davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
Your Health
-BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

ONLY about 80 years have passed since accurate
Oand convenient methods we're developed tor
measuring blood pressure Actually 1t was British
preacher interested in experiments who first meas
ured blood pressure by hitchng long glass tube to
a blood vessel i'll the neck of horse
ldoSt persons with high blood pressure do not
realize it for a long time because the condition
comes on so gradually and there are no serious
symptoms to call it to their attention
Sometimes. indeed the extra blood pressure
actually seems to be associated with lot more drive
and spirit than most persons have. This is par
ticularlv the case when the pressure is associated
with extra activity of the thyroid gland. For this
reason most cases are discovered when the person
concerned happens to be applying for more life in
slrance or for his first life insurance policy.
lust because persons are likely to neglect meas
j urements OF the blood pressure until some occa-
sion demands it, the medical profession has been
trying for a long time to get them to go to their
doctors at least once each year for complete physi-
cal examination, which should always lncluoe THIS
measurement.
Because persons incline to be sentimental in asso
cation with birthdays. it has been suggested that
the examination take place each year on the birth
day.
Moreover. the tissues should be examined. If
there is any sign of the necessity for it, X-Ray
studies should be made. The blood should be studied
and the cells counted with a microscope.
Then. too the eXcretionS from the kidneys and
the bowels should be studied by all methods COM
monty used to find out if there is sugar albumen
or pus IN the urine or if there is blood in
the bowel eXcretons.
A examination of the blood pressure must be
n made every time a person goes to a doctor for
any condition affecting the body as a whole. This
means not only men and women past 10. but young
men and women entering college as we'll
1t means particularly the young woman about to
be married. For a young woman with H A. D."
hypertenslve arterial disease. to have a baby is a
most serious matter 1t may mean life or death.
or course competent doctor always will meas
her blood pressure if he finds she is going to
have a baby but he ought TO know about the blood
pressure long before that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

wagons, and here they can find
better, fairer, happier life than
their grandfathers and great
grandfathers found in virgin
America.
I like to think of this great
Columbia Basin plan of home
making as a direct answer to the
challenge of Soviet Russia.
America IS doing things for her
people. AS a matter of fact, for
more than three decades the Fed
eral government has been slowly
going about the business of build
ing great dams and creating new
acres for the land-hungry. The
present administration has dram
atized and intensified the
whole immense program for cheap
power and water.
Over the vast area of Ameri-
ca are no less than 100000
acres of Sub-marginal land in
drought acreas or marked by soil
erosion, stubbornly farmed by
men and women who can never
gain anything but a starvation
existence from their toll.
In our cities are some 100000
families whom the machines have
probably permanently replaced.
And in the capital at Washington
is a great planning board, with
submits in all the states.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

Waldman went to police to re-
new his complaint, met Cooper
there. They and police talked it
over The police attempted to
rationalize and succeeded in calm
ing Waldman. He and Cooper left
together, parted in the street out
side. Cooper went on to his
delicatessen just as police arrived
to arrest Mrs. Waldman, who was
standing over the body of her
victim, declaiming her satisfaction
to the gathering curious.
A FTER her husband went to
"A police, Mrs. Waldman said
she had decided to take the mat
ter into her own hands. She
couldn't stand being witched any
longer. She wrote out, in a semi
literate scrawl, the following
pledge:
II, Ida Rose, or Ida Cooper,
agree to release Mr.. and Mrs.
Waldman and his children and
family from the witchcraft
have done till now and I'll never
do witchcraft to Waldman fam
lily any more all my life"
This she carried to Mrs. Coorer
and commanded her to sign. Mrs.
Cooper laughed. Mrs Waldman
thought her laughter meant she
intended to redouble her bewitch-
ing. She took a pistol out of her
handbag and killed her.
Police looked into the past of
the Coopers, seeking some cause
for the Waldmans Authorizations.
Cooper, they found, was CRAVING
small business man of a widely
diffused type-poorly educated. but
sober, honest, and hard working.
His delicatessen, being in a poor
neighborhood proved only a bare
livelihood. But in Mrs. Cooper
they found some explanation.
MRS. COOPER, though neither
4Vl mystical nor psychic type,
dabbled in the occult sciences.
She told fortunes to neighborhood
women with playing cards and
had a crystal ball within whose
reflections, she claimed police
could not learn if she believed she
saw images or knew she was
charlatan, she could see into the
future.
The Waldmans had their for
tunes told, had Mrs. Cooper look
into her crystal for them. In 1912
Waldman had been impressed by
her Vaccinations and convinced
himself she was a witch. Police
believed he succeeded in con-
vincing his wife. Mrs. Waldman
said they had covered all the win
dowS and every glass surface in
their home because they feared
reflections from Mrs. Cooper's
crystal ball would creep in and
enable Mrs. Cooper to see them.
Mrs. Waldman said that at
times Mrs. Cooper became infuri-
ated and intensified her bewitch-
ments until they were unbearable.
AT times 1 was blind and para
lied she said. AT times I
couldn't eat or sleep"
The WaldmanS have two chill
dren. Waldman is a peddler. Mrs.
Waldman was charged with first
degree murder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
That Drink Was Mighty Fine

