.
n
TINE Indiana landscape at
l. tracted Mr.. and Mrs. Kidney
along in 1926, and Mr.. Kidneys
first job for The Indianapolis
Times was covering the first
Stephenson grand jury"
THE third one indicted some
body" says Daniel.
Then came the 1927 legislature
and Dan covered the senate.
Every session since then, Dan has
been one of The Times strongest
bets. Dan was proving his mettle
early and he clinched the state
house beat for himself-to quote
neWspapermen: The best beat in
the whole state of Indiana"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
RECORD SALES ELATE
SHOE MANUFACTURERS

st. Louis Show Output Gains so
Per Cent, President Told.
BIZ United Press
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12-More than
S50000,0O0 worth Of shoes were
bought by merchants attending the
three-day convention here of the
National Shoe Retailers Associa-
ton, it was reported to President
Roosevelt today.
Recovery is not just around the
corner, it is here" telegram
despatched to the President said.
This huge amount of business, so
per cent more than was ever done
at previous meeting Of shoe
buyers, was reported to Mr.. Roose-
yelt by Arthur E. Ebbs, convention
chairman and vice-president of the
Swope Shoe Company.
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Informed that the "mobSters"
had departed in two cars, one a
coupe with Ohio license plates,
Sergeant Kinder scratched his
head, and then roared back to the
city.
Going directly to the Jail, he
found the suspects, already in jail,
but not behind bars.
The mystery was solved, when it
was found, as Kinder suspected,
that the mobSters merely were
deputy sheriff Edward Kassen-
brock and three other men, one a
tear gas salesman, who had been
having a little practice firing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
SLASH LIGHT RATES
FOR SIXTEEN TOWNS
Reductions to Reach Total
of S8,633.44.

Sixteen towns served by the
Northern Indiana Power Company
will receive electric rate reductions
totaling S8,633.44 as result of an
order issued yesterday by the public
service commission.
Reductions given the various
towns include. Gosport, S1,268. 40;
Roachdale. S102473; North Salem,
s84793; Waveland, 1881 SO; Royal
Center. $4,000; St. Bernice, S916.63:
Kirklin. s90695; Universal. $500. go;
Freedom, S139.42: Fairview Park.
S49109: New Goshen. 1882 80;
Libertyville, S13107; Ramona. $500.
Jamestown. s8636. Centenary,
S198.S2, and Shirkieville, S154.50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12

Irishmen are that way. They're
incurably romantic and sentiment
holds the upper hand.
After looking over the hordes of
politicians, Dan Kidney each
working day separates the news
from the balderdash and then
dashes off to 4211 Park avenue
each evening. to renew his faith
in mankind. For Daniel Mccarthy
Kidney, you see, has three little
aSsets-two girls and boy.
When the first Kidney offspring
arrived on this earth, our Daniel
waXed poetical. He dashed off
poem about his first born, Patricia.
Papa'S poetry was fairly good.
Patricia galloped into print.
But when Mary came, Dams
poetry fell off And when Daniel
Junior Danny arrived on the
scene, Big Dan couldn't even
muster a triolet.
T IKE all true Irishmen, Daniel
L. Mccarthy Kidney is very
much a humorist. For concrete
evidence. here's how he describes
his early life:
Il was born in Davenport, Ia.
My father took one look at me
and moved into Illinois, exclaim-
ing: I don't want this to ever
happen again."
Our Daniel is tall, well-set up
gentleman of somewhat large pro-
portions. He stands very erect
and he looks more the part of a
successful politician than a re-
porter with his grazing hair and
perpetual smile.
But Daniel has a mischievous
twinkle in those eyes. When he
leaves the Office looking like a
well-satisf1ed tomcat, you can bet
your bottom dollar that one Irish
man has something up his sleeve
and that somebody at the state
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12

Daniel was covering the state
house while Governor Ed Jackson
was sitting in the big seat" Dan
had a swell time. Everybody was
his target Then came Harry G.
Leslie and Dan had the best time
of his life reporting the Cover
nOrs absences from the state
house.
Now, in the statehouse, sits
Paul V. McNutt. Next to the
Governor, Pleas Greenlee seems
to be the most news"
Daniel Mccarthy Kidney
chuckles and writes.
And on the top of at least one
story day, we find the following
little notation:
Kidney Exclusive"
SCOOP!
Next-A lady of fashion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
A Coup(e)
Woman Finds Lost Car
Through Bill.

