davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-04
q
REMEMBERS LEFTY LEE'
AS FINE SPORTSMAN
By Jack Castleman

BY Jack Castleman
Allow me to say few words In
regard to Lefty Lee. In writing this
little missive of remembrance feel
that I am voicing the heartfelt
thoughts of all sportsmen, especially
fishermen. We have him to thank
for the very interesting sports
column that appeared in your paper
each day which was always the
first article I read.
had the pleasure of meeting him
two or three times and 1 am sincere
in saying that I think he was one
of the finest, squarest shooting
sportsmen that ever whipped rod.
Speaking for all lovers of the out
doors who read his column, we offer
our deepest sympathy to his family
and The Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-04

men in Indiana, and particularly
Indianapolis, have taken toward
the NRA.
General Johnson, if he would in
vestigate, might be surprised at the
number Of hotel employees in the
city, both skilled and unskilled, who
are working from seventy to ninety
hours week at salaries ranging
from SO to $40 a month.
Not only have most of the hotels
failed to comply with the NRA, but
they have not even made the pre-
tense of an attempt toward COM
pliance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-04
LABOR WILL REWARD
FAIR TREATMENT

BY Hiram Laekey.
knowingly appreciative, labor and
its sympathizers hope for favorable
action as result of the publicity
given by The Times to the strike
Of hosiery workers.
The more responsible and intelli-
gent of these champions of eco
nomic justice have decided upon
a practical plan Of gratitude. Brief
ly, it is this:
That the words or rather the d.
vine command, Come unto me all
ye who labor and are heavy laden,
and I win give you rest" be taken
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-04

would be more at ease in the pur-
suit of his chosen career.
He might evade capture indehn-
itely and that would be fine for
Johnnie, because once he is caught
and kept in prison for some time
the public no doubt would forget
him and the girls would replace his
picture on their dressers with one
Of movie or radio star.
I am sure I have offered a most
logical suggestion inasmuch as
Johnnie has proven the fallacy of
the old theory that robbing banks
is wicked
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-04
CHANGES
BY VIRGINIA KIDwELL

o Love is every changing and the
feelings of today
We can't expect to be the same as
We will have tomorrow,
Then never swear your love will last
forever and a day,
And never think you never will for
get your grief and sorrow.
For time brings changes wonderful
and circumstances aid
To form a different character and
think a different way,
Obtain a new environment and a
new outlook is made
SO never swear to be the same to-
morrow as today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-04
COMPLAINS HOTELS
DISREGARD NRA
By Times Reader,

By Times Reader.
Although not in any way finan-
cially interested in the Claypool, I
am pleased to note its full co-opera-
ton with the President. Having
once been interested in the bust
ness, I certainly can take no pride
in the niggardly attitude the hotel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-04
The Message Center

Times readers are invjted to cypress
their DjetoS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ 1ooydS or lesS.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-04

On arrival, Samuel insult plans to get a
hair cut first. If his barber happens to be a
utilities bondholder, he may give insult the
kind of trimming the bondholders think
they've had.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-04
The indianapolis Times

a sCRIPPs-HowARD NEWSPAPER
ROY W HOWARD Pre- sifsuf
TALcOTT POWELL Editor
EARL D. BAKER Business Manager
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-04

0ue- hlley G11l
Members Of United Press,
Scripps Howard Newspaper
Alliance. Newspaper Pufer-
prise Association. Newspaper
Information Service and Au-
dit Bureau Of Circulstions.
Owned and published daily
Except Sunday bv The IN
dianapolls Times Publishing
Com psnv. 214-220 West Mary
land street. indianapolis. Ind.
Price In Marion county. !
cents . copy: elsewhere, =
cents-delivered By carrier. -
cents a week Mall subscrip-
tion rates In Indiana, 50 q
year: outside Of IndisIa. 65
cents month.
c6fsszo
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-04

ere sSg - o. "A q
GtUs Light and the
People wa Ftno
Their Otcn WaT
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17
Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ-

