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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-11
His Presence Always Felt

LIE didn't NEEDLE, but there was secure feeling
Il that he there. Personally, he seemed to
like printers than any other craft in the shop
and during his last years he would sometimes come
into the office after the theater climb the iron stairs
and lean the tables in his white vest to discuss
things with Of his old hands from Chattanooga
Then he would go away with ink grease all over
his vest.
He didn't like to with their feet on the
desks in the editorial room, but he wasn't boSsy
about it. He once asked reporter if he would mind
not to put his feet up because he said it didn't look
nice.
Mr.. Ochs didn't mind card games in the shop,
either although once they had to reduce the limit
from dollar, stud, to quarter, because one man
lost weeks salary and his wife went down and
complained. The city editor rather favored a mild
game however, because it tended to keep a lot of
good men around after hours. In Frank Munseys
shop could be fired for smoking
first saw MIR. Ochs in Mr.. Ed Bradleys gambling
house IN Palm Beach one night during the goofy era
of prosperity. He just looking around and had
paused to take short, awe-struck peek at another
editor who was playing chenin de fer. This other
editor had recently retired from journalism owing
to the fact that under his direction his paper had
folded up, throwing many 30-year men out of work
without pensions His hands were shaking and sweat
stood on his face. Mr.. Ochs looked on for few
minutes as thousands of dollars changed hands
1T makes me feel like poor man and failure"
he said.
Copyright. 1885, by Unit ed Feature Syndicate 1ne)
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Employees Enjoy Security

a I the Times office the staff was kept in wise
n balance year after year with more or less
constant turnover. Woollcott, Elmer Davis or an
Al Johnson would resign to become a literary figure
a Dick Oulahan would die after long and distin-
gulShed service few would begin to burn out and
retire on pensions and a few would be fired for cause
Moreover, a man who made the grade on the
Times could hang up his hat and sit down to a type
writer in any newspaper shop in the country. When
they covered a story the Times they spradded
all over it. They sent reporter out to watch
a man dig a hole but that he got two eg-men to
help him, and fire in a trash can called for a
battalion of Times reporters in their field kit of
Spas and sticks and with their gloves turned down
at the cuffs.
In the Times Office there was an air which was
somewhat stutfy to man of the rough and tumble
school. They did have office cat but they didn't
throw papers the floor or howl "Bo-o-oy!" or kick
over the furniture when flash came in And as
startling as the silence of the office was the enor-
nous size of the staff The place looked like the
business office of SearSRoebuck. The telegraph desk
alone employed as many you might find in
a whole newspaper shop in many major league city.
Undoubtedly, when the pinch came, Mr. Ochs
could have saved himself considerable money by lop
ping off the Johnny but if he had done
that he wouldn't have been the Adolph Ochs of
whom I write. Instead, he stood off the pressure
himself for period of some years and, so far as
know, made only one cut in wages on the editorial
side.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-11
Neutrality in Next War

GREAT BRITAIN has been the principal OBJ
" stacle hodOut in enforcing these drastic ar
ticles She contends that as hers is the only big
navy IN Europe, upon her would fall the chle1
burden. Enforcement might very well mean war
with the United States.
II almost certainly would if the United States
used its own great navy to uphold the American
conception of freedom of the seas
The White House conference was to discuss TINS
doctrine or American neutrality in the next war
The State Department is working a draft under
which the United states would forgo or sweep
ingly curtail existing claims to freedom OF the
seas in time, and several measures to the same
end have been framed on Capitol Hill
Such a law. il enacted, would have far-reachng
effect on the present drift toward war in Europe.
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A Free Hand for Britain

