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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
Commodities Adequate

There were several other favor
able items, including the best New
York City bank clearings since July
%, and cotton sales at 100 per cent
of output during January. Com
modities advanced with wheat up
more than a cent a bushel, while
bonds continued to move higher in
active turnover.
Automobile issues resumed lead
ership. Auburn at its high was up
35s points at 56A, while General
Motors made a new high since 1881
at AIS, up Is; Nash rose nearly a
point to 311a and ChrysIer rose
more than a point. The latter was
the most active issue on the boaro.
Orders for cars, locomotives and
other railroad material aided the
railroad equipments where Baldwin
was the active favorite. National
Distellers resumed lead Of the wet
stocks in heavy turnover. Airplane
stocks steadied after the recent
profit-taking. Oils were higher
with most activity in Consolidated
Fertilizer issues we're in demand as
fertilizer sales increased. Interna-
tional agricultural issues made new
highs.
Dupont was carried up to a new
193334 high at 103, up Ia. The
company is the largest stakeholder
in General Motors and benefits by
the rise in that issue. Other chem
ical shares were strong with Allied
Chemical up nearly 2 points.
Steel Issues Recover
Steel issues enjoyed a good re-
covery. United States Steel rose
more than a point, while Youngs-
town Sheet and Tube was up near
ly points. Mining issues advanced
as did rails, farm equipments, re-
frigerator shares and merchandise
ing issues. Montgomery Ward led
the latter.
Stock sales today were the great
est for any Saturday since July %,
totaling 2,081,170 shares as against
l ,199 900 shares last Saturday Curb
sales were $4,000 shares as against
$4,000 shares today.
Dow Jones preliminary averages
showed: Industrial 10942, up Ill;
railroad, 51.85, up OBI; utility, 28.40,
up OBS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
INDIANAPOLIS WAGON WHEAT
CHICAGO CASH GRAIN

City grain elevators are paying SO cents
on their merits
The Washington times., 1934-10-25
Target, New York
Easy to Hit From the Air

Since prophets are without honor in their country
Commander Frank Hawks and Ivor skorsky will doubtless be
called couple crackpo for warning of the dangers
attacks great cities.
Commander Hawks told the Presidents Aviation Commis
sion that plane could fly nonstop from Shanghai to
New York in forty-eight hours.
He said that plane with ton of bombs board could
fly. nonstop from Alaska here
Conceding that those planes would return he added:
There plenty Of young Japanese warriors who would
willingly sacrifice their lives for the chance fly New
York and destroy skyscrapes with their bombs. 1t
wouldn't be bombs unfortunately but probably poison
which would wipe out the population Of Manhattan
and adjacent sectors"
Mr. Skorsy vsuazed for the committee airpanes carry
ing 200pound bombs 600 bombs to plane spreading desc
aton cities by crcrossng paths of destruction mile
in length.
Commander Hawks urged the strengthening of Alaska the
Aeuan Islands and Hawaii to prevent their capture by
enemy time and conversion into enemy air bases.
Mr. Skorsky declared that New York vulnerable from
the Atlantic hostile aircraft carrier within
thousand miles of the coast.
Advocates of unpreparedness will at dismiss these
statements the rawlings of sensatonasts sales talk
scare the Government into buying airplanes.
Elderly admiras and generals will write the papers to
say that aviation has cut much figure war and
hence will
And the Government suppose will do nothing way
the othereavng choice sites for enemy bases unfod
and adequate fleet of American planes unbuilt
the circumstances is dig private storm cellar for
self and family in of emergency.
But that is little difficult
The cliff dwellers think of it. the more we must
conclude that and when the next comes going
to be out of luck.
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