ME oysterman's big job is to provide place for
Il the seed-oysters or "spat" as they are some
times called to set" brief review of the life his
tory of the oyster will make this clear.
In the spawning season, each female oyster re-
leases from 100000 to 100000 eggs. These are
microscopic in size. At the same time the male
oysters release sperm cells Fertilization of the egg
cells take place in the water by the chance union of
an egg and sperm cell.
Within two or three hours, the fortified egg has
developed into a swimming larva At the end of
twenty hours it has complete shell. Larval devel-
opment is completed within two weeks BY this time,
the oyster is about seventy-1fth of an inch in
diameter. 1t is now known a seed oyster or spat.
The seed oyster by the end of this time has also
developed a powerful pedal attachment or foot by
means of which it is able to crawl about on the
ocean floor
The oyster has now reached the most critical mo-
ment in its development. 1t is ready to give up
life Of free motion and to settle down for good BY
of a sticky substance which it develops it is
ready to cement itself to permanent anchorage.
This is the process known in various regions set
ting, Spattlng or striking. The oyster will attach
itself to a shell a stone any other object with
a clean surface-an old bottle, tin can, anything
else.
GETTING, according to DR. Herbert F Prytherch,
~ director Of the United States fisheries biological
station at Beaufort, N c.. is the result of chemical
stimulus brought about by the accumulation of
minute amount Of coppe- in the oyster
Copper is the only known element that will IN
der natural conditions in minute concentrations Of
part copper in 1000 900 100000 parts Of sea
water" he says.
In about four minutes the larva begins the set
ting process and after crawling back and forth
the surface Of convenient object finally secretes
a quick-hardening cement with which its shell is
firmly attached to the subStratum"
Scientists and oystermen working comparatively,
have discovered that setting is heavier and
with greater regularity in certain inshore coastal
areas.
THE oystermen plant large quantities of shells in
Il these favorable waters AS a result many mil
lions Of seed oysters enabled to set which other
wise would find no suitable place and a result
would perish
DR.. Prytherch explains what happens when ade-
quate preparations not made to take care of the
seed oysters AS many several thousand will settle
upon shell where there really is only room for
twenty or thirty to survive. AS a result SO per
cent of them die from over-crowding, lack of food
and oxygen. and on. Those that do survive are
cemented too closely together to have room enough
to grow properly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17
NThe NeICnesS of the Deal

{ 'ORNERED along toward the end of his exam
~ nation, DR.. William Writ admitted that when
he used the word revolution" he did not intend To
convey the seizure of the government bv armed
force and the establishment of a Communist dcta-
torshlp He said he meant radical readjustment of
the social and economic order. He cited the fact
that if families taken off relief rolls in some of
the cities and put subsistence farms rent in those
towns might be lower I doubt that the removal of
a nonrentpayer from slum have any particu-
lar effect upon prices, but I hope that President
Roosevelt will say in effect that DR. Writ in his
devious way has Numbered upon some wholesome
truths
When Ernest K. Lndley wrote, some little time
ago an account of the Presidents performances and
policies he called his book The Roosevelt Revolu-
ton" I am under the impression that the title
chosen by the Herald Tribune man not in any
way Objectionable to the President think that
the administration ought to be of a character to
brighten the life out of Dr. Writ and all his hackers
That state of life which Mr.. Hearst and Mr.. Rand
and Mr.. Ford adore is not to my liking Not only
do I want to me Roosevelt revolution but
want to it jammed down the Threats of the
powers who have held in bondage.
Copyright. 1884, by The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17
Your Health
by DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