broadly is is proposed that the United States
ID would neither lend money, sell goods nor send
its merchant ships to beligerents 1t would play no
favorites Automatically upon the outbreak OF hos
tities it would largely withdraw within its shell.
That would tend to remove danger of a clash be-
tween the British and American fleets. Britain could
then assume full responsibility under Articles 10 and
16 of the League covenant with advance knowledge
that she would have an entirely free hand far as
this country is concerned to enforce it.
Great Britain is the chief key to the peace of
Europe. With her avowed guarantOr. no ma
tion on the continent would dare begin aggressive
war. aware it would be beforehand that the might
of Britain would be thrown Immediately on the side
Of the victim.
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All a company has to do is des-
ignate its advertisements for spec
flied mail routes and the carriers
stuff them in the postal boxes.
The National Council OF Bust
ness Mail Users-which is defend
ing Jim in the controversy-con-
tends that the service gives mail
order houses no undue advantage,
since it is available to local firms.
But the latter, now deluging
their Congressmen with irate COM
plants, assert that this surface
equality" affords them no protec-
ton from outside competitors"
They argue that it is not the
province of the postal service to
act as nationwide handful dis
tributor."
CONGRESS is a variegated as
~ sortment in more ways than
one.
1t contains:
A Black, a White, a BROWN,
Gray and a Green. Church,
Parson, Pope, a King and
Lord.
Also, there is a Fish. Byrd, a
Buck, Martin, Dear, an Eagle
and a Maverick.
To say nothing of a Bacon, a
Bone, Coffee. Bloom. a Reed,
two Cannons and two Fords, a
Wood. Parks, Brooks, a North and
a South and a Long and a Short.
And finally there are, Cellar, a
Carpenter, a Mason, a Barbour
and three Taylors.
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Questions and Answers

Q-Do United States stamps ever bear the por-
traits of living perSonsP
A-No.
Q-Give the weights of Max Baer and Primo
Carnera at the time of their fight on June Il 1ea4
A-Carnera. 1854 pounds Baer, 30 pounds.
Odd the motion picture "Cimarron" cost more
to produce than Ben Hur?"
A-"Cimarron' is reported to have cost s.. $50 600
ben Hur" cost S35O0OOO and is said to be the most
expensive picture produced.
Glow many ships has the Mexican navy?
Att is little more than police force and con-
slsts OF the coast defense vessel Ell Anahuac 1852
tons. purchased from Brazil in 1924; the eunboats
Bravo and and Aqua Prieta," the armed trans
port Progreso" and some smaller vessels Five gun
boats and 10 patrol vessels are under construction in
Spain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-11
CITY MAN IS H0N0RED
Joseph Gardner Named to Two
Posts by Sheet Metal Makers.

Joseph c. Gardner, 615 n. Della
ware-st, president Of the Joseph c.
Gardner Co., manufacturers of sheet
metal at lat Kentucky-av, was elect
ed treasurer of the National Sheet
Metal Contractors Association at
the national convention in Cincin-
natl. He also has been named rep
reSentative Of the eighth zone Of the
industry's national code authority,
representing i've states.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-11

THOMAS JEFFERSON co.,
u LIDGE, Boston blue-blood
undersecretary os the Treasury,
was a little stumped the other
day when a group of 20 Prince
ton undergraduates walked into
his press conference.
The students were members of
a study group making a tour of
government departments.
This is a bit awkward" Coo
lidge whispered to Herbert Gas
ton. Treasury press chief. How
am I gcing to distinguish between
the correspondents and the stu
dents?"
"Oh. that's easy" grinned
CASTOR, q former ace newsInau.
You can tell by the nature of
the questions asked. The students
will know lot more than the
reporters"
zen. HUGH JOHNSON was
" offered $4,000 by the Red
book Magazine for pre-pubnca-
ton serial rights of the first half
of his oest-selling autobiography,
The Blue Eagle, From Egg to
Earth" This portion Of the book
deals chiefly with his army career
and contains racy stories of
military life.
johnson, reluctantly, had to
turn down the tempting offer be-
cause the publishing date had
been fixed for the book and there
was not sufficient time left for the
magazine TO print the desired
chapters.
Copyright. 1895. by United Feature
Syndicate. Inca
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MUEnouNh
BY


NEW YORK. April 11.-He was boss all right as
any who really curious could find out.
but in several years around the Office of the New
York Times. never heard of any ones having
raised the question. On the contrary. the Times
people seemed glad that he was their boss and 20
regard him as the agent of just and generous
God in his little precinct of the world There was
feeling that in the improbable event of a mans
receiving a dirty deal through the malice of some
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were used. So far, about 900 cars
of hydraulic machinery alone
have been brought in.
Fifty-two miles of standard
gauge railroad track weaves in
and around, up and down, at
Boulder Dam.
About 300 carloads of materials
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-11

