davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1934-11-30
The bidding:

East made Shot-in- the dark open
ing-the nine of diamonds Winning
the trick with the ace, West returned
the ten of diamonds. He has other
and better plays-for instance, club.
North discarded a small spade on the
second diamond, and then took the
heart finesse. He continued hearts,
dropping Vests king, and, with tri-
umphant smile for his partner, imme-
diately saw that squeeze must in
evitably develop. Dummy was entered
with the ace of clubs, and a small
spade played toward the declarer's
hand. Vests ten was covered by
North's jack, and East. winning with
the king, churlishly returned trump
At this point the hand cannot be
played as cross-ruff. even if North
had intended to play it that way.
North calmly laid down two more
hearts, leaving the following situation:
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A Pair of Real FeLLOWS

d AY amused when people shuddered at the
IN thought of earthquake in New York.
Wouldn't his tall buildings fall down and kill lot
of people?
The buildings wouldn't fall" he said "but the
shell of brick and stone would shake off into the
streets 1t might kill million people or so. But
what Of it? If one person dies we don't consider
that disaster. If million killed that is just
so many individual deaths Consider them one by
one and there is no disaster"
One Of his best friends the late Josef Urban,
an architect, who best known in this country,
however, a designer for F1orenz ziegfeld He was
fat and jovial and he, like Hood designed beauti-
full Speakasy in the time of prohibition. 1t was the
old Park Avenue Club, operated by group of Broad
way underworld characters, who we're supposed to
have laid down 100000 in currency on his desk to
pay for the job in advance. The town really be-
lieved that.
Mr.. Urban laughed about the legend
Il spent $4,000 of my money decorating the
Park Avenue Club he said After long time they
paid me $4,000, little by little I will never get the
rest
Ray Hood was buried close to Joe Urban in
Sleepy Hollow There some cemetery archi-
lecture of the conventional gates-a pattern near
the grave and the widow of Joe Urban said to the
widow of Ray Hood as they turned away, Cant you
just hear the boys laughing and joking tonight about
the benches and limestone angels around them?"
Copyright, 1884. by United Feature Syndicate Incl
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Chooses Saloon to Salon

DUT the strut a gait he never learned. One
ID night he went to a party with Eliel Saarinen,
the Finnish architect, at which both of them
to be celebrities. 1t what Ray Hood called
sticky party with society and artists of the modern
ist type milling around the cocktail trough. One Of
the modernists sang and when the hostess asked
Mr. Hood what he thought of that he said, Lady.
you asked for it; think it resembles modernist
painting, which think is horrible"
At this point, Mr.. Saarinen, who could not be led
around by nose-ring either, looked at his wrist,
clapped his hands for the butler and demanded his
hat and stick. He had to catch a train for Kansas
City right away. Only fifteen minutes. Hat and
stick, quick and come on, Hood see to the train.
Mr.. Saarinens habitual hat derby and he
had trick, when exuberant annoyed, of kicking
it along the sidewalk He often had to replace the
hat.
Once outside, Mr. Saarinen placed his derby on
the sidewalk, kicked it, picked it up and put it
his head dent and all.
Now, Hood" said he I'VE go someplace and
drink like men,"
Il always liked saloons better than salons" Mr..
Hood said and took Mr.. Saarinen down to Morris in
Greenwich Village the first of the pretentious speak
easies of the prohibition era.
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A ND in the same account of the dongs of the
n same fastidious lady read. She said her curl
osty was satisfied that the Russians hated me- for
/ stood for all that women who wears jewels rep
resent"
And what do they represent? I have heard it
said in many patriotic Grafton that no man should
try in free America TO arouse class antagonism This
Is the land Of equal opportunity and any individual
who has amasSed Jewels. which glitter in the
sum- has right 10 faunt these symbols Of her Serv
ice to the community right in the eve of all who may
pass by.
There was no envy Of the gems in the eyes of
those who saw my jewery only hate" Mrs. Mclean
explained. And I seemed to revive for them the
memory Of old Russia. and often during that inter-
esting evening in Moscow. I could almost feel the
blade Of the guillOtine at my throat"
Mrs Mclean added that she was perhaps, "the
only living person who has given poor, dismal Rus
STA a thrill IN the last decade"
I afraid the lovely lady chooses her words
with less than she bestOWS upon her diamonds.
Is she sure that what she gave was thrill? Isn't it
remotely possible that "A pain" would be a little
more precise and in much better taste?
fCopyrEht 1884 bv The Tmesl
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Good Old Spirit of Coney Island