XXTHEN you are out playing golf, don't break up
w the game by picking mushrooms that happen
to grow along the course. They may be poisonous
and may spoil your golf to say the least for the rest
of the season.
Even when you go hunting mushrooms beware
of the dangerous amanita 1t has deceived many
persons who have considered themselves expert at
picking mushrooms that safe.
You can't be about these plants when
there 10000 varieties of them, and it requires
an expert TO tell the most common types apart.
Unfortunately the experts are deceived by the
amanita phalloideS which is the most poisonous
mushroom of all, because it so closely resembles
some of the mushrooms that can be eaten safely.
TIGURES show that more persons are getting sick
L from eating poisonous mushrooms year after
year. due probably to the fact that they buy these
from inexperienced mushrooms pickers, men and
boys otherwise out of work.
The four most common classes of mushrooms are:
first the gillbearing mushrooms second those that
have small vertical tubes on the under side of the
cap; third, those that have SpneS which hang from
the under sides of the caps like teeth, and fourth,
those that have their spores scattered over the en-
tire surface and are coral-hke in appearance.
The colorS of the spores vary from white to pink
and brown. purple, and black Although some edible
mushrooms have pure white spores, the poisonous
amanita family always white.
Poisonous mushrooms grow chiefly in the woods
or stumpy areas, while many edible mushrooms
grow in open fields.
A NY mushroom produces death by its content
L of a poison which is colorleSS and taStelesS
land which kills human beings by destroying the
blood cells.
The most common mushroom sold for food pur-
poses has broad. cap from to five inches
wide and rather thick with firm white flesh It's
gls are connected by veins and not attached to
the stem
1t varies in color from pink to brownish- back
and the spores are purplish black. not white,
the spores of the poisonous amanita. The stem may
be much as three inches in length.
Many other types Of mushrooms safe, but
merely because there many. you would do
well to leave your selection to the experts and buy
them only in places which known to purchase
food materials from reliable sources
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17

OBrien. He YVES nowhere to be
found
The next morning he appeared
before the Democratic politicians
with the calmness of a man who
had resolved to release a secret
that gnawed at his heart for
years, He admitted every charge
that was put before him.
A suit was filed in circuit court
demanding that O'Brien's name
be scratched from the list of
Democratic candidates and Judge
Taylor's put in its place. The suit
alleged that O'Brien had mis-
represented himself to the voters
and the party organization.
The amazing revelation that
sunk the Democratic political
fortunes was found on a Bertillion
photograph and attached card in
the st. Louis police headquarters.
The card stated that one John
F. O'Brien had a police record and
was associated with the notorious
'Eagan'S Rats" The father of
John O'Brien, said the police rec
ords, was "Nosey" O'Brien, one of
the cleverest pickpocketS in the
country, who was picked up on
general principles every time he
entered ST. Louis. Nap and Tom
ME O'Brien, two brothers of John
O'Brien, were we'll known GRIM
inals.
The report stated that John F.
O'Brien, 30, was arrested Jan. %,
1908, in the company of well
known thieves, ex-convicts and
idlers. Charge, idling. Further
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17

charges under which John O'Brien
had been arrested were theft,
petit larceny and being a hobo.
OBrien had served three months
in the workhouse.
Il
THE legal training of John F.
Il O'Brien had been obtained,
while youth, as a runner for
criminal lawyers. BY a sort of
rote process he had picked up
legal terms.
Francis x. O'Brien, the i'm
pressive darling of the Irish, was
John F. O'Brien. He had broken
away from the old gang in st.
Louis and come to Indianapolis,
fiat and ambitious for new life.
There is touch of sadness, show
ing the sadiStic cruelty of society,
in the rollicking saga of mus
tached, f1orid Francis x. O'Brien.
He was never able to escape from
his early environment. 1t had
bounded him and logged his trail
from st. Louis to indianapolis,
where it finally seized and dashed
him.
Indianapolis Democrats never
have ceased shuddering when ever
the name of Francis x. OBrien is
mentioned. Like the tuneless
haunting cry of the banshee, the
O'Brien scandal whispers over the
city during political campaigns.
And yet neither the party nor
O'Brien was responsible for the
magnificent scandal. 1t was a
dirty, police court bum.
THE END.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17