night city editor and snatching up a pig Of lead
which was holding down a batch of copy threw
buster dead at him. The night city editor con-
racted his neck into his collar the nick of time
and the pig took a gouge of plaster out of the
wall The reporter fired abruptly and the
principle firmly established that any one throw
ing any pig pigs at the night city editor would
be subject to instant dismissal. 1t never hap
pened again.
But in the Times Office they never went in for
overlooking and consequently escaped those peri
odlc maSSacreS which the constant terror of
so many other shops. Neither did they ever call
IN the professional AMMAN who hires out as exc
cutloner to other kind-hearted publishers round
the country who are too merciful to fire old hands
themselves
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-11
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DreO Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON April Bg Jim Farley seems bent on bringing
w his shiny bald dome
talking begereny Of demanding
of protest from local business
all country.
cause uproar ms action in allowing business firms to
addressing piece of mail
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S53,371 DUE COUNTY
ON INTANGIBLES TAX
S40,02S to Be Allocated to Schools
Under Law.

S4U,UZo 10 be AllocaCed 10 SCHOOLS
Under Law.
Marion County will receive
$50 371.61 next week as its share
Of $685. IA in intangibles taxes be-
ing distributed by the state, it was
announced yesterday by Philip Zoer-
cher. state tax board chairman.
Of this amount, three-fourths or
s40,023.71 will be allocated to schools
by the Marion County auditor &c
provided by law. The remainder will
be available for the county general
fund.
Distribution of the intangibles
taxes will bring up to s205, 07183
the amount the county has received
from the state during the present
school year from the gross income,
liquor and intangibles taxes.
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torial integrity and existing pOliti-
cal independence Of all members"
Article IS makes an act of war
against one, in disregard of the
covenant, an act Of war against all.
Whereupon they undertake IN
mediately 10 subject (the aggressor)
to the severence of all trade or finan-
cial relations. the prohibition Of
all intercourse between their ma
tionals and the nationals Of the
COMMUNICATING state, and the
prevention Of all financial, COM
mercial or personal intercourse be-
tween the nationals Of the cove
nant-breaking state and the nation
ais of any other state whether
member of the League or not"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-11
1900 LEARN TRADES
UNDER INDIANA RELIEF
Wood Working and Shoe Repairing
Taught Transients.

Taught lranSlenCS.
More than 1900 homeless men and
boys in Indiana are being trained
in various trades by the Governors
Unemployment Relief Commission
transient bureau.
Instruction in wood working and
shoe repairing is being given in In
dianapolis. Old shoes sent in from
relief agencies are repaired and re-
conditioned here and then sent out
to relief clients. Furniture and
toys are made at the woodworking
shop.
Metal working, printing and
broom making are among the
trades taught at other schools in
Hammond, Evansville, Bedford,
Muncie, Fl. Wayne, Gary and the
Kankakee forest preserve near
Knox.
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THE MIRACLE IN ENGINEERING
a Freight Train 1865 Miles Long! Then You Haze IT.

Materials by the thousands Of carloads
were required to complete the engineer
ing marvel Of all time. Boulder Dam,
and this story. fourth Of the series Of
six, tells Of this phase Of the mammoth
nroiect.
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/M1wheM11d.
BY
VIM. PHILIP SiMMS

NTAsHINGTON April 11.-steps we're discussed
w at a White House conference late yesterday
between the President and Secretary Corcell Hull OF
utmost importance to the peace Of Europe. At the
fateful parey beginning today at Stresa, the prn-
oipal burden Of European security may be thrown
back on the League Of Nations of whose covenant
Articles 10 and IS the teeth
Article 10 pledges all members to respect and
preserve as against external aggression the terri
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Attle boss or turn OF Office pol
lticS the wrong would be scrupu-
lousy adjusted on an appeal to
Adolph Ochs. For this very reason
1t was seldom necessary to take
such an appeal.
The character of the old man or
the old gentleman, as they pre-
ferred to call him, permeated tine
shop and man had a serene feel
ing that his job was safe unless he
got drunk on a story, fell down on
too many assignments. faxed or
threw pig at the night city editor.
There was an historic scandal in
the Times Office quite a few years
ago. A reporter got mad at the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-11
BY OREN ARNOLD
NEA Service Special Correspondent