XXTELL. young Mr.. So and So comes The dinner
w is excellent. His host and his hostess have
charming manners Nobody bawls him out for hav-
ing voted for the death sentence" and there's
nice democratic game Of contract at fortieth of
a cent point. He wins 65 cents. He grins to him
self as he goes home and says, Il suppose some of
the voters if they knew about it, would say they
were trying to bride me-"
And after while he goes again. The butler has
a way of mixing pineapple juice with Haitian rum
which makes the best cocktail he ever tasted. This
time one of the other guests is big industrial
leader from New York. That fellow certainly knows
how to tell an off-color story-the one about the
two tramps and the banjo
After he gets home Rep So and So diets call
him Fred for short) has just few misgivings
After dinner his host did draw him out bit on
his radical views" Fred has vague feeling that
he was being kidded little The big steel fellow
from New York did say some awfully amusing things
about dividing up the wealth. And also Fred has
a feeling that he didn't state his own case any TOO
we'll He tried to do it in about the same terms he
used in talking to the audience from the tube plant
in Iorain o. 1t during the fish course Some
how he muffed it. He put more into 1t at that
street meeting And then he meant lt-every Woro
of it, Now it seemed a little hollow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

things can not answer the march
Of the advancing machine.
I'VE must develop a rural-urban
type of life for millions of our
people who are today crowded in
cities and suffering from unem-
ployment. Other millions must
find contentment and plenty in
purely rural communities.
I believe all this to be true.
Our rural ancestors-the roman
tic pioneers we love to read ard
hear about-Were not true farmers
and lovers of the soil. They were
primarily land spectators.
New lands were new fortunes
for them. The perils and endless
hard work of frontier life made
them dream of the safety and
comforts of small town and city
life.
Tomorrow's pioneers will be
frontiermen on hard roads, with
electric lights and bathrooms and
power machinery and motor cars
and radios.
So it is that the beautiful land
of America gets a new chance to
win the hearts of men and women,
and make them truly love its
life-giving soil. 1t must become
the good earth-not the relent-
less, cruel toil-maSter.
Il =
TN a lawyers office in Spokane
Il 1 listened to a new creed for
American life. I had said that I
could not keep pessimiSm from
creeping into my view of America.
My host answered:
Il have only great hope for this
country of ours. Since the earliest
age of man, scarcity has forced
the development of the acquiSitive
sense. Necessity has developed
fear and greed. But there is no
longer scarcity.
"At last we know how to create
plenty for all-of food and hous-
ing and clothing and leisure and
enjoyment. We can not change
the nature of man, but we can
change the goal of life and the
symbols and measures of success.
There will be no need for piling
up fortunes. There will be plenty
for ALL"
And in hamlets and on farms,
IN cities and ranches, stretching
all the way for Washington, D. c.,
to Washington State in the great
Northwest, I have heard bits Of
this new American creed.
The End
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