and friends. Tackling a strange
environment.
Always we wonder, as Jean
cite is wondering-"Is it wise?
Can 1 be sure I'll be happy?"
And nine times out of ten we
end by saying, as she is say
ing
"I'll wait until I'm perfectly
sure. My present situation-my
home, the people I love, the job
I'm used to-it's all too precious
to risk"
So we haggle with fate
hoping for guaranteed happi-
ness. Do we get it? Not once
in blue moon!
For happiness isn't some
thing that comes in an Insured
Package.
Happiness is a BY-PRODUCT
-. which comes as we go
along.
It's the process of those very
risks and sacrifices and adjust
ments which we dread and try
to avoid.
YOU CAN'T HAVE HAPPI-
NESS UNLESS YOU RISK 1T.
YOU CAN'T HAVE LIFE
UNLESS YOU SPEND 1T.
You can, it is true, achieve
something which some coward
ly or sluggish spirits call happi-
ness. A state of stupid inertia
Snug comfort devoid of ex-
citement or curiosity.
A COW or a carrot might en-
joy an existence like that
but there's nothing in it for
proud, eager human being. =.
and for a very good reason.
Nature abhors pikers or
SlackerS.
Hers is a swift and danger
GUS program, and if you can't
or won't qualify. you're just
out of luck. Barnacles, clans,
snails and other stay-putters
get only her Shiny leavings.
They run, it is true, scant
risks-but they also get even
scantier rewards.
But for the reckless ones of
the soaring wings and restless
heels-eagles, winged and other
wise-the great adventures are
reserved.
Those who dare to live dan
gerously profit accordingly.
YOU GET OUT OF LIFE
AS AND WHAT YOU GIVE.
NO PLAY-NO PAY.
Copyright, 1894. by King Features
Syndicate. InC.)
The Washington times., 1934-10-25
Human Side of the News = By Edwin G. Hill

have been unintelligible to the
most erudite japanese. But, by
methods strongly suggesting
medieval mystagogery, he de-
coded them.
When Secretary Stimson sum-
marily wiped out the bureau,
Mr.. Yardley in June, 1881,
published his book, The Black
Chamber" telling a fascinating
yarn and insisting, in effect,
that Uncle Sam was a bit OF a
Simpleton in being too Squeam-
ish about learning what was
going on in the world-or in
the heavens above or the
waters beneath.
The Washington files con-
tanned his routine work, in
response to requests for decod-
ing, or enciphering. He had
accumulated a vast amount OF
personal gleanings from secret
communications around the
world. He wrote to the State
Department offering these files,
without remuneration, provid-
ing he could be assured that
some intelligent use would be
made of them, and that they
would not be put away and
forgotten.
The reply, from a department
subordinate. said it would re-
ceive the files but with no con-
ditions as to what it should do
with them. So the studious and
aloof Major Yardley still has
his world gossip. He knows how
to keep a secret and it seems
he will have to, as nobody
wants it. He is an ardent pa
triot and, of course, wouldn't
tell what he knows. So, no
doubt, some fascinating histori-
cal data will die with him.
The Germans used effectively
a disk code with one forward
reading alphabet and six back
ward alphabets which had been
invented in the days of Charlie
magne and used by him. An
ancient Greek device, involving
a rod and spirally wound parch-
ment, decipherable when wound
only in a certain way was used
in the Franco-PruSSian war.
Julius Caesars alphabetical
code was used by the French in
the World War.
SECRET CODES
The World War was a fas-
mating battle of secret codes.
Now that the returns are all
in, it seems that the grizzled
little old Scotchman. Sir Alfred
Ewing, ran rings around the
Germans. In his famous Room
40 of the Department Of the
British Admiralty. he had a
staff of so cryptographers busy
day and night.
They're still at it. It's a cryp-
tic world in more senses than
one. But over here, one can
still talk as man to man to his
smoking car neighbors on the
1892. Perhaps things won't
ever be much better until the
nations get that way, too. But
one thing again of that nice,
wide, comforting old ocean,
and that is that staying over
on this side of it is a grand
idea.
(Copyright. 1894. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

With the new tension in Eu"
rope, there is a brief news de.
spatch telling of the increased
concentration of European gov
ernments on secret codes and
cryptograms, and the emer-
gence of practices and practi.
TONERS of secret communication
which suggest black magic.
AS there seems to be no ire
sistable weapon, there seems to
be no undecipherable code. In
large areas of the world, affairs
of great and sometimes dark
moment ere being conducted by
cabalistic devices. Radio has
greatly elaborated all this cryp.
tic talk. Some slight Slurring
or stress of the weather report
may tell where the plans are
hidden. What a nice, wide old
ocean the Atlantic is, and how
nicely Uncle Sam could get
along, with the scriptural yea
yea" and "nay.nay"!
In the World War, of course,
he had to work up puzzle talk.
But he was a bit naive at it at
first. "Pershing sails Monday
morning" was built out of an
innocent and plausible sem
tence. The first letter of each
word supplied the above. Griz-
zled old Sir Alfred Ewing, great
British de-coder, read it at a
glance. He was greatly amused.
and said we would have to do
better than that.
BLACK CHAMBERS
We did, of course, and after
the war we went into 1t in a
big way. But "eavesdroppers
seldom hear anything good of
themselves" Tapping the air
waves, or unraveling written
word snarlS, we picked up some
quite diSconcerting information
about what our neighhors were
saying and what they were up
to.
BY 1880, we had developed
our BLACK Chamber" to a high
degree of efficiency. But Sec
retary Stimson ditched the
whole business. Somehow, this
auStere New Englander didn't
like shopping.
But there are two sides to all
this, and that's the story of
Major Herbert o. Yardley, per-
haps Americas greatest genius
in reading the unreadable. In
the postwar years, he was the
head of the Cryptographic
Bureau of the State Depart
ment. He was a Washington
youth, a telegraph operator in
the War DEPARTMENTAL,
quiet, deeply preoccupied, busy
from his childhood days with
codes and enigmas.
At the point of his sharp
pencil, he gathered the raw ma
terial for thousand melo-
dramas, plucked from the air or
conjured out Of innocent look
ing correspondence. He dis
covered that the major powers
had BLACK Chambers" scien-
tifically stated, highly trained,
winnowing out every whisper
across their borders. Whatever
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