BOULDER CITY, NevY
April 11.-Imagine one
continuous freight train
with its engine in st. Louis
and its cabOose in New York
City-a distance of 1865
miles.
That will give you an ap-
prOximate picture of the
number Of carloads of ma
terials necessary to COM
plete Boulder Dam.
If the United States Bureau of
Reclamation had deliberately
searched for a more inaccessible
spot to build the worlds biggest
dam, it couldn't have done much
better than to select Black Can
yon, on the Colorado River.
1t chose this spot, of course,
through geographic expediency,
but it became hide-and-seek for
the material men and the trans
portation committees,
Nobody had thought to build
city near the site of Boulder Dam.
Nearby was a little Indian village,
but most of the white inhabitants
of the region lived in communities
not dozens, but hundreds, of miles
away.
The first thing necessary, there
fore, was to build some railroads
and then beget town. This was
done in miracle fashion.
BOULDER CITY, where all the
D workmen and their families
live, where the offices and all gen.
eral working headquarters are
housed, is now the third largest
city in Nevada, where only bar
rem plain was, five years ago.
Then the builders were ready to
take out and take in materials.
They took out 100000 tons of
rock, first. Few minds can envi-
sion that. But you could build
masonry fence $500 miles long
with it.
Then they dug more than a mil
lion cubic yards of dirt from the
river bed. That's equal to a
ditch 100 feet wide, so feet deep,
and a mile long.
Pretty soon the wOrkmen were
filling up the hole they had made
(they dug the dirt out, of course,
to get to bedrock and have a firm
foundation for the damn, and were
doing it with concrete. They will
have used 100000 cubic yards of
it when the work is finished.
WITH the concrete used in
w Boulder Dam, you could
build a 2O-foot paved highway all
the way from Florida to Califor-
MIA.
Of course this had to be REIN
forced. but a mere $4,000 tons of
steel was necessary.
Cement. however, creates great
quantities of heat as it hardenS,
so the builders had to devise a
huge refrigeration system, with
pipes running back and forth all
through the dam. Of this weren't
done, the great mass would take
more than 100 years to cool, and
set up dangerous stresses while
about IT'D
These pipes, and others used,
totaled thousands of miles. Steel
pipe alone was more than 1000
miles.
More than 10000 carloads Of
sand, cobbles and gravel had to
be hauled in to be mixed with the
5,000,000 barrels of cement used.
II
THIS couldn't be mixed by
Il hand, nor could many Of the
other big-scale operations there be
done by hand; therefore, great
quantities of special machinery
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Up to now these two articles have remained
dead letters. If enforced. it is estimated, Europe
would need little, If any. further guaranty OF the
status quo
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were arriving each day at the
dam when work was at its peak.
Every minute, night and day, even
now, locomotives are shunting cars
around and hooks on cables are
picking up cars as if they were
toys, moving them up or down.
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WHEN work was moving fast
w est, the contractors had
gasoline bills of nearly $4,000
month, and tire bills of $4,000.
If you need a thumb tack for
your work at Boulder Dam, you
can get it from the supply house
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-11

instantly. Or if you need a 20
ton truck or even whole freight
train you can get that, too. But
there is no waste, no disorder, no
confusion.
1t has taken as much American
genius to estimate, purchase and
bring in the materials for Boul-
der Dam as it has actually to
build the great structure.
Next-The men who made the
dam. The fun they had. The
lives that were lost. The big
boss. Drama, adventure, thrills
and folklore.
The Washington times., 1935-10-31

"I have no fear of not being
able to defeat this suit-and no
intention of being 'bluffed In
the meantime.
With this terse statement, David
S. Hendrick, retired automobile
dealer and brother of a former
president of the Board of District
Commissioners, made his position
clear today concerning the $10,O 900
"heart balm" suit brought against
him in Montgomery county cir.
cult court by Miss Shirley Lee,
night club dancer.
IT met Miss Lee three years ago
in Atlantic City," he said. "She
was not working in Rio Rita"
at the time-in fact she wasn't
working at all. She was living
there with another girl. -t.
MY acquaintance with her
lasted . week only. I never prom
ised to marry her, nor have I
seen her since.
Several months ago a Phila-
delphia lawyer came to me and
The Washington times., 1935-10-31
D. {. MAN WINS
MISS KRUIS