U. S. A E. Phenomenon of cur
rent American politics is the re-
markable burst of vocality on the
part of Rhode Islands shy little
Senator Jesse Metcalf. Known
for years as Senate mute
Metcalf recently blosSomed forth
as a red-hot haranguer. His latest
outpouring was a radio speech in
which he hung the label of social
ism on the Administration because
the President favored amending
the Constitution . Kennedy Nc
Intyre, blond, 21-year-old son of
White House Secretary Marvin
Mcintyre, is a $500 year
mimeograph machine operator on
the NRA staff. Young Mcintyre
started as a messenger at $840 a
year; has risen to his present
status in less than two years.
Copyright. 1895. by United Feature
Syndicate. Inc.D
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
AVER America, men with clear

NVER America, men with clear
~ vision and high hopes have
embarked on new voyages of dis
covery. They are the Freemonts,
and de Sofas, and Ponce de Icons,
and Pixies, and Lewises and
Clarkes of the new era.
They see with the new eye. The
magic glasses they wear can turn
rocky canyons into great dams,
that will provide power unknown
and undreamed of by the discov-
erers and pathmakers of old.
And they see wild rivers that
carry precious soil to the sea
damned, the water stored and
given out as needed to metamor-
phize thirsty acres from worthless
sand into green gardens and or
chards.
That is what I saw as / drove
through these sagebrush wastes of
east-central Washington. I hold
that it is an important part of the
picture of America today.
When I started out from the
District of Columbia. President
Roosevelt said to me that there is
no monopoly on good works. be-
lieve that more than ever after
these thousands of miles Of motor
ing across this vast and bewildered
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

miles or so west and south OF Spokane,
Wash. Today possibly thousand souls at
the outside try to scratch a living on its
sprawlng acres Tomorrow-which may mean 10
years or even a score-200O0O families may be work.
ing out on these same tracts pattern Of Amer-
can life in snug little five to 15acre irrigated home
steads.
North of the road that wanders through these
dry and uninspired lands lies Grand Coulee DAM
now taking shape and substance the greatest en-
cheering project ever undertaken by man. here
with Federal money is being constructed dam two
and one-half times the size of the Boulder Dam
Here the cheapest electric power in the world will
be produced and by creating great natural reser-
voir from an abandoned channel of the Columbia
River water will be served 900 acres of what
is now at best seni-arid land
amation project in all history parallels this mighty
he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

land. and after talking 10 hun
dreds of citizens.
l am convinced that if America
is to save her democratic ideals
there must be a great movement
from the cities back to the land
But it must be a return to the land
as a place to live and not place
for fortune.
The small farm, self contained
and self-supporting must become
way of life and not way of
wealth. From the French and
Bavarian peasants we must take
at least one great lesson; we must
learn to love the soil as a life
giver.
A S professor at the University
4 n of Oregon said to me:
The real problem of America
lies in the cities. Only better
method of distribution and a
willingness to make smaller profits
with lowering of the hours of
labor-can ever take up the slack
of unemployment. But even these
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

One hundred and seventy in
dustries have submitted applica-
tions for voluntary codes to re-
place their Supreme Court-rif1ed
Blue Eagle codes. Incident
ally. the nine members of the Su-
preme Court are scattered far and
wide in their hot weather vaca-
tioning.
Chief Justice Hughes is seeing
America" via automobile. The
three musketeers of the Old
Guard bloc, Sutherland, McRayn-
olds and Van Devanter, are tour
ing Europe. Justice Stone was
also abroad, but is now back
keeping cool on the breezy shores
of Maine.
Justice Brandeis is staying at
Chatham, Mass, as has been his
wont since his appointment to the
court, and Justice Roberts is on
his farm" near Philadelphia.
Justice Cardozo had a sick spell
early in the summer but has re-
covered and is at Rye, N. Y,
where he is handling emergency
court matters, such as appeals in
criminal cases, that have come up
during the recess.
CAPITOL HILL cloakroomS are
~ buzzing with a new explana-
ton for the Presidents deter
mined insiStence that all pending
important legislation be disposed
of before adjournment. The Pres
ident is said to fear that by the
time Congress meets again next
January the entire world outlook
may be changed as a result of the
impending Italy-Ethiopia war.
Therefore he wants to dispose Of
as many domestic problems as
possible The new 40-hour week
schedule for postal workers will
add about 10000 of the $4,000 pos
tai substitutes to the permanent
pay roll, thereby boosting the pos
tai budget by s21 100000 Ne
braSka's veteran Senator George
Norris is one prophet not without
honor in his home town. After a
ten-year fight in which Norris took
a leading part, his home town of
McCook voted to go into the
power business in direct compe-
tition with the private plant
Despite WaShington's whiting
heat, fire is built every noon in
one of the CRATES in the House
lobby. One of the janitors uses
this mearS to dispose of trash,
and so far none of the perspir-
ing members has raised a voice
in protest.
THE current Red scare seems to
i have caused no fears among
900 additional barrels of Soviet oil
of New York. The corporation
has just concluded a deal with
Moscow for the purchase of ESQ.,
900 additional barrel of Soviet oil
and kerosene at an estimated cost
of about s500.o00. Payment for
the oil will be made in dollars,
hut the oil will not he cold in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
auZnough
BY
WESIBROOK PEGLER