WILL grant that the money barons should have
the credit Of financing some superb Office build
ings In both New York and Chicago. But by some
curious Quirk these same gentlemen hit upon mon
strosites when they undertake TO build themselves
private homes. Whenever the local taximan from
the suburban station points IN the direction Of some
manor which DE refers 10 as a show place" you
may be prepared % something begun in the
spirit Of old French chateau and finished of in
the spirit Of COney Island. I give YOU Palm Beach,
Pa. a spot where vast sums have been spent in
the effort 20 burlesque the architecture of the
Spaniards
And aprpOs. perhaps Of nothing in particular, 1
was extremely Interested in what the ship news men
learned from Mrs Edward B. Mclean. but lately
visitor in Russia.
Mrs. Mclean" according to the story in the
HeradTrbune, told Of her great passion for jewels
and her pleasure at displaying the Hope diamond
for the first time Russia. since it owned by
Catherine the Great. She played with Topped strands
Of diamonds on her arm ratified the four bracelets
Of the precious stones each wrist and play
fully moved her damond-Studded fingers. rejecting
the suns RAYS. she told Of the two Soviet secret
police and two members Of the American consulate
who followed her protectingy TO the Moscow night
club"
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Those responsible for "She
Loves Me Not" went one better
and placed two hit numbers in
this one.
The numbers I am referring to
are Love In Bloom" which is one
of the most tantaliZing tunes I
have heard in many a moon, and
the other is straight From the
Shoulder"
Another reason for this pictures
appeal is that Bing Crosby, Mir
lam Hopkins and Kitty Carlisle
head the cast, which has the fine
work of young Edward Nugent.
Bing is in on both of these num-
bers and the way he and Kitty
Carlisle develop Love In Bloom"
proves that Crosby is the best
singer of that particular type of
song we have on the screen.
While singing, Miss Carlisle is
a marvellous surprise. She not
only has a good voice, but she
has poise and shoWmanship. She
does a great deal to keep this
smart farce on high-toned univer-
sity life down on earth.
She is cast as the deans daugh-
ter who is not too surprised to
learn that Paul Lawton Crosby
and Buzz Jones (Nugent) have
bobbed the hair of Curly Flagg
miriam Hopkins, put her in
mems clothes and secreted her in
the mems dormitory.
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DUETZ

DOYS and girls who have trouble with their arith-
ID metc lessons Will welcome with joy the suggeS-
ton Of DR.. David Eugene Smith, emeritus professor
Of mathematics az Columbia university, that much
now taught in arithmetic be dropped from the cur
riculum
Their JOY. however viii be tempered by the fact
that DR.. Smith thinks 1t Will take at least half
century 90 arrive at an ideal curriculum
No doubt many adults who remember their own
struggles with arithmetic Will be inclined 10 agree
with DR. Smiths opinion of the necessity Of revising
the teaching OF arithmetic.
Common fractions" Professor Smith says have
become relatively uncommon IN use. Aside from
halves thirds fourths and eighths. the average per-
son has little use for these anuquated forms In
subtraction or division their is almost negligible.
The real uses for such topics for the vast ma
jority Of people are easily defined and the pretended
uses may well be cast aside
TOR the average pupil DR.. Smith believes it would
Il be we'll 10 discard N geometry al but about
thirty propositions relating TO plane figures. At the
same time he would stress the exercises and empha-
size the fact that the great purpose Of geometry is
its skillful introduction 10 logic.
In trigonometry." he continues. we shall recog-
nize that the initial stages far easier than those
Of our present algebra and that the chief lesson for
most pupils Is that Of indirect measurement"
Il would be unfair 10 Dr. Smith 10 leave the
impression that he is interested in teaching less
mathematics 10 students IN fact. his real purpose
is Just the opposite. He is interested in clearing use
less timhers from the present structure Of school
mathematics IN order that they can be replaced
with useful ones.
DR SMITH knows some Of the objections which
IL VIII be raised TO his ideas and SO proceeds to
answer them in advance
There may be some who say that advocate
superfiCialty." he SAYS. But 90 not. There viii
be others who say that 7 am overlooking the value
OF drill I am not But object 10 spending time
on drills IN the domains Of useleSsneSS."
Tradition. race habits and fashions are the forces
which perpetuate useless customs. DR.. Smith says
These are what account for the useleSsneSs Of
things IN every walk OF life" he says, in every
school in the country in every Of study. and
consequently in every textbook. whatever the sub
ject IN every country in the world"
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103,225 INCREASE IN
u. S. JOBS REVEALED
Thousands Added to Pay Roll Under
Roosevelt.