MFRS. MARGARET D. SULLI-
4V1 VAN, 1881 North Meridian
street, was somewhat perturbed
when she received notice from
rental agency to pay up back
garage rent, or remove her car.
She was perturbed, because she
had not rented any garage, her
car having been stolen last May.
Deciding to investigate, she
went to the garage and found
her Packard coupe, of which she
had had no previous trace. The
car had been stripped of some
of its parts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
Ii Seems TO Me
By
Haywood Broun

XXTILLIAM JAMES said that mankind must find
w a moral equivalent for war Blow, bugle blow,
and let put ribbon with palms upon the breast
of Travis Harvard Whitney.
No soldier could have been more gallant than the
man who crumped at his desk in the civil works
administration. Before he would submit to being
taken to the hospital where he died Whitney in
sisted giving directions his assistants to how
the work should go He torn with agony. but
it was his commitment to put 100000 and
had TO be done.
saw him once and in the light of his death am
not likely to forget. He called up to say that if the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12

But Dan lived, and went home
to GeneseO, Ill. He went into
business with his father and soon
decided he liked the war better.
He still was wanting to become a
newspaper man, so he went to
Marquette university at Milwau-
kee to be educated in journalism.
During his school years he worked
for the Milwaukee Journal as
police reporter.
He finished school, got married
and started editing a weekly pa
per in West Allis, Wis. During
the day he was the advertising
department and at night the ed
itor
The Racine Journal-News gave
him his first political assignment,
in covering the senatorial cam
paign of Governor John c. Blaine.
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room is occupied for the gold
digging efforts of the two bur-
lesque queens) is a sad picture
trying to make this old daddy
role funny one.
That's my idea of Havana
Widows"
At the Indiana today and to-
morrow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
HULL LAUDS RESULTS
OF MONTEVIDEO FARLEY
Secretary of State Elected by Re-
suits of Conference.
BIZ United Press

% y tWTItu ITt88
LIMA, Peru, Jan. II. - The
Montevideo Pan American con-
ference just ended won for all
American republics the greatest
actual and potential gain that mas
come to us since our independence, .
Cordell Hull, secretary of state, said
last night at a government dinner
in his honor.
Proposals for co-ordinating eco
nomic efforts, reducing tariffs, in
surfing peace, improving commune
cations and exchanging cultural
benefits were cited as examples of
the work done.
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Never have I seen so much over
acting on the part of actors as
in this one. At times I couldn't
tell whether Mr.. O'Brien, Irene
Bentley, George E. Stone, Alan
Edwards, Ruth Gillette and Mrs.
Churchill were spoofing the story
or not. They seemed that deadly
in earnest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
TWO NEW BOY SCOUT
TROOPS FORMED HERE
Organization Is Announced by Cen
trail Indiana Council.

Organization of two new Boy Scout
troops was announced at the meet
ing of the indianapolis and Central
Indiana council.
The new troops are Troop 2. at
Christ Episcopal church, with Cecil
D. Bird as scoutmaster. and Troop
II. at Columbia Place Welfare Club.
4073 Cornelius avenue, A. D. Gray
son. scoutmaster.
The board approved appointment
of Chris A. Wagner as chairman of
the councils camp committee, ard
announced appointment of Dwight
S. Ritter and w. Luther Snodgrass
as members of the Scout court OF
honor.
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W hSGp GIlS UuI-
lesque or farce tempo of the yarn.
Even the continual souses of
Frank McHugh have as much
comedy in them as a four-day old
biscuit. I was going to say "bun, -
but I don't want to be funny.
Even poor Guy Kibbes in bed
in the wrong room (and the wrong
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
Here's a Weak One

NTHEN Hollywood story writ
w ers get hard up for mate
rial, they rehash the old gold
digger yarn about the show gals
who go a-digging for gold, not in
them-t there hills, but in the fat
pocketbooks of rich but careless
daddies. In Havana Widows"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
The Screen Going Western Again and They Certainly Put
1t On Thick in Frontier Marshall With George O3rien

THE screen is going western
u again by presenting he-men
in old-fashioned western horse
melodramas.
Many of the larger houses over
the country are going in for these
westerns.
The Apollo theater goes west
ern today with the feature pic
ture, Frontier Marshal" with
George O'Brien as the galloping
two-f1Sted fighter and Berton
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
In Other TheaterS

7 OEW'S Palace on the stage
~ today offers Century of
Progress Revue" while the screen
presents Robert Montgomery and
Madge Evans in Fugitive
Lovers"
Other theaters today offer:
THE Private Life of Henry VIII"
at the Circle; MELODY Lane" on
the stage and Bombay Mall on
the screen at the Lyric, and bur-
lesque at the Mutual and Colonial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12

1t may seem strange but this
wild, shoot 'em-up movie of old
western days when the heroine
was as pure as the driven snow
and the hero a saint even though
he carried fine collection of fire.
arms, made me sort of relaxed
and content.
But every once and awhile I
would come out of the ether long
enough to discover that Ruth
Gillette as Queenie LaVerne was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12