perfect happiness to all con
cerned. But"
A cloud goes over that we'll
known smile. Look at all those
divorces!
Hardly a day but one of her
friends tells it to the judge with
tears. So what's a girl who
loves her Man to do?
Wait-decides jeanette. Wait
until they're both ABSOLUTE
LY SURE that their marriage
will last forever"-for "ro-
nance is too precious thing to
spoil"
But won't they miss many
happy times-intimate hours
gay adventures for Just Two?
"Of course, we will" sighS
jeanette THESE ARE
SOME OF THE LITTLE
THINGS THAT WE MUST
GIVE UP IN TRYING NOT TO
RISK OUR HAPPINESS"
A wise plan? Yes? M-mmaybe.
But I wonder.
Playing safe" with love. :.
mot risking happiness. wait
ing until you're perfectly sure"
Fine phrases that listen lovely,
and we all set store by them
when faced with the possibility
of taking a new step.
Sometimes it's love with
which we try to play safe"
Sometimes it's a job. Moving to
a new place. Leaving our family
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

. z d Y IL "
news didn't mind missing the
customary one at the Depart
ment of Justice this week.
Attorney General and Mrs.
Homer S. Cummings had enter
tained them at their home the
day before.
Election results in various
States have muddled the mem.
bership of the House Appropria.
tiOns Committee.
Numerous changes in SubcOm.
mitteeS will be necessary but
from all indications Washing
ton will not benefit materially
as that Texas talking tornado,
Representative "Tawm" BlantOn
probably will maintain his foot.
hold on the District SubcOmmit-
tee.
Copyright, 1884. The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

night. In New England, at any
rate, what was known as "the
heavy meal" came in the middle
of the day, and anyone who
asked you to dinner" at sup
per time would wear lorgnettes.
It seems hard to believe now,
but the grapefruit was once con"
Sidered an item of diet which
only the president of the wire
works could have for breakfast.
After years and years OF be-
ing thrown away in Florida as
inedible, the grapefruit sud-
denly took on class. To say to
a waiter: "JuSt bring me a
grapefruit first!" marked one
as a man of the world and
something of a gourmet.
The joke about grapefruit
squirting in the eye came in
shortly after the people who
made Jokes started blowing
themselves to grapefruit. The
joke has lasted longer than the
prestige of the fruit.
The very words weekend"
were not so long ago used only
by anglophileS. You were 60.
ing British if you spoke of a
weekend" and you were down.
right insufferable if you went
on one.
One of our more classy maga-
zines got its start as a patri-
clan publication by having an
article on "week-ending in the
country" every month. A lot
of solid, God-fearing Americans
wouldn't have the paper on
their tables,
The Washington times., 1934-10-25
We Have Enough Laws
Murder Is a Crime Now