Walmsley had come to Wash
ington for the avowed purpose of
pummeling Huey because of some
remarks the Kingf1sh had made;
but he also was seeking CWA
money for New Orleans.
Huey was nervous. For several
days he had been ducking Walms-
ley, and the evasion was getting
more and more difficult. On this
particular morning it was al
ready II o'clock, and Huey was
still unable to get out of his room
to reach the senate.
At about 11:15 the phone in
Walmsley'S room rang, and a fem
mime voice asked:
Mayor Walmsley?"
"Yes?"
This is the Office Of CWA adj
miniStrator Harry Hopkins. You
wanted an appointment with
him?"
yes, I did"
well, Mr.. Hopkins asked ME to
call and say he'll see you if you
can get here by 11;30."
Walmsley hurried over to Hop
kins' Office, asked if Mr.. Hopkins
was ready to see him yet. The
young lady answered in surprise:
why, Mr.. Hopkins went out of
town last night. He won't be
back for several days"
Why did you call me over to
see him at II 80, them" demand
ed the mayor.
Il didn't call anybody" the
girl replied. Who are you?"
Back at the hotel, the mayor
began checking up. He called the
telephone operator.
you remember that call that
I got about an hour ago?" he be-
gan. Where did it come from?"
Eyes, I remember" replied the
operator. 1T came from Senator
Longs apartment"
e r.
THE new labor outbreak in
l. the motor industry was no
surprise to insiders.
They forecast it a few hours
after the terms of the Presidents
strike settlement were published.
Here is the chief reason:
Automobile production soon be-
gins to fall of. The plants be-
gin to tighten their pay rolls. The
only way for embattled union
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17

O'Brien had been in the habit
of sitting as special judge in
municipal court, merely as a cour-
teous judicial gesture. One day
when he was on the bench, tat
tered and dirty bum was brought
before him on charge of petty
theft
TINE bum was a Stolid, Sullen
l. fellow, but as he was brought
into the courtroom, faint flicker
of recognition passed over his
face. Special Judge O'Brien, nat
urally a nervous type, was more
fidgety than ever that morning.
He avoided the hard, glowering
look in the prisoners eyes.
A Republican politician had
sauntered into the courtroom to
pass a few minutes, and he
thought he noticed wordleSs
battle between the judge on the
bench and the petty thief.
Francis x. O'Brien hastily
passed over the evidence and gave
the prisoner a suspended sentence.
To most of the courtroom loaferS,
it was merely another routine
case.
But as the bum passed out Of
the courtroom door, he muttered
to himself: Its a damn good
thing he let me go. If I told ="
The rest of the words were
drowned. They were. enough for
the Republican who happened to
overhear them.
He went to the Jail and inter-
viewed the man. The next day a
man was rushed to st. Louis. A
few days after the primaries, the
scandal broke that toppled the
Democrats over in an ignominiouS
fall. The slate was Swamped ir
the elections. Haggard Democratic
politicians spent troubled, sleep
less nights.
4 FEW days after the man
IA went to st. Louis, an investi-
gator went into Francis x.
O'Brien's sumptuous Offices, hand
ed him picture and asked: do
you recognize this MANI"
The picture was handed to
O'Brien upside down. Returning
it in the same way O'Brien re-
piled in stern, firm voice: "Of
course I don't" I never saw the
man before"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17

as it is to have imitation, and to
have it faster than we are getting
it, the senate, nevertheless, passes
a bill which, in its immediate
effects, is wholly deflationary.
The inf1ationary policy now be-
ing pursued is a redistribution of
the national income. In effect it
dilutes the claims, which had
grown to intolerable proportions,
of the holders of fixed obligations
and enlarges the earnings of pro-
ducerS.
The total result of that redistri-
button of income is to stimulate
production and thereby to in
crease the real national income.
1t is only when this process of re-
covery has been completed, that
is to say, when the national in
come is restored and the govern
ments whole budget is in balance,
that taxation aimed to change the
distribution of wealth can really
be made effective. Then it will
be wise policy to tax heavily the
profits of prosperity and to apply
them to a reduction of the ma
tional debt.
DOWNRIGHT 1924
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17


