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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
That Drink Was Mighty Fine

WELL 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 a
nice democratic game Of contract at fortieth of
a cent point He wins IS cents. He grins to him.
self as he goes home and says, I suppose some of
the voters, if they knew about it, would say they
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 a big industrial
leader from New York That fellow certainly knows
how to tell of-color story-the one about the
two tramps and the banjo.
After he gets home Rep. So and So Qets call
him Fred for ShorD has just a few mSg1vings.
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 700
well He tried to do it in about the same terms ne
used in talking to the audience from the tube plant
in Iorain o. It was during the fish course Some
how he muTed it. He put more into 1t at thaC
street meeting And then he meant it-every word
of it, Now it seemed a little hollow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

miles or 50 west and South OF Spokane,
Wash. Today possibly thousand souls at
the outside try to scratch a living on it's
sprawling acres. Tomorrow-which may mean 10
years or even Score-20OOOo families may be work
inc out on these same tracts new pattern of Ameri-
can life in snug little five to 15-acre irrigated home
steads.
North of the road that wanders through these
drv and uninspired lands lies Grand Couee dam.
now taking shape and substance as the greatest en-
cheering project ever undertaken by man. Here
with Federal money is being constructed a 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 1,2OO,OOO acres OF wnat
is now at best semi-arid land
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
But He Isn't Wise

THE pretty girl at his left broke nm up HUE
with that funny remark about bathtubs, and the
butler came along with the pheasant just as he was
swinging into his best point. Still everybody hao
been very polite The big steel man listened atten-
lively and said Il agree with everything you say
only wish we could do it." And after dinner they
played bridge
If Fred is wise he has a previous engagement at
the Automat the next time the invitation comes
Usually Fred isn't wise.
Looking back on it all, he never would be able
to tell you the precise evening at which he began to
see things a different light. In fact, he'll argue
that he is OF just the same mind he in the be-
ginning when he got elected from labor conSti-
tuency OF course. he believes in the rights of labor
But investors have some rights too. And he's little
tired of hearing every with more than $40 as
sailed as a reactionary and malefactor of great
wealth. The interests is a phrase used only by
dema gCgueS. Some of these men of great wealth
are the most reasonable people in the world once
you know them and get chance to sit down and
talk. Perhaps. Fred suggests that would be a way
out OF lot of our economic difcultieSjuSt to have
capital and labor sit down around dinner table
and let their hair down.
Copyright 1885,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

land, and after talking to hun
dreds of citizens.
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 return to the land
as place to live and not a place
for fortune.
The small farm, elf-contained
and self-supporting, must become
a way of life and not a 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 a 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

ton Of an honest When the job is done well
the victim has the slightest notion of the
in which he has been played upon Sometimes
even the cOnnlver is not actually deliberate in the
strict sense Of the word. It just happens that the
wife. perhaps. Of a wealthy and conservative Sen
ator thinks il would be nice to have Mr.. So and So
OF Ohio around TO dinner. She has heard that he
has the most terribly radical ideas but that his
man even though he does intend to soak the rich.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
EuEnouh
BY
WESIBROOK PEGLER

THERE is more than tinge of resentment IN
i some of the comment on Max Something's de-
mand for Sl5oO00 f. O. b. Europa at the price OF
an 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.
It should be kept in mind. however, that Mr.
Schmeling has had wide experience in the prlze
fight business in America and that he knows much
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
Q-what does ibid mean?

An the same place" indicating previous ref
erencs 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
VOL. and now made also of cotton and WOOL or of
Wool alone. Good bombazine is made with silk
warp and worsted welt. 1t is twled or corded
and 10 used for dress material Black bombazine
was once used largely for feminine mourning cos
tunes, but it has gone out of fashion.
Q-When did Mrs. Warren G. Harding die?
A-NoY. Il. 1924.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

ItldJ the IdyIldu uO6S LOt. A1c hoS
no illusions about Madison Square
Garden for example, realizing that
the Garden is not national Amer
lean institution. but 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
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
BIZ DreU Pearson and Robert S. Ale

XXTASHINGTON, outsiders Capitol Hill adjourn
w of Congress by With their having
several times before however the leaders cha about making pub
Privately they that barring unexpected
tobacco-chewing
Donahey lived his nickname the the AAA
Voting the explained THE bill
understand
always picking
for he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
BY FRAZIER HUNT
Copyright. 1895. NEA Service. IncJ

CcDvrgh
FOR two hours and more drove through endless miles OF
desoIate wastes covered with sage brush. Now and
again the monotonous picture would be relieved by ptfu
attempt at dry farming and at intervals there would
tiny patches green where water had been coaxed to
work its magic
1t has the famed Columbia Basin country, stretching
in every direction the could reach, hundred
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ-