With the National Capital in an alarming crime stua
tion there is arising again the usual vaporng about hav
ing additional laws enacted to protect the populace.
WE DON'T NEED MORE LAWS. WHAT WE NEED
IS STRONGER AND MORE VIGOROUS ENFORCE
MENT OF THOSE WE HAVE
Murder is against the law Yet innocent man, going
quietly about his business, is shot dead.
HOUSEKEEPING is against the law. Yet the Commit
tee on Civic Affairs of the Washington Federation OF
Churches declares that "no residence is quite safe
Here is city in the throes of gangster and gambling
war which is taking heavy toll of lives Here is city
that outraged by series Of crimes serious in them
selves and portending serious consequences
AND STILL THE SUGGESTION IS MADE THAT
WE CANNOT CURB THESE CONDITIONS UNTIL WE
GET NEW AND ADDITIONAL LAWS.
THAT TO PUT 1T IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE
STREET, IS BUNK
Some members Of the Police Department have recently
shown commendabe activity in trying to root out the
evil elements which are fattening upon the city.
Their efforts deserve encouragement and support.
THAT ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT MUST
COME NOT ONLY FROM OUR CITIZENS GEN
ERALLY BUT FROM THE MEMBERS OF THE DE-
PARTMENT WHO ARE INCLINED TO BECOME
TRIFLE SLACK NOW AND THEN.
probable that more stringent laws could be enacted
which would make it easier to suppress of the forms
of crimes now prevalent in the community.
But there is no law that could be enacted that would
be stringent than the law against taking anothers
life There no law that could be enacted that would
be more stringent than that against taking anothers
property.
WE MIGHT AS WELL STOP FooLING OUR
SELVES ABOUT WAITING UNTIL NEXT YEAR AND
ma 7AYA I'D
LAWS.
WHAT WE MUST DO IS TO GIVE THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT THE MEN AND EQUIPMENT IT
NEEDS TO ENFORCE EXISTING LAWS
AND THEN HOLD EVERY MAN ON THE FORCE
STRICTLY ACCOUNTABLE FOR ENFORCEMENT
The Washington times., 1934-10-25
Times and Customs
BY Robert BenchLeY

And, speaking of affecting
British mannerismS and hab-
it's, who remembers when cuffs
on a mans trousers brought
down the jibe: tits raining in
London" Only "Cholly-off-the
pickle-boat" wore white ducks,
and, to jump ahead bit, sew
eral prominent citizens today
are on record as having once
said that they would as soon
wear a skirt as wrist watch.
1t was only a few years ago
that the fussy traveller had to
specify "a room with a BATH"
and even then did it under his
breath for fear that people
would think that he was on his
honeymoon and showing off.
Incidentally, the introduction
of twin beds into family life
was held to be just a touch
swanky and possibly an indi-
cation that the upper classes
were drifting toward an effete
civilization.
To step into the next room
for a minute, when a man threw
in a casual remark about latter
my shower this morning" he was
quite likely to be under suspi-
cion not only of boasting about
a daily bath but even more of
trying to let people know that
he was in daily touch with a
shower bath.
The early use of showers by
athletes prevented any taint Of
The Washington times., 1934-10-25
The Greatest Show
On Earth
BIZ John Snure, ir.

Two of the busiest men IN
political fields these days are
eT.neWSpdpermen.
They are Charles S. Buck"
Hayden, secretary to the Demo-
cratic Congressional Campaign
Committee, and warren
Wheaton, publicity director of
the Republican National Com
mittee.
Federal Housing Administra.
tor James A. Moffett should
have the nomination for being
the most big-hearted yacht
owner around these diggings.
When other officials in his or.
ganization needed a rest this
last summer Jimmie turned his
yacht over to them on more
than one occasion.
In view of the fact that his
craft "Bidou" is one of the most
palatial in the riv r, it was quite
a treat.
Not impressed by the fact that
he receives one of the higher
salaries paid by the Treasury,
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

If little labor, little are our
gains;
Mans fortunes are according to
his pains. -Herrick.
Every one must see daily in
stances of people who complain
from a mere habit of complain
ing.-GraveS.
A miSer grows rich by seem
ing poor; an eXtravagant man
grows poor by seeming rtch.-
Shakespeare.
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

Vaccinations those secret mes
sages might disclose was no con-
Germ of his. His job was to
keep the Government informed.
He became as aloof and color
less as one of his own ciphers-
hiding out in an old tenement
in New York, with chemicals,
microscopes and d rk-r o m
equipment, working preferably
through the night, an exile
from family and friends. He
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

made startling meanings leap
from innocuous words or
symbols.
Quietly and OBVIOUSLY, they
found their way to the State
Department. Sluicing japanese
chit-chat from the air during
the Washington Naval Confer
ence was perhaps Major
Yardley'S greatest achievements.
He did not know a word of
Japanese. The messages would
The Washington times., 1934-10-25
Words of Wise Men

Are there not little chapters
in everybody's life that seem to
be nothing, and yet affect all
the rest of the history
Thackeray.
The most wonderful and the
strongest things in the world
are Just the things which no
one can see.-KingSley.
AS threshing separates the
corn from the chaff, so does
affliction purify virtue.-Bacon.
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

po S t p o ming
marriage. For
su p p ose
their marri-
age di dn t
60 t urn out
h a p PLY y?
M a rri a g e,
thinks she, is
lovely-1F
when mar.
riage t u r n S
out a S II
should ! t S
the grandest
thing imagin-
able a n d
Sh0llld bring
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

effeteness, but the owning of
shower was more or less a mat
ter for boaSting.
In leaving these erStwhile in
dications of Snobbery, let us ask
who remembers when tomato
Juice in the morning was sign
that a man had been drinking
the night before?
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, InC.)
Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and ThurSdGv.
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g nj a t h e
other Sunday.
Most impor-
tant District
car in the
long process
sion tn a t
skirted t h e
road Of the
Virginia show
pl a ce was
that of Com
m i S S i o n e r
M in C..
HaZen.
Not far be-
hind him
Tol0na1 f. H.
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