q CNtttU ETtSS
WASHINGTON, Sept. IAN in
crease Of more than 100000 in the
number Of persons on the federal
pay roll since President Roosevelt
took Office was shown today by
United States civil service commits
sion figures.
AT the end Of July, the commits
sioner set the number of civilian
employees both temporary and per-
manent at 666,612. a gain of l03 .225
over February. 1893, shortly before
the present administration took
Office.
During July the number Of fed
eral employees gained 5,518, mostly
in the department of agriculture
and the farm credit administration.
Despite the huge increase in fed
eral employment under the present
administration the level was still
far under the war time peak Of
ol7,760 reached on Nov. IL. 1918.
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WHITE HOUSE BABY NOW BRITON
CeveandS Daughter Holds Fond Memories of Childhood Days

ID England Sept baby
IN today
distinguished English soldier
young girls
B. Bosanquet forty years
Of
whose refrain went The pride the White
S ia
Her proud father Grover Cleveland then serving his second
all well
n
n years
OF
daughter the President himself Most Of the
Now a
appropriately
s
Her husband Captain William Sydney Boanquet general
which
he after long and distinguished with the British
hardest
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much of the charm and warm,
human friendlineSS that made her
mother so beloved a White House
hostess.
=
THIS summer there will be
Il reunion in Yorkshire, with a
visit to the Bosanquets by the for
mer Mrs. Cleveland, now the wife
of Professor Thomas Jex Preston
of Princeton.
Mrs. Bosanquet takes no active
part in politics, devoting herself
to her home, her family, her gar
dens, and to personal service work
among the unemployed of York
shire.
Nevertheless, she is a loyal, if
passive, supporter of the conserva-
tive party. She muses. thoughtful
ly over this apparent change from
the democratic politics of her dis
tinguished father.
yet I don't think father would
mind" she muses.. After all, what
did he stand for? Sound money,
a dollars worth of governmental
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DR.. GLASS AWARDED
TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP
Huesmann Honor Is Conferred on
City Specialist.

Huesmann Honor Is Conferred on
City Specialist.
DR.. Robert L. Glass, "a, Indian
apoliS specialist in nervous and
mental diseases, today was APP
pointed to a travelling fellowship
provided by the 100000 Louis c.
Huesmann foundation for research
and educational purposes at the
James Whitcomb Riley hospital for
children.
Announcement of the appoint
ment was made by Hugh NICK.
Landon, president of the foundation
and of the James Whitcomb Riley
Memorial Association.
DR.. Glass, a graduate of Michigan
university in 1924, will spend the
major part of a year at that insti-
tuition and will make additional
studies at Johns Hopkins, Harvard
and other institutions Offering not
able research achievements in the
field of neurology.
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At st. Moritz she met her future
husband, just out of Cambridge.
Then the war came, and Bosan-
quet rushed home to join the COL
orS. He went to France as an Of
ficer of the famous Coldstream
guards.
Miss Cleveland and her mother
managed to get home, but the
young girl was afire with the wish
to do war work, and in 1916 re-
turned to London to serve the
war blinded soldiers at st. Dun
STAINS, where they were being
cared for in a house given by
Otto Kahn, another American.
u
YOUNG BOSANQUET came
Il back from the front in 1917,
badly wounded, and when he went
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LIQUOR MEETING CALLED
Dealers Summoned 10 Meet With
Administration Chief.