John Blondell
and Glenda Far
rell, as t wo
burlesque chorus
girls, do their
digging in Ha-
vana, instead of
in New York,
Palm Beach or
Atlantic c i t Y.
Some of these
g o l d-digging
scenes on the
part of Miss
BlOn d e ii and
Miss Farrell are
rather Sickening.
These two fail
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
BY NORMAN E. ISAACS
Times News Editor

IT just politician
Il signs Kidney, Indianapolis
porter
Kidney is srappng sxfooter whose middle initial stands
and Democrats has made him an out-and-out Red.
colleagues hey
chide a
staehouse much of a
high disregard for politicians
country produced old Robert Fighting
and Franklin Roosevelt very
fOr The ate. create Bob
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12

Cnurcnlll as the
crooked mayor of
Tombstone, the
bad spot of Ari-
IONA of the old
days.
1t will depend
a great deal up
on the kind of
mood you are
in if you can
take this one or
not. If you still
have a liking for
10, 20 and 30
cent nlelodrama
then you will get
some thrills out
nf flnic 1I-octnrrn
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Before the Final Chapter

LIE couldn't make the life force last until he had
surged across the line They put him his
shield and carried him away and l hope that on his
tomb will be written KILLED in action"
UnquestiOnably this shambng, thin man peerng
a little obviously through glasses had a concern
1t passion. suppose it is little difficult to
make paper work seem exciting romantic as
cavalry charges. But you he had found his
moral equivalent for war. And I rather think that
when next I hear the word "heroism" my Immediate
mental association will not be that of any brass hat
on hill but of Travis Whitney bent over his desk.
And maybe will see him as against the sky.
And I will hear him he says: More gently,
death come slower. Don't touch me until my job
is done"
Copyright, 1884. by The Tnes)
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BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

doing a regular "steal" on Mae
Vests famous Diamond Lii" but
Ruth never will be a Mae even if
she could get into Mae Vests
corset.
Mr.. Churchill as the mayor is
guilty of some of the worst over
acting and facial expressions, but
somehow the villain seemed to fit
into the er-developed melo-
dramatic atmosphere of the story.
Frontier Marshall is still lust
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
Post Schedules Card Party

Veterans of Foreign Wars, Frank
T. Strayer post and its auxiliary
will hold a public card party to-
morrow night in Potts hall, lbs West
Market street. HI.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
At Field Headquarters

WE expected to find an
w office and an office boy
and probably a couple of secre-
taries. but Whitney had a desk
thrust right in the middle Of a
large and busting room. He sat
there and rode the tumult like
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newspaper guild would furnish
him list of unemployed re-
porters he thought he could
place some under the CWA.
When do you want TO see
uS?" I asked.
Come down now" he an
sWered.
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another western to me. Nothing
more, nothing less.
Now at the Apollo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-12
Just Mob Practice
Staccato Fire of Machine Guns, Odor of Tear Gas
Alarms Ravenswood- in Fun

ME ear-splting raa attattat machine
acose bouquet of tear alarmed citizens of Ravnswood
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gram OF rigid economy the government might save
itself so deep into debt that there never would be
any coming out of it.
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WE MAKE YOUR NEWSPAPER
He Lo1es His CzId1en-and Pe1fne-Does Daniel Kidney

the
Times
me and
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Next-A lady of fashion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-07
.KIWANIANS HEAR
 NATIONAL OFFICER
Walter Ingram Describes Advances Made By
 Various Clubs

Kiwanis club have made real strides toward goal of service &C., tivity and personalized service, said Walter Ingram. secretary of Kiwanis International. in a speech to the local club at The Elton this noon.
 The 2,O00 Kiwanis groups in this country and Canada he declared, are making advances every year in bettering its achieving power. He asked that Kiwanians take a serious interest in current events and do their best to apprehend current trends.
 Only fusion of the best thought. he continued, can enable the country to solve the major problems which are now facing it. Real achievement, he stated, is above partisanship and above poli- ficS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-07
YALE BOYS MUST
 BE GENTLEMEN

New Haven, Conn, March 7.-- (UP)-Yale men to-day were ad- monished to refrain from bottle throwing and conduct themselves with due consideration for the pleasure of others," when Yale meets Harvard here tonight in 8 hockey play-off. Malcolm Farm CT. athletic director. in a notice in the Yale News to-day, warned: Hockey games this season have frequently been marked by the thoughtless actions of a few over enthusi .stic rooters. The bottles have been thrown on the ice and other demonstrations have created a distinctly bad impression on oth- CTS who were attending the game.
 ''It is to be hoped at the play-off event with Harvard this evening that every Yale man will conduct himself with due consideration for the pleasure of others and in this way reflect credit on the univer- sity."