No matter how doggy an in.
Stitution may be in it's begin.
nings, sooner or later it gets
into general circulation. Now
they are playing polo in Holly
wood and wearing polo coats in
the Ozarks.
Some of us older boys can
remember back to the days
when it was considered putting
on the dog to have dinner at
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

win A. Halsey, Senate secretary
was also taking in the scenery.
Paul C. Yates, former admin
iStrdtiUe assistant to '-*oUernor
Paul M. Pearson of the Virgin
Islands. Who resigned because
of conditions the islands, has
returned to Washington.
John H. Fahey, chairman OF
the Federal Home Loan Bank
Board. and Horace Russell, gen.
eral counsel, are in New Orleans
attending the annual conven-
ton of the United States Build
ing and Loan League.
As the winter nears, Gen"
Arthur E. Gus" Cook, superin.
tendent of the Capitol, is en-
crossed in planning his tactics
for the annual campaign against
the large forces of starlings
that are expected to storm the
building before long.
Reports from Michigan indi-
cate that Representative George
Dondero, the House Office Build
ing early bird who arrives at
work before anyone else, is
going to catch the voters worm
in his district and be returned
to the House.
Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgdnthau, jr, doesn't seem
to find much time for golf
these days despite the fact that
the first hundred dollars he
ever made wds Dhen he Won a
bet from his father on the
green's and tGirWGyS.
The Washington times., 1934-10-25
HOMEGROWN Narcotics
AS Deadly as the Imported Brand

The United States Government cooperaes with other nations
In fighting the world traffic in narcotics
The New York Police Department discovers large field
producing weed grown Brooklyn The crop worth
$5000 and contains enough narcotics drive dozens
insane.
The Government would do we'll its attention from
far-away places to narcotic growing close to home
The Washington times., 1934-10-25
Can We Find Happiness By
"PlaYing Safe?

Pretty jeanette Macdonald,
Hollywood star, isn't going to
marry Robert Ritchie-yet.
Doesn't she love him? Plen-
ty! And that's just why she's
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

Herman Oil
phant, gen.
eral counsel
to the Secre-
tary, lives in
one of the
most mOder-
ate a p a r t.
m e n t s in
town.
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

Back in town for the first
time since the death of her huS-
band, Mrs. Henry T. Rainey,
wife of the late Speaker of the
House is in semi.SecluSiOn at one
of the uptown hotels.
Hundreds of WashingtonianS
visited the Skyline Drive in Vir-
The Washington times., 1934-10-25

Dill e n t
n e W S hawks
CD who like
to a t t e n d
press confer
e n c e S In
e a L nn h a
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-08-31
The Reputation Of
George H. Cullison
Democratic Candidate For
Sheriff

was born in st. Mary's County
in the year Of 1874, educated in
Washington, and for the last twenty
five years have been in the fish bus
mess at Rock Point. In the World
War period l was employed in the
light house service at Cobb Island
and received several concentrations
for acts Of bravery while in this SER
vice. AT present ! am engaged in the
mercantile business at Cobb Island
/ have served on numerous iuries
and have the reputation of never
having been drunk, disorderly or
arrested for any offense. Never in
my life have | contracted bill which
was not paid.
am a middle aged man, 5 #. II
inches in height, weight 225 pounds
and am known to be calm and quiet
and at a friendly disposal.
GEORGE H. CULLISON
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-08-31
Joseph E. Bowie

Joseph E Bowie, 60 years Of age,
died in Sibley Hospital, Washington
from complication OF diseases, Tues
day night,
Mr.. Bowie was life long resident Of
the county, having resided near Don.
caster as successful farmer and mer-
chant, He was prominent in the affairs Of
the county, having been a life long
member of the Democratic Party, He
was well and favorably known through
out the county. Mr.. Bowie was super.
intendent OF the county roads for a
number OF years.
Besides his widow. formerly Miss
Maddox, he is survived by two daught.
ers and five sons, Henry, Irving, Emory
Harry and William all of this county.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p,
m. today at Nsnjemoy Baptist Church,
interment will follow in the Church
Cemetery,