Federal alcohol control admins
trauon officials will confer with all
state liquor. wine and beer wholesale
dealers al s Thursday night in the
Claypool, J. A. Langan. indianapolis,
liquor industry state chairman. an
nounced today.
A discussion OF the blythe drink
fight Is not anticipated. Mr. Langan
asserted. Code problems viii be un-
der consideration at the meeting.
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MUNICIPAL BAND WILL
GIVE SUNDAY CONCERT

Herman Arndt Group TO Play at
Garfield Park.
The indianapolis Municipal band,
Herman Arndt conducting, will play
at 3 Sunday afternoon in Garfield
park. Its program will include Wa
ters' march, The 1. B. A; selec-
tons from Frimrs "Firefly'' a cornet
solo by Frank KesSler Herold' S
Tampa" overture selections from
light opera by Herbert and Lehar;
Strauss Blue Danube Hayes
Southern Melodies; Hufflnes
Them Bases" and O'Keefe'S cur
rently popular Man on the Flying
TrapeZe."
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big building and say to himself, That is one
of mine; did that"
Ray Hood was no mere celebrity. Celebrity is
made Of little lines of type, day after day in the
papers Celebrity is made of dialect jokes. bought or
stolen from somebody else, and delivered over the
air 1t is made of crying out loud about love, Of
pretty profles and furious lefts and rights to the
face and body. He was more than a celebrity, but
he could have been that too if he had had it in his
character to strut and chuck his weight.
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back to his regiment, he and Miss
Cleveland were engaged. In 1913,
during another leave for the
young officer, they were married
quietly in Westminster Abbey.
A week after the wedding, he
went back to the trenches for the
last few savage battles that closed
the war, winning the coveted Dis
tinguiShed Service Order.
Then he came home, and the
two settled in Yorkshire, the cap
tain turning to the iron and steel
business, and the Presidents
daughter to the rearing Of Marian
Frances, now IA, and Philippa
Ruth, 10.
Today, at 40, Mrs. Bosanquet is
a tall, slender, youthful-looking
woman with a mass of chestnut
hair and gray-blue eyes. She has
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Questions and Answers

Q-How many disputes have been settled by the
League OF Nations since its organization?
A-Since the organization OF the league. thirty
two disputes have come before the council and have
been handled with varying degrees Of success. The
majority OF disputes submitted have been traceable
&C the World war, and the provisions Of the peace
treaties.
(Which city now stands on the ancient site OF
Babyon7
A-No city now stands the site The Babylon
ian plains dotted with enormous mounds often
Enclosed by vast ramparts OF earth. which al
that remains Of the great walled cities the palaces
and the temples OF the ancient BabylonianS.
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little fellow. not much bigger
than a jockey, but ne did en-
JOY his success as an architect
and he must have acknowl-
edged to himself that ne was a
somebody, although he never
was heard to admit as much to
anybody else.
He had tackled the biggest,
toughest town in the world.
where the competition is hard
est, alone, broke and handi-
capped by personal shyness.
Before he died two weeks ago
he had shown the whole world.
There hardly vas a spot in
the middle part of Manhattan
but that he could look out one
Of the hioh Windows nick ont
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REHEARlNG Is GRANTED
Street Car Co. to Resubmit Plea for
Mars Hill Bus Line.

The public service commission
Yesterday granted the indianapolis
Street Railway Company a rehear-
ing on a petition to abandon street
car service on the Mars Hill line, and
substitute bus transportation. The
commission recently denied the petit
ton. Date for the new hearing has
not been set.
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HOLDUP STORY DOUBTED
EmpIoye Is Held for Grand Jury on
EmbezzIement Charge.