dumb luck they might complete long forward We
in the stands want to know whether Franklin D
aims to win by one touchdown or whether he in
tends to get going again and wipe up the field with
our ancient foes and traditional enemies.
II you don't mind we'll drop the football SYM
bolism right here and get to something else.
BY now it has been proved that DR.. Writ is no
worse than a slight cold with minor lumbaginous
twinges But, nevertheless Writ is a symptom which
should not be neglected The forces behind him are
important. The Indiana educator who did not hest
tate to gas and tell tribal balloon sent up by
thoSe who are dedicated to the cry of Hold enough"
Money changers from time immemorial have
known Of the existence of back door to the temple
me HearSts and the Rands and the BendiXes and
The automobile men and the steel men and the oil
men are on the march again. The command is
Forward" The cry is Recovery" and by "re-
coVery they mean an immediate return to the
ways of Calvin, the cool, and Harding, the hor-
rendous.
Ihey want to have once more Il precise duplicate
OF the old economic order, in which golden apples
grew on all the top branches and could be plucked
ny all with stepladderS. 1t the notion of MANY
that TINS ideal was entirely insufficient from the
point OF view of the Roosevelt administration 1t
mas been believed that lively intention was on
Ioot TO bend down the bOughs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17

isn't your name John F.
OBrien?" the questioner asked,
relentlessly.
Il don't know the NAME"
O'Brien replied in a dead mono
tone. His voice carried the sound
of one who has been dead and
YEARLY thrust back into life
again. His nervous fingers toyed
absently with the watch chain and
eyes suddenly grown lack-lustre
roved the Office.
The Investigator chased through
the city, showing the picture to
friends of O'Brien and asking, do
you recognize this MANI"
He learned from a relief agency
that O'Brien had applied for re-
lief in 1911, three years before.
The relief worker had asked his
wife why the family didn't go
back to st. Louis, where their
relatives could help them.
Mrs. O'Brien had replied: 1--WE
can't go back to st. Louis Mr..
O'Brien had some difficulty
there"
TINE Investigator talked to
u Andy Donlan and Gippy Ga
vim. They were Mortified and
called an immediate meeting of all
O'Brien workers.
Their political ambitions which
had reached high hopes with the
nomination of OBFien were
dashed and broken like smashed
soap bubbles. The leading Demo-
Gratis sought frantically for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-17
That Morning After

MR. COOLIDGE was by no means dumb so he
4VA undoubtedly knew this and realized when he
issued his command invitations that he was inflict-
ing peculiar kind of suffering on his guests
have read of late that Mr. Coolidge pursued
guests for his breakfast parties with relentless
persiStency, sometimes chasing them to their hide
outs by phone late at night to date them up for the
morning after And after breakfast he serves big
cigars.
Now If there is anything more horrible than
breakfast to man who has had to creep around
MS room on his hands and knees looking in the
waste basket and behind the bureau for his head
on the morning after a typical Washington social
evening, 1t is big cigar after breakfast Sausage
and buckwheat cakes might put man in the hos
pltal Tor stretch but cigar might kill
But the truth about these breakfast parties was
not told in time for the 1924 election 1t was sup
pressed and Mr. Coolidge was elected for full term
OF MS own during which he went on spreading woe
ana misery among his enemies by the ingenious
plan OF dragging them downtown and compelling
them to eat food and make conversation followed
by cigars.
1heSe Hunkey books all have the sound of tattling
ana perhaps 1 should turn down the page and not
read intimate revelations regarding mans conduct
IN MS own household. But guess there must be a
strong dash OF private detective most of us because
otherWSe this sort of keyhole peering would not
SELL -O'