IMPORTANT advances in the fields of teevsion
Il mining, power plant equipment. aviation and au-
tomobiles, are predicted by the Engineering Index
National Committee.
1t reaches this conclusion from a survey of the
fifteenth annual volume of the Engineering Index,
published this month
The index is record of engineering research and
publication. It's 1920 pages describe 10000 items
culled from 1000 different engineering publications
from all parts of the world. The material is CLASH
fed under 5000 subject headings.
The items listed represent the work of $4,000
authors who wrote in 40 different countries and
ployed 20 different languages.
ENGINEERING activity precedes industrial and
IL business activity" Dean Collins P Bliss of the
College of Engineering of New York University ex-
plains. Dean Bliss is president of the Engineering
Index.
Every depression matter how long or how
deep, follows the same general course. In the be-
ginning there naturally is a falling off in activity
in all lines. In the midst of it there is a drifting
period Then, as business recovery is about to set
n there is keen activity, especially in those lines
in which there will be the greatest development"
d ECORDS of Engineering Index show that there
IN has been greater technical interest and activity
in television than in almost any other department
of industry, Dean Bliss says.
In the last year there were exactly 81 per cent
more reports and other writings the subject than
there were IN the year preceding" he says
Naturally. there has been greater activity in gold
mining Development the increase over the year
preceding being 35 per cent This is a result not
entirely due to the depression but indicates also a
general industrial reawakening Our records show
an increase Of 20 per cent for all mining.
"A still better indicator Of reviying industry how
ever, is the increase in reported development in
power plant equipment-22 per cent over the pre-
confidence on the part Of manufacturers and an
anticipation Of demands for capital goods.
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, McReyn-
Odds 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.
HAPITOL 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 S21.000,000 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 q.
Despite WaShington'S whiting
heat, a fire is built every noon in
one of the CRATES in the House
lobby. One of the janitors uses
this means 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
600 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,
H.,& A. Ill x.rslI - - -.Yl l.. A.
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Mrs. Waldman answered all
questions with one formula: She
was a witch, so I killed her" She
went into the delicateSSen operat-
ed by Isador Cooper Mrs. Cooper's
husband, yesterday and asked
Mrs. Cooper to sign an 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 street car while she was
carrying out her crime. At the
precise moment Mrs. Cooper died,
he told police, he felt a great up
lift of spirit, "as though ropes had
been taken 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 Grand.
Waldman, a 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 flee
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
fireballS.
They adopted all sorts of
means to fight the fireballs, 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
SlCPI Will CNCAy WA4QOW
and door of their house tight y
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 eyel 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 a warrant was
issued for Mrs. Cooper. She failed
to respond, but her husband did
yesterday afternoon, an hour be-
fore his wife was murdered.
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man N HuuuIeQ dCCepJS HlOIley
for his vote. but to the man who
longs to be counted among the
upper crust or who has s7cial
climber as a wife there are other
than money methods that may be
used with effect"
In all probability Mr. Nelson is
not altogether serious in his re-
quest for a formal investigation.
This factor Of influence is for
midable. There need be no
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
1rorrr tho r,icf1,ro If tho dicipta1ro
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
Witch Slain by Woman;
Killer and Mate Rejoice
BY MEADE C. MONROE
United Press staff Corresponds at

CLEVELAND Aug 3Mr Matilda Waldman and her husband
determine
Waldman Mrs Ida Rose Cooper
Cooper they witch who had held both under
spell
report police records read like history in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

Q-Why do wheels of vehicles sometimes appear
to turn backward in motion pictures?
A-Because the movement Of the spokes is too
slow to be synchronized with the rapid separate ex-
poSures Of the film.
Q-What was the male and female Negro popula-
ton of the United States in the last census?
A-There were 5.S55.669 males and 6.0S5.474 fe-
males.
Q-Name the President Of France.
A-Albert Francois Lebrun.
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 eS3 S. Alabama-st.
Mrs. Jester said Moss beat her into
Inconsistencies and abducted her
She escaped by leaping from his
car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

all history parallels this mighty
~ attempt ouWing What matters II the rich free lanos
and government money Will
nioners
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the end his rpOOria
journey
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II Seems hM
BY
Haywood BROIN

ID EP WILLIAM L. NELSON Of Columbia. Mo-
~ wants still another lobby nves igaton. He wants
inquiry into the one which he regards the
most dangerous Of them all" According to Con-
gresham Nelson this is the social lobby in Wash
ngton"
Now that the work Of l)bbies in general is to be
investigated" he is quoted as saying. Il hope that
the dinners and cocktail crowd will be included.
It has never been my belief that one Congress
The Washington times., 1935-04-06
PIN K WITH
blue, q favorite

blue, a favorite
spring combi-
nation, is Sc
lected by Joan
Bennett in this
summer street
costume. The
dress is Of pink
crepe with car
bon blue jump
er effect, and
her W id e.
brimmed baku
hat is Of the
same blue.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-01-25