THERE is more than tinge of resentment in
l. some of the comment on Max Schmeling's de-
mand for S1500O0 (. o. b.. Europe at the price OF
appearance in the American ring against either
Max Baer who knocked him out two years ago or
Joe Louis the colored man, who recently inter-
rupted Primo Camera.
1t should be kept in mind. however that Mr..
Schmeling has had wide experience in the prize
fight business in America and that he knows much
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03


no illusions about Madison Square
Garden for example, realizing that
the Garden is not a national Amer
lean institution. but a soulless cor
poration operated for the purpose
of returning a profit to its stock
holders.
Neither will he have any illus
sionS about the So-called Twentieth
Century Club, an adjunct of the
Hearst papers, which operates I'M
der a guise of charity. using babies
for bally-hoo, but is likewise run
for profit. including the rich. but
incalculable profits of the ticket
Scalping privilege. The nominal
head of this firm is Mike Jacobs
scalper of many years service. who
this phase of the business for Tel
GorGaY household
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

ton Of an honest man. When the job is done well
the victim has not the slightest notion of the
ner in which he has been played upon. Sometimes
the conniver is not actually deliberate in the
strict sense of the word. 1t just happens that the
wife. perhaps. of a wealthy and conservative SEN
ator thinks it would be nice to have Mr.. So and 50
Of Ohio around 10 dinner. She has heard that he
has the most terribly radical ideas but that his
manners are charming. They say he's a gentle
man even though he does intend to soak the rich
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

Mrs. Waldman answered all
questions with one formula: "She
was witch, so I killed her" She
went into the delicatessen operated
by Isador Cooper, Mrs. Cooper's
husband, yesterday and asked
Mrs. Cooper to sig nan agreement
to stop casting evil spells. Mrs.
Cooper refused and was shot
down.
Waldman knew nothing of her
plan to commit murder. He was
on a street car while she was
carving out her crime. At the
precise moment Mrs. Cooper died,
he told police, he felt great up
lift of spirit, "as though ropes had
bee ntaken from around my neck"
He will be named in a lunacy
warrant to be issued today.
DOLCE said only psychol-
l. ogists could explain the
tangled mental urges that per-
mitted the WaldmanS to believe
for three years that balls of
fires conjured by Mrs. Cooper,
danced about their bedroom, and
finally sent Mrs. Waldman on her
murderous arrand.
Waldman, small man, partly
bald, apparently calm but with
wild eyes, solemnly told police
that he first met Mrs. Cooper in
1912. She bewitched him then,
he said, and for six years kept
him under her spell. Her power
weakened and he escaped by fee
ing. He met Mrs. Waldman and
they married. All was happy
and serene with them, he said,
until they met Mrs. Cooper again.
Mrs. Waldman, a humorless
woman of so who stared haugh-
tily at police through steel
trimmed glasses, nodded an en-
phatic agreement. Both seemed
annoyed that police did not &C
cept their story at its face value.
Mrs. Cooper, they said, i'm
mediately began prosecuting them
with Satanic skill. Night after
night, through year after year,
fire balls danced through their
bedroom. Occasionally they de-
scended, burning one or the other
of them. Waldman displayed
scars on his legs which he said
were put there by Mrs. Cooper's
f1reballS.
They adopted all sorts of
means to fight the f1reballs, they
said. When they began appear
ing in great numbers, Waldman
would jump out of bed and fay
the air with a hammer Each
time he hit one it would explode
and disappear. But before he
could hit one, he had to seize and
hold it in the grip Of pair of
pliers Occasionally he would
nail the f1reballS to the wall.
WINTER and summer they
w slept with every window
and door of their house tightly
closed. They stretched brown
paper over the window glass and
even over the keyholes. Still the
fire-balls came. Waldman said
that sometimes there had been
long periods, many months, when
their lives we're peaceful and they
believed Mrs. Cooper had relented.
But always the balls returned.
Then, during the recent heat
wave, their home became insuffer-
able with all doors and windows
shut. Waldman went to Cooper
and begged him to have his wife
dispel her evel charm. Cooper
was amazed, denied his wife was a
witch. They argued and Wald-
man went to police. The precise
nature of his accusation was not
understood and warrant was
issued for Mrs. Cooper. She failed
to respond, but her husband did
yesterday afternoon, an hour be-
fore his wife was murdered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03