William Alley of this city was
held TO the grand jury yesterday on
enlightenment charges by Municipal
Judge Dewey Myers. He is alleged
10 have gambled away S42 belong
ing TO his employers and then told
them he had been robbed. Alley
has a criminal record. police say.
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Little Esther Cleveland was only
81 when her father left the White
House at the end of his second
term. But she still keeps little
fragmentary impressions of that
Gay.
IT'S queer what things stick in
Ia child's mind" she says. 81
can still remember where we used
to have our supper, and the gen.
eral plan of that part of the
White House where we were al
lowed to play.
I can also remember our last
day there, when we were waiting
for the carriage to convey us to
the railway station.
L remember the satisfaction
with which I wore my little gloves
in preparation for the journey.
There is one thing 1 do not re-
member, but which members of
the family have told me. 1 was
sitting there very primly, waiting
to leave the White House, when
one of the attaches said, teas
ingly:
Why are you leaving us?'
Il am supposed to have replied:
Cause there can't be two Presi-
dentsr"
q
TINE Clevelands mo ed to
u Princeton, N. j., where the
ex-President became a trustee of
the university and of great life
insurance company.
Esther Cleveland went to a pri-
vate school in Princeton, and, on
the death of Cleveland, to Switz-
erland with her mother and sis
tiers.
Then she went to a finishing
school, made her debut in 1912,
and returned to Europe with her
mother just when the war broke.
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HJeemC bM
%
Haywood BROUN

II has been argued frequently and not very intel-
j gently that the world needs a leisure class for
the protection and propagation OF culture. Among
the millionaire Of America some few have under
taken % foster painting sculpture. the drama. and
allied arts on the whole this patronage has not
beer conspicuously helpful There are a few con-
snicuous exceptions but the very phrase a fashion
able portrait painter carries with II an inevitable
sense Of condemnation.
Haecenas is a mug He has almost genius for
cndoUing the second and third rate practitioners
IN eli tie arts OF course occasionally he hits upon
~HnI
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DrelO Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XXTAsHINGToN Sept 1.-The ad senate has received
w with much curiosity
29year-old phenomenon who has
Democratic senator from West Virginia
Holt rather wndeyed of sloppy
talks fast the impression
what he is talking about
facility for mastering facts and
spelling them off speed without
phlosophic Interpretation of their meaning
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BAPTIST MEETING SET
Executive Committee to Assemble
on Wednesday.

A special meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Federated
Baptist Churches of indianapolis was
called today by Eugene c. Foster,
president Of the federation, and the
Rev. F. w. Buckner, moderator, for
noon Wednesday in the Board OF
Trade dining room. Persons par
ticipating in the annual Baptist
gathering on Sept. II and u will
attend.
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FOUR CONVICTS TO ASK
PAROLES FROM STATE
Pleas to Be Placed Before Indiana
Clemency Commission.

Four inmates of the state prison
and penal farm sentenced from
Marion county will seek paroles
when the state clemency commission
meets next week, it was announced
today.
The men are Eddie Terry, SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment, Jan. %,
1920. Cecil Ruff, sentenced to ten
years, Oct. 5, 1929, for burglary;
Carl Scherer, sentenced June 49,,
1884, for six months on a vehicle
taking charge, and John Trushell
sentenced Feb. 26, 1882, to a three
ten-year term for burglary.
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a E0rl one EHElA D4VdttA
bondholder can't be wrong all
the time. But. unfortunately,
the lad or lass with just a
touch OF genius all too often IS
anchored by the very gifts
which are intended as induce
ments. I am not romantic
enough to think that high
talent should take itself 10 tall
Earrets and proceed 10 starve
but I have watched merit
moult and wither under the
deadly influence Of twelve
rooms and four baths.
I have no desire TO pitch a
blanket indictment. No gen.
cralizatiOn IS precise enough 70
cover cvnrv case br1f nv and
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Woman was probably the first beast Of burden.
The American papoose frame. the Eskimo hood, the
Kafir skin bag. the New Guinea net the Andaman
sling and the Chinese yoke all baby carriers tend
to bear out this conclusion.
Scientists have discovered, with a hgh-speed
camera that lightning flashes bounce back and
forth" between the same points Of cloud and ground
as many as ten times.
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Fair Enough
By
WESTBROOK PEGLER

ID AYMOND HOOD used to drive downtown
IN through Central Park and gaze at the immense
block of Rockefeller City rising like mountain TO
shut of the view of the other big buildings in the
distance and dwarf all the little big buildings in the
foreground to the proportion of foothills. He liked
the view driving down through the park for ne had
been garret-poor only a dozen years ago and
he had had a hand in the designing of the biggest
peak in the Manhattan range He a modest