Soviet Russia is nearing the top the worlds pre-
Yier aeronautical nation. With the populace air
minded to fantastic degree, Russia is showing
the capitalstic world that it, too has Lindberghs
and Turner's. Although the Red army air feet is
famous the u S. S. RS civil aircraft system takes
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-01-25

With the house committee assigned to investigate
un-Amercan activities in the United States pre-
pairing to submit report to congress urging the
passage of sediton law with teeth in it to crack
down on conspiracies to overthrow the government,
observers recall the fate of the sedition law of
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-01-25

The sweetheart Of Robert Mais,
Mary McKeever, is taken to Phila-
delphia from New York to stand
trial as an accomplish in the escape
of Mais and Walter Lagenza from
the Richmond, Va, jail where they
were awaiting execution. Miss Nc
Keever unwittingly led Federal men
to gangs hideout in New York
where all were captured.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-01-25

Appointment of Emile Tranquil,
above, as financial dictator of
Belgium to straighten out the ma
TONS affairs was considered likely
in political circles on the eve of
the resignation of Premier
Charles de Broqueville and his
cabinet. Tranquil served as finance
dictator in 1925 when he stabi-
lized the franc. .
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-01-25

chart shows the
William E. Frank at the
holdings increased
OF $4,000.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-01-25

Pretty Kathryn Crawford, above,
Hollywood actress, wins a "sweet"
sweetheart by marrying James
Edgar, inset, youthful million
aire who succeeded to his late
fathers mantle as Michigan's
sugar king. Miss Crawford met
her fiance in Detroit several years
ago while filling a stage engage
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-15
Natures Children
TheVetches pea Family.

the delicious draught, goes to another
hostess.
Naturally the plant mother 30
cheated does not develop seed chill
dren. But her sisters do, and place
their five to eight seeds In Q smooth
pod about one inch long.
The leaves aid greatly In the mode
Of travel adopted by this plant Of the
fields. On a slender stem, the oblnng.
compound leaflets grow opposite each
other. and at the tip Of each there Is
tendril, which has tiny claw.
The American vetch seems to be
the most friendly member and likes
company. She grows along the
roadside, the thickets near them, and
in the pleasant sunny meadows. Her
flowers are more snowy. though not
so numerous, as those Of her sister,
the common vetch Of the Pacific Coast.
She prefers moist soil and has .
wide range over the North and the
Northwest. I am sure you will see
her. as she is such . graceful climber,
and her flowers are such a lovely
purplish blue.
Copyright. 1880
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-15
Who Are You?
The Romance of You, Name.
BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS.
Wallrr

THE origin of this well-known sur
name remains in doubt, but it
is thought by some authorities that
it is derived from "Gauler," name
which the Anglo-Saxons used to
designate q foreigner, or stranger.
The name later became Waller. In
the northern part of Great Britain,
Waller was an occupational name
given to those who built walls.
The armorial bearings here shown
were brought to America by the Wal
lers, who settled in Virginia. They
are the same arms as those borne by
Walters of Buckinghamshire In Eng
land, of which family the celebrated
poet, Edmund Waller of Beaconsfield.
descended.
The Virginia Walters settled in King
and Queen County. Va, of which John
Waller was sheriff in 1702. In 1705
he was justice of King william County
and in 1719 was q member Of the Vir-
ginia House of Burgesses. His son,
Col. John Waller, established his
home, which he called Newport, in
Spotsylvania County.
Descendants of this family are now
living in many of the Southern, East
ern and Middle Western States.
(Copyright, 1851
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It Is great fun to visit these flowers
In order to spy On their busy insect
guests. The Towering season is q
long one, beginning in June and last
ing until Autumn In some locations.
Because the vetches all have blue
flowers and some Of them turn purple
Is they grow older. they have solved
the problem Of calling to their as
sistance the bees, which are very par
tial to this color.
The stem Is slender, rather downy,
and from two to four feet long.
This funny growth discourages any
crawler whose intentions would not
be cooperation. But the flowers have
elastic-hke petal doors that protect
their nectar cups. It Is the weight
and activity of the guests that cause
these to open. and upon their de-
parture the petals resume their shape.
In spite Of this precaution. the hum
blebee Bombus terrestris). . house
breaker. whose tricks are well known
to many nature lovers, goes to the side
entrance and breaks through the
silken wall to the nectary. Here she
drains the cup and. wen satisfied by