Miss Margaret Kruis, who sur
vived a bullet wound inflicted from
the gun of assassin Giuseppe zan-
CARA, who attempted to kill Presi-
dent Roosevelt at Miami in 1888,
has fallen a victim to Cupid's
darts, it was learned today.
She will soon become the bride
of John r. Sasser, Washington
real estate man. They will be
married within few weeks and
make their home here.
Although the couple met at
Miami four years ago when Miss
KruiS was vacationing there, their
romance has developed in the last
several months. Both are living
at downtown hotels.
The Washington times., 1935-10-31
ALIAN-ENGL|SH.
RIFT PR0V0KES
WAR THREAT
War Developments:

war DcVeAOpmGmUSS
Quick diplomatic changes and heavy mill
tary movements in Ethiopia marked the Afri-
can Italian war situation today as the follow
ing dispatches from both sides of the Medi-
terraneani Sea were received:
LONDON-The breach between Great Brit
ain and italy widened with new threat of
war looming as a result of the conflict con-
|ceEaing peace terms. Sir Samuel Hoare Brit
ish 1oreign minister, was en- route to Geneva,
for the League of Nations session, as tension
mounted. -.-.
Adds ABABA-H R. Knickerbocker cabled that
Italy began giant drive across the Danakil desert
shifted positions at Mount Mussa ALL encountered terrific
heat then lost an entire supply train when Assamars
warriors attacked during the night, massacred many
captured cames supplies The Italian advance is aimed
at Dessye and Makale.
GENEVA-The League of Nations coorinatng committee
Of 81 nations convened today decide for appc
tion of sanctions against Italy.
Roosevelt and Secretary of State
Hull warned American manufacturers shippers to stop all
trading with Italy and Ethiopia in effort African
peace.
ROMEPremer Bento Mussolini exhorted his people to
fight bitterly the League economic penalties
BERLIN-Germany wants return Of African colonies
seized from her after the World War.
The Washington times., 1935-10-31
Weather Bureau Tells
Of Storm Off Bermuda

NEW YORK, Oct. 81 U.N.S0.
A storm warning concerning dis
turbance whose center is about
200 miles west northwest Of Ber-
muda and which is apparently
moving northwestward was issued
here this morning by the Weather
Bureau.
Caution is advised to vessels
moving in the Boston to Delaware
BreakWaterS as far as the Virginia
Capes. The disturbance Is increas'
ing in intensity and causing strong
northeast winds which may reach
gale force.
The Washington times., 1935-10-31
.LAX|TY LAID.
T00EHMANN.
IN HEARING !.
Failure to Enforce
Orders Charged
To Inspector

Building Inspector John w.
Oehmann today was accused Of
failing to enforce q Commissioners
order for installation Of q fire
escape at q lodging house at 500
e st. N. W.. which subsequently
caught fire.
The accusation was made dur
ing the trial Of Colonel Oehmann
on nine charges Of irregularities
in office before Commissioners
George e. Allen and Fl. WinShip
Wheatley, president Of the Dis
trict Bar Association.
Fire Department Inspector
George NuSSbaum said he In
spected the E Street house in Sep
tember, 1892, and recommended
an occupany permit be denied un-
til a fire escape was installed.
The Commissioners subsequently
ordered installation of the fire
escape.
In June, 1884, the fire inspector
said, the lodging house caught
fire and the fire escape had not
been installed. He said the place
had been used continuously from
1892 as q lodging house, but w.
Gwynn Gardiner. chief defense
counsel. said he would prove the
place was abandoned as a lodg-
ing house, opened as sign shop
and later secretly opened as a
lodging house.
One Charge COlIapSeS
Another charge of violation Of
the zoning regulations against the
inspectors office through per-
mitting porch alterations at TIT
Rittenhouse st. N. w. virtually col
lapSed when the defense showed
that the alterations had been or
dered by the District CommiS-
sioners instead Of the building
inspector.
Six of the nine charges had
been disposed of by the prosecu-
ton before the hearing recessed.
Opening today's hearing, the
prosecution pressed a charge that
Colonel Oehmann'S office per-
mitted remodeling Of q building
which previously had been con-
demned as unsafe. -...
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Elwood Seal and Chester Gray
first questioned George A. Knott,
who testified he inspected 2145
I st. N. w. in 1894 and recon-
mended the building be torn down
as unsafe.
He said his recommendation, in
the usual course of the office,
probably was referred to q board
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