An the same place" indicating previous ref
erence in the document or book 1t is short for the
Latin word ibidem.
Q-What is bombazine?
"A cloth. originally made of silk. or silk and
wool and now made also of cotton and WOOL or of
wool alone. Good bombaZne is made with a silk
warp and Worsted weft. 1t is twilled or corded
and - used for dress material. Black bombazine
was once used largely for feminine mourning cos
tunes but 1t has gone out of fashion.
Q-when did Mrs. Warren G. Harding die?
A-Nov. q, 1924
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
BY FRAZIER HUNT


EOR two hours and drove through endless miles of
desolate wastes, covered with sage brush. Now and
again the picture would be relieved by pfu
attempt at dry farming and at intervals there would
tiny patches of green where water had been coaxed to
work its magic.
1t has the famed Columbia Basin country stretching
every direction far the eye could reach hundred
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

man in a hundred accepts money
for his vote. but TO the man who
longs to be counted among the
upper crust or who has a social
climber as a wife there are other
than money methods that may te
used with effect"
In all probability Mr. Nelson Is
not altogether serious in his re-
quest for a formal investiga lion.
This factor of influence is for
midable There need be 10
doubt Of that. But in many cases
it is so intangible and so subtle
that even a first-claSs novelist
would require 100000 words to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
-Bu Dre1O Pearson and Robert S. Allen

-By DfeW PeOTSOn ana ROOeTt D. AUeH----
WASHINGTON Aug outsiders Capitol Hill adjourn
w With their
before the leaders chary about making pub
Privately they that barring unexpected
legislative
between Aug 20 and Sept Ohio obaccochewing Hon
nickname
amendments Voting the negative he explained The bill too
I
for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
Witch Slain by Woman;
Killer and Mate Rejoice
BY MEADE C.. MONROE

CLEVELAND o. 3N Matilda waldman and her husband
~ their cells the determine
enabled Mrs Waldman murder Mrs Ida Rose
Cooper they said witch who had held both under
demonacal spell
report police history
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
ASSAULT SUSPECT HELD
City Youth Accused of Attack by
Young Matron.

Police today held Lester Moss, 20,
Of 208 N. Delaware-st, on charges
Of criminally asSaulting Mrs. Guy
Jester, 81, of 538 S. Alabama st.
Mrs. Jester said Moss beat her into
Inconsistencies and abducted her.
She e;caped by leaping from his
car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
II Seems hM
Haywood BROlN

ID EP. WILLIAM L. NELSON Of Columbia No.
ANwants still another lobby Investigation He wants
an inquiry into the which he regards as the
most dangerous OF them all" According to Con-
gresham Nelson this is the social lobby in Wash
ington'
Now that the work Of Hobbies in general is to be
investigated" he is quoted saying. L hope that
the dinners and cocktail crowd will be included.
Il has never been my belief that one Congress-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

TO other project all history parallels this mighty
ouwing What matters If the rich free ahoS
more Imaginative and government money Will
build lands
Here twentieth Century pioneers newtypd covered
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03


In